Landon and I were making one of our frequent visits to Target when we found ourselves cutting through the kids toy aisle. For some reason, when I walked through my motion set off a Thomas the Tank Engine toy who proceeded to speak to me. It surprised me and I didn't appreciate it, so I jokingly informed Landon that "we were not talking to Thomas". It was at this moment that a stranger came into the kids toy aisle from the other direction, and gave me a very odd look. After a few moments of confused silence, he said "Oh, my name's Thomas". At which time I felt my cheeks turn red as I embraced the humor in what had happened, the horror at how unintentionally rude I had been to a stranger, and the surprise that this had happened in the first place, all at the same time. "Oh, my name's Thomas".
Stupid tank engine.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
trading sunshine for pumpkins
I love the fall. I felt a little out of my element living in southern California over the summer (I'm not complaining, just saying...) and although the weather was freakishly gorgeous every day, I didn't grow up on the beach in sandals and shorts 365 days a year. I own one pair of shorts and had to invest in a nice pair of flip flops. But now fall is coming.
Fall means apple pie. And stew. And the smell of pumpkin spice. And sweaters and jackets, which I have a fair collection of. It means blankets and warm boots, and hot chocolate. It means the start of basketball season and the ushering in of the holiday season. I love all these things.
Signs for pumpkin patches and corn mazes have been popping up in the last week or so, and we're making plans to go with our awesome new friends the Youngs (Becca and Zach, not to be confused with Christy and Jared although we wish you were close enough to come with us too!). Zach is Landon's A school bff, and lucky for me his wife is pretty cool too so we've been hanging out the four of us quite a bit.
To catch up on our adventures, Landon and I have recently had our first Ikea experience. We realized by the third hour of being there that we were unprepared for such an excursion, and although we love having our tv off the floor and on a proper piece of furniture, we will be returning for some other essentials in the near future. We're still working on being big people and getting our home together. We've also been enjoying $7 bowling (that's for two pairs of shoes and a lane for an hour, plus free soda) at the base, and so far, happily, that's been a weekly occurrence. I've been getting some good scores in the 140's and Landon finally got his Spiderman bowling bowl drilled, so I imagine we'll make quite a pair at our next family reunion cosmic bowling night.
We still have a little unpacking to do in our new place but we're settling in nicely. I've had a couple of kitchen disasters but successfully made oatmeal brownie drops yesterday, so even though there continues to be a funny smell coming from somewhere in there, I believe we're coming to some sort of understanding ("we" being the kitchen and me). Also, our new friends happened to have an extra microwave lying around, so that's made life a little easier too.
So cheers to the good smelling things of autumn and my appropriate wardrobe for such weather. Hello fall.
Fall means apple pie. And stew. And the smell of pumpkin spice. And sweaters and jackets, which I have a fair collection of. It means blankets and warm boots, and hot chocolate. It means the start of basketball season and the ushering in of the holiday season. I love all these things.
Signs for pumpkin patches and corn mazes have been popping up in the last week or so, and we're making plans to go with our awesome new friends the Youngs (Becca and Zach, not to be confused with Christy and Jared although we wish you were close enough to come with us too!). Zach is Landon's A school bff, and lucky for me his wife is pretty cool too so we've been hanging out the four of us quite a bit.
To catch up on our adventures, Landon and I have recently had our first Ikea experience. We realized by the third hour of being there that we were unprepared for such an excursion, and although we love having our tv off the floor and on a proper piece of furniture, we will be returning for some other essentials in the near future. We're still working on being big people and getting our home together. We've also been enjoying $7 bowling (that's for two pairs of shoes and a lane for an hour, plus free soda) at the base, and so far, happily, that's been a weekly occurrence. I've been getting some good scores in the 140's and Landon finally got his Spiderman bowling bowl drilled, so I imagine we'll make quite a pair at our next family reunion cosmic bowling night.
We still have a little unpacking to do in our new place but we're settling in nicely. I've had a couple of kitchen disasters but successfully made oatmeal brownie drops yesterday, so even though there continues to be a funny smell coming from somewhere in there, I believe we're coming to some sort of understanding ("we" being the kitchen and me). Also, our new friends happened to have an extra microwave lying around, so that's made life a little easier too.
So cheers to the good smelling things of autumn and my appropriate wardrobe for such weather. Hello fall.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Petaluma, here we come
The newest Bingham family is on the move again. We are packing the remainder of our belongings (actually, I should be doing that instead of blogging, but whatever) and saying goodbye to our first apartment. We'll get the truck and pack that tomorrow then take off for the cows and country of northern California. I joined Landon for the tail end of apartment hunting in Petaluma Sunday and I'm pretty excited about our new place. The town itself is nice because it has everything close- Target, Safeway, Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, all those kinds of stores are only a few minutes away. Anywhere outside the center of the town though, reminds me of the hill where my grandparents live. Farmland, as far as the eye can see. It might drive me nuts if we were there long term, but we're not anywhere long term so we get to try out all kinds of places.
Busy days, busy weeks.
Also, on a very important note, there's a Jamba Juice a mere fifteen minutes away. Yay!
Busy days, busy weeks.
Also, on a very important note, there's a Jamba Juice a mere fifteen minutes away. Yay!
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