Decorate Your Soul

I have thought this before, but I think today I might have captured Ashleigh looking like the Michelle of Full House back when TGIFriday was the coolest thing on ABC- eighth grade, maybe?

We go to the coolest little hair salon that I know of near our house- Chloe’s Carousel. It totally caters to children, but adults are welcome, too. My favorite part (and my children’s, too) is that a third of the salon is dedicated to being a children’s play area, complete with Little Tikes Castle, train table and dress up clothes. Ordinarily, I don’t make a big deal about haircuts, but since participating in Project 365, I find myself debating to bring the camera everytime I leave the house. Today I said, what the heck, it’s been at least four months since Ash had her bangs cut. And my readers would totally benefit from knowing that cool haircuts stores exist like this for kids. It was always Supercuts or Fantastic Sams when I was growing up…

Even Lolo benefited from the salon’s play area:

This is so silly, but I have to add this in. I used to have a Fozzie Bear stuffed animal (do you remember Fozzie Bear from the Muppets- I know I’m totally dating myself!). One summer after high school, I went on a cleaning rampage and threw him out. I sometimes am reminded of him and long to have him back, so when I saw this little plastic table, I had to get a shot of him:

Wacka! Wacka! Wacka!

*Doc is how Ashleigh says Dad.

Sitemeter does a pretty good job of tracking google searches and how people from all over the world will land over here at {decorate your soul}. I’m totally stealing this idea for a post from Nely’s  blog, but what the heck, it’s a slow news day. Here we go, some of the most silly searches found on my sitemeter stats the last few days:

1. From Texas: Qualcomm Age Discrimination

2. From the Netherlands: Evil Polly Pockets  (see, it’s not just me)

3. From the UK: My five inch heels (it linked to this post)

4. Another one from the UK: decorate google with your very own skins (I am a little concerned about this one)

5. Recurring Search: Nose Warmer

Hello Strangers, you crack me up

Over dinner last night, Andy and I were discussing the idea of having themed dinner weeks throughout the year. If you remember, we did a "Soup Week" a couple of months ago and so he started suggesting things like, Poultry Week (all meals would include something that had been unfeathered), Asian Week (all meals had some fish sauce or stir fry in its title), and Greek Week!

Which reminded me that back in the days of Sorority Susie, there was a week in the springtime that we celebrated Greek Week- and all the fraternities and sororities would come together and compete for some strange thing called a Greek Week Title. I think there was even a trophy. Gosh, it’s so silly as I reflect upon these activities today. My mind is kind of rusty since this was all about nine or ten years ago now, but what a fun trip down memory lane!

The entire Greek Community was nutso about this week- we dressed in "Togas" to kick off the week at the Greek Quarterly meeting, had a Quiz Bowl, competed in something called Greek Olympics and rounded out the week with the infamous "Lip Sync." During my senior year, the creative gals of Kappa Delta went with a racing theme and during the lunch hour on campus, we hosted a booth that sold hot dogs and suchlike, had a "Tic-Tac-Tire" game that cost a dollar and collected the money to donate to one philanthropic project. I grabbed a few photos from my senior year from my stash- one is with my "Lil Sis" Becky and the other is of the tire game:

Luckily, I can eat Gyros and Souvlaki as we enjoy current Greek Week Days. Ha.

According to my little 52 projects book, I was supposed to get on a train, take a ride to the end, take a picture and come back. Alas, this task with three kids in tow, paying for suggested ride and keeping the troops happy just wasn’t gonna happen. It didn’t happen. Some of the projects are outside of being doable for me, so I am not going to be constrained by the numbers and assignments, I have decided.

Having now explained myself, this is the project I wanted to tackle last week and with Andy’s helping hands, we did both hall closets (there is one that faces this one on the left). All the linen got it’s own spot ont he shelf rather than being shoved in a hole and we weeded out the stuff we hadn’t used since we lived here. This is right up our alley since we have declared we won’t be hoarders.

Ah, a nice clean closet makes me fired up about the bedroom I need to tackle!

Happy Tuesday!

I love my girlfriends- they are so willing to be goofy with me.

(if I would just STOP talking, I wouldn’t have looked so goofy!)

What other themes could we do for Bunco nights, hmm…