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I got tagged by Lou, who has a private blog so I'm not linking her, to tell the story of how Army and I met.  

Here's the short story: He brought my best friend home from a date. 

Ouch! 

It's really not as bad as it sounds.  At least not to me. ; )

Longer version to follow...

This is Extra Ridiculous!

I'll admit that I'm a conditioner snob.  I didn't used to be, but then I tried some really good stuff.  My hair is baby fine, so it needs all the help it can get.  I also live in humidity central, so that doesn't help the frizziness.  My hair place recently quit selling my conditioner because it (conditioner) was bought out by a new company, and they changed the ingredients.   

How do you like this conversation:

Hi,  Jaci usually cuts my hair, and she said she'd leave a new conditioner for me at the front desk.

Hmmm, I don't see any here, and she's with a patient right now.

(Gives confused look) I don't know anything about the line y'all are carrying now.  Do you have one for fine hair?

Yes, we sure do. Most of our patients really like the one that's a little more moisturizing better though.

(Thinking maybe she thinks I'm a chemo patient or something) Um, patient?

Yes, we provide healthcare for hair, so we cater to our patients, not clients. 

(Thinking WTH?) Oh ok. Well, hmm, my hair is a little more on the oily side than the dry side, so I'm not sure I really need the moisturizing one.  Maybe I'll just get whatever Jaci uses on my hair next time. Thanks a lot for your time though.

Seriously! We have gone waaayyyy too far. I cannot stand the semantics game.  

 

An Extra Treat in Her Treat

Linus had a small bowl of ice cream tonight.  It came with something Army brought home.  As she was eating, she noticed a chunk of ice in her ice cream.   She wasn't too happy, and belted out, "Hey, why is there hail in my ice cream?"

An Extra Language Oops

Here's the conversation from the car today:

L: Daddy, do you have a cockulator?

A: (big eyes) A what?

L: A cockulator.

A: I don't know what that is.

L: Yes you do. You have a black cockulator.

A: Well, if I have one, why did you ask? And what is that anyway?

L: Ugh! A cockulator. You know Daddy. A cockulator is a cockulator.

A: No, I don't know Linus. What does it look like?

L: A cockulator has lots of numbers on it.

A: Oh, a CALCULATOR! Linus, can you say calculator?

L: That's what I said Daddy, a cockulator.

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Thanks to those who have left paint ideas.  I appreciate you input.  I'll grab some paint chips this week and check them out.

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House pics:


Thoughts for a color for the walls in the dining room? Not that I'm trying to match my walls to my china, but my good china is ivory with a deep blue and gold. I just don't think that works well with the red (pinkish) walls.

As far as the kitchen goes, I'm not liking the green with the backsplash. I tried a really pretty deep green/blue color, but I'm afraid that would make the kitchen waaayyy too dark. The countertops are black-ish, so I can't go too dark on the walls without making the room a dungeon.

The ceiling

The ceiling w/ wall:

Kitchen paint with backsplash:

Thoughts?

If I get really brave, I'll post some pictures of the rest of the house.

Pictures will be up at some point today.  I was in bed sick all day yesterday, and now I'm trying to catch up on everything that didn't get done while I was sick.  

Extra Slow

I'm *trying* to load a few pic of the new house, but I'm apparently too slow to figure out how to do it on my mac.  Any normal person would go upstairs and just use the pc, but I must not be normal.  No comments necessary on that fact, thankyouverymuch!  

The paint in the kitchen is bright green. As in green apple with a splash of neon.  It's not a horrific color by itself, but the backsplash is grey, and they do not work together. At all.  My current kitchen is a sagey color, so I grabbed some paint chips and tried a similar color, but it's a no-go.  That doesn't work with the backsplash either.  

The dining room is red (but a pink red, not a red red) with a gold cathedral-ish ceiling.  Not what I would have chosen had I been the one making that decision.  I can't figure out what color would work with the gold ceiling though.  And no, I'm not changing the ceiling.  Waaaayyyyyy too much work because of the angles and the chandelier.  I know, I know, hire a professional. I would, but since money isn't dropping out our derrieres at the current moment, that ain't happenin'!  We've already bought new furniture and still have more we need to buy, new carpet for the upstairs, cleaned the basement carpets, contracted to get the deck/porch/deck (yes, it's three) refinished,  oh yeah, and we're paying a double mortgage right now.  Oh, and there's one minor issue there too...my manly man of a husband has gone all girly on me and says he likes it.  Like a man should care about this stuff. Seriously!  

Hopefully I can load the pics up at some point and one of you geniuses (and I mean that honestly, not in a sarcastic way!) can come up with a great paint idea.