Life in Color Photo

Last night I was watching an episode of Smallville in real time (gasp!) and there was this Mentos commercial on there that killed me. It was so weird and funny, basically the kind of thing that gets me on a roll. It starts out with little birds in a nest and the momma bird feeds the little bird a Mentos and then they start chirping this song. Well then all these other birds chime in and you hear a parrot say “there’s no limit,” I don’t think this commercial has anything to do with Mentos but whatever. I rewound it and watched it until Bj threatened to take the TiVo remote away from me (nooooo!). So I can’t find a down loadable version of the commercial, however I did find out the song is “No Limit” by 2 Unlimited. And you can bet I am going to get that today! If I figure out how to get the commercial off of my TiVo and on here I’ll post it (but it’s not looking good since TiVo to Go isn’t available for OS X yet).

And in other TV related news my brother’s super smart friend is going to be on Judge Judy for beating up a car with his bear hands! You heard me right people. The car he beat up was, unfortunately for him, a football player’s so that guy beat his face. This has to be up there with my cousin’s then boyfriend who got mentioned on David Letterman for getting an antenna crammed up his nose while working on his car. Ya, I don’t really have much else to say.

I have ink all over my hands today from drawing more sketches for the Ribbon Jar. I did a bunch and then we got them all in the computer and now I don’t like how they look at all. AHHHHH! But that is how art and design works if it was easy no one would ever center type, am I right people? That is pretty much all I did today besides scare the crap out of Bj. I am always looking for opportunities to do this and today when he went to check the mail I could not resist. I hid behind this little counter thing that sticks out of the kitchen and kind of makes a walkway. As soon as I heard him step through the door I popped up and screamed. He screamed and said, “If I was a girl I would so punch you in the stomach right now.” This scaring people thing never gets old for me. I used to wait outside the bathroom for my brother almost every time he went in! Ha ha I’m cracking up now thinking of that. Well off to watch the Amazing Race even though Lynn and Alex were kicked off last week -boo hoo!

SUCKS!
Today I drove to Salem for a dentist appointment, got up early, got all cute and was ten minuets early! Yeah! I was like, “hey, I’m here for my appointment, blah, blah, blah.” And the lady is all, “your appointment was at 8:40 and you missed it.” I knew I did not make an appointment that early since I have to drive an hour to get there, so I get out my planner and the card they sent me:

I said, “Well here is the card you sent me and someone called me last week to check with me that I was still coming and I wrote it in my planner right here.” She looks at it, then me. “Oh I’m so sorry about that.” silence. “Well can I see the dentist now?” “Let me go check.” (see goes and checks) “no, sorry.” “Well should I make another appointment?” “We don’t have anything available for quite a while, I’m sorry.” What the!!! God!!!! “Well can I please be placed on some kind of waiting list?” “oh, yes I can do that.” AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. So I left, very annoyed but determined not to be all bitchy, because that doesn’t solve anything, right? So I flipped to a peppy playlist on my iPod and cranked it up. Then I get on the freeway and the whole construction section a huge semi was riding my rear. Ugh. I mean I’m not exactly a granny so it’s not like I’m going slow. Geez. So then I get home.

Bj and I decide that we are going to try and make the huge ribbon rack a little better. So we decide to drive to Home Depot in Albany (or actually he decided because he said that our little local hardware/lumber yard wouldn’t have what we needed). So we got there and they didn’t have any of the stuff we needed. So then I got all pissy and just played Lumines the whole trip back to Corvallis with out looking up. Then we get to the little local place and they have everything and are super nice and quick. We get everything back practically kill ourselves trying to make this thing. But I have to say now it is up and really cool looking (pictures to come later).

My brother came over after that and the three of us headed out to gelato. And of course when the boys get together and I’m there they have to make fun of me (which I don’t mind too much because it is pretty funny). The gelato comes in these little containers and Brent’s all “I should save these.” Then Bj’s all (in a high voice) “Oh yes, we should plant little flowers in here.” Brent (in an even higher voice), “No way, I am totally sorting all my beads into these.” LOL those boys know me too well.

I have always loved Tetris, pretty much the only video game I can understand. But this new puzzle game for the PSP, Lumines is just so addictive. I can’t seem to get past level 39, but I’ll keep you posted. The only thing I am worried about is that there is no “end” to the game, so technically you could play forever (yikes!).

Now I have a question for all of you out there. i was wondering about where to find good blog lists and if you yourself are on any. I have heard of blog drive but I don’t really know anything about it. I’ve managed to find some blogs that I really love totally randomly when I go to the TypePad home page and click on the recently updated. I think that is how some people have added me too. I really like the way blogs can interconnect people and think really interesting chains can develop. So any good lists you know of would be cool (you know, if you told me about them).

*edited to add: I just got to level 44, no end in site and I pulled a muscle or something in my lower arm. ugh.

Baby clothes are just the cutest little things ever!  I love the soft baby only type clothes, but I also love these mini human clothes. That little outfit is for a friend who is due in less then a month. I just love this shirt. It so looks like something Bj would wear, but so so tiny. In the store I held it up to Bj and was just like, awww Bj, isn’t this the cutest? Then he pointed out that we had been in Target for like two hours and were going to be late to our movie. See Sciarrino, Bj and I all headed into Salem yesterday for a day of shopping. Actually we dropped Bj off to work for a bit while Sciarrino and I went to the cute little shops that he wouldn’t really be interested in. We checked out the Paper Zone before heading down town. We had lunch at the Arbor Cafe. I absolutely love their turkey paninis with pickled onions, yum! After that we went to Exit where I got a really cute skirt. I also saw this Paul Frank Barbie which was so cool, and on sale, but I didn’t get because I didn’t need it, yay me. We went into the mall and wandered a bit after we got drinks at Orange Julius. I got a top that is longer so I can wear it with my low rise jeans and it covers all my wobbly bits. It’s really cute, but the girls at the shop were really annoying. They have to be at least seven years younger than me and they called me “Hun.” What? And then they said everything was “awesome.” “Are you going to get that top?” “yes” “Okay, awesome I can ring you up over here Hun.” Ugh. I mean, I like saying something is awesome, WHEN IT ACTUALLY IS,  not just because you don’t know what else to say. Made me feel really old though getting annoyed over that. So we left the mall and headed down to State Street where all the cool shops are now. Cooke’s Stationary is an old school office supply shop. I got dymo refills and ink for my fountain pen in fuchsia and turquoise. Across the street is Ma Valise, a little boutique. In the picture above there are little metal tokens and I got those there. Next door to that is the Arbor. It used to be attached to the cafe that we had lunch at but it recently moved. I got those neat chalk stone letters there (far left of picture), and a little button that has a monkey and underneath it says “business.”  hehehe cracked me up.

Sciarrino and I picked up Bj, head to Lancaster (yuck, I know) (oh, but maybe some of you don’t. It’s a street in Salem that is like one gigantic strip mall) and went to Target. In addition to the little human outfit (oh and I also got him foot finders Kay!) I got two pairs of really cute heels, two skirts and another longer top. Phew, that was the most shopping I’d done in a long time all in one day! Then we went to A Lot Like Love. It was better than the preview, as it wasn’t quite so predicable. Very cute. After the movie I really wanted to have a go on the Dance Dance Mats  (omg, looking for that link, I found this: Dance Dance Revelation hahahaha), but no one else would participate in the public humiliation (though they were both willing to give me quarters to do it). So we headed to Mom’s. I guess my mom did not see the humor in the music I loaded onto her new iPod mini. I just mixed in a few newer songs, she needs more “old fogy” music on there (HER words, not mine). But I just have to say, the hassle of putting all new music on there is worth it just to know she is going to come across 50 cent’s In da Club before I get the chance, LOLOLOL! I can just see her running along. OH man. Sorry Mom. 🙂 I love you!!

Today wasn’t nearly as exciting, mostly just working all day. Trying to get the colors right on the web store, and realizing that I am really really picky so it is taking forever. Bj cooked dinner and I made Julia’s famous cookies. It poured all day today so it smells really good outside. 🙂

Jessi commented that she thinks it’s cool that my parent’s comment, hey so do I! Dad I am totally taking you up on that offer to see Paul! But I love it when anyone comments, so go right ahead.

Today just seems to be filled with sunshine and happiness. Yuck, I kind of sound like a greeting card, but if you can get past that, read on… Today I woke up before my alarm to birds chirping (and a little bit of the highway traffic noise) because I slept with my window open for the first time this spring. If there is any chance of rain I can’t do that because it comes pouring onto my window seat. And then it was sunny this morning, Sciarrino mentioned it was going to rain this afternoon, but guess what, it’s still hasn’t and it’s after five!!!  Then this morning I got a ridiculous amount of stuff done. I ran errands with my iPod and listened to my music really loud. And I know I already wrote a whole post about my car, but let me just reiterate that nothing else makes me feel quite like riding around that thing on a sunny day, oh I just LOVE IT!!! I had Taco Bell for lunch and am still wearing my jeans, and get this, they don’t even feel tight AT ALL. I just don’t know how that is possible considering I had Sciarrino’s cookies for breakfast. Also this is making me happy:

My desk, has anyone ever seen it this clean!!! The best part of this is that I worked all day and now have time to create a little. I have a feeling I will be very productive tonight.

beautiful. As is this:

All my settings got destroyed in the revamp of the system, but when I came back from my errands Bj had reset my wallpaper and a bunch of my settings, I love that guy! Plus Brent came to take Bj to Fiddler’s Green so he gets to have fun after working on my G5 all day yesterday. And while Brent was here I played Lumines and got to level 23, I was in the zone people. But the best? UPS came this morning and the package I was expecting didn’t. Then a few minutes ago they showed up again, this time with the package. Ahh 20 plus pounds of the prettiest ribbon EVER! And I’ve been listening to Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out over and over while writing this post. Go to the iTunes store and listen to it, it rocks! Oh and did I mention it’s still sunny?

My baby, my G5, my favorite thing to stare out in the whole world… won’t turn on, ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Well I should say it turns on and then just does nothing. Now this was no big deal for me when I had a PC because that friggin happened all the time (hence the change), but now, no no no. Okay well it’s really no big deal because there are a few other computers in this house (Bj’s G4 and powerbook and my new iMac), but still, it’s a little unsettling. Beeg says he’s going to work on it first thing in the morning, so cross your fingers for me. Now onto my day:

I just have a little point and shoot so it’s not perfect, but hey.

Sorry Bj, I had to.

But he got to have fun on the rest of our drive. People, there is nothing like hearing bj sing to Gwen’s Hollerback Girls, “This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S” So funny, so cute. And I don’t even like that song that much (though it is growing on me). Bj was talking about some ric rac ribbon I’m getting and he calls it “wiggly ribbon.” I just loved that. Okay so then I looked down at my foot and realized that the toenails I had just painted had a little chip, bummer right? Well no actually take a look:

Bj says I should sell it on eBay as my lucky toenail (like this guy did after a football player steped on his foot and it turned all green and then he started winning poker everywhere). But I would rather my toenail stay on my foot.

So we did other stuff besides driving around (which was expensive, damn gas prices!!!). Bj got a PSP. After a few tries he ended up getting one at Target, where I scored some more cute stuff (the Salem one is way more stocked than the Albany one): mini strong magnets, colored staples (.99), and this cool accordion note holder (so going to embellish that). The best score of the day though, was at this way random place in Salem that I have had a gift certificate at forever (I am so bad at spending these, and I don’t know why). I never got around to going there, but Bj talked me into it (the catalogs had been in the back seat for like a year, oops). Anyway the place was freaking AWESOME (thanks uncle Brad and aunt Pam)! I’ll make some stuff with the assorted papers I got there and post them up later. Then of course I had to buy something I totally didn’t need (but I can justify it). I was getting my mom an armband (happy You’re Fabulous Day Mom!!) for her new iPod (Bj decided he didn’t actually need three). And I saw these right next to them, and well, you’ll see:

iPod socks!!!!! Holy Crapola. So much cuter than they looked online, so I just had to, and it comes with 6 so they match everything!