Noodle Room Mock-Up

Yeah, she hates it.  

She hates the pillows, lamps and headboard.  You know....all of the things I thought would be fun touches.

As always, I'm Captain On Top Of It!  My finger is on the pulse!  I am one with my child's wants an needs!

Go Me!

hdof blog

I found a blog I'm obsessed with:

It's called Hairdresser On Fire.

Some day if  I ever make an effort with my hair, I will follow her tutorials. She is adorable and since I'm a girl, I love reading about hair!

She was saying in her blog that she can go 4 days without shampooing her hair.  4 days!  She uses dry shampoo and she has a tutorial on how to use it. 

Dudes.  I bought some today and used it: 

I don't know....I feel all scuzzy when I skip a day of washing my hair....I think it's because it's so fine and thin?  The dry shampoo isn't making it feel better....but I need to actually style my hair the next time I use it.  The jury will be out until Wednesday when I try it again.  I can only go one day without shampooing.  On the days that I don't shampoo, I usually get it wet, condition it and restyle as normal.  Like I said, today I didn't style it. 

What's your hair like?  Can you go more than one day without shampooing?  What's your routine if you don't shampoo?  I love how you guys answer all of my questions :)  Michelle, are still no 'pooing?

And thanks for the Christmas card answers.  I always like to hear what other people think!

Curious

Hey - so, I'm just curious. 

I'm looking at Holiday cards to send.  I usually choose something that says "peace" or "happy holidays"  or something like that because I have a few friends who don't celebrate Christmas.  I was even thinking about just doing a Happy New Year card....that way I'm not targeting a religion at all, but still sending a greeting and a photo of Noodle, because I love photos of kids and families for a greeting card.  I save them ALL and look at them every year to see how everyone changes.

Aaaanyway, I saw a post about this very subject on a blog.  And I looked at the comments and saw that some people are very offended by getting cards that don't say "Merry Christmas" on them.  If you are Christian, does that bug you, too?  If you're not Christian, are you offended by a "Merry Christmas" card?

Just curious how you all feel about this. 

If you're an American Thanksgiving celebrator, did you have a good one?  We did!  My brother is a fantastic cook and we had a yummy dinner, I went to a hockey game with my nephew, we went for a nice hike and then to the new Muppet Movie (sorry, I didn't think it was that great, but Noodle LOVED it.)

Verdict: Matches. Lots of Matches.

That's what you're all telling me, and darn it?  I'm listening.  I'm going to do it.

There was also a suggestion that I start watching her diet: 

photo by Lubella Portraits

Now, who was that?  One of my no-good brothers? 

MJ's going to be on t.v. tomorrow and I get to sit back stage and watch her :)  Superstar!

Fresh Air

I'm going to talk about a rather indelicate subject that kind of goes along with the small house thing I last blogged about:  keeping one's bathroom fresh smelling.


We ran out of air freshener a while ago.  I didn't buy any more right away because, quite frankly?  The very reason we use it kind of ruins all of those scents for me.  You know - like the "fresh linen" scent?  Well after a while, it just smells like, "fresh linen covering up the I-just-used-and-abused-the-bathroom" scent.  Which, in a small house, kind of creeps into rooms other than the bathroom.

You know what I'm saying? 

Oh - I didn't use and abuse the bathroom.  No, sir.  I'm pretty sure my poopies smell like a spring breeze.  

It's another family member that abuses the bathroom on a regular basis.


So, the other day I bought a new scent, hoping for the best: 

I knew it wasn't going to work out the way I had hoped when Zuddy came out of the loo saying in his best Australian accent, "Gah.  It smells like someone took a crap in a New Zealand Spring!"


Sigh.