We want snow! Where’s our Snow?!
That is what the kids and I are walking around the house chanting. Todd is shaking his head, nay-saying, and generally being a doubting Thomas.
That is all.
Posts Tagged ‘todd’
We Want Snow!
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Best Husband Ever
Thursday, February 26th, 2009I love my husband. He just gets me. Look what he found for two bucks!
Best Husband EVAH!
Spirit
Thursday, December 18th, 2008There is no sweeter sound than the sound of one’s child and husband singing “Jingle Bells” together. I keep on thinking we should cancel the whole Christmas season, what with all the extra work it creates, but I don’t really mean it. Christmas has not been this magical for me since the horror of finding out about Santa.
That is a lie. There was no one moment when the Santa jig was up – it was more insidious, a creeping doubt that became stronger and stronger, until i just didn’t believe anymore.
But now I remember how vivid everything was, how fascinating each decoration and ornament. Everything about December as a child was a winter wonderland. Mom and Dad, thanks for making me believe in magic. I hope i am working the same magic for Tiller and Rollie. I know they are giving me back a little Christmas spirit, and a whole hunk’o joy.
For Todd, Who Left Forever Ago
Saturday, December 6th, 2008In case you miss us a little, in your Fat Tire stupor. . . things have been a little like this:
But mostly like this:
We miss you, too.
New Running Playlist – Special Guest Star Todd!
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Since my Ipod died, I have been using Todd’s dinosaur (about four pounds!) Ipod on my runs. I haven’t quite gotten around to convincing him that I should control what music he puts on his own Ipod (yet), so I have been using his Running mix. Lots of the same stuff I have, plus some I haven’t used that worked out well. The only thing we definitely don’t agree on? I just can’t run to The Shins or Vampire Weekend. I don’t even like Vampire Weekend, actually. And I think The Shins are boring.*
There. I said it.
*Except for “New Slang,” which is, of course, brilliant.
Todd’s Running Playlist:
- There There Radiohead Hail to the Thief
- Feel Good Inc (Single Edit) Gorillaz Feel Good Inc – Single
- Ch-Check It Out The Beastie Boys To The 5 Boroughs
- Obstacle 1 Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
- Blue Orchid The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
- Hopeless The Wrens The Meadowlands
- What Ever Happened The Strokes Room On Fire
- Banquet Bloc Party Silent Alarm
- Harnessed in Slums Archers Of Loaf Vee Vee
- Helicopter Bloc Party Silent Alarm
- Favours In The Beetroot Fields British Sea Power The Decline Of British Sea Power
- 7/4 (Shoreline) Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
- Sister Jack Spoon Gimme Fiction
- Smack My Bitch Up The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land
- Vertigo U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
- Where’s Your Head At Basement Jaxx Rooty
- B.O.B. OutKast Stankonia
- Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) Arcade Fire Funeral
- Richard III Supergrass In It For the Money
- Alec Eiffel Pixies Trompe le Monde
- Alison Pixies Bossanova
- Wolf Like Me TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain
- Handful Of Billions Sound Team Movie Monster
- Anti-Anti Snowden Anti-Anti
- Now That You’re Home Manchester Orchestra I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child
- Wolves at Night Manchester Orchestra I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child
- Cowbell Tapes ‘n Tapes The Loon
- Pitfalls Film School Film School
- Australia The Shins Wincing the Night Away
- Wasted Time Kings Of Leon Youth and Young Manhood
- Common Reactor Silversun Pickups Carnavas
- No Cars Go Arcade Fire Neon Bible
- Keep The Car Running Arcade Fire Neon Bible
- Bone Broke The White Stripes Icky Thump
- Icky Thump The White Stripes Icky Thump
- Finer Feelings Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- d is for dangerous Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
- teddy picker Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
- Red Alert Basement Jaxx The Singles
- Under Pressure David Bowie & Queen
- Bump Spank Rock Yoyoyoyoyo (Record-Play)
- Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster…
- Liferz Blood on the Wall Liferz
- Rize Blood on the Wall Liferz
- Go Go Go Blood on the Wall Liferz
- Hibernation Blood on the Wall Liferz
- Living Well Is The Best Revenge R.E.M. Accelerate
- Time to Pretend MGMT Oracular Spectacular
- Sissy Blues The Deadly Snakes Porcella -Or- A Bird In The Hand Is Worthless [Vinyl]
- I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You Black Kids Wizard of Ahhhs
- Boston Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
- A-Punk Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
- Mansard Roof Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
- O Katrina! The Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil
Todd, Collector
Friday, October 3rd, 2008So, just when I think that my very own packrattage cannot get any worse, and that Todd will probably throw me out on my derriere, God sends me this little gem. . . .
When we were selling our house in East Atanta, we put a ton of stuff in storage, just to clean it up and “stage” it so as to sell faster. (Yeah, right!) Anyway, Todd cleaned out the storage yesterday and brought it all home. We went through it, deciding what to keep and what to give away. That’s when we found Todd’s collection. Now, we have been carting Todd’s collection around with us since we moved from the first house in EAV to the second house in EAV, and now on to the latest abode. He started this collection years ago, before we met. It is very dear to his heart, but he never shared it with me until i found it when we were cleaning out the master bedroom on Newton to paint it. Remember, Todd is colorblind and then imagine what a colorblind bachelor might do to his own bedroom, and how a girlfriend or wife might have to correct that upon entering a living arrangement with him. I digress. . .
I found it on an upper shelf of the closet, like a buried treasure, much sought after, a Holy Grail of glass(es). I give to you the Burger King Smurf glasses collection.
Yes, he has kept these since childhood. Because they are so valuable. Here is a picture of the proud collector with a fine item from the treasure trove.
Lazy Smurf. We also have Gargamel, Smurfette, and a host of others. Unfortunately, we do not own all 13.
Birthday Braves Game
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Birthday Braves Game
Originally uploaded by Dogwood Girl
Video of Rollie showing off his new Braves hat and shirt, and talking about his birthday gift – a trip to the Ted!
It was Tim Hudson bobblehead night at the stadium. Rollie got one for himself and brought one home to Tiller, too!
Rollie thought the seats were pretty good as he settled in.
Cotton candy! (And Dad even gave him some Coke. Note: this is not Dogwood Girl-approved parenting.)
Father and son, so All-American!
p.s. College football starts today. Dogwood Girl v. excited.
Time to Make the Pizza
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008I kind of thought that my brother-in-law was a really smart guy. He writes books about development languages and I think he is getting his PHd on the side, but i am not really sure, because he is modest and quiet and doesn’t really talk about it. We would not have known he published the book if my sister-in-law didn’t send us the Amazon link. Well, turns out that smart, shy, silent type brother-in-law also has a bit of a mean streak; He’s not just a genius, he is an evil genius.
He’s a Dogwood reader, and I guess he has seen the slew of nostalgic posts of late, and he decided to get in on the game. I give you to you, courtesy of my wonderful, brother-in-law:
I’m not really sure who these other people are, but sometimes there is a little collateral damage in the quest to humiliate family and friends. Life in the food web.
Because He’s Still the Cutest Guy Around
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I am in love
Thursday, May 1st, 2008With goats. Todd makes fun of me, because I just love goats. I mean, first of all, they taste good. Second of all, they keep down weeds. I have loved them since I was a little girl, with their wispy, eccentric-looking beards. Those spindly legs. That funny, angry noise they make. They come in all colors.
I always tell Todd I want goats when we finally buy our big property (or what my friends James and Dana refer to as “the compound.” Yes, we were saddened when the Putnam County, Georgia Nuwaubian property was demolished and sold off to developers; We had our eyes on its faux-Egyptian majesty for a while.)
I think, though, that Todd secretly finds my goat amour cute. This belief was cemented when he sent me the following link. I mean, how could a man who wanted to dissuade me from goat ownership ever expect to achieve his goal by sending me this cuteness?
Get out the smelling salts. Fainting goats. I am so going to have fainting goats on my estate and then I’ll get rip-roaring drunk on tequila, and I will do goat fainting party tricks. It will be a dream come true. You are all invited.