It's Poochie! For Girls...

I LOVED this as a child!

I'll Make You an Offer...

and now, for something truly awesome...random crap I buy! I love to buy stuff, it fills a void. Nothing thrills me like a good deal though, for example, I am currently wearing a pair of cool T.U.K. shoes that I scored for $3.00 bucks! My favorite places are flea markets or swap meets...nothing beats the sense of adventure...like, if I really search, something amazing could be right around the corner! I am not some totally shallow, air-head, mall-chick...but I do love a good mall. I am seriously one of the most broke people I know, but life is too short to deny yourself every happiness. For example, I love coffee. I love really good, expensive-ass coffee that I cannot afford! So, I reward myself with a $4.00 latte every two weeks and drink the cheap shit everyday for free at home...I have learned to truly enjoy that venti non-fat two sweet and low latte. Also, I make up crazy rules I never follow, like "I will not buy anymore crap unless its useful." then I bought the cute little ceramic frog and mushrooms...which serve no purpose what so ever. I also have a small golden squirrel in my bathroom that, while amusing the hell out of me, serves no purpose. In addition to cute mini animals (I have many owls and elephants) I also obsess over used paperbacks, journals, fountain pens, velvet paintings, pin-up chicks and anything religious in nature. This is just a brief overview, I haven't even talked about my toy-buying obsession! One of the best gifts I ever received was a copy of Amy Sedaris's 'I Like You-Hospitality Under the Influence' It changed my life to know that there was someone out there who could understand me, and my compulsive nature...It would be great to meet her, I'll make her my special drink...

Ciao! Chao! Chow!

I write a lot of crap sometimes, I know...but I have no regrets because I'm sure it felt real to me in the moment. No apologies! I rarely mention my 3 kids because this blog is not for or about children, there are enough of those out there! But, having survived several parties and the Easter Bunny, I can tell you about the 'My Little Pony' counter-culture. It started a few weeks before my youngest daughters birthday, she wanted a 'my little pony' theme and ponies. When I was a child in the 1980's, nothing thrilled my heart more than those damn ponies. Thankfully, I was a good little girl and I saved everything! So my daughters have inherited my pony collection. When I went on ebay to find some for the party, I found an entire site dedicated to psycho pony collectors. Then I became one, I ordered 4 ponies for my daughter, mint condition, from 1984. THEN, upon digging further, I found the people with tattoos and such...I kind of want one. Moving on, I would like to say 'Hello, or whatever' to Sweden, my dream country...I wish I could go there, smother everything in Lingonberry preserves and eat it up! wait...maybe it was 'smother Alexander Skarsgard in Ligonberry preserves and lick it off'...either way, sounds good. I am waiting for season three of 'True Blood' and I dream of that man...(he plays Eric Northman-greatest vampire ever) I always imagine that if I went to Sweden that I would feel like a Hobbit in comparison. My family history is mixed, I am supposed to be mostly German and Italian. I guess the fact that I am only 5 feet tall can be blamed on someone! I would love to visit both places one day...and eat and drink...possibly find long lost family members...I guess I have to appreciate being an American from Memphis, Tennessee. I love Elvis, sweet tea, fried chicken, fried anything...how's that for a stereotype? As I am writing, I am inhaling a huge bowl of my beloved 'fruity pebbles' and thinking about what to do with my day off...the weather is a perfect example of 'warm spring day' which can mean only one thing to me=allergies. Everything is covered in a thin layer of yellow pollen and my eyes are crusted shut...I have also sneezed enough to consider it an 'abs workout'...but nothing can stop me from enjoying such a perfect day after such a long, cold winter...I'm off to throw on flip-flops and find some trouble! xoxo...