David Cook

This morning I had control of the TV remote. That RARELY happens. I decided to see what music videos were on and skipped from VH1 to CMT. I caught David Cook's newest song "Come Back to Me." The video was pretty cool. And just so happens he was a guest on VH1 countdown and he said that in this video he actually had to sing the song backwards! It took him 2 weeks to learn it. I think it came out awesome! It's a great song. Check it out here. (They disabled the code to put the video directly in any post.) Enjoy!

Vampire Baseball

It's been 10 days since my last post about Twilight. So for our viewing pleasure, one of the best scenes from Twilight the movie:


175 days till New Moon comes out!!

Books

I really enjoying reading books. It's my escape from reality. And boy these current days do I NEED that escape! Between a lazy spouse and teenager attitude I can get away mentally. Of course you know I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the Twilight Saga and currently rereading them since I haven't anything else to read yet. My favorite arthur, Eloisa James' newest book, This Duchess of Mine, came out yesterday. I so want it! I've read every single one of her books and never have been disappointed. The only problem is I read them so fast before her next book is published so I need to find other books to keep me occupied until then. So please share with me your favorite readings.

Cats

Meet Blanca. She is 11 months old and a temporary resident at my Humane Society. Sara is in love with her and wants to bring her home. Unfortunately there is 1 thing getting in the way of that: Joe. He's "allergic." She is so sweet and beautiful and loving. Then I snap back to reality and I must side with Joe. Not for his reasons but for my own. Having another pet is an added expense. As much as I would LOVE to gain some more fur babies, it's an added responsibility I'm not ready for. So in the meantime we will visit the animals weekly and try our hardest to help find their forever homes.

At my Humane Society we have a "real life" room where cats are open to roam and play in the room. You just got to be careful of the escape artists when entering and exiting. Fox13 has teamed up with the Humane Society and there is now a live camera in the room! You can watch the cats play, eat and sleep. And on Wednesdays between 5pm-7pm you might even be able to see me and Sara in there! Check it out and let me know what you think. I'm proud to say that I volunteer here! I'm even more proud to say my daughter volunteers here and we love it!

My New Shirt

It finally came today! Something I've been waiting for over a week! My Twilight shirt! I had it custom made and it's absolutely so cool! (At least I think it is.) Check it out:
The front:

The back:

I had it shipped to my office so I'd get it sooner verses having to wait the drive home. The mailman was late today and got to my office just as I was leaving. I grabbed it, stuck the rest of the mail on my desk, waved a big good-bye to my boss and co-workers and left. I opened my package in the car on my way to pick up Sara from school. I was jumping up and down in my car with excitement (as much as you can wearing a seatbelt.) I got to Sara's school. I did think about putting it on to walk inside to get her cuz I know it would embarress her but I didn't. When we got in the car I showed her the shirt. She rolled her eyes and covered her face. Then her face lit up and asked if she could run back inside to show her friend. So I was like sure. I really think she's jealous that I have a Twilight shirt and she doesn't. She'll never admit it though. So anyways, we finally get home and I show Joe. He smiled and I asked him if he knew what this shirt was. He replied no. I informed him "it's MY Twilight shirt." He just laughed and carried on with what he was doing. I try not to show too much excitement of my Twilight obsession around him (don't want to get him jealous or anything ;-). But I think he knows just how bad I've got it.

It's going to be a great week!

Edward as Rob

Hi, I'm Sam. I'm addicted to Twilight. My daughter is embarressed by this fact (even though she likes Twilight, too). I am in love with Edward. Edward Cullen. Yes I know he is a fictional character but so what. We all can dream and have fantasies right? It's healthy for our minds. I'm not all gooey over Rob Pattinson. He's cute but only to a point. Although I do like his music. (It's on the Twilight soundtrack, which I listen to daily.) His music is soft and soothing. But put him in Edward-character: H-E-L-L-O!! I was catching up on reading other blogs and a new favorite blog of mine, Our Twilight Chronicles, posted this:
Um...WOW! Words just can't explain this. Ok, I need to go wipe the drool from my face and get back to work.

Doodle 4 Google

Google held a contest for school-age children to create a Google design based upon what they wish for the world. Sara is taking an art class at school so I passed along the information to her teacher. She got all her classes involved and submitted some work but unfortunately none from her school made the finals. But she said the kids enjoyed making them and there were some very interesting designs. Google has now posted the finalists and its up to us to vote. So check them out here and cast your vote. Some of the work is quite impressive and the reason for them is just great. Maybe there is hope for our future!

Socks

It's been a while since I've shared my socks with you. It's because it's flip-flop season! Last night I had my Girl Scout meeting and we decided to do something fun. We tie-dyed socks! We did this with permanent markers and alcohol. The girls had a blast and the socks came out sooooooo cool looking. See here are mine:

I love my crazy socks but I only wear them a few months of the year. I prefer my flip-flops. But I think these are the coolest socks I own now. All because I made them.

Graphic Design

I've updated my graphic design blog. Check it out!

Mother's Day Weekend

Happy Mother's Day!

My mother's day weekend started off great! Joe took me to dinner. Just me and him since Sara went to a friend's house for the night. Then Saturday I spent the day with my mom--just me and her, which doesn't happen enough. We went to the Blueberry Festival. We picked blueberries fresh off the bush for an hour and half. Between us both we had over 9 lbs of berries! We also participated in the wine tasting. I'm not big on wine but I'm always willing to try. They were actually pretty good! My favorites were the strawberry and tangerine. We also tasted key lime, blueberry, wild berry and raspberry. There were many vendor tents set up and a live band! We got hamburgers from the fire dept that were there and sat and ate enjoying the live band. It was great!!

Once my afternoon was over with my mommy, I had to pick Sara up from her friend's house and we had to go dress shopping. Yes, I will repeat, DRESS shopping. For Sara. The girl who is anti-pink and anti-dress. Her 8th grade banquet is Monday and it is semi-formal wear. She's been shopping the past few weekends with her friend but has yet to find anything. Now, any type of clothes shopping with Sara is usually hell. I usually make Joe come to keep us behaved. But he didn't want to go and just wished me luck and told me to behave. Well, 2 and half hours, $55 spent and NO arguring, Sara got a dress, shoes and a sweater to go over the dress since it reveals her back. I can't believe my baby is wearing a dress! Look how gorgous she is:

Of course she'll probably kill me I posted this but isn't part of being a parent about embarressing, I mean, bragging about your child?!

This morning I woke up to breakfast: cheese omlet and blueberry pancakes! YUM! YUM! I foresee lots of blueberries in my food this week. hehe. I've had a lazy day so far but I think I will suggest going to the park with the dogs later for a walk. Oh yeah, the card Sara made for me was very heartfelt. I balled my eyes out. Literally. I cannot remember sobbing so much from something so sweet no less from my one and only child. I can't even put this into words. But if you are a mother, I'm sure you understand.

Until next time, enjoy your day! Especially if you're a mother!

I'm OK...Really

Sunday night I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn. I read 4 books in 4 weeks. I am extremely excited for the New Moon movie to come out in November. I can't believe how CRAZY I have been for the Twilight series. I've never been like this with anything. But at least I get to share all this craziness with my sister. heehee. She's got it bad just like me. We've watched the movie the past 3 weekends...this weekend maybe 4? She is still reading Eclipse and I'm trying patiently for her to finish Breaking Dawn so we can really talk about the books. I don't want to spoil anything for her. =)

So now that I'm done reading them I will be reading them again. Another first for me. I've never read a book more than once. My favorite of the 4 is Eclipse. Then Twilight, then New Moon, then Breaking Dawn. I want to go to Forks to take a Twilight tour. I want Joe to sparkle. I want Joe to drive a shiny silver Volvo. I want to live for eternity and never sleep. Ok...sorry. Got out of hand there for a sec. (Missy, I'm ok. Really. No need for an intervention.)

So anyways I will try to post other interesting stuff on my blog so I don't bore anyone with all this Twilight talk...unless you want me to?!

It's the week prior to Mother's day and work is hell. I may be MIA until after it calms down. Well see how it goes.