Welcome to the Club!

Happy birthday John! Well today John officially joins the new and improved 30’s club. His birthday month-o-gifts will also come to an end. I did however NOT come through w/ the big gift. :-( My plan was to get him the new Nintendo Wii game system, but they are sold out everywhere around here! I had no idea they were in such high demand, or I would have planned a little better. I’m hoping the other 22 gifts will suffice until we are able to track one down. Kind of a heart breaker.

Tonight after work we are heading out to Los Osos to go to our favorite Thai place, Noi’s. Then we are going to try to make it back into town to FINALLY go see Zodiac. I gave him the ticket below at the beginning of the month and we have yet had time to see it! I hope it doesn’t leave the theaters before we get to see it!

Don't Cha Wish Your Blog was Hot Like Mine?

I’m here!! Don’t fear!! But are you still there? That should be my fear! I can’t believe it’s been 11 days since my last post! AHHHH! I hate it when the blogs I read don’t get updated everyday, and here I go for 11 days! What the crap?

Don’t worry… the blog about our party is still to come. Last week was really unexpectedly busy. I had some freelance work to do for the local web company I sometimes work for. That took up a couple of my evenings. I hadn’t done any work for them since last year, and man was I ticked off that I had to do some! How dare they take away 4 hours of my evening time! I would much rather be zoning out watching ‘The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll!'

I know… I totally can’t believe I watched that either!

But earlier in the week, John said ‘Hey I’d like to check out the Pussycat doll show.”

I was like “Yeah right you do! You just want to see half naked women strutting round in hope that one of their boobs will fall out of their tops!”

He tried to convince me otherwise, but I didn’t buy it. So we started to watch it, and about half way through John was over it and I was totally hooked!!! The intelligence levels of the future dolls almost made me turn change the channel, but the producers minimized their speaking rolls enough for me to handle.

I totally love this one chick, Sicily, that used to be the lead singer of a punk rock band (I think). I’m totally routing for her since she at least stands out from the rest of them. However I don’t think she has a chance.

The best was the chick that got the boot. During their dance practice their choreographer was like, ‘Listen chica, you are dancing like a stripper! Clean it up!’ (She totally was by the way).

Stripper want-a-be's response, ‘I have no idea what he is talking about. I can’t help it if I love my lady humps and he doesn't!’

So what happens? She gets the boot because the judges say she totally dances like a stripper! What a dumb-bo.

Ok… that was a major tangent! Let’s see… oh yeah… last week was really busy. After the freelance work, John needed me to make up name tags and business cards for some of his co-workers. They were hosting a broker event and have yet to receive with new Wachovia business cards. The cards were a hit as one of John’s bosses’ bosses’ now wants me to make him 100! Does the dude know I’m using my home printer?

See? I have totally legitimate excuses of why I had no computer fun time last week.

Well I hope this week will be a better blogging week. Hope you all had a great weekend!

Men At Work

This past weekend/week John’s parents came to visit. They always come down ready to help out with the house, and this trip was no exception! John had made up a huge list before they got here and I have been so impressed with what they have gotten done.

First we made a dump run. Anytime we have a visitor w/ a truck we take full advantage of hauling large items or our crap to the dumb. I actually think the last time a visitor w/ a truck was here was last May?? So we’ve had about 9 months of crap collecting in our back yard. No wonder the flies had started to swarm! 1010 Yarrow was turning into the dump of SLO!

Two weekends ago I suggested to John that we organize our large storage closet since we had so much crap in it there was only a bout a 10 sq. ft. area to walk in. Once we started to clean it out, John got inspired to get it prepped so that he and his dad could install shelves in it this past weekend. Had I known this was going to happen, I would have taken a before photo… but instead I just have one of him painting.

He totally cranked it out… painting… new floorboards and electrical outlets… while I went through some of the boxes we had in there that had NOT been unpacked since we moved in! I know! Totally ridiculous! I did throw out some stuff, but there wasn’t that much junk since I had already gone through it all when we moved.

So the first trip to the Depot consisted of buying the shelves. They put them all up that afternoon and they look SO great! I had envisioned how I wanted this room to be, and it look so much better than I thought it would! You can now walk around in it the room and access everything. Too sweet!

On Sunday the plan was to finish the attic floor so we could actually use it to store stuff. John and his dad totally cranked that job out too! I was really impressed. John had already stored our Christmas stuff up there, by balancing the bins on the 2x4, but I feel much better now that there is an actual floor up there. There is even talk that during the next visit we might get a retractable ladder installed! That would be really convenient.

I’m sorry to report that I have no funny stories from this past weekend! It was all work. I also don’t have time to take any photos of the improvements this week. Now that the in-laws have left we are moving on to getting ready for more visitors this weekend and our joint birthday party. My to-do lists are huge, so there may be a mini dry spell of updates after this one!

Not Again!!!

Yes… I have another injury…. BUT it is not my head this time. This injury is on the complete opposite side of my body… my toe. Yes… a few nights ago I sliced my middle toe. I was just walking in our living room minding my own business when WHAM-O! I ran into the corner of our table leaf.
(What was the table leaf doing on the floor you ask? Well we were in the middle of repainting and fixing up our storage closet, so it was resting in the living room). Once again I collapse on the floor screaming in pain… but this time I was trying to say “I’m ok, I’m ok” in-between the burst of pain…trying to let John know we weren’t having a repeat of the head incident.

John came flying out of the closet in two seconds flat! The last time I saw John move that fast was when he realized he was missing the Victoria Secret Fashion show on TV!

I kept telling him I was ok, but man did it hurt! He took my sock off to tell me that I had split open the skin on the edge of my toe. It wasn’t bleeding but it there was blood.

Once the pain died down I then started to laugh at how ridiculous it was that I hurt myself AGAIN! Then John grabbed the camera and said I would have to blog about this one too. Looks like I’m going for an injury a month this year.

2007 is the BEST!

Big Race for a Little Town

Last week the Amgen Bike Tour of California rode through San Luis. This was the second year, and last year I was lucky enough to get off work early and got downtown to see the bikers come into town. This year, however, I was not as fortunate. But John was!!

Here is a photo of what he saw this year:

It rained most of the day, and that is why I think the crowd was smaller than last year.

Here is a photo from last year:

This spot was the total primo spot. John waited here for 3 hours too! It was very exciting watching the bikers come in, but it was over in 10 seconds!

Hopefully they will come through town again next year, and I will be able to watch it.

What is that Smell?

One of my gifts to John for Valentine's Day was concert ticket to go see Tenacious D in Santa Barbara. The concert was really good, as Jack Black and Kyle Gass were born to perform.

Side note: We actually saw them in 2001 when they were on tour w/ Jimmy Eat World and Weezer. That was one of my all time favorite concerts. It was the first concert where each act was great.

Anywho… the concert was held at the Arlington Theater, which is a cool place in it's self. It normally shows movies, but it also hosts other performers such as Jerry Sienfield.

Even though the show was great I must tell you that it was the crowd that really made me step back and take a look. I didn't stop and wonder what the crowd would be like, but I do know that the people I saw were not who I expected!

First I see a wide variety of punks! Ummmm… am I at the wrong show? Punks and the D… I do not see the connection.

Second I see the typical preppy Santa Barbara peeps who think they are too cool for school. They are typically there to meet and hang out with their friends, not to listen to the music. This was somewhat expected.

Third I see a slew of heavy metal head bangers! We are talking flannels and mullets! Well I guess if The D's music was close to any genera it would be rock…but definitely not head bangin' rock!

Fourth I see hippies! Are you kidding me? Did they find the tickets on the sidewalk? My mind was being blown at each turn!

So we get into the theater and all is going well, until the seats around us start to fill up.

First I see some punks to our right… they look harmless, but the odor that is drifting our way is not the most pleasant. It's kind of hard to describe. It definitely wasn't a clean smell, but it also wasn't B.O. I'll call it stank.

Next a big group of people sit behind us, with aromas of cologne, perfumes, shampoos, and who knows what else! At least it was better than stank!

Then a couple of collage guys sat next to me, and every time the guy would open his mouth it REAKED of salami! Totally nasty! Somebody totally needed to give that guy an Altoid!

So we sit waiting for The D. It's bad enough we have to suffer through the opening acts, but smells were over the top!

After the second opening act finish John and I got a strong whiff of B.O. Now who is it? We've got hippies two rows behind us!

Once The D take the stage the nice aroma of marijuana tops off the whole hodge podge of odors. Ahhhhhhhh how refreshing! Don't forget… the concert was indoors, very warm, and we had to stand the whole time.

Needless to say it was one concert that I'm sure I won't forget for a long time.

22 Days

Inspired by the wonderful gifts I received for my birthday from Rebekkah, Amy, and my parents, I decided to do the same thing for John! If there is one other person in this world that loves opening gifts MORE than I do…it’s John!

Here is the arrangement of gifts I set out for him this morning. Having all the gifts together looks like so many. (And there are still a few missing!) Since his birthday is on the 22nd I decided to only give him 22 gifts so he could open the best gift on his actual birthday. I also had to wrap each gift and not use any gift bags, as he enjoys tearing off the wrapping paper more! Such a sucka.

I did try to choose gifts that all uniquely represented something that reminded me of him. However I had to take on the issue of making all of the gifts practical. He is VERY particular when it comes to gifts and ALWAYS emphasizes that they should be practical.

He was very excited and shocked when he saw them this morning. But he did manage to do a jig of joy.

For the first gift, I printed out Cal Poly's baseball schedule and told him he can pick any game to go to. I was hoping to go this weekend, but we found out earlier this week that John’s parents are coming into town. We still may get to go if the house projects don’t interfere.

A few weeks ago John called and told me that a co-worker reminded him that the CP baseball was in season and that he wanted to go to a game for his b-day. I was SO mad because I had already thought of that for a gift! So when I reminded him of that conver that this morning, he said he already forgot that he wanted to go! Ha ha ha

Hopefully these gifts will add to a very special birthday month for him!

P.S.
This weekend Zodiac is coming out in the theater. GO SEE IT! My sister-in-law Molly worked on the costumes for it… and it looks really good! Make sure you look for her name in the credits!