After the last post

I was talking to my boy about the fantastical machine that I posted at the bottom of the last post. I mean, I feel it's a really amazing machine, aside from the "Green" qualities, it would be quite convenient. I know whenever I'm using the restroom I always think about how I'd like to be loading the washing machine at the same time...

I thought I would share the following conversation followed. It made me smirk.

boy: in theory the wash water could clean your toilet
me: that would be cool
me: cleaning toilets is gross!
boy: you'll get use to it :)
me: i only clean toilets for jewelry
boy: what do you think our wedding ring is?
boy: a license to clean

Yeah.. we're nerds. He's delusional.

TGIF!

I know it's Friday, and I really have no room to whine. But, could it really only be 3:30? Really? I say this a lot, but today is seriously the longest, slowest day in the history of time! It's not that I have anything fantastic going on after work, but to not be here, would be fabulous.

I actually wish it was tomorrow. I plan to do some thrifting and fabric shopping before heading to my favorite Betty's house. Where we will get into all sorts of shenanigans, like we do, and it will be lovely.

On a completely seperate note:

Am I the only one that wants one of these?


Happy Friday to all!

I left my heart in San Francisco

So I went on a "vacation" last week. I use the quotes because, while it was a vacation, when I think of vacation I think of relaxation, rest and a whole lot of doing nothing. Maybe that's because I can't remember the last time I actually took a vacation and went somewhere. My vacations usually include a few days off work, my apartment and my bed. But this was a great trip, and it was good to get out of the city for a few days and explore a part of the country I had never been before.

A few months ago the question was asked to my friend Claire, what she wanted to do for her birthday this year. Her response was she wanted to go on a road trip, and she wanted it to be San Francisco. No party, no big celebration. We had been talking about taking a group vacation for some time but nothing had ever come of any of our other plans. But this, we knew we could do! So for the past few months we had been doing some planning, deciding dates and getting all our ducks in a row. How long would it take, where would we stay, what would we do? For a bit of the planning process I was extremely nervous, I felt like I was the only one that really had put much thought into all the little details. But that was just me freaking out, and after a few days of that I realized, whatever happens, happens and we will make the most of it. I didn't care if I ended up sleeping in the car, I would make it to San Francisco and I would have some much needed FUN. I have to say, to put it very simply it was a great trip. We left last Wednesday night after work and drove straight through to San Francisco, getting there at approximately 10 am on Thursday. The drive was good, tiring as you would expect, and the sleep in the car was not very restful. I think I managed to pull about 2 hours max, and ended up sucking down Diet Rockstar like it was going out of style. While I absolutely love driving at night, and I always have, crossing the Siskiyou mountains at 4am in fog so thick you can barely see 3 feet in front of the car, and every passenger is asleep, is NOT my idea of fun. Talk about stressful, I'm pretty sure I sprouted at least 2 grey hair from that experience alone. Thankfully we made safe and sound, just in time for our Anchorsteam Brewery tour, and our free beer. That's pretty much the best way to relax after a long trip, lots and lots of tasty beer. I highly recommend it.

But aside from the driving, the trip as an absolute success. I couldn't have asked for anything more during a quick trip to San Francisco. Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz, good food, shopping at H&M, seeing my Joshua, meeting new people from the area, overlooking the city from Twin Peaks at night, driving around the city and seeing Chinatown, the Presidio, the Golden Gate, and so much more! It was so much fun, and great memories I will keep with me forever. Between the 3 of us, I think we took just under 1000 pictures. I have posted some to my flickr page, but I will post more when I get a chance (I was going to do that last night but got distracted). I plan to post more about my trip, but that will come later, for now I leave you with a picture.

Taken from the top of our hotel, I have to say, when I think of California, even before being there, it was a picture like this that I thought of.

Today's PSA from your resident vegetarian

Did you know Mars does animal testing? I had no idea. I am shocked and disgusted.


Learn more at MarsCandyKills.com.



Real post coming soon. Promise.

Have a great weeked!

Not a lot of time for a post right now, there is a pile of gross dishes in my sink, calling my name... they've been calling for awhile, but I can't avoid my fate any longer.

But I have something important to say. There is this lady I know, who I love dearly, and I think everyone else will love her too. She is pretty hot stuff, quite the Betty I would say. You can find her at http://forthebettys.freeblogit.com. I absolutely adore her, and I promise you will too. She has a lot of great stuff coming soon, so if I were you, i'd stay tuned.

She likes vodka too... and cupcakes.

By the way, it was brought to my attention that comments were not friendly to non-google users, so that has been fixed!

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/04/slaughterhouse.abuse.ap/index.html

Federal officials recalled 143 million pounds of beef last month after the Humane Society of the United States released undercover video showing workers at the slaughterhouse abusing sick and crippled cows.

Honestly, if they had video of every slaughterhouse in the world there would be such a MASSIVE recall on meat, everyone would turn veggie. Hm... theres an idea