Two things that made me laugh today

Having a 'meh' day?

Then you must head over to the English Fail blog and cheer yourself up! :)

Mornings with Lulu

Every day this week, around 8:30am or so, I hear a muffled 'reooowww' upstairs that goes on and on, with the eventual appearance of Lulu...and her toy. Every. Day. This. Week. This morning I managed to grab my camera in time and capture some evidence:

A fanny pack for your face

I came across this beauty on Etsy today.

Now that you're scratching your head (and pondering how you too, can have this textile marvel they call the 'nekk n brace'), let's take a look at it's description from the seller:

a lil bit nekkn a lil bit nbrace
Its a scarf. bandanna. with a pocket to hold your treasures. like a fanny pack for your face.
bold geometric pattern
choose your own adventure style. many different ways to wear the nekk'n brace.
great for ridding bikes and looking swass.
made from 100% salvaged materials

Neck brace. Check!
A scarf and bandana and pocket all in one? A scandanet? Check, check and check!
A fanny pack for my face. MY SEARCH IS OVER, check!
Bold geometrics, great for accentuating the face. Check!
Choose your own adventure (like the books!). Most definite check!
I can 'rid' my bike AND look 'swass' with it! Damn right check!

All this for just $40 (plus shipping of course) and you can be the coolest kid in your 'hood, right on time for back to school!
(Granny's old speckies, 10-speed and shirtlessness optional.)

Do not WANT.

Sometimes sharing sucks.

Separated by a few decades...

Left: Our nephew Lucas. Right: Bill Murray in Caddyshack. Awesome.

Superstore score

I've found the perfect ice cube tray (and stylish napkins to boot!) at Superstore over the weekend. It's plastic and then has silicone bumps on the bottom to help you pop the ice out. It works a little too well because in the past two days, I've popped one out and it shot up at my face (which was funny) and then Trevor popped one out yesterday and it hit the ceiling (even funnier!).

Just a little funny...

Funnies

Ferry conversations

While we were in the line up for the ferry over the weekend, Trevor and I had some entertaining conversations. Whenever we go on a road trip (or just a longer car trip) we seem to come up with the strangest ideas. And this time was no different.

On the way over to the island we discussed the brilliant idea of the ferries being subsidized by gambling...on board! Most likely slot machines rather than table games, for sure.
Me: *pulling imaginary slot machine arm* 'ooooohhh Queen of Nanaimo......Queen of Nanaimo......awwwww....Queen of Saanich'
Trevor: *his turn pulling* 'ohhhhhhh....sunshine breakfast.....sunshine breakfast.....white spot burger'

And on the way back, after spotting a 7-11 with an advertisement of cheese smokies stating that they were 'cheesetastic!', we thought about other descriptors that could be added to words to make them more...super.

Here are the descriptors that we came up with:
- '-normous'
- '-tastic'
- '-licious'
- '-rrific'

Example: 'I had a cheesenormous paninitastic sandwichrrific lunchalicious.'

Phew.

Disturbing...

Why are there BOYS in it? Maybe I screwed up somewhere.

Boggle anyone?

We busted out the Boggle last night and got our little brains in gear...
The funniest part was Trevor making up the word 'telsa':

Trevor: 'telsa'
Me: I don't think so. That's not a word.
Trevor: Um, haven't you ever heard of a 'telsa' coil? *Insert superior voice*
Me: Noooo... I'm going to check that out in the dictionary *Insert loud voice of word justice*
Trevor: I can't believe you haven't heard of a 'telsa' coil? Are you serious? *Superior questioning voice of disbelief that I haven't kept up with science*
Me: (on dictionary.com) AHA! YOU'RE WRONG!!! *really getting loud* IT'S A TESLA COIL....NOT A 'TELSA' COIL!!!! THAT IS SOOOO EMBARRASSING...SOOOOO EMBARRASSING!!!! *super loud and laughing*
Trevor: Oh...

Ahhh...I love Boggle.

ps - I lost...but did I really lose? ;)

Spot the Mii's

I've got some friends and family all immortalized on our Wii. See if you can spot anyone you know! LOL

These remind me of Cynthia

ahhhh...good times, LOL!

Cake on the brain?

Well I came across these other lovelyyyy cakes:Ahhh Katamari...the options are endless!
Although, I don't think I would be quite so nerdy to have this at my wedding...(but kind of cute!).
And here's Trevor's solution for impromptu cake-eating opportunities. (Or as he puts it 'bicalicious!')

Best cake EVER!!!!

Ahhhh Katamari! Just in time for someone's birthday is coming up next month! ;)

Favorite parts of the weekend

Things that were done and questions that were asked this weekend: (This may be a little abstract.)

1. If you had a movie that was about you and your significant other, who would play each of you?

For me:
For Trevor:

*laughing hysterically*

2. (While sitting in a food court) What two places could you work at?

Me: Quizno's (um, hello? Just an assembly line!) and the pizza place (ooo, you get to toss salads and make pizza).

Trevor: The Japanese place (he would yell 'ayyyyyyyyaaaaahhh!' while preparing things with the metal tongs -- I said that wouldn't last longer than the first 10 minutes) and the Skyway sandwich place.

3. What two places could you NOT work at?

Me: KFC (BLEGH) and the A&W (to which Trevor replied, 'but look at the guys at the A&W...they're just chillin'!) LOL.

Trevor: KFC and Taco Time.

4. (Now here's where it starts to get waaaaaayyy off track.) If you could fart any smell, what would it be?

Me: (Initially) Hot chocolate. (After thinking about it) Fresh baked bread. (Trevor says: 'That would turn me off bread.')
Trevor: (Initially) Vanilla. (me: 'That would be sickening after a while.') (After thinking about it) Campfire smell.

5. If you had to pick a shape from the Play-doh squeeze toy to poop like, what shape would it be?
Me: The tube shape. (awesome)

Trevor: (initially) The spaghetti. (Me: 'Gross, it would curl up and touch your bum!!!') (After thinking about it) The square/rectangular shape. (Trevor: 'Efficient')

And that's just the sort of weekend it was. Feel free to post your answers in the comments!!

Friday Funnies

Notre soirée d'amusement français.

Last night was very funny. Trevor's work had a guy come from France to view some of the drills that their company manufactures at some job sites. That's not the funny part, but the fact that the man doesn't speak ENGLISH AT ALL is (wait, except for 'hello' and 'goodbye'). And the funnier part is that they sent him off for the day in a rental car and an ENGLISH MAP, in a place where signs are read in ENGLISH. Of course, he managed to get lost. I got to run around with Trevor in the evening picking up a prepaid phone for this poor guy so someone can at least call him and somehow find out where he is.
*Representation of French man may not be completely accurate.
But here is the funniest part of all...we used a translation program on my computer to write a note to him explaining that this is a phone for him to use and who Trevor was. Well...when we gave him the note we noticed that he started to laugh by the end of it, and when we got home we reverse-translated it, and our sentence reading 'We apologize for the letter, we used a translation program to translate it.' came out as:

"We make excuses for the translation which we used the software of translation."

LOL!!!!

Now that I have your attention...

I thought I'd be smart and post a picture of moving boxes, but when I googled it, this came up and won over the boring cardboard type. Apparently it's supposed to look like it's moving...somehow.

Back to the task at hand! Moving is still coming along at a hit and miss pace. Sometimes I get up the energy to blow through 8 boxes, and other times it's like *sigh* boxes. I'll be packing up more today.

The weekend was pretty fun. Well, the end half of it, not so much the beginning. We took Friday off to get more of a head start on some basement stuff (Trevor mostly) and I started a mega spot cleaning through the house, so we could at least live in something that resembles one. Saturday was more of the same, but we had dinner made for us by some friends out in Abbotsford. Sunday started on a crappy note, with me snapping my neck out of alignment and getting a funny crick for the rest of the weekend (and it's still here today). But we had Mike and Cynthia come over and spend the day doing electrical fun things (Mike) and the girls went out shopping (of course!). We had dim sum for lunch (next time, Pink Pearl!...or other!) and Mike and Trevor shared some 'beef tenders' (aka - 'gross slimey things'). The jury is still out on what these are. I've looked them up on google and wikipedia and have come up with nothing. I'll look it up in my dim sum book tonight.

We also went and saw the Bourne movie that's out. Same old, same old. Smash, smash, who am I?, honk, beep, smash, run run run, the end. But we did get to have the extra bonus of seeing the movie at a shady theatre in Guildford (Surrey). And an even better bonus of witnessing Mike's 'rapping' talents to Run DMC. Tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky, ungh!

On Monday we had the Merrimans back again, Mike to tackle electrical stuff again, and Cynthia, to tackle the Ikea with moi. I was a bit disappointed that Ikea didn't have more of their new stuff in yet (especially since I got the new 2008 catalogue on Friday!!!). Oh darn, I guess that's another trip!

And today, well I'd like to press the rewind button and go back to Thursday when I could have avoided having milk leak out of the small office fridge and proceed to harden/get sticky/stink like a cow bum in here this morning. It was nasty and took me an hour of cleaning and scrubbing to get it all under control. And I still have a strawberry candle burning over on a table to try and mask the smell a bit. Yuck. I'm sure I'll find a few more surprises where I've missed and it still stinks.