Wishful Wednesday:Costume

I wish .... I was six years old and going trick or treating, and my costume would be a bunch of grapes!

I once saw a very similar costume to this after I was past trick or treating age and always wished I had done it. I like the idea of making your costume and doing something really silly.

Not that I didn't have some awesome costumes as a kid, but a lot of them were very girly rather then goofy. For example I was Catwoman (complete with these black boots that went over my shoes), a "harem girl" (it was kind of a Jasmine type outfit...yes, I realize it was slightly questionable that my mom called me a harem girl) and a cowgirl (also with some sweet boots.)

I also won a costume contest when I was 2 or 3 and my mom dressed up me and one of my little boyfriends as Raggedy Anne and Andy.

But now, if I was a little 6 year old again I would totally be a bunch of grapes.

P.S. In honor of Halloween I am devoting my posts this week towards all things creepy and Halloween-y...get ready!

a puppy in fall

sick day

K and I both have cold so we called out sick today. I'm feeling better today then I was over the weekend but who couldn't use a day off now and then?

I'm trying to use this day off to actually be productive and do some work on my applications for school! Wish me luck!

annoyed

Do you know when you wake up and you just feel a mild sense of annoyance with the whole world? That's how I feel today. Kind of like I want to punch something or someone.

It's Friday and I should be in a good mood, but little things are bothering me.

Things like:

• People who put "read receipts" on every...single...email they send at work. I'm going to read your email and respond...why do you need proof?
• Stupid tattoos. If you are going to get a tattoo get a good one. Don't get the outline of Mickey Mouse behind your ear.
• Hangers left on random doors. K always puts his empty hangers after getting dressed in the morning on the doorknobs of either his closet, our "laundry room," or our bedroom. I just don't get why the hangers need to come out of the closet at all let alone why they get left on the doors.
• People who key cars. This happened to me this summer and one of my coworker's car was also keyed recently. Who does that?
• Pee on toilet seats. First of all, I don't get how this is even possible to do as an adult female. And second, why wouldn't you wipe it off?

Here's hoping my mood improves and thanks for letting me bitch, blog friends. What is annoying you?

Wishful Wednesday:Vacation

I wish...I was going on vacation tomorrow to Australia and New Zealand!

This is both a depressing and fun Wishful Wednesday. Depressing because I probably won't be going on any cool vacations for a while and fun because there are so many places I really want to travel to. Ever since I read the book "The Thorn Birds" (which is one of my favorites) I have been obsessed with going to Australia. Then when I saw and fell in love with "The Lord of the Rings" movies I added New Zealand to my list as well.

I figure to really be able to make the most of this vacation I would need about 3 weeks. I would want to see Sydney, hit up the beaches and go to the deserts of Australia then go over to New Zealand and go on some of the Lord of the Rings tours (yes, I am a nerd.) And I am sure whenever I do plan this trip I would figure out even more things to do in each country.

With K being in law school and me planning on going back to school I know we won't be going on this trip in the next couple years...but someday I promise I will be there!

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clean out the food week

I have declared this week "clean out the food week," at least in my apartment...but if you would like to join in please feel free. I am waiting on official approval from whoever it is who declares days, weeks and months different things.

What this means is that I am trying to use up all of the random food that has compiled in my pantry and freezer before I go out and continue to buy more food items and let older things sit there. It's also sort of like I am a contestant on Top Chef because I have to invent things with whatever I can find. Don't judge me, I take what small elements of fun I can during my mundane evenings. If only Tom and Padma were there to hang out.

Last night I decided for night 1 of "clean out the food week" I would take the easy way out and make this Safeway frozen skillet meal (chicken Alfredo with portobello mushrooms.) Now I did buy that meal when I moved into my apartment (in May of 2008) but I figured it has been frozen...it has to be ok. I once ate a piece of my grandparents frozen 50th anniversary cake on their 55th anniversary...and it was good! But, I was wrong.

As it cooked I began to lose faith in the water-y, off-white mass of gummy noodles and chicken in my skillet. There were two mushrooms. Maybe I could heat up some soup? K was on his way home and he eats anything so maybe I could feed it to him and pretend that I ate already?

Too late...he arrived home and the grossed out look on my face couldn't fool him. I told him I wasn't sure I wanted to eat it but he could have some. He took a sniff and declared that it smelled both acrid and sweet...like vomit. I held back from barfing in the kitchen sink.

It went into the garbage disposal. Then K looked at the bag it had come out of and noticed that it had a use by date...of April 2009. Yes, I can read, I really thought frozen food was good forever.

Thank God, Chik-fil-A is right down the street.

back in blonde

I got my hair done this weekend.


It really needed it. And yes, I do wear my high school cheerleading sweatshirt.


After two years of trying get back to "normal" after dying my hair auburn. It's nice to finally be back in blonde.

(The self portraits were due to the fact that K was gone this weekend, I covered my face in the first one becuase I was looking pretty nasty.)