I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICECREAM!

Just a quick little note for those of you who absolutely LOVE icecream like we do, for those who could eat icecream for breakfast, lunch and dinner if it was possible I have good news for you!!!

Today is free cone day at Ben and Jerry's! Wahoo! If you go to their website at www.benandjerry.com you can find one located near you. I believe it goes on all day today.

But don't you worry or fret, if you miss it today there's always tomorrow which is 31 cent scoop day at Baskin Robbins. There website is www.baskinrobbins.com. Happy licking!

LP's

Matt recently got a bunch, and I mean a BUNCH of records, or LP's if you will from his Dad. We borrowed a record player from his Gma and played some of them last night.  They sound all scratchy and cool, much more fun then cd's! Although they obviously take up a lot more closet space!

 It was hilarious watching Matt take each one out of the boxes in the beginning and seeing the expression on his face when he saw what kind of music his parents used to listen to! I mean there was your usual John Denver, ABBA, The Beatles, Bread, Village People like in the pics above, which no shock value there, but when he came across Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones, and The Doors we couldn't believe it!

It was like looking into a window of who Matt's parents used to be when they were in college. I have no doubt though one day our kids will be surprised when they go through our cd's and see what kind of 'crazy' music we listened to back in the day of 2008, which by then will be sooooooooo long ago!

Here is  pic of the the aforementioned rocker parents! 

Los Angeles Zoo

Yesterday I took the man I take care of to the zoo. It was the first time I had been back to the L.A. ZOO since I was a wee one when we lived here before briefly in 1988. I have been trying to get Matt to go with me for the past two years, but apparently he doesn't have the same fascination with caged animals as I do. Actually the real reason I have been dying to go has to do with a pic I came across of Matt when he was about 4 years old standing in front of the elephant cage at the LA zoo with two elephants in the background, funny thing is I have an almost identical pic of myself when I was 4 too standing there with two elephants in the background. Looking at the picture you would think they were taken the same day, but in reality they were taken four years apart. So now I have this fantastic idea to go back and get a picture of the two of us now standing there and frame all three of them together.  Possibly a later post will be about that when it finally happens! So back to yesterday, my pal and I got there around noon and in approximately two hours squeezed in seeing.....

Reggie the alligator. 

The gangly giraffe family. 

The elephant who never forgets. 

The dazzling pink posse of flamingos.

The rhino who actually was a hippo. The sign in front that read Rhinoceros should probably be switched since it's just a little misleading. I was looking for rhinoceros horns the whole time on a hippopotamus.  How embarrassing. 

We visited the spider exhibit too but I'll spare you the photos and also saw monkeys of all shapes and sizes, the king kong family which included a baby gorilla, and a bunch of screaming children which were not in cages, but possible should have been. It was a lot of fun. I learned all kinds of things like for example in this video I am posting of a kangaroo, I was later informed by Matt that kangaroos do indeed walk on all fours.  Maybe that's common knowledge, but I always thought they hopped around on their tails to get around.  After all the one on Winnie the Pooh does! So in it you will hear my wonderment at how the little guy is walking around on all fours, and how I think he must be sick or tired. And that's why I am not a zookeeper. 

Only in California.....

So I work as caregiver each day from 11-5 and in a very affluent neighborhood here is southern California. The other day I was walking up the steep driveway of the persons house whom I take care of to check the mail and there was a car parked at the top of it. (The house next door is completely unfinished, it's just the skeleton of the house basically, but it's HUGE! Three stories high, a spiral staircase, an unfinished infinity pool in the back and even though it's only half done it's on the market for 2 million.) So I just assumed the couple in the car who were parked there were probably waiting for the realtor to come by and show the house to them. The lady waved to me and I didn't really pay attention to the guy sitting next to her. Too bad, cuz today I found out that it was Steven Tyler with her and apparently it's the third time he has come by to look at the place. So who knows, maybe I will be seeing him and his remarkably massive mouth regularly. Maybe I'll even stop by to borrow a cup of sugar. 

On to other star sightings.... I was shopping at Trader Joes today and who else was standing in front of me in line, then........ the meanie doctor from Scrubs! It's only Matt and I's favorite show ever and we were crushed, devastated even when it was canceled, well maybe that's exaggerating a little, but we were disappointed.   I would dare to say the doctor was the character that really made the show, but don't tell Zach Braff that! Sadly I don't even know the doctor mans real name, but it was pretty funny how many people were looking at him.  Some woman even came up to him in line and asked if the green bananas he was buying turn yellow on time because hers just never seem to.  What?! Obviously she was trying to come up with something to have a conversation with him so she could blog about it later like I am. :) Even the checker dude brought up the show Scrubs and mumbled something about how he was nervous while he was scanning his items.  I almost started laughing. I'm not gonna lie though, the thought did cross my mind about trying to take a pic on my celly, at least of his leg or something. hahaha. Makes me wonder how hugely famous people like Brad Pitt ever get any shopping done with random strangers coming up to them and asking them silly questions about the color of the produce in their shopping cart. 

Sunny Sunday

Today was supposed to be in the mid nineties and that to me screams a day at the beach I mean, "A DAY AT THE BEACH!", so we did just that.  

We are really tall. Palm trees ain't got nothing on us. 

Sunroof shot.  

Matt's notorious huh look. He practices that one in the mirror. 

A pair of peers at the pier. Say that ten times fast. 

Nothing better than playing Mancala at the beach. Just don't lose your marbles in the sand. 

The poor beached sealion that I wanted to save, but it was roped off so no one could touch it. I just wanted to give it a drink of water at least. Sorry if this picture breaks your heart. 

Found this in the sand I swear. Someone knew we were coming. 

I got tagged!!

Family Feud game. I got tagged by Trinity and so here it is....watch out I have to pick 3 more people to do this and you're name could very well be at the bottom!

Copy and paste to your own post. Rules of the game are that you have to answer the question but you can't repeat anyone else's answer. Make sure you copy and paste the previous answers. At the end of the questions, tag 3 people.

Name something you use in the shower.
Ashley-Washcloth
Trinity- Shampoo
Kristen-Loofah

Name something people hate to find on their windshield.
A- Bird poop
T- Flyers
K- Cat pawprints

Name something a man might buy before a date.
A- Flowers
T- Gum
K- Breathmints

Name another word for blemish.
A- Pimple
T- Zit
K- Scar

Name something you'd cook in the microwave.
A- Bottle
T- Popcorn
K- Lean cuisine

Name a piece of furniture people need help moving.
A- Piano
T- Couch
K- Bed

Name something a dog does that embarrasses its owner.
A- Poops in someone else's yard
T- Pees when you have company (GI Joe doesn't do this by the way, thank goodness)
K- Sniffs your guests no-no parts which makes for a very awkward situation. Everyone has been a victim of this!

Name a kind of test you cannot study for.
A- Parenthood (only those of you without kids question whether this is a test!)
T- Pregnancy
K- Your patience being tested.

Name something a boy scout gets a badge for.
A- Archery?
T- Knot tying?
K- Starting a fire with sticks, perhaps.

Name a phrase with the word "home" in it.
A- Love at home
T- Home sweet Home
K- Hey homeboy!

Name a sport where players lose teeth.
A- Boxing
T- Hockey
K- Childhood.

Name something a teacher can do to ruin a student's day.
A- Give them a pop quiz
T- Keep you in at recess
K- Call on them to answer a question when they are dozing off.

Name a bird you wouldn't want to eat.
A- Seagull
T- Pigeon
K- Peacock

Name something that gets folded.
A- Clothes
T- Blanket
K- Origami paper

Name something a person wears even if it has a hole in it.
A- Socks
T- Jeans
K- Hoop earings

Name something that gets smaller the more you use it.
A- Eraser
T- Bar of soap
K- The sole of your running shoes.


And drumroll please.....I TAG
Cousin Amy, my one and only Madre (the best in the whole world), and Shelleeeeeee

Bowling Bonanza

This last Saturday we went bowling with some friends of mine from when I used to work at Cosmoprof.  (Matt was the designated picture taker; hence, why he isn't in the photo above.) On the way there we were all excited cuz the bowling alley we thought we were going to we had a coupon for! Yeah for coupons!!! We have made it a new obsession of ours to use coupons and see how much money we can save.  But then I got a phone call asking where we were and found out it was a different place another ten or so miles away. So we ended up being late and having to pay full price, but I suppose you can't be cheap ALL the time :).  I had a lot of fun catching up with my friends and even though my best score out of the two games we played was a 95 (didn't even break a hundred!) I still came in fourth place out of the six of us. Not too shabby, for someone whose bowling ball goes less than 8 miles per hour down the lane. Matt on the other hand is a bowling pro,  I don't know how he does it! He makes it look easy too, which is really when you know someone is good! His bowling ball goes flying down the lane and your first thought is  "oh poor guy thats a gutter ball for sure! " but suddenly it changes its mind and makes a bee line for the center pin and down they all go! I tried to get his talent on video but under the pressure of being filmed he lost his strike streak, and silly me had the camera sideways so my sincere apologies for the crick in your neck you will surely get if you watch it.  I 

It is of Matt on his second turn trying to get a spare, but with no such luck. And then he realized I was taping him so he tried to pull a disappearing act on me as he walked up the stairs afterwards. My humble husband is embarrassed by his budding bowling fame and tried to get me the paparrazi to stop filming by the cliche hand in front of the camera number.  I hate to break it to him, but that's not gonna stop all the adoring fans wanting his autograph once I put this on Youtube.