Well, I'm just going to pretend that it hasn't been over a month since my last post. I'll pretend like we just got back from Indiana and post some pictures of the Indiana trip.
We finished up the move BARELY making to our flight. I guess we did have time to have an airport snack, but we were in the car with our last load out of Federal apartments at 10:30 p.m. with a flight leaving out of LAX at midnight. I was a little nervous and my poor husband bore the brunt of the stress.
Here are some pictures of us in the car with the last load.
I am so crammed in here it is incredible! Thankfully nothing broke, we made our flight and we still got a shower! We really both needed the shower too..moving is stinky!
We took the red-eye flight to Indian
a, with a brief layover in Minneapolis. I bought another scarf. I am addicted to the $10 airport scarf! I just love it. I thought the scarf was orange until Richard mocked me and told me it was red. I took a vote when we arrived in Indiana and every said yes...it was red. I am apparently developing color blindness
My dear mother picked us up from the airport and we w
ent straight to Blooming to see my brother Karl and his girlfriend Emily. We got to see his house and his delux television. His roommate is very much into technology/computers/televisions etc. He has a HUGE tv in his living room. The HDtv made a world of difference, but I cant' imagine dropping $2000 on a TV anytime soon.
We ate lunch at a yummy restaturant-delicious clazones with creamy garlic sauce. I love anything with creamy garlic sauce invovled. There was a chocolate dessert to die for as well, we all split one, but I wondered if I could finish a whole one myself :) hehehehe. Probably not a good idea :)
After getting back from Bloomington, we stopped by Richard's sisters house in Indianapolis. Our nieces and nephews are so adorable. They took a bunch of pictures themselves. I'll upload a few of the funny ones. I will not upload the picture that Abigail and Anna took of their brothers underwear. I don't think Benjamin and Matthew would be too happy with that.
These kids crack me up
We also got some fun photos of them. There are none of Benjamin because he had a new video game that he was devoting the majority of his time to.
Aren't they the cutest! The rest of the weekend was relaxing and fun. Although I did have a paper due on Sunday and I spent a lot of Saturday night writing the paper. I got an A though...all worth while! It was wonderful to see so much of our family!
Unfortunately, my celebrity sitings have been slim to none. I might have once seen this guy....
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Peter Boyle (Dad from Everybody Loves Raymond) in traffic, but it just as easily could have been some old man in a nice car. I once saw Richard Kind
who I am sure everyone may recognize at "that guy" in "that show" but really...that is fairly pathetic.
I did once roam around Barnes and Noble right in front of a Hobbit.
Dominic Monaghan was sitting in the corner of the where crafts meets cooking reading a book about the beatles and one about the history of rap music. I thought he was a woman until he got up. Then I realized he was actually a hobbit.
Finally, on Thursday, I got to see Hollywood in action! I had to run over to Bovard Administration building at USC in the morning and noticed something peculiar. A huge Welcome to Yale Parents Weekend sign was draped over the front the building. The Tommy Trojan statue in the front of the building was hidden by plants and trees and tables covered in Yale gear were on the walkway leading into the building. I asked my friend Kevin was going on and he said they were filming an episode of Gilmore girls in front of the building. That is right! Rory goes to Yale! So exciting!
Later that afternoon, I walked over to Bovard again and was mezmorized while I watched them film a scene with Lorelai Gilmore (aka Lauren Graham)
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I loved hearing "Quiet on the Set" and "Action!" It was just so interesting to see how many people were involved in making this one tiny scene on one tiny TV show. Incredible. But very tedious. I watched for about 15 minutes and they ran through a 30 second scene twice during that time. Some of the crew were playing catch most of the time.
The whole experience was very interesting though and I am looking forward to catching the episode sometime!
We painted the walls for our new apartment today. I love the color, I think in part because it is mint choclate chip green. We had friends stop by and they suggested that we should add the chocolate chips. I doubt we will do that, but I can imagine that I will be craving ice cream when I walk into my living room. Who am I kidding, I'm always craving ice cream :)
ACTION SHOT!!! You can't notice here, but I am completely covered in paint. Richard got two or three splotches on his pants. I had it all over. I mean all over. My feet, my arms, My hair, my ears, my mouth and covering my clothes. I am not a clean girl
I really like the way it looks. We have a really beautiful red tree outside our window and I just like the green and red together. We are moving everything in on Tuesday and I am excited to see how the furniture will fit in
As we pack up boxes for the move, I have realized that I have never moved some of the books on the shelves here to dust the entire year we have been here. Not once. There is a lot of dust that accumulates in a year. I remember being sort of disgusted and embarrassed by my mom because she never dusted. As I would watch TV (laying on my back, feet resting against the pink wallpaper wearing it through) I would periodically wipe dust off the TV, the VCR, the books on the TV shelf etc. I couldn't believe that she could live that way. Then I got my own place and realized how easy it was to forget to dust until the bunnies were taking over the house.
I like these dust bunnies.
Great, my second post about my dirty behavior. Anyone reading this might get the wrong idea...I actually do like to clean, just not my own house or when I have other things to do. like reading or blogging. I used to clean my friends house when I spent the night. I would always get up earlier then them and clean in the morning. I also cleaned my friend Tiffany's room in college. I think I am slightly neurotic.
My other failures (as listed in the title) inlclude the fact that my husband ate cereal for dinner and I had pot stickers. I had enough time today to make a real meal, but I enjoyed flipping channels so much more.
And finally, for the third failure of the day...I almost fell asleep on my 10 minute commute home. Shhh, don't tell my husband. I just can't help it. The lull of the start and stopping along with NPR, puts me in a trance. I try to do things that will prevent me from falling asleep, but one would imagine that driving is enough to keep you awake. I think this is a result of car trips with the family. I could fall asleep for an entire state (not Nebraska, that state takes forever to drive through). I consider my ability to fall asleep in a car a talent. Just not one I should practice when I am alone in the car.
I was drinking chocolate milk through a straw today and managed to spill 4 huge drops of chocolaty goodness on my white shirt. I was drinking through a straw! What is wrong with me?
It was this delicious product though which I love with all my heart. The husband does not love it. He claims it makes his throat swell closed when he drinks it. I think that is crazy talk because it makes my mouth very happy. I plan on drinking all 18 of the single serving packages that I got at Costco yesterday all by myself.
I'm not going to feel bad about it either.
I love Costco. This hasn't always been the case. When I was a freshman in college, I got a membership to Sam's Club. I realize now that Costco and Sam's are not the same thing, but my mom had a Sam's club membership and as one of her children I got a discounted rate because of her membership. I never used it. I think I went to Sam's once.
I married a Costco man. Both his mother and grandmother frequent Costco regularly. I think his mom has an executive membership. Pretty intense. One of the first things that we did to combine our lives was get a joint Costco membership card. It really was a momentous occasion.
One would think that because there are only two of us in the family that we would not go to Costco a lot. One would imagine that buying in bulk would not be convenient for a couple. We go every week. Every week. I love it. I even love it on Saturday mornings when it is super busy. I love the books, clothes, food, hygiene products...everything. I recently met up with some friends from high school. In high school, I was a bit of a clothes snob, only name brands and all that jazz. They were a bit alarmed when I proudly told them that I got my pants at Target, my shirt at Costco and my shoes I found in an apartment I moved into.
I love seeing the assortment of people who also shop at Costco, people you would never expect. We spotted an especially "interesting" looking couple today. It was 10:00am and they looked like they were ready for a goth night on the town. Last week, we spotted a lady with nothing in her cart, in a house dress and rollers in her hair just enjoying eating her breakfat of samples.
Costco brings the world together.
