Music Makes the World Go Round...

Okay, I stole this from Gus Greeper and it's a fun little Friday thing. Well, it was to me...Here's the deal:

Put your music player (iPod or whatever) on shuffle. Press forward for each question. Use the song title as the answer to the question. Post on your blog. Comment back if you post it on your site. No comment regarding whatever songs that might come up.

Will I get far in life?
Samson & Delilah - Grateful Dead

How do my friends see me?
What I Got - Sublime

Where will I get married?
Let's Go Crazy - Prince

What is my best friend’s theme song?
Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem

What is the story of my life?
The Get Away - Pretty Girls Make Graves

What was high school like?
Vodka - Carter Albrecht and Edie Brickell

How can I get ahead in life?
Dont Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

What is the best thing about me?
How Sweet It is (to be loves by you) - Marvin Gaye

How is today going to be?
Knock Me Down - Red Hot Chili Peppers

What is in store for this weekend?
Leave This City - Sundays

What song describes my parents?
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young

My grandparents?
It Won't Be Long - The Beatles

How is my life going?
Burritos - Sublime

What song will they play at my funeral?
Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan

How does the world see me?
Too Much - Dave Matthews

Will I have a happy life?
The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

What do my friends really think of me?
Me & Bobby McGee - Janice Joplin

Do people secretly lust after me?
So Much Trouble in the World - Bob Marley

How can I make myself happy?
Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones

What should I do with my life?
My Way - Frank Sinatra

Will I ever have children?
Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles

What is some good advice?
Modern Love - David Bowie

What is my signature dancing song?
Focus On Sight - Thievery Corporation

What do I think my current theme song is?
Glory of Love - Peter Cetera

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
It Don't Mean a Thing - Ella Fitzgerald

What type of men/women do you like?
Dancing in Heaven - Q Feel

HNT bites

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Originally uploaded by the funky bee.

Look at me all participating in HNT, sort of...

Anyway, this is a shot of what happened when I slept with the spider the other night. Nice huh? Beware people, NEVER SLEEP WITH SPIDERS!

Tonight will be the LAST marriage prep class for TSO and I and I am SO pumped about it. The classes are not that bad (we've only been to 4 - tonight is the 5th and final) but they are all the way out in Annapolis and that's a long ass drive when you're tired and cranky from work. So although my church has finally figured things out and has "sponsor couples" talk to the engaged couple as opposed to a priest (do we need to get into the reasons why priests should not council soon to be married couples? I think not...), it's just not an ideal way to spend your Wednesday nights. Especially when The Amazing Race and LOST is on (even though LOST is another "special" to get people caught up - we need a NEW EPISODE PEOPLE) - Okay, I'm rambling...

So - our marriage prep classes. They're kind of enjoyable and they really do just spark conversation between the engaged couple about things they may not have thought to talk about. It just so happens that the sponsor couple are friends with my parents. So, we requested them. We thought it was a good idea because we know them. We like them, we've been out drinking with them, so it was a comfortable situation. The thing we didn't consider is that the female in the couple likes to talk. Not just chat and interject her own two cents but she likes to talk, incesantly! Some times her husband even has to tell her to "move it along" or "let's get to the next thing" or even, "she can talk all night if you let her", and believe me, we know! The good thing, she often has cheese and crackers, nuts, fruit, veggies and dip and chocolate out for us. I think it's all a ploy for us to stuff our mouths and sit down attentively while she yammers on...

After tonight, it's all over. Hooray!!

So last night I went for a 45 minute or so bike ride through my neighborhood. My hood is very hilly but of course there are ways to get around the hills and only travel on the slightly angled streets. I thought I would challenge myself and I did a lot of hills. Not sure this was the smartest way to start my first bike ride of the season...I probably won't be able to walk tomorrow!

When I got home from biking I decided to try out this new exercise video I have since I skipped the gym and felt like the bike ride could be combined with something more. It's called the Bar Method. So, at first glance I was kind of like, hmmm, this looks like some kind of glorified yoga class. Then I learned that the creator and woman on the tapes name is Burr (I could go on with that piece of information all day). Then I was like, okay, this is going to be worthless and probably not add to my workout for the day, until I started doing the exercises. OH MY GOD! That shit is HARD and my ass, abs and legs are SO SORE today! I was sweating my ass off during the workout and it's all based on very small movements. Now I'm not sure why I won't be able to walk tomorrow. Will it be from the bike ride or the "Bar Method"? I'm going to continue doing this workout and see if it really elongates my arms and short ass legs, flattens my abs and tightens my thighs and ass...HA...I'll believe it when I see it.

Why the fuck does blogger suck so bad? Just wonderin...

Shoes....

I have a serious problem. It's called a shoe addiction! Last week I bought the following shoes. I will say though, I bought all of them on-line and with shipping the total was about $103. That's not bad! AND I bought the light pink flops for my mom, they were only $6.99 - can't beat that. Don't you love how I reassure myself...HA!

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night a bunch of us went to the Rec Room Olympics where I played in the flip cup championship. We lost...really badly. In our defense I will say that there were a couple of girls on the team that didn't even know how to play and for them we suffered but we had fun! And raised over $1,000 for House of Ruth! After the miserable loss we decided to just hang out and drink. We ended up getting pitcher after pitcher of beer and started playing silly games like "I Never" and "Categories". It was a lot of fun.

Late Friday night the rain started and well, I didn't think it would ever end and it pretty much didn't until Sunday afternoon. It was miserable. It wasn't just raining it was POURING for about 36 hours straight! I guess the benifit is how green everythign is now but rain is really fucking depressing!

I finished watching The Constant Gardner and it was fabulous. I LOVED it! It made me sad and angry and happy and hopeful and hopeless and a million other emotions all wrapped up in 190 minutes. It was very well done. Now I'm on to a little bit of a lighter movie, In Her Shoes. I pretty much think Cameron Diaz sucks but so far I'm liking this movie. We'll see.

Hope everyone is having a good Monday. Well, as good as a Monday can be anyway!

Yesterday was nothing short of spectacular! Woke up late, headed to get waxed...it wasn't that bad and one of my best friend's mother is the "waxer" so it isn't that uncomfortable either. Afterward TSO and I headed to the mall to see if I could find my favorite flip flops. They're Reef's and I LOVE them (they are so comfy ladies and you can get away with wearing them with skirts or other nice attire) but I can never find them in stores I usually have to get them on line and the one's I have are really getting ratty so it's time for a new pair. We did find them and while at it we decided to get TSO a new pair of flops as well. His current pair smell like, well...ASS! I don't understand how flip flops get stinky but his do. Maybe it's just a guy thing. Okay, back to the flops...he liked them, they were comfy, attractive, and then...we put them on the counter to pay for them and realized (aaahhhhh - music from the heavens) they have beer bottle openers BUILT INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHOES! Do you understand what a novel idea this is? I mean, I am really shocked that no one has thought of this before now. I will give TSO credit, he is the MASTER of opening beer bottles with everything and anything. He has been known to open beers with seatbelt buckles, lighters, a quarter, you name it, he can do it! But this is ingenious!

The weather was glorious! We sat outside at a local restaurant and ate a tasty lunch accompanied by some very tasty margaritas. I didn't want to leave.

Then we hit the batting cages. I did very well. I had on gouchos as to not irritate the already irritated area (thanks for your concern Andi). Once we finished there we decided to stop in to the jewelry store and check out some wedding bands. I found one that I love. TSO liked it a lot too. And we even found a really nice one for him. It seems so weird to see him with a ring on his finger. I hope the pressure around his finger doesn't cut off the oxygen flow to his lungs. I've heard wedding bands some times have that effect on men...

So...Softball. I got to the game and saw the team we were about to go up against and I must admit I had butterflies in my stomach. There were a lot of really big guys on the team and even the women looked a little tough. I'll spare you the boring details...we won 21 - 0! Then it was off to the bar. I love sports!

Today I have lunch plans with some friends at a local Irish Pub. We are trying to reinstate what was once known as "Liquid Lunch Friday", yeah I'll be productive after that. This evening we have a party to go to at a local bar - there will be flip cup, beer pong, and other juvenile games to be played, but alas, it all goes to benefit House of Ruth. Nothing like drinking for charity!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

We had our first and only softball practice last night. Our first game is tomorrow. We don't take ourselves very seriously. We practiced with Corona's in hand and when practice was through we had pizza and well, more beer...We do however win games! Somehow we just play well together.

It's funny, I go to the gym often, I consider myself is decent shape, yet I swing a bat a few dozen times and my back and abs are killing me!

The Sweet One is off tomorrow and I've decided to join him. It's supposed to be 80 degrees and perfect tomorrow. I've decided to have my crotch waxed. Should be fun, or painful, or both if you're into that kind of thing. Then I am hitting the batting cages. Have to be ready for the game and more importantly for beer guzzling and pizza eating tomorrow night.

I am currently watching The Constant Gardner. Usually movies surrounded by Oscar buzz make me gag and I generally can't figure out what all the hype is about. So far I am LOVING this movie. I'll elaborate further once I'm done just to be sure the film doesn't take a turn for the worst and I end up hating it in the end.

Adios girls and boys!

I watched Elizabethtown yesterday. I thought I hated Kirstin Dunst before I watched this movie. Now I know for sure that I loath her. I'm so glad I didn't ask The Sweet One to watch this with me. Not that I would have, I know him a little better than that. I'm actually kind of surprised that I watched it but a friend of mine, now an ex friend, told me this was a good movie. This movie almost even ruined Orlando Bloom for me. Not that I think he is that hot BUT in the right role he is not bad to look at...

Anyway, enough about that...I also watched Finding Neverland. That was a good movie.

I woke up this morning with some type of bug bites all over my thigh and half way down my leg. I am super creeped out because this means that I slept with some type of insect. I am assuming it was one of the worst kind and the kind I am most afraid of...a SPIDER! I don't know why those little things oog me out so bad but they do, and wouldn't you know it, they are very prevalent in my hood, or at least around my house. I also killed one the other night so maybe one of his family members decided to take care of me. If I die later today the spider that bit me was poisonous...with my luck I'll just get really sick and my body will expand to double it's size.

I pretty much have nothing for you today. The weather is beautiful and I am thinking of dipping out a little early, you know, seeing as I got to work at almost 11am...we'll see.

It was a very family filled weekend. I feel like all I did was eat and now all I want to do is run on the treadmill constantly for the next 7 days straight. At least I feel like that's the only thing that'll make me feel better about myself...

We're lucky enough to live close to the new American Film Institute headquarters. A lot of people think it's in LA, but no, it's in Silver Spring, Maryland, blocks from the border of Washington, D.C. Anyway, that's not what I am trying to get into...The fact is that they show some of the best new and very old films and we're lucky enough to take advantage of that. They also have great seats, comfy theaters AND they sell beer and wine. Nothing better than taking in a flick, reclining like you're in your living room and even having a cocktail if you want!

So, Friday night we went to see the movie Thank You For Smoking. I was skeptical, mostly because TSO usually picks out really bad movies, but he's two for two at the AFI so I was hopeful. It ended up being really good. I highly recommend it.

Saturday we did yard work, well, I did a little yard work, you know, the fun stuff. Planted cute flowers, put out some yummy hanging baskets, swept, raked, pulled weeds. TSO did some MAJOR yard work. He was out there raking, pruning sticker bushes, you know, all the manly stuff. Then the eating began. We started at my family's house then we headed to TSO's parent's house where the whole family and only some of the kids (you would have never known by the noise level) dyed Easter eggs and ate more. We were spent by the end of that and didn't even go out. We went home with full bellys. I hate that feeling...

Sunday morning I got up for church. I really didn't feel like going but that damned Catholic guilt got me so I went. There were so many kids there and they were SO LOUD. I found peace and tried to tune them out. Seriously, why does it take some parents SOOOO LONG to take their kids out of the room when they are fussing? I'm sorry if I'm offending the parents out there and I'm sure one day I will be able to answer these questions for myself but FUCK! I wanted to stuff a page of my bible in some of those kids mouths....

After my morning snack of the body and blood of Christ we headed out to ummm, eat more! We met my parents in down town Annapolis and gorged on the worst food ever at Phillips restaurant. If you've never had the chance to go...DON'T! They used to be the end all, be all of seafood restaurants. Now, they just suck. At least it was a beautiful day to walk down by the water.

From there we headed to another Easter dinner at TSO's family's house. The food was phenomenal BUT I was so full from the other crap we ate that I couldn't really eat. Eh, that didn't stop us. We ate a little then we fell asleep. Don't ask me how we did that with the noise level but we did. Then, we went home with full bellys. Did I mention that I hate that feeling?

I think I woke up full this morning. Gross! It is so yucky and rainy out today I just want to sleep but instead I can be found at the gym tonight. I may sleep there, not sure.

I hope everyone had a great Easter!

I don't know what happened last night. I didn't think I drank that much but uhhh, apparently I did. I feel like shite! Happy Good Friday huh?

I went to look at the invitations with my mom. We made a decision. They are very cool, not too traditional. I would try to explain them but it's pretty pointless. When I have a picture I'll post it.

So, after invitations I drove downtown to meet TSO and his lesbian friend Linda at The Old Ebbit Grill. It's really fun talking to people at bars. While there we met a man who works for NASA, a couple of women out looking to "meet" people, and a man who was 48 and his 24 year old girlfriend - he kept saying how smart she was and how mature she was...I'm not sure who he was trying to convince. The funniest part was when he left our lesbian friend and NASA dude both said, "he's gay"! I guess I have bad gaydar but they were both pretty sure of it. Oh well...mid life crisis perhaps?

When I got home I tried on my wedding dress and veil for the first time! I have to admit, it looked really good! Maybe it was because I was drunk but I thought I looked damn good. But then I got sad. I don't want to wear this dress only once, I want to wear it every day!

So I got up this morning feeling a little like crap! I really, honestly didn't think I drank that much but I am really feeling slugish today. I HAVE to go to the gym but SO don't feel like it. I might pass out on the elliptical, well, if I'm lucky anyway!

This weekend is going to be a busy one in terms of family stuff. Saturday afternoon we are all getting together for FANESCA, a traditional Ecuadorian Easter soup that my family eats. Then we head to TSO's parent's house to dye eggs with the kiddies in the fam. I used to love dying eggs. I was always so intrigued by that clear crayon and that dipping wire thing! Remember when you lost the dipper or someone else was using it so you tried to dip your egg with a spoon, then the egg would of course fall into the dye so you would have to retrieve it with your fingers then you would have blue fingers for a week? Oh and I used to love when I would try and get all fancy and dip into a few colors and inevitably I would always end up with that brownish orangish colored egg...Good times, good times!

Anyway, I hope that everyone has a wonderful Easter and a great weekend!

I bought myself these flowers yesterday, aren't they purdy? ( i have to buy myself flowers because no one else does...hint, hint) That is also the type of flower I am going to have in my wedding. I love Gerbera Daisies. They are so simple but beautiful and colorful, doncha think? Oh, also, my dress apparently came in yesterday too! My mom's picking it up today and bringing it to me. I can't wait to try it on. I hope it looks nice!

Okay, so I watched the movie Monster the other day, has anyone seen it? That has got to be one of the worst movies in the world. Now, I'm no prude and I'm not easily offended but I found myself cringing and tense throughout the whole film and by the time it was over I felt sick. It was just awful. It was sad, pathetic, disgusting, gross, sad, horrible. I guess maybe the worst part was just knowing that it was a true story so that made it really real if you know what I mean. If you haven't seen it, don't! It's so freakin depressing. And apparently you really do just have to ugly yourself up in this industry to win an oscar because let me tell you...Charlize was hideous in this movie - hideous looking. I'm no huge Charlize Theron fan but she really did do a great acting job in this role.

So, the weather here is getting really freakin nice. Not that, oh let's go to the beach, nice - it's getting to that, ooohhh, let's go drink margaritas all day in the sun instead of going to work, nice! Thankfully my boss is still out. It's GLORIOUS! I have had a ton of work to do, yet it hasn't been stressing me out. I have been leaving when I want, coming in when I want and still getting everything I need done. I love spring/summer!

I'm going to look at invitations with my mom today. The Sweet One and I already went and narrowed it down to a few that we really like but mom's is gonna help me make the final decision. Personally, I don't care that much. When I first made the appointment with the woman who does them she told me that we'd need a few hours to go through all of the invitation books but I was having none of that. Just the thought of spending hours going through invitation books made me want to stick hot pokers in my ass...and not in a good way! After looking through about 10 books or so I was DONE! How boring. So, we should have a decision this afternoon. I know, I know, you all are waiting with bated breath so I'll be sure to let you know what we pick.

Okay well, that's all for me peeps! Adios...

I just can't seem to get my shit together these days!

SO...the engagement party went swimmingly. The food was awesome, we had a wonderful showing by friends and family alike and there was no real drama, at least nothing to write about without seeming completely caddy and like a complete and total biatch...so, you get nothing. The only bummer is that it had rained for pretty much two days straight and by the time the party started and it had finally stopped raining it was freezing outside! Our hosts had set up a lovely tent outside and a really cool fire pit thingy and it would have been awesome to hang out there had it not been so cold. So, the party stayed primarily inside but that was just fine!

The other guests of honor (the sweet one's bro and his fiance), the Sweet One and I ended up going back to my parent's house, who live very close to the party venue, and drank until about 4:30am. I ended up getting up for Palm Sunday mass with my step dad at about 8am while all the other jerks slept peacefully! Oh well, I'm going to heaven and they're not...

I was so fucking exhausted and semi hung over on Sunday, BUT, I could not sleep. Why, you ask? Well, because two of our very good friends who live in New Orleans got engaged on Saturday night in D.C. SO, we hosted a small get together to celebrate. This meant that the Sweet One and I bought tons of alcohol and food and we cooked and hosted until our guests left at 10:30pm on Sunday night!!! Long story short, I didn't get to sleep until after midnight. I was so tired on Monday that I felt sick! I went to work, got as much done as possible, which was A LOT and then went home and slept. I am now feeling back to myself finally.

Now, I am going to drink with the ladies. It's a beautiful day out, the sun is shining and that makes me want to drink alcohol! Woo Hoo...bring on the nice weather...

We got some of our engagement pictures back. I look fat. Why is it that I look in a mirror, I see myself in real life and I look perfectly proportionate THEN someone takes a picture of me and I look fat? It's so detrimental to one's self esteem. I already have "issues" in the appearance department, you know, being a female and all, I think it's a predestined requirement for us, but when I see pictures that I don't like of myself, and I know I am my worst critic, it makes me think, damn, is that how I really look? Is that how people see me? The girl with the 4 chins when she smiles? The girl with the huge tits? Ugghh, so depressing.

There are a few that are kind of cute but what the hell do you do with engagement pictures anyway? I mean, I would never send them out to people. Maybe our parents or my best friends that have seen my fat in all shapes and sizes. Oh well, maybe I'll find one I like, crop it, air brush it, frame it and put it on the wall...? Sounds like a good idea to me!

So Saturday is the dreaded Engagement Party that we didn't ask for...ha ha, I'm such a bitch! It should be fun, I guess...whatever. I won't go on that rant again. I'll just leave it be until afterward. I'll post more next week about it. I know you're all on the edge of your seats!

I can't believe it's Thursday already. Yayy!

My alarm clock didn't go off this morning...

Generally I would use that as an excuse for something but it really happened today. I always wondered if people made that shit up. Well, I know The Sweet One does, but I don't and today it really happened and I was pissed. I wanted to wake up early, get to the gym and then get into the office early for our 9:30am staff meeting. Well, as I was sleeping I got that weird feeling. You know, the one where you're like, hmmm, it feels like I've slept too long. Well, I did! I turned over, looked at the clock on the vcr (the only correct time) and it was 8:15am! I was so annoyed because now, not only did I miss my window to go to the gym, but I had to jump up and get my ass moving to get into the office on time. I walked into the meeting about 10 minutes late. But, I was happy to learn that one of my managers wasn't there because she forgot to change her clock to daylight savings time and therefore slept an extra hour! HA...I'm not the only idiot. BUT, makes me wonder if she made it up? ha ha...

Anyway, I watched a movie while I worked yesterday. It's so great having two monitors on my desk. And the really weird this is, I got a ton of work done. I wrote scripts, I got expenses taken care of, etc, etc! I watched Cold Mountain. I didn't think I was going to like it, but I did. Maybe that's the key to movies for me. Expect to hate it and end up very entertained. It was full of actors that I generally don't care much for and it was based on a genre that doesn't really interest me but it was really well done.

My boss is leaving at 2pm today and isn't expected back into the office until April 24th! This is like a gods send! Now, although I have a ton of work to get done, not having that extra person here to ask things of me, have meetings with me, etc I can get all of my stuff done, watch movies perhaps, and get wedding stuff done. I am hoping to use this time very wisely.

Hope everyone's having a great Wednesday. Only 2 days until the weekend! WOO HOO...

So last week pretty much kicked my ass, again! Now that we're done all of the heavy lifting at work with this new campaign we have had the week from hell in terms of praise and partying. We've had to show our stuff off to everyone and graciously take our pats on the back. This included lots of parties at the end of last week. Finally at Thursday night's shin dig my boss told everyone to just not come into the office on Friday. He didn't have to tell me twice. I woke up late, went to the gym at that transition time where it's so empty I could squeal with joy then I headed into the office for a very quick minute to get some things done and then was home by about noon. I think I slept most of the rest of the afternoon but I can't even remember, last week is kind of a blur.

Friday night I took one for the team. And this is a biggie. I went over to the Sweet One's parents house for dinner. By. My. Self. Lame huh? They were even surprised that I didn't have plans on a Friday night. To be honest, it was wonderful. A home cooked meal and not having to worry about anything? What more could you ask for? I was so not in the mood to socialize on Friday after the last few weeks so the Friday night with the in-laws was really nice actually!

Saturday I cleaned until my hands and knees were sore. My house, along with the rest of my life, has also been very neglected recently. We started the early evening however with lots and lots of margaritas and fajitas. There must have been roofies in our rita's because they just about kicked everyone's asses! Either that or the 10 pitchers had something to do with it...?

Sunday TSO and I did one of the goofiest things we have and probably ever will do...We had engagement pictures taken down at the Cherry Blossoms in D.C. In our defense the only reason we took them is because a friend of ours is trying to become a professional photographer and she offered to take them in order to put them into her portfolio so we said, why not? I mean, I don't really get the whole engagement picture thing but free pictures, professional at that, are free pictures. And it actually ended up being kind of fun. The weather was amazing, the Cherry Blossoms and weeping willows were so beautiful and we got to spend the morning pretending the paparazzi was after us, he he...

Anyway, that's my most boring recap of my weekend. I apologize for the recent lameness. I hope to be back in action, or to be honest, have little to nothing to do at work so I can spend my time blogging! Happy Monday Everyone...