46. Sugar Bullets

chris and i have been venturing away from our normal routine of sitting on the couch watching the history channel or playing cribbage and have actually left the house in pursuit of fun activities. these have included (but have not been blogged about yet due to lack of being able to upload pictures into our dying computer) - the state fair, the science museum 'star wars' exhibit and a stuart davis show.


don't know stuart davis? if not, you should. when chris and i first started dating he told me that davis was one of his favorite musicians and that if we were going to last i'd have to like him as well. (he didn't really say it in those words but it was strongly implied...) he played a few tracks for me and at first...well...i wasn't getting it. not wanting to jeopardize our new relationship though i said i really liked it! :)


a few months ago he bought davis's newest cd and it turns out i loved it! the guy is hysterical! so - we found out he'd be playing at bryant lake bowl this weekend and went to see him. it was a short show (chris said he usually played a lot longer normally) but i loved it anyway. it was great to actually see him after hearing so much about him for almost two years now.


so - i highly recommend that you check him out. great stuff.




p.s. now i only need to see jack white perform at a venue that intimate and i would die happy :)

45. TGIF

it's friday - it's a long weekend - i'm excited! :)

44. Isolation

okay. i'm more than upset now. i'm getting serioulsy pissed off.


the united states would like to isolate russia for not abiding by the cease fire agreement in it's recognition of south ossetia's and abkhazian's independence. also - and most importantly (in their minds) invading georgia.


hello! does no one see how fucking absurd this is? georgia invaded south ossetia! russia reacted in an effort to protect the people of south ossetia. what is so hard to understand about this?


today putin claimed that the united states orchastrated this whole ordeal - as in they were behind georgia's attack on south ossetia. he claims they did this to give an advantage to a certain presidential candidate. i don't know about this last part but as soon as i heard of this mess i thought about the first thing he said - and i wouldn't put something like that past our government i'm sorry to say.


agh! what does our government not understand about the fact that we basically have no fucking miliatry to spare right now? what do they not understand about russia having a valid point? i am just shocked that no one in the higher ups (unless i'm missing it somewhere) is against this isolation of russia. do they not understand what a horrid idea this is? oh wait - the bush administration doesn't think. at all.


am i alone here? is anyone else worried about this? i wish i knew some way to get involved...it's bothering me that much.....

UPDATE:
i changed my mind. perhaps putin is right about this giving an advantage to a certain presidential candidate. by creating this whole mess with russia it brings back that sense of fear that the republicans have been oh-so-fond of using these past eight years. so is this a ploy to keep their control of the white house? i would not put it past them......

43. [[:whimper:]]

normally i love thunderstorms - especially when they occur at night and you get to snuggle up in bed and listen to them. tonight should be one of those nights....


unfortunately i decided it would be a good idea to watch the 'sixth sense' when i saw it while flipping channels. that movie scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it (almost 10 years ago - can you believe that?) and still does. the lady in the bathrobe....yeeeee.....


add to that combo the fact that chris is on call tonight and had to leave just as we were getting into bed and it makes for one unable-to-sleep-scared-she'll-see-a-ghost girl.




UPDATE: 4am! that is when chris finally got home last night. 5 straight hours of fire alarms. oy.

42. Correct me if I'm Wrong....

...but am i the only one more than slightly upset over this whole russia/georgia conflict - and not for the reasons that everyone else seems to be?


georgia invaded the semi-independent region of south ossetia on august 8th. although technically a part of georgia this region is made up predominately of people who speak russian and also carry russian passports and has claimed their independence since the early 90's. in response russia went in to defend these people (russia also claimed that georgia had killed russian peacekeepers and was also commiting acts of ethnic cleansing).


after this everyone seemed to jump down russia's throat at once. i am by no means pro-russia but in this instance it seemed to me that they had a valid point and that georgian president mikhail saakashvili was unprovoked in his attack on south ossetia. i was driving home one day and listening to people being interviewed who lived in the area of georgia where the russian army had destroyed at least two apartment buildings and they were furious with their arrogant president for having started this whole mess.


saakashvili claims that russia took advantage of the fact that the worlds attention was focused on the olympics when it invaded georgia. i'm sorry saakashvili - but wasn't it your country that invaded south ossetia on august 7th - right before the start of the olympics? so who took advantage of what here?


now today i hear on the way home that russia has decided to recognize the independence of not only south ossetia but also of abkhazian. this evidently did not follow the guidelines of the cease-fire that russia and georgia agreed to which stated that that decision would be discussed during further negotiations.


now i just glazed over most of this but am i wrong in thinking that the west has backed the wrong man in this conflict? to me - saakashvili comes off as a rather arrogant prick who got himself into a rather tight spot out of his own stupidity and is now crying that russia is bullying them. no one i talk to seems to not know or care much about this and that makes me even more upset. creating any kind of tension with russia right now when our military is stretched the max and beyond seems like the worst possible thing we could be doing. and the fact that both presidential candidates seem to back georgia does not ease my mind......


thoughts? opinions? is there something perhaps i do not know? like i said - correct me if i'm wrong....

41. And We're Off!

.....to the minnesota state fair!




(we just got back from willmar - hopefully once our computer is up and running i'll be able to post pictures from both events! :))

40. why? Why? WHY?

why is it so freaking impossible for me to find someone who is able to cut my bangs? why?


last time i got them done i went to trade secret and i loved them. beautiful. i went tonight and was happily suprised to see that it was the same lady! yay! everything was looking a-okay but then it started to go a little long. i think i chatted her up a bit too much and she just kept merrily cutting away - despite the fact that when done i looked like amelie's ugly cousin. i like my bangs at my eyebrows....not an inch above them! whimper......


hopefully my appointment at JUUT in a few weeks goes better. if so i'll just continue to go there - they give free inbetween cut bang trims :)


and perhaps the next time i get a really good bang trim i'll remember to take a picture so that i can bring it with from then on....

39. How??

how could they do that to her? she came in fourth on the vault after the chinese girl fell on her knees and the korean gold medal winner landed out of bounds not once but twice??? seriously!??


someone needs to fix that error - it was unbelievable and i feel so bad for alicia....

38. Someday......

someday chris and i will live in a house and have our very own washer and dryer.....until that day i have to share those machines with a bunch of fuck monkeys who cannot tell time.....


the washing machine takes 38 minutes. the dryer takes 55 minutes. i went up to start 3 loads of laundry (we only have 3 machines). two of the machines were full of wet clothes. i waited for about ten minutes and then just moved their clothes to the dryer and started my own. knowing that the dryer takes a bit longer i waited an additional 25 minutes before going to switch my clothes. i went up and the moron only dried one load of clothes and that load still has 18 minutes on it! the other load is still sitting there all wet!


i'm timing the fucker. i'll give them 20 minutes and then their shit goes on the folding table - wet or dry i don't care. it's inconsiderate and a fucking waste of my day to have to sit around and wait for some ass who can't tell time to finish washing their camo shorts.


sorry - i get slighty upset with idiots......


UPDATE:
so - i went upstairs only to discover that the little shit took out the one load and then started that other load! another 55 minutes to wait for a dryer! luckily i was able to cram 3 loads of wet laundry into 2 dryers. oh - and they forgot to clean the lint traps. Word to all Idiots: No one wants to clean off your nasty fuzz and icky hairs from the trap - do it yourself!


i'm done doing laundry for the day. i'll let chris do the rest tomorrow morning when they probably won't be so busy. i'm off to knit! :)

37. Love the Oldies

just changed my playlist again - god how i love the oldies :)


i worked with a guard yesterday who - when i mentioned oldies - made this gagging noise. i was shocked. i then asked him - as i do a lot of people upon meeting them - if he at least liked the beatles. he stared at me blankly. i asked him if even knew any of the beatles and he slowly replied 'john lennnnnooon...i think'. dear god in heaven - what is happening to the youth? i'll give you not liking their music but to not even know them?? no excuse - bad parenting. sigh......


but...i do work with another guard who upon realizing we liked the same type of music mentioned that i chose my first university based on a CSNY (if you don't know this band shame on you) song (and yes - i chose my place of higher education based on a rock and roll band - but it was very history related). he knew right away - Kent State and the song was Ohio. and this guard was younger than the dumb one - so there is hope out there i suppose......

36. To Cut!

i'm going to do it!


i just made an appointment at the JUUT (i think that's how you spell it) salon for september 13th - the day i will try on my wedding dress again! the salon itself is pretty expensive but since i'm rather nervous about chopping it off i want it to be good. not that places like cost cutters and trade secret are not good but i haven't had the best of luck there - very hit or miss - (anyone remember the time when they decided to layer my bangs! ack!). so i'm shelling out a few more bucks and crossing my fingers.


i'm also going to be getting it styled like i would for the wedding so i get the full effect. so - be on the lookout for a cut angled (or not) bob cut with some volume in the back (ala early 60's). if you find something let me know - i've been looking but haven't seen exactly what i'm looking for.


alright - now i'm off to the gym. must go to gym before i can play with all the cute stuff i just bought at the yarn store :) (someone really should ban me from it - i went in to buy one small thing and ended up leaving with about ten more....)

35. Stupid Virus....

our computer has a virus......


still not sure exactly what happened and still working out how to fix it - it sucks! you never realize how much you use it until it's gone.....


so - that's why i've been absent - not that anyone has been asking - but there is a reason all the same. right now i'm using chris's work laptop that he so kindly hooked up to the internet but laptop keyboards drive me kinda batty....


alright - i'm off to continue to watch the olympics although i really should go to bed....

34. and so it begins.....

i had my first wedding dream the other night (ala the showing up for a final only to realize you haven't gone to a single class the entire semester).


chris and i were all dressed up and in the mall....barefoot! we were a half hour late to our own wedding and realized we had forgotten to buy shoes! then it was just me and i was still running late with no one to help me with my make-up. no one had any brown eyeshadow. finally my mother said she found some and put it on me but when i looked in the mirror i had massive teal circles around my eyes!


oy.


i'm not really stressed persay but i do realize i need to get the ball moving here. i have a ton of great ideas but haven't organized them any logical way.....

33. The Cats

not a whole lot going on today that warrented a blog - but i felt the need to anyhow....so....here are some pictures of my cats......

very exciting, no?

32. Not a Good Idea

sharing a chipotle burrito with your fiance for lunch and then coming home and eating a massive heap of spaghetti was not a good idea.


my stomach said 'YAY!' and the scale said 'OMG! You are a fat cow.'

31. Sunday?

it can't be sunday already? really? i'll just pretend it's still saturday.....

30. to Cut or not to Cut.....

...that is the question.....


so my original plan was to grow my hair out long enough to donate it and then chop it off for the wedding. my thinking behind this was a) donating your hair is a good thing to do, b) that angled bob haircut was one of the cutest i've ever had and c) my hair does not hold an up-do. at all. and having it down would more than likely annoy the shit out of me half way through the night....


but then i realized that chopping off my hair right before the wedding might not be the best idea. what if i hate how it looks with the dress!? it's not like i can grow it back overnight! so then i decided that i should chop it off now and try on the dress to see it that style looks good with the dress. if it doesn't - no problem - i've got over eight months to grow it back out. so i made an appointment for this past thursday to cut my hair and an appointment for this morning to try on my dress.

i chickened out. i cancelled my appointment for thursday. i still went to my dress appointment this morning. i decided perhaps it was best to take some pictures of me in the dress with my long locks and see what i think. then i held up my hair to make it look short. i really like the short look - but it's hard to tell when you're just holding it up - you don't really get a good idea, ya know?

so after leaving it i decided to go ahead and cut it at the end of august (i made an appointment to try on the dress again the 2nd weekend in september). but i don't know. i started growing out my hair becuase chris wanted to see me with long hair and so did i. and i like it...when i actually wear it down. problem is - that's rare. it takes so freakin' long to dry i rarely ever wear it down during the week - it's usually in a bun. so why have it? but it's grown (no pun intended) on me. even though i know i really like the short bob i'm still nervous to go and get it hacked......

which leaves me with the problem of to cut or not to cut. so...give your opinions. i'm torn. and it doesn't help that chris makes that sad face every time i bring it up (even though he does say he fell in love with me with short hair....)

sigh......