Pyramid Collection Catalogs

I get random catalogs all the time but the other day I received the Pyramid Collection catalog. It caters to women that like to explore the gothic chic in them. There were a couple cute dresses and jewelry items but what really caught my attention were the shoes. Skulls and roses on boots! How awesome and tacky is that? If I were crazy enough I'd get these!

Pictured above are Lame Leggings. I don't think these should ever be sold. The women that can wear them don't and the women that shouldn't wear them do.

These are the black widow shoes and I'm thinking I should get these for Halloween!

The catalog has a ton of "interesting" items in it and I'm just curious how the buyers plan for these items. How many can they buy per style? My minimums run about 180 per color to about 360 pairs. Is there really enough demand to make these shoes somewhere? I wonder if they sell stuff to places like Hot Topic? I think I want to work for this catalog.

right on sister

I'm on a horror kick right now. Doesn't mean I want to kill you or anything.
-Zac

Thanks.

I'm on the second book by author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez and I'm not sure why I'm reading it. I remember now. My SIL told me that the first book The Dirty Girls Social Club was a hilarious read similar to Laurie Notaro books. Yeah parts were funny and the fact that it's centered around Hispanic/Latina women kind of makes things a little more interesting but it wasn't a funny book. The book followed a group of Latina women that are friends and have made a pact to meet a few times a year after college. All these girls are successful in jobs but not in love. They care more about their appearance than themselves and one of the characters is practically beaten to death because her husband had to prove how manly he is. The second book isn't much better but I have to finish the book and then the 3rd book because I already bought it. After this book I'm gonna have read something better. Any suggestions?

If you haven't tried the new 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp Bars you are missing out. They are delish! Shelly got me hooked on them.

While perusing pictures on facebook one girl had posted pics of her latest adventures and in some of the pics the girls are so drunk they look horrible. I find it quite amusing because I'm sure when taking that pic they thought they were so hot.

I need to find a doctor soon.

Pulling weeds sucks. While in Vegas the weeds grew like weeds and our house was an embarrassment to embarrassing houses.

Our orange and lemon trees are blowing up with little flowers. It smells nice but it's so overpowering and my allergies are going nuts.

I find it funny that as soon as Zac puts on a movie and relaxes, which means not on his computer he falls asleep instantly. He put on Halloween and now he's asleep.

I'm gonna go read my lame book.

Vegas (and overall trip) deconstructed

Highlights include:

The weirdest Sonic experience ever. Bill isn't one for going out to fast food so when it was time to pick a place to eat we tried to think of a place that Bill might like. After hunger and starvation started to set in we finally decided on Sonic. Conversation turned into Bill asking "why can't I just get what I want?" and the meal ended with us tipping the car/table hop a few dollars just to prove a point. This was in Casa Grande....we weren't even in Phoenix yet.

In Phoenix we made it to the Rhythm Room and found out as we were getting out of the car that Bill wasn't going in with us. He was fine though, he had his computer, the keys to the car and nearby McDonalds.

The concert had some of the nerdiest douchebags ever. The stupid people that think they are so cool because they can shout something out to the band and have lame conversation were in attendance that night. One guy was such a douche that he thought it was appropriate to set his drink next to the MacBook that was being used by the soundcrew. Dude, you paid cashmoney to get into this concert why would you want to to try to possibly ruin the concert by spilling your cheap ass beer on the bands equipment just so you can text on your phone.

To keep Zac awake I popped in a Mars Volta cd and that woke us all up! Zac sung along to all the songs. He knows all the words and all instrumental parts as well. There was also a lot of quoting of movies and Terminator references.

State checkpoint was fun. Bill was sure that having a bottle of Diet Pepsi was the only reason why we were let through with no problems. That was a joke throughout the trip.

Viva Las Vegas! The lights and awesomeness that is Vegas is not lost in the wee hours of the morning. The drunks were winding down, the cleaning crews were out, and the strip was at the quietest you'll ever find it. We walked a bajillion miles to the hotel room and then another bajillion miles to NYNY for our other room. We slept a few hours but for me it wasn't enough.

Wednesday we wore our finest greenery and got ready for the insanity of St. Patrick's Day! While waiting for the MGM lions to strut their stuff at 11am two guys were walking around wearing green feather boas, oversized sunglasses, green hats, beads and giant cans of Coors.


By 5pm I was Mrs. Grouchy Pants! I needed a nap and thankfully I was left alone long enough to get some much needed sleep even if it was only an hour or so. I woke up to Zac calling me asking if I wanted to join them for dinner at Margaritaville. Somewhat rested I joined them for dinner.

Margaritaville has good food and yummy drinks. We all had some alkyhol and some of us had more than others. Bill ordered the License to Chill and it was hilariously awesome how he ordered it. Zac's second drink was the Perfect Margarita. The Perfect Margarita may have just tipped Zac over the edge. But it wasn't enough to stop him from buying an Eiffel Tower drink. He kept telling us how he couldn't feel his body and how his feet didn't hurt him while the rest of us were ready to crawl back to our rooms.

Thursday highlights include chilling in the hotel room while ordering room service and watching LOST on the laptop. We went to the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. That night we checked out of our 3rd hotel room at the Stratosphere. We never stayed in the hotel but the guys were determined that we needed to mess the room up to make it look lived in. Zac and Bill were really getting into it and as we were done messing the room up Zac had to make coffee and Bill wanted to knock down a lamp. The Stratosphere gave us a free suite and $50 in free play. Not bad. After checking out of the hotel we made our way to the Rio to check out the Show in the Sky. It was fun trying to collect beads and it was fun for the guys to see the girls shake their bon bon. After dropping Elyse off at the MGM the rest of us continued on to NYNY for a little gambling. I lost the guys and sat at a slot machine for an hour turning my $15 into $75. I finally made myself leave and go to bed. Turns out as soon as I leave Zac's side the women in Vegas can't control themselves. Zac told me how woman were stealing his beads and wanted their picture taken with him. Sluts.

Friday we started our journey home. We had Diet Dr. Pepper this time but we were let back into Arizona. On the way home we stopped at the nastiest bathroom in the whole wide world. And finally around 9:30pm we were back home with our DaisyGirl.

Other random things-Zac kept singing that odee-oten-day song in the elevator.

Zac makes coffee in his hand. It's the fast way.

Subway sells a $5 footlong for $8.

The Bellagio buffet is yummy except the desserts weren't that great.

I found it quite funny the next morning when Zac was hungover.

it's the spring to the break

This year we found ourselves planning another fun filled and busy Spring Break. Even though I technically don't get a Spring Break I do have PTO that I can use whenever I want. This time around, Zac's sister wanted to come out and spend a nice relaxing week in warm AZ! Boy was she in for a huge SURPRISE! A month ago or so, Zac came up with the idea that we should go to Vegas while she was here. He knew she had never been and it would be a fun surprise for her.

Saturday we picked her up at the airport and headed over to eat some breakfast. While at breakfast we finally told her the big news. No one fainted but she was pretty excited! The rest of the day was spent taking naps, watching the sunset over at Gates Pass and eating dinner at Red Robin.

Sunday we spent most of the morning and afternoon at the UofA. We went to the dissolution ceremony for the mandala and then out to the UA Mall area for the Tucson Festival of Books. We had lunch at Guero Canelo and went grocery shopping.

Monday while I worked Zac and Elyse headed to the hills. They spent the day at Sabino Canyon hiking through icy water and on Mt. Lemmon trudging through snow. That night Elyse made a delicious dinner for us.

Tuesday while I worked Zac prepared for the trip. Once the rental car was packed and ready to go they picked up Bill and then came for me at work. Woo hoo! We were on our way! We stopped for early dindin and then we made it to the Rhythm Room early enough to stand in line waiting for the doors to open like the true fans we are. Even with our anticipation of going to Las Vegas, once Matthew Good went on stage we were mesmerized. The show was awesome and the time just flew by when he was on stage. While the giants were standing towards the back of the tiny club I made my way to the front and had an excellent view of the set list, the awesome guitarist and of course Matthew Good. On any other night we would have loved to rock on all night but that night we were itching to get going. By 11:30ish we were on the road.

Shortly before 4am we rolled into Vegas. The strip was dead but there were still quite a few hard core partiers gambling or crawling to their hotel rooms. And the girls were half naked with their stilletto heels hanging from their hands. We checked into our rooms at MGM Grand and New York New York and slept as best we could for a few hours.

My computer is stupid so I don't have any pictures readily available for blogging purposes. Be patient...

i don't think it's supposed to make that clunk clunk noise!

A couple weekends ago my big update was that we bought a rug/carpet thing for the living room. Last Wednesday, the 4th day we owned that damn rug little miss daisy left us a giant poop on it. NICE! She left it some time during the night so that I could wake up to it. She is so considerate.

As we left the house that morning the car started making a clunkety clunk noise. Let's just say Wednesday sucked! The night before Zac and I had talked about our finances and we must have just jinxed ourselves! While the car was in the shop we still had to go to work and school....stupid work and school.

This past weekend was spent fixing stuff. Zac worked a bit on Mr. Y and I made a half assed attempt to get rid of the weeds. The most exciting part of this weekend was buying a new toilet seat to replace the ancient wooden toilet seat our hideous bathroom came with.

We just need to get through this week and we'll have our first house guest of the year. Zac's sister will be staying with us for the week and we have a ton of stuff planned!

weekend update

big news first....we bought a rug at costco! yay!

we also bought tons of food.

i finally changed my last name at the bank and we added each other to our bank accounts. i still have to change all my other accounts with my new last name.

went to starbuck's twice!

went to the uofa to check out what zac's been working on. the mandala creation is pretty interesting and i'm glad zac shared that with me! if you haven't seen zac's link on facebook he's been helping with the tech stuff, he's not the guy creating the mandala.

and we are having another rainy weekend!

Portland is for lovers

Our journey....

Friday (2.12.10)

Tucson International Airport-Nice and quiet in the morning but Zac didn't like his coffee and muffin and the bastards burned my bagel!

Salt Lake City International Airport-Sucks big time! It felt so crowded there. And I could tell all the Mormon's were judging me. We had a gate change about half an hour before our flight boarded and when we finally got to the right gate this guy walked right in front of me. This guy was once Danielle's coworker who eventually became my friend too. He travels a lot and was going home to Portland. We were on the same flight and we exchanged numbers to hang out later that weekend.

PDX airport-Such a calm airport

The Nines-This place is a bitch to find but well worth it! It was so fancy we didn't know what to do with ourselves. Immediately I felt underdressed but I got over it because you know what....I'm staying at the hotel too! Once inside your hotel room you forget about the crazy city surrounding you.

Rite Aid- Great for incidentals and looking at bums.

Bartini-Original plan was to eat at Urban Fondue but apparently you need to make reservations for every damn meal in this city especially when it's Valentine's weekend! When Tina and Ross met up with us I told them we couldn't get into Urban Fondue and so we went next door to Bartini! They share kitchens but not the same decor. We had two rounds of martinis and we all shared. We had a good time over martinis, cheese fondue and hummus! Just what we needed after a long day of traveling!

Tiger Bar-Very cool rock bar. It reminded me of a new-ish dive bar. The decor was dive bar-ish but not disgusting to the point where you are afraid to touch anything. We got there in time for Strip Bingo. I saw some man chest and man ass. I took a picture of man ass. We ordered ourselves some Stella Artois and Tina and Ross shared a plate of sweet potato fries with us. Yum!

Saturday (2.13.10)

Voodoo Doughnuts-This voodoo was tiny and the girl that helped us acted like a snot. Like we were wasting her time of picking donuts when that is her job! Zac didn't have the balls to order the cock and balls donut in front of his mom. I had the capn crunch with crunk berries donut. It was delish! Later on Sunday night we saw a huge line of people just waiting to get donuts.

Starbucks-Of all places to get coffee we went to Starbucks. It's OK though, I had a gift card.

Mariott Hotel-This is where Bonnie and Phil stayed. Their hotel not as cool as ours. We ate donuts and drank coffee in their room.

Powell's Books- Awesome and amazing. One of the rooms is supposedly haunted. The place is huge and I found the next two books in the Sookie saga.

Pambiche-"What does Pambiche mean?" Phil-"Cubans couldn't say Palm Beach". Me (in my head)-racist! Waitress when we asked her-"Cubans couldn't say Palm Beach so they called it Pambiche."

The restaurant was this brightly colored tiny little thing. We managed to snag a table inside and ordered te helado and a pina drink and we also ordered the sanwich cubano and something else that I can't remember right now. We were lucky to come on their anniversary weekend so we also got free dessert! I'll have to give Cuban food another try...we'll just have to go to Palm Beach or Cuba to get the real deal.

Multnomah Falls-Waterfalls galore! We stopped at a visitors center that was super windy and then we visited the falls. Bridal Veil kicked our ass because it was a seemingly harmless hike but the way back up was a beast! Especially after you've eaten Cuban food. I think I was just racist there. Whatever...

Macy's-the first 5 or 6 floors of our hotel was a freakin Macy's! For some "me" time I browsed and shopped. When I was finished I walked back outside to the sidewalk turned left walked 10 steps and went back into the reception area to our hotel.

Doug Fir Lounge-Concert venue, bar, and restaurant. Similar concept toHotel Congress. Was once a Denny's and a Howard Johnson but is now way cool, way hipster, and has good food but it took forever to get a table! The band area was awesome! And the beasties were amazing. I think I'd leave Zac for one of those guys. All they'd have to do is talk a lot and change the lyrics from hooting and howling to bluetooth and howling.

Sunday (2.14.10)

Portland Coffee Company or Roasters-I don't remember the name anymore. We met up with my friend Andy and his girlfriend and caught up over coffee. I ordered a Mexican Mocha and when I told Andy what I got he said "You didn't? Did you?" I said "Yeah I want to know if they are being racist". It was pretty good and it didn't taste like Mexicans at all.

Pioneer Square-We took a group picture by umbrella man. The square is an area that holds outdoor concerts and movies and just a big gathering place for events.

Andina-I think this was the best find! A facebook friend suggested this restaurant and I think it popped up on a few searches of places to eat while in PDX. While texting with Alison on places to meet for lunch I told her that Zac and I still wanted to eat at Old Town Pizza and we heard that Andina's was good. Alison looked it up and they decided Andina's would be the better choice! Alison's fiance and mom joined us and great times were had! Zac and I arrived early and so we were seated which gave us a chance to look over the menu. I ordered the Inca Cola and Zac ordered the mojito and the sacsayhuaman. We shared tapas of conchas a la parilla and chicharron de langostinos. For an entree we shared the lomo saltado. Everything was delicious!

Chinese Gardens-From Andina's we walked to the Chinese Gardens. While walking we saw a huge SUV back into a spot hitting the car behind it. The SUV pulled out and drove away. We turned the corner only to see the SUV try to park again and it looked like it was going to take out the lamp pole. We ran into Bonnie and Phil at the gardens. The gardens were packed because Sunday was Chinese New Year. We were given red envelopes with coins in them for good luck and we stayed to watch the dragon show. Not much to the gardens...I would only go again if it were free. I left my lucky envelope to the cleaning ladies at our hotel....I left them a nice tip.

Old Town Pizza-It's supposed to be haunted yo! Zac and I shared a small pepperoni and green pepper pizza. Bonnie and Phil had the Dragon Lady pizza. After eating we looked around and went to where the old elevator shaft used to be and the people eating there showed us where Nina's name was scratched into the brick. I didn't have a ghostly experience but it was still cool.

Tube- Tina and Ross had told us about Tube in their many recommendations of bars. We were intrigued when they told us the bar was in an old subway car. The place was pretty cool and the reviews promised us hipsters and so as we were sitting at the bar chatting up the bartender and barfly I made the mistake of asking them if they were hipsters. Apparently, hipsters don't like to be called hipsters! I found out that Hamm's is the equivalent of PBR and it was good like PBR but then I had to have a Tecate!

Powell's Books-Nothing like going to a bookstore when you are drunk to use their bathroom. Zac is still perplexed that there was a condom machine in the man's bathroom. Perhaps Powell's is a mecca for gay bathroom sex? You gotta be safe right?

Jake's-Andy told us his brother worked at this place and that happy hours are amazing here. So after a night of hitting up happy hours we decided to give Jake's a try. We were seated at the back bar which so happened to NOT have happy hour! Instead we shared a plate of lobster tail, steak, and mashed potatoes.

Monday (2.15.10)

Urban Farmer-This restaurant was located in our hotel lobby. We kept spying on the people eating while in our room and even analyzed a couple eating dinner on Valentine's night. We had breakfast and I had eggs benedict while Zac had a regular egg, taters, ham and toast meal. The coffee was strong, the portions were huge and the iced tea was great!

Willamette River-a nice park ran along the river and you could see the bridges up close. While on our way to cross the bridge we were fortunate enough to see the bridges go up to let a barge go through.

Fred Meyer's-clean bathrooms

Bagdad Theater-awesome! Eat pizza and drink beer while watching a movie!

My Thai Bistro on Hawthorne Blvd. We shared crab pillows, spring wraps with peanut sauce, chicken pad thai and green curry with chicken. I also ordered a Thai iced tea and everything was delicious.

Mount Tabor has lovely views of the city and we were able to see Mount Hood in the distance. The park was just awesome.

PDX airport-nice, calm and relaxing.

Gustav's in PDX airport for swiss cheese fondue with bier sausage and cubed bread and rosemary garlic cheese bread.

Starbuck's for a caramel frappucino and coffee crumb cake in LAX.

Tucson Airport-finally home again!