Introducing Noel

He's my nephew - pretty cute, eh?

Food Network fraud.

I hate Giada DeLaurentiis.
Good cooks should look like they eat.

Honeymoon options

We're getting married in March (right before March break for mr. Teacher Man), so the plan is to take a mini vacation right after the wedding, and then take a real honeymoon in the summer.

We are currently debating what kind of "mini-vacation" (~5 days) to take right after the wedding. Input please!

1. Cottage/resort/something sleepy & wintry.

2. Somewhere warm/sleepy.

3. Big city within 1-2 hours flying distance with exciting museums, symphonies, operas, shopping and culture.

You may have gleaned where I'm leaning. In fact I have already put a proposal in to the board for consideration.

What do the people think?

BIG NEWS

I BOUGHT A DRESS.

Details to come.

Apparently it's been a month since I posted.

I really need to get on this whole blogging thing again.

Maybe it's time for one of my lists. Ah, lists.

1. I'm getting married. How nuts is that? I know I've already announced this, but sometimes I stop and think to myself "I'm getting married" and I'm very happy to be getting married, but sometimes it makes me want to crap my pants a little, mainly because it means I have to plan a wedding. This deserves a sub-list:
i) We have a date set (just over 6 months from now!!), a venue booked and an officiant lined up.
ii) No dress yet. I thought dress shopping would be fun - it's not. Most dresses in stores are bedazzled! Even the "simple" ones are bedazzled. BEDAZZLED. And pouffy! I've taken to the internet for my shopping lately, which has been more fruitful and less dangerous to my prospects of surviving until the actual wedding date. Shopping on the internet is much better than my short-lived plan to buy a sewing machine, learn to sew and then make my own wedding dress ( I'm not joking, this was a serious plan of mine for about 36 hours).
iii) There's a wedding show this weekend - I would go, but I'm afraid it will make me want to stab my eyes out. Hanging out with a room full of brides sounds scary to me. Brides are totally nuts. Cuckoo bananas.
iv) The most important things we still need to do are: a) buy a dress b) book a photographer c) Buy rings.
If anyone has any valuable input on any of these things please share!

2. Robert Loggia is in the new Mac commercials, which isn't noteworthy except that I thought Robert Loggia was dead.

3. Work is beyond ridiculously busy right now. I now understand when people say they've been "driven to drink". Between work being psychotic and wedding planning I have stopped sleeping. This is bad. Sleep is useful, no?

4. The cats are also beyond ridiculous. In a good way, I guess. They've taken to periodically starting fights with each other on our bed in the middle of the night. If you were wondering, this doesn't help with the sleeping issues.

5. I'm an aunt! My brother and sis-in-law welcomed my nephew into the world on September 4th - his name is Noel, he has a head full of hair and he looks exactly like my brother. Hooray!

Posts to come:
-wedding dresses -- help me choose!
-ummmmm....what else should I blog about?

King of the Hill just came on - I can't believe this show has been on tv for so long. Does anyone actually watch this??

Well, this post has about 200% more content than my recent posts have. Maybe this will inspire me to maintain this a bit better. I need inspiration though - someone inspire me, dammit!!

something blue?

yay or nay?

they're on sale, too.

Long time, no blog

So, yeah. I'm a shitty blogger. I still read blogs, I just lose the effort once it comes time to update my own.

Regardless, I now think I have the fodder necessary to blog more regularly - I'm getting married! The boy finally caved in to my subtle and not so subtle hints and asked me, so....we're taking the plunge.

No date yet, but we should have one soon. Nothing more to say right now, but I can imagine the bullshit to bitch about will be pretty extensive as I start seriously sorting out the details of my pending nuptials.

Stay tuned!

Holy Crap

Up. GO SEE IT.
I think it might even be better than Toy Story. I'm still deciding.
Take a kleenex, though. Take a few.

OMGEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The Wild Things look so awesome!!

funny funny stuff

I saw the "Snuggie" commercial today - you know the one for the blanket with arms that makes the wearers look like weird cult members? Well, I was going to send it to my mom as a joke (because the house I grew up in was always stupid cold and I always walked around with a blanket cape) and I came across this - it's really really funny. REALLY FUNNY!! Watch all three. The dude who does them is currently my hero.