Trailer Trash and Blogger Awards

I hope everyone had a fabulous Labor Day weekend! My plan was to write a bunch of posts over the long weekend, but you can see how that went. But...my Trailer Trash Bash housewarming party was awesome! Due to popular request, I have posted a pic of our rockin' airbrushed tshirts. Notice HH is squirting Cheese Whiz into his mouth! Keeping it classy!!!

Ok, now onto something I've been meaning to do for a REALLY long time. I am giving you a list of some really KICK ASS bloggers! Why are they so kick ass, you ask? Well, because they have all recognized that I am also kick ass and have given me an award! Thank you so much!

It really means a lot to me that I have made so many blogger friends and that so many people are actually interested in what I have to say. I'm still in complete amazement!

A H.I.T. at a NYC Housewife-In-Training gave me the One Lovely Blog Award.

The Kick Ass Blogger Award is from Zoe at Zoe Rights.

The Honest Scrap Award is from Ebony Haywood at Sizzling Publications.


Kathie at My Net Finds gave me the following two awards, Splash Award and the You're a Gem Award.

The You're a Gem Award is especially important to me because Kathie made it herself to pass along to other bloggers. In her own words, "I made this award for the special bloggers who take the time to not only read my posts, but also leave comments, respond to comments, form blog friendships with and support others, answer blogger questions, etc.....the ones who are a real "gem" in the bloggy world."

So, I am passing this along to some new blogger friends I have found recently. Come on down and accept your award:

Amanda at Martinis or Diaper Genies?

Llama at Llama Tales

JennyMac at Let's Have a Cocktail

Tracy at Iced Karma Coffee

Life's Short. Type Fast.

Preppy Coastee

The Life of a Suburban Princess

Jenny S at The Red Bulletin Board

The Airbrushed Airhead

Labor Day weekend is coming up and Hottie Husband and I are having a housewarming party Saturday night to celebrate. The theme? Trailer Trash Bash!

I figured this was brilliant! Since we have been in the house less than two months, we really haven't had the time to fix everything up like we want. So, the backyard is still a mess and the decor is not yet all in place. This way we won't be embarassed when our friends wonder why we haven't gotten all this stuff done yet - it's part of the theme! DUH! It's also a great excuse to use up all those random paper plates we have stored through the years - Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving. Anything goes! I also don't have to wait to whip out my Halloween themed serving trays and chip and dip bowl!

But, as for our costumes, I wanted to do something different. I mean sure, there's no problem wearing a wife beater or some NASCAR attire, but that was too obvious. Then it hit us last night when we were eating dinner - we needed matching airbrushed tshirts!!!

(Note: picture above is not our shirt, but pretty darn close!)

After dinner we ran to the mall and found exactly what we were looking for at one of those kiosks. Next problem - explaining to the guy what we wanted without laughing and poking fun at his regular customers. Now, it's clear that little Mr. and Mrs. J Crew that we are do NOT look like one of his regular customers and I thought it would be way too obvious. So, I opted to go with the truth instead. I started out by telling him that we were having a Trailer Trash party (uh oh!) and we wanted cheesy airbrushed tshirts with hearts and our names on it. He looked at me like I was crazy and shook his head. I saw HH giving me a look out of the corner of my eye, but I went on anyway...

"You know, like some cheesy tshirt they sell at the beach. I mean, not anything like you're wearing...I mean, the airbrush tshirt that you are wearing is really cool...we are just looking for something that we wouldn't normally wear...but I would totally wear the awesome tshirt that you're rocking right now...uhhhh"

I was digging a hole and the dude still looked confused when diplomatic-as-can-be HH stepped in and pointed to a heart with wings in the example book at the kiosk. "We want this. With both of our names on it."

"Ok!" the dude nodded and started writing down the order.

HH (as we walked away): "Uh, good job GG! Making fun of the dude we're trying to order tshirts from."

GG (at a loss for words): "Well, COME ON! Really? I mean...what was I supposed to do? Uhhhh!"

I think I'm going to surprise HH with another airbrush tshirt for his birthday. I'm thinking a mountain scene with a wolf and a bald eagle!

The Evolution of Correspondence

I had an incident this morning that made me think about the evolution of correspondence. A good friend of mine has a very strict block on her email at work. Even an innocent word that may have another meaning will block her from reading the whole email.

Last night, I sent out an evite for our upcoming housewarming party. Something about my "Trailer Trash Backyard Bash" theme didn't sit right with her email blocker (go figure!). Even my second email trying to explain my first email didn't go through, so I decided on my third attempt at correspondence to send the following:

Hello my dear K,

Would you kindly send me an alternative email address so that I may bestow upon you an invitation to a delightful housewarming party? I regret to inform you that HH and I will not be able to attend this evening's festivities. My sincerest apologies.
We have indeed been overconsumed this week by transferring our household and
exhaustion has set in. We also have been incumbranced by a lack of funding
until we have a confirmed occupant of our previous residence.

I wish you well on your journey to San Francisco and do hope that you will contact me upon your return so that we may plan a social engagement. I sincerely
hope that this correspondence is more acceptable than the last.

To which she responded:

Top of the morning to you my dear friend!

You may send electronic mail to me without strife to ******@yahoo.com. I will
wait with the utmost anticipation to take delivery of your request. My R and I will certainly miss the company of your HH and you this eve. I give my promise that we will not hold ill will towards you as we understand your plight.

When my travel across the Americas has concluded I will most definitely send word to you so that we may enjoy merriment and song. May your new dwelling bring you much joy and your old dwelling bring you much gold.

Give my best to HH, Chica, Simon and Rudder.

This exchange had me laughing so hard that I think I may just start writing this way all the time. Definitely more eloquent than:

Yo girl! Was up? Hope you can make it to my Trailer Trash party! Sorry I have to bail tonight. I'm wiped from the move and have no money until I can get somebody to rent my damn house. Have fun in San Fran and let me know when you're back so we can catch up!