wedding

We are sitting in an internet cafe in Rome right now so this will be a very short post. Our wedding day was amazing and though few things went as planned almost everyone said it was the best wedding they had ever attended. I plan on journelling everything in my spare moments and writing the worlds longest post when we return to the states. Today we went to the Sistine Chapel and it was really mind blowing seeing the works we had seen our whole lifes in person. We probally wouldn't have made it to the Vatican at all if it wasn't for my insomnia. I woke us up at 5 and we decided to get up and get ready. We wallked to the Vatican from our hotel and were about 60 people back in line at 6:45. The museum opened at 8:45 and we found out that it was closed tomorrow. So I guess for once it paid off that I couldn't sleep. I have so much more to say but since we are paying by the minute I shall leave saying I miss you all and will catch up with you when we return.

Wow!

Ok so I was sitting at my computer reading blogs, as I am want to do, and my cell phone rang. I answered the call and it was a voice I was certainly not expecting. My old boss that took back my raise after she had promised it and then never told me she took it back. She had the nerve to be calling me to ask me to work for her for a week. Funny but I wouldn't work for her under the worst of situations but since I fly out this Saturday, as in two days I don't think I will be able to work for her. Wow though she has some balls to think I would even consider it. She did however make my day, I love that she is crawling back to me. You all should be very proud of me though, I told her no I was getting married next Sunday, I did not tell her to F herself or any of the other things the demon on my shoulder told me to say, I was however very cold and straight forward, I doubt she will be calling me again.

Props to good customer service

I just called Cingular my cell phone provider to get some help about using my phone while I am in Italy. Really what I wanted was not an international plan but for them to unlock my phone so I can use a prepaid calling sim chip on my phone. I expected to have to fight for it and was prepared for a battle. I thought they would try and force me into the international calling plan that quite frankly is way to expensive. So I called and the customer service rep was very nice and didn't try to force the international plan at all. I asked her to unlock my phone and she said no problem. She put in the request and within 5 days I should get the code to unlock the phone. I was a little dumbfounded, I can't remember the last time I called a company and got the results I wanted without pressuring them to do so. Due to this I will say way to go Cingular, I shall recommend you highly.

In other news the wedding is now less than two weeks away. Actually two weeks from today I will be on a plane to Italy. Life is pretty good. Saturday my passport came. I am not sure how it is possible but the picture is worse than my drivers license. It is pretty frightening. I hope they don't look at it and declare me a security risk due to toxic ugliness. I guess we will see. This morning I started to clean out my closet. I threw away all my old shoes and now my shoe collection is organized and easy to find the shoe I am looking for. This will be nice. I also went through my closet and pulled out old clothes I no longer wear. Later today I will be taking several garbage bags of clothes to Good Will. I guess that means I could be walking down the street and see people wearing my clothes. That is kind of weird. This is my last week home before the wedding, I fly to Napa on Saturday and from then on it will be all wedding stuff to prepare for the big event on Sunday the 21st. I can't believe in two weeks I am going to be a Mrs.

I have more that I should tell you about like my all day spa day saturday while Brad had his bachelor party but I really don't feel like typing it up right now. So I shall type more later but for now see ya.

sites from vegas

Here are some of the things we saw while in vegas. Of course these pictures were all taken on a previous trip to vegas but since I din't take out my camera much you get to see pictures I already had in my library. No trip to Vegas is complete until you have been in M&M World so you better believe I made us stop in.

 

Wedding countdown

The first three pictures are of Brad and I on the day we got our marriage license. We decided to play hookie after we were done at the courthouse and went to Downtown Disney and goofed off. The first picture is me trying on a cowboy hat and honestly I am only posting it because I think my boobs look amazing in this picture and I thought you should all have a little treat. The next picture is Brad and I kissing in the waterfall caves at the Disneyland Hotel. The hotel has great grounds and if you are ever in the area I recommend exploring the hotel. The waterfall caves were empty and it made for a nice hideaway on such a romantic day. The next picture is of Brad and my drink at the Rainforest Cafe. Both were very good to me. The last picture is of my 2 maids of honor at my bachelorette party, we were at the piano bar at the New York New York casino. We had a lot of fun there. Unfortunately that is one of the only pictures I thought to take all weekend. I guess I can't get in trouble for anything if I take no evidense.

 

No I didn't die

So I know I have been awol from here for awhile and all I can say is that I am sorry. I don't expect it will get much better until after the wedding though so don't get your hopes up too high. My best friend Susan is flying in as we speak and we will spent the day together today and then head to Vegas for my bacholerette party this weekend. I wouldn't count on seeing picture evidence of our time there though, you know the rules. I will try to post when I can from now until the wedding as there will be a 3 week silence from me after the wedding. I will post lots of pictures when I return though.

The last up too long post spurred two questions from most of you, the first how I caught on fire. I was to light the last candle at the Thespian Society induction and I was wearing one of those string friendship bracelets that were all the rage in the late 80's early 90's. I had to reach over all the other candles to light mine and when I did so my bracelet dangled into the other candles and caught on fire. Yes it was in front of a lot of people and yes I was very embarrassed. Thankfully my teacher responded very quickly and put me out before my skin actually burned. I have never again wore a friendship bracelet. Come to think of it that may have been the last time I wore any bracelet. I will have to think about that.

The second question was how I accidentally stole something. When I was a teen stores would have sales all the time with limits on them, like soda limit two cases. When this would happen my Mom would stock up on soda but she would bring me so I could get in one line and buy the limit and she would get in another line to buy the limit. My mom handed me the money and sent me to the register. She was still doing something in the back of the store and I went to the front. Not thinking I went right out the door and to the car without ever paying for the soda. I got to the car and started to unload the soda into the trunk, when I saw that I still had the cash in my hand that I was suppose to use to pay for the soda. I wasn't sure what to do but I knew there was no way I wanted to get caught stealing so I put the soda back into the cart and wheeled it back into the store and then into a check out line. As I was paying for the soda the cashier put a thing of tape across the top and said this is so security doesn't stop you for shoplifting. I laughed at that. I put the soda in the car and came back in and told my mom the whole story. She said I should have just left them in the car and not paid for them. I was shocked, this was the same woman who became the scariest thing I had ever seen when my oldest brother got caught stealing and there was no way I wanted to incur that wrath. We did get a good laugh out of the whole situation afterwards. Since I did end up paying for the soda though I am not sure it counts as shoplifting.

Shamelessly Stolen

I saw this on S's blog and it seemed kind of cute, so I shamelsessly stole it. After looking at the list I realized I really have done a lot.

Place an X beside the things you've done. This is for your entire life:
( ) Crashed a friend's car.
( ) Stolen a car.
(x) Been in love.
(x) Been dumped.
(x) Shoplifted. (Not on purpose though)
(x) Been fired.
(x) Been in a fist fight. (does it count if I wasn't fighting but got hit?)
( ) Snuck out of your parent's house.
(x) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them for you.
( )Been arrested. Not Charged
(x) Gone on a blind date.
(x) Lied to a friend.
(x) Skipped school.
(x) Seen someone die.
(x) Been to Canada.
(x) Been to Mexico.
(x) Been on a plane.
(x) Set a part of yourself on fire.
(x) Eaten sushi.
(x) Been skiing. Snow skiing, yes.
(x) Met someone from the Internet.
(x) Been to a concert.
(x) Taken painkillers.
(x) Love someone or miss someone right now.
(x) Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by.
(x) Made a snow angel.
(x) Had a tea party pretend or otherwise.
(x) Flown a kite.
(x) Built a sandcastle.
(x) Gone puddle jumping.
(x) Played dress up.
(x) Jumped into a pile of leaves.
(x) Gone sledding.
(x) Cheated while playing a game.
(x) Been lonely.
(x) Fallen asleep at work/school.
( ) Used a fake ID.
(x) Watched the sunset.
(x) Felt an earthquake.
(x) Slept beneath the stars.
(x) Been tickled.
(x) Been robbed.
(x) Been misunderstood.
(x) Petted a reindeer/goat/kangaroo OR jackalope.
(x) Won a contest.
(x) Run a red light/stop sign.
(x) Been suspended from school..
(x) Been in a car crash.
(x) Had braces.
(x) Felt like an outcast/third person.
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night.
(x) Had deja vu.
(x) Danced in the moonlight.
(x) Liked the way you looked.
(x) Witnessed a crime.
(x) Questioned your heart.
( ) Been obsessed with post-it notes.
(x) Squished mud through your bare feet.
(x) Been lost.
(x) Been on the opposite side of the country.
(x) Swam in the ocean.
(x) Felt like dying.
(x) Cried yourself to sleep.
(x) Played cops and robbers.
(x) Recently colored with crayons.
(x) Sang karaoke.
(x) Paid for a meal with only coins.
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't.
(x) Made prank phone calls.
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose.
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue.
(x) Danced in the rain.
( ) Written a letter to Santa Claus.
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe.
(x) Watched the sun rise.
(x) Blown bubbles.
(x) Made a bonfire on the beach.
(x) Crashed a party.
(x) Gone roller-skating.
(x) Had a wish come true.
( ) Jumped off a bridge.

The Easter Bunny is a jew?

So we went to my brothers yesterday and then to the Dodgers Giants game. WHen we got back we had to put the little one to bed and then the Easter Bunny needed to come before she woke up. Apparently unbeknowst to all of us the Easter Bunnies special helper is a jew. We had a lot of fun and it was good to spend time with my brother. We were only sad that we wouldn't be there this monring to see the little ones face when she woke up.
 

Random PIcture Saturday

Here you go with some random pictures. Sorry they are a day late.

 

Random Picture, Thursday?

Ok so I didn't get a chance to do random picture Saturday last week and I will be out of town this weekend so won't be able to post yet again so here you go random pictures.
 

Pooh

Ok so most of you aren't familiar with my love for the silly old bear. When we went to New York they happened to have the original pooh and friends of Christopher Robin. SO I of course made everyone go and see them. If you are wondering that is my smile that says basically this is so cool. I am posting this because I feel like today is kind of a pooh day, a day where you are tired of dealing with the concerns of the adult world and want to return to childhood. Mind you nothing is particularly wrong today it is just that I am feeling a bit over whelmed with all that still needs to be done but hasn't gotten done. SO far though 63 people are actually coming to the wedding. Good night more later. 

Lowered Expectations

Ok just a quick vent post because I am tired of business not living up to a standard. Tonight Brad and I decided that we would treat ourselves to a sundae at Ben and Jerry's. We had been seeing the posters everytime we walked by for a caramel turtle sundae and tonight we were going to have it. They were out of turtles. SO I asked for the other special the peanut butter brownie sundae, they were out of brownies, so we left and went to the waffle place. I ordered a crepe, no problem, Brad ordered a waffle, did I mention that it was a waffle place, they were out of waffle batter. Brad was irrated but he ordered a crepe. We asked for two glasses for tap water. The girl told us she couldn't find the cups for water we could buy a bottle. We asked if we could use one of the coffee cups, she said no they were saving them, what the F! Come on people have your product and let people have water. I wish I could say that this was just a freak night but it is happening more and more. We will no longer order from Pizza Hut because every time we order they are out of pepperoni, or pan crust, or medium pizzas or something and they never just tell you they are out of it, no they let you wait for the pizza to arrive and when it is wrong and you call or ask they tell you that oh yeah we were out of whatever so we sent you the pizza on a cracker instead. I tell you what these places had better step it up cause I do not want to have to make every meal at home.

Ok that is all for now come back tomorrow for a much lighter happier blog post.

Pictures with new camera

First up is Juan Pablo Montoya, Monty for short, the killer race turtle. He is asking, You looking at me? as he suns himself with his uv lightbulb. This is a rare treat he is usually too self involved for a picture. Next picture is of our little Pixel, she was worried she wouldn't look good in the picture so she had to take a moment to clean a spot. Third picture is of Zacchy, as she has seen many cameras come and go in her lifetime she was less than impressed and chose to sleep through the photo session. Lastly is a picture of what Brad gave me for Valentines day. I had to wait for it to grow before I could take a picture. If you click on it you will see what I think of you all. Of course I have no idea what it is that I am really growing so I hope it isn't illegal since I keep it in the window and all. ANyway I was just taking a quick break to see what the pictures look like before going and taking more. Expect lots of picture posts in the near future.

 

Random picture Saturday

I have decided to start a new feature that will be random picture Saturday. I will post pictures of random things with no explanation. You can choose to think of them as you wish or even make up stories in the comments. The only rule I will make is that they will all be pictures I have taken. So here is your first installment, have fun.

 

Why Soozieq Rocks

So today I glanced out at my patio and saw a box out there. It was addressed to me so I opened it. Zacchy was very excited to have a new box to play in, because that is her favorite toy. So as soon as I emptied the box in went Zacchy. You may not be able to tell from the picture but she is saying thank you Soozieqhttp://sharpturnahead.blogspot.com . So I opened the other box that was inside the box and found that Soozieq had sent a gift for Brad and I. So needless to say I was very excited. You see she had sent me a new thermometer and crab crackers. I needed these because as you see from the bottom picture I melted my old thermometer by placing it on top of the smoker, a mistake I will not make again. I needed the crab crackers because the last time I made crab I didn't have the crackers and I was doing it by hand and cut myself on the shell. That was not to fun for me so I will say I am glad Soozieq has saved me from further injury. I then tried to take a picture of the box with the card in it but Pixel began to feel left out and so she jumped into the box right as I was taking the picture. My camera then ran out of batteries because I haven't charged them due to the new camera coming. Thank you Soozieq so much, I really can not say how much it means to me that you are so thoughtful. Also this thoughtful gift produced your address which I was going to email you today for anyway. So from myself, Brad, Pixel, and Zacchy we say thank you. Monty couldn't be bothered to offer thanks though he was too afraid I might stick him in the box or use the thermometer on him.

 

Invitations

So I haven't been around to actually update my own blog because I have been non stop on operation mail out invitations since Friday. Yesterday I sent out 143 invitations. Today about 30 more went out. I also filed for my passport yesterday and that should arrive by May 2nd. So I am covered in ink from doing all the calligraphy on the inside envelopes. No I didn't lick the invites I used a sponge thingy to seal all of them. On Friday I went to the post office to buy all the stamps for the invites. I know they have special wedding stamps that you can buy so I was thinking they would be a heart or something. I handed the mail man a invite and asked what the postage would be for that and the return card. The mail man got all excited. He started dancing around and crossing his fingers as he waited for the scale. Once he saw that the invites would be able to go out at the 63 cent prize he jumped up a little in glee. Apparently the stamps come together on a card for weddings so you get the 39 cent stamp on one side and the 63 cent stamp on the other. It is a new thing and this man had never gotten to sell one of them before so he was quite excited about it. He comes back with the stamps and I glance down and find to my horror that the stamp has a bird on it. I hate birds and I certainly didn't want one to be the symbol on all of our invites, on the other hand I wasn't about to tell this man that I didn't want the special sheet he was so happy to be selling. So yep all the invites have a bird stamp on them.

Saturday night we took a break from invitations and went to the dinner and a movie thing. In concept a great idea, in reality poorly executed. There was a Hollywood nightclub that shared a lobby with the theater and so before the movie even ended the music from the club was so loud that our table and drinks were shaking a lot. It was hard to see the movie at times because the serving staff all walked around on the same level as everyone watching the movie. The worst thing was though that the food while it tasted fine was not what we expected. Most of the things on the menu were between 10-20 dollars. I ordered the special which I thought might be a few dollars more than the most expensive thing on the menu. I ordered the filet and it was about 6 oz and they charged $40 I nearly had a heart attack. Yeah lesson learned don't order the special unless you want to be specially shocked. Brad's food came out cold and he had to send it back and get it reheated. So all in all it was not an experience we care to do again. We did have a good time though because it was nice to get away from the wedding planning and it was even nicer to get to go out with friends. It is also nice because the couple we went out with is getting married this summer so they are going through the same things we did or are.

Sunday night I ordered a new digital camera and it should arrive here by Friday. I bought the Nikon Coolpix s5. It is just a little thicker than a credit card and it is 6 mega pixels and it takes TV resolution video. I am told that it is really good. I really like the size of it and that is what I wanted for when we are in Italy. A small camera that is easy to always have ready that takes a high res picture. I can't wait for it to come, however Brad is almost as excited for my camera as I am and I am not sure if he will even let me play with my own camera because he is going to take it over. I suppose that is what happens when you marry a gadget freak.

So the wedding is exactly 2 months from today and I am starting to really feel like this is going to really happen. You know we must really love each other if we didn'y kill one another getting these invites out.

Yesterday my new Tassimo beverage system (coffee maker) It is so cool you put a disk in and hit the button and it makes you the perfect cup of coffee, tea, or hot coco, depending on what kind of disk you out in. It also makes cappucinos and all of the fancy drinks too. I bought it for catering but we will see if I will ever be ok letting someone else touch it. I love new toys.

Poconos?

So it is now almost two months until the wedding and I can finally say that we do indeed have a honeymoon booked. On Monday May 22nd we will be on our way to Italy! Yep Angel Girl I will be in your neck of the world. We are going to spend two weeks in Italy eating and drinking our way through the country and then we will fly back. First though we fly into Paris and have a lay over until the next morning so oh darn we will see one night of Paris as well. Breakfast with real croissants, yummy! I am so excited to get to leave this continent for the first time in my life. It seems as though Mrs. Brad will have more exciting adventures than Miss Karin did.

Yesterday they poured new concrete for the walkway to our building. All day long the concrete called to me saying it needed engraving. Try as I might I could not calm the voice of the walkway and so I carved K + B '06 very small in a corner of the wet concrete. Yeah I am bad, but Brad told me to do it and the first thing he did when he got home was to run out and see what I carved. Yes this is why I am marrying him, everyone needs a partner in crime. Besides who else wouldn't complain about putting drink syrup on their waffles.

Tommorrow night we are going with friends to a dinner place that shows a movie while you eat. We will be seeing Good Noght and Good Luck. Maybe we will see what all the Oscar buzz was about. I think it is a cool idea though to combine the whole dinner and a movie thing so I will have to post how the food was. That is about all I can think to talk about right now. I will post tommorrow and say more if there is more to say.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Sometimes I am not as bright as I think I am

So last night I didn't feel much like dinner and or making dinner. I finally decided to make breakfast for dinner and so we had waffles and bacon. I made the waffles and some how timed everything perfectly to when Brad walked through the door. All was going well and he even seemed excited to have waffles for dinner. I then went to the cabinet to get the syrup. There was no syrup there. What the F how could we possibly not have syrup? Ok well I knew the last time we went to Ikea we bought a bottle of Lingonberry syrup so all was again fine with dinner. I served the waffles and the Ikea syrup and was surprised at how liquidy it was. No problem it tasted fine and Brad didn't complain so I ate my waffles and kept quiet. As we finished and Brad was clearing the table I mentioned that I was surprised at how liquidy the syrup was, Brad said he was too and then he turned the bottle and read it. To make beverage mix with water. It wasn't pancake syrup it was koolaide mix. Yeah and I am a chef. Oh well we all make mistakes.

This week I am a little preoccupied because we have to get all the wedding invitations out by the 21st. We spent all of last night finalizing a list of invites and now it is on to the assembly and addressing of envelopes. Aren't you all glad you are not in the middle of planning your own wedding. I can not believe in a little over 2 months I am going to be a Mrs.

As for the quiz, Walmart is not a department store. I think at best it is called a super store or a drug store. There is only one place that I have made a whole post on hating. I will give you that Walmart is not one of my favorite businesses but honestly there is not one around here so I don't really give it much thought. Don't feel too bad at missing that one though because no one including Brad got that one right, though he should have known better. I am guessing that a lot of you are Walmart haters and were projecting that to me.

I have been to a lot of blogs lately that have lost someone and it is really sad. I don't know if it is the season for it or something but really I am getting so sad I don't think I can deal with much more death. SO if you are a reader of my blog I forbid anyone you know to pass away until after June. I think I can handle it better by then.

It is Purim, which is a very fun loving Jewish Holiday. The rules are, for adults, to drink until you don't know the difference between blessed be Mortichi and cursed be Hamen. While I can't spell it I am still too sober to not know the difference. So pardon this post I am rather buzzed but I am still not to drunk to follow Jewish Law.

I am a joiner

so since I have seen lots of you guys making quizzes and I can not be left out ever I made one of my own to see how you all would do. First let me see if I can post a link cause I have never tried before. Take my quiz.

Big bear pictures

The first picture is of Cassie my brother's girlfriend's daughter, she is wearing her mom's gloves because she didn't have snow mittens yet. The second picture is of snowy Brad. I think he is in shock over how cold it is. The last picture is of my Bro, yep he does have a very red nose. Yep it was snowing at the time. All these pictures were taken while we waited for the chains to be put on the car. We weren't really dressed to be in the snow and we were ourside waiting for over an hour. We had fun though and Cassie loved the snow. Thanks Susan for telling me how to post multiple pictures, now you guys are all in for trouble.