28 Days of Love and Laughs

February is right around the corner. That means Valentine's Day, sweetheart candies, and chocolate!  Last night I had a brilliant idea....28 days of RomCom/Romance movies! Brilliant I say!!!!!!

I think I'll have to start with my own vast collection of movies...let's see....I have um 8 movies.

-Pride and Prejudice (new version)
-Pride and Prejudice (miniseries version)
-Sense and Sensibility
-Before Sunrise
-Before Sunset
-Once
-Knocked Up
-Jewel of the Nile

I can picture what Zac's reviews would be like:

RomCom 1
-Stupid, boring and predictable.

That would be it for every movie.

I'm doing it!  I need to work on my list!

Life, Numb3rs, and Boners

This Christmas Break I've been busy on Netflix. I finished up the newer episodes of Bones then I started watching Life.  Life was ok, I got sucked into the main storyline and now need to know what will happen next. Earlier in the week I had started watching Numb3rs on Netflix.  I had gotten as far as half of Season 1 and I didn't care for it.  Friday I told myself I'd finish out the season and see if it gets any better.  I shouldn't have done that. While it's not really any better I know the characters and now I have to finish it.  I have to. I owe it to Netflix. Season 2 the main FBI girl changed and the spot was given to Diane Farr. I don't like her. She has a weird looking face and a high whiny voice.  Her character is supposed to be some sort of behavioral specialist but she just babbles psychology text to make her sound like she knows what she's talking about.  At least Sabrina Lloyd was not annoying.

My biggest beef with shows like this is not the same story line from every other cop show, no, it's when girls wear tank tops in the office.  Every cop/FBI show, every cop/FBI movie you'll see the female lead wearing the "wife beater" tank top.  She'll have her hair in a messy ponytail, her aviator glasses on and if done the right way her skin will be glistening with what some might mistake for sweat.  Do women in these professions really wear cheap ribbed tank tops to work as their shirts?  I can understand the prettier tank tops to wear when wearing suits but even then I'm pretty sure the FBI has a dress code.  I also love when these female leads go out on the street to do some "invetigating" wearing their tight shirts, tight jeans and 4 inch heels.  Totally believable when running after a suspect that her boobs won't be flying all over the place and that she can actually run in high heels without looking like a priss. I think these shows should get more girls that can just kick ass and have their wardrobe be normal.

2013 Resolutions

I ain't got any.

Well I guess position myself to not be laid off with my new job.  But I can't make promises with a school district that is $17 million short for next year....let's just say I haven't exactly put my resume away.

Year in Review

So 2012 kind of sucked.

I had to deal with the death of my father and everything that goes along with that.  From the grief to the acceptance of loss and living life without him.  The hardest parts now are when I forget for a nanosecond that he died.  Like I'll want to call him and then I remember.  Other than that the hardest part is seeing my mom deal with the heartache and seeing her try her hardest to be positive whenever she can.  But like always shit could be worse...that's my way of being positive.  2012 did have some good things happen so it wasn't a complete loss.  A list of stuff to remember and some stuff to forget eventually.

-Finding out my dad had stomach cancer and spending most of January in the hospital.
-Getting a temporary per diem  buyer position at Tucson Medical Center, one of the weirdest experiences ever.
-RIP MR. Y, Zac's worst accident ever with the worst timing but luckily he came out of it as ok as we could ask for. As a result of this we asked my dad if we could borrow his truck.
-The decision to move my father to hospice care.
-Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary-February 7th
-My Dad passed away-February 9th.
-My good friend's Dad passed away a week later.
-Seeing family and while during a very hard time sharing laughs and stories and creating new memories. It was fun seeing Zac meet a couple of my uncles and my nephews and nieces meeting their Tio Cesar.
-Going through the range of emotions/hurt feelings/regrets family members have bottled up for years and working through all that.
-Starting the process of closing my Dad's accounts.
-Bringing my mom to our house on the weekends so she didn't stay home by herself all the time.
-My 32nd Birthday/my mom's 62nd birthday-spent the weekend watching Downton Abbey and going to Costco for cake.
-My first round at Tucson Medical Center ended.  I was extremely glad it did.
-Zac graduated with his Bachelors from the University of Arizona.  He majored in Linguistics and Philosophy and graduated Cum Laude.
-Went back to Tucson Medical Center to do another round as a per diem buyer this time with a chance of permanent employment. I had to eat all my words about getting out of that place before and make a good impression this time.
-Experienced first Father's Day without my Dad.
-Went through Birthday Extravaganza month in July.  Gigi's birthday was celebrated as a swimming party at El Conquistador.  Adrian and David celebrated at Peter Piper Pizza.
-Had to go through major rejection when I didn't get the TMC job permanently.  Good...I didn't want to work there anyway.
-Started my new job with Tucson Unified School District as a Purchasing Assistant. 
-Celebrated Zac's birthday.
-Went to Melting Pot and took my mom, her first time ever to one of those places.
-Celebrated my Dad's birthday by going to a Coheed and Cambria concert in his honor.
-Zac started his first semester as a real graduate student, even though he was starting his second year in the program.
-Went through the ups and downs of people close to us separating.
-Went to the funeral of my sister in law's grandmother.
-Watched our way through 30 days of bad horror movies.
-Had our first Thanksgiving without my Dad.  My mom wanted to cook.
-December brought another death in our extended family.
-Spent a very quiet Christmas with my mom and brother.
-Spent December 27th my parent's anniversary transferring the truck into our name and taking my mom to buy a new washer and dryer.

Now it's time to put this stuff in the memories column.  2013 better be a kick ass year.

the weekend getaway

Most people go on vacations or the now trendy stay-cation, I went on a Mom-cation this weekend.  I spent the weekend with my Mommy.  Usually the weeks or weekends that were spent previously out with the moms seemed to go on forever.  The days dragged on and on.  I don't know what changed but this weekend we were busy.  Friday was Dia de los Muertos, so after taking care of some insurance paperwork, and eating some dindin we headed to the cemetery to visit my dad. We brought him some new flowers and cleaned up his flowers and decorations a little. It was getting dark fast so we didn't stay very long.  As soon as we got home we were exhausted and we quickly went off to relax in our own rooms watching tv before finally going to sleep. 

The rest of the weekend was kind of a blur.  My mom is a strict believer in 1st Breakfast and 2nd Breakfast and Linner.  In between breakfasts we would do regular yardwork of watering the plants/trees.  I went out to investigate the god awful smell I smelled the night before. Something had died and I had told Zac I was going to find out what it was.  I did find it.....well parts of it.  Probably 15-20 feet away from where the car was parked I found a cat's tail....some intestines, some vomit, some dog poop, and then about another 5 feet away I found a leg and then another 3 feet away I found a paw.  It was all very gruesome and smelly.  Poor cat. We then headed out to the closest Walmart where we got my mom in for an eye exam.  When the guy was trying to sell the different coatings they put on the glasses he was trying to sell the anti-reflective coat my mom said "I don't need that to see the mop and broom" I busted out laughing while the sales guy was like "what?"  My mom then said "I don't use computers, I'm a custodian!"  I couldn't stop laughing.

This morning we then went out to the yard to finish watering the plants/trees and then my mom was like "lets burn the tumbleweeds" my response...um ok.  So at 8am we started a bonfire in the yard.  We cleaned up a section of the yard from tumbleweeds and burned the shit out of them.  It was quite fun but exhausting.  Afterwards Zac came over in time for 2nd breakfast and fixed the jeep and then we had tacos! Yay tacos!

Well Mom-cation is over and I'm back home on my couch watching Oddities on Netflix.  

Social House

A few weekends ago there was another girl's night.  This time we went to Social House located near to the UofA.  It's supposed to be a gastropub, a fancy shmancy name so they can charge you more for fancy bar food. 

This place used to be called Sam Hughes Place and I went there a few years ago when a vendor took us out to lunch once. I think I liked the food better that time. Or maybe I liked the food better that time because it was free! 

I think I got a burger off the happy hour menu.  It seems that I always order the burger when going to these new places.  For some reason Spiced Venison Carpaccio and Mango-Chili Squid Strips just doesn't make my mouth water like a regular burger does.

This place was alright...the company made it fun.

47 Scott Night

Last night around 6pm I got a phone call from one of my old college pals. Another college pal was going to be in town that night so they wanted to know if I'd be available to meet them at 7:30. Holy Moly an hour and a half to get ready after being outside pulling up weeds. Who am I kidding....it only takes me half an hour to get ready.

We met up at 47 Scott a trendy hipster hangout downtown.  We were seated promptly because the hipsters don't really eat dinner until 10pm. My two friends already had dinner and one of the girls didn't feel very well so they just had drinks. I stared at the menu for five minutes deciding between the $14 bistro salad or the $12 burger.  I was starving and had the burger.  The photo was taken from their website or facebook page so it's a pretty good picture of what my burger looked like.

I asked for well done and I'm pretty sure the waitress probably thought I was lame for not ordering medium or medium rare like how I'm sure the the hipsters order their burgers.  Whatever!    But those bastards didn't give me a well done burger it was probably done how they do it for all hipsters. Why even bother asking me how I wanted my burger! I guess I could have complained but I figured if I get food poisoning I could call out from work. I also ordered a beer.  The first glass tasted delicious. The second glass was overdoing it.  Either it's strong beer, I have no tolerance or Zac roofied me telepathically somehow. 

Like always it was a great time hanging out with my college friends and of course it's always fun trying a new restaurant.  I'm pretty sure I was considered a hipster by association.  It felt pretty damn sweet.  As soon as I left the restaurant though I was back to my boring old drunk self.