Friday Fragment Freewrite VGNO - Perfect Pumpkins and Bakugan Drama

The weeks keep screaming by at a high rate of speed.  They need to slow down a little more.  Or I need to.  Luckily Mrs. 4444's from Half Past Kissin' Time and the multi-talented Sara from Ordinary and Awesome have given us license to purge our brains from the hecticness of the rapid time travel we seem to be stuck in at the moment.  Join in on the brain purge...your brain will thank you!

******************************

Last week Princess Nagger and I enjoyed a fun girl's weekend.  Of course Friday hovering hubby came home after only having been at work for an hour or two so he could take it easy before heading out on his long road trip.  Him being home all day Friday seriously put a crimp in my  blog visit time I was relying on before being inundated with nagger time for the weekend.  So I unfortunately didn't get around to very many FF posts last week - I'll make up for it this weekend.

******************************

I wrote about most of Princess Nagger and my girls' weekend in my Random Tuesday post - but to catch you up to speed, we stopped at a farm on the way home from the movies on Saturday and picked up some pumpkins and other things to decorate for fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving.  We had planned on getting large pumpkins like we did last year, but the price had gone up almost 75%, so we opted for the smaller ones instead.  But we still wanted big ones.

We made an unscheduled run to BJ's on Sunday so we could look at their pumpkins, and so I could get apples and sugar to make apple wine in spite of the lack of apples from our apple tree.  I had to bribe her with a trip to McDonald's for her to agree to go.

BJ's has a habit of having their pumpkins (and in the summertime, their watermelons) in tall bins...how do they expect you to pick out what you want if they're stacked on top of each other inside a tall bin?  I'm sure I made quite the sight, balancing myself on the wooden pallet that held the bin'o'pumpkins as I rearranged the pumpkins trying to find the perfect ones.  While trying not to fall headlong into the bin of pumpkins.  I kept trying to avoid pumpkin landslides as I dug to the bottom to find the ones with the perfect stems that were big enough to pass Princess Nagger Inspection. 

Finally, we had three pumpkin winners.  They were $1.75 cheaper than the farmer's large pumpkins, and much much bigger. 

You're probably wondering why the third pumpkin is off-frame.  Well, I learned something.  Never set pumpkins on the back porch within reach of incorrigible puppies.  They like to chew things.  Like perfect pumpkin stems:

So the extra effort of digging through landsliding pumpkins in a tall bin was for naught.  But at least it was quite entertaining for Princess Nagger and most likely the other patrons of BJ's, too.  And how can you be mad at these guilty cute faces:

******************************

After we got done picking pumpkins and apples at BJ's, we headed to McDonald's, as per the previous bribery.  She kept talking about the Happy Meal toy, and how cool it is this time, and she hopes she gets the Bakugan in ball form this time, instead of the play figure. 

She had gotten one of the play figures when hubby brought home a happy meal earlier in the week as a surprise, so she kept saying how she really hopes she gets the toy 'in ball form' this time.  She kept repeating that all the way to McDonald's and constantly as we waited for the person in front of us to move out of the way. 

Everything was fine until I handed her Happy Meal to her as we drove away from the drive-thru and she started to cry...because she got another play figure instead of the ball form one.  Normally I don't give in to her emotional outbursts, but I knew that if I didn't do something, it was going to be a miserable day for both of us me.  So I turned around and headed back into the drive-thru.

I'm sure I caused mass confusion when I only wanted to buy a Happy Meal toy, nothing else.  Though I did preface it with we had just been through and gotten a Happy Meal, blah, blah, blah, so I was told to pull to the next window to explain my dilemma.  The gal at the pay window told me to just make sure when I get to the next window to tell them specifically what I want so they can take care of it.

When I got to the next window, the other person tried to hand me another of the exact same toy figure Princess Nagger had gotten in her Happy Meal, so I pleaded with her to see about getting one 'in ball form'.  She obliged and not only did she supply a toy in 'ball form', but it was the 'ball form' that the play figure PN had gotten would have started out as in it's early morphing stage.  Did you follow all that?

Bottom line?  It was the best $1.56 I spent that day to have a Happy Mama Princess Nagger.

******************************

Princess Nagger brought home an information packet about the H1N1 vaccine - her school is offering to vaccinate the kids at school for free.  Since there has been a kid at that school that has been diagnosed with it, I've already signed the permission slip.  She opted for the nasal spray version vs. the shot version - since she didn't like the idea that the shot might hurt.

******************************

I ran out of time this week to decorate the back porch.  So most likely I'll be working on that today.  Or tomorrow.  But it will get done, and I will have pictures posted soon.  We had some major wind battering things around on Wednesday - I was afraid that all my hard work on the front porch was going to get blown away by Mother Nature.  I guess using the overabundance of cable ties to secure everything worked - the only thing that was dislodged was the 1/2 bale of hay.

The tall scarecrow is attached to that, so he went flying, too, but they stayed on the porch.  The pumpkin that was on top of the hay bale, though, did not.  It seemed to have disappeared until I was walking around the side of the house to the back and noticed it had rolled halfway down the neighbor's driveway.  It only had a couple of small dents in it from it's little mini adventure, so it resumed its place on the hay bale.

******************************

Princess Nagger Conversation of the Week:

Me:  "Can you please do what I've asked you to do?"

PN:  "That doesn't make sense...'ask you to do?'"

Me:  "No, what I said is please do what I have asked you to do so I don't have to ask you to do it again."

PN:  "But that still doesn't make sense.  That doesn't make sense to me, the  'ask you to do' part."

Me:  "What do you mean it doesn't make sense?"

PN:  "Well, make sure you ask if I will do it...not 'ask you to do'...because that doesn't make any sense, right?"

Me:  "....."

PN:  "And yes I will do it and  this is a funny T-Rex, isn't it?"

******************************

If you're just hanging out at home on Friday night (and blogging), feel free to join in on Ann's Virtual Girl's Night Out (boys are welcome, too!)

******************************

Don't forget to visit Mrs. 4444 at Half Past Kissin' Time for fun Friday Fragments, Sara at Ordinary and Awesome for Friday's Freewrite, and Ann Again and Again for VGNO.