What's Going On aka A Random Post

• I called out sick from work yesterday, my stomach was bothering me and I felt like I just needed a mental health day. It was fabulous to just lay around doing nothing all day and I feel quite refreshed!
• My parents are at the beach for a long weekend so we are watching Gryffin...he has slept over at our apartment since Wednesday and we are staying at my parent's house from tonight until Sunday so we can also keep an eye on my little brother (he is 17 so my parents are worried he will have a party or something.)
• K is almost done with his summer class (criminal law), he just has to take his final on Monday. He is planning to study a lot this weekend.
• Fingers crossed...I will be going to see "Bruno" on Saturday. I know some people hated it, but I loved "Borat" and I am very excited to check out Sasha Baron Cohen's latest venture. I hope it isn't too hard to get tickets since it comes out today! Other then that it should be a low key weekend.
• I have lost almost 10 pounds since I started "Atkins." I use the term loosely since I am doing more low carb/low sugar. When I really stuck to Atkins induction weight came off very fast but it's not a very realistic diet for long term so it's going more slowly---and I am ok with it. I have been very good during the week but it's hard not to slack off a bit on the weekends!

Happy Friday Everyone! Anyone have any cool weekend plans?

Richard Lawson, how I love thee

Last night I was hoping for more fodder for the fire that is my mockery of "NYC Prep," but the episode was pretty blah. Thankfully, Richard Lawson at Gawker, as always, was able to make up for the wasted hour of my life with a hilarious recap. Check it out, I promise you will laugh!

Hanna at 3 months old

I have been meaning to do this since Hanna turned 3 months old and now she is almost 4 months old...better late then never!

She is completely crate trained and potty trained (knock on wood.) All I have to say is "kennel up" and she runs right in, in the morning she gets a kong then in the afternoon she gets some treats. I come home at lunch to feed and walk her then (I think) she goes back to sleep until we get home. The only thing is...she still sleeps on the bed...in her crate. Honestly, I don't know if that will change, unless we take her out of the crate and she keeps sleeping on the bed. What a spoiled dog.

Hanna knows some tricks already and we are working on more, she is very active and can be a bit of a diva. She likes to follow me around the house but doesn't really like to be held unless she is sleepy or in a new area. My mom got me a puppy purse so I am working on carrying her in that so I can take her more places. According to our vet she probably won't get over 10 pounds (big difference from Gryffin who is 15.) She is a tiny girl with a big personality!

All in all she is a great dog and we are so glad we have her. Here are some pictures:

On a walk with her parents.

Taking a break and being carried by Daddy.

Pre-haircut, she looked like a mop!


Post-haircut! So pretty!

First hair bows! They were 4th of July themed but after

playing with Gryffin all weekend they came out.

How I Made the Most of My Day Off

At first glance I appear to be a very organized person, however my closet and dresser drawers always seem to get very messy. Since I had last Friday off of work for the 4th of July I decided to tackle cleaning out my clothes and getting everything organized.

Here is the before (don't judge me too hard):


And the after (I just need to get some shelves for the shoes):



And the bags for Goodwill (some of the stuff in there came from K's dresser but a lot was mine):
Now I just have to work to keep it this neat!

I wish I could declare my independence from work

I'm back! Well, I didn't really go anywhere but K and I did spend the bulk of the weekend at my parents' house. I hope you all had lovely holidays, we had a great time and I saw probably the best fireworks of my life. They were seriously awesome!

Of course it had to come to an end and now it's just another Monday at work...fortunately this is my last full week of work in July!

I'll be back soon with a post about my productive day off on Friday and a Hanna update (with pictures.) For now it is time to get back to the grind catch up on blogs.

The Name Game

It's Meme Day...aka I am bored-at-work-and-think-these-are-fun-and-they-give-me- something-to-do Day!

I have seen this one a couple of different places, feel free to steal if you want!

10. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle name) Jean Meredith (yes, my dad's middle name is Meredith, it is a family name)

9. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, fathers dad) David Lynn (yes, my dad's father's name was Lynn, apparently they liked naming males sterotypically female names on that side of the family)

8. STARWARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, 2 letters of your first) Burco

7. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, fav animal) Pink Monkey (that was a hard one, I like a lot of different colors and animals)

6. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Marie Knoxville (I like this one!)

5. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning) The Blue Screwdriver (also hard for the color reason and I like a lot of drinks)

4. FLY GIRL/GUY NAME: (1st 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters ofyour last name) Corr

3. GANGSTA NAME: ( fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie) Cookie Dough Sugar

2. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name) Hanna Gate

1. STRIPPER NAME: ( name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy) Brit Twizzlers

Sad little girls pretending to be women (with little boys mixed in too)

The first time I watched "NYC Prep" I didn't know what to think, however now that I have watched it again and let it absorb a bit I feel as though I can actually put into words my feelings on this spectacle.

What it really comes down to is these kids have sad lives. They stride around the Upper East Side with no parental control as if they are characters in an extremely wealthy version of Oliver Twist. Minus the whole pickpocketing part because they have Daddy and Mommy's credit cards instead. The clutch their blackberries and iPhone like the security blankets their parent's probably instructed their nannies to take away from them 17 or so years ago so as to not adversely affect them getting into the Ivy League.

They pretend to be adults however there is a jaded sadness lurking below the surface along with the teenage awkwardness they try so hard to hide.

Here are my thoughts on our "stars":

Kelli is pretty blah. She is a semi-cute girl with a lot of money so she looks put together but plop her into middle America and she would be your standard high school girl. Apparently she wants to be a singer but we haven't seen any of her talent yet. Like every other prep school girl in NYC apparently, she has long brown hair.

Camille is Kelli's BFF who I think is supposed to be the "smart girl." To me she just seems immature and is very strange looking. She seems to be very concerned with getting ahead and fitting in. She may in fact be a cross-eyed alien living on Earth...similar to Ramona, a bug-eyed alien living on Earth. (wow Men in Black got it right, aliens do hide out in NYC)

Jessie is the "fashionista," although so far I haven't seen her wear anything amazing. She seems to be living the life of a UES woman in her 40s...doing charity work and being more obsessed with the labels in her closet then people.

PC, whose name actually stands for Peter Carey...not Personal Computer or Politically Correct...as I was expecting, is Jessie's BFF and perhaps a potential love interest for her? Like Jessie, he also appears to be actually in his 40s, or maybe even 50s. As an aging playboy he has grown tired of the "casual sex" of prep school and is ready for a relationship. He hopes that his therapist will help him work through his issues so he can find love. (seriously)

Sebastian is a perfect blend of surfer, Frenchman and douche-bag. He uses his bilingual abilities to hook up with as many girls as possible. I'm sure that was his parent's intentions when they enrolled him in French class at age 2. One "como sa va" and a flip of his golden locks and the ladies swoon.

Taylor is my personal favorite because she actually seems like a normal teenager. She goes to public school but apparently wants to hang out with the prep school brats...at this point she has gone on a couple dates with Sebastian (poor thing.) When she grows up she wants to be a philosopher(huh?) and for fun she is reading a book called "like 100 greatest philosophers." I will have to check that one out at Barnes &Nobel Taylor, thanks for the recommendation.

Are you all watching this show? What do you think?