Happy birthday to my awesome friend kaytilake, who is great and amazing and fun and cool!!!!

1 vs 100 is my new addiction. I had fun playing with auroracita and timmydisorder last night. Xbox friends, look for me playing tonight, I might invite you to join me! Tonight's questions are "superhard"...lol.

1) 1 vs 100 is fun as hell. Xbox friends, we all should play sometime.

2) Solon stopped by and brought us SIX POUNDS of brats from the Brat Stop in WI. So, even after he and Jimmy ate some, we still have a ton of delicious brats. mmm beer brats.

3) Those frozen margarita mixes from Tastefully Simple are the win.

4) I spent three hours watching "16 and Pregnant" on MTV like some kind of self-punishment. I remember now why I hate "reality TV". Trainwreck TV is more like it.

5) Shopping for groceries on Sunday evenings is also the win.

http://thereifixedit.com/

hilarious pics re: "adventures in home pwnership"

It doesn't limit itself to simply home repair, though, there's also some car and general WTF pics. Good for a laugh.

Let's see, what did I do this weekend. In no particular order: I saw Transformers: RotF twice, played the Sims 3, saw my eye doctor, went swimming, made chili, went to the Downers Grove Heritage Fest with my brother and sister, shopped for groceries, watched Ep 3 of True Blood on Sunday, and went to a purse party with my aunt.

Ladies, maybe you can explain this to me since I'm not a girl like the rest of you. What is the point of a purse party? A lady was selling knockoff designer purses (Dolce & Gabbana, Juicy Couture, Coach, Ed Hardy, Chanel, etc.) and they were all really big and just...hideous. Obviously I didn't buy anything. I was too perplexed. I still don't get it. Also I have a real Coach bag, so why I would want a cheap knockoff is beyond me.

The party wasn't a total loss though, they had Tastefully Simple stuff there, which I was far more comfortable with.

In re: cultural and lingustic extinction, with an entertaining sidebar on hallucinogenic drugs, how they work, and how astonishing it is that these cultures are able to use them in the first place. Not my field of anthropology, obviously, but still fascinating. If I couldn't be a bioanth student I'd specialize in linguistics.

Saw Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. Loved it. loooooooooove. Yay more Starscream. Yay more robots. Decepticons attack. wheeee. Explosions! I told my car how much I loved it. My eye is bugging me though. Stupid eye. Must sleep now.

So last night I had timmydisorder over and we watched some episodes of True Blood. Another person hooked. I should be a spokesperson for HBO. It is really too bad I am not getting some kind of kickback from them, recruiting so many viewers like I have.

Anyways after watching Ep 3 & 4 of Season One we went down to the pool to swim. At the pool, we found 1/4 of an abandoned Giordano's pizza and some empty cans of PBR. I opted not to eat the pizza, but Tj brought it back to my house, and eated it. We left the PBR cans. Have I mentioned how much I love my friends? LOL.

Tonight hopefully we'll see Transformers at the Beer Theatre. Hopefully...if we can get in.

Question of the Day:

What is the most memorable thing anyone has ever said to you?

For me maybe it would be: "I didn't know you could sing like that."

First of all, let me state that I don't watch their show. I don't care one shit about Jon & Kate nor their litter of 8 children. I don't care about anyone who irresponsibly chooses in-vitro fertilization, a procedure that is, sorry folks, just plain selfishness, vanity and unneccessary when there are so many children out there that desperately need to be adopted or fostered into loving homes.

I am, quite frankly, alarmed and disgusted by America's obsession with these people who have fucking litters of children. All the programs that "The Learning Channel" (there's a joke of a name if I've ever heard one) plays anymore are those dealing with folks who have far too many kids, glamorizing irresponsibility, vanity, and excess in the name of television entertainment. Table for 12. Jon & Kate. 18 and Counting. Don't forget all the Octomom crap. And so on. It's really goddamn disgusting.

You had too many kids at once - so what? You could have chosen to select a few embryos instead. But nooo, you want everyone to give you a fucking high five and a fistful of dollars because, in your selfishness, you had an unnatural litter of children via the magic of science, assisted by an unethical doctor THAT YOU CAN'T FISCALLY SUPPORT WITHOUT HOSTING A REALITY SHOW. I don't want to hear about Jon, Kate, or anyone else like them and for the life of me I can't understand why anyone else would either.

We went swimming yesterday and it was awesome. I had a lot of fun! We all spent maybe two hours in the pool. I'm still a little tired. I spent awhile trying to teach Jimmy how to tread water and how to swim different styles. He's signed up for a triathlon with his co-workers that they're going to do mid-August. I also had fun just playing in the pool. I love the water! I think I might go back tonight to swim.

RULES FOR BEING A TEENAGED VAMPIRE DRAMA QUEEN

~A teen vamp’s bedtime is 4:30 a.m. and no later

~We do recycle in the Compton Manor

~There is NO hunting

~It is preferable that you do not look like a ’slattern’ (that’s 1800s speak for ’slut’)

~No, you can not eat the guests!

~No cellphones

~Shushing doesn’t work—vampires hear everything

~Carry Kleenex if you’re a cryer, since vampires cry tears of blood

~When traveling, you don’t pack a suitcase, you get in one

~Remember for your next V-tasting, 1/3 parts O-negative to 2/3 parts A-positive

~And whatever you do, DO NOT get blood in your hair. Especially if you’re in the middle of coloring it.

http://www.fancast.com/blogs/tv-news/true-blood-season-premiere-the-big-fang-theory/

....ah God I love this freakin' show!!!!

Friday - went to hang at stefhen19's place with timmydisorder. We had some drinks and some Chinese food, and had a lot of fun playing with the Wii Fit. Now I want a Wii Fit, again.

Saturday - did nothin' but relaxin'. Played the Sims 3 most of the day. Made an early dinner of turkey meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans so that Jimmy could have something to eat before he headed off to C:DR. Grocery shopped at like 8 pm at night...discovered it was much easier and more fun than my normal Saturday afternoon run. Also, checkout lines are way shorter.

Sunday - more relaxing, more Sims 3, all of it leading up to the Season Premiere of True Blood on HBO. I liked it so much I watched it twice. Whee! I am so impatient...I can't wait a whole WEEK for new episodes!!! For those of you who watch the series...what did you think?

True Blood Season Two premiere was so good, I'm gonna have to watch it again...on HBO West.

EEEEEEEE! I am so impatient for next week!!!!

So begins my four-day workweeks for the summer. Campus is closed Fridays thru fall, so I get to enjoy three-day weekends until late August. Huzzah.

It's been very busy at work in the meantime, hence my lack of communications. I am working full-time at my office this summer and have been busting my ass daily. I have rewarded myself for all my hard work over the past three weeks by purchasing a copy of The Sims 3, which I plan to play tonight and throughout the weekend.

Also, some quantum physics for you this morning:

"The theory of quantum mechanics predicts that two or more particles can become "entangled" so that even after they are separated in space, when an action is performed on one particle, the other particle responds immediately. Scientists still don't know how the particles send these instantaneous messages to each other, but somehow, once they are entwined, they retain a fundamental connection."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090603/sc_livescience/einsteinsspookyphysicsgetsmoreentangled

Friday: Saw "Drag Me To Hell" with Kayla. I strongly recommend it if you enjoyed the "Evil Dead" trilogy. If you never saw them, or are not a fan, you may want to pass this movie up. I thought it was pretty badass.

Saturday: a rather lazy day. Kayla came back over in the evening for a "girls' night", since my mom was out of town again. It consisted of a BBQ chicken dinner, watching scary movies, and applying chocolate face masks. Jimmy, of course, went to game.

Sunday: On impulse, we went to brunch at the White Chocolate Grill at around 10:30. I had crab cakes benedict that were fan-freakin-tastic (90% of the time, I cannot resist crab when I see it on a menu) and Jimmy had a filet mignon cobb salad. It was excellent as well (we shared). We decided we'd have to come back some time for dinner, as we both enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. After brunch, I then went grocery shopping, came home watched some TV, and then played some Viva Pinata.

All in all, a good weekend and very laid-back.

Tonight I will make tortellini with chunky tomato sauce and turkey Italian sausage, and then after my boyfriend departs for Kenosha, grab a Strongbow cider and watch more J-horror on my streaming Netflix on the Xbox until I've scared myself stupid with tales of angry ghosts.


ahhh, it sounds lovely.

In other news, SoBe Life Water's Yumberry Pomegranate flavor = drinking Robitussin. Yumberry, my ass. I bet that's not even a real berry.

Work was a crazed hell-hole. But I maintained my cool and presented a cheerful attitude.

I am feeling very existential today. Also, I had an irresistible urge to run away from home this afternoon, for about 6 minutes while running after-work errands in the rain. But then I considered it further and came to the conclusion that all the places I'd like to run to are fictional. So, I guess I'll be staying here.

I kicked off Friday by forgetting that Kayla was spending the weekend with me since my parents were going out of town. So we brought her with to sushi night with me, stefhen19, timmydisorder, Amy, and ikarys, which, hopefully, didn't scar her for life.

Saturday we went to lunch and watched movies and basically did nothing.

Sunday we went to the zoo! We saw many aminals including hippos, who were both asleep. It was naptime for hippos, apparently. Sadly the elephants weren't out due to the death of Affie a few days ago. So sad. Then I figured out how to hook up my Netflix to stream movies to the Xbox and oh my God. I found out that I love Asian horror more than I was aware.

I spent yesterday doing the same, watching J-horror and chillin'. I made Mexican food and strawberry margaritas for dinner.

It's absolutely batshit nuts at work today. Say something to cheer me up.