Enter Sandman

My hubby loves to download random stuff, and tonight he downloaded karaoke songs. Now.. if you don't know it my husband is a musician. So when he downloads karaoke, me and Peanut love listening to him sing. Peanut does her little spin dance and sometimes I join in with him on a song. When he sings, sometimes what he thinks are the lyrics are completely different or he just sings to the tune of words (if that makes sense). It's like singing La Cucaracha, you know the tune so you throw in whatever Spanish you may know. Unless you're Carmen.
So tonight he sang Enter Sandman by Metallica:

Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son,
To include everyone

Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes

"Oh! So that's what it's about!" he then said.
I just love him.

The song after that was Annicka-Dido. Let me quickly explain. Czech has their own version of American Idol, and it's called Česko hledá SuperStar. The last season there was a girl on there named Annicka who sang "Thank You" by Dido. Not only did she sing off tune, but it's like she didn't even know the tune. Although the entire video is in Czech, it's hilarious to watch the entire thing.

Christmas Baking and Justin Timberlake

Too bad the title isn't Christmas Baking WITH Justin Timberlake..
Yes, I have a guilty pleasure. It's Justin. Not so much his music, but him hosting SNL. SNL is another childhood favourite I never shook off, but I really indulge in it when he's hosting. He really puts himself out there... far more than other hosts (except for Natalie Portman! Love her!)
Plus..the digital short he did was hilarious. Even my husband laughed! And it's hard to make him laugh.. he more or less chuckles. Umm.. the tune is catchy... (you're welcome!)

In mother news.. I baked. Peanut stole a lot of cookie mix, got flour on her face, licked my measure cup that I used for baking cocoa and went "NUMMY!". Ugh. If you have her site.. I hope you check it out for yourself. She was a mess today. Had so much sugar she had no nap.

PS. A big thank you goes to Carmen for lunch yesterday! Biba's was an excellent choice for a place to eat. :)

Word of the month: NO!

We should've never taught the word "No" to Peanut because it's become her favourite. Everything is "NO!". When she does want something she says "noooooooooooo" but when she doesn't want something she says "No! No! No! No!". Sometimes you can hear her in the crib when she has her morning chats with the stuffed animals.
But I wonder.. if she says no all the time in English, what would she say in Czech? Well.. she'd say "Ne" (neh), and I realized.. she says that too. But if we were German it'd be cute, "Nein! Nein!" and if we were Thai, it'd be "mai chai". My favourite would be French..."Non! Non!", and then she'd slap me and we'd all laugh about it later.
However, we're stuck with no and ne, and that's ok. I have a feeling "MINE!" will be next.

My hubby is all better now, after 3 days I convinced him to do a shot of Pepto which he chased it down with a shot of absynthe. Ironically it's the same cure his grandmother uses for stomach ailments.

My hubby and his bug

Now my hubby is sick. I don't know if he has what Peanut had or the Chinese buffet offered a lot more than sweet and sour chicken. But it's pretty gross. I feel bad for him, but it's really hard to keep a straight face because he thinks he's dying. He was reassured that noone has ever died from diarrhea (cha-cha-cha), but me and my big mouth explained what dysentery is. So he told me to tell his mother that he loves her, he says there should be a paycheck in the mail soon, and that he wants to be buried as he is.
"Honey, you don't have dysentery, I'm pretty sure of it. It's probably just a 24 hour bug."
"Bug? I have a bug? Where is it?"
(me laughing uncontrollably because he's serious) "I think it's in your arm, best if we cut it out now."
"Oh, shit, really? It's an actual bug? A real bug inside of me? Is it big? I thought it was just my stomach! Not a bug!"
"Honey!! It's just a figure of speech, we say it's a bug but it's really a virus. Not a real bug."
"Damn Suzanne, if you mean a bug, say bug.. if you mean virus, say virus. Who calls a bug a virus?"
Mind you... his word virus comes out "wirus" because of his accent. I love being married to a Czech! They're so fun. :)

Bad habits

Have you ever wanted to know your bad habits, but too afraid to ask? Have a kid. Suddenly you have a mirror of yourself.

Sick baby and randomation

I had a sick Peanut yesterday and let me just tell you that it's amazing what Mother Nature does. The things that come out of babies are pretty gross, but your concern for your child is so strong that it doesn't phase you. Daddies gag, Mommies keep trucking. Peanut was so sick that her inner Kermit was summoned and her skin actually turned green.
She's doing much better today and is currently walking around with Mickie and putting things over his head. I'm sure he's terribly pleased that she's all better... I know I am. :)

Just some random things to throw your way:

Matt Damon does a bang-up job on impersonating his friend Matthew McConaughy (via yesbutnobutyes)

Bzzzpeek - Sounds of animals and vehicles from around the world done by people in their native tongue. Dogs here in America say "Woof woof!" but in Czech they learn to say "Huff huff!" The same goes for cows.. ours say "Moo!" theirs say "Boo!".

33 Things You Never Knew Had Names - and some Czech words to go along with that is Nedovtipa which means a person that can't take a hint and Přesezený is to be stiff from sitting in the same position for too long

10 Most Bizarre People - That just speaks for itself.

Grey Gardens

I'm a HUGE fan of Grey Gardens. I'm not sure how I first heard about it.. but I had read it somewhere before seeing the movie. Suddenly, TMC aired the original documentary of it and I was giddy (giddy I tell you!).
Me and Peanut watched it the next day during nap time, and neither of us fell asleep. My Peanut is a film connoisseur much like her Mama. I fell in love with Little Edie (not so much Big Edie, she was scary to me) and her "revolutionary costume of the day".
Recently they turned this documentary into a musical and put it on broadway... which if you see the video, isn't half bad. They took all the footage of the Maysles Brothers and stemmed from it a show that critics are loving.
But now... now... there will be a new remake starring Drew Barrymore as Little Edie and Jessica Lange as Big Edie. Which kind of scares me because, I love Drew, but her movies are hit and miss. Anyways.. it's supposed to be the years leading up to the mother and daughter duo becoming recluses in their Long Island home that they shared with 52 cats, fleas, and vermin.

Czech word of the day happens to be Peanut's new word for the day: delej! delej! Go! Go!

The Great Jan Švankmajer

Married to a Czech.. you're more than likely will hear about fairytales. They're BIG on fairytales. One of them happens to be Little Otik (Otesánek) which Martin said he was first introduced to when he was a kid.
It's about a childless couple who can't concieve and during a vacation one year.. the husband sees part of a cut down tree and notices the resemblence it has to a baby. So he gives it to his wife who immediately loves it, treats it as her own, and goes bezerk. It's a fantastic movie with a really strange twist and I couldn't finish watching it.
Jan Švankmajer is the animator to Little Otik and other movies such as Alice (equally creepy), Faust (creepy), many other movies, and a short called Darkness Light Darkness. He is a Czech surrealist and I couldn't recommend his work anymore than this long intro.

Czech word for the day: strašidelný (strash-ee-dalnee) it means scary.

Oh, and just a bit of interesting info. Peanut's name almost ended up being Bozena, Baruka, or Annicka. Bozena being the crazy lady in Little Otik, Baruka from some chick he used to know and he said "she was a bit of a slut" but he liked the name, and Annicka was a man-eating flower in another fairytale. I think I dodged a bullet. What do you think?

A little bit of this..

We had a super time yesterday even though it was a little bit packed. We had our lunch in a corner somewhere so the girls had room to move, they made sugarplum fairy crowns, and rode on a carousel. Oh, and we saw some decorated trees. All for a good cause too! :)

I'm really big into music videos. I have been since MTV first came out (I remember watching those first programming minutes too!) and I could recite every video, artist, and song. I was a source of entertainment and conversational piece to my sisters' friends thanks to my elephant memory.
Where am I going with this? Oh.. yea.. Top 50 Music Videos of 2006

Over there on Ask Metafilter... the question was posed.. what does "The Pink One" really taste like? Well.. there's no real intro I could give to that or a gentle way of putting it.. but some of the answers were pretty interesting. Although hubby laughed at the 9v comment, got quiet and then said "No, not a 9v".

Habiq - Creating better habits that last, is a designless website that's strong on content. It has some pretty good articles on habits, health, and some other stuff I don't get too involved in. I like to live day by day... I could get hit by a Mack truck and then where does that leave me? It leaves me with my last meal being tofu with watercress. Blech.

2 hours til tomorrow

Tomorrow morning me and Kristen are going to the Festival of Trees with our little ones, thanks to Crystal for the free tickets! She worked part-time there this week and got some freebies for us.
All of us are excited to go... I think it's because our kids are old enough to be amazed with lights. Last year Peanut didn't do much of anything.

Putzing around on the web, I found the Flags of the World with comments from a marketing group.

I'm pretty late for the Czech word of the day.. so as compensation, I'll teach you the dirty phrase - do pice (doe peechay) which sounds really good when your mad. What does it mean? Oh I won't tell.

Toys and questions

Here's a list of the most wanted toys of 2006.. also known as the list of toys Peanut's NOT getting this year.
The only one Peanut could really get (because of her age) is the TMX Elmo (Tickle-me-Elmo), Peanut seems to like Elmo, but Mommy doesn't like Elmo enough to bring him into the home. She'll have to settle for paperdolls. Cruel? Yes. But you have to realize that when you bring some of these toys into your home.. they become possessed. Her Leapfrog table goes off in the middle of the night, and it's not just general noises.. it's the noises produced when something is moved.

I got giddy when I saw the list of the most 25 important questions in the history of the universe (with answers). It's from an article in Mental Floss.. a magazine I want a subscription to.

Czech word of the day: 3:15 tři patnáct (tree pahtnast) and a bonus word of the day is yes - ano (ahno)

Czech word of the day

My father could speak 4 languages fluently and I, of course, can only speak one. But that's going to change. I'm determined to speak Czech. Not only for me but for Peanut as well. She's known Czech since birth but only from her Daddy, I should be encouraging this as well.. so this is where I begin. Each day I'll learn a word and maybe one day I'll be able to construct a sentence that doesn't include the words "beer", "food", or "whore". Don't ask.

Word of the day: cracker - sušenka (su-shen-kah)

What the world eats

Peter Menzel (Photographer) has taken a series of pictures from around the world of different families and what they eat in a week. The outcome was shocking to me (except for the Americans, that one didn't surprise me). The text is in French but pretty self-explanatory. The series.

The Czech family home, I think would look like the German home featured there. They drink a lot of beer, wine, juices, water, fresh meat, fresh bread, and sauerkraut. I adapted pretty easily to eating there, and Martin stuffed himself. He looked like Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven. Remember how he always eating or drinking something? That was my husband.

Solla Solla Enna Perumai

Could you think of a better way of opening a blog? This stuff is fantastic!

To begin at the beginning

My BFF (love that term!) Carmen has a blogger account and I was so envious of hers, especially after looking at my limp Myspace blog that I decided to create this one. Granted my Peanut has her own blog but Mama has some words of her own.

I guess if you don't know me, I can give a quick run down of who I am and what I'm about. I'm married to a Czech and mom to a wonderful little peanut. My job is my family and home although I like to feel that I'm more than just that stay-at-home mom type. I work part-time as a Jill of all trades to a former co-worker, and it's a pretty satisifying job that I hope can spark one day into a full time job once Peanut is old enough to go to school.
I post some pretty strange things, I'm a big fan of cheezie things.