Hoe Pew Heaven Ice Hummer

I need to congratulate the four correct guesses for the last mad gab...I smell a skunk was indeed the correct answer. Good job. To give credit where credit is due, I should mention that Michelle correctly guessed it about 5 seconds after I first posted but I would not let her comment until after someone else already had. I'm so mean.

The new mad gab, courtesy of Curves of course, is another easy one -- don't you love it! Michelle actually solved this one as we were walking in the the door. Have fun with another feel good puzzle.

The pictures of my girls are included because they're gone for the weekend visiting their lifelong buddies, Emily and Kelly, in Hollister. I was going to do a post on pet sitting in their absence, but I'm not feeling the creative juices flowing. So I'm going to be lazy and post part of Catie's email from this morning in which she colorfully describes life on the "farm":

[The] Chickens are molting, so there are lots of bare butts in the chicken coop. the sight of bare chicken skin makes me want to lose my lunch! uggghhhh, it looks much better cooked.

Can't think of anything to add to that...

Ice Mail Ask Gunk

I went back to Curves today and am bringing you the latest mad gab -- makes for an easy post idea but also tattles on my irregular exercise habits! There I go falling off that pedestal again...darn.

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I think this is the easiest mad gab I've posted so far -- so have at it and get your guess in quick.
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Well in the last post, I casually mentioned the cute baby picture I had considered posting of myself. Only one comment encouraged me to do so (thank you Megan!) but that was enough, aren't I cute?
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When we were watching the super bowl yesterday I was thinking the etrade baby looked a bit like my baby pictures. I searched it out on You Tube to see how the images matched up. I was cuter -- and I never hired a clown.

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The funny thing about that video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eJqnitjqpuM) is that I watched it several time during the super bowl, and then several times on You Tube, and it wasn't until I read a review of it that I even realized there was a clown there. That baby mumbles a bit and I never really picked up on the clown -- just thought it was someone wearing an odd apron in the background. Scary.
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Well if I don't make it back to Curves in a timely manner, this face could be staring at me everytime I open my blog -- could be worse, it's much cuter than that DEA agent! But then again, maybe he was cuter was he was little too.

When Work Was Fun

Well I've hit that uninspired phase of blogging again -- sheesh, it just seems like I barely got out of it before I'm back in it again! Anyway, in an effort to get inspired, I started looking through photos stored on the computer. Turns out, I have several years worth of old photos thanks to my dad having recently converted the best of our family slides to digital photos. They span pre-kid 1964 all the way to 1986 and fill a whole boxful of CD's.

For Christmas I put some of the years into a slide show with vintage music. I did an online search to find out what the top 10 songs were from each of the years and then purchased some of my favorites from iTunes to set each year to. The year I was born features "My Girl" and "I Got You Babe" -- gotta love that! I wanted to use "Wild Thing" for the year my sister was born, but restrained myself and settled for "Hey Jude". For my brother's year, I showed less restraint and chose "Send in the Clowns".

I was intially going to post a baby picture of yours truly -- I was sooooo cute (I sound just like my children!!) -- but when I came across this one, I opted to instead prove there was a time in my life when I actually ironed by choice. I have a similar picture of Johnny gleefully pushing a toy lawn mower in the back yard, and Catie & Michelle happily preparing food in their little play kitchen. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the work we have to do stayed as much fun as it seemed when we were in such a hurry to grow up?

Thanks again Dad for making these family gems accessible -- unlike ironing, looking at old family pictures is aways fun!