it's monday

so you know what that means?
it means that the weekend is over, done, kaput (is kaput really even a word?).
sunday nights are always a little depressing for me, because that means the next morning i can't sleep in until i can't sleep anymore. i can't lounge around for as long as i want until i feel it absolutely necessary to get in the shower, and even then i may not even completely get ready for the rest of the day. i can't spend hours upon hours on the internet mindlessly passing time by, oh wait, i can do that at work (sometimes).

now i don't do this every weekend, it is just nice to have the option to do it if i ever wanted to. but this past saturday was turning out to be one of those "i haven't done a thing, and it is already 4:00 pm" kind of days. but all that was put to a jerking halt when dennis came home from reffing 5 games (that is a lot of running around people) and declared "get dressed because i am taking you out", and to that i said OK.

instead of telling you what we did

i will just show you, so here..

looks like fun right? that's because it was. 

and all the credit goes to dennis for getting my lazy butt out of the house. 

i shot the sheriff...

please que the eric clapton playing in the background now...

hands down, one of my favorite games is a little card game called bang. now remember when i said i'm not allowed to try and explain games? well i think this game is where it all started. ever since i was first introduced to it down at byui i was hooked, my roommate alica and i spent many a sunday night over at her sister and brother-in-law's playing this game, that and catan, but mostly bang. the unfortunate thing is that you either love this game or hate it, and as luck would have it my whole family turned out to be the side of those that hate it. awesome. but the other lucky thing is that dennis is a huge game person, he took to it with as much enthusiasm as i did, and also now loves it just as much as i do (just one of the many reasons he is so perfect for me). 

and so last night my younger sister cassie and her boyfriend bryce came up for dinner, and then some game playin', so of course we suggested bang and they agreed! oh happy day! we had such a fun time playing with them, getting to know bryce, and them as a couple. 

check out cass's sweet vest. doesn't it just scream beetlejuice. beetlejuice beetlejuice!

if you're ever interested in playing with us we are always looking for new people to beat. 

weekend widow

friday morning dennis jetted off to banff with his curling team for some doodlespiel tournament or something like that, which is really just code for a bunch of geophysicists schmoozing each other by day, and getting heavily intoxicated by night. apparently those geoscientists really know how to party.

so while den was off on this wild weekend, i was home, all alone.

at first i was really dreading him being gone. i felt a little something like this.

but when i stopped, and thought back to all those other weeks that we have spent time apart from each other, 2 days didn't really seem all that bad. and then i started thinking about all the things i could get done with him gone. for instance, i had just recently run out of the face moisturizer that i have been using for years, which also as luck would have it, has been discontinued. am i really old enough that something i use has been discontinued? running out of something that you have used from the dawn of time is actually quite a crisis (picture lisa kudrow's character in p.s. i love you, when her nail polish falls in the water). i had no idea where to begin, so since it was a fairly slow day at work i decided to hit up google, and do some research to solve my latest road block in life. i had only a few things that i was looking for in a moisturizer 1. if it was over $20 all it was getting from me was a under the breath laugh, and a big ole' judgement 2. it had to be more then a 150 ml container and 3. preferably recommended to use with a combination skin type.

and so i made a list of a few brands that fell into those three categories

then after work i drove up to superstore, list and all, to narrow down that list to just one bottle. it was a good thing that dennis wasn't with me for this, because there was no way he would have been able to stand by as i made my decision. 

i even spent some time in the joe department with out the following conversation taking place

d: are you going to buy something?

me: no

d: then why are we here?

me: cuz

d: that doesn't make sense

me: ya it does

oh joe, how i have missed you

i even got myself a little treat that normally i don't allow in the house, due to the fact that someone is lactose intolerant, even though this someone is in total denial. 

 

 

 i didn't even use a bowl

  i didn't realize until saturday morning how much body heat dennis generated. i haven't been that cold in a while, but i haven't been able to stretch out that much in a while either. 

and then the rest of the day...

but i sure am happy to have him back

and the goofy, random pictures he sends me

 oh and i ended up getting cetaphil face lotion. in case you were wondering.

my problem is

i know that isn't the best statement to leave so open ended, and i'm sure my parents could come up with a few zingers to finish it off. but never mind that, right now i want to talk about one of the major issues of being me.

so here is the thing, what happens when you have the tiny waist of a size 0, the huge thighs that come from years spent in the pool swimming competitively (seriously, this summer notice the thighs on the swimmers), and the legs of a midget? serious problems finding a pair of pants that fit! that's what happens.

i have dropped a lot of money on tailoring over the years due to this problem of mine, and i'm telling you it can be quite a headache. i have this one pair of pants, and i fell in love with them the moment i tried them on. it didn't even matter that they were more then $100, they were an investment. yes, an investment. the only thing was they were too long (story of my life), but no problem, i took them home to wash, then brought them right over to the tailors in south centre. i was so anxious to get them back that i paid the extra whatever to get them done in a rush, i just wanted those jeans on my body. so i get them back the next day, and when i put them on they were still waaaaaaay to long, WHAT?! i couldn't believe it. i'm still not even sure they even hemmed anything. but it was summer so i was able to just cuff them and go on my merry way. well i did that for a while, but then when winter came and cuffing them just wasn't an option anymore, i would just wear then with boots, but have you ever had to bunch up jeans around your ankle in boots? can you say uncomfortable? i can, and it was. so this past winter i found a tailor in our area of the city to fix this problem. oh the dreams i had of the day i could wear those jeans as is, no cuffing, no srinching, just me and my perfect fitting jeans. but that dream was not meant to come true, i tried them on and they were too short, TOO SHORT that should never happen in my world, NOTHING is ever too short on my body. oh and as an added bonus one leg is shorter then the other. awesome. and so i'm back to cuffing them up, but at least they fit better into boots.

i had given up on getting anything hemmed for a while after that.

but then last night, since i was banished from the kitchen (that's where dennis was studying, apparently i'm "too distracting", oh please) i was upstairs looking at the bin of things i have set aside to do something with, things like taking the fringe on some scarves off, sweaters to sew the buttons back onto, when i found two pairs of cords that i can't even remember the last time i wore, due to the fact (surprise surprise) that they are too long.

so they went from this

to this

see what i mean about the thighs?

and they didn't even cost me a penny

yes, I do believe they are

so the other day, well more like one day last week at work i stumbled upon this little website called Pinterest, You Are Drunk.  it is basically just a bunch of outrageous things that people have posted in pinterest, and then making fun on them.

1. if you don't know what pinterest is (if you care) google it, or ask around for someone to try and explain it to you, because i am not good at explaining things. seriously, i am banned from explaining new games to my family, dennis has to do it.

2. if you do know what pinterest is, you are fully aware that there are some pretty crazy things on there, i just don't know what some people are thinking. reusable toilet paper! really?

if you have a moment, click on the link at the top and check out some of the completely ridiculous things that people are passing off as brilliant, and some of the funny comments that go along with them.

 her humor might not be for everyone, but i totally relate to the sarcastic nature of this website, i feel like i am reading my own thoughts on the screen, i just haven't had the chance to think it yet. does that make sense?

impatiently waiting

dennis bought me the hunger games series for chrismas, and i devoured all three in practically no time at all.
they are amazing! and i would highly recommend them to anyone.

even better, the movie is coming out march 23, that is so close i can almost feel myself sitting in the theatre as the lights dim down. none of this waiting around for months, maybe even years for a movie to come out.

and what else makes that particular day so special?

it also happens to be my birthday.

how perfect right? i know.