And now, the pictures:
Mikey Birthday
NOT-Couch Burning Beach Bonfire Night
Jeremy Party
CTRG Day at the Fair '08
Lime Green Knives!
CTRG Day at the Fair '08
Lime Green Knives!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Picture of the Day Update
But first! Shout out to Ryan for knowing what Spring Awakening is, but most importantly, appreciating it as I do!
And now, the pictures:
NOT-Couch Burning Beach Bonfire Night
And now, the pictures:
NOT-Couch Burning Beach Bonfire Night
Thursday, June 26, 2008
I'm Tired. Just Let Me Go To Bed!
(Setting: It's 10:59pm. I have to be up early tomorrow. I was just about to go to bed. And then I got my second wind. Blast. Just ten minutes too late.)
Random Thursdayness:
Current favorite music: Spring Awakening soundtrack. Wow, those are some good songs for a really bad musical! (Bad as in inappropriate for children, not bad as in poorly done - I'm sure the show is excellent.)
Currently watching: Don't Quit Your Night Job vides on youtube and How I Met Your Mother, Season Three.
Newest Ambition: Go to New York. Buy tickets for Don't Quit Your Night Job. And maybe Spring Awakening.
Last Thing I Ate: Chips and Salsa
Random Thursdayness:
Current favorite music: Spring Awakening soundtrack. Wow, those are some good songs for a really bad musical! (Bad as in inappropriate for children, not bad as in poorly done - I'm sure the show is excellent.)
Currently watching: Don't Quit Your Night Job vides on youtube and How I Met Your Mother, Season Three.
Newest Ambition: Go to New York. Buy tickets for Don't Quit Your Night Job. And maybe Spring Awakening.
Last Thing I Ate: Chips and Salsa
Current Thought: Hope everyone got their free tacos today! Thanks, Jack, for giving me a free 99 cent mid-day meal!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Busy, busy, busy
It's been a busy, busy week:
Friday night: Watched Sandlot with Brian and Katelyn (she'd never seen it, is that crazy or what?!)
Saturday: Alicia's grad party and first Star Wars movie night of the summer (that's where the couch picture took place). Participants included Brian and Katelyn, Aaron/Metro, Jeremy/Ping, Jenny/Waterbug, Jenny's boyfriend whose camp name is Stetson and whose real name I totally just blanked on (sorry!), Alicia/Hurricane, and Ryan (Ryan, we need to make a camp name for you). It was good fun all around, and a great group of people to watch a classic like Star Wars with. We talked through the whole movie, tried out sound effects, and offered up fun making-of Star Wars facts that we happened to know. Definitely need to have round two in a few weeks.
Sunday: Father's Day! Got my dad season one of the Andy Griffith Show, which is the first gift I've ever gotten that I genuinely believed he would love when he opened it (my dad's hard to buy for). And success! He said as soon as the race was over he was going to pop that baby in the DVD player. I followed my sister around with the camera while she was freaking out getting ready for camp. That was fun. She did finally stop for three seconds to pose with her Lightning McQueen watch, her proof that she is in fact a member of the Cars club at camp. After that, Jeremy and I went to Aaron's to watch the American vs. Barbados World Cup qualifier. We scored in the first minute, and I have a new favorite player on the American team: Brian Ching. He got a hat trick in this game, but that's not why I love him. It's because he was always smiling out on the field. I like optimism out on the field. Don't worry, Philipp Lahm- you're still my favorite international soccer stud.
Monday: Got my Pampered Chef order from Heather's party a few weeks ago. A food chopper that has already delighted me by cutting eggs, broccoli, and almonds with just two twists each, and my amazing lime green knife set! Pictures to come for sure. Left Youth Venture at 7:15 because no kids were there anymore. Apparently we're supposed to stay open until 9pm now, but Neil told neither David or me, so we decided it wasn't true. And left early anyway.
Tuesday: The greatest discovery of the week! The new La Mesa library, just blocks from our apartment, has finally opened its doors, and it is everything I hoped for and more. If anybody out there had seen the old library, you would agree that it was quite awful. No windows, tiny space, and all the tables were crammed together in the center of the room. It was horrible. But this new place! Jenna and I went around seven on Tuesday night to check it out and it is a-mazing. High ceilings, windows all over the place, great little comfy chairs, tables along the perimeter and near the windows, brand new bookshelves (I think we all know how much I love those new bookshelves), and outlets all over the place. I know where I'm spending my free time this summer.
Wednesday: Pretty chill day at work. Got home, reheated some leftovers from dinner the night before, and packed off for the library. Totally got the table in the corner facing the street and monopolized it for two hours. Found a new great musical song called On My Way. Now stuck in my head.
I think this weekend will be a little quieter, but watch out for next weekend! Disneyland, couch-burning-beach-bonfire night, Ryan's graduation and birthday-- it's going to be nuts!
Friday night: Watched Sandlot with Brian and Katelyn (she'd never seen it, is that crazy or what?!)
Saturday: Alicia's grad party and first Star Wars movie night of the summer (that's where the couch picture took place). Participants included Brian and Katelyn, Aaron/Metro, Jeremy/Ping, Jenny/Waterbug, Jenny's boyfriend whose camp name is Stetson and whose real name I totally just blanked on (sorry!), Alicia/Hurricane, and Ryan (Ryan, we need to make a camp name for you). It was good fun all around, and a great group of people to watch a classic like Star Wars with. We talked through the whole movie, tried out sound effects, and offered up fun making-of Star Wars facts that we happened to know. Definitely need to have round two in a few weeks.
Sunday: Father's Day! Got my dad season one of the Andy Griffith Show, which is the first gift I've ever gotten that I genuinely believed he would love when he opened it (my dad's hard to buy for). And success! He said as soon as the race was over he was going to pop that baby in the DVD player. I followed my sister around with the camera while she was freaking out getting ready for camp. That was fun. She did finally stop for three seconds to pose with her Lightning McQueen watch, her proof that she is in fact a member of the Cars club at camp. After that, Jeremy and I went to Aaron's to watch the American vs. Barbados World Cup qualifier. We scored in the first minute, and I have a new favorite player on the American team: Brian Ching. He got a hat trick in this game, but that's not why I love him. It's because he was always smiling out on the field. I like optimism out on the field. Don't worry, Philipp Lahm- you're still my favorite international soccer stud.
Monday: Got my Pampered Chef order from Heather's party a few weeks ago. A food chopper that has already delighted me by cutting eggs, broccoli, and almonds with just two twists each, and my amazing lime green knife set! Pictures to come for sure. Left Youth Venture at 7:15 because no kids were there anymore. Apparently we're supposed to stay open until 9pm now, but Neil told neither David or me, so we decided it wasn't true. And left early anyway.
Tuesday: The greatest discovery of the week! The new La Mesa library, just blocks from our apartment, has finally opened its doors, and it is everything I hoped for and more. If anybody out there had seen the old library, you would agree that it was quite awful. No windows, tiny space, and all the tables were crammed together in the center of the room. It was horrible. But this new place! Jenna and I went around seven on Tuesday night to check it out and it is a-mazing. High ceilings, windows all over the place, great little comfy chairs, tables along the perimeter and near the windows, brand new bookshelves (I think we all know how much I love those new bookshelves), and outlets all over the place. I know where I'm spending my free time this summer.
Wednesday: Pretty chill day at work. Got home, reheated some leftovers from dinner the night before, and packed off for the library. Totally got the table in the corner facing the street and monopolized it for two hours. Found a new great musical song called On My Way. Now stuck in my head.
I think this weekend will be a little quieter, but watch out for next weekend! Disneyland, couch-burning-beach-bonfire night, Ryan's graduation and birthday-- it's going to be nuts!
Quote of the Day
"And as I'm going along, I carry with me, promises that can't go wrong, as I travel on my way..."
~ On My Way lyrics from the musical Violet
~ On My Way lyrics from the musical Violet
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Holy Sunburn, Batman!
Look outside! Just look at it!
I'd been stuck inside all day, in my below freezing air conditioned office, and when I finally broke out to make a run to WAMU, I was hit in the face with summer. And it rocked.
HELLO, SUMMER!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!
I'M SO EXCITED I'M TYPING IN OBNOXIOUS CAPITAL LETTERS!
I'd been stuck inside all day, in my below freezing air conditioned office, and when I finally broke out to make a run to WAMU, I was hit in the face with summer. And it rocked.
HELLO, SUMMER!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!
I'M SO EXCITED I'M TYPING IN OBNOXIOUS CAPITAL LETTERS!
Monday, June 16, 2008
June 12, 2008: I Love the Fishes Cuz They're So Delicious!
So Jeremy's back, hooray! And we've gotten to see him bunches so far, so an even bigger hooray! He's in San Diego for just three short weeks, in between his first year at a Michigan grad school and his two year stint in Benin working with the peace corp. So we're trying to cram all our Jeremy moments in while we can. :(
So far the memories we've collected are:
1) Brian Regan Live on YouTube! We watched all the I Walked on the Moon excerpts online.
2) Winning over another soul to How I Met Your Mother awesomeness. He said, and I quote, "It wasn't too bad." Win!
3) Putting together the Not-Couch! Jeremy's the one who figured out how to set it up properly. And came up with the idea to burn it!
4) Watching the US kick Barbados in the shin guards in the first World Cup qualifier. (Go US!)
June 11, 2008: It's a vrace! I'm vwinning!
What can I say? I'm a sucker for competition, even against myself. This is also how I used to get through work at Target: by setting up my own competition against my co-workers. (I never told them; they just thought I was super motivated.)
June 10, 2008: Worst. Couch. Ever.
So we've had a bit of a couch conundrum here in the last three weeks or so, and this was the latest "couch" that was brought into our humble abode. FYI- this is not a couch. I have a hard time even calling it a futon. You know what it will be called for the unforseeable (approximately two weeks) future? The Not-Couch That Will Soon Be Keeping Us Warm At Our Couch-Burning-Beach-Bonfire Night two Saturdays from now.It's going to be... wait for it... LEGENDARY.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Persnickety: A Definition
1) overparticular; fussy about small details .
2) nitpicking, finicky.
3) overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
As quoted in Veronica Mars, season one, episode two:
Random Character (trying to be charming): "Are you always this persnickety?
Veronica Mars: "Sometimes I'm even persnicketier."
2) nitpicking, finicky.
3) overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
As quoted in Veronica Mars, season one, episode two:
Random Character (trying to be charming): "Are you always this persnickety?
Veronica Mars: "Sometimes I'm even persnicketier."
Monday, June 9, 2008
Changing the World, One Potty-Mouthed Junior Higher at a Time
Random Kid at Youth Venture, poring over the teacher section of his yearbook: "Ah, I hate Mr. Smith. F Mr. Smith!" (To his credit, he really did say F, not the actual word.)
Me: "F? What does this 'F' mean? Surely it can't mean anything bad. Am I not completely wrong to assume that?"
Random Kid at Youth Venture: (grins mischievously)
Me: "F? What does this 'F' mean? Surely it can't mean anything bad. Am I not completely wrong to assume that?"
Random Kid at Youth Venture: (grins mischievously)
Me: "Oh, I know. F must mean 'Going to make someone fudge brownies for them.' That's so very nice of you, Random Kid at Youth Venture. You must really like that teacher."
Random Kid at Youth Venture: "Yup. I'm going to make fudge brownies for Mr. Smith, and I'm going to make fudge brownies for Mrs. Johnson..."
An hour later? He was still naming people he was going to make fudge brownies for.
I'll take what I can get.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Ignorance is (completely and totally) Bliss
**Disclaimer: This post contains information both disturbing and disgusting. Read at your own risk.)
Yesterday, as I am browsing the shelves of JoAnn's crafts looking for some fun scrapbooky things to give Gwen for her 8th birthday, I get a call from Jenna.
It goes something like this:
Jenna: "Ew! Ew, ew, ew, ew! You won't belive this! This is so disgusting!"
Me: (Calmly sifting through some clearanced stickers) "Is this going to be a gross story?"
Jenna: "Ew! Ew ew ew! You won't believe this!"
Me: "This is going to be a gross story. Do I need to leave the store and find somewhere to sit down?"
(The next part of the dialogue is paraphrased for time's sake.)
Jenna: "We have moths in our cupboards! And it's soooo disgusting! And I don't know how to get rid of them! (Etc., etc.)"
Me: (Very calmly and chuckling softly to myself) "Oh, Jenna."
And THEN I proceeded to go home, look in the cupboard she and Britt share, see the three or so moths fluttering around in there, close the cupboard door, go to my own cupboard, pull out a box of rice-a-roni, fry that stuff up (with some chicken, it's delectable), power up the PC (that's right, I'm a PC and proud of it), and research moth infestations. Surprisingly, reading up on moth babies and testimonies of which poisons worked best for who did not deter from the delectableness of my rice-a-chicken.
After all, it wasn't MY cupboard that was infested.
Flash forward to today. Just for kicks I think to myself, I should look through my own food just to put my mind at ease, right? I did, after all, read yesterday that moths and their evil spawn can bust into even unopened bags and boxes, far away from where they originated. So I browse. Can of beef broth, can of chicken broth, box of cereal, hidden tupperware, and... unopened bag of brown rice....
THAT IS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY INFESTED! GROSS GROSS GROSS!
So now my cupboards have caught the disease, and I'm really hoping the acids in my stomach are enough to kill anything alive I may have inadvertently consumed in my Rice-a-chicken. Jenna and I now have plans tomorrow to throw out pretty much all of our food and go buy glass or plastic containers to keep opened grains and goods in. And we're kind of scared to go in the kitchen. I don't know what we're expecting... maybe for all those baby bugs to rise up together for an attack the second we step foot onto the tile. I'm not sure.
All I know is that I'm really, really hungry, and our unwelcome houseguests are holding all my beloved food hostage. Jerks.
Yesterday, as I am browsing the shelves of JoAnn's crafts looking for some fun scrapbooky things to give Gwen for her 8th birthday, I get a call from Jenna.
It goes something like this:
Jenna: "Ew! Ew, ew, ew, ew! You won't belive this! This is so disgusting!"
Me: (Calmly sifting through some clearanced stickers) "Is this going to be a gross story?"
Jenna: "Ew! Ew ew ew! You won't believe this!"
Me: "This is going to be a gross story. Do I need to leave the store and find somewhere to sit down?"
(The next part of the dialogue is paraphrased for time's sake.)
Jenna: "We have moths in our cupboards! And it's soooo disgusting! And I don't know how to get rid of them! (Etc., etc.)"
Me: (Very calmly and chuckling softly to myself) "Oh, Jenna."
And THEN I proceeded to go home, look in the cupboard she and Britt share, see the three or so moths fluttering around in there, close the cupboard door, go to my own cupboard, pull out a box of rice-a-roni, fry that stuff up (with some chicken, it's delectable), power up the PC (that's right, I'm a PC and proud of it), and research moth infestations. Surprisingly, reading up on moth babies and testimonies of which poisons worked best for who did not deter from the delectableness of my rice-a-chicken.
After all, it wasn't MY cupboard that was infested.
Flash forward to today. Just for kicks I think to myself, I should look through my own food just to put my mind at ease, right? I did, after all, read yesterday that moths and their evil spawn can bust into even unopened bags and boxes, far away from where they originated. So I browse. Can of beef broth, can of chicken broth, box of cereal, hidden tupperware, and... unopened bag of brown rice....
THAT IS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY INFESTED! GROSS GROSS GROSS!
So now my cupboards have caught the disease, and I'm really hoping the acids in my stomach are enough to kill anything alive I may have inadvertently consumed in my Rice-a-chicken. Jenna and I now have plans tomorrow to throw out pretty much all of our food and go buy glass or plastic containers to keep opened grains and goods in. And we're kind of scared to go in the kitchen. I don't know what we're expecting... maybe for all those baby bugs to rise up together for an attack the second we step foot onto the tile. I'm not sure.
All I know is that I'm really, really hungry, and our unwelcome houseguests are holding all my beloved food hostage. Jerks.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Picture a Day in May Continues! (To Be Renamed Later)
And it's got a twist, too. I think I'm going to start journaling directly on my pictures so I can remember why I took them, what was going on, and why they were important and all that good stuff. Yea.
Here's June 2 (so they show up in order on the blog:
And June 1:
"Me Want Cookie!" ~ The Cookie Monster (And Me)
So last weekend we had a friend over who happened to bring with her a bag of leftover Oreos from a Memorial Day party... the really good kind of Oreos. Double-stuffed and in chocolate creme flavor to be exact.
Jenna and I were on our way out to Starbucks when we discovered the bag of deliciousness, and we decided to steal it for a study snack, except we finished off the bag before we got there. Then we felt bad that we'd eaten all of Katelyn's cookies, stopped at Vons for another bag to replenish her Ziploc, and hoarded the rest for ourselves.
All this is to say that I now have an obsession.
I hadn't so much as seen an Oreo in years, and all of the sudden I've got the mother of all Oreo cravings. All. The. Time. I'm talking special trips to Vons for a bag type cravings. It's just ridiculous.
I brought five Oreos to work with me today. I ate four of them by 9:30.
I think I have a problem.
Jenna and I were on our way out to Starbucks when we discovered the bag of deliciousness, and we decided to steal it for a study snack, except we finished off the bag before we got there. Then we felt bad that we'd eaten all of Katelyn's cookies, stopped at Vons for another bag to replenish her Ziploc, and hoarded the rest for ourselves.
All this is to say that I now have an obsession.
I hadn't so much as seen an Oreo in years, and all of the sudden I've got the mother of all Oreo cravings. All. The. Time. I'm talking special trips to Vons for a bag type cravings. It's just ridiculous.
I brought five Oreos to work with me today. I ate four of them by 9:30.
I think I have a problem.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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