As you can see I am all packed and ready for our trip to the beach. Only one final detail… where the #*%+€ is JP?
Birthday weekend – Day 1
Today is day 1 of Lily’s birthday weekend. She got a package in the mail from JP’s parents and couldn’t wait until Sunday to open it. So… she got on the phone and convinced Marlene that it was very very important that she open the prize immediately!
It came with a cute card, she was able to read all of it… She is a reader now!
The fun part, ripping open the package!
And the prize is… a beautiful necklace! Lily insisted on wearing it to bed… Thanks Bob and Marlene!
Mt Rainier is up!
Stephanie sent me this picture from her cell phone today with a message that said “Mt Rainier is up today
”.
When I lived in West Seattle anytime I would go over the West Seattle Bridge I would check for the mountain and if I could see it I would say ”Hey look, they put the mountain up today”. You can’t see the mountain every single day but on days that you can you realize how huge it is.
She took this picture from the office window at work.
Doughnut time!
This weekend the shortest person I hang out with is having her birthday weekend! One of Lily’s nicknames is “shorty” even though she is over 4 feet tall.
This morning we stopped at Krispy Kreme and picked up two dozen doughnuts for her classroom. Tomorrow after work/school we are headed down to the Gulf of Mexico to stay the weekend at The Port Royal on Mustang Island in Port Aransas, TX. When I made our reservation the agent told me that they have the largest pool in Texas and that on the beach end of the pool there are water slides! The forecast doesn’t look that great but we are hoping they are wrong like they usually are. Highs in the mid 90′s and lows in the high 70′s with times of sun and clouds and also isolated thunderstorms… yikes!
I love love love Lily’s look today. This is one of her new outfits. I have always thought the leggings look was super cute and Lily totally pulls it off since she is so tall and skinny. She is sporting a “paper doll” top and “childrens place” leggings! So fabulous!
Commuter Madness
I hate my morning commute. If I work the schedule that I want (8:00-4:30) it takes me at least 55 minutes both ways to drive about 20 miles to work.
I recently changed my schedule to go in almost an hour earlier in an effort to avoid traffic and now it takes me about 35 minutes in the morning and about 30 minutes in the afternoon. Here is the view from my car mirror of the traffic behind me. That is at least a mile of cars behind me.
My cars average speed is down to 30 mph.
This is the 2nd worst part of my whole commute. Trying to get from 1604 onto 151. Once I get to 151 I take the first exit and I am very close to work.
Sparkling Water
I stopped drinking pop a few weeks ago in an effort to curb my sugar addiction.
In replace of pop I have been drinking sparkling water like crazy. We found this stuff at the local grocery and I love it. They have so many flavors like grapefruit, berry, lime, cran-raspberry, lemon and orange. They are all delicious except for the lemon flavor.. barf! Lately I have been taking them to work with me. How many cans of sparkling water do you think I can fit in this purse?
Dinner for four
Today Liz and Laura came over for dinner. The domestic goddess in me made lime chicken breast, a big awesome salad, snow peas (and rice that I forgot to serve). Liz brought over her computer that had problems and JP fixed it for her. Here is Liz, Laura, and me on the swing.
When JP went into his humidor tonight we found this little gecko. This totally begs the question “How did he get in there?” He was very weak and probably very hungry so we made him a wet paper towel to sit on.
Double Header
Half-Nutz had a double header today. We won the first game 13-12 but the second game did not go as well. I am not sure what the score was on the second game but the umpire called it after the 5th inning because of the mercy rule so that means they had at least 10 more runs than us….
Here is Cathy, Me and Liz.
The view from above
When I did the posting about our house the other day I forgot to talk about something really cool. If you go look back at the pictures you will notice that we have an upper deck. You can get to the upper deck from both outside and inside. It connects to a room upstairs that will eventually be our library (does anyone want to come help JP build the bookshelves?). If you are at our house when its dark be sure to visit the upper deck because the view is amazing. You can see so the lights of the city and even the dowtown skyline. We need to work on photographing it but for now here is a rough example. We were told by the previous owners that on July 4th and New Years Eve we will be able to see LOTS of fireworks!
I wear sunglasses at night..
Simply Random
I updated the simply random tab above. Go check it out. If you have one to share please email me at daisy@curiousdaisy.com
Moving On
I got something in the mail today that made me think back to a long time ago. When I was a little girl I always thought that maybe someday I would marry a cowboy. I figured that my perfect guy/cowboy would be tall and have brown hair, brown eyes and ride a horse… kinda like the Marlboro man. Looking back I see that it was kind of a silly idea. While I am pretty sure that I have never met a real cowboy I do know I have met my perfect guy. My perfect guy is not a cowboy at all… he is a computer geek. He is tall but not with brown hair or eyes instead he has blonde hair and the most striking blue eyes that I have ever seen! He wears Tommy Bahama shirts and khaki shorts, not Wranglers and a lasso. When he comes home at night he isn’t all sweaty, he doesn’t have a horse and his hands are so very manly but still soft. This is what made me think of all of that.
I smoked for a long time. I am almost embarrassed to tell you how long so for now I won’t. I signed up for the Marlboro mailing list a long time ago. After you sign up they would periodically mail me coupons and they would always send me some sort of birthday present. This was my birthday gift from them this year. Sorry Marlboro man but I am proud to tell you that you have lost another customer.
Adventures of BofC
I wanted to let you guys know that I updated the Adventures of BofC tab above.
3 Little Munchkins
My sister Vanessa took her kids Isabel, Sofia and Cael to get their pictures taken today. Are these not the cutest little kids you have ever seen? They all live in Michigan.
Isabel just turned 4 years old, Sofia is 2 years old (and a leap year baby) and Cael just turned 4 months old.
Home Sweet Home
I have been meaning to do this post for quite awhile now. I have mentioned a bunch of times that we moved about a month ago. I have also been promising JP’s mother Marlene pictures. Today is the day that I deliever. Sit back and relax because this is going to take awhile!
On the northside of town off of a busy road there is a magical place that I call home. When you first pull up to our house this is what you will see first.
Then if you get out of your car and walk in our beautiful grass you will see this view. The brochure for this house says there are over 40 mature trees in our yard.
Then comes the front door.
When you first walk in if you look to the left you will see JP’s tiki bar room (notice the sign hanging in the corner?).
Once you step in here is your view of the whole room. We occasionally change the bartenders outfit. What do you think we should name her?
Across from that room is the dinning room.
Here is the whole room from a different angle.
And the butler pantry just off of the dining room.
If you go back toward the front door you will see the steps that take you upstairs.
Upstairs is not ready for photos but if you went up there you would find four bedrooms and two full bathrooms. Lilys room is the biggest bedroom up there it has a walk in closet and a full bathroom inside of it. The master bedroom is downstairs.. follow me.
This is the view from the front door.
Here is the first of three pictures of the living room.
Here is the second.
And the third. You can also see the kitchen in this picture but first lets go check out the master bedroom.
To the right side of the living room is the master bedroom.
Here is a view from just inside the door.
And from the other side of the room.
Here is the first thing you see when you walk into our bathroom.
And then.
And in a previous post I wrote about the closet you see on the left.
Ok and now back to the kitchen. This is where my domestic goddessness happens when I want it to!
Here is the kitchen table.
The door on the right is how you get out to the back.
Here is part of the backyard. Our backyard is really big so be patient.. we have to do this in sections.
Here is the pool! We use the pool a lot. It is usually everyones favorite thing about the house. If you look to the left of the picture you will notice some concrete steps at the bottom of those steps is the hottub.
If you are standing on the back deck and look to the left you will see one of my ultimate favorite things about this house. The swing!!
This is also pretty cool. If you go out by the pool/pump house you will see the awesome bbq pit.
Here is our back fence looking toward the North-ish. There is a large greenbelt behind this fence.
And here is the fence looking toward the South-ish.
This is what it looks like when you are standing by the pool and looking back toward the house.
Here is the view to the right of the house.
And here is an angle that until today I have never seen the house from!
If you go up the first set of stairs it will lead you back to the porch swing!
All over the board
There are times when I can make it through an entire day without taking a single picture or without any idea of what I am going to post on my website. Today was the opposite of that. Today it seems like every time I decided what to post about something else post worth would happen. At the end of the day I just couldn’t decide what to write about so here is a little bit of everything.
This morning I was craving a gyro so around lunch time I plugged the word “greek” into the “around me” app on my iphone. I found a place about 5 miles away so I called in my order. After getting lost because my gps mislead me I finally made it and while I was standing in line I saw this coffin full of “Vampire Wine”. What? Really? The guy at the counter told me he found the casket in the dumpster and he ordered the wine from Romania… not so sure that I believe that.
Later this afternoon I went to my first United Way meeting. Check out this years pin!
Today seemed to be my lucky mail day. I got 5 birthday cards.
Here is one of my cards. This is kinda like two paintings that I have of Seattle. I love the wet umbrella theme that is going on.
And a book.
A big thanks to Amanda, Stephanie, Marlene, Suzie C, Vanessa and Suzie Z. Thanks guys!!
After work I was on my way home and this is what I saw ahead of me. Kinda scary, huh?
Then as I was driving down Huebner I saw a double rainbow. All I had was my cell phone so its not that great of a picture. I drew the two arrows to show you where you should see rainbows.
Table Shuffleboard
Me and JP played our first game of Table Shuffleboard today. I am not very good at losing and he killed me but I am totally willing to play him again.
I thought that the stuff on the table was salt until I had JP taste it.
Has anyone ever played this before?
Happy Birthday Rose!!! (By Stephanie & Amanda)
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Happy Birthday to ME!!
Today is my birthday! We have been celebrating all weekend but today was definitely the icing on the cake. I seriously have the most amazing BF that any girl could ask for! This weekend he took me into the Tiffany & Co world. Before this weekend I had never owned anything Tiffany and now after this weekend I am the proud owner of two Tiffany boxes!
I now have a new fabulous pair of sunglasses and some ridiculously beautiful diamond earrings. The earring thing is brand new to me and I am still not sure how it will go. I haven’t worn anything in my lobes in years because I always seem to be allergic to everything. Maybe Tiffany & Co is going to change all of that for me?
For my birthday dinner JP, Patty and I went to a Brazillian restaurant named Chama Gaucha.
This place was amazing. When you first sit down they take your drink order. Then its time for the awesome salad bar. You never actually order a main course because the guys with the meat come around whenever you flip over your card. If you put it on the green side they come to your table.
Once you have enough you put it on the red side.
My favorite was the lamb chops, filet mignon & sirloin. YUM! Here are me and just a few of the meat guys.
After dinner they brought me a birthday desert. Happy Birthday to ME!
Best morning ever
I love hotels, I love staying in hotels, and I love waking up in hotels. That is exactly how my day started today. When we woke up we headed straight to the Watermark Hotel Spa and had a couples massage.
After we left the massage room they took us to the relaxation room and me and JP did a little chit-chatting before getting dressed.
Afterward we headed downstairs for breakfast. I am totally an eggs benedict girl but as I sat there looking at the menu I was faced with a big decision. Did I want ham on my eggs benedict or smoked salmon? This was also on the inside of the menu.
I mean seriously, how could we not have a morning shot of Patron?
I decided to have the smoked salmon eggs benedict and it was delicious!
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Omni La Mansion del Rio
Much to my surprise me and JP headed down to the riverwalk for the night!
And here is the view of the river from our room.
Here we are having dinner at Hard Rock Cafe.
JP’s Tiki Bar
For JP’s birthday this year I had a neon sign made for him. Today we finally had time to put it up.
This is what it looks like after the lights go out.
Welcome to JP’s!
San Antonio Riverwalk
Today we headed down to the riverwalk for dinner.
Here is J9, Lily and Patty at Casa Rio which is my favorite restaurant on the river.
I had no idea that Lily took this picture of herself. She is getting pretty good at it!
After dinner we showed Patty the outside of the Alamo before heading back to the truck. We would have gone inside but it was closed for the day.
Shower Time
Today at lunch I gave MSW its first shower! This is seriously impressive considering the high temperature today was close to if not over 100°.
What is it?
We are slowly getting things put where they belong in our new house. Today it was decided that this would go well in the master bathroom. We will use the inside to store bath products.
JP bought this a few years ago at a store called Second Use off of 1st Avenue in Seattle. Here is a close up of the face.
When you open it up you see it has two shelves.
We know it is from the 1950′s. But what is it?
Half-Nutz
We lost for the first time this season today. Actually, I should say we got spanked 1-14! Our new record is 2-1-1.
Happy Barf-Day AJ!
We went to my buddy AJ’s birthday party today. He had the “Games2U” video game van at his party. Happy Birthday AJ! The card that we got for him said Happy Barf-Day… it does not get much better than that when you are 10!
AJ’s little sister Gabby is quite possibly the cutest thing ever. I tried to teach her how to use my camera. The problem with taking pictures when you are 2 years old is…
Ohh Gabby.. we need to work on this!
Only 9 more shopping days left
That’s right people only 9 more shopping days left until my birthday. Can you believe I am gonna be 25 (insert crowd laughing sound here). I went to Nordstroms after work today. Here is a picture of what I bought. What do you think is in the bag? ?
Sip-N-Style
Every once in awhile me and JP like to drink a martini and Lily likes a cherry temple!! Something about the perfect blend of stoli vodka, olive juice and olives really tastes great. A couple days ago I found out from a friend at work about Sip-N-Style and I thought it was very awesome. I sent Melinda an email and asked her a few questions. Then I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with her and she made me the 4 most perfect martini glasses! Here is my favorite one!
I order one for me, Lily, JP and J9! If you go to the gallery on her website and scroll toward the bottom you will see all four glasses that I ordered (they say Daisy, Princess Lily, MHMoE and J9 on them). She has like every color and pattern you can think of! Seriously, go check out her website!
Wizard of Oz
Did you see the Google homepage today? Anyone who knows me knows about my fascination with Wizard of Oz. If you are a regular reader you should remember this post.
Here is what google has on their homepage today. Today is their 71st anniversary!
There is no place like home!
Here is a picture from Halloween 2001. From left to right is Amanda Ade, Kelly Ryan, my Mom, my brother Tom and me. I made all of the outfits except for the Dorothy dress which I purchased. This picture was taken in Seattle and my Mom just happened to be visiting at the time.
Ohhh Dorothy!
Who wears panties?
This is probably TMI but it’s my website so what I say goes, right?
I totally got the idea for todays post around 6:10am this morning. I recently purchased a few new pairs of panties but it wasn’t until today that I wore a pair of them for the first time. I knew right away these were the ones for me. Cotton yet comfy and cute! Next time you are out shopping do yourself a favor and go into the United Colors of Benetton store and buy a pair of panties from their Undercolors of Benetton line. Your butt will thank you!
Happy Birthday Anabella
My good friend Jennifer had her baby today! Here is Anabella Monique Ordonez. She was born today at 6:32pm weighing in at 8lbs 2oz and laying at about 19 inches long! Happy Birthday Anabella!
90 Days
There are certain things that make me think being a kid again. Kool-Aid is one of them. I drink like maybe a cup or two of this stuff a year. Today I accidently discovered that the serve it in the cafeteria at work. Omg! Yum!
Did you know that I LOVE sugar? I mean I really really love sugar. Anything that tastes sugary or that I know has sugar in it is awesome in my book. Today is day 90 of my non-smoking lifestyle and I crave sugar like crazy. Sugar is my new drug.
Does anyone else have that problem?
Spidery Sunday
Half-Nutz did it again! We won our game today 12-3! The picture is a little blurry but here is Half-Nutz and Lily Pad saying cheese.
Earlier today before softball JP, James, Lily, J9 and I all went for a walk on the green belt behind our house. We learned a few thing. #1- Lily is not in any way, shape, or form a wilderness type girl. #2 – It was HOT outside today and the walk left us all soaking wet with sweat. #3 – There are some huge scary spiders in Texas. Check out this Argiope Aurantia aka: Yellow Garden Spider. He lives next to the gate just outside of our backyard. You can’t really tell from the picture but this spider is huge!
Super Sunny Saturday
Today we woke up around 9am. JP and James started the smoker and then we headed to the river. We were in the water by 11am!
Here is me and Lily chillin in our rafts!
This dragonfly landed on Lily’s foot.
Afterward we turned in our stuff and headed back to the truck. Me and James say ta-da!
It took us about an hour to get home and boy where we happy to get there.
After we ate some delicious smoked bbq we did more swimming. Who knew James could throw Lily that far??
Finally Friday
We had a loooooonnnnnggg week this week. Today its finally Friday! TGIF fo sho!!
My brother James is visiting for the weekend. Here is a picture of James and Lily taken when we were at Rudy’s BBQ.
After dinner we came home and went for a swim. We are still working on the perfect underwater picture that I have mentioned before.
And we are also still working on our canon balls…
Lily decided to strike a pose instead of do a cannon ball!
Here is a picture of everyone.
5 things that I ♥ today
I bought Philosophy body wash a couple months ago because I love how the Senorita Margarita smells. Now I can’t imagine not using it. I promised Lily we can go smell all of the Philosophy products and she can fall in love with one too.
I also love my new curling iron. I have always used a big barrel but I have never had one that gets this hot!! 450° is a good reason not to touch it to your skin!
Origins Body Souffle . I have written on here before about my love for Origins. Rub this on your freshly shaven legs one time and you will be hooked. Oh and the smell.. how you and everyone around you will love the smell!
JP & Lily aren’t really things but I still love them. I even love them when they get whiney and grumpy! Today I took the very last picture I will ever take of them in the old house.
And last but not least… I love that today was the last time I will go to the old house. I have moved 4 times in the last three years and every time the places just get better and better! I have a feeling that we will be in the new house for a pretty long time.
Scooter Scrape
Lily was playing out front after dinner today and took a tumble off of her scooter. Ouch! The odd thing is that she only scraped her chin.
100 Square Feet
One of my favorite things about our new house is the master bathroom. The first time I walked into the bathroom I said outloud “I can do a cartwheel in here”. I haven’t actually done the cartwheel but I am confident that I could. When you walk into the bathroom on the far wall there is a door.
When you open up this door you discover a big closet. I had JP measure it and sure enough it is approximately 100 square feet. Today I started taking things out of boxes and putting them away in the closet.
I have so much closet space that now I am thinking I need to go shopping ! What would JP say about that? Ha ha!!
Hello Neighbor
After dinner we headed to Costco to buy water, pop, and batteries. When we got home two of our neighbors where standing on our front porch. We met Yvette and Anna who came to introduce themselves and brought us yummy strawberry cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Thank you Yvette and Anna!! This is the first time in my life that I have had a neighbor bring me a desert when they came over to say hello!
Happy Birthday JP!
Today is JP’s actual birthday!
For his birthday present I had a custom neon sign made for him. It goes along with the tiki theme in the tiki room. Unfortunately the actual sign itself wont be delievered until Tuesday so I can’t post a picture yet.
JP’s Birthday Weekend – Lake Travis
This morning we found this huge guitar near our hotel.
After we checked out of the hotel we headed out to Lake Travis. We rented a boat and spend the next 4 hours in the blazing hot sun. The high temperature for Austin today is suppose to be 102!!!
You can see me taking this picture in his sunglasses!
Look Mom, no hands!
Amanda says “cheese”.
We went past a house that had a for sale sign on both the house and the dock. JP pulled up close enough for us to get to it. We climbed the stairs and took turns jumping off. Stephanie was the show off who jumped 3 times!
Once I got to the top I jumped but I really didn’t want to!
Here we are chillin on the rocks! We tried to find Hippie Hollow but had no luck. We found Devils Cove but it was lame so we made our own beach!
Before we knew it it was 5 o’clock and we had to return the boat and head back to San Antonio. Here we are at the restaurant near the marina.
Here is a picture of me from what JP called “my gangsta phase”.
JP’s Birthday Weekend – Keep Austin Weird
Today Amanda, Stephanie, JP & I all headed up to Austin to celebrate JP’s birthday. We stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel on 7th & Congress. The first thing we did after we checked in was have dinner at The Roaring Fork.
Even the waiter knew it was JP’s birthday weekend because after dinner they brought him birthday dessert!
No one was quite as excited as I was that the capitol building was right behind us.
I am not sure what is going on in this picture but I am positive that I am not licking her nose!
After all the fun was had we needed to get back to the hotel to rest up for Saturday! We caught a ride back from the bike dudes.
JP’s Birthday Weekend
JP’s birthday weekend started today! For the first night of his birthday weekend he had the northern version of chili relleno (Yes Cathy & Louis I called it chili relleno) for dinner. Then we all went out for a swim and surprised him with a birthday cake. His absolute favorite German Chocolate.
His actual birthday is Sunday so I have something planned for him everyday until then! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JP!!
3 prong vrs 4 prong
Our house is slowly getting put together. I am excited to post pictures of the house but I am holding off until more of our stuff makes it into their correct places (boxes of stuff, furniture, etc). For now let’s talk about electricity. Did you know that JP has a degree in Electrical Engineering? This came in handy when we learned the outlet for our dryer is a 4 prong but our dryer is a 3 prong. We learned that it took until 1996 for the NEC to mandate 4 wire circuits for dryers and ranges (Canada began requiring it back in the mid 60′s, eh). Anyways here is a picture of the outlet. Amanda took this picture at my request. In order to get it she had to get on top of the dryer and shine a flash light at it all while taking the pictue with her cell phone.
It dawned on me after I wrote this that it makes no sense. Why does our pretty much BRAND NEW Electrolux dryer have 3 prongs?
Moving Day
Today was moving day. Again a HUGE thanks to Amanda & J9 for directing the movers while JP and I were at work. The movers worked from 10am until 10pm!! Amanda texted me this picture around 10am.
Ok maybe not so impractical
I have never denied that my car has pretty much no room for much else but the drive and the passenger. Today I totally impressed myself by hauling something I didn’t think was possible. I went to Uhaul and told the guy behind the counter that I needed some moving boxes and packing paper. I also told him I wanted to try putting the stuff in my car before I paid for them to make sure I could actually get them in my car. He carried them out to the car and helped me make them fit. Then he looked at me and said “This car is not very practical but you sure look good driving it”!
Half-Nutz Strikes Again!
Today we started a new season of Half-Nutz softball! We won the game 12-9!
Jan shaved the team name into his hair… how could I NOT post this?
The last party
Today was the last time we will whoop it up together in the old house. Here is a picture of J9, Amanda and I whoopin it up after days of slavery as far as the move goes. I truly love these girls!









































































































































































































