Monday, October 22, 2007

4 seasons- 1 day


Yesterday was intense ladies and gentleman. I managed to engage myself into four seasons in one day. After waking up on Sunday with a headache from the champagne that I found at the 5th or 6th wedding Barret I have been to this year I remembered that my dear friend Pie called and announced that she was engaged!!!! Yay Pie!!!! But if you remember engagement season opens Dec 24th...there must be an early season this year. But what girl doesn't love going to weddings...it is a girl thing to do. Look at the wedding dress, figure out how all the bridesmaids know each other, and what interesting gossip is going on with the guests. There are flowers, friends, dresses and a cake. (on a side note Barret is starting to commentate weddings and will say things like...this is the second wedding we have been to where they had cupcakes instead of a wedding cake. I think it is pretty funny, if you know Barret you will think it is funny also because at the beginning of this wedding season i am not even sure Barret knew there was cake at a wedding)...anyway. The wedding season is a great one for girls. The second season Barret and I found ourselves in was football season! I love football season, obviously especially the Steelers...but Football has really tried to gain women fans. For example all the refs are wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness. I think that is great and I applaud that NFL for that. Also those tight ends have some great tight ends in those tight pants. What girl does not want the camera to be behind the offense when Tom Brady bends over for the snap. It is a beautiful thing. So season two of football was mixed in with season three of NASCAR. I again don't know if I can really get into NASCAR, but this is how Sunday's go at our house. Football...NASCAR...football...NASCAR...football...NASCAR...Barret falls asleep....Mary takes remote...MTV The Hills...Barret wakes up...football...NASCAR last 5 laps and we are through with that! So I think our third season of NASCAR is made for ladies also because really it doesn't take that long for the guys to drift off to sleep with the constant 500 laps around the track...then we get the remote. It is great. Then there is break and the new grill is used and some news is watched because we all need some current events...and then Sunday night football. Usually by this time I am sports out, but not last night...Sunday Night Football featured the Steelers! Sadly our 4th season was also starting/finishing...baseball. I do not like baseball. There are like a million games and the Red Soxs or the Yankees always win the World Series. No one even knows baseball is going on until the World Series. Okay so I had to share the commercials with the Red Sox game last night...b/c I wasn't missing one second of the steelers game for the red sox. Again I was thinking that maybe I could get two seasons of tight pants in one night and well else can a girl as for on a Sunday night. But no...when did Baseball loose the tight pants? The guy pictured above, Manny Ramierez wore the baggiest clothes I have ever seen in my life. I am so confused. All Barret wanted to do was watch the last game of this series and here I am bitching about how tight...or non tight I should say Manny's pants are. Needless to say we didn't watch much baseball. Baseball has absolutely nothing to lure the female crowd to watch the game. If you find something i would love to know. As for me I have made my picks for my 4 seasons...in the wedding category I am cheering for Pie, Football...duh Steelers, NASCAR I cheer for Jimmy Johnson, not so much that I care if he wins or not but Barret got me a baby blue baseball cap with a sparkly 48 on it so I feel if I have a piece of clothing I should cheer for that person, and finally I will cheer for the Colorado Rockies...spread the wealth. So 4 seasons in one day... Put a fork in me I am done.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

It's me...it really is me


Ok so my boss got this really cool book the other day from J Jill called "Fortune-Telling Birthday Book". This book has got me figured out.

For my birthday December 3rd (ahem) it says:


"You are idealistic and impatient and judge hastily. Although you plan many things, you tire quickly and drop them before completion. You have a clear, bright mind and are very adaptable. You are kind, affectionate, and charitable, and have many real friendships."


It's me!!! The kind, affectionate, one foot stomper, impatient planner who never gets anything done!!! Oh yeah and i got me some real friends...no imaginary friends I would be impatient waiting for them to show up all day!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

I have to vent


OK I have to vent about something. I don't know who in the marketing world put Jenny McCarthy on the new Weight Watchers ad. It drives me crazy. She is supposed to be in playboy, or doing crazy things on MTV's singled out, or in another stupid movie, but really Weight Watchers. Have you seen the ad. It drives me crazy. She talks about how she had to lose all this weight after he children and then she does think little high pitched shriek thing saying something about how she can eat a whole watermelon and still lose weight. OMG I want to reach through the tv and shake her. I just don't understand who in marketing said, ok lets put Jenny McCarthy on the tv for weight watchers because she totally connects with stay at home mothers who are trying to lose weight, while wearing black nail polish and eating entire watermelons. Really I want to smack her.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

She works hard for the Ribbon






If you know my brother Geoff you know he loves to hunt, he loves his dog and he does not like mayonnaise. So this weekend we participated in a Hunt Test. Let me explain. There are three levels of the Hunt Test...Junior, Senior and Master. Men and women work hard all year with their hunting dogs to make them pass these tests. You can make a lot more money on puppies and stick your chest out a lot further if your AKC registered dog has one of these titles behind them. Last year Elli (Geoff's dog) passed 4 Junior tests and now has a JH behind her name. This is like getting your degree, and a Masters pass is like a PhD. It is pretty impressive what these dogs can do. Anyway, Geoff asked me if I wanted to run Elli in one and I did, but I didn't want to do it when it counted. (When she was trying to pass 4 to get her Junior title). So this spring Geoff and I went to the farm and tried throwing some ducks for her and every time she would go for it and run it over to Geoff. I decided maybe it wasn't a good idea for me to run her. Anyway Fall arrived and I decided maybe I would try and run her. I love Elli to death, she is my niece, but sometimes she is a little spastic. I am allowed to say this because I am her aunt, I love her, I am on Team Elli, and because she tried to pull me down and kill me in the swamp.:) Geoff and I show up at 8am and listen to the judges tell us the course and what we have to do so we don't fail. (On a side note: the cool thing about the hunt test is that you are not judged against the other dogs, so everyone cheers for everyone.) So I watch most of the dogs go and some pass and we clap and some fail and we all moan. Yet, everyone got up to the start line without a problem. Yeah, until Elli and I get there. There are two blinds you stand behind until it is your turn. Elli doesn't like to heel for me and I don't like to yank on her leash...it is a vicious cycle. Elli gets uber excited to retrieve...I mean UBER. She is born to do this. So we get to the first blind and I am rubbing her and asking her for the love of god to come back to me. She can't see Geoff, but I can hiding in the bushes with the camera. Elli PULLS me to the second blind when it is our turn. With that the judge looks at me and says, "Great, I know she is excited, but could you walk back up here and show me that she can walk on all four feet." See she was dragging and I was pulling so she walked on two feet up there. We walked back...pep talked...walked on all four feet...sorta, but enough to get to run her. She made both retrieves no problem and we got lunch. The second run was in water and this is Elli's thing. We got to the line with a better heel and I sent her after the first duck. She spotted Geoff. Shit. Straight out to the duck, better than anyone else, straight back to Geoff. He hid behind the chair and prayed she would come back to me. She did, a lot of coaxing, but she came back. Elli and I got a ribbon and headed home to watch football. The second day is Geoff running her in Senior. He was nervous, I was nervous, Elli was UBER excited again. Yet, she does listen to him and heel. Amazing. There were a few nervous times on the first run but they called her back and she got to run the second part. Again Geoff and I go and get lunch. We had just had this big discussion on why when you buy a box lunch do they automatically put mayo and mustard on the sandwich? We got our box lunches and were very excited they were dry. They gave us packs of mustard and mayo however. Geoff gave me his mayo and I gave him my mustard. I love mayo...Geoff does not. I put it on my sandwich and made sure there wasn't a piece left uncovered. Geoff took one look, got out of the car and yuked everywhere! I couldn't stop laughing, and thinking about the sweet revenge of when he made me puke because of curdled milk. Maybe is wasn't the mayo, maybe it was nerves because of the second run with Elli, but I am pretty sure it was the mayo. Anyway, Geoff got to the second part of his test and Elli broke early...like I said she gets UBER excited. But I think she did great anyway. I am a proud aunt. Enjoy the pics. GO TEAM ELLI!