overcoming my fears...

we had our national sales meeting this past week...
Stone Mountain, Georgia...
and like any good sales meeting there was a team building exercise...

i'm terrified of heights... and not so found of climbing walls with people below me looking at my ass...

but i did it... and would even do it again...

so many fun facts that i thought my brain would burst....

perfect baby gift

i don't have too many people in my life still having babies... but i'm still always on the look out for the perfect baby gift that isn't a blanket, clothes or plastic toy....

and when i saw this today i had to share...

Zoolio Rainforest Activity Book by Manhattan Toy Six panels in assorted fabrics build motor skills by combining a cute animal with an action (a red frog with a zipper mouth, a toucan with a snap-on beak). Slip the panels in the carrying case and it can go from the car to the park with ease. (Ages 18 months to 3 years)

$24 - click here to find it online...

i caught a humpy....

B and super hubby went out salmon fishing today with some friends...

and all B can talk about is the humpy he caught... something not right about naming a fish humpy...

sort of like the cheerleaders that are down the road having a fundraiser with hot dogs... forget the car wash with bikini clad teens we've moved on to standing on street corners doing high kicks asking people to buy hot dogs...

where did the name come from???

ja-min... it's a long story... sort of...

one that will cause me to reveal B's name... it's benjamin... and when he was born my mom told me this story that one of her friends had shared with her...

"my grandson ben had done something he wasn't supposed to and when his mom asked him if he'd done it he said... no jamin did" from that day forward any time Ben did something naughty he blamed it on his alter ego "jamin"

when my B was born he was a collic ridden cranky baby... when super hubby or my mom would ask me how he was i said he was either great or he was a jamin... that became our new trade name for trouble...

so when we decided to buy this boat a few months later... i said that it was trouble... and therefore we would have to name it "jamin"... he tried to rename it PB&J... but it just didn't stick...

ja-min gets a face lift

so we have this boat... a ranger 20 something or other...

she's great fun for an afternoon sail... but she has never been very pretty...

in fact... she was down right ugly... this was taken after the black splotchy bottom paint was removed... she was even uglier then...


she's been living in our driveway for over 2 months now... and i was getting bitter... it was bad enough i couldn't park in my garage... but now i couldn't even park in the drive way...

it started out as a "i'm going to repaint the bottom"... then i went and opened my mouth...
"why don't you repaint the topside while it's here" in the end it was worth it...

isn't she purdy....

staycation...

we've been talking about doing one of these for a few years now...

B kept asking... and when super hubby planned a trip to the san juans for some kayaking with his side kick i decided it was the perfect time...

my friend hooked us up with an incredible room... it was really the view that made it!!!



we had a great first day...
Monorail
Science Center
fountain time
space needle
hotel pool
dinner

then day two started with crazy sibling fighting... that forced me to make the hard decision to head home... which totally pissed me off, then turned out to be a blessing in disguise as i got the stomach flu and proceeded to barf for 24 hours...

we'll do it again... especially since we didn't finish our planned activities... but next time i'm going with super hubby....

cheating again...

frankly... facebook is just easier to do... but just like last May... i'm missing my musings...