well we all did it. We arrived at Disneyland around 6:30 am. The race started as planned at 7 am on the dot. The first mile went by really quickly. I dashed ahead of everyone, and tried really hard to get in front of the majority of the runners. Well after the first mile I started to loose a lot of energy and i started to get a pinch in my side.
at second mile, I was no longer in front of my family but rather between my brother, davey and julie and ahead of my mom and my dad. I decided that I would wait a little bit and walk/ jog with them afterall it wasnt any fun running on my own. Right around the second mile they had water stands ready for us. i had a little bit of water and started jogging a bit faster.
At around the end of the second mile my dad just took off out of nowhere and passed my mom and I. We spent the last end of it catching up to him and when we finally did, I had completely lost all of my juice. When I turned the corner at the last half mile I heard my brother, julie, and davey cheering for us and waiting for us at the end of the finish line. They hadn't crossed it yet, so we decided to all cross together holding hands and being very cheese balloon.
At the end of the race we had our photos taken and it was awesome to know that we all did it and that we finished together.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
hippy shopping
why is it that when you shop at a health food store or a market like trader joes there are always the weirdest looking creatures in the world shopping beside you?
i mean it's one thing to be around eccentrics, but it's another to feel like you were dropped off at woodstock sans maxi-dress with a pipe and no weed to smoke.
walking along the aisles of your local trader joes is comparable in my mind to what I imagine my father must feel when he walks into hot topic or is forced to eat vegetarian cuisine. for those of you that don't know my father that feeling would be that of sheer panic.
"is this stuff dietetic? i don't want any of that tofu stuff! imitation bacon? jesus! i think that dietetic stuff causes anal leakage"
that's all that goes through my mind when i think of my dad's take on vegan/vegetarian food. and that is close to my take on the people that shop with me at trader joes...'god, i hope these people don't cause anal leakage'
extremists bug me. extremists of any kind... and that includes me. i'm an extremist when it comes to animals and being a vegetarian, and for that I understand that some people may hate me for it, but at least you don't have to hold your breathe when I walk by you, or focus all of your strength on looking at me in the eye rather than noticing my dreadlocks are brushing against your produce.
i mean it's one thing to be around eccentrics, but it's another to feel like you were dropped off at woodstock sans maxi-dress with a pipe and no weed to smoke.
walking along the aisles of your local trader joes is comparable in my mind to what I imagine my father must feel when he walks into hot topic or is forced to eat vegetarian cuisine. for those of you that don't know my father that feeling would be that of sheer panic.
"is this stuff dietetic? i don't want any of that tofu stuff! imitation bacon? jesus! i think that dietetic stuff causes anal leakage"
that's all that goes through my mind when i think of my dad's take on vegan/vegetarian food. and that is close to my take on the people that shop with me at trader joes...'god, i hope these people don't cause anal leakage'
extremists bug me. extremists of any kind... and that includes me. i'm an extremist when it comes to animals and being a vegetarian, and for that I understand that some people may hate me for it, but at least you don't have to hold your breathe when I walk by you, or focus all of your strength on looking at me in the eye rather than noticing my dreadlocks are brushing against your produce.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
10 things in 10 months
1. save $6,000
2. lose 15 pounds
3. clean out my closet
4. spend two weeks in the uk
5. record songs with davey
6. go to the gym 3-4 times a week
7. weekend trips (one to palm springs and one to las vegas)
8. go parasailing
9. read 10 new books
10. get beachcruisers and a tent with wheels for beards and rooty.
2. lose 15 pounds
3. clean out my closet
4. spend two weeks in the uk
5. record songs with davey
6. go to the gym 3-4 times a week
7. weekend trips (one to palm springs and one to las vegas)
8. go parasailing
9. read 10 new books
10. get beachcruisers and a tent with wheels for beards and rooty.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
christmas trees
so much magic in christmas it is honestly something that is hard to describe. while i was antiquing, I came across these beautiful christmas trees. I want all of them. i hope they are there in september, i want to buy a couple to put up on my antique shelf.
Friday, August 22, 2008
alvin, simon, theodore...
today was busy, but we still managed to find time to make a video.
today in a nutshell:
-carwash
-rehearsal
-disneyland
-dinner
-videos
-frasier
-golden girls
by the way, disneyland was so crowded today, we hardly did anything but eat loads and walk around some of the shops. Davey made us dinner with the morning star fake chicken strips and some chow mein noodles. I think it has become his specialty. The mark twain riverboat is by far one of the most fun and relaxing things to do at disneyland. We had choice seating too, I had to run and elbow my way through, but I know it was worth it to see Davey so chuffed.
p.s the new myspace bacon background is not only sick but it is super offensive. I plan on writing one of those annoying letters that people read and think to themselves 'who has the time for this?' i am also writing a letter to disneyland in regard to their use of pig gelatin in all of their candy...that shizola is sick dog status.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
while your kids are going off to college...
we used the imovie software for bigger and better things:
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
I ain't down here for your love or money...I'm down here for your soul...
only a little bit more time now before Nick Cave. I honestly haven't been this excited over a show since new kids on the block when i was 8 pretending to be 10 just in case i ran into Joey McIntyre. I anxiously await my evening with Davey, we will have so much fun at this show. I actually don't know if fun is the right word. perhaps jubilant, and emotional...who knows. I do however hope that this little dandy of a man plays the following:
this one ESPECIALLY:
and of course this one:
i don't know what it is about nick cave, but he takes all of the feelings I get when I think of christmas, the uk, night time drives, daytime naps, love, romance, nostalgia and of course music and puts it together into one beautiful package. i also love the bad seeds too thanks to davey of course. He introduced me to all of this wonderful music... i gave him elliott smith though, not too bad of a trade off if you ask me.
benny
pray for our little benny...our little guy is very sick. we spent the day with my mom, i know how close she is to bentley and it was sad to see how worked up she gets at the idea of not having bentley in our life. I am about to go grocery shopping for her as she is going to make some eggplant lasagna on my behalf.
please have benny in your thoughts, he is an absolute gem in all of our lives.
Monday, August 18, 2008
when life hands you lemons...
this week has been absolutely desolate. a real disaster. searching for apartments is the worst thing in the world.
first of all...i don't want to look for another apartment...i want to look for a house, ok well realistically i want to look for a condo. i want to be landing on my feet not throwing myself under the poverty line. what is the matter with me?!?!?! at some point i need to give up on the shopping thing. this week alone I bought a new dress, sweater and coat from betsey. i swore up and down to davey i would not buy anything more this month. The closet space alone is killing him.
secondly..i love love love my cats, but they are serving to be quite the burden when searching for apartments in long beach...additional deposits left and right....that is if we are even lucky enough for them to allow pets in the first place. one of Davey's best friends Scraggs just moved to Portland with his wife Lindsay and their baby Kyla. In Portland there are no taxes, great deals on apartments and the city is really booming. I told Davey we should move to Portalnd, but he said if he is moving anywhere else besides somewhere in L.A county it's going to be either New York or London.
The worst thing about moving is family and friends. I wish when you moved you could take all of your friends and family with you in a little suitcase. A darling jeweled case lined with purple velvet and I could pull them out whenever I wanted. The idea of making new friends at this point doesn't completely repulse me, I just don't want to miss life with the old ones.
Work has been absolutely killing me the past few weeks. I have absolutely zero time for myself. My two days off are no longer next to one another, so I get to embrace the idea of constantly thinking about work and having no time to sort anything else out. My mom thinks I am going to have a mental breakdown, and I am quite certain the past couple of conversations I have had with her have driven her to that conclusion.
Perusing through craigslist everyday has become my life. Searching for really just about everything under the sun with the exception of the personals section. The 5k at Disneyland is coming up, I would lie if i told you I was ready. The past few weeks I have not gone to the gym once. I am a big tubsy, and the idea of getting into running shorts and my trainers is about as thrilling as getting into a tub of ice water with pneumonia.
amanda called me last night, i was on the phone with her for about an hour and 15 minutes. I can't remember the last time I spoke on the phone like that. Usually I just text or webchat...what is my world coming to??
which leads me to my final thought...sewing machines. Anyone know how to work the hello kitty sewing machine from target? if so much help would be appreciated. I have a lot of sewing to do here folks, and I need to get it all underway...
first of all...i don't want to look for another apartment...i want to look for a house, ok well realistically i want to look for a condo. i want to be landing on my feet not throwing myself under the poverty line. what is the matter with me?!?!?! at some point i need to give up on the shopping thing. this week alone I bought a new dress, sweater and coat from betsey. i swore up and down to davey i would not buy anything more this month. The closet space alone is killing him.
secondly..i love love love my cats, but they are serving to be quite the burden when searching for apartments in long beach...additional deposits left and right....that is if we are even lucky enough for them to allow pets in the first place. one of Davey's best friends Scraggs just moved to Portland with his wife Lindsay and their baby Kyla. In Portland there are no taxes, great deals on apartments and the city is really booming. I told Davey we should move to Portalnd, but he said if he is moving anywhere else besides somewhere in L.A county it's going to be either New York or London.
The worst thing about moving is family and friends. I wish when you moved you could take all of your friends and family with you in a little suitcase. A darling jeweled case lined with purple velvet and I could pull them out whenever I wanted. The idea of making new friends at this point doesn't completely repulse me, I just don't want to miss life with the old ones.
Work has been absolutely killing me the past few weeks. I have absolutely zero time for myself. My two days off are no longer next to one another, so I get to embrace the idea of constantly thinking about work and having no time to sort anything else out. My mom thinks I am going to have a mental breakdown, and I am quite certain the past couple of conversations I have had with her have driven her to that conclusion.
Perusing through craigslist everyday has become my life. Searching for really just about everything under the sun with the exception of the personals section. The 5k at Disneyland is coming up, I would lie if i told you I was ready. The past few weeks I have not gone to the gym once. I am a big tubsy, and the idea of getting into running shorts and my trainers is about as thrilling as getting into a tub of ice water with pneumonia.
amanda called me last night, i was on the phone with her for about an hour and 15 minutes. I can't remember the last time I spoke on the phone like that. Usually I just text or webchat...what is my world coming to??
which leads me to my final thought...sewing machines. Anyone know how to work the hello kitty sewing machine from target? if so much help would be appreciated. I have a lot of sewing to do here folks, and I need to get it all underway...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
i am officially an old bag
so i am currently reading the estelle getty autobiography 'If I knew then what I knew now...So What!' and I find myself identifying with estelle in more ways than one.
first the whole deal about old people waking up the same hour everyday regardless of whether or not they go to bed at 2 in the morning or 8 pm in the evening, somehow they always wake up at around 6 am everyday.
well that is basically me. i will go to bed at various times in the evening all week but I can not sleep in past 9 am. I am always up like clockwork between 8:50-9:10 am. this may not seem very early to anyone, but to me it's the absolute pits. davey will sleep in until 11:30 everyday. there is not a day that goes by when he wakes up before me ever. he always can sleep, and i can't.
first the whole deal about old people waking up the same hour everyday regardless of whether or not they go to bed at 2 in the morning or 8 pm in the evening, somehow they always wake up at around 6 am everyday.
well that is basically me. i will go to bed at various times in the evening all week but I can not sleep in past 9 am. I am always up like clockwork between 8:50-9:10 am. this may not seem very early to anyone, but to me it's the absolute pits. davey will sleep in until 11:30 everyday. there is not a day that goes by when he wakes up before me ever. he always can sleep, and i can't.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
costco and target
i love when i have saturdays off and can run around costco and target like a mad woman and drive everyone nuts with my excitement. truly i am a such a consumer...i do however hate being pegged or targeted by commercials and advertisements. i like to think i make my own decisions. which is why i love places like costco and target. i go in there without really needing anything and leave with loads of treasures. certain advertisement pleas actually completely disturb me to the point of shear repulsion such as the new 'secret, get your hands up' ad campaign...you know the one i am speaking of...the woman runs around the city thinking of any excuse to get her arms up in the air and wave them around like a total spastic....ya you know every woman salutes a door man and claims 'at ease captain' what an absolute creep.
on the flipside however I like, sorry scratch that I LOVE the new kaiser permanente ad with the little chubster blonde boy who speaks about his health like he was a 50 year old southern man who is recovering from a drinking problem...his voiceover being layered over images of him drinking soda pop and eating tons of junk food...that is a gem of an ad. makes me want to break some kind of limb or bone in my body just so i can identify...
one more thing before i get off my soapbox...olympics. why do you waste an hour of my time with the cyclists peddling their way to victory? the road looks the same however angle you choose...nothing is changing folks, i hate to say it...but really the only thing i could comment on was the fact that you couldn't help but feel badly for the men who's balls are so obviously being tortured/cramped by the combination of fast pace, spandex, and banana seat. please! give me my women's gymnastics and leave me be!
on the flipside however I like, sorry scratch that I LOVE the new kaiser permanente ad with the little chubster blonde boy who speaks about his health like he was a 50 year old southern man who is recovering from a drinking problem...his voiceover being layered over images of him drinking soda pop and eating tons of junk food...that is a gem of an ad. makes me want to break some kind of limb or bone in my body just so i can identify...
one more thing before i get off my soapbox...olympics. why do you waste an hour of my time with the cyclists peddling their way to victory? the road looks the same however angle you choose...nothing is changing folks, i hate to say it...but really the only thing i could comment on was the fact that you couldn't help but feel badly for the men who's balls are so obviously being tortured/cramped by the combination of fast pace, spandex, and banana seat. please! give me my women's gymnastics and leave me be!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
i did not defy gravity
i'm back from the contest. i thought i did pretty well, not too much to complain about, i just wish i would have sung the wizard and i instead of defying gravity. it was just not the right song to really showcase my voice. oh well, kate sam, royale, and carly brought posters with my name on it. they were soo cute and so sweet it makes my heart break a little bit. i feel guilty for not making the cut because i feel like i owed it to them. also it was so weird when i went up on stage i got called out on my obsession with pigs. that was very awkward and caught me totally off guard.
now that it is all said and done i am glad that i did it but i do regret my song choice. davey was so supportive of me tonight i felt soo badly and so hurt to see that he was upset. i am so lucky to have him in my life i know that is why i must marry him. no one in this world is more supportive of me.
which takes me to my last point....i got a proof back from our photoshoot yesterday. i wasn't going to share the photo until we sent out our engagement announcements/save the date but i suppose if i upload it in small form it will be a taste of what is to come. so here it is folks...enjoy:
now that it is all said and done i am glad that i did it but i do regret my song choice. davey was so supportive of me tonight i felt soo badly and so hurt to see that he was upset. i am so lucky to have him in my life i know that is why i must marry him. no one in this world is more supportive of me.
which takes me to my last point....i got a proof back from our photoshoot yesterday. i wasn't going to share the photo until we sent out our engagement announcements/save the date but i suppose if i upload it in small form it will be a taste of what is to come. so here it is folks...enjoy:
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
pshh
today was nothing short of CHAOTIC, and i know tomorrow will be just as nuts. can i get a vacation to tahiti?
FIRST OF ALL:
engagement photos were today, i was roastin' in 100 degree weather. i honestly thought i was going to faint as i have been known to drop like flies in hot weather. i am pretty sure i drove sean nuts with all of my moving around and constant laughing. the shoot was fun even though i was overtly conscience of my arms looking chubbs mcgee and the heat causing my face to melt off.
SECONDLY:
the drive was ridiculous. i put 50 bucks in my car today and i only have about 3 gallons left.
THIRDLY:
the british pub we went to had strongbow (woot woot) but it was flat (wahhh wahh wahhhhhh) so i canceled my strongbow substituted stella artois and the stella was even more flat than the strongbow...
FOURTHLY:
As i was parallel parking this crazy woman in a red jaguar starts honking her horn and acting nuts screaming at me. Davey jumped out of the car so fast and told the woman to back up and that we were parking there and she started getting all crazy on him too and throwing her hands in the air and screaming....Davey was so pissed i thought he was going to kick the woman's windshield in. After he scared her a bit she took off thank god and I was able to park my car as planned.
Well tomorrow is the big day. we will see what happens. I will try my best and regardless of what happens, i am sure it will be a lot of fun.
FIRST OF ALL:
engagement photos were today, i was roastin' in 100 degree weather. i honestly thought i was going to faint as i have been known to drop like flies in hot weather. i am pretty sure i drove sean nuts with all of my moving around and constant laughing. the shoot was fun even though i was overtly conscience of my arms looking chubbs mcgee and the heat causing my face to melt off.
SECONDLY:
the drive was ridiculous. i put 50 bucks in my car today and i only have about 3 gallons left.
THIRDLY:
the british pub we went to had strongbow (woot woot) but it was flat (wahhh wahh wahhhhhh) so i canceled my strongbow substituted stella artois and the stella was even more flat than the strongbow...
FOURTHLY:
As i was parallel parking this crazy woman in a red jaguar starts honking her horn and acting nuts screaming at me. Davey jumped out of the car so fast and told the woman to back up and that we were parking there and she started getting all crazy on him too and throwing her hands in the air and screaming....Davey was so pissed i thought he was going to kick the woman's windshield in. After he scared her a bit she took off thank god and I was able to park my car as planned.
Well tomorrow is the big day. we will see what happens. I will try my best and regardless of what happens, i am sure it will be a lot of fun.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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