eventful

josh, me, jared and maria with jared's awards

these past few months have been full of big life events.  in between the big life events, i have found it hard to talk about the daily minutia.  but today i am making a return to chatting about the little unimportant details of life, let's begin:

**the black eyed peas new song, 'boom boom pow'.  i am listening to it right now, and i want to listen to it all the time on repeat.  [i would post a link to the mp3 but 'big blogger' is watching].

**moving on, marinated mozzarella balls on pita chips.  i could eat them every day for every meal.  i found a recipe for how to marinate them myself yesterday.  will get on that soon.  

**finally got a bag i've had my eye on for months (for 50% off, no less).  

**netflix, why are YOU so awesome?  the roommates and i expectantly check the mailbox for your latest offerings every day.  we love you. 

**i am currently spending my morning looking at fun wedding stuff, being in a wedding is fun and it makes me excited to have a fun little wedding one of these days.

**you guys should keep your eye out for jared and maria's wedding pictures to be posted on joshgoleman.com.  they are going to be SICK.  [and he is amazing, look around his sight]

**2 very different movies that you should see.  

*UP.  go see it today.  and be ready to cry several times.  at a cartoon.  just go see it.

*the hangover.  really seriously inappropriate, you will also cry in this movie because it is so friggin' funny.  but this is not for everyone, let me give you the demographic for this movie, if you haven't slept for about 48 hours and are really loopy, and you have a really low brow sense of humor you will laugh until you can't breathe.  

okay byyyyyyyeeee

my top moments of the week

• some solid time with elias and glory on sunday morning.  
• hilarious house meeting on sunday night with all three girls.  lots of pregnancy questions, talk about 7-eleven, and promises from the girls to "be really, really good this week". 
• watching the bachelor with jess.  
• monday, we were able to get one of our girls into a really great doctor's office, which is awesome.  it was really sweet to see her treated well, and really come out of her shell some during the appointment, and generally in the house.
• our newest girl.  i never really know what is okay to share, and what's not.  but oh, do we have stories.  let's just say, she is an endless source of good stories.  AND she has never been to wendy's, taco bell, or subway.  
• tuesday, i had a doctor's appointment.  the lady i saw is one of the midwives that has worked with a few of our girls.  during the appointment the following was said, "well, you need to go ahead and find mr. right, and start having babies, because you only have about 10 more really fertile years".  listen, lady, i am surrounded by 'fertility' almost as much as you are, don't play, i get it.
• the pure excitement of postpartum roller skating, and trampoline jumping.  
• dentist visit in little vietnam.  really strange, and for some reason there were about 11 or 12 hole-in-the-wall dentist's offices within one block.  very strange, and i watched mr. rogers (in vietnamese), and he sang this song (for some reason he switched to english for this part): 

Some are fancy on the outside. 

Some are fancy on the inside. 

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

Boys are boys from the beginning. 

Girls are girls right from the start. 

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

Girls grow up to be the mommies. 

Boys grow up be the daddies.

Everybody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

I think you're a special person 

And I like your ins and outsides. 

Everbody's fancy. 

Everybody's fine. 

Your body's fancy and so is mine. 

• my first ever trip to pf changs with jess and kal.  it was exactly what i needed, and just really fun.  love them.  shout out to leigh and gray for the gift card!
• today, sitting here listening to our somali girl watching maury povich.  
• catching up on lost, and hopefully the office and 30 rock sometime today!
• and it's valentine's day, and i'm not even a little bitter about it.

 

just some stuff

8 TV Shows I Watch:
1) the office
2) arrested development
3) six feet under
4) gilmore girls
5) really crappy shows (rob and big, for example)
6) curb your enthusiasm
7) 30 rock
8) little house on the prairie

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1) moe's
2) any hole in the wall thai place
3) california dreaming
4) chickfila
5) any good sushi place
6) the new beginnings kitchen
7) any local places wherever i'm living
8) north main deli


8 Things that Happened to Me Today:
1) Got my eyebrows ripped off (just waxed, and not totally off)
2) Almost passed out after working with my parent's trainer. 3) Got a manicure.
4) Got in an argument with my mom, like six times.
5) Made up with my mom six times.
6) Did a little non-christmas target shopping.
7) Made dinner for my parents.
8) Currently watching The Biggest Loser.


8 Things I Look Forward To:
1) Josh flying in on Thursday.
2) Cooking mexican food for the fam on friday night.
3) Coffee with a few friends over the next few days.
4) Driving up to the cabin in the rover, with the bros and the JAKE.
5) Going to find our Christmas tree.  
6) Going to Florida, meeting the Thomases, and going to Disneyworld.
7) Seeing Beulah and the Connollys!!!
8) JarMar's wedding.


8 Things I Wish For:
1) Hair and makeup done for me every day.  
2) Miraculous cleanliness.  Not obsessive, just effortlessly clean and organized.
3) Free air travel for life.
4) A completed undergrad.
5) The grace to stop floating through my remaining time with pregnant teens.
6) A Beulah snuggle, RIGHT this second.
7) Safe arrival for Connolly Baby #3. 
8) New house for my parents.

I would liiiiiiike for:

Jared

Leigh

Jess

Laura

Nick

Maria

Josh

Faythe 

to do this as well.  Do it.  

saturday morning gladness

some things i am excited about--in chronological order

• doing a little cleaning up around the house this morning
• maybe catching a nap today
• enjoying my cup of coffee while catching an episode of little house on the prairie
  
• beulah's second puppy class tonight. i am not totally sure if you can 'win' a puppy class, but we're going to try our darndest.
  
• connollys coming home in 2 dayyyys.
• the fact that beulah has started chasing/eating/killing horseflies as i type this.
  
• new girls coming (could not be more excited about this)
• the month of august (birthdays, radiohead, etc.)
  
• my parents coming in september
• fall in seattle
• a puyallup family thanksgiving (imagine how awesome our dinner will be)
• looking for plane tickets home to south carolina after being away for 9 months.
• sitting in an overly-christmas-decorated-room with my whole family, including jake.
• but most of all, right now i am looking forward to life returning to the crazytown we all know and love. i am looking forward to needing to escape to one of our upstairs hideaways. this house is tooo empty.

i am all kinds of thankful for life right now.

the final list

• test drive a car, and make the salesman take a picture of me while in it.
• become an expert on the jerboa.
• enroll beu in an obedience class.
• write a book report on a children's book.  probably a 'box car children' book.
• create a soy peanut butter chocolate banana milkshake
• i will go to an area casino.
• write a poem using the word 'connolly', and find at least two rhyming words.
• photoshop jessi's face onto kim kardash..oh wait.  check that one off the list.

• i can also check the pilfering of a certain framed photo off my list. 
• teach the musick twins to sing "Low" by Flo Rida.  caleb on lead vocals, and josh on background vocals.
• flirt with one obscure man per week, three men total.  
• take a short roadtrip (idaho, here i come).
• work out 15 times in the next 3 weeks.
• i'm out.

all hopped up on oxycodin

there are lots of things i feel like saying right now.  and lots of reasons that i should not say them and go to bed, run to bed.  but, as a result of some nasty wisdom teeth worming their way through my gums, i took one of jessi's c-section pain pills, and now i am feeling pretty good about life AND my gums.  

i decided today that my life right now is very much like a 6 year old's during the summer.  i spend all day outside with no shoes on playing with a puppy.  this morning i got to hang out with elias and beulah and we played hard.  

the house is abuzz with preparation for the connollys trip back east.  i will be using this blog to brainstorm for activities during my 3 weeks alone:

• drive to rainier
  
• dog park/obedience classes for beu
  
• spend full days in tacoma exploring
  
• walk to puyallup several times a week
  
• possibly have to recover from wisdom teeth removal
  
• i know one or two days i will be watching the musick twins (that will be a series of posts all to itself, i am sure).
  
• spend a full day in fremont, because i love it.
• eat here.  
• maybe i'll take the twins to see Wall-E (i love me some pixar)
• drop my resume off here.

okay, so i have tried before to get people to come out of the woodwork and comment on my blog.  but for real, i covet your ideas for things to do for free for the next few weeks.  though, i am fully aware that no one is going to leave me ideas--i have no sway in the blog world.  i've come to terms with it.  

uhhhh

in the coming days you can look forward to a pretty awesome set of pictures of jessi and i dressed up as each other.  as soon as i can get it off of my camera.  

we are headed to a mariner's game tonight.  i went when jared and maria were here, and it was so fun.  but tonight--we're headed to the best seats in the house.  deluuuuuxe box seats.  hopefully we'll get some good pictures of that experience as well.  

i have definitely decided that i am MORE than ready for a new group of girls.  nick and jessi are totally occupied without them, because they have 2 full time jobs (otherwise known as elias and glory).  but me?  yeah, i am going to need something to do/someone to make fun of pronto.  i'm only half kidding about that last part.  i just want to DO something.  even if it is being exasperated/completely amused by:

• monkeys
  
• straightjackets
  
• finascos
  
• 6 am (sis AM)
  
• 8 pound people coming out of cooches
  
• chinese crustaceans
• baJA fresh
• or just general crazy
  

all of this to say, if you happen to live in the puget sound area, and even if you don't, maybe come/fly/drive here.  no, really.  i'm not kidding.  

can anyone hear me?  you there?  

come see me.  now.

please?