pet peeve 19

I watched Love in the Time of Cholera over the weekend and the whole time I thought this movie would be so much better if it was all in Spanish with subtitles.

I also didn't like that John Lequizamo was in it. He upset me.

Sometimes movies like these are just missing something.

old people and technology

Last night after Zac got home from work we started watching my latest obsession, Angel. It was well past 9pm when my cell phone rang.

First of all, nobody ever calls me and lastly no one ever calls me late at night. Yes 9pm is late!

I checked my phone and it said Mom and Dad.

Oh Shit....what is going on....is someone in the hospital...someone died...this isn't good...

All the above was running through my head.

Hello

Terry...tengo una cartita...como lo quito

You have a text message?! YOU SCARED ME!

So I try to tell her how to read the text message but its useless because she keeps getting into create a text. I finally told her I don't know and that it probably isn't important and that its probably a text from Verizon. I then asked her if she had the booklet for the cell phone and she said yes but that she doesn't understand it. I then said "isn't it in Spanish?" She said she still doesn't understand what to do because they use confusing words. I finally told her I didn't know how to help her and so we hung up.

Two minutes later she calls back.

I did it. It was a message from Verizon. I just wanted to let you know so you can sleep tonight.

Thanks mom!

yeah i know.

Our new homey home.













Our security system.













In our backyard.













She is just too cute! Little Giulietta soaking up some Mt. Lemmon sun.












Saul and Zac, best of buds until Zac takes away Saul's super power tool...a hanger from Sears.

back online

it feels good to waste time on the internets again. this past weekend has been quite hectic with some very good and not so great things happening.

monday i found out that quite a few people were laid off from work. with a new company taking over and the state of the economy i guess it was inevitable but when you have never been through this before its a pretty heavy thing to deal with. the past couple days its been very odd at work. there are a lot of good people missing. when you spend most of your day with these people they feel like family and losing them hurts just as much. i guess its a sign that you can never get too comfy in one spot. the days of loyalty and staying at the same job forever is something of the past. this whole thing makes me feel like getting the resume updated and ready to go just in case.

so other than that its been a pretty good weekend. last thursday we received keys to our new to us house. since then we have been packing up the old house and moving. we've been shopping for appliances and visiting home depot and lowe's like every other day. its starting to feel like home as i unpack and put things away but it still feels like another rental home sometimes. that feeling slowly fades away as we have to buy stuff like fuses and new locks for all the doors. i must admit i liked using the drill the other day. is that dirty? um.... so anyway. i think daisy is happy. she has more yard to run around and go crazy in. there are plenty of lizards for zac to chase. what makes me happy? probably all the shopping lists started in my head and the shoe closet zac said he'll build for me. oh no wait that is from sex in the city. i think the virgin mary bench in the front yard makes me happy. i really want to tell the security companies that keep hounding zac that we don't need a security system because not only do we have daisy (she can pee on burglars and gross them out) but we also have a virgin mary bench. no thief will cross the virgin mary...she will kick some ass if somebody messes with her. at least i like to think that.

so you can take that cookie

this afternoon i spoke with my mom and we talked about the appliances and furniture we need for our future houses.

mom: necesito comprar una mesita (i need to buy a little table)

me: oh yeah

mom: para el nookie (for the nookie)

me: (hee hee)

mom: por que todos rien cuando digo nookie? (why does everyone laugh when i say nookie?)

me: because nookie means sex

mom: oh...pues me vale. yo se que quiero decir. (oh...well i could care less. i know what i mean)

she went on to say that my dad and cousin laugh at her when she says that and she knows its a perverted laugh.

she needs to hurry and get a damn table for the breakfast nook so she can stop saying nookie!

to the spanish majors and fluent speakers, my apologies. i probably spelled everything wrong and i don't use accents or correct punctuation...so just deal with it.

10 year reunion

The past couple of months there has been a myspace, facebook and webpage site set up for my highschool reunion. Its been great because a lot of people have joined and its fun to see where they are all at now and what they are doing. Originally some people decided that a formal reunion would be ideal and so there was date and place set. For $80 I could buy a ticket and for $140 I could buy me and Zac tickets. On top of tickets we would also have to get some nice clothes.

Then the location was changed because the deposit wasn't in on time.

Then the reunion was cancelled because not enough people bought tickets for the second location.

Now its back on possibly?

The past reunions have been at the Fox and Hound and I guess for something over $1000 a room can be rented. Or for free we can have another room but share with a birthday party. The dates are for free room September 13th and for the other room it would be the following weekend.

I do and don't want to go. I would like to see certain people but not all of them. Plus I don't even know if the people I would want to see will even be there. I think I'll skip it and save myself from having to act like I want to see a bunch of people I barely even spoke to in high school.

politics=bullshit

I should learn by now never to read the comments on The Arizona Daily Star website. It doesn't matter what the article is about there seems to be a group of idiots that write in regularly. I missed Palin's speech tonight so I was looking on the web for articles. I started reading the article and the comments and I was just amazed at what these people write. There were a lot of comments stating how Palin is a great choice because she represents all women and mothers. I don't think a ball-busting hockey mom that fires people to get to the top represents me or the women I know. But I guess a senior citizen white man or a black man don't really represent me either. I love how the whole issue surrounding Palin's 17 year old pregnant daughter is welcomed by the party. Can you imagine what the GOP would say if Michelle Obama had a 17 year old pregnant daughter? Oh the slaughter that would be brought on. The whole "experience" issue comes up and all of a sudden those that said Obama doesn't have enough experience are now saying that Palin has more experience, or as Giuliani would say she "has more executive experience than the entire democratic ticket".

Ugh the whole thing makes me sick.