Two things:
1. I had a dream last night that was sooo interesting (Right away I'm breaking a Cardinal Rule of Interesting Conversations: Your dreams are NEVER interesting to anyone but you. Noone knows what it looked like, noone knows how it felt to dream it, and noone has the same sense of wonder about it because only you saw it. But this was kind of cool and I Promise to keep it brief.) ... I dreamt that I was sleeping and having a dream about being hit on by Justin Timberlake (yes, not even in a REGULAR dream would this happen; only in a dream of a dream. How pathetic.) but then his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, saunters over and breaks the whole thing up. So I wake up from that dream and who am I telling my JT dream to? Kim Kardashian, of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians show on E!! She was quite sympathetic to my plight.
My expert dream analysis has lead me to these two conclusions: A) I watch way too much TV; B) I think my electric blanket is turned up a little too high.
2. I have determined that if I did not get emails about winning foreign lotteries- European AND Asian, thank you very much- growing a male body part larger, finding "Hot Singles in your area!", getting a PayRoll Advance loan, consolidating debt, and buying Canadian pharmacy drugs, I would have a lot more time to spend with my children instead of deleting this ridiculous garbage. And I would only get about three emails a day.
On a related tangent, have you ever seen those hilarious commercials on late at night for talking on the phone with other Hot Singles? The girls in the commercials are so pretty and cute and so obviously not in need of talking anonymously to other lonely people to "have a great time." I can only imagine the foulness of the "conversations" taking place. Yuck.
When I was in college, there was a gentleman's club of ill repute over the border in Canada and they played commercials after 11pm on the weekends.
One of their key tag lines was "Free Hot and Cold Buffet!"
Oh, no, this is not just a table with some crackers, cheese and fruit set out... they have HOT dishes, too... maybe some mozz sticks, chicken wings, maybe even a steaming plate of nachos! Who know what kind of food they serve there! But it's Hot AND Cold!!!
That always struck me as HILARIOUS because clearly people are not going there for the food and a group of middle aged women going out to eat on a Thursday night are not going to be stumped about where to go until one of them remembers: "Wait! I've seen that commercial for Club SuperS*x! They've got a FREE Hot AND Cold Buffet! Let's go there and try it out!"
Or, maybe they're into that sort of thing. I'm not here to judge.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Completely shameless video
Here's video of Jenna being cute... there's no other reason to post this except
to show you how cute I think she is.
And to document her adorable obsession with songs from High School Musical.
Which we listen to every day.
Check out the hand motions, her not-quite lip-sync-ing vocals, and Michaela's shoes that she's wearing and is quite distracted by.
I present... Jenna Alicia Libutti singing "Fabulous"!!!!!
Get a whiff of that new car smell...
In the immortal words (roughly paraphrased) of
Grandpa Griswald to Clark W. Griswald in
Christmas Vacation while admiring the lit up
Griswald house...
"Clark, she's a beaut!"
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Lots of news!!!
Dan was away on business for two days and is now happily back in the fold... I tagged him and told him "You're it!" so he can be with the girls for a bit while I blog to my heart's content. Such luxury.
I'll start with the exciting news first... we bought a new car this weekend! Dan has been shopping for a new car for about two years now and has been incredibly patient and deliberate in his choosing. We went for a test drive this weekend and found out that 1) they are not making the car anymore (it is being redesigned for 2009); 2) the dealership has 11 left; 3) only one was the color Dan wanted; 4) about 7 of the 11 left had navigation systems which we didn't need and would have to pay an additional three grand for. So we test-drove it, Dan loved it, and we decided to buy it before it slipped out of our fingers. We are picking it up on Thursday or Friday and I am so happy for Dan. He has been tooling around in our 1996 Subaru with 160,000 miles on it that we bought the week after we returned from our honeymoon... 11 and a half years ago. We bought an Acura TSX, which is a sporty little sedan; it is charcoal gray with a black leather interior and has a sunroof, heated seats, XM satellite radio, etc. It's a great looking little car. Hooray!
Our second exciting news was that we booked our vacation for the summer this weekend. We decided to go with renting a house on the Cape this year, which goes from Saturday to Saturday, making it the longest vacation we've taken since the girls were born. We are staying in a 3 br ranch in Eastham that is a mile from the ocean and a few houses down from a bike trail. The house has a beautiful big deck and nice open living room and dining room. I am really looking forward to getting there, even though we're not going to the end of August. It was fun comparing a few different places online and looking at all the pictures of the houses and weighing the pros and cons of each. We were close to booking a place in Harwichport but then found out it doesn't have air conditioning, so that was a deal breaker. I can live without a/c but cannot live with Dan living without a/c.
In other news... my dad and I saw The Roches in concert on Friday night and they were awesome as always. We went to see a basketball game on Saturday night between the Middle School teachers and the Elementary school teachers and it was adorable. It was such a "I have school age kids" thing to do on a Saturday night and I got a real charge out of that. By the way, the Elementary team blasted the Middle school team. Victory!
I watched quite possibly the worst tv movie I've ever seen on Monday afternoon... Tori Spelling and her new husband Dean What's His Name in "Houseguest" on Lifetime. (Plot synopsis: House sitter in rural VT tudor home finds her life in danger... who is the bad guy? The house owner... or his brother, who happens to be a plumber and was called unwittingly to the house by said housesitter and promptly goes to bed with her?) Painfully bad and about 90 minutes longer than it had to be. Do you see why I worry about my brain rotting to mush???
I leave you with four funny Libutti girl stories:
1. Jenna has refused to wear anything but her 2006 Christmas dress to church for the last three weeks. This includes Sunday school, church, Lent services AND playgroup.
2. Michaela made a stuffed bear in her vacation Bible school program a few weeks ago. The idea was to donate the bears en masse to African children as a mission project. Michaela's comment:"I don't KNOW anyone in Africa! I'd rather give it to one of my friends here." So concrete. I love it.
3. Jenna took a baby wipe and was wiping the walls of my parents' house. Let me interject here that their house is immaculate and always company-ready and I would without hesitation eat off of any of their floors. Jenna's comment: "I haveta clean this be-tause your house is berry dirty, Gammie."
4. My mom is giving Michaela some kind of cautionary tale which ends with... "you don't want to be a spoiled girl." Michaela asks, "What's spoiled mean?" My mom says, "It means you get everything you want." Michaela says, "I think I WANT to be a spoiled girl!"
I'll start with the exciting news first... we bought a new car this weekend! Dan has been shopping for a new car for about two years now and has been incredibly patient and deliberate in his choosing. We went for a test drive this weekend and found out that 1) they are not making the car anymore (it is being redesigned for 2009); 2) the dealership has 11 left; 3) only one was the color Dan wanted; 4) about 7 of the 11 left had navigation systems which we didn't need and would have to pay an additional three grand for. So we test-drove it, Dan loved it, and we decided to buy it before it slipped out of our fingers. We are picking it up on Thursday or Friday and I am so happy for Dan. He has been tooling around in our 1996 Subaru with 160,000 miles on it that we bought the week after we returned from our honeymoon... 11 and a half years ago. We bought an Acura TSX, which is a sporty little sedan; it is charcoal gray with a black leather interior and has a sunroof, heated seats, XM satellite radio, etc. It's a great looking little car. Hooray!
Our second exciting news was that we booked our vacation for the summer this weekend. We decided to go with renting a house on the Cape this year, which goes from Saturday to Saturday, making it the longest vacation we've taken since the girls were born. We are staying in a 3 br ranch in Eastham that is a mile from the ocean and a few houses down from a bike trail. The house has a beautiful big deck and nice open living room and dining room. I am really looking forward to getting there, even though we're not going to the end of August. It was fun comparing a few different places online and looking at all the pictures of the houses and weighing the pros and cons of each. We were close to booking a place in Harwichport but then found out it doesn't have air conditioning, so that was a deal breaker. I can live without a/c but cannot live with Dan living without a/c.
In other news... my dad and I saw The Roches in concert on Friday night and they were awesome as always. We went to see a basketball game on Saturday night between the Middle School teachers and the Elementary school teachers and it was adorable. It was such a "I have school age kids" thing to do on a Saturday night and I got a real charge out of that. By the way, the Elementary team blasted the Middle school team. Victory!
I watched quite possibly the worst tv movie I've ever seen on Monday afternoon... Tori Spelling and her new husband Dean What's His Name in "Houseguest" on Lifetime. (Plot synopsis: House sitter in rural VT tudor home finds her life in danger... who is the bad guy? The house owner... or his brother, who happens to be a plumber and was called unwittingly to the house by said housesitter and promptly goes to bed with her?) Painfully bad and about 90 minutes longer than it had to be. Do you see why I worry about my brain rotting to mush???
I leave you with four funny Libutti girl stories:
1. Jenna has refused to wear anything but her 2006 Christmas dress to church for the last three weeks. This includes Sunday school, church, Lent services AND playgroup.
2. Michaela made a stuffed bear in her vacation Bible school program a few weeks ago. The idea was to donate the bears en masse to African children as a mission project. Michaela's comment:"I don't KNOW anyone in Africa! I'd rather give it to one of my friends here." So concrete. I love it.
3. Jenna took a baby wipe and was wiping the walls of my parents' house. Let me interject here that their house is immaculate and always company-ready and I would without hesitation eat off of any of their floors. Jenna's comment: "I haveta clean this be-tause your house is berry dirty, Gammie."
4. My mom is giving Michaela some kind of cautionary tale which ends with... "you don't want to be a spoiled girl." Michaela asks, "What's spoiled mean?" My mom says, "It means you get everything you want." Michaela says, "I think I WANT to be a spoiled girl!"
Monday, March 3, 2008
Weekend fun
Whoa. What a weekend. It was busy and fun and a bit stressful and I will post more about all we did when the details have been finalized. (That's quite a teaser, right? Hey, I gotta do somethin' to get people to keep checking back...)
A few weeks ago Dan borrowed Guitar Hero game from his boss and we Libuttis had a blast mastering it. Michaela and Jenna loved playing (both have a strong passion for eighties hard rock) and Michaela actually got pretty good playing Cheap Trick's "Surrender". Dan was most excited about playing but the true master of Guitar Hero in our house was ... ME!! Who knew I had latent guitar skills? I feel like all we did that weekend was play and by Sunday morning I was trying to figure out what chords I would play to accompany the hymns we sang in church.
Here are some pics:
Here Michaela plays while an enthusiastic Jenna sings while standing on the table.
Mimi is all business... look how she's chewing on her lip to concentrate!
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