I have no pictures from last night, but it was wonderful.  My friends (of all ages) turned a crappy morning (truck had to be jumped twice, fight between the man and I, slight frustration and general hysteria) into a wonderfully, delightfully, spooking evening. 

Thank you and may your New Year be as Awesome as you all are!

Inconceivable

We are dining next to a model of the pirate ship Revenge.  Bodes very well for the next 16 years of marriage.  I love my FarmBoy

It is beginning to look a lot like Halloween

Other people have Advent Calendars

An historical day

We celebrated Nana's birthday with a trip to Atlanta History Center. 











We had fun walking all over and visiting different sites and ....we snagged a tour of the Swan House (no photos allowed inside) and found out they had just finished filming part of Catching Fire in one of the rooms - we all think it will be President Snow's office.

Stitch in time Stitching Time {to the tune of Sweepin' Time from Mary Poppins}

Lucy and  Nana are working on her quilt - she's making it as a gift (personally, i covet this one - wish it were for me).  The colors are so exciting and beautiful.

Taran and I are playing with electronica.  He has captured a new pokeman that he has named Sapphire.  I am playing with my blogger app and using

Talk Like a Pirate Day

This morning saw a combination of two our favorite things:
Krispy Kreme donuts and talk like a pirate day.
We left port and headed out for some pirate booty. 

the cashier even took our picture and we not only scored a luscious box of golden delicious glazed donuts but individual treasures as well!

Arrr matey, enjoy the day!_

Japan Fest

For years, Atlanta has been hosting a v. cool event and I finally got to go this year.  The husband and the kids went last year and had a delightful time (I often hear about it).  This year they asked me to join them.  How could I resist an invite to such a wonderful day?

 We saw Sumo Wrestlers ... did you know that there are female wrestlers here in GA?


Met up with our friends (whose company we always enjoy) and saw the Samurai and his 18 assistants (most amusing his assistants).  The Samurai carefully controlled the placement of his assistants so only 7 samurai were on stage at one time - most funny.

We visited the koi and goldfish show - Lucy had hoped to bring comet (our newly adopted goldfish), but I wasn't sure we could pull that off - I mean, I have seen purse dogs, but a purse goldfish was not something I wished to contemplate.

Vendors, oh what goods they were selling - I could easily have left a few hundred dollars there, fortunately, I did not.  They sold items of anime and those of paper and some of silks ... oh how I would love to stroll through there again.  We did bring home a Shadow Lugia, an Espion and a inflatable toy dog on wheels.
We spoke with many people and had a lovely time - so much fun people are!

Did I mention the piece de resistance?  The food?!  I had been hearing about the tonkotsu ramen from Umaido that had been sold there for almost a year and so, we grabbed some ramen and we ate and ate and ate (did I mention how large the portions were?). The pork was like butter and the miso was most tasty.  Lucy finished up the ramen with a bit of dirt from Sunno - no worms though!

Lunchtime

Lunch with my 2 favorite people

Fort Dunleith

What else to do on a rainy day?

Unreal is real tasty

Last week not only did we celebrate Chuck's Birthday (see previous post), visit the DragonCon parade (nope, not any photos - long story), but we also had a delightful house guest.

As part of our gamer treats (can't continue to party with Mario if you don't have something to share), I brought out the (remainder of the) Unreal Candies.






I am now a BzzAgent and from time to time they send you products to try or, in this case, coupons - after all I would not want to be shipped melted chocolate. I was pleased with the taste of the product and enjoyed the coloring methods employed - candy that uses beetroot juice, turmeric root extract, purple cabbage juice for coloring purposes has to be cool.  Most important, the three young folk in our home were clamoring for more - tells you something!

Life the universe and everything

This is what happens when you marry a geek, give birth to 2 geeks, and turn 42.

Happy birthday Chuck we love you!!!

Pics

It worked!

Attempts

We are attempting baking soda and vinegar balloon inflation to replace helium. Because of lemurs?

We have discovered that water balloons do not work. Have retrieved Regular balloons Will now discover if they work.

App crazy

Now I get to play with a blotter acid what?!

Now I get to play with a blogger app sometimes the Speak Now feature get a little confused.

Thank goodness I have an app to help me with that.

Let Freedom Ring

Yesterday was the 4th of July. 

Despite our recent hardships - being broken into and totaling the Heart of Gold - we were able to celebrate the Independence of our county.

We started the morning at our favorite parade in Avondale Estates.


Finished the night at the top of our street.

all for a Birthday gift

Having worked out a compromise from all 4 parties (the pets were not included in this decision), Taran, Lucy and I spent time at Target (the other member of the clan dropped us on his way to Publix).  This was included in the discussions.

Oh Target - you are so - funny.  I wasn't in the mood to go, but after discussions were had, I was willing to go and experienced an awful lot of fun : masks, legos, robot claws (I had to use those claws to put back claw- there is no way I was going to use my hands - that would be wrong), candles (the red velvet cupcake scent was divine and made us so hungry), the food aisle, YanYan, and scoping out the parking lot for a new car.  Seriously, we need a new ride and, although I look nefarious as I am peeping in windows, I enjoy checking to see what folks have chosen.

the batman

Sean White slid by with an unexpected appearance

Egads, this place is crawling with celebrities

NO, don't smash, Hulk, don't smash!

Now, tiny Batman is here ......

and the Prime

Thank goodness, because look who it is ....

the LIZARD (with really cute hair).

This is why one does expect more - Thank You Target!

Chiba Ash , Oshawott (in Sgt. Frog gear) and Fatachu enjoying MomoCon.

Suburban Homesteading 101

Today we made some jam with Nana.

Strawberry Jam - I have I told you how much I love strawberry jam?


We have completed jars (made by us) sitting and waiting ... I feel they won't wait for long.