The Kitty Surprise Has Been Resurrected

Does anyone else remember these from the early 90s?? Man, these things were so cool and all my (girl) friends had them. I remember asking for the bunny one, horse one, cat one, puppy one and whatever other variety they had for Christmas and my mom made me narrow it down to one. I got the Kitty Surprise for Christmas and was so excited to rip open the stomach and find that my kitty had X number of kittens! How exciting/creepy! I had forgotten all about this favorite toy until I was over at my parents' house and I glanced out the back door and saw it sitting on the rain-soaked back porch. It is so much creepier than I remembered. I said, "Ummm... WHAT is my Kitty Surprise doing out on the PORCH?!?" My mother responded that she was using it to scare away the birds and that it was working on the older birds, but the younger birds didn't seem to mind... To which I said, "Mom, you're super weird. I'm totally documenting this." HAHA! So hilarious! That mom of mine is thinkin' outside the BOX! A+.

Passion & Melvin- Cater 2 U (Acoustic)

These dudes are so amazing! I bet the lil high school hunnies go crazy for these guys!

There's no place like home... There's no place like home...

 

Well, today Joe and I (me, the native Kansan) experienced our first tornado! I was driving home on my lunch break around 11:00 AM to have lunch with Joe and the music stopped mid-song and the robot recording guy told me to take cover for a tornado!! Kinda freaky! It was pretty dark out and it was raining hard, but nothing looked unusual especially since we have been having so much rain lately. Well, then the tornado sirens went off. If you don't know what those are they are basically a foghorn thing on a big high pole that rotates around on top and makes this loud semi high-piched warning sound. If it's facing you it's super loud. I have heard it a decent amount because they set it off on Wednesdays to make sure it works, but I don't hear it often foreal! When I was a little girl, I used to see the sky change to crazy colors every now and again... green, yellow or orange. This time I SAW a real tornado and there were no crazy colors! I burst through the front door to tell Joe what I heard on the radio, but he had the news on -- I'm sure it was on every channel! There had been a touch down about 20 minutes south of us and the wall cloud was quickly headed our way. It was already to where I work -- I had called to let them know what I had heard on the radio and my boss said that everyone was gathering in the bathrooms to take cover. Joe called me to our back door and there it was! We had a huge funnel cloud that appeared to be on the ground although we couldn't see since trees were in the way. Joe took a video of it (here is the link to the video!)and I took a couple pictures! I started to line the bathtub with pillows (which after the fact Joe thought was hilarious) since we live in an apartment and have no basement, but the funnel moved away from us. *PHEW*! According to the weather people on TV, the tornado did touch down several places around us although the only damage done in the entire metro area that I know of was a few headstones were knocked down way south of us. Us Kansas Citians had a crazy little adventure this morning that was both amazing and terrifing, and I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say how grateful I am that all my loved ones are safe and to be safe myself. Oh, and don't be afraid to visit!! :-)

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

Spa-ring, spa-ring!

Wow, it's been a long time since I have written anything... I go through periods where I want to do things like make my own magnets or scrapbook or write on my blog about what's going on in our lives, but those times are sometimes (read: often) few and far between. However, you can't share much in 160 characters nor should you.
We are very excited about it being spring here in Kansas. It's so nice that the world is green again. I love flowers and seeing trees all puffy with blooms. Joe is a total snow bunny which is weird since he is from cali/arizona, but I hate the snow since I hate being wet and cold, so I am happy to say, "GOODBYE, SNOW!"
Joe and I are moving about 30 minutes from where we live now in order to go back to school. We can't wait to have a new start... although our old one wasn't that long ago. We will definitely miss our friends and family, but the good news is that we won't be too far so don't forget about us!