Bust Out the Tissues

I know it's Friday, and I normally like to keep things upbeat around here, but I couldn't help it today. Hubby showed me this story late last night and I had to post it in the hopes that I have good friends and readers who will spread the word.

Five-year-old Noah Biorkman is celebrating Christmas this weekend. He was diagnosed two years ago with Stage IV neuroblastoma (the most common type of childhood cancer). He went into remission, but relapsed last fall. He's not expected to make it to Christmas, but told his parents he wanted Christmas cards. They decided that they're going to celebrate this weekend.

So send your Christmas cards!!! Hubby and I are sending one, he's taking one to work for everyone to sign, and I have plenty of others if anyone is interested (I can come by work if you want, mom). It's such a little thing to do today. And if it makes a little boy happy, why not do it? Seriously, take a couple minutes today and send Noah a card. Then count your blessings if you have healthy children at home.

Send cards to:
Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI 48178

Hmmm...

Humor me for a moment today.

While visiting my favorite food blogs this week I came across these cupcakes on Cupcakes Take the Cake. They come from Cupcake Central's Flickr stream.

Cute, huh? But they look kind of familiar to me...

Oh, wait. THAT WOULD BE BECAUSE I MADE MONKEY CUPCAKES BACK IN MAY. Curious George for an adorable first birthday to be exact.

Okay, maybe they didn't steal my idea, but I'm going to sit over here and tell myself that my cupcakes were so awesome that that is EXACTLY what I did. So just humor me today. Thanks.

Cute!

Google is featuring Sesame Street in their logo for the next ten days in honor of the show's 40th anniversary.

I'll remind you guys to check it out via Twitter.

Wish List Wednesday

Okay, so actually this was my second choice for a wish list today. Technically the thing I want most right now would be a house. Where I'd have alarms and locks and such that would far outdo the idiots running our apartments...

But that's a tangent.

So for today, I kind of went crazy. I've mentioned that I'm loving the color purple. I have a pair of purple tights that I bought in Vegas. I am DYING to wear them, but it just isn't cool enough right now. Plus I would have to find the perfect outfit. Since I've been wishing so badly that I could wear them, I thought I'd make up today's wish list based on the color.

And just so you know, I wouldn't wear all of this stuff together. I'm not going for the Barney the Dinosaur look.

Here's some purple clothes. That plaid dress is from Old Navy and I'm kind of dying to see if they have it in the store closest to us. I think it would be okay with my purple tights. Right? I have a few choices when it comes to brown boots to pair it with...

I also had to find some random purple accessories. I'm sure the sequined headband is too young for me and I have no business wearing it, but it's sparkly! How could I not include it? But I would totally wear that beanie.

And shoes. I can't neglect shoes. I own one pair of purple shoes. But they're sandals so I really can't wear them during winter. But any of these would be amazing. I really can't pick a favorite. They're all making me drool.

Sorry if you don't like purple. Or if you're sick of it after today. But I had too much fun looking at all these babies. Too perfect. Now I really wish I could go shopping...

I Was Not Aware of That...

Apparently November is National Blog Posting Month. I'm not making this up. See? Which means I should probably attempt to post every day.

Hey, I have so far!

So today, I'll tell you a little story.

About the suckiest apartment complex ever. Wait, that would be MY apartment complex!

Since we've lived here management must have changed. Because where they used to care when we had issues, they totally don't now. We can barely open our sliding glass and screen doors because of a tree whose roots are growing under our porch. Their answer to this problem was, "Oh, we would have to tear the porch out." Hmmmm... couldn't you have offered to put us in a different unit so I could, oh I dunno, ENJOY MY PATIO!

I've also had various creepy-crawlies come into my apartment. Making me want to faint and throw up.

Then there's the fact that we're a gated complex, but until recently nobody bothered closing the gates at night. Oh, and now that they're usually closed it doesn't really matter. People will just wait until someone with an opener pulls up and zip in right behind them. Or go in the exit gate. Because, guess what? No one mans the little security station at the gate. No one.

Of course this leads to a lot of break ins. Hubby and I have been lucky. The worst we had happen was when someone took our little tiny grill off our back patio. But then today we couldn't open our garage door. That would be because some idiot tried to break in last night and BROKE OUR DOOR. We finally shoved it open. And then called maintenance.

Maintenence was called over an hour ago. I've yet to see them pull up in their fugly golf cart. They WILL fix my door. And not just some ghetto rigging. They're going to replace crap. Or I'll blow up at them.

Ugh.

So hope everyone else is having a good Tuesday. I'm considering playing the lottery so we can move sooner.

Better Than the Original

Christopher Walken is the man. And I think his version is much better than Lady Gaga's.

Happy Monday.

You Ready???

I LOVED our costumes this year. I think they were our best ever. I totally get what my mom was telling me about it being fun even while it's stressful. And I haven't been this proud of anything I've done before.

So, are you ready? First some hints.

stripes...

scales...

some fuzziness...

lots of fur...

some yarn hair...

horns...

teeth... (and no, this isn't a shark mouth)

Are you ready?

Really?

You sure?

Tim and I were WILD THINGS!!!!

Here's the cutest Max you've ever seen. He LOVED his costume and told my mom he was going to wear it forever. I think he's serious.

And here we are with our little Max. People could not get over our heads. There were strangers asking to take pictures of us (of course we obliged). Our youngest niece kind of freaked out until we took off the heads. And yes, the heads were completely made by me (with some help from mom).

I used football helmets for the base. Tons of quilt batting to get some bigness. I had to make my own pattern (a first!) for the head coverings. It was probably a total of 10 to 12 hours just for the heads. But I'm SO happy with how they turned out.

Best Halloween costumes EVER.