YUMM-O!!!

Today my friend Mindy sent me a text message with a picture of her daughter carrying a bag from SPRINKLES... Next she asks me if I want a cupcake and what kind???? OH MY GOSH! 5'oclock could not come soon enough! All I wanted was to get off work and race to her house to experience a SPRINKLES cupcake! We just got a Sprinkles bakery at Stanford Shopping Mall which I think either opened today or yesterday. Mindy says she stood in line for 30 mins to get these yummy yummy treats!!!! And YES they are as good as everyone says they are!!!!

Monday..

Work SUCKED big time, one because I'm not very happy there at the moment, and two because I'm still sick! But the best part of the day was getting to hang out for the evening with my good friend Mindy. We both work and are busy with our families (she's really busy having 4 kids!). We havent' gotten together in a long time and she told me she was taking me out for my bday. We made a quick run to JoAnns fabrics where I picked up THIS cute flannel fabric:



Not sure what I'm going to do with this fabric yet, probably send some to my friend Valerie.

Mindy showed up to my house with this super cute cupcake pop bouquet, it was sooooo pretty I *almost* couldn't eat it, ALMOST...



The rest of the pictures I'm going to have to add later on because Mindy took them with her camera and is going to send them to me. They are of the really fun time we had eating at The Melting Pot. It's a fondue restaurant! We had a fabulous meal of 2 different cheese fondues which we dipped bread cubes, veggies and apples in. Followed by a ceasar salad that was really yummy with pine nuts on top. Followed by 2 different kinds of chocolate and lots of yummy things to dip in it (rice krispy treats, marshmallows, bananas, strawberries, cheesecake, pound cake, etc). It was sooo much fun!!!!

Sunday....

I didn't really get much of anything accomplished on Sunday. I was still feeling rather crappy from my cold. I went to my friend's mom's hawaiian luau 60th Surprise bday party Saturday and was there from 3 - 11:30pm. I was definitely tired and spent most of Sunday laying down on the couch. I did manage to watch a Jodi Picoult made for tv movie (The Tenth Circle) - it was so-so. I finished reading "Story Telling" by Tori Spelling. And did get out of the house for about 30 minutes to run to the Macys Furniture Outlet to see if they had any couches that I might like (we are in need of a new couch in our house preferably a small sectional with recliners but stylish - is that possible??) LoL!

No pictures today...sorry!!!

My Weekend....

I still need to post some more pictures of my weekend, but I'm relying on my friends to send them to me because I was feeling sick (have a cold) and wasn't up to taking a ton of pictures at the 2 parties I was at. Here are a few I have so far!

Favorite things...

My BFF Valerie had a list like this on her blog and it inspired me to write my own:

In honor of the first day of fall- a list of things that make me happy!


A fully-stocked refrigerator. **I'm gonna have to agree with Valerie on this one!
A cozy pair of fuzzy slippers
New pjs
Flannel sheets for my bed
A freshly made bed (and slipping into bed right after the sheets are out of the dryer still smelling like fabric softer!!!!!!)
The start of my favorite TV shows
New sheet music for the piano
Lighting lots of candles in my house when it's cold outside (I don't have a firepalce so this is the next best thing!)
My new necklace from www.lisaleonarddesigns.com
Random Acts of Acts of Kindness.
Decorating my house for fall
Working on crafts (I seem to get more in the mood as the weather gets yuckier)
Taking long hot bubble baths
Sleepytime Tea
Reading a good book (I just finished a great one - scroll down in my posts!)
Cooking dinner in my crock pot
Chicken & Waffles (YUMMO!!)
Reading my BFF's blog and catching up on what her and the family have been up to!

Making progress!!!!!

I'm on a roll trying to crank out my Christmas quilt! I feel like I am making a lot of progress!




My friend told me about a tutorial online where you can make a dissappearing 9 square quilt square (i think that's what it's called) So today I worked on getting all my 9 squares finished and hopefully tomorrow I can start the next step. Ran into a little problem where my sewing machine needle broke and now I can't get the new one to line up with the auto threader (any suggestions?) so I have to manually thread it each time which is a huge pain for me as I can't see it that well.

Here are my finished 9 squares....I'll post more tomorrow.








Had a nice dinner out with my mom for her bday. We took her to claim jumper. Then we went to the shopping center and bought a few things from ULTA, Hallmark Store and Pier 1.

Then came home got in my comfy pj's and started sewing. I'm getting faster at putting the quilt squares together so that is a major accomplishment!! Woo Hoo!

Well that's all for now...good night!

Because 1 trip to Target this weekend was NOT ENOUGH!

I ended up taking a trip to the mall because I never go and I remembered I forgot a couple things at Target and if I went to the mall I could go to a different Target than the one I went to last night (I'm still on a mission to find this purse my friend wants but unfortunately after 4 different targets, no dice!)

I got the CUTEST PJs at this Target



and these (were on clearance!)



and I'm now breaking tradition, I only buy EASTER PEEPS, but my friend insists that all peeps taste the same no matter what color, holiday, etc...so I will give these a shot (thought my favorites are still easter peeps, I'm still skeptical!)

TGIF!!!!!!!

I am sooooo happy it is FINALLY the weekend! Hubby is off to a 1-day boat race in SoCal so my son and I took off for our favorite store TARGET for a quick shopping spree! Well actually not so quick, we went down almost every aisle!!!

Highlights of our trip to Target were:

MINE:
new fuzzy black slippers
new mascara that my friend says is ALL THE RAGE on 2peas so I had to see what all the hype was about
TV trays for weekends when we want a casual dinner watching a movie and eating in front of the tv (I know most people frown on this but sometimes we just don't want to eat at the dinner table and instead of spilling stuff trying to balance our plates on our laps this works great!)
New candles
A puzzle to work on together along with the roll up mat so we can put it away when we need a break
Some cute stuff from the $ spot (which is my FAVORITE place in the store) - I won't name all the stuff from this area because my friend reads this blog and some stuff is for her
I did find in this area a lot of cute halloween stuff especially for babies / toddlers I got my nephew Ronnie a ton of stuff for halloween (fork and spoon sets, bowls, sippy cups, books, etc).

CHRISTIANS FAVES:
some new teck deck stuff
a new book
and some HOMER SIMPSON slippers.

After Target we pulled into the CURBSIDE TO GO Applebees parking spot and got an ultimate appetizer trio to share and 2 ROY ROGERS EXTRA CHERRIES to go! Yummo!

Now we have eaten a yummy dinner and are lounging at home with our comfy new slippers, life is GOOD!!!!!

Sorry now pics tonight...I'll post more this weekend!!!

Bye for now!

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!

ut's been almost a year I've been gone (left to try out vox.com and I'm back. I've been trying to figure out how to export all my last year's worth of blog posts back to blogger with no luck, so if you want to see what I was up to this past year you can go to: www.mesogoofy2.vox.com
and catch up on my ever so exciting life (NOT!) LoL!

I don't have time for a very long post tonight, but I'm excited to at least post a picture of the quilt I'm making, so far all I've done is laid out the design and put all the rows together so I can start sewing hopefully later this week or weekend.

here it is:



I know, not a very fancy design. I have absouletely NO clue whatsoever on how to figure out a design, I just sort of make a pattern and then change it up at the end. If you have any tips on how you come up with your quilt designs, please share!!! I'm a rookie and have SO MUCH to learn still! I still don't barely even know how to sew but I figure this will be good practice!

Thanks for reading! Will post more tomorrow. Have to get to bed early, my work is having a MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION breakfast tomorrow and I have to be at work to help set up at 5:30am!!! (I am not at all a morning person so this will be really tough for me!).

One more thing, I finished reading THIS book which only took me 3 days to read! I absolutely LOVED IT and am so grateful for my BFF Valerie who sent it to me to read. It was the best book EVER!!!!!!



Go out and get this book! If you're a fan of Jodi Picoult, you will definitely love this one (it's not written by her but similar style).

Bye for now!