What Would Jen Do

our intended lazy weekend hasn’t really worked out that way so far.  we were on the run nearly all day yesterday and lazy Sunday turned into clean the house and work on the yard Sunday.   But that’s fine, because this coming weekend is a 3 day for both of us, we get July 3rd off.  Weekends should be three days by default.

I baked a Shoo Fly pie today and learned that the smell of molasses makes me kind of want to throw up.   Neither one of us has ever had a shoo fly pie before, so i’m not sure how I did.  I do know that I don’t like it.

What a crappy few weeks for celebrity deaths.   David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah, Michael and then Billy Mays.      We’d been watching Billy Mays show Pitchmen, and as it turns out it was a really good show.

It’s almost our one year anniversary, I can’t believe that a year ago I was buying a $38 wedding dress and desiging my wedding rings.   I also can’t believe that a year ago Icey agreed to marry me.  what was he thinking?

Saturday night Icey, Skrappy and I took the light rail downtown to the Turf Pub to see our friends band play.   It takes about 45 minutes to get there via the train but it goes by pretty fast, what with all the free entertainment.  there is singing, pull up contests and homeless people.     I have definitely turned into a lightweight in my old age.   two beers seems to be my limit.   three gives me a headache in the morning and 4+, well just forget it.     That requires a full day of recovery and weekends are already too short.

Yesterday when i opened the dryer a huge scorpion had been sucked up near the lint trap.   Thank god it was dead.  But since it was in my dryer, something it cannot crawl up into, that means that i put that effer there with my own two hands.  It must have been in the pile of laundry, ALIVE,  that i put into the washer.   I consider myself lucky. 

I cut about 3 inches of my hairs off and now it’s at a kind of weird length.  It needs to be shorter or longer so i’ll just stick with longer and wait it out.    I’m really not going to complain too much because right now my neighbor has no hair and well….. who am i to complain?  there are more important things going on around me other than my hair being 1/2 inch too short.

you can pick personality traits for your people in sims 3.  so Icey and Jen Sim are just like the real life ones.   She gets stressed out when the house is dirty and he plays computer games all day.   She also came home from work one day, fat.  and i’m pretty sure that’s what happened to me too.

Work from home went permanent as of last week, so now I know for sure that I get to keep working from home a couple of days per week.   I’ve already started asking to switch my days to  M-W-F, but so far they aren’t biting.    I should be happy with what i’ve already got (and i am) but it never hurts to ask for more.   Now I don’t have to quit my job because i swear to jeebus I was going to if they took away work from home.  You can’t let someone do that for 6 months and then go, ‘oh it’s not working out, come back to the office full time’.     no way, no how.

We did decide to stay in town for our anniversary next month.   Icey had a great idea to just stay one night at a luxury resort.   So instead of a spa suite in vegas we’re getting one here.  In the end it’s going to be about 1/3 of the cost of going to Vegas.   It’s not nearly as fancy but close.  the selling point was the steam shower, we LOVE steam showers.    And since it’s the middle of summer in AZ, the rates are great.   So we’ll spend the night there, have a fancy (hopefully room serviced) dinner (and breakfast) and maybe i’ll book a massage or something, who knows!  you only get one first anniversary, unless you get married again to someone else.  or get divorced and then remarry each other later.

Then just one month later we’re going up to the cabin!  I’m hoping there are some horses up at the ranch that weekend because I think it would be awesome to see how the dogs react.  

now just need to get that all booked…….

Our one year wedding anniversary is next month and we’d semi sort of decided to go back to Vegas and stay in that swanky suite again.   I’d been waiting around for a really great deal to come thru, but you’d think the recession was over at the prices they’re charging still.    frugality got the best of me as it often does and i was pretty torn on whether or not we should go. while there is still always a small possibility i think we’re just going to stay in town.

but the suite. THE SUITE!  two stories of beautiful and not nearly as pricey as you’re thinking

instead i think we’re going to do a anniversary/birthday combo and pack up the dogs and head to a cabin up north.     it’ll be a lot cheaper and i also won’t have to worry about being without my babies.  not as glam as vegas of course, but i prefer the dogs over glamorous.   i’ll be 35 this year and icey is pretty sure 35 isn’t some kind of fun milestone where you get big parties and nice gifts.  i think it is.

one year ago today icey got down on one knee and proposed to me.  ok not really.   We just agreed on it in the kitchen after work one day, basically just like Carrie and Big in the SATC movie.   

SIMS 3 came out yesterday and it showed up unexpectedly at my house!  I didn’t know Icey’d bought it for me.   Some of the enhancements are stupid and are taking a while to get used to, but some of them are also pretty good.  Navigation is a lot harder now and the sims sure do have to pee a lot more.    I made a sim with a personality kind of like mine and she’s having a hard time making friends.   everyone just thinks she’s ‘okay’ and she annoyed someone so much he asked her to leave, he said she was behaving inappropriately.

our equivalent of a jesus in toast, or hot pocket, or cheeto or pancake.  it’s a happy face in burrito juice!!!

i think good things are definitely acoming.

lookit, it’s grass.  we haven’t had grass in 5 or so years!!!!  i think in the next month or so, the whole yard should be filled in.

i am so happy it’s a holiday weekend.  So far, two days in and I haven’t been able to sleep much past 5am.  Icey is turning into me and was up before 6am yesterday and the Voo got him up around 6 today.   But we had a pretty busy yesterday.   shopping, cleaning, home repair….. Icey’s not been around much the past few weekends because he was helping to build a pretty kick ass deck at his dads house, so i was excited to have him around.  yesterday he grilled up some burgers and dogs and zucchini for dinner.   I baked oatmeal raisin cookies and chocolate cupcakes .  it was my first attempt at not only cupcakes, but chocolate ones at that  and they are pretty tasty.

I bought this for my weary feet.  my feets always hurt from too much walking and just generally having stupidly shaped and freakishly skinny feet. it looks like it’s going to hurt but it actually tickles for a little while. but after you get past that, WOW does it make your feet feel nice.  added bonus it also feels nice on your back and the dogs seem to like it too.

these are our artichokes.  i think they’re on their way out so i’m going to cut a couple off today and steam them.

i’m supposed to be spring cleaning this weekend but the lack of sleep is making me lazy and i have a headache.

Yesterday I left work at noon and then had a cheeseburger for lunch/dinner.  So man, my day was off to a great start.

We rode the lightrail up to ASU, which was fun and pretty fast, it felt like we couldn’t have driven there that fast.   The station is fairly close to sun devil stadium so the walk there wasn’t terrible.  We waited in line about half the time I thought we would have to and about 10 minutes after I reached my miserable threshold but never passed it, we got thru security, rented some chair cushions and found Icey’s family.  our seats were shaded which was lucky and a huge bonus because the folks on the other side and the end of the stadium had full sun for HOURS.

We saw Air Force 1 fly in which was pretty awesome, we also saw the motorcade arrive, it wasn’t a full view, we happened to be able to see them thru a small opening in the back of the stadium.    Alice Cooper performed a song with his sons band and there were a lot of other performances by groups/clubs from the university.

then the president came out and gave a really great speech.  It wasn’t the ten minute special like I assumed, i think he spoke for about 30-40 min, i’m not sure.    Then he even stayed to shake the hands of all the Doctorate students and presented the barack obama scholarship awards to high school seniors.

when we left we were totally ahead of the game but the roads were blocked off for the motorcade and we got pretty lucky and ended up with a front row view of him leaving.  motorcades drive FAST.   even with the huge delay, we made it onto the lightrail pretty quickly and were home by 10:30!!

Even tho i spent a couple of hours hot and sweaty it wasn’t nearly as bad as i thought it was going to be, I was prepared for so much worse.  And totally worth it.

tomorrow Icey and I will be at ASU for his little sisters commencement.   where the president is speaking!!  First of all, thank you, Icey’s sister, for graduating this year.  and then thank you Icey’s brother for not being able to attend, so I could have your ticket.

It’s going to be ROUGH.   hours in the sun and heat, with 63,000 people.   long lines, long waits and 100*+ weather.   Let’s take bets now on how many people pass out.  The guy on the news said to bring umbrellas to shade yourself but I’m pretty sure they are on the ‘prohibited list’  as are fruits that can be used as projectiles and liquids of any sort.  darn.

i’m not sure if he got too hot in his castle or started to come out and then realized he was still tired, either way it was hilarious.

I think lately he’s been going in there to get away from his sister.  she’s gotten herself a little attitudey alpha dog problem lately and is busy picking on him.    she won’t go into the castle so if he needs to be alone he’s got a place to go.