Whee!

So, after a full month of events, travel, classes, get togethers and such, and not really having any weekends to myself, D and I are finally going on a long weekend vacation. We're taking Friday and Monday off and flying (first class!!) to Buffalo, NY this weekend! We're going because D loves wings, so he has to make a pilgrimage to the Anchor Bar, where Buffalo Wings were apparently invented, and in researching the trip, we found out that gee, there's this pretty big waterfall up there near Buffalo! So we're staying at this amazing Marriott on Niagara Falls, and the only things we have planned are a massage, facial and dinner one night at the spinny restaurant there. The rest of the time will be spent eating wings, sleeping, and generally enjoying being pampered as all hell :)

Scenes from painting, part 1

So, during my super productive weekend over the July 4th weekend, I mentioned that D and I painted my room and the guest room. The guest room is still in progress, but my room is finished. We painted 2 opposing walls a BEAUTIFUL, bright shade of red that was called "Cherry Tomato":

Isn't it fabulous??

I heart ironman training

So today, in Racine, D finished his first ever half-Ironman! For those of you who don't know, he's training for the full Ironman in September (on our first wedding anniversary, *grumble*). The half is a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and 13.2 mile run. D finished in less than 7 hours! I was so happy to be there to watch him cross the finish line:

And yes ladies, that handsome, muscled, Greek god is MINE.......hehehehe. Yum :)

Revelation

I heard a song on the radio when driving home from work tonight, and it went like this:

"Half inch fuse, ready to bite
Never said you’re sorry cause you’ve always been right
Tell me I’m lame every Saturday night
Cause you drank too many and you want to fight
All my life, hold my breath
Wonder what trouble is coming next
Hold on tight through this mess
Sing that song 'cause you sing it best
La la la la
Hey, I love it when you’re spitting in my face
The way you scream when you’re breaking all my things
I love the way you put me in my place
Don’t ever leave me alone..."
~Smile Empty Soul

I must admit, I'm sometimes that girl. I have a shitty week, or my beautiful goldie, my only friend for a while, dies (he moved with me from RI to Madison 6 years ago in a small tupperware container situated in the center console of my car when my "loving" boyfriend wouldn't, and he died last Thursday - we buried him and I couldn't go to work on Friday), or whatever. And I get busy drowning my sorrows, and then get belligerent and annoying. And I always apologize after, because I realize what a world-class asshole I've been.

These kind of angst-ridden, guilt-and-anger, love-and-hate volatile relationships seem sexy, dangerous, and what "real love" must feel like when you're 18.

But I'm 28 now, and if those 10 years have done anything besides make me fatter, it's made me realize this:

FUCK THAT.

I love my husband, a ton. It's an absolute miracle (and I don't believe in god) that we found each other the way we did (living across the country, taking the same job at the same time even when he graduated a year earlier, etc) and I can't imagine living without him.

So, I've decided to grow up. He's worth the "imperfections" that are mostly a product of my own insecurities anyways. I love him and I don't want to drive him away.

And the same goes with my friends. I will reach out more. I love you guys too, and I'm sorry I've been a shitty friend - but hopefully, we can can move past it.

What do you think?

I don't know whether to laugh at this woman's stupidity, or cry at the utter lack of responsibility for one's actions that she's teaching her 13 year-old-soon-to-be-a-mom daughter.

http://failblog.org/2009/07/16/intelligence-fail-2/

R.I.P. Dave :(

Sometime during the day today, my poor beautiful goldie passed away. He was the only living, breathing thing that came with me when I moved from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, 6 long years ago. He finally died after suffering for almost 2 weeks with a disease that we couldn't stop and couldn't cure.

And my heart is breaking :'(

Super productive Saturday!

So, the last time I had a super productive weekend was, oh, two years ago :P

However, over the weekend, we were supposed to hang out with some friends on a boat in the Dells for the fourth of July. On Friday, I had tried to find my swimsuit so I could pack - and realized I COULDN'T FIND IT! I think I threw it out last year for some reason. But, of course, I couldn't hang out on a boat all day with no swimsuit, so, after freaking out Friday night at 11pm, D and I decided to get up super early and hit Kohl's up at 8am (we had to head out at 9:30am to get to the Dells on time).

So, on Saturday, we got up at 7am and were about to head out the door a little after 8am, when the organizer called and said she'd cancelled the boat since it looked like it was going to be stormy.

Oh.

It's 8am on a Saturday and D and I were up - and suddenly without a place to go.

So, we stood downstairs and stared at each other for a while, trying to figure out what to do, because man, this was such an opportunity! We NEVER got up this early!

So, we decided to hit up Mickey's Dairy Bar on Monroe for breakfast, since we'd heard it was great but were never up in time to eat there. It's cash only, BTW, so by the time we'd parked, swung by an ATM and sat down it was like 9:30am. And it was great!! It's a super tiny place but we snagged a booth right away and got to have a great, leisurely, and CHEAP breakfast!

Seriously, it was a lot of food for only twelve bucks - coffee, eggs, toast, bacon, pancakes and an bagel w/cream cheese.

So, then we went to Kohl's as planned so I could pick up some swim suits (I got two) and I also shopped around for some cute dresses for all the weddings this year - again I got two. I also picked up some shirts, shoes, and jewelery. D also picked up some shirts and shorts. I think we spent 3 hours shopping, so I'm all shopped out for the next year :P

Then we went to look at cars so D could peruse the used BMWs, and he found one that he liked, thank god. We then did some shopping for the house and for dinner. After dinner, we went to Menards to get painting supplies! We had some samples from Sherwin Williams that I liked, and so we got busy painting on Saturday night. We painted some walls in my room, and finished that up Sunday. We also painted one coat of paint in the guest bedroom, so we have one coat to go.

Pictures to come of that!

Good and bad

So, here's the bad news for the week: my credit cards got hacked.

Yep, some asshole has my name (old one, interestingly enough), my address, my phone number, and all of my chase credit card information. They decided to order a hoity-toity $180 car seat from a fancy Manhatten baby store. Who the f*ck needs a car seat that costs one hundred and eighty fucking dollars???? Seriously, if your baby's tush needs that much cushioning, buy it your damn self instead of stealing my information to do it. I might feel bad if it was, say, food, but this? The shipping address was somewhere in Holmen, WI, where, incidentally, our best man is from.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

But, I noticed it 4 days later (2 business days), so take this, fuckers - I cancelled my credit cards and called the store, and your precious car seat was intercepted in transit and is on it's way back to the store! HAH!!

grrr.

Anyways, the good news is that D and I finally bought a bed frame!! Neither of us has had one since we moved out of our respective parent's houses after college, mostly because we can't agree on ANYTHING. Like, at all. Seriously.

But one went for sale on the classifieds here at work, and I liked it, and amazingly enough, he did too, so we snatched it up! We picked it up last night (using D's parent's jeep, since, oh BTW, he completely wrecked his red BMW in an auto accident a couple of weeks ago) and put it together, and it's BEAUTIFUL! I don't have pictures of it in our room, but these are the ones from the classifieds:

Isn't it great?

We're also working on painting some more rooms in the house, and I think we're going to have to call a landscaping company soon - one of the flower beds on the side of the garage is home to 6 foot tall (no joke) pricker plants that are life-threatening. I need to move the flowers and get that bed ripped up, along with a couple others.

And, of course, we need to entertain the in-laws tonight, and then for the next 5-6 weekends, I'm completely booked :P