car troubles always come at christmas time

so it has been quite a weekend for us. on thursday night i was out shopping for christmas presents with kjonaas when the car totally stopped running in an unlit parking long downtown. my friend katie came to jump start me but after four tried our poor car wouldn't hold a charge. oh yes by the way this was me and screaming kjonaas...magic fun. so we got the car towed back to our apartment and the next day my step dad came up and put in a new battery, woohoo the car started to run again.

saturday the car stopped again and upon taking it to pep boys we learned that our alternator had gone kaput and we needed to purchase a new one at the hefty cost of $267.00. So it is at pep boys waiting for me to pick it up and i don't want to walk over there with kjonaas in this god awful weather. ugh stupid car. so we wound up spending $60.00 for towing $95.00 for a brand new battery and then the cash for the alternator bringing us to a grand total of: $422 dollars spent on car crap that was supposed to be for bills/christmas presents.

on the upside i made vegan mac and cheese and vegan sopapillas. be jealous. selby the yellow lab decided to help herself to about half of these sopapillas since i left them on the counter to cool, but i won't hold it against her since she is a dog and can't really help herself. merry christmas food stealer.

race car jammies + shots + fog

My little trooper got his 6 month vaccinations yesterday, look at him happy as can be even with a fever. I wish that I was as easily amused and pleased as him, all he wants is some attention and to play the "vampire game" with me and he is stoked. My mom aka nini brought Kjonaas some race car pajamas and he has been rocking them all day long looking adorable.

I tried to get Kjonaas to try some oatmeal with soy milk today and he was not impressed, he spit it out at me with a fury usually reserved for medicine or other such nastiness. Let me tell you, its weird to see someone who lived inside of your womb for 40 weeks start to develop likes and dislikes and his own identity and personality. We also learned some baby signs today that I'm trying to teach him. What a yuppie I have become with my brita water filter and baby sign language.

I'm slowly snapping out of my bad mood, I even took the time to take a ridiculously cheesy myspace photo of just me, which made me feel guilty as I have only put up photos of me with Kjonaas. I don't think I'll be able to keep it up as my default for very long without feeling like a bad mom.

Yes the jacket is fake leather...duh. I found it at wet seal and had to have it, I have longed for a fake leather jacket for so long, but I feel bad if i wear it without a "fake for the animals sake" sticker on it.

Ok I'm going to make myself have fun Christmas shopping with my feverish grumpy goose baby and then tomorrow attend my friends graduation and try not to be too jealous that I won't graduate for at least 3 more years.

my kid is strange sometimes

this is his new favorite thing in the world.



a lebanese diaper commercial of kick dancing babies. wtf kjonaas? i don't quite know how i ran across it, but upon seeing it he started bouncing and squeaking wildly.

omg blogz!

three things you should know about me:

1. i haven't written in a blog regularly since my high school livejournal which was pretty much entirely about how much i loved dashboard confessional and my job as a sonic carhop. FAIL.

2. i probably think that i am much more interesting than i actually am, but isn't that the case with most people who write blogs?

3. for the most part i really hate capitalizing the beginnings of sentences or proper nouns unless i am doing so for something school related. hubert selby jr. didn't have to use capitalization or grammar or sentence structure and he was an amazing author-therefore neither do i.

people i will write about the most:

noah...my fiance and father to kjonaas. noah is way more hardcore than i am, he has been straight edge since birth and vegan for many years, he used to work for an animal rights group that i guess i won't name because i don't really want to hear peoples opinions on them. interesting things about noah:
a. he hates ordering food over the phone, no matter how hungry he is he flat out refuses to do it.
b. this guy can eat an entire block of follow your heart vegan cheddar cheese in one sitting, and does so regularly.
c. if someone is being cut open on tv he can't stand to have his hands held down or be touched in the spot that the person on tv is being cut
d. most of our cats love him more than i ever though cats were capable of loving


i love noah. alot.

kjonaas...our six month old son who refuses to sleep in his crib and loves the ever loving crap out of chocolate velvet soy dream ice cream. kjonaas has been vegan and straight edge since conception which i guess makes him more hardcore than anyone alive.