I have wonderful news

countdown to the fabulous world of cable television returning to my house:

5 days!!!

catching some zzzz's

i hadn't had a day off in the last 12 days, so last night around 9:30 when i was finally done working and knew i had today off, i decided to have a few beers with my favorite coworker.

(side note: "few" equals seven)

when i got home around 12:15am i figured, hey, i've got the day off...i'll turn off everything that makes noise, and sleep until i wake up.

and i did. boy did i.

any guesses as to what time this little lady woke up? are you sitting down?

3pm.

i kid you not.

it was amazing. now i've just spent the rest of the day doing basically nothing. i love it. i definately couldn't do it all the time, but it's just what i needed today.

also? the new will farrell flick "taladega nights" is funny. real funny.

and, just for fun, here are some pictures of my husband's side of the family. that's right...i married into a 100% gorgeous family. every one of 'em. good lookin'. which is why i've started weight watchers. but that story is for another day.










(that's the husband's mom, sister and her baby and youngest brother)


(husband's sister julie and her gorgeous baby Norah Kate)

Dear Husband,

if you really REALLY love me...you'll give me this:





p.s: (in the style of RM)
the above demand is comprised of empty hope, as A: my husband does not read this blog and B: he does really love me...but does not so much love the idea of a puppy. you may commence feeling very sorry for me

worth a thousand words

first things first: i love photography. i'm not one for paintings at all, but i LOVE photography. that being said, click this lovely built-in link
to see nbc's year in pictures 2005. there's some very moving stuff in there.

secondly. i am such a grown up. wanna know why? cause i planted a tree in my backyard this weekend. that's right. planted my very own tree. went to the store, picked one out, asked questions about caring for it, took it home. dug a hole. planted it.

(side note: by "dug a hole" i mean "attempted to dig a hole. gave up after about 10 minutes, begged husband to finish said "hole" and not laugh too hard at me for making a big fuss over how i could dig the hole myself")

and, know what else? we built a fountain. yep. a fountain. in our backyard. see, the lady that owned the house first, she loved gardening. apparently she knew the secret of how to keep stuff alive. so she had these big wine barrel planters all filled with stuff that lived. until we moved in. then it died. so for a year we've had these big boring dirt filled wine barrels in the backyard, just being all ugly and doing nothing.

well, remember that part about going to the tree store? they had our VERY SAME wine barrels, only all lovely with water flowing and stuff living. so we did it. we built a fountain. and bought LIVING things to put inside. the guy promised me that the things would keep living...because i don't have to remember to water them...cause they're IN water ALL THE TIME. it's basically the awesomest thing that ever did happen. i even woke up EARLY this morning to make my husband breakfast to thank him for all the hard work, then had coffee out by the fountain, just staring at it being all impressed with my grown-upedness.

it kinda looks something like this:


only with three, and to be so honest, mine looks like a gazillion times better.

$2 to the cool kid who comes to take a digital photo so i can brag even more about it on my blog. make that $3. it's worth it. and i'll let you have some lemonade and look at the fountain for awhile. that's practically priceless.

admit it, you basically all want to be me. cause i'm such a grown up.

fun friday facts and finds

i can't compare with bsc or ghost dog as far as great links go...but here's my measley attempt:

look who learned how to link like a cool kid

and then did it more than once

here's a rude awakening

see what you think of those.

fun facts:

cat urine glows under a black light

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere in the picture.

There is no synonym for “thesaurus.”

There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball.(that one's for my mister)

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

Favorite picture of friday: