May 2017

Pictures from May 2017

Going to go through the months and just post pictures without comment until I get caught up.

My Monday

There was quite the commotion at work today. After I came back from lunch and was back at my desk there was a huge boom and the building shook followed by the power going out and the computer server alarms going off, followed by another boom and shake. My boss went outside and someone had ran their car into an electrical pole. There were wires down and a fire in the brush next to the fence that the car ran into. The power was out for an hour, thankfully it was only an hour because it probably would have gotten pretty hot. Here are two pictures from the lively afternoon.

Then in celebration of "7-11 Day" my Mom and I went and got sodas. We were told that the Big Gulps were going to be $1 today but apparently we were lied to because when we got there they said that it ended at 4pm. So we got bigger sodas instead. God Bless 7-11 on its special day.

Another notable from today, I was reading online that the Beckhams named their daughter Harper Seven. I have always loved the name Harper. As far as Seven goes I wonder if it had anything to do with every one's favorite Seinfeld character, the beloved George Costanza.

Probably not, it's probably something to do with good luck. Kind of a cute name though, I have heard worse. I also like Willow (Pink's baby), Flynn (Orlando Bloom's baby). I even like Aleph (Natalie Portman's baby). Enough about baby names, I really could go on forever.

Hope everyone had a nice Monday.

Playing Catch-Up

I guess I haven't been keeping to up to date with the ol' blog lately. Not sure why, I haven't been too busy. Work has been busy lately but when I leave there I really don't do too much. Guess I just haven't really sat down to put my fingers to the keys (you know like "pen to paper").

So to catch you all up here is what has been going on.

-On the hypochondriac front I have been having shooting side pains. This really could be anything I think, I won't get into the thoughts that go through my head on this one. Sometimes the pains are just below my rib cage and sometimes they are on my pelvic bone and then a little below that, all on my right side. I will say that it is getting better. Each day it seems to subside a litte. Maybe I pulled a muscle. And then last night as I was going to bed I was itching my head and found a very sore spot. It hurts to the touch. It's strange because I don't recall hitting my head on anything. My mom suggested that it may be an ingrown hair. Whatever it is it is painful.

-Last weekend my mom, aunt, and I went to Las Vegas to see my cousin, Matt, who was there for work. We had a great time. I think we spent more time shopping at outlets then we did seeing Matt or doing anything in Vegas. It was a fun couple of days with two of my favorite people.

-Rodger and I started to watch "Modern Family", we finished all of season one and have watched the first episode of season two. Such a great show, non-stop laughs, but also very sentimental. I recommend it if you don't already watch.

-Also, on the television front, my fascination with polygamy continues, in the form of "Sister Wives" on TLC. A strange situation those folks have but they do seem like caring, loving people just raising their family. I just can't get enough of polygamy. Don't want to be a part of it but certainly love observing it.

-A family friend offered to do an engagement photo shoot of Rodger and I for free. Very excited about that, not exactly sure what that entails, but as narcissistic as the two of us are I am sure we will love it.

-I still need to get my ring sized down but I just don't want to part with it for the couple of days that it will be away.

-Need to decorate the apartment for fall. It feels kind of funny since I haven't finished unpacking and putting up all of our pictures but that's okay, I love fall so the decorating must be done.

-Rodger gave me his old IPhone and I have been having fun playing "Words with Friends", just what I needed another time waster. But nothing wring with sharpening my spelling skills.

I think we are all caught up.

Target and Spam

Target got new shopping carts! Very fun, nice and light.

God I love Target, it's being remodeled right now so it's not so great, but I do love a fun trip to Target. Remodeling will be done in October, just in time for fun Fall shopping.

It was a quick trip there tonight.

And then dinner at "B-Mans" where some of us ate this Spam concoction.

*pictures courtesy of my cell phone, which finally sends pictures in regular size again, albeit a little blurry.

Friday Night

Yesterday when I got home from work I got a stomachache, a bad one. Why would this have to happen on a Friday night? Ugh. It really never went away until I woke up this morning. So Friday was a little less fun than it should be but we still managed to get some things done after I hung out in bed for about three hours.

We did end up doing a little shopping and I bought my first blu ray for myself. I have bought them before for other people but never for myself. Ironically enough it's a movie from the eighties, "National Lampoon's Vacation". It's one of my favorites and it just came out on Blu Ray so I had to get it. This brings my Blu Ray collection up to two, Rodger bought me "Couples Retreat" for my birthday.

On the way home we stopped to get some watermelon (that was dinner for me). I love watermelon so much, it just screams summer and there are these smaller ones that you can buy, I think they are called Del Luna, and they are so crisp and sweet. I could eat it everyday.

A few things that made me laugh tonight.

-Walking past my old apartment and seeing all of my old kitchen utensils sitting on the wall air conditioning unit. Guess I forgot to pack those.

-Driving past the McDonalds billboard on the freeway that shows a cup of coffee and says "If coffee is Joe, consider this Joseph". This sign is so funny to me and I laugh every time I see it.

-As we were driving home a Michael Jackson song came on and Rodger says "my boy" and turns it up really loud, and then starts shaking his head. MJ's passing has been hard for some of us to get over. (Not that I am say him passing is funny, it's just Rodger's reaction to his song that is funny and now that I have explained this whole thing none of it is really funny anymore.)

Despite not feeling too hot it was a nice night and I fell asleep watching the Griswolds and with a stomach full of delicious watermelon.

And this is the view from the living room window on a Friday night.

Is schlep a word? And I am spelling it right?

The following is to catch you all up on my life. (this shouldn't take long).

My apartment is officially hot, the foil went up. It's summer and we're melting but that foil helps. (a lot). When I was walking down the street back home I could spot the foil from about a block away. The neighbors probably think we are running a meth lab in here. On that note, though, there is a two bedroom opening up in the building and we are really hoping we get it. It seems like it will work out but it's not a done deal yet. I am really hoping it works out because it is only about 100 feet from the current apt. If it doesn't work out then we will have to look somewhere else (which we have already been doing and it's been challenging to say the least. Property owners have quite the aversion to animals unless you want to double the deposit, which I don't). On top of that we will have to get the fridge down two flights of stairs, not mention all of my other crap that I would have to move also. It would be just so much easier to schlep everything the 100 feet. So, fingers crossed.

Next week I am getting my hair colored. Super excited about that. My hair needs work. I get three things done at the salon. Color, cut, and eyebrow wax, and usually these three things all are done at different times. But every once in a while it all happens at once and I there is a trifecta of salon needs. I only have an appointment for the weave but I am going to see if I can convince Dominique to do all three at once or at least the color and cut. If she had seen my hair this morning when I left for work she would agree in a second. Can you say HOT MESS?

Vickie finally stayed out of the big D long enough so that we can go see "Sex and the City 2" tomorrow night. Really looking forward to that. Not sure why the ladies are in the desert but I am ready to find out. And I hear Katie A is flying out to see it with us so good times. ;)

And as if things weren't already good enough it's a three day weekend. So excited for the 4th festivities.

Now you are caught up. Told you it wouldn't take long.


Oh andto complete the post, a picture of my Sushi basking in the sunlight.

Are you there Blog?

It's me KCrizzle.

and Sushi.



It's been a over a week since I have blogged. No real good reason unless laziness is a good reason. Oh and we were in Vegas last weekend so I couldn't blog then. But Vegas will get a well deserved blog post of its own. I also still need to blog about the Dodger game I went to and of course "The Cooking Experiment".

I have also been budgeting lately. This is a bit new to me. That's not to say that I have always had enough money to spend it on whatever I wanted it's just that after I pay my bills I don't really worry about spending the rest of my money however I want. But since I bought Betsy I have had to tighten the purse strings a bit. Along with that I am trying to spend less and save more. So on our drive to Vegas Rodger and I talked over some budgeting strategies. As I only get paid once a month my plan is to pay all my bills and then take out a certain amount of cash each week and only spend that and once it's gone I can't spend anymore till the following week. I like this because normally I never take out any cash and then I am just using my debit card all of the time and not really keeping track of how much I am spending. When I use cash I really have to think of it as money. With only a set amount of cash I can use every week then there will be a specific amount left over every month to go into my savings account. This is the first week and so far it's working out pretty well. Of course, it's not the weekend yet and I haven't really gone anywhere that I would have to spend money. But I am going to give it a shot and teach myself to be more disciplined with money.

That's about it.
Now I think I am going to drink some Capri sun, eat some cookies, watch some "Law and Order" that's on the DVR and go to sleep.

Good night!
-Love Me and The Sush (who right now has one paw stuck in the carpet and the other arm over her head. She's a catortionist.) ha ha, made myself laugh.

Tuesday Night Musings

Just sitting here watching American Idol. Adam Lambert is the mentor tonight, let's hope he doesn't show the contestants his American Music Awards performance as inspiration. Things could get a little dicey. Anyhow, not going to lie still have a huge crush on the Glambert. Such nice eyes. I just love a guy who wears more makeup than I do and who has made out with more dudes than I have (I'm assuming). TMI? Oh yeah, and it's Elvis night. I'm voting for whoever sings "Suspicious Minds" or "The Girl Of My Best Friend" or "Can't Help Falling in Love". Unless it's Tim singing because it's time for him to go home.

Let's see what else?

-Paid my state taxes today. That was wonderful.

-I just realized that my living room window actually opens. I was pretty sure that it was stuck shut. Not sure why I was so sure of that. Nice to get a little fresh air flow in the apartment. And it only took me about 13 months to figure this out.

-Last night I fell asleep at 11pm and woke up for a little snack at 1:30am and a zit had grown on my chin in that small window of time. All day I have been fascinated by the fact that I know exactly when this zit appeared on my face. So strange yet very interesting. How does this happen?

So I think that's pretty much all I have going on. To summarize still love Adam Lambert, taxes suck balls, I am a moron for not knowing a window would actually open, and I have a new zit on my chin.

Oh and here are some cutesy pictures of Sushi.

Recently

I have become obsessed with Sonic's Chocolate Malts. To die for!

I haven't been running at all. Combined together with the new Sonic's obsession means not so good news for my tummy area. I told Rodger "I am going running tomorrow rain or shine!" There is a 5k next month, the training must commence. I haven't ran since January and that was only once.

I am super excited that the new season of "Kitchen Nightmares" started last night. Got that on the DVR to watch tonight. Gordon Ramsey's cursing is so delectable simply because he has a British accent. No accent and it would be annoying.

I am not sure how I am feeling about Ellen on American Idol. I love her normally and think that she is funny but it is just strange to hear her tell someone they sound "pitchy". Verdict is still out on her. Randy is tolerable as usual. The only thing I really care for about Kara is hernrockin' hair. And, of course, my love affair with Simon continues. Maybe this is why I am not too sure about Ellen yet. I can tell Simon doesn't like her. Maybe when he is gone I will think Ellen fits better. But really what is A.I. without Simon? It's barely anything without Paula. Maybe Ellen should start hitting the prescription meds hard. I just miss Paula's hands not quite connecting when she clapped. We'll see. I don't have any contestant favorites yet. I liked the long blonde hair guy until Kara started making a fool of herself in front of him. Okay, did I really just write a whole paragraph about American Idol? Enough.

I had a great 28th birthday. Feels pretty much like 27 so far. I have decided that this year will be the year that I will conquer my OCD. I am going to do it. It will happen. I have made a strong honest effort for a little over a week and there has been so much improvement already. I feel really good about it. Is it okay if I say that I am proud of myself? OCD can be really debilitating and I will be so glad to be done with it. So so glad. I will keep you updated on my progress.

On a lighter birthday note I love the digital frame that the Rodge got me and I am loving the yellow cardigan, cat earrings, and tankini that my parents got me. I am already envisioning myself wearing it in Hawaii. I probably won't have a fro when I wear it though just a lot of sand in my hair.

Have I mentioned that we are going back to Hawaii in September? Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I am feeling. I was telling my mom and Rodger that I think about Maui everyday. It was such a great vacation and I can't wait to go back.

I am loving this song. I hum it to myself a lot. It is just so pretty and has such a calming effect.

"I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love."



"Under everything, just another human being."

I have thought a lot about the post I made "Side Notes". I have been really good lately about keeping my mouth shut. I have accomplished a lot towards my goal of letting others know their truth. Around the beginning of the new year I decided that I shouldn't get to melancholy that time goes by so fast. I need to not measure my life in days, months, and years. Rather I need to look at my life as a journey that is not on a calendar. And I put these two ideas together. Others have their journey and I have mine and that is truly a beautiful thing.

Aw huh.

Creepy

Someone left an anonymous comment on my blog that said "Do you understand me?" and quite frankly it has creeped me out and put me a little on edge.

So now I have "word verification" for leaving a comment. I hope it isn't to much of a hassle to anyone who wants to leave a comment. I know that anonymous people can still post but maybe someone won't want to write something creepy if they have to take the extra time to put in a word verification.

Just to let you know what's going on.

Has anyone else gotten these creepy and anonymous comments?

Can't go a week without at least one blog

I don't know why I haven't blogged much this week. Actually, I do know. Number one reason would be laziness. We have been having such nice weather, which I love, but it makes it harder to get out of bed in the morning because it is so nice to stay under the warm covers. And Sushi loves to cuddle in the mornings. It's so nice in the morning that all day while at work I think about going back to bed. My point as it applies here is that I like to lay in bed as much as possible so that doesn't provide a lot of time to blog. I suppose this doesn't apply to just this time of year but when it becomes fall I just want to be cozy. Lucky for me I have a Snuggie. I highly recommend getting one if you don't already have one.

That could be one reason why I haven't blogged. Another reason might be that I like to open up my blog page and see the beautiful picture of my freezer contents. It truly is a work of art.

I was going to blog on Wednesday but then there were some major changes at Rodger's work and a lot of his co-workers and friends got let go and we had to commiserate together. But we also had to be very thankful and happy that he still has a job.

I have also been working on a Halloween craft/decoration so that takes up time that could be spent on blogging.

I was going to blog last night but then I got pretty wrapped up in Jim and Pam's wedding. SO CUTE! Just enough sweet and just enough Michael. I loved it, it was worth watching all of the angst that Jim and Pam went through in the first few seasons of the show. A great payoff and I am glad that the writers don't fill their relationship with angst now, it's just too hard on me. After "The Office" it was just impossible to blog, I was to high from the Jim and Pam wedding.

And I am blogging today because it's been a week and I must blog about something. My narcissism is hungry, actually after seven days it's starving.

There it is a post of excuses.

Next week I will blog more, including the details about my most recent "Cooking Experiment" recipe and pictures of my fall decorations (including my little Halloween craftie craft).

Melting

Laying in bed looking on the internet and watching tv with Rodger. It's a warm one tonight. When the sun went away tonight it did not take the heat with it.

Got some stuff done today. Did some packing for Maui. Went to the mall this morning with my mom. Got a new purse and backpack for the trip.

Excited for Janelle's baby shower tomorrow. And excited to watch the Daytime Emmys tomorrow night. Lame? Probably.

Had sushi for dinner. Yummy. Miso soup and the Las Vegas roll. Mmmmmm...........

Thinking about my cousin Beth's husband fighting the fire in the La Canada area. That's a tough job, fighting fires. It might be tougher on Beth though but I think that she is just the girl for the job. Me, not so much. But her, yes. We were at Petsmart tonight and a man was buying stuff for his animals. He has four cats and one dog and was evacuated from his Altadena home. Hopefully the firefighters can get a handle on the situation soon and hopefully the heat lets up very soon.

Watching an Elvis documentary on PBS and Rodger is singing "Love Me Tender" into my ear. I am a sucker for his Elvis voice. It melts me.

Saturday nights are so relaxing. I love them, even with heat and all.

Cool Cats

i love kittez and my rodger and self mirror portraits and posting all of these things on my blog. oh and i also love my shirt in this picture that i got at walmart for $3. and i love those sunglasses. speaking of those sunglasses where are they?

and i love that tomorrow is friday.

and i love that in less than two weeks i will be in maui. and i think i will love everything about maui.

that is all. but love is all you need. so it's a lot.

My blog needs some lovin

I just clicked on my blog and realized I haven't posted in a week. Yikes. I have just been a little busy this week I guess.

I would have posted more, I do have things to post about but Rodger and I had a glorified slumber party for a couple of days/nights and we were just busy running around. And by running around I mean going to Target and even on an actual run. (All downhill for me, which according to my dad is the hardest part. Maybe he was just being nice but I'll take it). And when we weren't doing that we were drinking chocolate malts and making fresh salmon and watching old "Kitchen Nightmares" episodes on Hulu.

I will be posting more. I need to post all the great pictures from my cousin's wedding last weekend. So I will be back with that post.

Time for bed

It's almost midnight and I am still awake. Kind of a rare thing for me. Usually I sleep around 11ish. Lately I stay awake later, not sure why. I value sleep so much. I really need eight to nine hours a night. The past few nights I just haven't been sleepy. Well actually last night I took an antihistamine so I knocked out. I had a tummy ache and that's supposed to relax your stomach. Either that or I wanted a full night's sleep.

The point is I am awake at midnight.

I am watching the last episode of "The Tonight Show", well the last one at 11:35pm anyway
I watched Chelsea Lately but it was a rerun. I still laughed so I guess it's all the same
I have played about 75 games of Scramble on Facebook. Obsessed? yes.
I am thinking about cleaning my apartment in the morning. It could happen.
I am thinking I really need to start reading "The Hour I First Believed" that Vickie gave me for Christmas. Not tonight though.

Reflecting on the evening which included

Rodger fixing my computer
Eating a caprise sandwich, mmmmmmmmmmm cheeeeeeeeeeese
High Fiving Rodger after the Laker's win but feeling sorry for my cousin Matt who had tickets to game seven
watching old You Tube videos of Triumph the Insult Dog at a Star Wars convention, lots of laughing from Rodger and me
saying goodnight to Rodger

which has all led to me sitting here blogging because I can't sleep.

Should I take a Tylenol PM? Mix it up a little? I will be honest, right before you nod off there is a nice relaxed feeling that comes from taking those. Nowhere near as nice as the feeling of the drug they give you at the dentist when they are putting you under but a lot cheaper and lot less painful.

Am I still rambling.

I think its time to find her




and spoon.

Friday Freedom

Friday evening. Two words that delight me to no end. Fridays are great in general, yes there is still work, but the anticipation of the weekend makes the day dizzy with exciting. But it's the evening, right after 5pm, that gets me going. I leave work with the feeling that the sky is the limit. Nothing can hold me back. The evenings Monday through Thursday I am restrained. Not Friday though.

All the possibilities of the weekend! All of the excitement of Friday night! The unplanned hours that you can do anything with. I love the feeling that there are so many possibilities yet I pretty much always have the possibilities outlined. Tonight I want them to include pizza, Pinkberry (oh the plain yogurt with Oreos and raspberries, oh the fact that Pinkberry is three blocks from my house). My evening must include going to the street fair. I can't resist walking around in the sun on this beautiful day. Sunny, beautiful days are the picture of freedom to me. They open my soul. I love to feel the sunshine soaking into my skin.

On Friday I love the hours between five and when I am too tired to keep my eyes open any longer. Those hours are so full of freedom.

"Stick your hand into my back pocket
Light me up like a bottle rocket
I just wanna free fall for a while"

Mood: Excited!

Reasons I am excited-

- The construction on the streets by my work is finally over after a year. Traffic is lighter, my mood is lighter. Would it be lame if I almost cried this morning when I saw that my shortcut was open?

-I got keys made for my apartment. It was time after the "Easter lockout" fiasco. On top of that I got a key made for myself with a heart print cover. Makes me happy when I look at it (little things, people, little things).

-Vickie is coming back on Sunday. Even though she has only been gone a week and blogs about her trip everyday it will be very nice to have her home. I don't like being in different countries, it throws off my sister telepathy.

-Today is the end of tax season. This is excitement for my mom. See how selfless I am? Well, not too selfless, maybe now we can start going to lunch together again.

-After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears my living room is furnished. It's nice. I will post pictures later.

-Kathy Griffin stand-up special tonight.

-Mondays(Crazy, right?) because I go to my aunt's house for dinner and to watch "Dancing with the Stars".

-Possibly going back to Disneyland to use the second 1/2 of our two-fer tickets this weekend.

-And I am going to MAUI in September.

-Oh and Rodger will be here in 5 minutes. And I get to be around him for the next fourteen hours and there will be pizza and ice cream involved.

-And it was beautiful today.

I must stop now, I may burst.

Love the skin your in

And I do love the skin I am in, it just happens to be an extremely itchy skin right now. Well for the past couple of weeks actually. Everywhere, head to toe itches. My scalp, my arms, my stomach, my legs. All over. Must be the weather because the allergies are acting up to and I have unfortunate pimple/zits on my face. What's a girl to do?

Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.

Products, products, products.

I have the Dove Moisturizing Beauty Bar, $12 face lotion, the Lubiderm lotion, the Vaseline for my lips. Considering the Head and Shoulders. Should I be admitting that? I doubt I will but just considering it makes me laugh. Head and Shoulders always reminds me of my grandparents. When I was younger and would spend the night at their house that's the shampoo they would have in the shower. So I always associate it with older people. Plus I really love my Aussie shampoo/conditioner. But my head itches. I like the Lubiderm, smells good, was somewhat expensive so I feel like it should be working. I mostly bought the face lotion to help with the sun lines on my face. No real progress yet but I felt with my 27th bday approaching it was time to move forward from the Clearasil face lotion. That Dove bar is a miracle worker, or just magic I'm not sure which. Seems like a white soap bar would do nothing but dry out your skin but I use that bad boy on my face every night and feel fresh as a daisy.

Even with all these products I can't shake this dry skin. Any suggestions?

In the mean time I'll be stimulating the economy buying moisturizers.

I love Sundays!

I love Sundays, especially ones like today. It's nice to feel like it's not a complete waste of a day to take a couple of naps. I don't mind wasting time by watching dumb movies like "RV" or looking at the Internet for a couple of hours. I can justify this by saying it's Sunday, a day to relax and spend getting rested for the next week.

I did do one thing productive- I called my grandma. And I may also run on the treadmill later. So that would be two things productive. And I am also writing this blog. So there is three things right there that were part of my New Year's resolutions.

Now I am going to go read and keep one eye on the Super Bowl. Not because I care about the game but so that I can see some of the commercials, watch The Boss at half-time, have some idea what happened in the game so that I can talk about it with everyone at work tomorrow, and most importantly so that when the game is over I can watch "The Office".

Here's to restful Sundays.

The Happs

-Last Saturday my mom and I had a wedding shower for my sister. So fun! It was at Bella Sera. So yummy. I ate my weight in Bruschetta. It's not my fault- they put mozzarella on it, I couldn't help myself. Anyways I still have to post pictures.

- I finished another small quilt. (Pictures of this later also.) I really like making them. I don't know what I am going to do with these small ones since they are only a yard long but I have fun doing it so whatever. Sushi can sleep on them and then maybe one day I can cover my babies with them.

- The Office season premiere. I loved the proposal. And it's good to see Michael Scott again and hopefully there will be more than like 10 episodes this season. Rodger bought the Season 4 DVD and there definitely were not enough episodes.

- Friday night Rodger and I went to Acapulco (or oocoo booco as we like to call it). Had some really good Shrimp Enchiladas. Then we went to Pinkberry for dessert. Oh, yeah if you didn't know Monrovia has been deemed cool enough to get a Pinkberry. It's pretty good.

- I got shoes for Vickie's wedding, brought them home and realized they are too dark for the dress. So I will be returning them along with the other cute green shoes I bought, right color but extremely uncomfortable. I will probably hit the mall this week to find shoes for the wedding. Need a cute goldish colored high-heeled shoe.

- Went on a run yesterday with Rodger. I am extremely out of shape, but I want to do like a 5K or something soon so I need to get back in shape. I just have to keep telling myself that the more I run the easier it will get. We also plan on starting to swim every Saturday again after all of the wedding stuff is over.

- Excited about the Amazing Race and Desperate Housewives Season Premieres tonight. Apparently the housewives have jumped ahead five years. I know this because I keep hearing about how Eva Longoria is "fat". She looks okay to me. I mean she weighed about 75 lbs before.

- And some kid (or midget) stuck their foot on the back of my car so now I have a footprint on the trunk of my car. Never thought I would see that.

-So that's the re-cap of the happs.