The Tattoo I Want!

I am kind of addicted to the tv show LA Ink.  At some point, I really want to get a tattoo, or two.  I really want an owl.  I have a thing for owls.  Corey Miller does AMAZING owls, this is sort of what I have in mind:

  

I'm still thinking about it.  I won't rush into anything... but someday....

~Emily

Bauman Farms, October 2, 2010

We were able to share a "first time" experience at Bauman Farms with my friend Angela and her family.  It was their first visit to the farm, and it was our first time witnessing the helicopter pumpkin drop.  Here are some pictures from our day!

This alpaca looks all sweet and innocent, but just after this picture was taken this alpaca went and started some "poop" with the geese and caused quite a ruckus!

The geese just after the alpaca incident.  Is this enough geese for a gaggle?  Anyway, this is the goose gang.  Don't mess with them!

This goose and I were trying to figure each other out.  The gang came up to the fence where we were standing acting all tough-necks shaking and squawking like no body's business.  They did like to be called pretty birds.

David made friends with the two calves in the animal barn this year.  They are such sweet things.  Sometimes (only sometimes) I wish I could have a cow in the back yard.

They both wanted attention.

David getting some calf kisses!

Pretty bird!

David's happy face after shooting an apple canon.  I think everyone should have one of these...

The Strehlow family!  Angela, Avery and Dave.

David enjoying one of our new favorite things-the apple slushie!  (Sara & Ben, we can't wait to introduce you to these!)

Avery in hay jail-Angela giggling in the background :)

Pretty lil pumpkins!

This is the beginning of something awesome!  This helicopter is lifting a HUGE pumpkin.  In a few moments it is going to let go of the pumpkin and hopefully drop it into a kiddie pool.  It. Was. Awesome.  We saw it happen three times-David has video footage we'll post at some point.  :)

Avery really liked this hay bale dragon, so it seemed like a good time for another family picture.

We had a great time!  I think we'll be making a few more trips to the farm-and I can't wait!  Hope you enjoyed the photos, I'll post more from any other trips.

~Emily

Some Movies NOT to Watch...

It seems David and I have hit a streak of movies we probably would have been better off not watching.  That happens sometimes.  I guess you have to see some really rotten ones to appreciate the really good ones.  Anyway, I thought I'd let the two or three of you that read this blog know what not to watch.

There may be spoilers-which really is ok because you really don't need to watch either of these movies... I just had to be fair and warn you regardless.

First:  The Killer Inside Me (Internet Movie Database) (see this link for cast and plot summary)  Great cast.  Interesting story.  Horrible violence.  This movie really disturbed and upset me.  I can handle aliens popping out of chests, or most of anything Quentin Tarantino can throw at me.  The violence in this movie wasn't unlike what you would find in a Tarantino movie, but it was different.  It wasn't choc-a-block full of violence either, it was just a few scenes (and quick flashbacks).  I guess it was the subject matter.  The main male character beat two women to death and it was incredibly graphic and upsetting.  My poor David was just as shocked as I was, and was at a loss to deal with how it upset me.  If I could remove/edit those scenes I would actually recommend the movie.  The acting was good, the story was interesting.  But the movie in its current form is just too upsetting.

Second:  Life During Wartime (Internet Movie Database) (see this link for cast and plot summary)  Another movie that had a good cast.  The trailer looked like it was going to be a off-kilter comedy.  The movie ended up not being so funny.  It kind of drug on and on and on...and never really went anywhere.  (Drinking did not make it any better.  Seriously.)

So what have I been watching that I have actually enjoyed?  Well, let me tell you.  David and I got hooked on The Tudors, the Showtime series.  I'm kind of hooked on that time period and just finished reading The Tudor series by Philippa Gregory (she wrote "The Other Boleyn Girl").  I just get sucked into the different possibilities of what King Henry was like, and what the lives of his many many wives must have been like.

Ok.  I should get back to my list of things I want to get done around the house.  Just had to take a minute and say hello!

~Emily

FYI

If you schedule an appointment with your attorney-an appointment that you requested-you should really make sure you are clear about the date and time.  Just a thought, write it down even.  Otherwise, when you no-show, no-call, and completely blow it off... the staff is going to think you are a total ass.  And the staff never forgets.  NEVER.

~the Staff

You Just Know...

...the evening is going to be awesome when you come home at the end of the day with your arms full of stuff from the hot car to find presents from the cat.  And by presents I don't mean "ooo yay!" I mean gifts left for me by Linda Blair kitty.  So I follow the trail of puke from the living room, into the kitchen and around into the laundry room.  I put my dinner in the microwave, where it is just going to have to live for awhile.  I clean up the mess, thanking god most of it was on the non-carpeted flooring.  I carry out the bag of bio-harzad and hurry back into the cool house only to find the cat at the top of the stairs glaring down at me as if everything is my fault.  It's my fault she ate so much fur and made herself sick.  Maybe it's even my fault she has so much fur.  Who knows.  She is such a strange little cat.  She seriously gets strange when I clean the house, which I've been doing this week.  So, my one or two blog readers, in the future if you come to my house and it is dirty it is because that is how the cat likes it and she obviously runs the joint.

How Monday Night Went...

Well, it went into Tuesday morning.  I have learned that my imagination is really a terrible thing sometimes.  And I think everything in the house (including the cat) was screwing with my mind last night.  Every single crappy scary (and not scary) movie I have seen somehow found its way into my mind last night.  There was no rest for the wicked.

I decided to take advantage of my inability to sleep and watch some late night talk shows.  I used to love watching Letterman, so that is where I started last night.  I was incredibly disappointed when I found out who his guest was.  Of ALL the nights it figures it was the one night I was watching that this guest was on.  There are really only two people that would make me change the channel.  One is Billy Bell from this season of So You Think You Can Dance.  There is just something about that guy that gives me the willies.  I just can't stand him.  The other is...Nicholas Cage.  I hate Nicholas Cage.  So I had to go watch huge chin-fat head Leno.  Then I went and watched crappy Hallmark Channel movies.

I am hopeful that night will go better.  If all else fails it looks like I can watch a bunch of episodes of Gene Simmons Family Jewels.

Monday Monday

The house feels so empty when David is away.  But someone seems to relish in claiming new territory:

Me:  "Hey!  Do you belong there?!"

Puppy:  "I don't see how it's any of your business if I belong here or not!"

She is still there.  She may still be there when David gets home.  You just never know with here.  I'm working up the, hmm, what is the word I'm looking for.  I need to start vacuuming and I'm trying to get the get up and go to do it.  I'm just feeling blah today.  Buddy (Cake Boss) is making a dragon cake.  That is more my speed right now. :(

~Emily