Fun Weekend

I am fighting a headache this morning, and a good way to do so seemed like blogging.  Let us see if that does the trick.

Saturday night we had dinner with Michael and Pamela's house.  Ben and Sara were part of the merry party.  This was our first time at their house, and they have a very warm and cozy place.  We met the Sam, the bunny.  He is the softest, cutest bunny I have ever seen!  Dinner was wonderful, as was the strawberry shortcake after.  After dinner we played Catchphrase.  I felt bad because Pamela asked us all if we wanted to play a game, and I think the room went completely quiet.  I don't know what my adversio to games is, I guess I hate being the center of attention at any point for any reason.  I don't think I'm worried about making a fool of myself, I'm pretty good at doing that without the help of a game.  At any rate, we were talked into Catchphrase, and I have to say I'm so glad we did!  For those of you who don't know what Catchphrase is, it is a game where have a phrase you need to get your team to guess, but you can't use any of the words etc.  So we split into two teams (boys vs. girls) and started passing the beeping electronic phrase giver.  That timer ticks fast, and some of the phrases were pretty hard to figure out.  Some of them ended up being pretty hilarious!  There was "Trigger Happy," "Fish or Cut Bait," and "Pull My Finger."  I can't even begin to describe how those were depicted, but you'll have to take my word for it that we were laughing so hard there were tears involved.  David and I had a blast, and are looking forward to the next dinner date!

~Emily

Ooo...Monkeys!

Last night I had a girls night out with my friend Carrie and her Sara and Sara's friend Carrie.  We had dinenr at the Rock Bottom Brewery, visited Nordstrom's Rack and saw Wicked.

Wicked was awesome!  I was not sure what to expect; this was my first Broadway Musical experience.  I was pretty much sucked into the show right from the start.  Carrie's comment "Ooo... monkeys!" as they climbed up the sides of the set had me giggling the rest of the night.  The music was catchy and fun.  The sets were colorful and ever changing-it was almost as much fun to watch the sets move around as it was to watch the cast dance around!  The costumes were colorful and exactly what I envisoned they should be.  The story was whimsical, and clever.  Wicked is the story about how the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch become the characters we know in the Wizard of Oz.  I love stories that are a spin-off or side story to an already popular story.  I can't wait to get my hands on all the Wicked books by Gregory Maguire.  It was certainly a magical experience, and I'm so thankful (Carrie-you rock for making last night happen!) I was able to go.  I can't wait for the next show!  

Of course, I have to take a moment and devote some of this to reviewing the viewers that were sitting around us.  Sara and her friend Carrie had a super leaner-who kept leaning back and invading their space.  They also had a constant giggler, who giggled loudly through most of the show.  Sitting next to my friend Carrie were a couple of girls who were incapable of sitting still or being quiet for more than five minutes.  One kept being loud with her water bottle, and finally one of the viewers in front of her turned around and told her to be quiet.  The girl sitting next to Carrie, who was wearing pajama pants with a tutu on top-and all in pink, kept crinkling paper.  I was ready for one of us to lean over and take away her paper.  The people infront of Carrie and I all looked like they went to the same hair dresser.  They were all about taking pictures of themselves at the show, and spent at least 15 minutes in different poses.  There will hopefully be one picture of them that as an extra finger in it-Carrie, that is going to be my new favorite game.  You ROCK!  The guy behind me would repeat random lines.  If any of you have seen the movie "Emma" with Gwyneth Paltrow, think of the part where Miss Bates is telling Emma about a happy little porker they were enjoying and repeats (loudly and for emphasis) random words like "PORK!"  This guy was giving the full sentence, but it had the seem effect.  Despite the cast of characters around us, we still had a great time! :)

~Emily

Feed The Crazy

I really do have the best husband in the world.  He is way more understanding and tolerant that most.  He has, with only understandable teasing, put up with my infactuation with the Twilight series.  He lovingly ordered me the box from Amazon, and put up with me while I complained that they would never arrive.  He did not shoot me too many strange looks as I stayed up to read the books over, and over (and probably over and over again) every night.  And this morning, he fed me a good breakfast and kept me company as I fretted and twitched waiting for Target to open so I could buy Twilight on Blue Ray.  I am a happy little geek-I have the beautiful Blue Ray, I have enough special features to keep me amused for a long time, and I have the movie on my phone because the Blue Ray came with an iTunes download of the movie.  David puts up with a lot, but I know without a doubt how much he loves me.  I also know how lucky I am to have such a patient and supportive husband.  Thanks sweetie, I love you!!

~Emily

Hancock Makes Me Happy

I know this movie did not get the best reviews, but I really enjoyed it.  There was a story.  There was action.  And, it looks beautiful in HD on our tv.  BEAUTIFUL. :)

~Emily

Monster Cookies on the Horizon!

Assuming I have not scared my sister away with the warning that I am currently a snot monkey. Thankfully, I am over the hump of evil and just dealing with the remains of the end of the vile snot. Can you tell how thrilled I am about being sick?

So it's my lunch break and I'm blogging from work. Usually I don't like to visit personal sites from work, but today I'm making the exception. I even Facebooked a few minutes ago. I am a rebel. Life has been good. I can't complain. I've been busy with work, and fighting off the mutant cold. David and I have been slowly (and sometimes with much frustration) getting back into raiding with our Horde guild on WoW. We did our first serious 10 man last weekend and it was quite the success! I've been playing around with our music collection, and making new and beautiful playlists for my iPhone. I've also been given some great music recommendations from friends on Facebook-I need more, I'm greedy for new music!

David and I are still on our road to a healthier us. We were talking about it (as we often do), and I didn't remember we had started this trip last July. Here is it is almost mid March! I'm very proud of the changes we have made so far. I know we both still have a lot of work to do to meet our personal goals, but we knew that was not going to be easy. For me, I can see big differences in David, and I'm so proud of him! I don't see my changes as well, but I can feel them. I'm finding I want to dress better, and present myself better. I think it's all positive! I know we are both looking forward to the better weather so we can start walking together every morning!

I guess that's about it for now. I'm sure I'll have a lame weather update or something equally boring later :)

~Emily

ha ha!

So in my post from last night I complained about the weather, and now as I look out the window it is a beautiful day!  I have no doubt the cold/wet is coming back, I think I still heard the words  "snow level dropping," but at least we have a day to remind us of what is to come if we survive the wonky weather.

The cat is sitting by my feet looking up at me.  Who knows what she wants.  My guess, my lap.  For two seconds.  *sigh*  Cats are so strange!

~Emily (who is going to do her best to please the demanding cat)

Ready for...

the rain to hold off for a while.  To be fair, there hasn't been a bunch of rain, but it was raining today.  It's hard to go from some really great days (nice sunny days that were not too hot-good walking weather) to cold wet days.  I've been freezing all day.  All I really wanted to do was crawl into our nice big poofy bed under as many blankets as I could get my cold meat paddles on.  Last weekend we had snow.  This weekend snow levels are supposed to drop again.  I just want the weather to make up its mind and stick with it for more than just a few days.  Is that asking too much?

~Emily