U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, you UGLY! yeah yeah, you UGLY!

am I a total B (biaaaatch!) because I do NOT believe every baby is cute? am I producing rotten karma? if I have any kids, will I continually be lied to about how cute they are (but really are not?!). gasp!

well, let's be real. I am part Polish. Yup, Pollock alert! and proud! Anyway, everyone who's worth a damn knows that Polish kids are always the cutest. Maybe it's their pumpkin heads? big eyes? all-around awesomeness? whatever the answer is, I have much confidence that if I have kids (emphasis on "if" there), it/they will be very cute to unbelievably cute on the cuteness scale. anyway, whenever i have to talk to a parent of one of the uncute babies i frequently spy (so what, I a have high standards maybe!), i feel like they are waiting for a compliment on how cute their awkward looking baby is...so I just say, "oh he has such a silly laugh!" or "awwwe, she has so much personality already!" and i try to give a mediocre compliment while sidestepping the whole "awww, your baby is so so cute!" lie. i just cannot help myself! My parents raised me to be honest. and i know every parent out there wants to hear how amazing their offspring is, so i consider my compliments a compromise. 

i bring this unusual topic up because i have been seeing these really not-so-cute baby pictures all over Facebook as of late, and when i read comments like, "OMG, Meg, your daughter is a DOLL!" and then i look at the pic of said "doll," i am like, whaaaa? are my eyes broken? or are people just taking crazy pills? these kids might be cute one day, or even quite handsome/beautiful, but that day is not today. nor was it last week and guess what? probably won't be this Easter, either. oh well. one of my favorite quotes is "fake it till you make it!" and it's encouraged me quite a bit through my life (no, i am not ashamed to admit that), so i can't rag on others who are striving to fake it till they make it, either.

am I a bad person? or just have a different approach to some subjects...i think it's the latter. besides...why would parents care what I have to say? i'm not the authority. (but i DO have the cutest niece ever.)

so i think yesterday i semi-promised new pics. well, i haven't done much in my life lately (like, in the last 24 hours) that's been very photo worthy, so the best i can do is throw in a few randoms form the last month. don't worry, i will save the creepiest for last.

yessss, Chipotle for dinner last night! what a treat!

this was one of a series of photos I took 

while in Fort Myers that proved

  I was waiting on James 

to get his bum out the door. 

PROOF! I was ready before him!!

At our hotel TIki Bar one night with my parents...

really fun bar and night!

as promised....

creepiest picture saved for the end!

this is at HOT PLATE, a fun and funky eatery just east of our house. We popped in here for breakfast after church a couple weekends ago and had a fun time taking in all the crazy vintage artwork on display...on display in every nook and cranny of the small joint! it was cool, food was great (bacon pancake? YES please!) and it was a fun time! would def recommend and return.

hooray for wednesday! it is almost the almost-weekend phase of the week!

don't call it a comeback!

February never happened. don't worry about it.

actually it did, but it happened in fast forward so here we are! March. Almost April. So, I guess March has been in fast forward as well. fine by me! expect for our vacation to Fort Myers Beach - I would like to instant replay that in slow motion a few times. Let's get that week under some serious official review!

so here's the tragedy that happened to me last week. little miss "i can remember numbers like crazy" thought she lost her mind. For an entire day I secretly and internally panicked that I had forgotten how many feet are in a mile. It's 5,280 you guys. don't worry. it donned on me like the next day, so all internal mayhem has since subsided. thank the lord. and yes, I still know 2.54 cm in an inch. that one isn't fading anytime soon. 

yeah, i know how ridiculous that is. more like ridiculous to the power of ridiculous! but what can we expect from a girl who has a song to remember her bank account number! whatever. it works. don't judge. 

so on to more serious matters, we celebrated my dad's dad's (Popoe!) 80th birthday in RSW! (RSW = Fort Myers, for all you non-airport code speaking folk.) it was a wonderful time with great people, weather, drinks, sun and sand and pools. lots of fun!

three days after arriving home, we headed to Saint Paul for the MAIN EVENT of March (my opinion)... KID ROCK and BOB SEGER! In concert. Live. 42 rows in front of me. go-go Gadget arms and I would be touching them. not that I want to touch them, but knowing i almost could is pretty legit. I would like to hug them both, now that I think of it. wouldn't you? the show was flat out amazingness and i was loving every second of it! does anyone else get emotional when you're so excited?? i guess that is a stupid question...but like, this event had nothing to do with me personally, except that I happened to have tickets to witness it. i was basically a bystander of musical glory. and i teared up. yeah, it was that fabulous. i will never forget it! ever.

so now it's the end of March and I am not sure what to look forward to...i think Easter and SPRING, at last. Hopefully our snow moves on out, for good this weekend. Sure would be nice! it's not longer white fluffy, we now just have gray, crusty coatings on everything from sidewalks to gutters to cars. yuk. i cannot wait for Minnesota to get freshened up with some new greenery soon!

Speaking of greenery, the one and only photo I will include today is from 2007...Saint Patrick's Day 2007, in fact. (I have a new computer and have to get some photos stocked on here to post.) So here is a six year old photo of me and James. I am not that tall compared to him, so either he is getting a great quad workout or i am wearing heels. If you know me, then you know I'm most definitely rocking some heels. :) 

what a funny pic. six years old! 

we look so young!

hopefully i will have more updates and pics tomorrow. time to jump back on the blogwagon. because i know you missed me. harharrr.

happy tuesday. I am hoping i have some chipotle in my near future (yeah I just said that...i hate eating out, but my belly is craving some serious chipotle all up in here!) chow! i mean ciao.