Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Literally, I suppose. Tonight is Halloween people! I love Halloween. Almost as much as I love Christmas, and that’s saying something. If I wouldn’t get funny looks from people, I’d be right out there with my pillow case collecting candy from all of the giving people in my (parent’s) neighborhood. Instead, I have a much more interesting night ahead of me. I’ll be passing candy out to all of the little power rangers and princesses, of course, but I’m also going to be meeting the brother’s new GF tonight. Exciting, right? I mean, since he’s the little brother, I have to interrogate her and stuff too. It’s par for the course. He’s my baby. And he’s had his poor little heart broken one too many times. I’m here to make sure that doesn’t happen again.  Here’s the thing, I know its not him, I mean, look at him:

Of course, those fabulous looks run in the family…..Ahem, anyway, as you can see, he’s no average Joe. Also, his personality far exceeds the wonder of his looks. So clearly he’s been picking the wrong ladies and needs my assistance. Not that he’s asked for it, but sometimes you just have to offer your services in spite of the feelings of others.

So tonight should be interesting. Updates coming soon.

As If You Don’t Know Enough

Due to my severe lack in desire to think up anything creative (I did just come back from a retreat with a bunch of teens you know) I give you “More stuff to know about me”.

Thanks Vanessa.

1. Explain what ended your last relationship? It was completely and totally unhealthy. Enough said.
2. When was the last time you shaved? last Saturday, I HATE shaving!

3. What were you doing this morning at 8 a.m.? sitting at my computer at work, printing stuff out.
4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago? driving back from lunch

5. Are you any good at math? sure, why not?

6. Your prom night? I went with afformentioned unhealthy relationship boyfriend, we danced the night away and then went to Dunkin’ Donuts with some friends. He took me home after that.

7. Do you have any famous ancestors? Nope
8. Have you had to take a loan out for school? nope, never went
9. Do you know the words to the song on your myspace profile? I only use myspace to stalk my youth group kids. (By stalk I mean, make sure they don’t have anything innapropriate on there)

10. Last thing received in the mail? Probably a bill

11. How many different beverages have you had today? 3 – green tea w/honey, lemonade, and of course, water

12. Do you ever leave messages on people’s answering machine? sometimes

13. Who did you lose your CONCERT virginity to? Brad Paisley. Earlier this year.
14. Do you draw your name in the sand when you go to the beach? Of course, what’s a trip to the beach without that?
15. What’s the most painful dental procedure you’ve had? um, I guess a filling, I’ve only ever had one though and it was when I was little.
16. What is out your back door? a big open field

17. Any plans for Friday night? yup, youth group.

18. Do you like what the ocean does to your hair? like Vanessa, I don’t mind the wind, but I hate when it gets that salty, greasy feel.
19. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different popcorns? yes! I love ‘em!
20. Have you ever been to a planetarium? Yeah, back in like 5th grade.

21. Do you re-use towels after you shower? yeah, I use them for like a week, what a waste not to!
22. Some things you are excited about? um, life I guess
23. What is your favorite flavor of JELLO? not really that big of a fan of jello, but I guess anything with strawberry
24. Describe your keychain(s)? hmm, well I have a bunch of those regular metal ones. I also have a Vera Bradley key fob.
25. Where do you keep your change? in my wallet, and in a gallon jar in our bedroom
26. When was the last time you spoke in front of a large group of people? um, I don’t think ever really.
27. What kind of winter coat do you own? A big puffy pink one from Old Navy, and a Black pea coat.

28. What was the weather like on your graduation day? Warm and a little breezy

29. Do you sleep with the door to your room open or closed? Closed, I feel safer that way.

So that’s it! 

What the……?!

So I’ve gotten mixed reactions to the big hair color change of ‘06.

Some people like it, alot.

Others, well, they’re not so sure that I shouldn’t be a blonde anymore. No one has come out and said “I don’t like it”, it’s a little more subtle than that. I get things like “Wow, you look really different”, or “Oh, I think I like you better as a blonde”. In all honesty, I still jump when I look in the mirror.

The thing is, I LOVE it. My hair looks shinier and healthier, and I really think this was the break my hair needed in order to get back to where it needs to be. That is, of course, until I start murdering it slowly by highlighting it all over again!

So for now anyway, the color shall stay, but don’t put it past me to never do this again. I kind of like the look of shock on people’s faces. Who knows, maybe next time I do something funky, I’ll go red!

The Results Are In…..

Before:

Of course, I’m the BLONDE in the center!

After:

So, What do YOU think?

Note: Pictures courtesy of best friend’s blog. You don’t have these things copywritten, do you H?

D-Day

So today is the day.

The day of the big hair color change.

Remember, I’ve only ever been blonde. This is a big deal people!

I’ll be sure to post some pictures asap. Of course, I still owe everyone pictures from the day with the nieces too. What can I say? I’m a slow-poke!

How Do You Answer That?

Since I’ve gotten married, I’ve been asked “The Question” more times than I can even count.

“How’s married life?”

How in the world do you answer that? Married life isn’t any different than single life, except for the fact that I’m allowed to have sex now.

Do you really want to have that conversation?

Sure, now we’re living together, and that’s an adjustment and everything, but do you really want me to answer you honestly? Ok.

We annoy the heck out of each other.

He washes the dishes this way, I wash them that way. He does laundry this way, I do it that way. He sleeps this way, I sleep that way. He folds this way, I fold that way.

Everything requires patience and love. Sometimes we fail, other times we don’t.

But you didn’t want to know all of that did you? You just wanted to ask the obligatory question and for me to give you the obligatory answer; “Great!” I’ll say with a big smile that satisfies the human nature in both of us. The nature that doesn’t really desire anything truly personal, but only surface nonsense.

So I’ll give that to you, but just know that it’s probably a big waste of your time.

You don’t really care anyway.

Practice Makes Perfect

I am SUPER excited. Why?

Husband and I get to take the nieces to Milburn Orchards tomorrow.

First of all, how cute are they? I mean, wouldn’t you just LOVE to spend a couple of hours with them? I know you would.

Second, I’m sure their parents will enjoy some time to do what they have to do without worrying about 2 toddlers every 5 seconds.

Third, family is really important to me. I want my kids (in the future, I don’t have any now!) to know who their aunts, uncles, and cousins are. The grandparent thing is sort of a bummer since the hubby’s parents are missionaries and can only spend a month or maybe two with the family each year.

All that to say that since we don’t have any kids right now, we have the luxury to pick up the nieces and do fun things with them. Of course we haven’t necessarily done this before, but come on people, we’ve only been married for a month, we needed some time to settle in!

Plus, this could potentially be some top-secret master plan of mine to get the husband used to having toddlers around, as God willing, it will be his fate in a couple of years. But, I would never be so conniving, would I?

Mu-wahahaha.

Pregnancy

There are few things in life that truly anger me. I am a relatively laid back person who generally doesn’t “sweat the small stuff”.

There are some things though, that really upset me, and one of them is a careless pregnant woman.

Now, having never been pregnant, I don’t have much personal experience to go off of, and I’m sure some of you who are pregnant or have been are reading this wondering where in the world I picked up the gall to throw my 2 cents in with such a lack of experience. Bear with me please.

There is the obvious; smoking while pregnant. I can get pret-tyupset when I see this. Sometimes it’s all I can do to stop myself from walking up to the person, ripping the cigarette out of their mouth and freaking out on them for doing such a stupid thing. I even have it all planned out in my head: “What in God’s name would posses you to be SO selfish that you would consider your desires before the health and safety of your child?!” Then I would stomp on the cigarette for good measure and walk away leaving them feeling ashamed for their actions, so much so, that they quit smoking right away. I live in a dream world, right?

The other offense is more subtle. It’s so subtle in fact, that unless you’re around the pregnant person pretty often, you won’t even know that they’re committing this offense. It is eating unhealthy.

I know, I know. You’re eating for two right? Wrong. According to the article I just linked that whole eating for two thing is a total myth. Even still, if “cravings” are had, that certainly isn’t the go ahead for you to run out and grab a Cinnabon (although quite tasty) every day. If you, as the pregnant person, are supplying the nutrients for your baby, wouldn’t you try to eat as healthy as possible? Like say, even if you’re not such a big fan of salads, suck it up for the baby. What about vegetables? I’m not saying that you should become this food Nazi the moment you find out your pregnant, but I do think that certain measures need to be taken to ensure that you have the healthiest pregnancy and baby possible.

Why am I writing about this you ask? Well that’s because I need to vent. The girl H I work with is pregnant. I get so frustrated because she is SO unhealthy. A typical food day for her is as follows:

Breakfast: pancakes and bacon – she doesn’t use syrup because she doesn’t like it but each pancake gets a healthy slab of butter. (I’m not exaggerating, she literally uses THREE of those little butter packets on each pancake)

Lunch: If her dictator husband lets her buy lunch she’ll buy either fast food or have something fried out of our cafe. Otherwise she’ll eat doritos or cheetos or goldfish and wash it down with a healthy dose of Coca Cola or Pepsi (with caffeine of course)

Dinner: Anything fast food. She is the laziest person in the world and rarely cooks dinner. When she does, it’s chicken fingers, french fries, mac and cheese and corn. (please note that corn is the first vegetable I’ve put down on here, and really, it’s a starch)

Her mantra? “I don’t eat salad, salad is for rabbits.” The only “vegetable” she likes is corn, and she won’t suck any of this up, not even for the baby. It is SO infuriating!

Even after a recent ultrasound when they discovered that the baby could have some sort of heart defect, she didn’t change her eating habits. What the heck? Do you need some sort of huge sign from God? (as if the ultrasound wasn’t enough) Like, does he need to replace all of the crappy food at your house with healthy food in order for it to click? Maybe send you a personal chef?

Anyway. I’m sure it’s obvious that I’ve needed to get that off of my chest for a while. She is almost 8 months pregnant you know.

Hopefully one day when I’m pregnant (far, far away from now) I’ll remember this soapbox I was standing on and try not to justify eating horribly. Although, I’m sure I could probably justify a Cinnabon every now and then! ;)

Un-Inspired

Ugh. I’m totally at a loss for words.

There’s got to be something that gets me fired up. Something that I want to talk about. But….but what? I’m drawing a blank.

There’s been absolutely nothing to get my “creative” (I’m using that word loosely, I know) juices flowing.

I saw a car accident today…..nothing.

This lady keeps harassing me (via phone) at work….still nothing.

Halloween is coming up……eh, not so exciting anymore, I mean how pathetic would I look dressed up and trick-or-treating with a bunch of little kids? I just pass out the candy now.

Even my week is relatively uneventful. I don’t even have youth group this Friday. Yay, date night!!!! Even still, I don’t find any of this entertaining enough to write about. I mean, I don’t want to bore you guys or something. As if this entry in and of itself isn’t going to bore you.

Sorry.

Pain Unlike Any Other Pain

Everything. Hurts.

There are aching muscles in my body that I didn’t even know existed. Pilates is crap. That stuff makes you think you’re getting some kind of a decent workout, but you’re not. When you work with a man who looks like Vin Diesel on steroids, you develop a whole new definition for the word exercise. There were lunges, and push-ups, and high kicks, oh my!

I have NEVER pushed my body to that limit before, and I’ve made it do some crazy things, like, run a mile. Even still, I think I held up pretty well for the apparent out of shape state I’m in. I’m even planning on going back tonight.

The only problem I ran into during this whole extravaganza was the fact that sweat kept pouring down into my eyes. Blah. I am, of course, using this as an excuse to go shopping for some cute little bandana things that will stop that from happening again. What can I say? I’m a shopaholic!

I was quite a sight though. After walking out the door of the class, I had to step down off of the sidewalk onto the parking lot. Bad combination after an excrutiatingly painful 45 minute workout. My legs almost buckled under the pressure of having to hold the rest of my body weight up. Lets not talk about the fact that I live in the THIRD FLOOR apartment. That was fun.

All in all though, I really did have a good time and feel as though this may be the way to really melt the pounds away. I’m certainly willing to give it a try!

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