A peek into my life

Bryan: hey babe
Bryan: babe i need to talk to about something
Bryan: its important
Bryan: its about our heat
Bryan: sarah called
Bryan: it can't be fixed
Me: away message: away
Me: hi what's up
Bryan: i love you
Me: what's wrong
Bryan: that my burning love for you will have to heat up our house
Me: is something wrong with the heater?
Bryan: no
Me: so you were lying...

chicken'n'dumplins

Made chicken'n'dumplins tonight. Chloe was so excited she sat down with a plate ready!

Game on

Elle tagged me in a game so here goes.

Ok so here's how the game works:

1.Link to the person that tagged you (DONE)

2.Post the rules on your blog (Doing)

3.Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself (check)

4.Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs (I did 7 HA)

5.Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. (doing)

Here are my 6 things:

1) Wherever I sleep I must sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door. I don't know why. For some reason I feel safer if I sleep closer to the door. But if you think about it, if a axe murder came in the house he'd bust through the bedroom door and I'd be the first one he kills then he'd go for the person on the other side of the bed. Maybe I should ask Bryan to switch places with me?

2) Every single night rain or shine, whether we are speaking or not, I have to kiss Bryan goodnight.

3) I'm afraid of large bodies of water. You can thank my brother for this. He forced me to watch Jaws when I was too young and I have never gotten over it.

4) When I grow up I want to be just like my mom. She is my absolute hero. I admire everything she has done and if I could be half the woman she is I'd be happy.

5) I eat a bagel with cream cheese every morning.

6) I secretly want to build forts whenever I see a lot of pillows and blankets.

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The highlights of my weekend

This weekend was fairly boring but I do have 2 things I'd like to share.

1) On Friday night I checked my Amazon.com order that includes my Rock Band 2 game for the PS3. I was surprised to see that it was already shipping and "in transit" to my house even though it wasn't officially being released until Sunday. I was so friggin' excited. So, Saturday morning when I woke up I ran out to my mailbox like a little kid on Christmas morning. Hmm...it wasn't there. "Well that's ok",I thought, "It is only 10:00 AM." I proceed to check the mailbox every hour until about 8:00 PM that evening. I finally came to the awful realization that it wasn't coming. I was heartbroken. It wasn't until I was lying in bed that night with Bryan that I realized that I didn't ship that package to my house...I had it sent to the office (whoops!). Drats!
I woke up Sunday at 8:00 AM and went to work (babysitting) from 11:00 to 4:00. After I got off work I came home bitching about RB2. Bryan said "Why don't you just go buy it and return the Amazon one when you get it." This is why I LOVE him. He is brilliant. I went right out to Best Buy and bought myself RB2.

I was able to play about 3 songs before I had to go back to work (babysitting) for another family. When I got off work that night at 11:00 I was the giddiest little kid you'd ever seen. I went right home and played my little heart out. I wish today was Columbus day so I could be playing rock band. Why couldn't Columbus have delayed his friggin voyage one week? Didn't he know rock band was gonna come out and I would want to play it.

2) While I was babysitting for family number 1 on Sunday I came across this "fountain" in front of a house.

When I posted it on twinkle/twitter a lot of people didn't believe me that it existed. Well here you go...it's a photo of the shit fountain and a goggle map of it too. Oh and here is a yelp review of it!


What an eventful weekend...I'm easily amused.

De-light-full

De-vow-urd



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priceless

Obtuse Angle

Last night after Bryan and I had a wonderful dinner we decided to curl up in bed. Well so did Opie...

After watching a few episodes of Little People Big World we all started to drift off to sleep. Opie decided that she wanted to sleep under the bed on the floor last night. After she got settled, I peaked down over the side of my bed and I saw 2 little puppy paws and 1 little puppy nose poking out from under the bed. I could not stop laughing! I asked Bryan why she was sleeping in such an awkward position. His response was priceless..."Oh, there is now an obtuse angle under the bed so she can't get in the corner."
Seriously, who says obtuse angle?!?!

Don't doubt that I'm Texan

How can people possibly doubt that I'm from Texas?!
This is my father's custom made smoker in his backyard.
Please note the "God Bless Texas" sign.

Spooktacular

Halloween is my favorite holiday. Last night I officially decorated my house and boy is it SPOOKTACULAR.

This is the front door. Notice all the black widows that are crawling up the door.


Here is my webbed up front gate.


Opie is so scared. She had to curl up in her blanket.


I don't know about ya'll but I'm ready to carve some pumpkins and attend a monster mash.

I bet you didn't know...

1. I attended a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania.
2. In my life I have lived in 8 different places (New Jersey, Tennessee, Pennsylvania (twice), Illinois (twice), Texas, and Virginia).
3. Three is my favorite number.
4. I have a puggle named Opie and no she's not a boy.
5. I have been taking photography classes since I was 14.
6. I was named after James Taylor's "Fire and Rain" and his version of "Oh Susanna".
7. I am allergic to bees and shellfish.
8. I have a sailing license.
9. My favorite movie is Steel Magnolias. I love it more than my luggage.
10. I have 5 computers.
11. I collect Wizard of Oz books from the early 1900s.
12. I am obsessive about my google reader.
13. I have one brother named Justin.
14. My brother is in the navy and stationed in Hawaii.
15. I have an adorable black and white cat named Chloe. Kyle wants to steal her.
16. I adopted Chloe from the Anti-Cruelty Society.
17. I love Dave Matthews Band.
18. I have magazine subscriptions to 7 publications.
19. I used to collect antique dress from the 1850s-1960s.
20. I can't draw.
21. I say ya'll and fixin' to.
22. My favorite cuisines are French and Italian.
23. I attend Columbia College Chicago.
24. My dad sells and operates stuffed animal claw machines...
25. My favorite smell is winter.
26. I love all things Harry Potter.
27. I hate chocolate but I love chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and chocolate milk. Okay, maybe I don't hate chocolate that much.
28. I used to collect beanie babies and pogs.
29. I love board games.
30. I am hydrophobic.
31. I used to belong to a chess club.
32. I love apple products.
33. I waited in the pouring rain for 9 1/2 hours for my 3g iPhone and it wasn't worth it.
34. I have a "Y" shaped scar on the bottom of my right foot from stepping on a bee when I was two years old.
35. My favorite word is frolic.
36. You will never see me without a pashmina.
37. I knit and crochet.
38. My best friend is from Michigan.
39. I was born on April 26th.
40. I had an internship at an international advertising agency in London my senior year of high school.
41. The movie Tin Cup was filled in the golf course behind my house in Texas.
42. I can pop my right elbow on command.
43. I live with my boyfriend Bryan.
44. I used to be a writer for Marybeth's Bean Bag World.
45. My favorite books are Moby Dick and A Moveable Feast.
46. The first CD I bought was by TLC
47. I worked the front gate at a corporate amusement park in Pennsylvania for 5 years.
48. I love Heroes, Lost, Project Runway, ER, How I Met Your Mother, and the Office.
49. I own more than 200 DVDs
50. I love the video game bully on the xbox.
51. I own the complete series of Friends.
52. I play the guitar like a piano when I play rock band.
53. My favorite TV show is Once and Again.
54. I want a frug. (french bulldog and pug)
55. I dream about traveling to Austria.
56. I love to cook with my mom.
57. My mom and I share the same initials...SM.
58. I love to snowboard and ski.
59. I interned at the Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago.
60. I hope to someday own my own business.
61. I have been a babysitter for almost 11 years.
62. When I was little I thought every hot air balloon had Dorothy in it.
63. I am Irish and French Canadian.
64. I took three years of Spanish and one year of sign language.
65. I worked at BabyGap and GapKids.
66. My favorite musical is Into the Woods but Wicked isn't too far behind.
67. I hate meatloaf.
68. I hate the smell of cough medicine.
69. I still watch nickelodeon and the Disney channel.
70. I have met Stephanie Block (she was Elphaba in Wicked).
71. My favorite store is Bloomingdales.
72. I have a shoe fetish.
73. My favorite designers are Kate Spade and Vera Wang.
74. I love to go to rodeos.
75. I am a UT longhorn's fan.
76. I can square dance.
77. I took piano lessons for three years but can't read music.
78. My favorite animal is a three-toed sloth.
79. I've known I wanted to work in advertising since I was eight years old.
80. Two years ago I spent ten days island hopping in BVI with eight women on a catamaran.
81. Every Christmas eve I watch It's A Wonderful Life.
82. I am known as the penny pincher in the family.
83. I love craft projects like bookbinding and scrap booking.
84. I do not run with scissors.
85. My apartment is decorated with green, red, cream, and black.
86. I love to eat raw cookie dough.
87. I can speak jibberish.
88. My favorite author is Jennifer Weiner.
89. I am a master Scattegories player.
90. My family is from Texas.
91. My family refers to me as the Yankee.
92. I used to have a green Schwinn named Molly.
93. I have a Honda CR-V.
94. I hope to get a green Vespa next summer.
95. I cannot stand Christopher Walken.
96. I am obsessed with the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.
97. I collect cameras.
98. My favorite video game is Kingdom Hearts.
99. I have a large freckle clump on my left shin.
100. I love to clean and organize.
101. I can talk like Chewbacca.
102. I put three ice cubes in my hot tea.