Wish List Wednesday

Okay, I am really in love with the item on today's wish list. I found this website a few months back and have wanted to buy something from them ever since. I love to decorate and I'm always looking for something a little different from the norm so when I saw these, I immediately wanted to buy one of each. What the heck am I talking about? Well, I am talking about wall decals. Some pretty awesome wall decals too.

Abstract designs

Animals

Florals

Kids

Glow in the Dark

Writable

Wall Clocks

So what do you think? I think they are awesome! You can get them in a bunch of different colors too. I really want that red clock. Hubby, are you listening? I want the red clock. There are many more designs on the website. Check them out at Dezign with a Z.

Fire Drills, High Heels and Flashing

Fire drills are a pain in the patootie. However, I realize that they are necessary so that everyone is aware of where to go in case of an emergency. That being said, they can really get on my nerves. 

Fire drills are not fun when you are sitting in a very quite office and all of a sudden an ear piercing alarm goes off making you practically fall off your chair.

Fire drills are not fun when you are feverishly working to meet a deadline and you really don't have time to leave your desk.

Fire drills are not fun when you are located on the tenth floor of a building and have to take the stairs down to get out.

Fire drills are not fun when you are wearing four inch heels and you now have to walk down ten flights of stairs.

Fire drills are not fun when you have knee pain when walking down stairs and now you have to walk down ten flights of stairs in four inch heels.

Fire drills are not fun when you finally make it down to the ground level and have to go through a door to the outside that makes a loud, piercing noise the minute you open it, which then gives you hearing loss for the remainder of the day.

Fire drills are not fun when you get outside and are met with gusting winds that blow your skirt up and show your co-workers the color of your underwear.

Fire drills are not fun when you have to stand outside and listen to a ten minute lecture about fire drills while you are trying to keep the gusting wind from blowing your skirt over your head and your hair from flying in your mouth.

The only thing I like about fire drills is that we get a free cookie for our cooperation.

The end.

Silly Sign Sunday - Don't Molest the Alligators, Please

Uh, no problem.

School's Out for the Summer!

School's out for the summer! Yippie!!

About two years ago, my husband and I decided to go back school, after many, many, many, many, many years. Too many to admit to here. It was a scary decision to make but with the economy tanking, we thought we both better have a backup plan in case we were out of a job without a college degree.

So, we have been back to school and it has been a struggle for some of the classes, being a little dusty with the whole studying and doing homework thing. I was not a fan of school back then and am still not a fan now but it is a necessary evil. I just keep the end result in mind when I am pulling my hair out during this process.

Yikes! That lady is scary!

Some of you will laugh when I tell you that we are only taking one class a semester but we wanted to start off slow to get back into the swing of things. Plus, we are grownups with grownup bills to pay and full time jobs. Also, school is expensive. Dang! Really expensive.

The only problem is that at this rate, we will be 92 when we finish. Well, not quite 92, but it sometimes feels that way. We figure, we will be done in 2013. However, that is only for the first degree. We then want to continue with the next degree. Uh, maybe we will be 92. Think anyone will hire us at 92?

I don't know but I hope we look a little happier than this couple. Jeez. Crack a smile, will ya?

Anyway, our class just ended this week and we are excited about a little break before starting again. How come when I was younger, summer vacation seemed to last FOREVER but now it seems like it lasts about 10 days?

Attention young people: go to college straight after high school. You're brain tends to slow down as you get older and its takes a lot more work to learn new things and remember them.

Wish List Wednesday

When I was a kid, a favorite pastime of mine was climbing trees. There was an awesome tree in the field behind my house that I spent many hours climbing. I would climb up to my favorite limb, which was a thick but not so sturdy branch, that was parallel to the ground. While sitting up there, I always wished that I could build a tree house in it. Never was my imagination this grand.

Alnwick, Northumberland UK

Oh, I want one of these! It has 6,000 square feet (that is not a typo) and a restaurant inside! How awesome is that? Unfortunately, it costs about $7 million. So much for that idea.

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant (New Zealand)

This one is actually a restaurant but look how cool it is. If I had a tree house that looked like this, I would be a happy camper.

4Treehouse (Lake Muskoka, Ontario)

This is a two-ton, two-story, 410-square-foot tree house that is suspended 20 feet above the ground with steel airline cables. I am in love with the neat light effects.

  God's Treehouse (Crossville, TN) 

Now, this is one is the world's largest tree house with ten floors and 8,000 to 10,000 square feet. How is that even possible? Oh, I'm in love. I could imagine myself waking up every morning in this one. Except, I would need maids because I certainly wouldn't to have to keep it clean.

Childhood Memories - Source of Entertainment

I was a weird kid but after speaking with my husband about this, he was weird too because he did something similar. That's probably why we are together. It's the whole "birds of feather..." thing, I guess.

Anyway, when I was younger, probably about 5 or 6, I got a real kick out of viewing my kitchen upside down. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Yeah, whatever. Don't spoil my fond memory, please.

We had orange, cushy chairs in the kitchen (this was the 70's people) that would spin around. Very similar to these but bright orange:

I would lie on my back, stare up at the ceiling and pretend that the ceiling was the floor and vice versa. I would imagine walking around on the ceiling, opening up the cabinet doors and walking through doorways to other rooms. However, I could never figure out how I would use the sink without making a mess.

This would last about 30 seconds (remember I was 5 or 6 and my attention span was rather short). Then, I would flip over on my stomach and start to spin the chair around until everything got really blurry. I would use the legs of the chair to push myself faster and faster. If I would have fallen off at any point, I would have gone flying across the room. (My mother thinks that I actually did fly off a few times and hit my head. She says this would explain a few things. My mother thinks she's a comedian sometimes.)

Dramatization of what could have happened.

Note: As you look at this picture, you will see two things. 1) Even as I fly across the room, I do it with style, waving as I fly by. 2) I still have my McDonald's uniform on. My mother put me to work young to contribute to the family money pool. It was okay though because I could eat French fries all night long (I had to work the night shift because I had to go to school).

This spinning around would last a few minutes until my stomach started to get upset with me (after eating French fries all night, yours would too). I would then get up, try to walk without falling, and go to the living room to sit down until I felt better.

Usually, it would take about 10 to 15 minutes for the nausea to fade and then I would start the process all over again. It was a blast!

What can I say? It didn't take much to entertain me then. It still doesn't.

Silly Sign Sunday - An Example of Laziness

You couldn't be bothered to move the branch? Really?