just because I feel like it...

THIS is why these two are my best friends:

ylehsa (via text): "Omg i just had an apple edward moment only it was yogurt and i didn't catch it"

(this morning...)
Me: "Time to wake uuupppp!!!"
Nolan: "hghghhghckck. Pick me up and drop me off at the coffee."


Also: today is N's last day of class EVAR! Hooray!!!

far and away

Oh Amazon.com, how I love/hate thee. First you get me my Twilight calendar on time; I love you. Then I tear open the box and see that it is actually a 2010 calendar, not a 2009 one; I hate you. Then you deliver my FANTASTIC crocs to me 4 days early and I AM SO HAPPY because they are even better in real life; I love thee. Then you tell me my “Bang” expansion set for Nolan actually is on backorder so don’t expect it anytime soon, and I cry and sob and say, “but AMAZON! We are hosting a game night this weekend and NEED that expansion!”; I hate thee. However, my emotions are fickle…so get me that expansion on time, and throw in free shipping and I’ll be yours forever.

I also got two new albums this weekend and if you haven't heard them, I would strongly recommend investing time in listening to Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album and Kings of Leon...in general. I actually just can't remember the album name, but the one that has "Closer" on it. Good.Deal.

la duff

I am now the proud owner of many new albums, including Hilary Duff's new hoochy one. Oh, the shame. Finding all this new music on the gym's stations is corrupting me.

Tonight I am getting ready to go to bed...now, since I am EXHAUSTED from this past week. Too much to do, too little sleep...and my body is tired from the gym, while my eyes are tired from looking at screens (hello, screen), and my mind is tired from learning and doing so many new things. Ayy.

Packages are like, the highlight of my week. Even if I am expecting them. Like...I ordered 4 different things from Amazon this past week, but at different times, so they are being delivered separately. I know, kind of a waste...but at least now I get the surprise of a package a day! Nolan is getting BANG! and the expansion pack for it as a pre-birthday present. I ordered myself the Twilight calendar for my cube (what else) and also a cute pair of Crocs that I can wear to work and NO, THAT BIT ABOUT THE CROCS DOES NOT CONTRADICT ITSELF. See for yourself:


Milo will start his "training" sometime this week...but as for tonight, yeah I just really can't even function anymore.

felt vampire womb?

On the same twilight note from last night and being in a weird funk after watching a MESSED UP movie with Ash U.--"He loves me, he loves me not" with Audrey Tautou, I decided I would post something that makes me feel NORMAL. Seriously, who does this:


Along those same "wtf" lines, I think there are better ways of protesting out there. Or of getting a raise and better benefits. Like...finding a better job. I KNOW, the economy sucks, but, I think THIS is a little extreme.

I also have to say: I had my first official training session with my PT last night (the others have been "consults"), and I have never gone through two sweat towels like that before in my life. I was vacillating between feeling really productive and strong and wanting to cry. I also am pretty sure I sweated out every ounce of liquid in my body...and don't think I have been to the bathroom since. Huh.

I love conference calls and call-in meetings. You can be IN a meeting, but have the freedom and privacy to do otherwise non-meeting-appropriate things. Like...yawn loudly, and close your eyes, and take off your shoes. Hah. I get dry-mouth just thinking about doing that in front of the people in the live meetings.

Shout-out to ylehsa, who just got accepted into a VERY prestigious art school! what what!

something in the water

Water. Lots of it. I am practically wading through the second flood to get to my office on Mt. Ararat each day.

They are selling TWILIGHT candy at blockbuster...haha see:



As promised, today we received (thanks, Ash U. for being my Vanna White):

A toilet-training set for Milo! Pretty soon he will be a big boy and learn to use the john like the rest of us. Photo documentation to come ;)

...and I need to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my wonderful parents on their 25th anniversary!...(i texted my mom earlier "happy anniversary" to which she replied by text, "yes! 25 long years." hahaha. Thank you guys for being an awesome example of what marriage can be like.

pahhhdon, i seem to have lost my luggage

Good news: Airlines lost 1.3 million bags LESS last year than the previous year. Hurrah. Bad news: this REALLY puts the odds of losing your luggage into perspective. Travel light, kids.

I've fallen into the virtual abyss--I have been SUCH a loser lately that I have been living through my facebook profile/blogs instead of actually hanging out with people, all the while feigning exhaustion from the new job (but we know that is past), so this week I am changing that. Hopefully. I mean if you guys still want me <3

I also had another couple of breakthroughs recently. One being that Oregon Chai concentrate mixed with milk happily substitutes for my white mochas in the mornings, and saves me almost 300 calories/lots of grams of sugar/money/addiction status per day. I will be bringing it in my sparkly pink mug (thanks, Nolan!), ready to save my day, every morning to work from now on. Another thing I realized, on a TOTALLY unrelated and different note, is that I need to do something with my life. Like...I care about illiteracy and think it is the saddest thing in the world that adults cannot read. You are almost helpless nowadays if you cannot read! So, I am going to do something about it. Someday I will announce what that is, but for now I have my own ideas in my head, and just thought I would put that out there. I care. So there.

Tomorrow I will be unveiling Milo's new project (be prepared)...YES my mother bought a project for Milo and Nolan and I to work on together, and I know that sounds really shady right now but trust me. Tomorrow. It will be worth it.

appetizer: flowers

This look clearly says to me, "leave me the F#$% alone."

Ever since the rain has come back to the city, flowers and little splashes of colour have been sprouting up everywhere. So much so that I, who loves flowers, have been stopping into little flower shops lately and deciding if it is worth buying a little potted friend. Of course, the answer is always "no" because firstly I have a black thumb (it's inherited) and will kill any plant, guaranteed, within 4-6 weeks. Secondly, Milo eats flowers...and occasionally even leafy plants. All that time we lived in the Villa (our apartment in Davis), and we thought our plants were just dying or something, but no: we found a flower-less bouquet that one of us had received, sitting in its vase still, almost untouched except for the lack of blooms...and Milo sitting nearby, giving us a look that was supposed to say, "Wow. Look at that. Your flowers just...disappeared!", but not realizing he hadn't wiped his filthy little pie-hole, and there was a single mutilated petal clinging to his whiskers (sorry Noemma). Nolan didn't know this quality/flaw about the creature when we first moved here, and brought me some daffodils he had picked/stolen from someone's yard...only to find a gnawed-on petal remaining by the time I got home from work. Hhhhh. So: as long as this beast lives, I can never have flowers.

Last night, the Longs came over to play Settlers and have wine and angel food cake and of course pepperidge farm cookies. I mean it's implied that the Caldwells dominated ;), but: the company was fantastic and that is what the focus of this statement should be. Not our victory. Heh. Also I think things would have been different if Nolan hadn't royally screwed up the last game for Natalie (she did a good job controlling herself but I think it was getting close to blood-shed in Catan).

Yesterday I went to Trader Joe's for the first time in my life (I KNOW), and it was fantastic. Not only did I stock up on Oregon Chai mix, but I got a bunch of random foodie things that Nolan is already eyeing excitedly. While there, I stopped by Borders next door and got some stupid stuff for my desk. Everyone keeps telling me my cube looks uninhabited, to which I say, "I KNOW. HHHH." So I thought I'd spice it up with some colour...pink mainly :) So they are cute, but they are also stupid and I can't believe I paid for such things.
Like a little sparkly pink ball for which I have no purpose:

And some little magnets:

And you know, some other stuff like a flowery pencil sharpener and a purple paper-holder, but seriously, how DEPRESSING is that.