Phase Two Status: COMPLETE

Yes, that's right folks, we're ONE WHOLE PART CLOSER TO THE END OF THE 2012 LeNERD BEDROOM REDESIGNING!!!!! (That's fun to spell)
After a full day at IKEA and Walmart, we have reached our $100 budget for the redesigning. Behold:

 These lovely bed coverings (black mattress cover for the bottom mattress, pink for the top one plus pink sheets, letter-y comforter cover and FUZZY GREEN THROW!!!! Also a crazy big assortment of pillowcases.)....

This utterly amazing colorful lamp...
4 corkboard squares, a calender whiteboard and a magnet board whose pictures refused to turn out...

AND THESE WOOKING AMAZING STAR WARS COLLECTER CARDS!!!!! Yayyy aw!!! We actually got three of these lovely little tins (one for me, one for the Youngling and one to Mod Podge on a wall or something), which each contain a pack of the most memorable ESB scenes and a pack of international Star Wars movie posters, all little-itized onto these cute little cards. The movie posters truly are awesome:

Hungary...

Spain...

Germany...

Japan...

and China.

Plus this cool abstracty USA one. Star Wars, will you never cease to amaze me?
We also painted those mismatchy dressers and attempted to paint the equally mismatchy bookshelves, but only the dressers turned out. They now match the future color of my room (i.e. cottage white) so they will kinda look like built ins, as will the bookshelves once we find good ones at IKEA.
On a separate note, the end of school is now two weeks closer! :D Okay, actually it's not that bad. My teachers, upon further inspection, are all better than mediocre and I found Pony's locker (yay for stalkerism!) with the help of his adoring, ah, fan, Cherry (who is also my friend, so I guess I won't go too in depth with that drama). My utterly least favorite class ever, gym, got actually tolerable this week, too. Since there's only like twelve boys in our gym hour, we switched classes so that it's now two all girl classes and one all guy class. And this is brilliant in every possible way. Having just girls means we have luxuries such as

• Yoga
• No football
• Kickboxing
• Nature walk (not quite sure what that is...)

HALLELUJAH!!!!
Lastly, my church's Youth Group kicks off tonight with our annual bonfire, which I am attending with Squid, Cherry and my lovely faux leather jacket that, according to the Youngling, makes me look like a Harley Davidson dude. I made some homemade (a.k.a. Bettie Crocker mix) brownies with a gourmet icing (a.k.a powdered sugar dumped in cool little lumps in various places). I'm sure they'll amaze. (Shhh... as far as anyone knows, they're homemade. And also fancy.)

xxKati

Melts and Maltitivity

Tonight I got a call from my four year old cousin, Bear, asking us if we wanted to go out to eat with them. Actually, it was the Youngling who answered the phone. After asking our mom if it was okay, he asked Bear if her parents had agreed to this. She promptly went to ask her mom, but I thought it was extremely amusing that it had even crossed the Youngling's mind that Bear had just picked up their phone and dialed our number to ask us out to dinner. I can totally picture the conversation:
Bear: Hey, this Youngling?
Youngling: Yeah.
Bear: It's Bear. Hey, wanna hit Snuffy's tonight?
Youngling: Uh, sure.
Bear: Great. Pick me up in five.
Anyways, we did end up going to Snuffy's Malt Shop later on. I haven't been there in, like, forever, and the last time I was there, I think I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich. So I had never really been exposed to true Snuffy's awesomeness. I ordered a California burger. (Yay for originality. *Sarcasm*.)
It. Was. Awwwwwwesome.
Seriously, you have not tasted a burger until you've tasted Snuffy's. I finished it in about five minutes.
Of course, you can't really go to a malt shop without ordering malts. So we did. I split a chocolate coffee malt (called chocofflate-we had a pretty heated debate about whether it was choco-ful-latte or choco-full-ate. Turned out to be choco-full-aht.) with my mom, the Youngling got a strawberry and Bear and her parents split a Fudge Scotchie. (Bear, having never heard of a malt, renamed them melts. She is SO adorable.) Bear's equally adorable baby brother, Mallow, had about an inch of a strawberry-fudge-scotchie in a little cup, most of which ended up smeared across his face.



The "melts", too, were Wooking amazing. I love Snuffy's whole theme, too; very muchly 50's and 60's rock, red cushion benches, juke box, and a personalized mural of Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It's so kewal.
Earlier today, I also found the Youngling surveying our front yard.

I didn't even ask.

May the Force be ever in your favor.

xx Kati