Redirecting those that are still here….

Hi Peeps – I'm taking a short break from this blog to focus my attention on a new blog. If you feel compelled to read endless sappy stories and gruesome details (ok, not really) about the baby on the way, check out: www.babyalo.blogspot.com.

Why don’t YOU take the stairs??

There is a new sign posted by our elevator banks that says, "Why not take the stairs?". I resent this sign. Every time I see it, I come up with several reasons why I don't take the stairs:

1. I'm afraid of getting locked in the stairwell (ok, not really)
   
2. Stairs make my legs ache
   
3. I have no idea where the stairwells lead to and I'm not exactly in the mood to go exploring when it's 5:01 and I'm ready to get the heck out of dodge
   
4. Stairs make my head ache
   
5. Why take the stairs when the elevator is so convenient?
   

My question back to this sign is "Why not mind your own bizniz?"

WHY??

won't these go away!?!

There is no need....

to be at work at 6 am. Yet, this is what I've been doing and what I will be doing all week. It's ok though, it's just 5 days so I think I can handle it. I'm working at one of the stores in Plano which is actually really interesting to me. But I'm sure it's not interesting to you.
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I've tried, unsuccessfully, to think of something else to write. However, since nothing is coming to me at the moment, I'm just gonna give up and go take a nap (or work for the next 9 hours).

Maui weddings with David Robinson

Our trip to Maui is sadly coming to an end. We've had a great time doing a lot of nothing, though somehow this has worn me out. It's been great having a semi-local to show us around....secret beaches, half price drinks, comp'd snorkeling trips, etc. Highlights of the trip include: beach hopping from resort to resort, driving out to Hana, hiking to a super secluded beach (and falling on lava rock that cut me up - doh!), meeting new people at bar-b-q's thrown in our honor....the list could go on. The best part was seeing an old friend and catching up.

Today Lance and I hung alone on Wailea beach in front of the Four Seasons resort. We spent the day reading, swimming, drinking, and occasionally napping. We decided to stay out until sunset, and as we were relaxing taking it all in, a wedding party came through. And who was part of that party? David Robinson! We both pretended not to see him, although I was gawking behind my sunglasses. He was literally 5 feet away from me, yet I turned my head away and directed my gaze towards the sunset. Lucky for Lance my camera was out of batteries, otherwise I might have snapped a photo. So there, a vacation trip complete with celebrity appearances. Who could ask for more??

ahhh...

after 10 hours of travel, we're in Maui!! Our flight was supposed to only be 5 1/2 hours from LA, but we sat on the runway for 2 hours. Mechanical issues that they thought were kinda important before we started flying over water. Thanks American Airlines! Good thing I took my ambien, which knocked me out those 2 hours on the runway!

I'm so happy go be here and even happier that my good friend Amanda is a concierge at the Four Seasons. She's hooked us up with dinner reservations tonight.. and now i gotta go because lance is asking me to hurry up!

mahalo!

I heart cupcakes

We are FINALLY all moved into the new house!! It was a hectic / frantic / insane Monday trying to get all the paperwork signed and bending over backwards for our stupid lenders, but it's finally done! Now the arduous task of unpacking all of our crap. I thought I had done a decent job of de-cluttering, but after unpacking my closet last night, I realized I have way more stuff that could have gone to Goodwill. Oh well.

My Mom and my sister came up to help us get unpacked. They are so much better at arranging furniture than I will ever be (i have the attention span of an ant when it comes to stuff like that).

Highlight of the move: mom unpacking the kitchen - gets to my phallic-shaped cupcake tins (don't judge, they were for a bachelor party!), turning the tin over and over (i think she was trying to work out in her head what exactly the shape was), my brother snickering cause he realized immediately what it is, and my sis saying "wow, that's embarrassing". Mom finally snapped and just said "oh, where do you want these??"

OOC

Since most things in my life right now are mostly out of my control (and therefore, out of control), I thought I"d make some changes to something I totally control - my blog! I got tired of the standard template, so I've copied someone else's and am really digging it. Too bad I don't know html, otherwise I'd totally have this thing tricked out.

Feedback is not encouraged.

...and the boxes keep a 'comin

I would love to tell y'all that my life has been SO busy and that's why I haven't had time to blog. However, you all know me too well and know that even when my life is at a total standstill, I still don't blog. At any rate, I really have been busy, but am finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

For one, our house is sold, negotians have taken place, repairs have been made, and we're all set to close this Thursday. The buyer of our house seems like a really cool guy who has been great to work with - I hope he does fabulous things with this house.

Second, our new home has been selected, inspected, negotiated for repairs (like pulling teeth with the damn seller) and is set to close this Friday. With any luck, all paperwork will be in place and we'll be in our new house by Saturday.

This has been a huge learning experience, and I'm sure I'll forget all the lessons when we buy our next home (because hopefully we'll be staying in this next house for many many years).

In case you're curious about what I've been stressing over, here are a few crummy pics I took of our new house. It's really much better in person, and if you're lucky, you'll get an invite to the house-warming. ;-)

Disappointment abounds

My cup runeth over with disappointment today. First, I go to the breakroom for coffe. NO CREAMER is in the fridge. I tried to swallow the bitter coffee withough creamer and it just wasn't working. So I go downstairs for coffee and since I'm starving, a banana nut muffin (even though Lance is appalled at how fattening they are). I get my vanilla soy latte and a muffin and head back upstairs. But damn, I need to get my security card out of my purse...and the dang zipper won't open. Just as I'm getting it loose - there goes my coffee ALL OVER THE FREAKING ELEVATOR FLOOR. #%%^&% &%$#@!! Ok, fine, I can deal with that, but when I get to eating my muffin, I realize it is not a banana nut muffin but a raisin muffin!!! I HATE RAISINS!

Many many many things have been going on since my last blog. Hence, the lack of blog entries. For one, we went on a really great vacation to Half Moon Bay. If you haven't been there, I highly recommend it. Our room was right on the water, so we fell asleep to the sound of the ocean every night. Ahhh. While we were away, our house went up for sale! That was good. The day before it went on the market, some freak storm blew through Austin with very large hail and broke some windows on our house and ruined the yard. That was bad. Our fab friend and real estate agent (Eileen) raked up our yard (bless her) and all things were a-go for our open house.

We got back and started house-shopping again. I've been kinda down on this because all the houses we'd looked at had issues. Like, nice huge new house - but ohh, it's right on Mopac. Or, nice great house, but ohh, there's only a 1 x 1 square of yard. So, when we walked into this house last week and saw that it was darn near perfect - I was super excited. It had a walk-in closet to DIE for (I'm talkin custom shelves for my shoes!!). Unfortunately, we got a call on Friday that someone had put an offer on it. Did I mention this house has been on the market for 4 months!? With two previous offers that fell through. Lance and I quickly decided to put an offer in as well and hope for the best. After 4 excruciating days waiting to hear back, we finally got the bad news call that they took the other offer. Turns out they weren't willing to risk our contingency offer. Oh sure, we get the home-flipping contractors who AREN'T willing to take a risk.

The fog has lifted

Sorry I haven't written. I've been in a funk.

It's really the little things that made me feel good today. Mainly in terms of sense of accomplishment. I finally finished a document at work that I'd been dreading. I came home from work and instead of plopping on the sofa, I fixed some shelves in the laundry room, swept the floor, and replaced all the light switch covers. Then I made dinner (a healthy dinner at that, even though it wasn't so great), put a load of laundry in the wash AND folded and put it away. Damn, I know I shouldn't pat myself on the back too much...I mean, I think this is the way most people live. However, when you've been hard pressed to even change the channel, it is a step in a better direction. Hopefully tomorrow is even better.

wtf mate?

I wanna watch the Bachelor cause he's hot and has an accent. I don't wanna watch the Bachelor because girls are dumb and they think serenading him is impressive.

Bachelorette (in dumb high-pitch voice): Ummmm, I like, wrote this song for you. . Umm, it goes like this. "I want you to find me. Do you see me? (giggle, giggle) Can you find my heart? Cause it's beating in my double-d chest. tee hee.

Bachelor: are you serious? you get a rose.

The word of the day is?

I'm challenging myself to write in my blog everyday for at least a week. Once the week ends, maybe I'll stretch it out to a month. Mostly I don't have much to write about (today being no different) which works out since I only know of one person that reads this anyway. Scratch that, I know at least two people who read this (it's emailed to Lance, so he MUST read it).

I had grand plans to start a detox of sorts this week (see previous post about all the crap I consumed last week). All was going well, until I went to the Whole this morning for breakfast. I was thrilled to see yogurt and granola at the breakfast bar, yet heartbroken to discover the only fruit available was melons. Ick. Unfortunately, my options were now limited to biscuits and gravy or a breakfast burrito. I made a snap decision to go with the biscuits and gravy. It was delicious, but made me feel gross after. Making matters worse, I ordered the shrimp 'n chips for dinner. Pu-ke. So seriously, tomorrow is nothing but good things for my body! But, do you really care what I ate for breakfast?? Probably not.

SXSW: Food!

Another year of SXSW has wrapped up, and I thought I'd take some time to reflect on my experience. Was it all about music and drinking? Mostly. But more than the indie rock, it was about the food and the mass quantities I consumed. Day 1 started with the pizza stand. Stony's - I heart you. Day 2 ended with the taco stand. Mr. Taco man - you make one mean carne guisada taco!! Day 3 - oh yeah, the hot dog truck. Mmm mmmm, the bun was toasted to perfection, and my cold cold Dr. P helped it all go down just right. And what would all this delicious savory food be without dessert? Did I mention it was free dessert? Ice cream trucks at every corner just WAITING to give me a treat. At one point during the festival I was totally bummed because we couldn't get into a venue. I was bummed, that is, until we turned the corner and saw some guys giving away ice cream cones out of their car. Jackpot!! That's better than any stinkin rock band!! Ok, there were other good things about SXSW besides the food. The music, of course, was great. But even better was getting to spend time with my friends and laughing so hard (on several occassions) I cried (baby i wanna do that booty, but ya gots to wash!).

And what would a blog entry of mine be without the negatives of SXSW? I'll do it in list form cause I'm too tired to elaborate any further than that:
1. Skinny jeans......*sigh*.....so over these. Especially sooo over guys with no ass wearing these. Give a girl a break!

2. Slouchy boots. Especially white slouchy boots. All I gots to say is ladies, in 2 years you're gonna cringe when you look back at those photos!

3. Freakishly tall people at the front of the stage. Do I really need to expound on this?

4. People who blog live from SXSW (and you know who you are!)

On a positive note, I must mention that the weather was amazing, the day shows are so much fun, and how can you complain about free beer?? Next year I just might skip the evening stuff and hit up day shows only. I'm gettin' old and it's harder and harder to stay up past 1 am. Unless there's magmud involved......then I'll stay up all night!

What tha caucus!?

Tonight I only did half of my civic duty. I did go and vote, however, my good-hearted attempt to caucus later in the evening was thwarted by the massive number of people plus the extremely disorganized manner in which this was supposed to go down. The screaming bored kids didn't help much either. So, after standing in a sort-of line for about 20 minutes, I bailed. Lance reminded me that some people spent HOURS in the freezing cold to vote back in the last Presidential election. I scoffed at his reminder, reminding HIM that I'd already voted. Isn't that enough?! Besides, I hate the two-step.

If you're white, you'll probably like this

My friend at work sent this to me. Mostly because I work at reason #48 and found that extremely hilarious. If you're white and reading this and are offended, too bad. I'm Mexican and think it's funny (although I do like most of these things on this list, hmm...)


http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

The Good, The Bad, and the Swollen

The Good:
Being on a chair lift in the mountains with the snow sparkling in the sun.

The Bad:
Falling down while standing in skis. Also, falling down on the FLAT part of the mountain in skis while punk ass snowboarders whiz by yelling lame things like "woah dude!"

The Swollen:
The large bruises on my leg from above mention spill on the flat part of the mountain.

I should also mention we got lost on our snowmobile's. We got cutoff by some other punks on their mobile's and took a wrong turn, ended up alone in the woods with our snowmobile stuck in the snow. NOT GOOD. Fortunately, our guide found us (need I mention he shouldn't have lost us to begin with??) and prevented us from winding up on the headlines of cnn.com. No more adventure "vacations" for me for awhile.

In other news.....something not so swollen is Mr. B's lower lip!! If you hadn't heard, he had a swollen bottom lip which was scary. But all is well, and it appears that the meds did him good (even though they made him puke). Sorry Biggs - no pain no gain!

"!"

It has come to my attention recently that I use way to many "!"'s in my emails to my friends. For some reason, I put them at the end of every sentence! Really! Am I sincerely all that excited to share the details of my lame weekend? Or am I just trying to spice it up with a little exclamation mark to make it seem more exciting? Either way, I'm on the path to recovery. I'm making a conscience effort to cut down on the punctuation abuse. From now on, it's periods only baby! (oops).

Happy New Year Suckas!!

Since the retirment of Dear Brutal Truth, I feel like I should have plenty of time to write at least a daily entry into this blog. Also, the addition of the writer's strike SHOULD decrease my tv watching time, but the opposite has happened. I've been sucked into some of the worst TV ever (The Millionaire Matchmaker, Bruno vs. Carrie: Dancewar, Housewives of OC, must I go on??). Now I'm embarrassed, oh well.
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We're now almost a month into 2008, and what do I have to show for it? Well, I started off the year passed out by 1:30 am. I'm pretty sure I was roofied, because 5 glasses of wine shouldn't be enough to knock me out. Or maybe it was the lack of food? No matter - the end result was the same, and I'm hoping that wasn't too terrible of an omen for the new year.

Following that stellar performance of my drinking prowess followed another weekend of, none other than, more drinking (so far 2008 is showing a nice little pattern here). My fab friends from DC rolled in to visit and I think we did it up right. Drinks all day Friday, drinks all night Friday, drinks all day Saturday ($5 bottomless mimosas - how could you resist?) followed by a trip to the club of the ugliest people ever (if you live in Austin, the bar was "Qua"). This place was awful for two big reasons:

1. They have a shark tank for a dance floor. What this means is that there is some heavy-duty plexi glass over a pool of sharks that drunk people dance on. These poor sharks are subjected to some bad booty music AND some large people dancing over them. It's just wrong.

2. This club tries to be swanky, and it kinda works. What brings it down is the crowd. If you're older than 40, go to Qua. If you weigh more than 300 lbs, go to Qua. If your church group is looking for a place to party, definitely go to Qua.

I think it's time for me to go into detox.....right after I finish this bottle of wine.....