October 29th, 2007 by Missy

Whee for getting a ticket today -.- Doing 35 in a 25, and I swear I thought it was a 35.. I thought all of the paved roads by us were 35 and the dirt roads were 25, but I guess I was wrong. More posted signs would be a good thing. It sucks. Not that I even really care that much about the ticket… I’d rather not have to pay it, of course, but what I really care about is that today was Anya’s Halloween party at school. And I had to sit around getting a ticket while Katie took Anya in to the party, so I didn’t even get to see all of the decorations that the kids have been working on, and all the party stuff they set up. I swear this guy was a heartless bastard, too. I was the soul of politeness, of course, and there’s Anya sitting in the back seat and she asks “Mommy, am I going to be late for my party?” He heard her. Stupid jackass even decides to tell me all about what costume his son is going to wear for Halloween. Does he really think I care what costume is son is going to wear for Halloween when he gives me a ticket? Maybe I’d care if he kept his stupid tickets to himself.

On the plus side, my darling husband bought me a dozen roses on his way home from work to cheer me up about having to miss the Halloween party! This is the second time in our entire relationship that he’s ever bought me flowers, or even a flower in the singular. The first would be when we had just been dating for a few days and I lent him my car. When I went to get in my car afterwards there was a rose on the steering wheel. That was like :p 5.5 years ago. Anyway, when he came home today I was in the bedroom reading a book (with a monster headache due, no doubt, to my stupid ticket) and he said he found something that he thought might cheer me up. I asked what, and he said I’d have to come see and that it was in the kitchen. So, of course, I proceeded into the kitchen to see my roses on the table. I will admit, I cried. I’m not really a crier, (though I suppose I have been more of one since the kids — I’ll continue to blame it on raging pregnancy hormones) but after my sucky day, headache, and not having gotten flowers in forever.. well. Maybe I should rename this post “Wonderful husband” and focus on how sweet he is, rather than stupid ticket making me miss seeing the Halloween setup at school.

Oh, and for anyone who is curious — Anya dressed up as Princess Jasmine for school today. She is actually supposed to be Sailor Venus this year, (and that costume cost me a freaking fortune, had to special order it tailored for her and it still doesn’t fit right) but her friend Jacquelynn (of the birthday party this weekend) mentioned that she would be dressing as a tiger, so they decided that they needed to be Jasmine and Rajah. Not that I got to see them together, of course. Jacquelynn left a little bit early — I saw her walk out as I was waiting to pick Anya up from school, but I didn’t get to see them together. I really wanted to get a picture, too =/

October 28th, 2007 by Missy

I’m wondering if I will have to start a new category for Dan quotes! He had a good one last night, in any case.

I can’t quite remember why, but I called my mom a brat for something or other, and Dan pipes up with “You can’t call your mom a brat!” And you could just see that she looked so happy that Dan jumped in on her side (not that we were fighting mind you, it was all in good fun), and then Dan finishes out his sentence… “She’s too old to be a brat. I guess you could call her a hag.” And, of course, everyone at the table (my mom excepted) just starts dying laughing like… oh my god, did he really just say that? In any case, it was goooood.

I’ve also another Anya quote to impart — it’s an oldie but goodie that I had just forgotten about, but it was called to my attention yesterday so I figured I’d share it before I forgot.

Anya was sitting around drawing pictures of people, and she says to my dad “I’m going to draw you Grandpa!” He’s all pleased and thanks her and she says “Yeah, and I’ll even give you hair!” (For those who didn’t already know, or somehow weren’t smart enough to figure it out, my dad is bald — or very close to it :p)

The birthday party (including Dan’s hag comment :p) was quite fun last night, and the blind wine tasting was also a good time. The reason the tasting came about is — my aunt’s friend owns a vineyard in California and supplies grapes to some pretty well known wine makers. He has recently started making his own wines, and he provided my aunt with a bottle of one of his wines, and two comparable bottles of some of the wineries he supplies grapes to.

The three wines were (not that we knew until after the tasting) a Simi Cabernet (they were all cabs) 2003, a Silver Oaks 2001, and her friend’s wine, which is called “Paden’s Patch Red”. The Paden’s Patch Red actually took the overall win, although my father preferred the Silver Oaks. I’m not really a big wine drinker myself — I do enjoy the occasional glass with a nice dinner, but I rarely like something enough to have more than a glass. The Paden’s Patch was absolutely delicious, however, and I had (I think) 4 glasses? Totally out of the norm for me. Anyway, I’m mostly relating this in a shameless plug for my aunt’s friend’s vineyard. You can’t buy his wines in stores as yet, but they can be ordered off of his website, and anyone who likes a good wine should take a visit and order something up. His prices are extremely reasonable given the wines that his are comparable to, it’s only that he isn’t so well known yet. So, basically, get it now before he gets licensed to sell in stores!

Link of the day: Quaking Hills Vineyard

October 27th, 2007 by Missy

Well, I did manage to get a little more cardio into my diet today. I went for a lovely slog (that being a slow, pathetic walk/jog) with my father through the desert today. We saw a jackalope (but not really, since they don’t exist.. but I did spend some time trying to convince Dan that I saw one — he didn’t believe me). I suppose it doesn’t really count as cardio when I am completely pathetic and can’t jog for more than like 5 minutes, but it’s better than nothing, I guess. Eventually I shall be a jogging champion.

Anya also went to her first birthday party today, for a girl she knows from school named Jacquelynn. The party was at “Pump It Up” which is basically just a building full of different moon bounces. The kids, of course, had a wonderful time. Dan and I also got in some quality bouncing. We had a lovely race through the obstacle course, and I am shamed to admit that he stomped me. After I started before even telling him we were racing (I had a pretty good head start). I managed to maintain my cheated lead throughout most of the obstacle course, but the last barrier is just a big wall to climb and then you go down a slide, and whereas I had to… climb… the wall, Dan was just able to leap to the top and slide down. Oh, to have such long legs. Ah well, I suppose it’s only fair that he won after I cheated. Anya, of course, wanted to race him after that and managed to beat him handily.

Much as I’d like to blog more right now, especially since I missed blogging yesterday (the internet was being awful), my Aunt Deborah is here for a short visit and we’re having a little birthday bash for her tonight, so I suppose I must go eat, drink, and be merry. We’re having a blind wine tasting tonight — should be fun, although I am not much of a wine connoisseur.

October 23rd, 2007 by Missy

I swear, men always have it easier. Dan and I are sitting down talking today while he’s doing his workout, and he’s saying how he wants to go on the 6-week diet plan in the Bowflex book, since he’s not sure that just working out is going to drop his (practically non-existent) gut. Then we get to talking about what he eats in a day, and he’s estimating that he doesn’t even take in 2000 calories. This sounds strange to me, since I know he eats a foot long sub from Subway for lunch every day, as well as a bag of chips with a 44 oz (not diet) soda. Apparently my darling husband has not been watching his calories for long, because any consummate dieter would immediately recognize that as like a full day’s worth of food. But, of course, I have to get on the internet to prove to my sweetheart that a foot long meatball sub does not contain somewhere in the range of 500 calories. His soda contains more calories than he thinks his meal does :p I guessed it at 1100, he thought I was crazy. You will soon discover, however, that I am always right. That puppy is sitting at 1120 calories. Plus 230 for chips. Plus 550 for soda. I wish that I could eat a 1900 calorie lunch every day without packing on the pounds.

In any case, the decision now is for him to get a 6″ sub (I have no idea what kind, but any 6″ will be an improvement), drop the chips and start bringing a microwave soup from home, and bring diet soda from home (since he doesn’t like diet Coke and that is all that they have at Subway). So yes, it’s patently unfair that hubby can easily drop like 1300 calories from lunch. Lunch. Without too much effort. Yet I can’t really think of a single way in which I can cut calories. Aside from like.. not eating.

For me, breakfast consists of like.. 130 calories of oatmeal. Lunch is 170-220 calories of soup. Dinner is generally a small portion of baked / grilled chicken or fish with a heaping serving of vegetables and some brown rice or a baked potato with 0 calorie spray butter and garlic. I usually don’t snack, but if I do it’s like.. a 100 calorie pack of Oreos, or around the same calorie amount of popcorn. I really can’t see how I’m eating more than 1500 calories a day, if that. I know back when I bothered to track it, I had to keep adding stuff in to make sure I got over 1200, for safety’s sake. I guess I’m just baffled. I will drop into the 120s god dammit >.< I think food just hates me, and loves Dan. Ah well.

Link of the day: Bowflex Insider

October 20th, 2007 by Missy

And Anya’s.. since she “wants to work out her butt”. The things children pick up on. Anyway, as you can see, my sexy man bought me my Bowflex today! It took about forever to set it up. It has like.. a pulley system inside and it got all off track from bouncing around in the back of the Excursion and being hauled around like so much baggage. It’s all set up and working now, and I can’t freaking wait to get on it and exercise tomorrow! By the time we got it all set up, my dad had just finished BBQing up some ribs so we sat down to eat, and then it was time to pick my grandma up at the airport today. Whee! My Grandma Joan moved here tonight! It surely means less EQ2 during the day for me, but I am happy nonetheless. Oh, and yes, I do realize that the quality of the picture is awful. My camera sucks and it’s dark out.

October 19th, 2007 by Missy

Alas, this was supposed to be longer but Dan finished buying his crap in EVE sooner than I expected. More to come after we finish Unrest tonight. But first, check out my sexy man in his Halloween costume. It isn’t quite complete yet, just need boots and pants. And some hair changes ^_^;

—> Here’s the more to come. Got Kaorin’s EoF class hat as well as a Cruel Innovator’s Ring (poor Ven camped that thing foreeeeeever and Kaorin got it on her first run). All in all, things went well. Syslik didn’t die once and Kaorin managed to do most of the healing. Agro was pretty solid, fun was had, etc.

On to what I really want to talk about. My sexy, sexy man. Who is the most amazing Vash in the world (aside from the real one, of course, not that he’s really real). Not only is he the sexiest Vash ever, but he has also agreed to buy me a Bowflex Revolution! That being the newest, spiffiest, and hottest one. Because he is awesome like that. And loves me. And now I *really* owe him. Eep.

But anyway, I am now a happypanda (I don’t think that’s even a phrase, but it should be since sadpanda is). We are going to pick up my sexy Bowflex tomorrow.. and if this guy isn’t there when we arrive, I’m going to go postal. Like seriously. I am so excited, so if he lets me down I’m going to torch his house or something. But anyway, off to bed to dream about my Bowflex!

Link of the day: Bowflex Revolution!

October 18th, 2007 by Missy

How could you not love a man who sleeps with a stuffed animal? Dan actually asked Anya for her bunny last night because it was “so cute and he wanted to snuggle it” while he fell asleep. Well, I thought he was so cute that I had to get a picture! Enjoy!

October 16th, 2007 by Missy

Oh man I want a new video camera. As all things go with me, I am developing an addiction to YouTube. You see, I have to comment on Sean’s videos to show him my support, but then it bothers me that there is no picture for me aside from that default like.. camera rolling thing. So, of course, I had to grab my crappy digital camera and take a crappy video of myself just so I could have a picture up (remember, we have discussed my vanity before). This, of course, led to wanting to make more videos, since I don’t believe in half-assing things. So now I’ve got a video of myself that consists of nothing other than me filling time to get a glorified picture of myself on YouTube, a video of Anya telling a story about the monkeys at the zoo (see the kids’ quotes page for the full story), and a video of the kids saying hi to the in-laws.

The problem is: My camera is old, and was a piece of crap even when we got it. It isn’t a video camera, really, just a regular ol’ digital camera that happens to take movies as well. With extremely poor sound quality, might I add. So yes, wtb new camera. Both for stills and videos. You know, I think I’ve pinpointed my true obsession. Buying things that cost lots of money. My Bowflex (I e-mailed a couple more people on Craigslist about their Bowflexes but no one has gotten back to me!!), the new camera, EQ2 plat… er… forget I said that, I never violate the EULA. Not me. No way, no how. And here Dan is reminding me of something else expensive I’ve recently asked for. That would be a third computer. It’s so hard to box when I have to run multiple accounts on the same computer! Especially when I’m tanking (since my main is a berserker). It seems like as soon as I swap to the second account I lose agro x.x It is the suck.

Oh yes, I am also reminded of the shoes I just got. I still “owe” Dan something for that. But they were worth it. Not that I mind owing Dan, but even if I did mind owing him, these shoes would totally be worth it. They are sooooo hot. Now I just need to go and spend some more money to get the perfect outfit to go with them. Oh how I love clothes shopping. I actually hate trying clothes on, but it’s worth the pain to bring home my sexy new clothes and feel all spiffy. I wish I could just walk into the store and buy everything that I want and come home with it. Try it on at my leisure, you know? Keep it if it doesn’t fit.. you know, in case I put on a couple pounds or drop a few more, depending on the fit. And, of course, you have to have period clothes. Not that anyone wants to read about periods, I’m sure. But F feeling fat, in any case.