The secret is in the....

Brownie wait, what?


That's right folks. Super special brownies that are totally legal I might add in case you were thinking I would dare do such a thing.


Doesn't that look yummy?


Are you dying to know what the secret is? Ok, Ok I cave... the secret is HERE

Now I'm sure many of you will EWWWWWWWWWWWWW at first but really I pinkie swear you would NEVER know!

It's daughter day

My artsy shot for project365



And my sweet girl.

LOLfat

Veggin' Out

Today the girlie and I made a veggie filled lasagna. How can you beat whole wheat noodles, spinach, carrots and zucchini smothered in cheese.

It's Teagalina

This is a big giant chair in front of our produce store... not sure why but how can you resist? Sorry for the cruddy camera pic.

Around the world

today's picture was actually for another project... a photochain



I can't wait to see how the picture evolves over it's next few shots. It is a really fun idea.

Private Idaho

Some toys finally finished for the Expo!


Stolen from Miss Nessa xoxo

INSTRUCTIONS
-Put your music player on shuffle.
-skip to the next random song to get your answer for each question...
-Write it down, even if it sounds silly (no cheating!)

1. How would you describe your personality?
Shout - Tears for Fears

2. What is your best quality?
Sabotage - Beastie Boys

3. What do you look for in a lover?
Nemesis - Shriekback

4. What is your life's motto?
I Will Posses Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie

5. What do you think about all the time?
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force

6. What do other people think of you?
Blasphemous Rumors - Depeche Mode (I swear I did not cheat, I am cracking up)

7. What do you like to do when no one else is around?
Polar Opposites - Modest Mouse

8. What is your favorite hobby/interest?
Pure Morning - Placebo

9. What is your biggest secret?
Alec Eiffel - Pixies

10. What is your life story?
Down By The Water - PJ Harvey

11. How will you die?
Human Behaviour - Bjork

12. What will they play at your funeral?
Orange Crush - R.E.M.

13. What is the one thing you regret?
Just Like Heaven - The Cure

14. If you could go back in time, what would you change?
People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band

15. What makes you laugh?
Decode - Paramore

16. What makes you cry?
Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

17. What scares you the most?
Losing My Religion - R.E.M. (OMG are you kidding me!! LOL)

18. What's the worst thing that could happen?
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash

19. What is the meaning of life?
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones

20. What title will you give this post?
Private Idaho -The B-52's

Yay, I love these games!

Oh Bother

What a grey and yucky day we had today.

We went to see Bedtime Stories. It was very cute and family friendly despite the fact that it stars Adam Sandler and Russell Brand.

On the way home...

A face only I could love

My sweet Sea Cows. They are what I miss most from Florida.

Trying to tap into her creative energy

Teagan's craft corner was my pic of the day.



I hope we can get her a bigger space when we buy a house. I'd love her her to have an easel and shelves and all kinda neat arty stuff.

She offered up a Volcano (spicy) Vegetarian Taco for the days pic so I'll share that here, too.

She told me last night that it makes her sad to think of the animals that die because we eat them and she asked why they had to taste soooo good. lol So she is "trying" (her words) to be a vegetarian but said she thinks it is going to be hard.

Simple things

Like having a productive day can really boost our mood.

So can your husband bringing you your favorite flowers... and chocolate. I love him!

"Check" out the picture for day 20

Groan, wow... yea bad. lol

Remember that expo I'm supposed to do?

Yea, the one in April.

Huh, that's not that long from now is it? No sir re bob, it is not. Especially when you factor in school, a trip to Texas, husband home times, and a kid birthday all before the expo. So I should have a big pile ready to go right? Um.... yea, about that.




Sigh, not one toy complete. I just can't focus and I don't know why. UGH I'm shortly getting to the point of being royally hosed. Maybe I work best under pressure.

Smoke and lenses

The timing was a little off, hard to blow and click at the same time. But still kinda neat, IMO.

Saturday = Productivity FAIL

Location : Bed

Time Waster : TV & Laptop

Accomplished : Shower

Food :

Being a pet parent is damn stressful

My sweet baby, Autumn, is still not 100%. This was the face straing at me right before I called the vet.



How pitiful is that!? Don't you just want to snuggle her. Well we ran bloodwork and all kinds of stuff and basically nothing is wrong with her. Big sigh. I'm glad it's not something major but man, what a bummer to not have a real answer, kwim? They gave her a shot of fluids and sent us home with Prednisone for her. She lost a .10 of a lb since last Friday.

Think good, get well thoughts for my sweetie.

With helpers like this

I wonder why I'm not more productive.

Funny the things we realize about ourselves...

The photo from yesterday and the one from today are in the same theme. I'll share the pic and then talk about it



Now one might see the obvious themes of my craft area, sewing supplies or even bright colors. But I think the elephant theme in the room is that I might have a touch of a ocd-ish quirk. lol My daughter placed the threads on the rack when I first got it and they are in a random order. I wasted NO time in taken all 60 colors off and ordering them "properly".

My buttons are a big issue for me. I simply adore buttons, even though I know that is such a strange thing to say. I search ebay for giant lots of buttons. I enjoy the sorting and ordering them into color families. Looking at them makes me happy.

As a matter of fact... I think I need to visit ebay real quick. ;)

And now a splash of color

I wish I could capture how bright these colors are in real life. Maybe I will play with lighting and my camera settings and try again another day.

feeling very black and white today

This is my pic of the day


But I played around with a few other shots.

I avoided sock monkeys for years

But now I embrace them fully... my slippers

Lazy Saturday

Kids are playing with friends, husband is napping and I'm left alone...

Alone with my favorite toys. Technology rocks!

Good cat, Bad cat

Of course the "good" cat is going to be sick. My baby, Autumn, has a bladder infection. Since my whole day was spent with her and taking care of her I decided to make her todays 365 subject.

Well I was thinking we should have another child

So now I have twins, how cute are they. We just got Molly new purple glasses to match Teagan. I adore both of my girls.

It really ties the room together

One of my gifts to my dear hubby...



He does indeed abide though he is sometimes more of a "Walter".

Heads in a basket

Bless you, IKEA.

Insert witty title

I really envy bloggers that write these awesome entries, that get tons of readers and always seem to think of the most clever post titles for each entry. Oh well...

Today is so rainy and gross, it is dark, dark, dark outside and just blah all around. The bright spot in my day is that my husband came home last night. I enjoy my time alone but I do miss him so it is always nice to have a reunion. Right now he is snuggled with the girlchild and they are watching The Tick.

Had to run out to the library in between bands of rain so this is the shot you get for today.

Deep thoughts...

“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?” ~ Ralph Marston

It's just a day

I have wondered if I will lose followers by doing the blog365 project... let's face it most of these entries are going to be a snooze-fest. And I don't have a huge following to start with. lol

Well, I think my foot is not going to fall off... I'm way too round to balance without it so that is a bit of good news. I've been in a blah yesterday and today, not sure what that is about though the weather wasn't helping. The kids have been lectured for not pulling their weight around the apartment so we will see what happens over the next week.

Teagan broke my headset so we have not recorded a new podcast... Nic's comp crashed last week so I think we might have lost the last one we recorded also. Sigh. But next week we are unveiling our new incarnation... a live radio show. So you can listen (and call in) live and then the show will still be uploaded so you can listen at your convenience. I'm nervous and excited. We , and by WE I mean Nic, are heavily edited and that cuts out lots of suckage... so it's going to be a learning curve for sure. But we both have families and Nic will be happier (well, less stabby... not really happy of course) without hours of editing on her to-do list every week. So the night of the 11th will be our first live show, woot. Next stop... Queens of All Media I loved Nicole's comparison today... we are the white Frangela. Take that, bitches!

Here is my photo of the day...


And you get a bonus

because, well glitter on a potted plant, how the hell can you resist that?

1-2-09 or the day a furry thing must die

1-2-09
Originally uploaded by ItsVenus

take a guess... did you say Mary? Ding Ding Ding

She was tearing open a new bag of cat food , I went over to yell at her to stop and get her off the table... she jumped full claws onto my foot.

OUCH. It friggen hurts.

Resolutions again

Ok so I already posted my resolutions from last year and how they turned out. So here is what I'm putting out there for 2009...


1.) Complete Project 365 - take a photo every day of 2009 and Blog365

2.) The obligatory get healthier res. I'm going to get a treadmill, and use it! I'm not going to declare any certain pound loss but I resolve to get on my treadmill at least 3 times a week and end the year healthier than I started.

3.) Read 50 books


I'm going to stop at 3 this year. I have other things I plan to focus on but these resolutions are a good start.

Day 1

Wow, a new year. A fresh start... a clean slate.

Do you mourn the passing of a yer or are you filled with excitement about the new year and the possibilities it holds? I'm the second type if you had any doubts. ;)

So today is day 1 of 2009 and also of Project 365... so today's photo subject is pretty common but it worked for me.

The official pic I sent to the group


and an extra shot...



I'm not actually sure what kinda flower this is but I love it. I love the firework feel of it, I love the little petals. I think it is lovely.