For-ev-er, for-ev-er

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Sarah

I was sitting on the couch last night, when all of a sudden, it occurred to me that I am getting married.

I said to Chris, “Oh my God, we’re getting married.”

“I know,” he said.

“We’re getting married. We’re gonna be together, like, forever,” I said.

“Well yeah!” (He seemed slightly put-off.)

I have known I wanted to marry Chris since about two weeks into the deal. I obviously said yes when he asked me to marry him. I’ve been planning a wedding for about three months now. And yet last night, I was completely surprised at the thought of it!

I figured if I had this “epiphany” about marriage, then pregnant women probably have that same thought about having a kid. So at Jen’s baby shower today, I asked Michelle’s sister Rachelle (who is also prego) and Jen if they’ve had a moment where they were like, “Oh my God, I’m pregnant.” And they said they have 🙂 Rachelle said she thought, “I’m gonna be a mother forever.” And Jen said she thought, “One day, I’m gonna introduce someone to ‘my son.’ One day he’ll be 30!” Haha, I think life can be kind of funny in this way. Here you are, going along and planning a wedding or carrying another person inside you for goodness sakes, and you all of a sudden realize, “I’m getting married” or “I’m pregnant.” Well DUH!

I wonder what Chris and I will be like when we’re 44 years old. Or rather, when I’m 44 and he’s 46 (or 45, since he forgets how old he is 😉 ACK! I wonder what we’ll look like?! Will we still have the same mannerisms? Facial expressions? I don’t know! And I’m so excited to find out!

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This post is lame! DON’T READ IT!

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Sarah

If you know me, then you know that I love lists. If you don’t know me or do know me, but didn’t know that I love lists, hey!, guess what? I love lists! So, since I have some things I should probably do today (blogging not being one of those things), but am too lazy to get up off my couch to take a shower, I’ll just blog a little to-do list for you! Excited? Thought so.

1. Get up off couch

2. Take a shower

3. If I’m feeling really ambitious, I’ll brush my teeth (quit judging, you know you sometimes don’t brush your teeth on Saturdays, either!)

4. Take the one and a half bags of trash, pizza box, and empty water jug to the dumpster

5. Unload dishwasher

6. Take Christmas tree to the Christmas tree drop at Robb Field. OMG, I have my tree up in the middle of January…I’m so white trash!

7. Make a list for the grocery store (HAH! A list within a list, that’s funny!)
– Assorted fruit for fruit salad for Jen’s baby shower tomorrow
– Champagne for this afternoon (just cause, alright?) and for Jen’s baby shower tomorrow
– Juice
– Water? Ask Michelle m’ Belle
– Sodas
– Something to make for dinner, because I can’t remember the last time I had a home-cooked meal

8. Get the mail!!!

9. Buy 11″x14″ frame for the photograph Brother Cal gave me for Christmas. Calvin, are you reading this? That was a shout-out for you! Awesome picture!

10. Buy wrapping paper for Jen’s baby shower gift!!!

11. Write a check for Michelle for my portion of Jen’s baby shower gift

12. Take plastic utensils down from top shelf of kitchen cabinet so as not to forget them tomorrow for Jen’s baby shower

13. Enlist the help of 6′ 4″ tall fiance to get utensils down off top shelf of kitchen cabinet

Interjection – This list is ridiculously boring, but hey, I did warn you not to read it.

14. Go to Vivien’s and pick up purse and flip flops

15. Drink a glass of champagne previously purchased in number 7

16. Bring Viv’s dress that I borrowed, but did not wear!!!

17. At 1:00 PM, go to Wit’s End to watch the Seahawks work the Packers

18. Go to hair appointment at 2:00 PM

Eesh, it’s 11:20 AM…I should probably do numbers 1 through 3; then skip to number 7; then do numbers 14 through 18; then numbers 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Heh, it looks like my trash will continue to pile up; my dishwasher will unload itself as we pull clean dishes from it; my mail-box will be over-stuffed and all my magazines/letters/junk ads will be crumpled when I finally get my mail next week; and I will continue to be white trash, but hey, at least my apartment will smell pine-y!

Sidenote: I wasted about 30 minutes writing this F-ing thing…Time probably better spent, oh, I don’t know, taking a shower???

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It hurts being this hot – EDITED WITH PICTURES AND CAPTIONS!

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Sarah

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving / Meet the Fockers. I think it’s pretty obvious that God blessed us all extremely good looks.

EDIT – Chris thought I was calling his parents “The Fockers.” I was not. I was calling every last one of us a “Focker.” ‘Cause we all totally are. Jealous much?

The nut-waiter at Cafe Zucchero who took our pictures makes it looks like my mom and Jerry are my parents and Melisa and my dad are Chris’s parents. Regardless, it’s a cute picture!
Hotties.
My ‘rents.
Me and Chris and my ‘rents.
The Brothers.
Moms and marys.

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Cooking Dangerously

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Sarah

For Christmas, my fantabulous friend Kacie bought me a book called “Julie & Julia.” Have you heard of it? Oh, it’s good. Really good. It’s an easy read (always a plus!), but more importantly, it’s friggin funny as hell. It’s about a woman (Julie Powell) who, in an attempt to “find herself,” challenges herself to cook all 524 of Julia Child’s recipes from “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” In one year. I knew this book would be good because, well, Kacie recommended it. But when I read the following, I knew it was soooooo very Sarah: “I got home just before ten and ordered pizza before I crashed on the couch. Eric had to wake me up for long enough to take out my contacts. Waking me up when I’ve fallen asleep on the couch is no fun for anyone.” Oh. My. God. I had to call Chris just now to read that excerpt to him. I’m so sure his life is complete now that he knows there are other men on the planet who get the hairy dog eye when they wake their ladies up on the couch. Honestly, though, waking up when you’ve fallen asleep on the couch is totally cool when you get to just plop right into bed. When you have to peel off contact lenses that have been super-glued onto your corneas, though…That totally sucks. Err, umm, ahem, SHOUT OUT! to Chris for dealing with Cranky Sarah when I’ve fallen asleep on the couch. You rock!

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Oh, get over yourself!

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Sarah

No. You can’t make me! I’m not going. Nooooooo! I am going to sit on my couch all day and you can’t do anything about it!

I’m going to Sacramento for work. I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.

Chris will be gone, too – in San Jose – but I think my work trip will be one hundred times more fun than his. He comes home on Friday and then goes right into being on-call for work. Boo-hoo, I feel like I’ll never see him again.

Blah, I gotta go pack.

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Snowboarding School 2008

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Sarah

Hey! Sarah and Chris: Remembering to take your camera on vacation is not the same as remembering to actually take pictures. Oh, well, there will be plenty more trips, I’m sure. Until then, enjoy these two gems; they were the only pictures we took.

Keeping “warm.” Don’t we look terrifying? No? Oh, well, I thought so…
Here we are on the ski-lift. Too bad you can’t see the flask, though – That was the point of the picture. Eh, it’s just as well…

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Noncommittal Obsession.

Posted on December 25, 2007 by Sarah

I just deleted both my Facebook and my MySpace accounts (collective GASP!) I discovered that recently, I have had neither the time nor the want to check my Facebook and my MySpace. Mind you, I check both at least once a day, but there’s never anything new on either of them and I find it kind of pointless to waste my time checking something that stays the same all the time. Additionally, it’s kind of a hassle to post pictures on both of those and on this blog. AND I feel there are other, more important things I could be doing: Planning a wedding; knitting; reading; looking up other, more productive things on the internet; you know…

Side-note: I just re-read that paragraph and realized that I am defending my deletion of Facebook and MySpace to people who probably don’t have either a Facebook or a MySpace. I’m also beginning to worry that this blog is A) Longer and pointless-ier than previous blogs and that B) My writing of this blog shows that I am not quite at peace with the deletion of these internet stalker-havens.

But I digress…

Enthralled as I’m sure you are, I’ll continue on with this riveting story. Upon discovering the pointlessness of both Facebook and MySpace, I started by deleting friends…Mostly those who I see or talk to on a regular basis. I mean, why have them clutter my “space” when I see/talk/text/email with them all the time, right? Then I discovered that the people who were left were people I didn’t really care too much about. Haha, sorry if you were one of those people! So, I finally just bit the bullet and deleted my MySpace. And then I deleted (or rather, “deactivated,” as Facebook won’t let you delete) my Facebook account. It was nice. It really was. It inspired me to write this blog, that’s how great it was! I even – get this – deleted both Facebook and MySpace from my Bookmarks, which means now I’d actually have to type out www dot myspace dot com to get to the page. I’m too lazy for that, so I’m positive my cold-turkey quitting of this addiction will go swimmingly well! We shall see. Talk to me in a week. Or probably tomorrow.

In other (more important, I’m sure) news, Merry Christmas! It’s over in about two hours, so I got that in right under the wire! To celebrate the holiday, I am watching the classic “Home Alone.” I did not watch “A Christmas Story,” though. It felt a little weird to watch it sans parents, and I’ve watched it on DVD about five times already this season, so I figured I was okay. It was still kinda weird to not watch it, but in all honesty, I’d rather not watch it, than watch it without my parents/with people who are not as equally obsessed with it as we are. There was a compliment in there somewhere…And possibly and insult…And a bit of a run-on sentence. Sorry ’bout that.

In the grand tradition of being me, I haven’t taken any pictures this holiday season, save for the one in the post below this…Which, by the way, was taken ghetto-style with my phone because I was too lazy to get up to get my real camera. I did get a snowboard from Chris, though!, so we will make sure to take lots of pictures of me falling on my ass when we go to Big Bear in a couple weeks.

Alrighty, my knitting and Macaulay Culkin await. G’night whatever piece of internet I have left! I’m fine, really I am…

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Show ‘n’ tell.

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Sarah
I’m sleepy. I should really go to bed. Instead, I will share this picture with you. It’s of my best Christmas gifts this year (so far, at least…I haven’t gotten all of them yet!)

My sincerest apologies for the lack of quality of this picture. I was too lazy to get my real camera, so I sent it to myself from my phone.

Speaking of which, here is a picture I took of the cows that tromp around outside my office:

ACK! My battery power is “critical.” My computer is also about to die. G’night!
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It’s scarf season!

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Sarah

One down, countless others to go! I should take a picture of my newest scarf and post it, but that might ruin the Christmas surprise for the person who will be receiving it from me for Christmas! Nameless Scarf Receiver, you will just have to wait until Saturday to get your scarf. Oh, I’ve already said too much! Moving right along…

There are more and more presents stacking up under the tree! There are many for Chris, a few for the brothers, and one for me! I have to admit, I did already open the one for me, though 😀 I got homeless Juicy gloves! Thanks Aunt Rach!!!

Although it’s [almost] winter, I thought the other day that it was June. Ah, the joys of living in San Diego.

HAHAHAHA! Chris is making me laugh! HAHAHAHA! We’re having ourselves a good ole’ fashioned ball over here! HAH!

For those of you who don’t know, I (along with the other women in my family…I think…My mom for sure…Probably my granny…And, I’m sure, my aunts, too) have the uncanny ability to remember phone numbers and to be able to name who is doing the voice-over in a TV commercial. It’s a gift, really. Anyway, Chris can quote movies and TV shows like no one else I know (and believe you me, I am a movie-quoter extraordinaire!) “I’m not jokin! It’s like an orange on a toothpick! It’s like sputnik; it should have its own weather system! He’s gonna cry himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillah.” HAHAHAHA! Anyone, anyone? (“So I Married an Axe Murderer.”)

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” finally started to get good last night. I’m at page 349 out of 700-something. All I have to say is: It’s about friggin time!

This blog [I guess it’s my trademark!] is ramble-y and makes no sense.

Here’s what does make sense, though: Get your cute, skinny asses to San Diego for New Year’s Eve. It’s going to be re-donkey-less!

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World’s Most Unattractive Shoe!

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Sarah
But they sure do keep my feet warm!
WARNING: My obsession with my new Uggs may rival that of my BlackJack, my hair straightener, and my Garmin.

I’m off to a golf tournament in Newport Beach…Smell ya later!

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