1. What is your occupation? director, revenue tracking & analysis
2. What color are your socks right now? grey and dirt
3. What are you listening to right now? TV - House
4. What was the last thing that you ate? cereal
5. Can you drive a stick shift? no, although i have tried many times unsuccessfully
6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? goldenrod
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? eric!
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes!
9. How old are you today? ugh - 32
10. Favorite drink? tall, extra hot, non-fat hot chocolate with whip cream, although those margaritas are damn tasty
11. What is your favorite sport to watch? ironman hawaii - the human insterest stories always make me cry
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? those streaks back in HS with Allie were only the start
14. Pets? 3 cats
15. Favorite food? icecream
16. What was the last movie you watched? SNAKE ON A PLANE Mother F***ER
17. Favorite day of the year? not sure i really have one, its more favorite time of day
18. What do you do to vent anger? cry and get hugs and kisses!
19. What was your favorite toy as a child? the cindarella my mom made me
20. What is your favorite fall or spring? Spring
21. Hugs or kisses? both! its how i vent my anger!
22. Cherries or Blueberry? blueberries - had some on my cereal earlier
23. Do you want your friends to email you back? ALWAYS
24. Who is most likely to respond? not sure since this is a post - i feel like MySpace
25. Who is least likely to respond? all the people who don't read it
26. Living arrangements? hubby, babies and cats in our little house. we are starting to plan to go up a floor!
27. When was the last time you cried? giminey christmas - every day lately!!!
28. What is on the floor of your closet? shoes, bag of clothes to go to consignment and some cat pee
29. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? not sending but allie is my oldest friend!
30. What did you do last night? played a computer game called cake mania!
31. Favorite smells? uuh, oh, i guess there is a smell of some men's body wash stuff from the body shop that i like
32. What inspires you? my kids
33. What are you afraid of? lots of things, but my most irrational fear are tsunami's. when we lived in our apartment by lake union, yes, LAKE union, i made eric figure out an evacutaion plan for the cats incase there was one and the water came from the sound and into the lake and up the 500 or so vertical feet to our apartment. even now, when i even think about planning a beach vacation i start to have an anxiety attack. xterra worlds in maui are going to be tough.
34. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? i don't think i understand the question
35. Have someone you'd like another chance with? another chance of what?
36. Favorite dog breed? not a big fan of dogs
37. Did anyone notice there was no 37 in Vanessa's email??? no
38. How many years at your current job? 5 years, 9 months (one marriage, one house and two babies)
39. Favorite day of the week? saturday
40. How many states have you lived in? 5: Ohio, California, Ohio again, Massachusetts, Georgia, Washington
41. Favorite holiday? mother's day!
42. Ever driven a Motorcycle or heavy machinery? YES!
43. Who's your favorite NFL team? No
44. Do you have a house phone that is NOT cordless? No
45. 10 inches of snow or 100 degree weather? 100 degree weather, as long as its not too humid
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
dodged that bullet
so, i am going to let you in on something that i don't think i have ever told any of my dearest friends, ever.
i almost dated howard stern.
let me explain. i was going through some papers that i found back from when i was modeling as a teenager. (that in itself most of the friends i have made after highschool don't know because its a little embarrassing and i do'nt want people wondering how i could have done that when i have such a giant zit on my chin and look so haggared all the time). i was chosen from suposedly thousands of girls to be in the elete look of the year competition, which is a pretty big deal and was pretty exciting but at the same time back then i really didn't have a good understanding of what it meant. even though i didn't win or wasn't even a finalist, i can kick myself up and down all over the place because of the letter i came accross today. it was from the elete agency in NY saying that even though i didn't advance in the competetion they wanted me to come to their offices to see them and get my modeling on. WHAT? why didn't i do that? what is wrong with me? did i never read that letter? i really do't remember ever seeing it, WTF!!!! i digress. anyway, also amonst the papers was the program from the competition that listed all of the girls names. there was bambi and heather and jodie and a handful of other girls, but then there was beth. i remember her being really pretty and she advanced in the competition but they wanted her to cut her hair and if i recall, she wasn't so into that so i don't know what happened with her. bambi advanced, too but they told her she had to get her giggly arse in shape....
well, let me tell you what happened to beth. like i said i was looking at the program, and i remembered her, but her name, it sounded so familiar but i just coulodn't figure it out so i googled her. so i found someone with the same name on IMDB and the photos looked similar to what i remember her looking like, she was about the right age, the right height and from pittsburgh pa. i dug out the tape from the competetion because we had to say our names, ages and where we were from. and hot damn it was her. same person. beth ostrosky. i told eric and the first thing out of his mouth was "wow, just imagine, if you had kept modeling you could have been dating Howard Stern, too" when i old my mom she said she was glad that i wsan't dating howard stern because she didn't think she would like him as a son in law.
i almost dated howard stern.
let me explain. i was going through some papers that i found back from when i was modeling as a teenager. (that in itself most of the friends i have made after highschool don't know because its a little embarrassing and i do'nt want people wondering how i could have done that when i have such a giant zit on my chin and look so haggared all the time). i was chosen from suposedly thousands of girls to be in the elete look of the year competition, which is a pretty big deal and was pretty exciting but at the same time back then i really didn't have a good understanding of what it meant. even though i didn't win or wasn't even a finalist, i can kick myself up and down all over the place because of the letter i came accross today. it was from the elete agency in NY saying that even though i didn't advance in the competetion they wanted me to come to their offices to see them and get my modeling on. WHAT? why didn't i do that? what is wrong with me? did i never read that letter? i really do't remember ever seeing it, WTF!!!! i digress. anyway, also amonst the papers was the program from the competition that listed all of the girls names. there was bambi and heather and jodie and a handful of other girls, but then there was beth. i remember her being really pretty and she advanced in the competition but they wanted her to cut her hair and if i recall, she wasn't so into that so i don't know what happened with her. bambi advanced, too but they told her she had to get her giggly arse in shape....
well, let me tell you what happened to beth. like i said i was looking at the program, and i remembered her, but her name, it sounded so familiar but i just coulodn't figure it out so i googled her. so i found someone with the same name on IMDB and the photos looked similar to what i remember her looking like, she was about the right age, the right height and from pittsburgh pa. i dug out the tape from the competetion because we had to say our names, ages and where we were from. and hot damn it was her. same person. beth ostrosky. i told eric and the first thing out of his mouth was "wow, just imagine, if you had kept modeling you could have been dating Howard Stern, too" when i old my mom she said she was glad that i wsan't dating howard stern because she didn't think she would like him as a son in law.
Friday, January 26, 2007
i am so drunk
right now, ona friday night at 8:21. ok, not SOOOOO drunk but the thought of doing some data analysis right now cracks me up and makes me want to see what i would come up with. AND we are watching snakes on a plane.
today was a better then the previous days of the week. i still have no desire to run, i still have no desire to do anything but cry, and i still have a giant zit on my chin. it is so giant that when i went to get the tequila at the likker sto' the cashier guy stood there looking at me and couldn't decide whether to card me. i figure his thot process was as follows" this person looks over 30. yep, totally over 30 - she has on those cloggs, she has on that terrible company logo fleece jacket, she looks over 30, buuuuuut, that zit! she has that zit. might be under 21. gotta check." that is totally how it went.
now, eric is making me another drink, i am going to snack on some tostitos and i would do some crazy analysis but we are too damn cheap to pay for the office program and our free trail ran out so i am going to play some online family feud or something. i love it.
we just spent 5 minutes trying to determine where all the salt in my margarita is and eric ends that with "who puts a bunch of deadly snakes on a plane, anyways."
BIG NEWS, i can't beleive i almost forgot! so, seamus goes to gymnastics and totally loves it. at rhe end of the first session she completed in her evaluation her coach said she cold do everything very well and would be able to move up to the next level when she was 3. i of course knew this already because seamus is awesome. anyway this most recent session started and seamus has been having all kinds of fun. eric told me that in her class yesterday she was walking on the balance beam backwards, all by herself! at the end of class the coach stopped eric to talk about seamus's progress. apparently she is doing sooooo well, that when she turns 3 they want her to by pass the next level and go into their junior olympic development program. so of coures her whole life flashes in front of my eyes and sheis on her way to the olympics, the first 5'11" olympic gymmnast who is also an olympic swimmer, mtn biker, runner, super model cheerleader with phds from harvard, MIT, BU and UW, but, eric told the coach that yes, she can try it but if the group size and the program is too much then she will go back into one of the other groups. because we really do want her to keep having fun! i am really proud of her though. she is so sweet, so smart and absolutly amazing!
OH MY GAWD. can they really be serious with this movie??? what the hell. O)H MY GAWD again!!!! no wonder this movie totally sucked at the box office. snakes do not hang out in airplane toilets. it is only getting worse and worse. ok, so now it is less hokey, most people are bitten or dead and they are in survivial mode.
oh pawpi, what are we going to do!
today was a better then the previous days of the week. i still have no desire to run, i still have no desire to do anything but cry, and i still have a giant zit on my chin. it is so giant that when i went to get the tequila at the likker sto' the cashier guy stood there looking at me and couldn't decide whether to card me. i figure his thot process was as follows" this person looks over 30. yep, totally over 30 - she has on those cloggs, she has on that terrible company logo fleece jacket, she looks over 30, buuuuuut, that zit! she has that zit. might be under 21. gotta check." that is totally how it went.
now, eric is making me another drink, i am going to snack on some tostitos and i would do some crazy analysis but we are too damn cheap to pay for the office program and our free trail ran out so i am going to play some online family feud or something. i love it.
we just spent 5 minutes trying to determine where all the salt in my margarita is and eric ends that with "who puts a bunch of deadly snakes on a plane, anyways."
BIG NEWS, i can't beleive i almost forgot! so, seamus goes to gymnastics and totally loves it. at rhe end of the first session she completed in her evaluation her coach said she cold do everything very well and would be able to move up to the next level when she was 3. i of course knew this already because seamus is awesome. anyway this most recent session started and seamus has been having all kinds of fun. eric told me that in her class yesterday she was walking on the balance beam backwards, all by herself! at the end of class the coach stopped eric to talk about seamus's progress. apparently she is doing sooooo well, that when she turns 3 they want her to by pass the next level and go into their junior olympic development program. so of coures her whole life flashes in front of my eyes and sheis on her way to the olympics, the first 5'11" olympic gymmnast who is also an olympic swimmer, mtn biker, runner, super model cheerleader with phds from harvard, MIT, BU and UW, but, eric told the coach that yes, she can try it but if the group size and the program is too much then she will go back into one of the other groups. because we really do want her to keep having fun! i am really proud of her though. she is so sweet, so smart and absolutly amazing!
OH MY GAWD. can they really be serious with this movie??? what the hell. O)H MY GAWD again!!!! no wonder this movie totally sucked at the box office. snakes do not hang out in airplane toilets. it is only getting worse and worse. ok, so now it is less hokey, most people are bitten or dead and they are in survivial mode.
oh pawpi, what are we going to do!
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
too small
so today is the day that i decided to only wear things that don't fit. i have one some jeans that are way too tight. i asked eric if they were ok and he just kind of looked at me and was like, well, if you are going to wear that jacket all day then yeah that should be ok. i paired them up with some shoes that TOTALLY don't fit. but they are from england and they have monkeys on them and how can my big old american feet with the messed up toes expect to fit nicely into english moneky shoes? but eric did say that the shoes at least off set some of the terribly too smallness of the jeans.
so my digestive system is totally screwed. that is one of the things i learned from the doctors. i kind of knew it but they confirmed it and they gave me some stuff to drink every day to make it better. it works and makes me feel better but ya know how when you feel terrible about everything else in your life you just stop doing the things that make you feel better, ya know, like taking the medicine that makes you better? anyway, this morning i was drinking it and seamus asked if it was juice. i said no, its medicine. it tastes like tang. did i ever mention the time i sent the email to th entire company with the subject line of "do you like tang?" i got in trouble for that one. i legitamitely had some orange flavored drink mix - tang to give away but they knew i had other intentions so i got in trouble. but it was only in response to when someone sent out an email about the moisture festival. COME ON. and just the other day someone sent out one about The Big Dump 2007 in regards to the snow. i wonder if they got in trouble. anyway. i took it today so maybe i will feel better. maybe i will get on the treadmill after work and go for a little jog- my leg is feeling better afterall, and maybe, just maybe i won't eat a gallon of icecream and 4 dozen cookies today either.
so my digestive system is totally screwed. that is one of the things i learned from the doctors. i kind of knew it but they confirmed it and they gave me some stuff to drink every day to make it better. it works and makes me feel better but ya know how when you feel terrible about everything else in your life you just stop doing the things that make you feel better, ya know, like taking the medicine that makes you better? anyway, this morning i was drinking it and seamus asked if it was juice. i said no, its medicine. it tastes like tang. did i ever mention the time i sent the email to th entire company with the subject line of "do you like tang?" i got in trouble for that one. i legitamitely had some orange flavored drink mix - tang to give away but they knew i had other intentions so i got in trouble. but it was only in response to when someone sent out an email about the moisture festival. COME ON. and just the other day someone sent out one about The Big Dump 2007 in regards to the snow. i wonder if they got in trouble. anyway. i took it today so maybe i will feel better. maybe i will get on the treadmill after work and go for a little jog- my leg is feeling better afterall, and maybe, just maybe i won't eat a gallon of icecream and 4 dozen cookies today either.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
#2
eric and the kids came to visit me at work today. i needed the pick me up because i am depressed as all hell.
in the middle of the night last night eric shoved me off the bed, hit me and pulled my hair and pushed and pulled me all over the place. aparently he had a dream that seamus was about to fall off a cliff and he was reaching out to grab her. but he took it all out on me. he says he went back to sleep and he had the dream again. i on the otherhand had kept waking up bawling. i can't remember my dreams, i just know i was crying in them and just kept waking up crying. not a good night in our house.
so after the kids visited me apparently one of them, i won't say which because i don't want to embarrass anyone, pooed in the parking lot. that makes me laugh.
so i have been a mess at work. today i told my boss i was drinking vodka tonics at work. ok, so to give me a little credit, this was only after he asked me if i was smoking and i said no because i was in the office and that is not allowed. ok, so really i wasn't doing any of that. i was crying. AGAIN. that was a big sniffle.
so i had to go home and buy some jeans that are so damn tight they are pretty obscene. i have not gone running in forever and i had two servings of ice cream this evening. that is not much better then the 3 giant cookies with ice cream i had yesterday. ok, so if i eat the candy at work, it doesn't really count right? i told doug that the next time i see him i will be 400 pounds. his response to that was - hey, i saw you when you were pregnant and you weren't even close to that. he doubts i will hit 4-hundy.
i was at werk and totally bummed out and depressed and just a mess. i was telling one of my co-workers that i was hoping something good would happen soon because i could really go for some good news. tell me your good news people!! leave me some comments cuz i love comments and they make my day.
in the middle of the night last night eric shoved me off the bed, hit me and pulled my hair and pushed and pulled me all over the place. aparently he had a dream that seamus was about to fall off a cliff and he was reaching out to grab her. but he took it all out on me. he says he went back to sleep and he had the dream again. i on the otherhand had kept waking up bawling. i can't remember my dreams, i just know i was crying in them and just kept waking up crying. not a good night in our house.
so after the kids visited me apparently one of them, i won't say which because i don't want to embarrass anyone, pooed in the parking lot. that makes me laugh.
so i have been a mess at work. today i told my boss i was drinking vodka tonics at work. ok, so to give me a little credit, this was only after he asked me if i was smoking and i said no because i was in the office and that is not allowed. ok, so really i wasn't doing any of that. i was crying. AGAIN. that was a big sniffle.
so i had to go home and buy some jeans that are so damn tight they are pretty obscene. i have not gone running in forever and i had two servings of ice cream this evening. that is not much better then the 3 giant cookies with ice cream i had yesterday. ok, so if i eat the candy at work, it doesn't really count right? i told doug that the next time i see him i will be 400 pounds. his response to that was - hey, i saw you when you were pregnant and you weren't even close to that. he doubts i will hit 4-hundy.
i was at werk and totally bummed out and depressed and just a mess. i was telling one of my co-workers that i was hoping something good would happen soon because i could really go for some good news. tell me your good news people!! leave me some comments cuz i love comments and they make my day.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
not a teenager anymo
so, i was in la as you know. i wore the fancy new shoes as i mentioned. once again i have been injured by my shoes.. ok, so when i was looking for the photo i read the description and found that they are 4" heels. while i am irritated that i am as injured as i am, at least i was injured by the 4-ers and not 1- or 2-ers. i push myself to the limits!! anyway, i can't walk. my left calf is totally screwed. on the right side. if i barely even touch it it totally kills. what a mess. i will be icing and taking it easy and not running for a bit. what a mess.
we did go for a family walk today tho. sirus got a haircut. seamus is going to be 3 in a few weeks and the pressure is on to try to figure out what kind of cake to make her.
eric ordered us a new couch for our family room. we didn't mean to find one we liked. we are content, although a little embarrassed, to keep the one we have now. ya know, the one covered in the blueberry waffle puke, the one where the cushions are upside down with the contrasting fabric facing upwards because the other side has holes. yeah, that one. but we happened up one we liked and it was a good price, now we just have to wait 7-10 weeks. that is longer then it takes to get a passport.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
how come
when i go to the new stand at the airport there are 8 magazines about guns, most with HAND GUNs as either the title or major subject line? and one with knife, all with big fatty photos of guns and knives? seems strange to me.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
if johnny were still alive
i am pretty sure i remember that way back a long time ago, johnny carson said something to the effect that he wouldn't ever get married again unless it snowed in the valley. well, i think that not too long after he said that it snowed in the valley and i am pretty sure he got married again. i may be making all of that up but for some reason it sounds familiar to me. i bring it up because, gosh darnit, i left the snow in seattle to come to LA and it snowed here today. not just in the valley but in malibu, too. i was looking for some sun and i got more snow.
and i packed a skirt to wear tomorrow with my fancy new shoes. do you realize i haven't worn a skirt to work since i was pregnant with sirus? remember that skirt i wore back then, the same one EVERY DAY. anyway, so now i will wear a skirt nad will freeze my arse off.
so i checked into the hotel today and went to get some dinner. while i was waiting for my to-go order i went to the bar and got a beer. a fat tire. they brought me a 22 ounce bottle. as a result of that, and the fact that they wouldn't let me take it with me, i ate my to go order in the bar. after that big bear i was energized so i went over to the gym, but only after watching some very funny seattle american idol auditions. they said they will never come to seattle again but i may have mentioned at some point that if i were to ever audition for american idol, that is if i was somehow not old anymore, i would sing cecilia by simon and garfunkel. that would be my song.
so tomorrow is eric and my 5 year anniversary! whoa! its gone by quick! but alas i will be in LA in the snow in my fancy new shoes and skirt freezing my arse off.
i found out that i am not a man, so that is good. i also found out that i have high cholesterol, but really its good because the bad cholesterol is really low and the good cholesterol is really high, so all in all it is good. yeah, i found all that out after i found out i shrank. i have still not recovered from that yet.
so i was ok with "benifer" when ben asslick and jlo were dating. i thot that was ok. what i do not like is brangelina, vaughniston, tomkat and i really do not like tomkitten. dumb. don't they know that is over used. when you have the news caster dude on the 11 o'clock news referring to brangelina, its just really really bad and dumb. please refer to me and eric as caric, or maybe errie, or maybe catwood and eatwood.
here are some babies in the snow photos, I like that seamus has on her sungalsses and that sirus was sweeping the snow. poor sirus has no mittens!!
Saturday, January 13, 2007
yum - homemade blueberry waffles
not so yum - those same blueberry waffles being spewed out of an almost 3 year old all over the white carpeting.
who knew that her stomach could hold so much and who knew that the smell would be here to stay. the carpet is only a year old and still looks great, but today i suggested that maybe we swap it out for another type of puke resistant floor covering.
poor little girl though. sirus and i were making the bed in the other room and i heard this terrible noise. i headed out into the family room to see her runnning towards me, stop and spew some more. i took her in the bathroom and it just kept coming out. when it finally stopped she turned to me and cried "get it off of me!!!" it was scary and freaky and stinky. i cleaned her up and sat her down. i asked her if she put anything in her mouth and she said yes. i about died. i asked her what she put in there and she said waffles. i sighed and asked if she put anything else in there and she said no. 2 minutes later and she was bouncing on the bed as though nothing ever happened. i on the other hand spent the next 4 hours cleaning up puke and trying to get it out of the carpet. i got all of the blue color out but even now, 14 hours later - the smell! oh the terrible smell. eric even rented the carpet cleaner!! we are going to run it again tonight but ugh. i still have no idea why she puked and that concerns me.
so, would you like to come for a visit?
who knew that her stomach could hold so much and who knew that the smell would be here to stay. the carpet is only a year old and still looks great, but today i suggested that maybe we swap it out for another type of puke resistant floor covering.
poor little girl though. sirus and i were making the bed in the other room and i heard this terrible noise. i headed out into the family room to see her runnning towards me, stop and spew some more. i took her in the bathroom and it just kept coming out. when it finally stopped she turned to me and cried "get it off of me!!!" it was scary and freaky and stinky. i cleaned her up and sat her down. i asked her if she put anything in her mouth and she said yes. i about died. i asked her what she put in there and she said waffles. i sighed and asked if she put anything else in there and she said no. 2 minutes later and she was bouncing on the bed as though nothing ever happened. i on the other hand spent the next 4 hours cleaning up puke and trying to get it out of the carpet. i got all of the blue color out but even now, 14 hours later - the smell! oh the terrible smell. eric even rented the carpet cleaner!! we are going to run it again tonight but ugh. i still have no idea why she puked and that concerns me.
so, would you like to come for a visit?
Friday, January 12, 2007
i take offense
just because some people think i am freakishly tall, and really i am not so tall anymore afterall, does NOT, i repeat, does NOT mean if you were to get me an article of clothing as a gift that you need to get me XXL. on that same vein, when referring to my height, say i am tall, not big. they are not the same.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
$15000 REDUCTION.
Tons of possibilities! Quiet, private road leads to secluded man home with MIL apt below. Man home has 2 bed, full bath and 3/4 bath, fireplace. MIL has 2 bed 1 bath, woodstove, and wet bar.
what the hell, its a man home.
what the hell, its a man home.
Monday, January 08, 2007
ok, that was dramatic
i accidentally hit enter instead of tab and it posted!
ok, so i went to the doctor this morning and something that i had feared for a long time but wasn't ever sure of was confirmed. it turns out that i am only 5'9.25" and not the 5'10" that i have thought for so many years.
the nurse who checked my height said that i may have been 5'10" but now am shrinking but that is normal. that is depressing to me but i am not totally convinced that i was ever really 5'10". i just assumed i was because someone in highschool who said they were 5'8" said i was at least 2" taller then them.
they are checking my testosterone levels at the doctors to see if maybe that is the root of all of my issues. what is that supposed to mean!!
when i told eric he said that our whole relationship has been built on lies. and then i had to remind him that when we first started dating that he claimed to wear size 13 shoes... no pair of shoes that he has bought since we got together has been above a 12.
ok, so i went to the doctor this morning and something that i had feared for a long time but wasn't ever sure of was confirmed. it turns out that i am only 5'9.25" and not the 5'10" that i have thought for so many years.
the nurse who checked my height said that i may have been 5'10" but now am shrinking but that is normal. that is depressing to me but i am not totally convinced that i was ever really 5'10". i just assumed i was because someone in highschool who said they were 5'8" said i was at least 2" taller then them.
they are checking my testosterone levels at the doctors to see if maybe that is the root of all of my issues. what is that supposed to mean!!
when i told eric he said that our whole relationship has been built on lies. and then i had to remind him that when we first started dating that he claimed to wear size 13 shoes... no pair of shoes that he has bought since we got together has been above a 12.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
never never never
so i went and took a swimming lesson today. i haven't swam since september and i am totally pout of swimming shape. i have some work to do if i am going to be able to swim a mile in july.
i registered eric for the xterra world championships in october. we will be going to hawaii!! i am trying to plan it and thot i had it all figured out, including that the airplne tickets will be free because of frequent flyer miles, but then i realized we would be gone over halloween. i just don't think i can do that. the kids will only be little once and each year that passes they will be that much closer to not wanting to get dressed up and all of that. there are just so few years and even though i am sure whoever wound up watching them while we would be away would get them in their costumes and they would probably not even realize we weren't there, i just don't think i can miss it. i told eric and mentioned that we might wind up going sooner and leaving sooner after the race, his response was that he didn't think he wanted tojust hang out before the race for too long. we will not go to hawaii for the weekend. maybe i will go by myself and then he can some whenever. i am excited none the less.
AND i am working on finalizing all the toronto plans! how fun! its going to be crazy!!
swo, another reason why i won't ever get promoted... i was on the phone with my boss and i told him i wasn't feeling very well. he told me that i need to take better care of myself but i told him that i think it was beause i had been on vacation and then re-entered the big pool of germs that is the work place. that is a totally acceptable answer until i added, that maybe i should just stop licking the doorknobs. even that would have been ok if when he asked why i would do that i would have just told him it was an OCD thing or something (more on that some other time) but no, i had to tell them they were magically delicious. whatever. someone asked me what my new years resolutions were and i mentioned some goals and stuff, but really i think i should just shut up. and get a raise.
i took the kids shopping yesterday and it was SO MUCH FUN. yes, it took 45 minutes for us to just get out the door and into the car, but once we were off, it was great. seamus added a new element of fun to the whole trying stuff on -everytime we were all in the dressing room, right when i would say, have my shirt off, or maybe my pants or maybe both, she would open the door or the curtain and put me on display. between her and sirus and the totally awesome shoes and the 1/2 priced fruit cake from harry & david, it was a totally fun adventrue for us. now, if only i would have gotten that handbag....
i registered eric for the xterra world championships in october. we will be going to hawaii!! i am trying to plan it and thot i had it all figured out, including that the airplne tickets will be free because of frequent flyer miles, but then i realized we would be gone over halloween. i just don't think i can do that. the kids will only be little once and each year that passes they will be that much closer to not wanting to get dressed up and all of that. there are just so few years and even though i am sure whoever wound up watching them while we would be away would get them in their costumes and they would probably not even realize we weren't there, i just don't think i can miss it. i told eric and mentioned that we might wind up going sooner and leaving sooner after the race, his response was that he didn't think he wanted tojust hang out before the race for too long. we will not go to hawaii for the weekend. maybe i will go by myself and then he can some whenever. i am excited none the less.
AND i am working on finalizing all the toronto plans! how fun! its going to be crazy!!
swo, another reason why i won't ever get promoted... i was on the phone with my boss and i told him i wasn't feeling very well. he told me that i need to take better care of myself but i told him that i think it was beause i had been on vacation and then re-entered the big pool of germs that is the work place. that is a totally acceptable answer until i added, that maybe i should just stop licking the doorknobs. even that would have been ok if when he asked why i would do that i would have just told him it was an OCD thing or something (more on that some other time) but no, i had to tell them they were magically delicious. whatever. someone asked me what my new years resolutions were and i mentioned some goals and stuff, but really i think i should just shut up. and get a raise.
i took the kids shopping yesterday and it was SO MUCH FUN. yes, it took 45 minutes for us to just get out the door and into the car, but once we were off, it was great. seamus added a new element of fun to the whole trying stuff on -everytime we were all in the dressing room, right when i would say, have my shirt off, or maybe my pants or maybe both, she would open the door or the curtain and put me on display. between her and sirus and the totally awesome shoes and the 1/2 priced fruit cake from harry & david, it was a totally fun adventrue for us. now, if only i would have gotten that handbag....
Saturday, December 23, 2006
dancing with lisa rinna's lips
so i took my mom to see the dancing with the stars tour when they stopped in at key arena dec 22. i went not really knowing what to expect, but since my mom is ballroom dancer extraordinare and she watched the show on tv i thot it would be fun to go see. the dancing was really pretty amazing. they put on a great show. while they had to focus some on the celebrities, they did a really good job of putting a lot of emphasis on the pro dancers, which was good because they were really good. the only really lame part about the show was lisa rinna and harry hamlin. laaaaame. i had fried chicken for dinner that night and it was damn tasty.
speaking of quotes, i used the best quote ever in a presentation that i gave to my boss. how bout that. he thinks i am crazy. i will never get a promotion. now come on, that quote and then that time at dinner where i drank the wine right from the bottle. dude. i am so screwed. but i am going back to LA 2nd week in january.
i have been off from work for the past 10 days and that is awesome. yes it is new years even and i am updating the blogger. there are two babies upstairs sleeping right now. i can't wait to welcome them to 2007 when we check on them tonight, that is if we manage to stay up past 12.
one of the best parts about taking a total of 11 days off for this vacation is that i am really only using one vacation day which totally rocks. they gave us the 22nd off, and then the 25th and as a bonus the 26th, and then the 29th and then tomorrow. and then for the two days where there were ppl in the office i am using a personal day, so only one vacation day.
good thing because i am going to blow a bunch of vacation in february! we are going to go to canada. and not just like vancouver 3 hrs away, no, like toronto, 6 hours of airplane time with a layover and passports and all of that. yeah, and it only cost $600 for all of us to get or renew passports. what a scam!!! but we will have them and they are funny. we will go to toronto, niagra falls, cleveland and columbus. we will fly and drive all over the place. we will drive right along lake erie in FEBRUARY. we are doing this instead of going to my cousin's wedding in anguilla. yes, we want to drive through the snow belt instead of sit on the beach.
xmas was fun. sirus was hilarious. when we got our xmas tree we brought it in the house and put the lights on while the kids were napping. when srus got up i had never seen him so exicted. i thot he was going to fall over. we went to eric's parent's in yakima for xmas and the kids got to play in the snow which was very fun. we took seamus to see happy feet which was the first movie she has seen since she has been mobile. we took her to see shrek 2, irobot and spiderman 2 when she was ittly bitty. she was totally amazed but the popcorn and the previews but 5 minutes into the actual movie she turned to me and said "ok, i want to go now". she wasn't scared, just done. she managed to make it though the whole thing with only 4 trips to the bathroom, one yelling at an particularly quiet time and sitting in instead of on the booster seat for about 1/2 the movie. not sure when we will go again.
here are some photos:
speaking of quotes, i used the best quote ever in a presentation that i gave to my boss. how bout that. he thinks i am crazy. i will never get a promotion. now come on, that quote and then that time at dinner where i drank the wine right from the bottle. dude. i am so screwed. but i am going back to LA 2nd week in january.
i have been off from work for the past 10 days and that is awesome. yes it is new years even and i am updating the blogger. there are two babies upstairs sleeping right now. i can't wait to welcome them to 2007 when we check on them tonight, that is if we manage to stay up past 12.
one of the best parts about taking a total of 11 days off for this vacation is that i am really only using one vacation day which totally rocks. they gave us the 22nd off, and then the 25th and as a bonus the 26th, and then the 29th and then tomorrow. and then for the two days where there were ppl in the office i am using a personal day, so only one vacation day.
good thing because i am going to blow a bunch of vacation in february! we are going to go to canada. and not just like vancouver 3 hrs away, no, like toronto, 6 hours of airplane time with a layover and passports and all of that. yeah, and it only cost $600 for all of us to get or renew passports. what a scam!!! but we will have them and they are funny. we will go to toronto, niagra falls, cleveland and columbus. we will fly and drive all over the place. we will drive right along lake erie in FEBRUARY. we are doing this instead of going to my cousin's wedding in anguilla. yes, we want to drive through the snow belt instead of sit on the beach.
xmas was fun. sirus was hilarious. when we got our xmas tree we brought it in the house and put the lights on while the kids were napping. when srus got up i had never seen him so exicted. i thot he was going to fall over. we went to eric's parent's in yakima for xmas and the kids got to play in the snow which was very fun. we took seamus to see happy feet which was the first movie she has seen since she has been mobile. we took her to see shrek 2, irobot and spiderman 2 when she was ittly bitty. she was totally amazed but the popcorn and the previews but 5 minutes into the actual movie she turned to me and said "ok, i want to go now". she wasn't scared, just done. she managed to make it though the whole thing with only 4 trips to the bathroom, one yelling at an particularly quiet time and sitting in instead of on the booster seat for about 1/2 the movie. not sure when we will go again.
here are some photos:
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
best quote ever
"it is possible to die from eating, but being professional means not dying." Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi, world record holder for eating hotdogs, among other world records
now that is wisdom. maybe something was lost in translation? regardless its pretty great. i need to see how i can work that one into a presentation or something.
now that is wisdom. maybe something was lost in translation? regardless its pretty great. i need to see how i can work that one into a presentation or something.
what have i done!
so, off in the mail today went $360 towards to entry fees for the Lake Stevens 70.3 Ironman in July 2007. Oh my goodness. that is 1.2 miles in the warter, 53 miles on the bike and 13.1 miles on the feet. i have a goal of less then 8 hours otherwise i will lose the $500 i am putting in the work betting pool revolving around athletic acheivments. the real one is that you are supposed to do a marathon in less then 6 but we worked the 70.3 in there.
big excitement for the weekend. holiday party on saturday and then gingerbread cookie decorating on sunday. we also have a gingerbread house to decorate which will be fun, too. maybe we will do that next weekend.
what else is going on i wonder?
big excitement for the weekend. holiday party on saturday and then gingerbread cookie decorating on sunday. we also have a gingerbread house to decorate which will be fun, too. maybe we will do that next weekend.
what else is going on i wonder?
Thursday, December 07, 2006
welcome aboard
the other night i had a dream that i was at a friend's parent's holiday party. my friend wsa not there but kelsey grammar was.
the lame version of return of the jedi is on rifght now. why would they do that? why's he have to go and ruin it.
so the other weekend when i went to that wedding where i got toally hammered, while i was laying in bed the next day totally hung over and not able to move except to maybe transfer over to the bathroom floor, seamus came into the bedroom and said "oh, mommy, i'm so proud of you!" that is so funny.
miss guided but funny.
i can't remember the weekend. i can't remember earlier this week. i do know that the kids have been sick and i haven't gotten much sleep and i haven't been exercising but i have been eating lots and lots, like about 3/4 of the 1 lb hershey's bar that eric brought home the other day. it was damn tasty.
big plans for the weekend? i think we are going to go to the tree farm and get an xmas tree. seamus was sooooooo excited when she woke up from her nap and i had put up the stockings and eric had put up the lights outside. i think seamus and i will build a ginger bread house this weekend, too.
dude, we have been watching high def tv lately. and all i can say is that those people on tv, yeah, everyone needs to get high def tv because it will make everyone feel so much better about themselves. the people on tv have jsut as bad skin as i do so that is encouraging.
oooh! james dean cut my hair the other evening. when i left i wasn't totally in love with it as i was last time. but i do have to say that i liked it quite a bit this morning but it is sort of like a fro.
eric is al bummed because while channel surfing he missed princess leia in her metal bikini in high def. a direct eric quote "in real life you wouldn't be able to strangle jabba the hut that way, you would have to be really strong"
the lame version of return of the jedi is on rifght now. why would they do that? why's he have to go and ruin it.
so the other weekend when i went to that wedding where i got toally hammered, while i was laying in bed the next day totally hung over and not able to move except to maybe transfer over to the bathroom floor, seamus came into the bedroom and said "oh, mommy, i'm so proud of you!" that is so funny.
miss guided but funny.i can't remember the weekend. i can't remember earlier this week. i do know that the kids have been sick and i haven't gotten much sleep and i haven't been exercising but i have been eating lots and lots, like about 3/4 of the 1 lb hershey's bar that eric brought home the other day. it was damn tasty.
big plans for the weekend? i think we are going to go to the tree farm and get an xmas tree. seamus was sooooooo excited when she woke up from her nap and i had put up the stockings and eric had put up the lights outside. i think seamus and i will build a ginger bread house this weekend, too.
dude, we have been watching high def tv lately. and all i can say is that those people on tv, yeah, everyone needs to get high def tv because it will make everyone feel so much better about themselves. the people on tv have jsut as bad skin as i do so that is encouraging.
oooh! james dean cut my hair the other evening. when i left i wasn't totally in love with it as i was last time. but i do have to say that i liked it quite a bit this morning but it is sort of like a fro.
eric is al bummed because while channel surfing he missed princess leia in her metal bikini in high def. a direct eric quote "in real life you wouldn't be able to strangle jabba the hut that way, you would have to be really strong"
Sunday, December 03, 2006
big hugs
this is what the kids wear in the snow in seattle cuz they don't have snowpants but they do have rain boots. the neighbor girl came over to play in the snow, too and she was in the same basic thing.
this is my giant hair from the fashion show this weekend. when seamus saw the photos she went: "OOOH! Mommy! You look cuuuute!"
Oh! and that's our giant lcd tv back there, too.
And here is the back:
sirus learned to vacuum, and he is so good at it he can do it one handed! you can't see him though because he has on camoflauge. sirus also likes to push the doll stroller all around. eric sometimes wonders if he is being the proper role model for our boy. i think he is doing a great job!
seamus and sirus have both ben pretty sick, seamus with a fever al the way to 104.7! they seem to be getting better, but even when they are sick they still give each other big hugs.
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