i swear - i will post some SUPER fun pictures soon. right now, as i type, i have been banished to the computer room as my husband and his cousin assemble what is sure to be a fantastic amount of glass and metal (which probably in NO way matches the rest of the living room furniture but looks "modern") that holds up the new forty-some inch flat screen something TV that he just bought. please, don't get the impression that i'm upset about it. i'm honestly quite excited! and he even called me at work and asked me if he had permission to spend his own money on this TV that we had been discussing (and he had been given permission to buy) months ago! so it's all totally good here. i'm 100% thrilled to watch Harry Potter movies and chick movies on a big huge tv while he's at work next week! :o) alas, if only we had cable! but anyway, when i came home from work, they met me at the door and made me hold the mail over my eyes and walk with my back to the living room and march straight upstairs without peeking so that they can produce the "grand effect" of a finished product once they get it put together.
why is his cousin here? such grand entertainment!! nikki, matt's wife, is away for her job to dallas, so matt took vacation from his job to spend the week here. SU-WEET! we're having a BLAST! he's here till thursday. charles worked yesterday so matt and i hung out and had lovely conversations and then discovered that the "china buffet" in leavenworth KICKS ASS!! and now that charles is off work for today and tomorrow, they have begun their two day adventure by staying awake all night last night playing xbox, sleeping all morning, and then spending THOUSANDS of dollars this afternoon. tonight we're grilling hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill. should be fun times since i dont think any of us really know how to operate the grill. tomorrow we're going to see the die hard movie then hitting dave & busters so that we can all spend lots of money playing video games that those boys could rightly play for free right here. it'll be great!! :o)
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
well might i say, EVERYONE must go see Transformers!! now. go do it now. you - go see it now.
finished? ok, do you not agree that it is the GREATEST SUMMER MOVIE OF ALL TIME! i mean: "WOW!". totally amazing! many, many very enthusiastic thumbs up!
in other news, i got my hair cut. i even took a picture of it myself this morning because i was able to fix it fairly well for the first time since i got it cut on saturday. but since i am upstairs and the camera is downstairs, the downloading of the picture will just wait until a later date. but i think it's cute. i fancy myself at times to look like keira knightly with my new haircut. i have not made this admission to my husband, i prefer to enjoy the fantastic reality only in my own mind. oddly enough, this comparison came to me the morning after i got it cut when i first woke up and looked in the mirror - who knew that smooshed hair full of styling product could turn into "oooh! now that's a keira knightly style! i'm going to try and deliberately fix it that way today!". and anyone who knows me is well aware, i'm sure, of my lack of skillz with the hair products... but i'm proud to say that i am improving and that my head looks less and less like butt every day!
4th of July: the cliffhanger from a previous post about my volunteer excursions in working with my nemesis turned out to be unfounded. the day actually turned out extremely well and this lovely person with whom i do not get along was pleasant enough. (actually, she has done nothing directly TO me, it is only my weakness as a person which leads me to harbor anger towards her. for full disclosure of my shame, just ask.) so anyway, the 4th of july picnic on base was a downright blast! for my part, i helped my coworkers run a booth (once the rain cleared) where we had kiddie games such as water balloon toss, etc. but the most amusing was the watermelon eating contest and seed spitting contest. the contests were divided into age groups, the best of which were the adult catagories. alas - not much is more amusing than to see a grown man - an officer, no less - shove his face into a huge wedge of watermelon and slop it around like a pig. i'm not joking: these guys were picking watermelon out of their ears. it was AWESOME!
well, i think that pretty much brings everything up to speed. i am almost done with the blanket that i am making and will post pictures of it soon. in the mean time, i think it's time for some ice cream!
finished? ok, do you not agree that it is the GREATEST SUMMER MOVIE OF ALL TIME! i mean: "WOW!". totally amazing! many, many very enthusiastic thumbs up!
in other news, i got my hair cut. i even took a picture of it myself this morning because i was able to fix it fairly well for the first time since i got it cut on saturday. but since i am upstairs and the camera is downstairs, the downloading of the picture will just wait until a later date. but i think it's cute. i fancy myself at times to look like keira knightly with my new haircut. i have not made this admission to my husband, i prefer to enjoy the fantastic reality only in my own mind. oddly enough, this comparison came to me the morning after i got it cut when i first woke up and looked in the mirror - who knew that smooshed hair full of styling product could turn into "oooh! now that's a keira knightly style! i'm going to try and deliberately fix it that way today!". and anyone who knows me is well aware, i'm sure, of my lack of skillz with the hair products... but i'm proud to say that i am improving and that my head looks less and less like butt every day!
4th of July: the cliffhanger from a previous post about my volunteer excursions in working with my nemesis turned out to be unfounded. the day actually turned out extremely well and this lovely person with whom i do not get along was pleasant enough. (actually, she has done nothing directly TO me, it is only my weakness as a person which leads me to harbor anger towards her. for full disclosure of my shame, just ask.) so anyway, the 4th of july picnic on base was a downright blast! for my part, i helped my coworkers run a booth (once the rain cleared) where we had kiddie games such as water balloon toss, etc. but the most amusing was the watermelon eating contest and seed spitting contest. the contests were divided into age groups, the best of which were the adult catagories. alas - not much is more amusing than to see a grown man - an officer, no less - shove his face into a huge wedge of watermelon and slop it around like a pig. i'm not joking: these guys were picking watermelon out of their ears. it was AWESOME!
well, i think that pretty much brings everything up to speed. i am almost done with the blanket that i am making and will post pictures of it soon. in the mean time, i think it's time for some ice cream!
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
now i've got it!
finally! ok: this is our house. the experiment worked, and now i must dedicate myself to taking cooler pictures to post on the blogs.
a new discovery
perhaps it worked, i dont know... i think maybe i figured out how to add pictures to a post? yes/no? well, i don't really have much to say since a couple of days ago, i was just messing around and stumbled upon that little tidbit of knowledge.
tomorrow is the 4th of July - i get to sleep in! although, sadly, my body has become accustomed to waking up early, so i can't sleep much past 8 or 9 anymore. it sickens me. but i will sleep in anyway. i am still working a bit though because i volunteered to work for a few hours (time and half!!! and at $10 and hour regular pay, who's going to turn down time and a half?!) at the MWR picnic/4th of July party on base. the housing office will be putting on a watermelon seed spitting contest, so i will be cutting, serving, and judging that i think. sounds good and messy. and although i'm not much of a drinker, i heard there will be some alcohol purchased for us, which might be very much welcome after spending the afternoon working underneath my nemesis.... (yes, the cliffhanger)
tomorrow is the 4th of July - i get to sleep in! although, sadly, my body has become accustomed to waking up early, so i can't sleep much past 8 or 9 anymore. it sickens me. but i will sleep in anyway. i am still working a bit though because i volunteered to work for a few hours (time and half!!! and at $10 and hour regular pay, who's going to turn down time and a half?!) at the MWR picnic/4th of July party on base. the housing office will be putting on a watermelon seed spitting contest, so i will be cutting, serving, and judging that i think. sounds good and messy. and although i'm not much of a drinker, i heard there will be some alcohol purchased for us, which might be very much welcome after spending the afternoon working underneath my nemesis.... (yes, the cliffhanger)
Monday, July 2, 2007
W.O.F. Sunday
let me go off for a minute here: what the hell kind of marketing idiot came up with "w.o.f."?! i can see the focus group - "hey, i bet we could make lots of really tiny and cheap merchandise for these poor suckers to buy and start filling whole new sections in our God-forsaken gift shops if instead of spelling out the tediously long phrase: "Worlds of Fun", we just shortened it to "w.o.f."! and then, as our new slogan takes a GIANT leap towards all things rediculously hip and trendy, we will start putting "w.o.f." on ALL of our merchandise! that way, by the time we finish butchering the name of the theme park, all of the concept artists that spent hours and hours developing coordinating rides/music/decorations/themes throughout the park to imitate different parts of the "world" that offer different kinds "of fun" will be forgotten completely and lost along with the abysmally stupid idea of "w.o.f."! GENIUS!
so anyway, i went to WORLDS OF FUN yesterday. and oh yes, i did indeed have: worlds of fun. my sister-in-law messaged me on a whim friday because she happened to have the weekend off and so she drove up here sunday and we went up there to spend $40 wandering from roller coaster to roller coaster screaming our heads off. it was actually the first time in the 9 years that she has been in my family that we have ridden a coaster together and it was a BLAST. i'd have to say that my favorite was the Mamba. it was not one of the upsidedown ones - but we made the special exception to sit in the front row each time we rode it so that we were the very first ones to experience the feeling of dropping straight down into obvilvion at high rates of speed. if i hadnt been too busy screaming, laughing, and spitting on myself, i probably would have soiled my pants. but luckily i was otherwise occupied.
in other news: mom and dad left for Vegas today. i am very happy for them and am hoping that they win lots of money so that they can help me pay for my plane ticket for an upcoming trip to north carolina in september. (but mostly just hoping they have fun - which i know they will) they're seeing lots of shows and dressing up and spending lots of money. they will be gone until friday. i can't wait to hear from them to know how it's going. :O)
also, charles completed his motorcycle safety course this weekend, which means 2 things: 1 - he will be able to ride the bike on base once he gets it back this week (2002? ducati 750 turbo, yellow - for those who dont know); and 2 - he went back to work today and i wont really see him again until this weekend. he's on "swing shift" for the next 3 months and works all afternoon/evening. so i usually celebrate that by taking a nap in the evenings since i dont have cable. i need to clean the kitchen too, but since that is my least favorite job, i am puting it off. gotta love that procrastination!
so anyway, i went to WORLDS OF FUN yesterday. and oh yes, i did indeed have: worlds of fun. my sister-in-law messaged me on a whim friday because she happened to have the weekend off and so she drove up here sunday and we went up there to spend $40 wandering from roller coaster to roller coaster screaming our heads off. it was actually the first time in the 9 years that she has been in my family that we have ridden a coaster together and it was a BLAST. i'd have to say that my favorite was the Mamba. it was not one of the upsidedown ones - but we made the special exception to sit in the front row each time we rode it so that we were the very first ones to experience the feeling of dropping straight down into obvilvion at high rates of speed. if i hadnt been too busy screaming, laughing, and spitting on myself, i probably would have soiled my pants. but luckily i was otherwise occupied.
in other news: mom and dad left for Vegas today. i am very happy for them and am hoping that they win lots of money so that they can help me pay for my plane ticket for an upcoming trip to north carolina in september. (but mostly just hoping they have fun - which i know they will) they're seeing lots of shows and dressing up and spending lots of money. they will be gone until friday. i can't wait to hear from them to know how it's going. :O)
also, charles completed his motorcycle safety course this weekend, which means 2 things: 1 - he will be able to ride the bike on base once he gets it back this week (2002? ducati 750 turbo, yellow - for those who dont know); and 2 - he went back to work today and i wont really see him again until this weekend. he's on "swing shift" for the next 3 months and works all afternoon/evening. so i usually celebrate that by taking a nap in the evenings since i dont have cable. i need to clean the kitchen too, but since that is my least favorite job, i am puting it off. gotta love that procrastination!
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