April 2009

That’s right I saved three lives today. For some reason my iron manages to bounce all over the place so I figured even though it was super low yesterday I’d give it a try again today. Wouldn’t you know I’m up to 41. I’m not sure I believe it but I’ll take what I can get. One pint later, way more water than anyone should consume in one sitting, and Tweeting and Facebooking about it – BOOM DONATED. Like that – a little play off of the Office. Anyway.

Anneliese came over tonight to distract me with the magic of Twilight. I will admit it was entertaining. I will admit that when he wasn’t extremely blindingly white that Edward was pretty quite. I will admit that I dig the soundtrack.

Two more days before I’m off to Santa Cruz to drink wine and watch highschoolers play lacrosse. Is that creepy?

• Account rep meeting that included m talking about Social Media (love it!), free pizza, and all the Diet Coke I could want
• The love and support of really great friends, reaching out to me on the phone, in person, online, all the way
• 50% off Southwest flights to and from the Bay Area. Hello Mom from Houston and I’m back to visit you 6th Street very soon.
• Banana bread with chocolate chips from Katie and Aimee
• Finding some good old CDs from a long time ago and jamming them in the car
• My grandmother’s email with the verse from Philippians 4:6-7 “⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” that I hung up in my office at work.
• Did I mention the love and support of friends and family? Really so amazing and I have so many arms reaching out the be here for me.
• Sleeping pills so that I can now doze off.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11

What’s up Oakland. Or at least I think she got the city name right. Sarah and Anneliese thought she said Berkeley. Either way what I do know is that the show kicked ass and I am way more Britney obsessed than I expected.

We took the BART over to Oakland and within a few stops of Oracle Arena the BART was already filled with drunk skanky girls (and a few drug along boyfriends). We all swarmed off of the train and toward the concert. There the trouble began. For some reason they were letting in people at the rate of about .5 people per minute. This is how riots begin. In fact riots did begin. Sarah got clocked in the head by drunk skank #1 from the train who was trying to smack skank (not drunk) #2 for cutting in line. Then people start breaking through the barricades. This was all of course during the Pussycat Dolls opening act which we missed. Sorry mom – no “Dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me”.

Got in finally and got a drink finally and got to our seats finally and the circus began. Literally. What an awesome concert theme. Sarah kept saying “well at least the producers knew they couldn’t rely on Britney’s talent alone” so the circus acts like acrobatics and hula hoop girl and dressed in pink guys catching dressed in pink girl flipping. And the music sounded just like the CD because let’s face it Britney was definitely lip synching.

Here’s the most embarrassing/awesome thing about the concert. I thought to myself “oh Britney concert – that’ll be entertaining and laughable”. And then I got there and I. Was. Obsessed. I must have said at least three times “I can’t believe she is right there in the same room as us”. I screamed until my throat hurt. I thought more times than that “I love her”. I love her and her trashy, barefoot in bathrooms, cheeto eating, soda drinking, skanky clothes wearing self.

Help!

I may have said it before but I will say it again … today was the most beautiful day in San Francisco of all time. Scratch that … this weekend was the most beautiful weekend in San Francisco of all time. A bit warm for some perhaps but perfect weather to go to a Giants game, drink sparkling orange juice, and go to the beach.

Saturday our grand plans to go to Six Flags fell under when I realized that perhaps waking up at 10:30 is not a good idea when you are going to drive to Vallejo for a theme park. But no problem it’s a gorgeous day in SF. 75 degrees and weather that’s perfect for shorts and a tank top. So we drove of to the zoo since it seemed like a great day to watch animals and eat ice cream. About .5 miles from the zoo the sun was eaten by a gigantic cloud of fog and the weather dropped to 50 degrees. So back to the sunny side of town we went (seriously I can’t believe there is a 20 degree temperature change in a city that is only 7 miles wide) and bought expensive seats right next to first base and took in the 0-0 Giants vs. Diamondbacks game which then ended with the Dbacks scoring 2 in the 9th and Giants losing. Still a good game although my only request of baseball stadiums – a good soft pretzel – was a huge stale disappointment.

Sunday is must have been 80 degrees so along with the majority of San Francisco we headed to Baker Beach. Walking along the water we decided to head toward the less crowded part of the beach. As we get a little closer I saw two guys standing in the water stark naked. Just two guys. I figured eh it’s San Francisco and people just sorta take off their clothes wherever. A little further and it is clear that this is the rule rather than the exception. Welcome nude beach. Best part was that Jon was texting on his phone for at least the first 30 yards so by the time he looked up and realized the nudity we were right in the thick of it all. Second best part was that Glory was wearing her gentle leader leash that makes her have a tendency to stick her nose in between people’s legs and rub her nose.

I kept her on a tight leash.

So after the worst (aka saddest) episode of House last week this week’s episode was fantastic and made me smile. Until the last 30 seconds that is. Seriously why does every tv show have to ruin it by making one of the main characters see a hallucination of someone who died previously on the show. Ugh.

In happier news: I had an absolutely awesome weekend in Texas with family and friends. There’s nothing better than spending a few days completely ignoring your email, getting far too little sleep for good reasons rather than just busy life and eating lots of sweets and junk food. The jello shots were a success, as was the Beer Hunt, and I only managed a slight sunburn. Plus I got to spend plenty of time with two of the cutest kids in the entire world … despite their inability to smile without showing every tooth.

Get ready Kayak.com cause it’s time to start planning my next trip!

Are ya aching? *yep yep yep* For some bacon? *yep yep yep*

You got it right Lion King friends. Second night in the row to have a bacon sandwich for dinner. Well Morningstar fake bacon that is. Seriously it smells just like the real thing. And tastes pretty close as long as you like microwaved crispy bacon (which I always did) as opposed to floppy fly pan greasy bacon. The one downfall though? The look.
I mean I know they tried to get close by painting on the “flesh” pink and “fat” white but I think it fell a little short. The bacon basically wound up looking like a really bad version of the kid’s toy bacon that the children I nannied for in college used to always serve me with mini plastic cupcakes and squishy foam bananas (what a great meal huh?).

Either way Glory is clearly fooled by the way she is drooling over my shoulder and I am happy that I can have my pig and (kinda) eat it too.

… on my shoulders and my nose. That’s right. SUNBURN!

I know I know I shouldn’t be excited that I am treating my skin so cruelly. I normally am more careful about wearing sunscreen, especially on my face. But after two years of no sunburns and rarely the opportunity to get a sunburn (seriously even when it is gorgeously sunny out here it is rarely warm enough to be in shorts much less a swimsuit) I took the opportunity of the fantastic warm weather to fry myself in the backyard. Plus, I finished an entire book in about 24 hours if that tells you how I managed to get the sunburn only on my shoulders and leave the rest of me white. Reading can be bad for you kids.

This is going to be a week that goes by s-l-o-w-l-y I can tell. I cannot wait until Thursday when I get to fly home to Texas, check in with the family, Spazmatics!, wedding dress shopping, beer hunting, and loving on all my friends and fam in the lone star state. Yellow rose tattoo be ready to shine.

Until then I’m going to stalk on Facebook and keep myself busy so the days fly by. And rub aloe vera on my back.

That’s right. I had them test my iron at my drive today so that I could start eating some iron rich foods to donate blood in a couple weeks. And guess what – 39 percent. That’s right I’m actually higher than you have to be to donate. And to donate you have to be higher than what is even just considered normal. VICTORY!

That’s right. Today starts day one of being able to break my arm, have an appendectomy, or visit the looney bin and only have to worry about going into mild to moderate debt. I’m joining the ranks of the Kaiser health insurance members so I will now be booking all of my appointments online. This means I have to socialize less and can be more and more internet dependent. I think this is something to talk to my Kaiser therapist about.