my lovelies.

freak, i know some pretty people. my friends the simpsons and my cousin and her family were on this photo blog. Check them out. haywusup.blogspot.com man alive. what i wouldn't give for some looks. they are there under 11/30 and 11/27.

giving thanks

this shouldn't surprise you but i often take for granted how lucky i am. i have a great life. i have great friends and a great family and almost every aspect of my life makes me smile. i am also lucky to know who i am and where i came from and where i am going. it is my most valuable blessing. i was fortunate this year to spend thanksgiving with people i love and admire and have a good time with. it was a treat. almost as good as being with family. (almost, marn, almost.) we made assignments and despite a few minor freak outs, things went rather smoothly and all was well. here is some photographic evidence:

a few friendly games of tetris before the big meal.
a nice nap for tired dave
ben, mark and jeremy chat it up in the kitchen. they are all from price and have a lot to talk about.
ben, kelli, maryann, dave, mark, jeremy, joy and ben at our feast
more views. the make shift family for dinner. amber, ben, kelli, maryann, dave, mark, meg, jeremy and joy. annie and her sister joined us a little later as well as bryan banker but my pictures are not uploading correctly. boo. i know this is late but i hope everyone had a fabulous thanksgiving. after our dinner we sat a nd chatted and watched football and tried to play games but we were too lazy for that kind of stuff.

i want to grow a bonsai tree

so, mark and i went to the national arboretum because i wanted to see the bonsai exhibit and also i want to do all the things the manderson report suggests so we will be going on a segway tour and to the basilica and whatever else he suggests. i am at his mercy. but seriously, how cool are bonsai trees? i know i would probably end up killing one but i really want one of my own to raise and nourish.

lars and the real girl

this shouldn't surprise you but mark and i saw this movie this weekend and it was great. one of the best movies i have seen in a long time. funny and sweet so you should go see it (ps. i cried). here is some info. i will post pictures about my thanksgiving weekend soon. i am so slow at pictures and what good is a blog with no pictures?? hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.

gluttony

this shouldn't surprise you but i went to a sweet pre-thanksgiving party the other night. julie and leslie threw a rad bash and so i went because i was invited and i felt popular. so i hopped in the car with dave and bryan and we made our way downtown to enjoy glutton fest 2007! there were lots of fun folk there.
here is julie. she sure can throw a party in her cute little house.

here is leslie. she can throw a party too. she can also run a marathon and not let you forget about it because she loves he medal so much. ( also i know leslie through my brother matt so that makes her extra special).
this is how excited ben and julie and i were about being at a party together for the 2nd time in 3 days!!
this is dave and cubbie and janette and i. i was settling a debate between dave and janette about mark and me and holding hands. dave was right.

here is dave and bryan and mary and me throwing candy at dave adn out the window for people at the bus stop. they thanked us in their hearts
cubbie and julie are twins in hot (haught) outfits!
mary and cubbie enjoying gluttony
ben....it was his birthday. what a way to celebrate.

also, my new blog friends julie and leslie were not aware that i steal pictures from blogs and make them my own but now they are. painfully aware. sorry girls. hope we can still be friends.

PS

update from last post: dick and wally just got off the elevator and dick totally gave me a dirty look. hmmmph!!! what a dick!

a few things

there was a man at my desk just now who said, will you tell wally dick is here and so i called wally and said, (as the man stood here) "wally, there is a dick here for you." i am embarrassed but laughing on the inside. he was kind of a jerk anyway and his face was well worth it.

do you ever look in the mirror halfway through the day and think:
"eek, what was i thinking?"
"why did no one tell me i looked so bad?"
"i look fabulous."
sadly of the three, the top 2 are totally my life. sigh. not that i feel that way all the time but in the morning, i leave and feel fine and then i get to work and somehow, my hair or makeup or clothes have morphed into something completely different than the way they left the house. crazy.

do you ever get really annoyed about something and then you are annoyed at yourself for being annoyed? me too. that is all. i just wondered.

slide show

roommate reunion take 1

together again!!

when i was a sophomore at utah state, i lived in a pace called old farm with some crazy roommates. here we are: kelli, linnea, deon, megan, alexis and melissa. it was such a fun year and we have kept in touch fairly well. we recently decided that we all wanted to have a roommate reunion and so we planned it and the girls ended up here. we found melissa but she was not able to come and we missed her lots. we wish she could have made it. next year for sure. so deon and linnea flew in from connecticut and colorado and we had a fabulous time acting like 20 year olds and catching up. we went out to eat and saw the sights in dc. on friday, kelli and i had to work so linnea and deon and alexis went to see the national mall and the smithsonian museums. alexis had to go home to baltimore for the evening so she didn't get to go to dinner with us that night. it was so fun to be together and catch up. here is some info and a picture

deon, megan, linnea, kelli, alexis

deon and her husband steve live in connecticut. he works for price watherhouse coopers and she has an amazing job as a photographer (http://www.deonjamesphotography.com/) she is so talented. they are doing really well and are liking connecticut. she is so funny and beautiful. i did not want to be in any pictures with her but i caved. we made her sing for us with her beautiful voice.
linnea and josh are living in colorado springs. they have two of the cutest boys around. they just built a new house and it is beautiful. i am hoping she gets her blog up and running soon.
alexis and her husband dustin live in baltimore. they have two kids who are darling. they seem to be keeping alexis busy!!
melissa and rob live in utah and are looking for a new house. they have 2 little boys. so cute. oh my sam, we missed melissa.
kelli just passed the nursing boards and is working in the alexandria er. way to go kelli!!

on saturday, we went to the corocoran gallery to check out the ansel adams and annie liebovitz exhibits. they were so interesting and it was a great way to sepnd the afternoon. there was part of the exhibit where you could become the photographer and then your pictures would flash up on the wall. we spent a lot of time in there. i made a slide show of the images because there are so many!!

*slideshow is not working here so i will post it in another post!*

after the museum, we said farewell to lex and then we went to lunch at potbelly's. yum! it was linnea's and my favorite spot before she moved. after lunch we headed to the arboretum. the leaves were beautiful.

we took some pictures and headed on our way back home. we stopped at mark and ben's to play kelli's new favorite past time/obsession-guitar hero. i like linnea's rocking out face. after we had our fill of guitar hero, we headed out to have some pho (pronounced fuh). it was good. we all liked it lots. after pho we went home and ate pumpkin ice cream and stayed up into the wee hours of the morning talking and reminiscing. what fun. sunday was our last day together so we had brunch and then went to churchof course, we had to take more pictures!! then deon headed to the airport and linnea and i went to see old friends in woodbridge. it was over too soon!! thanks for coming roomies. can't wait for labor day 2008!!! it wil be off the hook! love you.

tagged

well, my darling sister marnae tagged me and since i am so bored i am doing it. seriously so bored. 6 things you may not know about me.
ahem
without further ado
1. i can totally touch my nose with my tongue but if someone asks me if i can, i say i can't because long tongues are gross.
2. i always have a song in my head and 99% of the time it is come come ye saints or dave matthews "crash" (a song i hate).
3. i sleep with a blanket named buddy who (yes who) is really a tangled rag that one time tried to strangle me in my sleep. also buddy has traveled to europe and to 39 states with me.
4. i blurt out inappropriate things in large groups of people. i don't know why and i always, always chastise myself in my head afterwards but it keeps happening. will i ever learn?
5. my best friend linnea and i had so many similar items of clothing that we dressed alike for 17 days in high school and never wore the same thing twice. we also braided our hair together and jumped on the trampoline.... not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
6. my sister and i both cried when we saw the trailer for aquamarine, and sadly that is the least embarrassing movie trailer we cried in.

that is all i can say. please do this because i need to be amused at work. it can be like your christmas present to me since i know you were all wondering what to get me.

bodacious bethany beach

this shouldn't surprise you but i had an adventure weekend this weekend. my freind jessi got this crazy idea that the beach in november would be a great idea. well, it turns out, she was right!! jessi's sister has a condo on bethany beach in delaware so we (ben, cubbie, jenica, jessi, mark and i) headed up there after work on friday for a fabulous time. there was a storm a brewin' or a hurricane somewhere because it was windy and the waves were huge and the sky was gray. it was really pretty. this picture does not show how big the waves were but they were big. our private beach. i don't think anyone else was crazy enough to come to the beach. it was COLD!! our cute little path to the beach
this is what the wind does to mark's hair. his ornery face and surly attitude are not caused by the wind. here are the four of us who decided to brave the frigid waters. notice how bundled up we are to even go out in the air, let alone the waters.
the ocean is clearly not happy about our choice.
this is us after we braved the waters. ben, mark (too cool for school) me and cubbie.
after the polar bear swim, we were freezing so we showered and all cuddled up in bed together. 6 people in 2 twin beds is very warm. we all took a little nap. the we made a fire on the beach. it is delightful to go to the beach after labor day because there are no rules. fires are fun. but helen keller was there. i could not see for all the smoke and i whined and complained about it all night.

jessi and jenica. check out jenica's scared face.

ben and cubbie, making smores

mark and helen

of course on our last day there, the weather was really pretty . the ocean was not so angry so jessi and jenica and i sat on the beach and watched mark skim board. we criticized his technique and laughed every time he had a bad spill except the time he landed on his head. he was fun to watch because he would fall and instantly pop back up and flip his hair. so funny and so baywatch. he ia a realy good skim boarder though and he can pop up faster than anyone i have ever seen.
he could never find his board after a fall and we would point and yell its location but he seemed to ignore us until we asked him why and apparently he is helen keller without his glasses! hahaha
f you get the chance, please go to the beach in november. it is delightful.

tell em large marge sent ya

this costume here:(the bear)
makes me laugh every time i see it! also it is the hottest costume i have ever put on so if you live in the arctic, this one is a great idea for you. also i love that girl who is wearing it.