why do I watch this crap?

On Friday, I watched You Got Served. Have you seen this film? Don't even waste your time. I have no idea why I even watched it all. It was like a car crash. Just couldn't turn away.
And right now, I am watching E! True Hollywood Story - Jennifer Lopez. What is freaking wrong with me?
Anyway, we did go see Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Friday night. It was cute. I laughed so hard at the beginning during the counseling session. I was the loudest laugher in the audience. I guess not many people were married. I liked the movie. But it was the first time were Brad Pitt looked old. Still really hot, but just kinda old.

windshield

ooh, Chris is mad. And I am too.
The windshield on his car cracked like a week and half ago. I called in the claim last week and scheduled for the repairs today. They were gonna come to our house and fix it there. We swapped cars and everything so that we could do this. They just called him and said they are over booked and want to reschedule. He hates when stuff like that happens. I do too. I was not planning anything for the afternoon today because they were coming, but I guess not. It's really annoying. Chris is taking it out on my company. (the company I work for also happens to be the company our car insurance is thru.) I tried to explain to him that my company had nothing to do with it, but I will give negative feedback. After the claim, they send out a survey and I will make sure I include that and get some people in trouble. WOO HOO!
I'm outta here!

did I find the dress already?

I found this tonight and I really like it. It's silk. The thing with formal dresses are that they are either too bridesmaid or too old lady. It's hard to find something young enough and not too expensive. I am seriously considering buying this now that I've found something I like and still keep looking. I would seriously regret not getting it if I cannot find something else and it's not available again.

2005 Holiday Party

Chris got the following email yesterday:

The Gensler Holiday party is only 5 months away!

On December 3rd, the entire Southwest Region will gather at the Beverly
Hilton in Beverly Hills to celebrate our accomplishments and bid
farewell to 2005.

Please mark your calendars now so we can be sure to enjoy your company
in December!

Oh, and in case you really plan ahead, the attire will be formal.

Holy crap! That's freaking awesome. Beverly Hills (the Weezer song is gonna be in my head all day!). That's impressive. I wonder if they will put us up in that hotel? That would kick ass. Formal attire though. That's a lot of pressure. Like prom? There are varying degrees of formal. But I do think it's funny that it said "in case you really plan ahead..." Do they know about me? I am a major plan ahead-er. I already got the time off work! And started looking at dresses this morning. Party on!

what's the deal?

My sister gets a hamster and my mother calls it her grandhamster. I had a hamster when I was in junior high and NO ONE REMEMBERS IT! A few weeks ago when sister mentioned that she was going to get a hamster, I reminded my family that I used to have one. Sister said that she did not remember I had one and I reminded her that she was in high school at the time and very caught up in herself. My mother slowly remembered my hamster after reminding her of different things (like the purple hamster ball that I had - just like sister's). I was offended by my family not remembering my hamster, so that is why I am not being too welcoming to sister's new little dude. They all can bite me, including Fluffernutter.

about Canada

I love what Alanis said recently...
"Canadians have an inferiority complex. It's like living next door to the football hero and not being a cheerleader but being in the philosophy class instead."

We seriously need to move there. If I did not want my children to be born in the US, we would totally be there by now.

movies I want to see

The Island
Last Days
Happy Endings
Rory O'Shea Was Here
In Her Shoes
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Brothers Grimm
Broken Flowers

Edited to add:
Shopgirl
Corpse Bride

is this the first time ever...

that it has been hotter in Chicago in the summer than in Arizona?




That's nuts!

dishes, smishes

I hate doing dishes. I hate it with a passion.
Anyone who reads this blog must think that I am totally lazy and live in a pig sty. But that's not completely true. I bitch, but I end up doing it.
So, anyway. I hate doing dishes. I let them build up in the sink so high that you cannot even get water from the faucet. I also have what has been called, dishes diarrhea. Sister, stop laughing! This has been in existence ever since I was a child. What it means is that whenever it is time to do the dishes, you always have to go to the bathroom first. This was how my sister and I used to try to get out of the doing the dishes after dinner. Our family always (well, most of the time) sat down together for family dinner. That was nice. I like that we did that. But after dinner, we had to do the dishes and never wanted to. We started saying that we have dishes diarrhea in a sing-song voice and then went to the bathroom before finally coming back to do the dishes. It never worked. But it was one of the many on-going jokes that my crazy ass family has. I still use it today. It doesn't work now either, seeing as I am the only one who will ever do the dishes. But I still say it. I don't think I will ever like doing the dishes.

Jeremy Piven

I love him. I have for a long time. I have seen almost every movie that he is in. My favorite is Very Bad Things. I also really like Serendipity. So, what I'm saying is that I was on the Jeremy Piven bandwagon long before Entourage. I am so incredibly happy that he was nominated for an Emmy. He is one of the greatest actors of this generation and I am so happy that he is finally getting recognized. And sister - he was mine first, just like Vince was. copycat!

weekends suck

I have been so lazy the last few weekends. I have needed to clean my bathtub for the longest and just haven't gotten around to it. I start the weekends with great intentions and then I end up doing what I did yesterday. Fell asleep on the couch while Chris was playing Grand Theft Auto (and no, not the dirty version). Then I woke up and moved to another couch and slept some more. I did two loads of laundry, one of which is still in the dryer. And other than complaining a lot about my cramps and making Chris go to the store to buy me food, that was pretty much all I did yesterday. Now on Friday, I spent all day doing nothing either, until the evening. I figured I should do something and so I started going through some boxes in the guest room. I wanted to organize the hall closet and knew that a lot of the stuff in that room needed to go in that closet. So I guess I did get something done. We ended up moving a bunch of stuff into the shed. Some of the it had been in the guest room and other junk was on the back patio. We started to move it out and then it started to rain. We decided not to make any more trips outside that night. It gets really freaking windy at my house. Living so close to the mountain, the wind really whips up and fast. We like the monsoon and I like to open the blinds and watch the storm. It was been stormy the last two nights. Last night, I went outside to see what was going on and it started to rain and it was actually chilly. I had to go inside because the wind was blowing and the rain was almost sideways. I was getting really wet and cold. I just love that I was outside and cold for the first time in months. It didn't last long though. It's been real humid, for here, though. I can deal because I know it's only temporary! :) And here I sit at work. Joyful. Maybe it's not the weekends that suck. Maybe it's me.

paging Dr. Bryan

check out the picture with this article... I know that guy! He was a really good friend of mine in high school and just got married to another really good friend of mine. How funny. He looks all grown up. Doctor. Gee, everybody's got that title now.

i've been busy

Check out the time...
I got this idea to change my template and I have been working on it since around 8:30pm. I will probably tweak it some more, but I like it!
I gotta go to bed.
Oh, I wanted to show the original template and then look back at mine and see all the edits that I did! I have been busy.

Big Brother 6

What a shocker that Michael was voted off tonight! I wonder who the one person was that voted again Janelle? I don't know yet how I feel about Kaysar winning head of household. We will just have to wait and see what happens this week. And I also found this on smoking gun. Janelle is a criminal. NEAT!
I don't know if I am gonna comment after each episode of BB6, but I just might.

new mouse

Here is a picture of my new mouse:


My mom and I went to Best Buy last Friday and I bought this. I was in desperate need of a new one, because my old on decided that it would only work on the right side of my monitor. Chris tried to clean the ball and everything, but it still didn't really work. So, I just wanted to share. In case you don't understand the significance of the ladybug... it's my nickname. Well, it's one of them. I love my new mouse. It said that it was made for same hands, meaning kids. But hey, I have small hands. So it all works out.

Big Brother 6

I feel that my commentary is necessary on the current season of Big Brother 6. I am loosing my mind watching this season. They are completely insane and getting worse by the minute. My two favorite players right now are the two nominated, Michael and Janelle. Who know that I would side with a frat boy and a blonde model? But my lord, it's out of control. I cannot believe what Eric has done to the house. He has accused Michael of sexual harassment when the girls who he supposedly did this two never said anything about it until he mentioned it. It's only sexual harassment if you are offended. Ok, that might not be true. But the girls didn't seem to have a problem with the attention. Then Eric, or Cappy as he's known, goes and makes these accusations. He keeps saying that in the real world, Michael could be charged with sexual harassment and to that I say, in the real world Eric could be charged with slander for throwing these accusations around. Eric is the biggest jerk in Big Brother history as far as I am concerned. I just cannot get over what he has done. The worst part, if that's possible, is that the rest of the house is going along with him. Or at least they are acting like they are. That's what I'm hoping is going on. You have to kiss up to the head of household to avoid nomination. I just hope that they really don't agree with him as much as they are saying. These people need to wise up or Eric will take over more than he already has. Michael called the rest of the house "sheep" and I totally agree. And poor Janelle. I really like her. I am very surprised that I do. She's the first "dumb blonde" that really isn't. That's her character, the dumb blonde. But she is neat. I liked that she plays hard and is really determined to stay, but is not joining with the rest of the house in order to do so. She knows they are all crazy. And on last nights episode, there were almost two fights. That was out of control. I wanted Eric to hit Michael so that Eric would get kicked out. I really wanted that to happen. After a talking to by Big Brother, Eric went around and apologized to everyone. What Michael said about it was completely true. It's just his way of showing people what a great guy he thinks he is. Um, great? He almost attacked Michael. What great guy does that? If I was there, I would do anything in my power to get Eric the hell out and have Ivette on his heels. Who do I hope wins? If not Janelle (because we all know Michael is getting voted out), then either Sarah or James. They are cute. She was so funny when she said that she has the hottest boyfriend.

show review

I've been in a funk for the last few days. I am been thinking about blogging, but just haven't wanted to. Since Slurpees tend to make my sister happy, I stopped and got one on the way home today. Is it working? Not sure yet. But it is $1.50 worth of yumminess.
So why have I been in a funk? I fear going there. So I will not.
I am disappointed in myself for not blogging all about the concert. We went on Saturday night. Chris did not complain because he was asleep most of the time. No, I'm not kidding. He decided to get drunk (actually I suggested he do that so that he would be not so bitter) and it was kinda warm in the theater and so he kept falling asleep. I elbowed him all night. He was not all that drunk. He just had a few beers, but he was out of it.
Here's the set list:
Your House
You Learn
Not The Doctor
Perfect
Head Over Feet
A Man
Hand In My Pocket
Forgiven
So Pure
Mary Jane
Hands Clean
All I Really Want
Sister Blister
Right Through You
Wake Up
Encore One:
You Oughta Know
Everything
Encore Two:
Ironic

My review is as follows:
Location - Dodge Theater, Phoenix, AZ As you read above, it was warm inside. Every once and awhile a nice cool breeze would come by, but otherwise it was too warm inside for being so hot outside. The seats were a little narrow. I am not the largest (nor the smallest) person in the world, but the seats were a little too small. I am usually not nearly as uncomfortable as I was. After about 3 hours, it was digging so bad into my hip and I had to keep shifting. That brings me to my review of...
The crowd Why didn't they stand? What is wrong with you people? When we first sat down and were uncomfortable, I was comforted knowing that we would only be sitting for a little while. When Jason Mraz came out, no one stood. That's not unusual. Most people don't stand for opening acts. But when Alanis came out, no one stood up. Ok, not no one. There were a few randoms who would stand up every once and awhile. The reason they are called randoms is because no one else was standing. And since I am not a rude person, I only stand when the others around me do. During the last song of the first encore (Everything) people did stand and they all started to crowd the stage. It was really cool. Definitely the best part of the show. I cried a little. Then for the second encore (Ironic), most people stood up and then sat down again. At that point I just said - forget it, I am staying standing no matter what. Fools.
Jason Mraz He was way cute. He wore shorts and said that it was the first show that he's done wearing them. He also said that he hurt his arm a few days ago and so he had the other guitar player play alone for a few songs. I love You and I Both even more now after hearing it live. He dedicated it to Alanis and sung about how she should get rid of her bling (her engagement ring) and said that one day, he'll be an actor too (referring to the actor, Ryan Reynolds, who is Alanis's fiancee). It was way cute. I did not know many songs, because I am not a major fan. But I really enjoyed it. I very much liked that last song, I'm Yours. I will have to pick up the new album out July 26th.
I'm a ghetto blaster...
Alanis I have so much of my life wrapped up in her. That sounds weird. But many important times in my life have an Alanis reference. One that I will mention is that Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (her 2nd album) came out on my 21st birthday. I don't know how much more I want to reveal because it's very emotional for me. But there was a reason that I fought so hard to go. And there are reasons that I had goose bumps and cried a couple of times. Lets just say that I have a strong emotional attachment to her and her music. Anyhoo. The show was unbelievable. Her voice is much more mature and so many of the songs seem to have a completely different meaning just because the way she sings them. The songs that were not from Jagged Little Pill were a nice selection. I am not a big fan of A Man but her explanation of the reason for writing it (what a man who has heard her songs might say back to her) gave me a whole new understanding. I love So Pure and I was groovin in my seat. I am glad we went and it really was worth it.
I found a review and it's funny that the reviewer said that her highlight of the show was the same as mine!
And here are two pics:

A walk down memory lane (meme)

10 years ago..... was the summer before my senior year of high school. God, that means my 10 year reunion will be next year! crap. Anyway. I had been dating my now husband for 1 year. I was working at a dry cleaner (that my sister worked at in high school too).

5 years ago.... I had been married for a year and a half. We were living in Cincinnati in our 3rd (and best) apartment. My husband was in college and I was working at Sears still. I know that I was miserable because we did not have air conditioning in that apartment and it was so damn humid. Plus, I was still at Sears and I loved that job as much as I hated it. Defiantly a subject for another day.

1 year ago... I was in my 3rd day of my current job. I was still in training (the training class was a month). We were living in Scottsdale. Chris had just started his new job too.

5 days ago... I was at work and really pissed off that I could not put in a request to leave early.

Yesterday... I was in a training class all day and had a crazy ass phone call with my family.

Today... I got to sleep in a little because I went to work late in order to go the rest of the training class. Got chicken nuggets for lunch. Got my furniture and made web pages like a fool.

Tomorrow... I get to sleep in as late as I want. My mom is coming over and we are going to lunch, CostCo and whatever other shopping we feel like doing.

I'll do the rest...

5 snacks I enjoy... Famous Amos chocolate & pecan cookies, Kettle Korn, Lime Tostidos, Cherry Laffy Taffy, Luigi's Real Italian Ice

5 songs I know all the words to... Only 5? I know the words to so many songs that I could not possibly begin to list them. Turn on the radio and the odds are I will know the words to the song. Unless it's new. I don't listen to the radio much anymore.

5 things I would do with $100,000,000... Does that really say 100 million? Oh my. Well, I would pay off all my bills and the bills of my family, buy a new house (or houses) and cars and invest a lot of it.

5 locations I would love to run away to... Paris, Paris, Paris, Paris, Delaware.

5 things I like doing... blogging, watching television, shopping, painting, reading

5 things I would never wear... a thong, a bikini, a tub top, hot pants, no bra

5 recently seen movies I like... seriously. I don't go to the movies, even though I'd like to. I see movies on HBO. Empire Records, Anchorman...

5 famous people I'd like to meet... dead or alive? Ah, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, Marilyn Monroe, Vince Vaughn

5 biggest joys of the moment... all my Hello Kitty stuff, being able to stay up late, knowing I get to sleep in tomorrow, our new furniture, Nerds candy

5 favorite toys... yikes. It's late and I have a dirty mind... so I'll leave this one alone.

taking pictures...

In our conversation last night, I randomly told my sister that I have a lot of Hello Kitty stuff. She told me to take pictures of it and so I did. I went all over my house, my car and at work. I put this website together tonight. I wouldn't say I am obsessive, until I see it all together!

the furniture is here!

about last night

Last night was interesting to say the least. It included and evening of showering in salt water, taking pictures like crazy and a mega 3-way call with my whole family.
Lemme explain -
the salt water... we have a water softener that you always have to add salt to. Chris went to add more salt last night and discovered that the softener was not functioning like he thought it should. I trust what he says, since he's my husband and all, but I am not sure if he really knows. He then started messing with it and trying to "fix" it. He was taking forever and then I finally told him that I had to take a shower because it was getting late. I got in the shower and the water tasted like salt. "Why are you tasting it?" is what Chris asked me after I got out and told him. Well, the water just tends to go in your mouth. It's not like I was drinking it. He told me that he could bypass the softener, but I was almost done so I just finished talking my salt water shower. It felt like I just got out of the ocean and my hair is nasty. He is supposed to call the repairman that worked on it a few months ago and see what's up.

taking pictures... I'll post that when I get home

3-way call... my sister called me, then called my mom and then my dad got on the phone. Total family chaos. Highly entertaining and enlightening. We are such crazy freaks. If anyone else had been listening, they would have run and hid. And exactly how do you spell nonya (edited to correct)?

did you forget? I didn't.

I am going to see Alanis on Saturday!!!!!!!
Chris is still not happy about it and it has been the cause of many fights including an evening of not speaking to each other. But we are going. Dammit.

I am in a training class all day today. I had to be on the phone a little this morning (because I work a 9 hour day and the training is for 8 hours), but the rest of the day is chill. I am on lunch now. One of the perks of training is that they give you long lunches. I normally only have 30 minutes (by my choosing), but today I get a whole hour. How exciting. But my stomach is bothering me so I am a little uncomfortable. There is junk food in the training class and it's getting to me.

Last night Chris watered all our trees and I moved some plants around that are getting killed. It is so hot and because we have an east/west exposure, we get the full sun in the morning on our front yard. We try to water everyday, but it just doesn't seem to happen. Plus, they are so thirsty that it seems like no matter how much we water it always wants more. We are not used to having trees and are not real sure if they are ok or not. We are doing the best we can with them though. Last night we watered them real good and hopefully that will help.

This morning I was so tired that I leaned against the wall in the bathroom and fell back asleep for a little bit. If you had seen me, you would have laughed. I am not used to this getting up earlier. I get up only an hour earlier than I used to and for some reason I just can't deal. I am trying to go to bed earlier, but that's not working either.

Thank God tomorrow is Thursday - and I am in training for my whole shift tomorrow too! And the furniture is coming! And I can take a nap! aaaahhh, just thinking about that makes me...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

furniture update

I know it was a million years ago that I posted about us getting new furniture. I am bringing it up again, because it is finally being delivered on Thursday! I cannot wait!

allstar game

Tonight is the MLB Allstar Game. I am going to watch it, even though there is only one member of the Diamondbacks playing. I am going to watch it because it's gonna be in HD. Good reason, I thought.
Last night was the Homerun Derby. Allstar players try to hit as many home runs as they can. It was long, but neat. This one dude hit a total of 41 home runs in the three rounds. He won. They said that his home runs totaled over 17,000 feet. That's cool.
So my ass will be on the couch watching the game tonight.

my poor, neglected blog

My sister tells me that I need to post more random things that happen in my pathetic life (she didn't say the pathetic part. that's my contribution.) and that this blog has turned into a John Mayer blog. And to that I say, what better subject? No, seriously. I guess I can post about what's up. I am also making, what they call at my work, a parking lot. It's list of subjects that I need to remember to blog about. It's also a nice little tease for the reader.
Anyhoo. Yesterday was my one year anniversary at my job. But we are celebrating the anniversary today, which - of course - makes perfect sense. We were supposed to have a big party and get off the phones to have a barbecue. But since the stupid hurricane struck, they are paranoid that we are going to get a lot of calls. Needless to say, that has not happened yet. Those poor people haven't even been able to get back to their homes to see the damage. We will be busier at the end of the week and next week. We are still getting the food, but not until later and we aren't getting any time off the phone. We did get gifts though. We got a company logo polo shirt and a blanket. Oooh, every one loves company schwag. The shirt, of course is too small. They are giving everyone the same size. Neat. Who wants a shirt? So, it's my lunch time now and I am posting because I gotta wait another million hours to eat the free food. Chris did make me a lunch, but why should I say no to free food? I'll leave the lunch for tomorrow.
Oooh. That reminds me. Chris should find out today how much his raise is. He was randomly told last week that he was getting a raise for his one year anniversary. (Last year we both quit our crappy ass jobs and got good new ones!) He was not expecting it, because his company only issues raises once a year, like mine. But since he had not been there a year when the normal raise period came around, he didn't get one. So they are giving him a raise now and then he should get another one at the normal raise time (aka January). Totally freaking awesome! I need to email him to see how much it is! And then go shop and spend it all!!!!
And this is random... My shelf is finally up! I have a shelf that we had up in our apartment in Cincinnati that I wanted to put on the wall in the office. I have wanted Chris to put it up forever and a day. There was a big mess with the wall over the weekend and it needed to be patched and repainted. But I am happy to report the shelf was completed yesterday! And I put all the neat boxes from IKEA on it and it looks neato. I also hung up my (hear comes my favorite subject again...) John Mayer albums that I finally got framed. They look neat. I have a few more posters to hang on the wall and we need to get a file cabinet and futon cover and that room will be mostly done. I love progress!

BTW: you would think that blogger's spellchecker would recognize the word blog, but you would be wrong.

Soundstage

If you get your PBS station in HD (or even if you don't), look for a program that will be airing most of the weekend called Soundstage. I promise you will not regret it. It was a show recorded on June 29, 2004 and it was recorded for the purpose of this program. I just can't believe I got HD just in time! It aired last night for the first time (even though I already have a copy of it and had watched it.) and I was flipping out about it being in HD. Anyway, I just wanted to say that you have an hour to listen to some great music, then check out my boy on PBS.

You tell em, honey!

isn't it neat when...

you wake up 15 minutes before you have to walk out the door?
That happened to me this morning. We were up late watching fireworks. At around 9:30 last night, I went outside to see if I could see any from our house. I was able to see the fireworks downtown. They were really small, but I could see them by standing in the middle of the street. Chris came out and joined me watching for a minute and then we went inside and watched a show of fireworks on TV that we had recorded. So we were up late. Earlier in the day, we had gone to Chris's co-workers house for a BBQ. It was an ok time. Nothing too exciting, but fun.
We really just wanted to be at home watching television. That sounds really odd until you know the whole story. Since getting the new TV a few weeks ago, we have been happy with the largeness, but not real happy with the picture quality. We have HD capability on our TV, but did not have the correct cable box to get the few channels available in HD. We wanted to see what our TV could really do, so on Saturday Chris went and got the new cable box and holy cow!!!!!!! It is absolutely amazing. If you have never seen anything broadcast in HD on a 52 inch television, you are missing out. You have not yet lived. I was watching a Yankees baseball game, even though I stongly dislike the Yankees, just so that I could watch the TV in HD. It was freaking amazing.

naked juice

I am drinking this right now and loving it.

Live 8

I will be watching this concert all day. It is a historic day in music and hopefully will lead to a historic agreement at the G8 summit this week.
Add your name to the list.

Happy Canada Day!