Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Recent Events

June has turned out to be super busy!  Wedding season has arrived, and unfortunately I still have four months until mine so until then I have many other special events to celebrate.


The season officially kicked off with Nicole's bachelorette party.  I think Gammy and I were the hit of the evening with our candy man pouch, candy boobie tassles, and always entertaining board game: Who's the Biggest Pervert?

For a little down time, and plenty of relaxation, last week was opening day for Baby Pool Thursday.


Look at those crystal clear waters.


Sarah even brought her dog Boomer, although he spent most of the day trying to get out of the backyard.  Apparently the lure of the pool did not call out to him as it did to the others.  At least he has a pretty sweet collar.

Last Saturday was Nicole's wedding.  We had a lot of fun and it was nice for all of us to have the night off together and get a chance to hang out.


All in all a pretty busy couple of weeks and things are not slowing down.  This weekend is my wedding shower!!  I'm really excited, but also a little stressed out.  Next weekend I have another shower and bachelorette party so June will wrap up just as busy as it started!

Monday, June 7, 2010

Nothing New

This weekend was loooong.  I had to work both Saturday and Sunday which is definitely no good.  The flip side is that I have another four day weekend this weekend, but Wednesday night cannot come soon enough!

Saturday night went out for Rachel's birthday and actually had so much fun!  I played DD so I only had one drink all night, but I am proof positive that you don't need alcohol to have fun!  (If someone would have told 21 year old me that I would ever say that and kinda mean it I would have called them a damn liar!)  Went to Lew's for the first time and really enjoyed myself.

Sunday morning wasn't feeling so hot going to work.  I wasn't hungover (obviously after only one drink, I'm not that much of a lightweight) but my body definitely does not like a 4:00 a.m. bed time on a work night.

Today felt like it lasted foooorever.  Super busy at work because its always busy on Mondays, but all I could think about is how close I am to a day off!  Gammy and I stopped at Costco and Whole Foods on the way home, so now we're in with the Bachelorette for the evening.

I just re-read that and realized how truly sad I've become.....

Friday, May 28, 2010

A Picture Says...



I love these pictures for several reasons.

1. In the top one I am very clearly more interested in my phone and whatever I am texting than the child that I am holding.

2. I'm so interested in texting I don't even notice her sticking her fingers up my nose.

3. As soon as I start paying attention to Hadley, Gracen shows up to try to swipe my phone.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Please Hurry Midnight

Why would I be so excited for midnight on a Wednesday you might ask?  Well, 12:01 to be exact.  Because this is not like any other Wednesday.  This is SATC2 premiere night!!  I bought tickets weeks ago and Gammy and I are just wasting some time before it is time to head up to the theatre.  There are very few movies I get this excited about and this is one.  I remember watching the early seasons on VHS in the dorms (thats right, VHS tapes) too many years ago.  I remember watching the series finale crammed in someone's dorm room because they were the only person we knew who had HBO.  I remember crying many times and loving it.  I remember waiting in line to see the first movie two years ago.  And hopefully I will remember going tonight and loving it!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Say Ugly!

Matt and I are getting our engagement photos taken tomorrow and I am absolutely terrified.  I'm not exactly the most photogenic person in the world.  My faces in photos are so bad that my sister has threatened for a couple of years now to make a coffee table book with all of my beatiful head shots.  Last year for Christmas I actually made her one on Shutterfly and trust me, there was no shortage of awfully awesome pictures of my face.

To make me feel better, I googled bad engagement photos and these are a few winners.




No matter how bad I look, there is no way that it can be this bad.  Good night of sleep, here I come.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Finales, Part Deux

Please don't read if you haven't watched these yet, it will ruin them as my sister ruined GG for me by telling me that someone gets shot, I literally spent the last fifteen minutes going does Georgina shoot Dan for impregnating her?  Do Blair and Serena get shot in Paris?  Maybe Eric goes psycho and shoots Jenny (this is what I wished).  Also, I accidentally read about some of it on-line, but I guess thats what you get for waiting a week to watch the finale.

* Gossip Girl - not a huge fan.  Stupid Jenny and her nasty rat hair had to ruin it for everybody.  And when she sits there crying about how she is alone, no one loves her, etc. I just wanted Eric to go listen up crackhead, stop attempting to/sleeping with other people's boyfriends and maybe everybody won't hate you.  Maybe.  Also, GG writers can you please get Chuck and Blair back together?  They were so close, and I like them so much better when they're together.  I'm guessing that is why you made those mean foreign men shoot Chuck, so Blair will feel awful, will listen to what happened, and they will live happily ever after.  At least that is what happens in my GG. 

Kristen has been baffled/disgusted with my love for Chuck from the beginning, but for whatever reason I like the guy.  I can't even tell you why.  I think it might be the whole transformation from douche bag to stellar boyfriend.  Everyone loves a good transformation story.

* Grey's Anatomy - I don't even know where to begin to put into words what this episode was like to watch.  Unless you watched it, words can't do justice to the emotional rollercoaster that unfolded over two hours of pretty darn good television.  I had to spend a couple of days beforehand catching up on a couple of months worth of GA episodes because it had started to bore me a little and I had fallen behind.  God am I thankful I took that time.  I have several points to make about this episode, so here goes.

  
 1. Who's idea was it to put Mandy Moore in this episode?  Granted I am slightly biased.  Every since I wasted two hours of my life that I will never get back and am subsequently stupider for wasting my time watching A Walk to Remember I have not fondly thought of her.  Not to mention that she is a really, really, super bad actress.  She has some money right?  Use a little bit to pay for some acting classes, if not for yourself do it for all of us.

2. I was shocked by the magnitude of violence portayed in this episode.  Seems like a pretty stupid statement about a show centered around a gunman in a hospital, but I was definitely not expecting him to shoot Reed straight in the forehead.  Kristen and I both screamed out loud.  I was reading the writers' blog from GA (yes, I have no life) and the creator was saying that she wrote it to be so graphic and shocking (the execution of Reed) because she didn't want anyone to feel sorry for the shooter, didn't want to glamourize the senseless, awful violence he was about to unleash.  Job very well done ma'am.

3. I was surprised by the slow, painful process of the SWAT team clearing out the hospital.  The whole time we're watching it, Kristen and I are yelling why aren't they sending in like 200 swarming men and take that bastard down?  Well, according to the above mentioned blog, she brought in a SWAT guy to walk her through it and that is how they would actually do it.  I guess he would know better than me.

4. If Lexie chooses Alex I'm going to throw up a little out of anger/disgust.  He was saying Izzie's name on his death bed.  He doesn't want you.  Go back to Sloan (who aside from being way hotter is also actually turning into a really sweet guy.) 

5. I'm really upset about the actor they choose for Mr. Clarke (the shooter).  For anyone who watched/watches The West Wing on Bravo (like I do religiously every morning) you will recognize him as Ron, the head of the secret service.  I loved him.  He was strong, silent, and always there in a crisis.  I take my television very seriously and do not like when a good guy plays bad.



6. There were no cliffhangers.  I'm laughing as I'm writing this because like many other people, I scream at the television when something huge happens and you have to wait those awful four months to see what happens next.  I didn't realize how much I would miss it until its gone.  Remember the stellar finale with Denny and in the end Finn and Derek are both saying Meredith and you don't know who she goes with and its so intense...

*LOST - okay so this isn't so much about the LOST finale, mostly because I'm not watching it so I have no comment about what happens.  This is more in sadness that Gammy and I did not watch LOST fast enough to catch up to the finale.  She just finished season four and is starting season five so she is close.  I'm in the middle of season four.  It is so good!  I told Kristen the other day that as much as I'm loving it, I'm kind of glad we waited until the end of the show to start watching it.  Think about it, all of the suckers that watched it from the beginning would get to those stellar season finales and have to wait months to see what happens next.  We just pop in the next disc!  Genius I tell you.


Will someone please buy me these?

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Dog Park

Since Mother Nature decided to bless us with one nice day this month, Gammy and I decided to take advantage of it and take the dogs to the dog park.  I was a little nervous seeing as how Scout can be a little shy but it actually turned out okay. 


This is Scout very excited for her day at the park.


Scout taking it all in.


Neither of them wanted to go in the water.  They would get close, but not in.


Scout ready to go home.


Baxter wishes he could have stayed.


I think this was the first car ride that Scout actually enjoyed.  Normally she's terrified of them, but on the way to the park Baxter showed her how to put her head out the window.  She loved it.  When we left the park, she actually jumped in the car without me having to shove her in.  My little girl is growing up so fast.