Boo to You !

How KMK, Mimi and Ernie will be spending our Halloween Evening. Also not to be left out of the above equation a yummy homemade pizza. It also involves a fake pumpkin and 8 fall scented candles and the 3 of us sitting around in our costumes. For the first time in my entire life I did not carve a pumpkin (the past 3 years the pumpkins jgra and I have carved have turned into pumpkin soup very fast), just an fyi to ALL of you, NOT carving pumpkins for halloween is a one way ticket to sadville. So I went to Michaels and got a fake non-rotting pumpkin. It will do, sort of. I also got candy for the children who will not come. What we do tonight is a halloween tradition of sorts since I have been living on my own. Every year I get all excited and dress myself and the puppies up to wait for the trick-o-treaters. Alas they never come, and I am left with candy (jr.mints this year). Oh well maybe next year they will come...

and this will be our pumpkin ----------------->

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

xoxo

kmk

Ode to a missing shoe ?

Don't ask me HOW I did it, but I today went looking for my Ugg slippers and have found that there is only 1. I am pretty sure at some point when I first moved here I have worn both of them, which mean one is not hiding in the Charleston house. So seriously, where is the other one ? Eaten by a pug ? Or as MTP suggests was it really taken by the ghost of Dobby ? But why would Dobby come all the way from his lovely resting place at Bill and Fleur's to steal my ugg ? However it seems to be the most logical reason. So Dobby if you are reading my blog today, please can I have my missing slipper, please return it. It's cold in my house !

xoxo

KMK

p.s. please ignore my resemblance to Dobby in the photo on the right. Its very cold in my house and I can not face getting in the shower. My apologies.

You have GOT to be kidding me !

Dear Person who posted this secret on Post Secret,

You will never have any idea how much this irritates me (unless of course your read my blog). Question for you, did your mother forget to teach you the whole "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" saying? Your "secret" falls into that same category. Yes, you do have the RIGHT to vote, but if you are not doing it based on you thoughts and knowledge of the issues at hand, please don't. Its bad enough that there are so many out there making their decisions without knowing ALL the facts. This is a very important election for our country and every vote counts, but if people like you are just flipping a coin it makes MY vote count less. And you do not have the RIGHT to do that !

xoxo to everyone

(except the coin flippers !)

kmk

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."

Finally ! Fall may have really arrived ! Today it is a brisk 60 degrees, but something still isn't right. Everything is still green. It hard to remember how much you appreciate watching the leaves change. Even if its 44 and raining in CM I want to take Tampa's 60 and sunny and bring it up with me. A day like today is my favorite kind in CM. I also wish that I was eating a breakfast quesadilla right now....

oh and on a MUCH happier for me note, the c.roach finally kicked it !

Mimi, like her mother, loathes the cold, she hates being outside in it unless properly attired. Honestly she wont move, she just pulls and pulls to get back inside. Today I thought she was missing but she was sleeping in the sun rays in my bathroom, she used to do this all the time when she was a puppy. Silly little pug.

Have a good day ! I'm going to sit on my porch look at the swamp and eat homemade chili, wishing i was on my porch in CM looking at the ocean eating homemade chili.

xoxo

kmk

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” ... Gibran

I've had a very productive day ! These kind of days are also my favorites ! I love a good feeling of accomplishment !
After wrestling the puggies out of bed and a quick am walk I headed off to the market.
One of the things that I miss the most about living Cape May is going to the market on my pink triple basketed beach cruiser (RIP bike, and THANKS again to the jerk in Charleston who CUT DOWN A TREE to steal my bike, honestly I hope it was worth all the work). Even in the cold I loved riding my bike to the store, its one of those simple pleasures for me. I don't know how to explain it but it just is. I also made a trip to Michael's, that place is super dangerous for me. They also have great sales all the time, needless to say I will be starting work on my Christmas cards tomorrow....

I don't have a green thumb. In fact its black, I kill all plants. Jgra jokes to the pugs that they should be happy they are not a plant. Today I decided to "dead-head" as my Granny calls it, our large hanging plant.....now all that's left are these 4 green sprigs. Oh little plant, I hope you make a comeback. However I HAVE managed to keep this big fern like plant thriving. Only question I have is..... what are these things ? Why are their alien like pods growing in my plant ?

I LOVE getting things in the mail (hint hint)! Yesterday I received a wonderful care package from my mommy ! Inside was...... MY 2008 LIMA BEAN FESTIVAL SHIRT !!! "BEANjamin Franklin" Get it, bean, lima bean ? Just a little shout out to my FAVORITE clothing store in the world Flying Fish in West CM, NJ (http://www.theflyingfishstudio.com/) for yet again making a GREAT shirt ! Also inside the package were my new earmuffs ! Made especially for me by my wonderfully talented mother ! She will be making me more as i have requested a collection..... now I just wait for the cold (come on fl give me SOMETHING) ! She also sent Halloween collars for the pugs with glow and the dark ghosts ! Thanks mommy !

For dinner tonight I will be making my Domestic Goddess Cousin SKB's delish spinach tofu lasagna. This was always my favorite dish she used to make during the summer. Its pretty simple to make. Get in touch with me if you want the recipe. I have yet to tell JGra that he will be eating tofu for dinner, he has a slight aversion to the stuff. When dinner is all said and done and he says how yummy it was i will show him the tofu box. To make up for the tofu betrayal I have made him a sugar-free (for the most part) pumpkin mousse pie ! JGra and I share the same love for Pumpkin Pie ! But him having the 'betes means that a sugar filled pumpkin pie is not really the best idea...... so i have pretty much perfected ever sugar free/ sugar light pumpkin dessert that exists.... THIS one is my own creation ! So I've prepped what I consider to be a pretty decent dinner, topped off with a nice bottle of pinot and life is good !

xoxo

kmk

Rain Rain Go Away, I Have to Bike to the Market !

On rainy days the little one loves nothing more than staying in bed all morning.....

But seriously Ernie, get up. I promise I'll stop trying to make you dance to the High School Musical soundtrack. Honest. Mom has to take you out so you don't pee in dad's clean laundry basket again(even when I laughed very hard about it, I still thought that was very bad of you to do !) . I have lots of errands to run today...... gardening, make a delicious dinner.... I promise I will get you and Mimi butcher bones....
please get up now ?

xoxo
kmk

Just wanted to pass on

This
(courtesy of http://punditkitchen.com/)

oh, and we can't leave the OTHER party

out.... so here you go

This was for now the extent of KMK's political blogging
we shall see if come election day I have a LOT more to say...
xoxo

kmk

Have Yourself (and your closest friends) an Etsy Little Christmas (and all other holidays you may celebrate)

Quick post, busy week !

Here's my sports plug

GO PHIGTIN' PHILS !

Being a new resident of Tampa this is all very fun for me ! Also is it me or is the Philly Fanatic (manatic if you're miss a.bomb) one of the silliest mascots, I mean silly in the BEST way possible.

Now here's the real post ! I know with budgets being tight for some this holiday season, gifting your friends may be something you decide to pass up on. However giving gifts (and picking out the perfect one) is something I love to do. I encourage you to get your girlfriends (and guy friends) together and have an Etsy Holiday Season (http://www.etsy.com/)

For those of you who don't know what Etsy is.... Etsy is a great website where artist (and crafters) can sell their handmade works. Its a great website that I have loved for years. So many things are one of a kind pieces and so much is super reasonably priced. Another reason I make this plug is because on the right hand side of this blog if you click on the Nie Recovery link you can from their navigate to the Etsy link where a group of the artist on Etsy have set up for some of their profits to help the Nielson family. Holidays are a time for giving, and in my book to be able to give to your closest friends and at the same time help a family who needs it, well it doesn't get much better than that.

xoxo

kmk

Finding Zen With Mimi Over Our Morning Coffee

This morning after running a few errands Mimi and I sat on the porch and talked about life (yes Mimi talks about life while wearing a pink Juicy Couture tracksuit, she is very image conscious).
We talked about important things like who we will be voting for in the next presidential election, how we both miss MTP, and football Sundays and dinner parties at the old Charleston house. We spoke of how sometimes she wishes that Ernie would stop barking at invisible intruders at night. She also told me how she is very excited for our trip on Friday to Michael's and Starbucks, Michael's so that KMK can figure out how to salvage 3 garbage bags worth of pug snuggles and Starbucks for coffee. She listened to me as I told her how homesick I was, how I wished my plant wasn't dying again. How much I love that its starting to feel like fall. Mimi also informed me that she misses Earth Fare in Charleston, because at that market they did not try and kick her out. We are on the same page here, Mimi is much cleaner (and way better dressed) that half of the children sitting in the carts and the market ! The two of us discussed what our Christmas card should look like this year, and plotted on how to get Jgra to help KMK smuggle the pugs into the Magic Kingdom for a family shot in front of the Christmas Castle. All in all it was a good morning, full of wonderful discussion, a good pug talk is my favorite way to start any day.
xoxo
kmk

Letter to an Unwanted House Guest

Dear Disgusting Cockroach residing under my spice bowl in my bathroom,

Why won't you just die ! I'm over asking JGra to kill you bc he thinks its far to funny to make us co-exist in my bathroom. However, you make me very uncomfortable being in there, I don't want you watching me shower or use the bathroom, its not right. Also not right that after you die I will be short a spice bowl b/c no amount of cleaning will be enough ! Seriously though, after i tried to drown you with my all natural natrics cleaner and you survived Mimi and I went to the Sweetbay to find organic bug killer. You win disgusting cockroach they don't make it. After further discussion Mimi and I decided that this probably made sense, seeing as all the organic products tote very big NON-TOXIC labels, but you need toxic. However there will be none coming into my house, so i am patiently awaiting your death. Upon which I will humanely vacuum you up.... can you please just hurry it up !

-xoxo kmk

Saturday stands for SVU

It was a pretty quiet day here for us, JGra had to work all day so it was just the pugs and I. We woke up early had breakfast and went for a walk while the coffee brewed. Only to come home and discover that we were 3 episodes deep into a Law and Order: SVU season 9 marathon ! Anyone who knows me already is aware of my love tru love obsession with Elliot Stabler (aka Christopher Meloni) a deep true love goes back to him playing violent sociopath, Chris Keller on OZ (once I met him in NYC and dropped a drink on his foot).

Now don't get me wrong nothing makes me more excited than a good bottle of red and a SVU marathon, however I don't REALLY want to spend my day on the couch watching t.v. I'm sure there are plenty of people say "so just get up and go do something" however it's really not that easy. As I know J.E.F and M.T.P can vouch a persons SVU addiction is a disease RIGHT up there with CSI:Miami addiction. Don't ask me why its these two, I can escape from a Law and Order: Criminal Intent marathon easy. So long day of TV watching.... and pug snuggling and wine drinking.

Only other exciting thing that happened is I discovered a cockroach in my bathroom, after living in Chas I totally came to understand living with the palmetto (a blog for later on to show how I knew JGra was a good man)but a roach is a totally different thing ! Upon discovering said roach (who I have named ugh!) I trapped it under a glass spice bowl (this is standard bug procedure in the K-G household as KMK can NOT smoosh bugs in paper) and left it there for JGra to dispose of, only he thinks its funnier to just leave it there to torture me....jerk

xoxo

kmk

I've decided that I will use Fridays to share with you my closest friends. They are super important to me and the people I choose will probably come up at some point in this blog!
The first person I'm going to share is M.T.P, but to me she is Friend. Friend is the godmother of the pugs and my one of my bestest friends in the world, I love her honestly like a sister. I have so many funny stories and great memories with her from Charleston (to be continued in Philly. holla). She is an unbelievable friend who will drop anything if you need her. Also she is incredibly smart and NEVER gives herself enough credit ! (oh plug to her blog over at http://mo-torious.blogspot.com/)

1) Who are you ? I am the Motorious M.T.P. Aka, friend.

What are your faves

a) color: Cerulean

b)book: Still Life With Woodpecker

c)movie: The Graduate

d)song that describes you: hmm, good question. Ill go with I Will Possess Your Heart by death cab only because of the delusional hope for love

e)food: what food don't I love? That said, probably papa Johns cheese sticks or mussels pistou from Rue.

2) How do you know me ? Shucks. Holler.

3)What do you want to be when you grow up ? I want to write children's books.

4)Tell me about your perfect day ? I would drink margs on the beach with all my friends and build a sand castle and play mermaid in the water. And the dogs would be there. And we would have kosher hot dogs and tofu pups. Yum!

5) Fall, Winter, Summer or Spring and why ? fall. I love the pies and the squash and the leaves and Halloween and football and the way it smells when somebody is burning a bonfire.

6) If you could buy a plane ticket right now where would you go ? probably San Francisco. Just to see it.

7) Most embarrassing thing you have ever admitted to AND don't mind me posting on a blog ? oh. Geez. My first real crush was on the cartoon fox version of Robin Hood. That is pretty sad and embarrassing and probably says terrible weird things about me if you ask Freud. (kmk note: i knew this secret and frankly was surprised to see this as your choice)

8) A real person in your life that you are beyond proud of and why ? is it weird to say my dad? I mean, maybe pride is a weird word for it, but when I look back on him raising three girls more successfully than Danny Tanner did, I think that's something to be proud of. (kmk note: this is not weird at all)

9) Favorite memory with me ? this is really, really hard to answer. Oyster roast is a definite contender. It was so nice outside and it was me and you and oysters and beer. Oh, and Curtis spewing stuffed shrimp everywhere. Also! My twenty dollar shucker that I bought and subsequently lost. That made the oyster roast even more memorable.

Oh little pug what have you done !

I will begin this entry with a quick chat about my two little pugs Mimi and Ernie. Here is what I have learned about pugs in the 3 years they have been in my life... Pugs think they are people. With that said they also think they are above any rules. When you look into purchasing a pug its easier to find reasons NOT to buy a pug than to find a breeder. Now don't get me wrong I love my puggletts more than anything ! But they are very bad little dogs......This morning when I went to get into the shower I noticed I had blue ink all over my foot. I am aware that sometimes at night my sweet ones go on nocturnal adventures, these adventures USUALLY involve a good purse rummage looking for a treat that I possibly forgot to give to them during the day. They never find that, they usually find pens and lipstick.... They usually bring these things back to the bed and ruin our sheets and comforters (more on that later), so assuming that's where the ink came from I went to look. And now a conversation between me and Ernie.... look at the photos for an illustration....
KMK: Oh little puggy....
Ernie: If I sit on the bed right in front of the spot maybe she won't notice and give me a lamby ear.
KMK: Ernie what did you do !
Ernie: What ? I don't see a spot right next to my foot on your brand new sheets. I'm not getting a lamby ear huh ?
KMK: (moving pug foot) Ernie I see the spot right here !
Ernie: Maybe if i just stare blankly at her in my cute bandanna (jgra calls it his gay little cape) from my Aunt Laure she'll forget all about this.
KMK: If I can not get this stain out there will be NO dog beach this weekend !
Ernie: So, no lamby ear ? Well I'll just hide over here and look at you then
(note the ugly comforters from our college dorms that we sleep with, I USED to have the most beautiful white comforter, until Mimi ate a tube of red mac lipstick on it...)
xoxo
kmk

Seaworld..

Two weeks ago JGra and myself went to visit Sea World, it was his first trip and we had fun. Well I had more fun than him probably, I think when he agreed to take me he forgot that he dates a girl who will stand at a dolphin touch tank for days so that she maybe can pet a dolphin(if you go to Sea World and try to pet dolphins take my advice and get as far away from the children as you can, children poke dolphins and apparently dolphins don't like it)......

I took 160 photos at the Shamu show. 150 of them turned out like the photo to the right.... wretched camera...

xoxo

kmk

Lesson between friends

The other day I was jonesing for a good arts and craft project....(see right). I had decided I was over spending tons and tons of cash on these super cute feather headbands that are all the rage currently, so I peddled myself to Michael's and began to craft. Well crafting a headband with feathers lead to a slight glue situation, it also caused me to remember the time in middle school when a group of my closest girlfriends (look leb I'm talking about you on my blog for the first time !) were going thru a rawther intense grunge/alternative (aka piss off mom and dad) phase. We read that Courtney Love put glue in her hair, and clearly she is a woman full of GREAT ideas... so we did it obviously, but none of us would EVER admit it was a terrible idea. Having recently had pound of glue in my hair, and at the grand old age of 24 I can now totally admit that putting glue in your hair is an asshole thing to do.... sorry C.Love

xo

kmk

lets give it a whirl

Already off to a good start, I just had an entire paragraph written here that I somehow made vanish ! Maybe I should looking to magic school.....(note to self add magician to list of things I can be when I grow up)

After much deliberation and a serious talk with my boss I have decided to give this whole blog thing a whirl. I worry that people view bloggers as folks who feel they are self important and honestly believe that the entire world is interested in every single thing that they do. I promise you I do not feel this way. I'm fully aware of the fact that the majority of the world would read a blog written by me and be like "wow, that girl is loopy". However I guess all I can promise you folks is that this blog will be full of grammatical nightmares....and some funny stories about me and my life
Enjoy
xo
kmk