Still NOT tired of this craaaaaa.......

Okay - while I'm on a Will-Ferrell-online-video-kick:

The truth is... there IS something, undoubtedly funnier than cowbell. If somehow you missed this when it first came out over a year ago... my friend, you are in luck! Brilliant capitalizing on that stage where kids repeat anything.

The whole story about the site and how they came to video taping this whole thing (in less than 45 minutes) is somewhere... google it if you have time. But if you only have a few minutes for jacking around online, take these links-o-love and enjoy

The Landlord - the original (the other guy is Pearl's dad) "YOU PAY NOW!" "I'm tired of this.. craaa........"

The Landlord outtakes - behind the scenes (so THAT's how they did it)

Good Cop, Baby Cop - the follow-up and finale to Pearl's career. Don't know if my favorite line is "I break bones and laugh" or "You're going down ese" or "Game on, holmes" The whole story isn't *quite* as good as The Landlord, but the one-liners from the toddler are brilliant.


and new post to spice things up, found this as I was fishing out the links-- bless the sweet kiddo's heart... you just can't help but laugh at the honesty and maybe even relate to his commentary, er, somehow. he's just returning from the dentist office where he had more than 'minor' work done.

good times, people. good times.

Cookiethon 2008

Another memorable Christmas cookie-thon came and went... dozens of cookies baked and the neighborhood was treated with ~5 hours of fresh cookie sented air.

The night was capped off with puffs of powdered sugar falling from the sky. And that MUST have been what it was, because we all know that it never snows in Austin-- and certainly not in December. But sure enough-- freezing rain, sleet- and yes, SNOW -- fell in the ATX that night.

en-why-see, happy b-day to me

Had a brilliant time in The City: Saw wonderful friends, took fantastic pictures, celebrated all kinds of things, laughed a lot... and it is as if The City was celebrating, too because the weather was off-the-charts gorgeous.

As previously noted: our other computer crashed. Mr. Price is now using my computer with all my camera software on it and given that he is on the computer approximately, um, all waking hours... doesn't give a big window of opportunity for me to download pics from camera to upload. Pics pending.

In spite of the fact that I was travelling on my actual bday: it was a magnificent birthday. Started the day off with brunch in the West Village at Tartines with Jess & fiance Michael (who was precious and brought us gerber daisies). Had a wonderfully uneventful travel back AND won the airplane lotto (window seat with no one next to me in the middle seat). Land and receive a whole load of texts and bday messages. YAY!! Then Precious Mr. Price meets me at the airport with a fancy shmancy new flash for my camera (I hadn't asked for anything so I was pleasantly surprised to but it mildly - more like ecstatically shocked...) followed by a Divine dinner at Mandola's and cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery that made it all the way home. THEN a knock on the door and Erin & Jim had Tiff's Treat's delivered (for those not on team Austin, it is a freshly baked cookie & brownie delivery service) so... FRESH from the oven snicker doodles, choc chip cookies, brownies, AND cute little milk cartons (got to reinforce those strong bones!).

Can't think of how it could have been better.

Yawn- sorry for the dull post, but it sure was fun for me to re-live for my own self. And it's as if I had a whole side-dialog-thing going on with the extra-large order of parentheses, huh?

Pics pending......

my favorite words

schooch: what happens when you just moved just a little closer in... as in 'schooch' on over

tump: what happens when you are in a tube and you fall over... you 'tump' over. this can also happen with inanimate objects such as a potted plant or basket.

redonkulous: something that is so absurd, that it is beyond ridiculous and it's on it's way to redonkytown

the phrase: "I heart [fill-in-the-blank]". it's awesome. it's more than like - it's love (but not the freaky stalker type) and it is super fun to say.

the old classic: "turns out..."

The Perils of Lime in the Sun

Public Service Announcement:

Did you know that lime juice can give your skin 3rd degree burns in the sun?

Well, I didn't. And so it is five weeks later, and I still have scars on my hands and stomach to remind me of our first day in Mexico. Thankfully, the semi-circle on my upper lip has gone away (I have to credit the SPF 45 and the wide brim hat for blocking out most of the sun. The not-as-bad burns look like a speckling of age spots on my left hand.

Mr. Price's hand is still torn up; his was much worse than mine. In fact, we were at dinner last weekend and I noticed the waitress staring at his hand. Five weeks later! In case you were wondering, when I say 'third degree burns' I mean bright red, water-filled blisters. The only other time in my life I've had something similar is when I seared my hand on the iron.

I'll post pictures if I can remember to take some. Of the prolly 20 people who have asked, "What happened to your hand!?" 1 person knew that lime juice could do that and 1 other said they thought it was a myth…besides for that, all other people were surprised. (of course they could have just been faking it for me, and really thinking, "you moron, how did you not know lime juice + the sun = massive skin burns!!")

So anyway, my hope is that the next time you find yourself poolside or on the beach squeezing a lime into your drink, you can remember my sad, pitiful tale and learn from our misfortunes. Then you quickly rinse that lime juice off before you, too, have a permanent reminder.

Endorsed by the Coalition of Vacationers Against Lime Burns.