Obligatory Blizzard Post

I'm seriously craving some time at the Jershey shore. I don't need a tropical island. I'm content to take a ride down the AC Expressway to sit around in Ocean City.

And to my neighbor's-- it's time for you to take down your "Welcome Fall" flag. You know, since it's buried under 2 feet of snow.

I can't take anymore of weather like this:

Shoveling sucks. There is at least two feet of snow on my driveway and I gave up after about 45 mins. I'll go back out later...

Maybe....

Isaac is at his dad's for the weekend and since obviously I am not going anywhere I've been trying to not go crazy here. Other than the nieghbor's kids that rang my bell to offer to shovel my driveway (sadly I had no cash...) I haven't seen or interacted with another live person in over 24 hours. Lonely...

I've been quite lazy today. My attempt at organizing the office was thwarted when I inspired to make this:

I really need a mantle for projects like that.

Cheap

Decorating on a (ridiculously tiny) budget... These were from Kohl's. Aren't they cute?

Thrift store find! This cute little trivet.

s I was inspired by this post but I had no marbles. I grabbed the frames at the dollar store and used pink scrapbook paper I already had. Just ran the paper through the printer and cut them to size.

My new collection.

Also, see my new paint color? Although you can't tell from this particular picture, I did do the whole living room. I inherited a gallon of that color leftover from my brother's house. We bought one more and went crazy. It makes the whole room so much more cozy. The stairwells will eventually be done in a complementary color.

Not me Monday (on saturday)

I'm joining in this week (albeit a little early) * My four year old did NOT clog up the upstairs toilet with about half a roll of the thick expensive toilet paper I recently bought. And I did NOT wait and let my brother deal with the toilet when he called to say he was five minutes away.

* I did NOT watch the Lifetime special The Pregnancy Pact two and a half times this week...

* I do NOT put things on my to-do list that I have already done simply for the pleasure of seeing them crossed off. Nope, never. * This is NOT the pile of clean laundry I must fold and put away (along with the two more loads in the basement, and now the bathmat [for the second time today] which was flooded with toilet water less than an hour after I pulled it out of the dryer and placed in back on the bathroom floor) . *I did NOT take my bra off in the living room the other day when I was watching TV and throw it behind the couch because I was too lazy to take it upstairs. And Isaac did NOT discover it and pull it out when my brother and his girlfriend were over today. And if that were to occur, I certainly would NOT blame the cats and make up a story about them dragging my laundry all over the house... *Neither this week, nor any other week have I taken the laptop into the bathroom with me... no, not me... NEVER!

* I do NOT occasionally give in and let Isaac put on some of my make-up.

*Isaac did NOT start singing "Yeah" by Lil Jon and Usher in front of PDH. I did NOT have to try to come up with an explanation while PDH looked horrified that I would let my son listen to that song often enough to memorize the chorus... (for the record, he has a photographic memory, for real). Nope. Not me.

So..

I think I've figured out why my sweaters are always on the floor of my closet.

Seriously, this cat is insane.
Nothing like Saffron, the angel cat.
But at times he can be so loveable...

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I don't think I should wish for things. Do you ever wish for something, and then you get it and you realize it's exactly what you don't want? I don't think I really know what's best for myself sometimes. Feeling nostalgic tonight. Most cryptic blog ever, but I'll leave it at that.

my dollar bin purchase...

I have always wanted one of these...

wicked

So I went on a great date last night to the lovely Academy of Music to see the touring broadway show of Wicked. An when I say date, I mean, my dad and I went together. Somewhere along the line we have fallen into the tradition of seeing musicals together, just the two of us (sorry mom). We met up in KOP and then drove into the city together and had a nice dinner before hand. My dad works such long hours I rarely see him, so it was fun to catch up, just the two of us.
I am on the Kimmel Center's preferred person e-mail list, so I bought the tickets before they went on sale to the general public. We were in the fifth row and it was pretty much amazing. This was especially nice because the last time I was at that particular venue we had snatched up discounted tickets to see White Christmas and we were in the absolute last row of the highest balcony and we were basically watching the show between our knees. Anyways, the Academy of Music is such a beautiful venue and everything from the set and stage and costuming was so incredible.

I had ganked the soundtrack from a friend in preparation and pieced together bits and pieces of the plot based on the music. But there were so many little details that were pulled from the Wizard of Oz that we learned the back story too: the ruby slippers, her hat, the broomstick, how Dorothy got to Oz, the winged monkeys, etc. Although I wasn't a huge fan of the music before hand (none of it is terrifically catchy, compared to, say Les Mis) in the climax of the first act when Elphaba is souring above the stage as pictured left, the energy the whole performance was so amazing that I had to bite my lip to keep from belting out "Defying Gravity" with her.

My favorite part of the play was how it made you challenge your own definitions of what was good and what was "wicked". How often do we try to force people into boxes of being 100% good or 100% bad and how everyone is really a shade of grey? "Are people born wicked or is wickedness thrust upon them?" is one of the opening lines of the play. At what cost does popularity come? There is a really great lesson about making assumptions about a person when you don't likely have the whole story.

Anyone else out there check it out?