tra-la-la

Just went out for a fabulous walk with John. I took this pic at the little cemetery in the center of town.

One of my favorite things about living in New England is the abundance of little cemeteries like this.

And...I thought I'd warn everyone that Homestar is on the prowl...

::chuckle::

I will remember.

It's really no fun playing computer pranks on your coworkers when you are the first person they come to when they have a problem with their computer.

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I am so excited to leave work early today! I never get to leave early on Fridays (or any day). We have our annual ISO audit going on and the auditor is trying to leave by 3:00-3:30...so I told my boss yesterday that when he goes, I am going. This is because I had to come into work an hour early yesterday and an hour and a half early today. This is good, because I will need to get to be early tonight.

John and I are going to a flea market in Derry, NH tomorrow with our friend Vanessa. I am going to look for knockoff purses, yay! Honestly, I have no problem with carrying a Wal-Mart or Target purse...but I have been looking for 6+ months now for a purse that I like and I hate them all. The one that I have which I really like is a purple bag-type purse that I found in NYC and my mom bought me for Christmas. It's a knockoff D&G - and not a good knockoff - but I love it. So, I'm hoping I find something that I like at this joint. John I'm sure will be looking for rusty tools or bones.

Sunday - looks like after church we're going to head over to my aunt's house for a cookout. This is exciting because it's my dad's sister and I don't see that side of the family all that often. Plus, I might get to meet my cousin Crystal's new baby! Meeting two new babies in one week??? Yay!

...AND next weekend is King Richard's Faire!

Snaps

Early Saturday morning, I met my friend Jenn for a photography excursion. I took her to one of my favorite places, Prospect Park in Shrewsbury, MA. John first showed me this place years ago, when it was much less known about. Now there is a group that is trying to clean it up and make it a popular hiking area. The first time I saw it, it just looked like overgrown ruins in the woods...was very cool. I've taken pictures there before. Here's what I got that day:

There was a TON of greenery all over everything, so there wasn't much of the ruins visible. Therefore, I took out the macro lens :)

...I liked the texture of this bundle of sticks on the way out of the park.

Once we were done there, we decided to stop by Green Hill Park in Worcester and see what we could capture there. We walked around the pond, through the memorial and then through the petting zoo. Looka'here:

The goats were cracking me up...this one was a major jerk to the others. It was the only one with horns and kept head-butting the smaller ones.

...and this guy was SO cute! The first pic he looked like he was smiling and then he popped his head through the fence and was posing! Too cute.

Finally, Saturday night John and I went to my dad's house for his party. He is leaving his job of many years to start a new business and it was a "good luck" kind of party I guess. Anyway, got the latest pics of Mikey & Julia. Julia loves the camera, she'll smile and pose all day long...Mikey will either give dirty looks or ignore you like the camera's not even there. :)

awwww!

Aaaaaaaaaaand, DONE! Hope you liked my pictoblog.

Stupidity is contagious.

At lunch, discussing dieting and whether or not things like shake diets work - where you have one for breakfast, one for lunch and then a regular dinner. Well, a certain co-worker says, "If you legitly follow a diet and exercise, you will lose weight."

Legitly?

Then another coworker next to her uses the word legitly in a sentence not 30 seconds later...even though I know she knows that is not a word!

I don't know why things like this bug me so much...maybe it's John rubbing off on me. That sounds so nasty. LOL

I can do it with disgrace.

This is nothing more than an attempt to stave off work for a bit longer. I really don't have anything to talk about but you watch, I will think of something...

This upcoming weekend is the first weekend in a while that John and I actually have free! I'm trying to decide what we should/could do with our time. I feel like going away somewhere or seeing a concert or something. I just looked all over New England and there really aren't any shows that we'd want to see. I suppose New York is an option but a pricey one. Isn't there anything exciting happening locally??? Maybe a hotel & museum trip somewhere? Ughgh I don't know...I just don't feel like sitting around at home all weekend.

I just realized I am trying to take our free weekend and make it busy.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Magarios are not normal.

So John is looking at cell phones online and I went to sit next to him. He said, "You want to stick with T-Mobile because you want a texty phone?" I went to whisper, "Other providers have texty phones."...

...but I was unable to get it all out because John started laughing hysterically and when I asked him what was wrong he told me that when I whisper in his ear, it tickles his HIP. Can someone please explain this to me? I continued to try to whisper in his ear and he kept laughing and pulling away because his HIP tickled. WTQ?

Zombieriffic

Duuuuudes - I am SO tired today.

I stayed up late last night watching the olympics and today I am tie-urd! I contemplated calling in to work today but guilt got the best of me. John woke up a whole hour and a half before me and since he was going to work, I figured I could suck it up and go as well. Now I'm here and it's mad hard to get motivated to do anything other than drink cups of coffee and read e-mails.

Chocolate Graham Crackers & Diet Dr. Pepper =

Last night before bed I had a few chocolate graham crackers and a cup of Diet Dr. Pepper...I'm not saying that had anything to do with my dream, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow involved.

We're in a large house, somewhat dreary-looking...like an 80's made for tv movie of a V.C. Andrews book type of house. I am there, as is John...also, Robert Carlyle is there. We are fighting a vampire with long black hair, he's very tall. Somehow, we kill him. Then, I notice on the back of Robert's neck is a wound. My dream logic tells me that now it is only a matter of time before he becomes a vampire so we must act fast. It gets a little blurry here but we ask him to change clothes and our plan is to lock him into a room for now...but as he puts on the new shirt, it's a close shot of the back of his neck and I see him curiously finger the wound and I know instantly that he realizes what's happened. He turns and comes at us but we shut the door and run. Enter his wife - who apparently has already been attacked by him and is now turning herself. Now my dream starts getting funky because sometimes Robert Carlyle is himself and sometimes it's John. I don't know how, but we are now in a dining room with Robert Carlyle seated facing me and his wife in front of me - I am standing behind her looking at the back of her head.

---At this point, Robert has some kind of flashback...he is on a beach talking to someone and in the water are people, wooden viking-style ships & sea creatures all frolicking in the sun...very vivid and colorful and surreal because the people, ships and creatures are all pretty much the same size in comparison to each other.---

Back to the dining room...Robert and his wife decide that they must die before they turn fully and hurt people. The wife has some last words and after a nod by Robert, I turn and grab a paring knife from the block and stab her through her skull 3 times. Her head falls forward onto the table and stays there for a few seconds before she sits back up and starts talking again. Robert looks at me in a panic, willing me to do something, so I grab a two-pronged carving fork and stab her in the head I don't even know how many more times...felt like stabbing watermelon. Her head is back down on the table now and since I want to make sure she doesn't sit back up, I grab a large knife and CUT HER HEAD OFF. So the head is off to the side on the table and the blood is all over the place. Robert now decides he doesn't want to die and gets up and runs. I chase him with the knife and find him in a room with John's dead and skinned body. He is holding up John's skin in front of himself and dancing....looking at me through the eye holes. I run...and he takes chase...and I hide...and I hear footsteps...and...

I wake up in a panic thinking someone is in the apartment so I whip my head around and see that John's already awake and it's him I hear walking around. And that's it - but I feel all freaked out still about cutting that woman's head off.

American Idol

I had a fun evening at the American Idol show in Worcester tonight. Due to a last minute cancellation, I ended up going with my coworker Kim and had a surprisingly good time with her!

We got in free because my dad knows a guy - we ended up on cushy folding chairs in the handicapped section between a 3-toed girl in a wheelchair and a walrus of a man in a wheelchair. We didn't mind because the view was pretty sweet. I now wish I had brought my Nikon, because there was no bag checking of any kind and people had a variety of cameras there. Oh well - so I didn't get any decent pics inside the venue (Kim did - maybe I'll post some of those later). BUT - I did get some decent pics, and a couple of autographs!! at the meet & greet after the show. Would have been so awesome with the Nikon, but the Canon PowerShot did an admirable job anyway. :)

I had a little piece of yellow paper in my purse that I pulled out in case I had a chance for David Archuleta's autograph...there were work notes on one side so I folded it in half and when Jason Castro came out, I figured I'd have him sign one side and save the other for Archie.




Here is the autograph paper:

The squiggle on the top is Jason Castro's, the one below, which is an upside down SM with some weird squiggle is Syesha Mercado's. She came out next and I figured I'd let her sign he same side and still save the other for David Archuleta!

She was really pretty...as was the next one out, Kristy Lee Cook:

I didn't get her autograph because now I was trying to save room for Archuleta so I held on to my paper and didn't wave it in her face for her to sign. Same thing happened when Carly Smithson came out...I like her but I didn't have room on my paper bcause it belonged to Archie!

aaaand same when Brooke White came out:

Now, when Michael Johns came around, I did try to get him to sign but there were so many things waving in his face he only signed like 3 of them and then got pulled back in the doors.

So now all I am waiting for is David Archuleta and he's only about 10 feet behind Michael Johns and since I'm standing against the wall right in front of the door I figure he'll definitely finish autographing the last 10 feet...I can see his dad standing right behind him..

Next thing we know, he waves to the crowd and they pull him in the doors too!

So here is my David Archuleta autograph:

Overall, I had a great night. I've never hung around to meet performers before...it was fun even though I was surrounded by screaming teenage girls.

Oh yeah - when we went to leave the parking garage and pay our $20 - the green light was on & the booth was empty so we parked for free! I didn't drop a dime all night!