Busy Week Ahead

Tuesday night:

Coffee shop Tuesday with Ryan and the OSF. Sounds like a band name.

We should start a band!

OF COURSE we should start a band!

How have we never started a band?!

Anyway....

Wednesday night: 

Duncan Sheik and Lauren Pritchard mini concert at... I don't remember where. But it's going to be awesome. How can it not be with the writer of all the Spring Awakening lyrics, and the original Ilse? We're talking an actual Broadway cast member here, people. This is big.

I hope they let me bring my camera. 

I wonder if they'd sign some Spring Awakening paraphernalia I may have....

Thursday night:

TV THURSDAY! For realsies! With the big TV! And, since we failed to watch Heroes tonight (despite our best efforts) we've got that, American Idol, and the Office all in one fantastic weekday evening. Am I forgetting any other shows? I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Oh well. Even if I have forgotten one, I know Ryan's got it scheduled to record. He's awesome like that.

This evening's (early morning's?) excitable post brought to you by Andy's Famous Strawberry Daiquiris and Reese's Peanut Butter Easter Eggs. 

Apartment Christening

Ryan and Andy have a new apartment!

Hooray!

Guess where I am right now?

Chilling on the super comfy couch, watching the pretty new big screen TV with Andy. 

I think we're going to be here quite a bit. Just letting you know now, Ryan.

But before the comfy couches and pretty TV were here, it was just a big ol' empty space. So on Friday night (Friday the 13th, for those of you who are trying to come up with the correct date, ahem, OSF), after Ryan and Andy got the keys and signed the paperwork, we christened the place with pizza, champagne, and our favorite Office Trivia game. 

Apparently, as the night went on, Ryan had just a bit more champagne than the rest of us, which accounted for some over-exaggerated gasps of shock and the inability to read questions more than two lines long.

Brittany: "Can you read the question, Ry?"

Ryan: "Not this one. It's like six lines long."

Also, this little moment: 

Chris: "Ryan, can I have your orange Dundee?"

Ryan: Hands over Dundee token without hesitation.

(Approximately six minutes later.)

Ryan: "Hey! You have my orange Dundee!"

The rest of us: "He just asked you for it. And you gave it to him."

Valentine's

Brittany's always  getting us little trinkets or candy during the various holidays. Stocking stuffers during Christmas. Easter baskets in April (or March, depending on the wackiness of the year). And candy boxes and cards for V-Day.

Thanks, Britt. I do like chocolate. :)

And my favorite flowers, which appeared as the new table centerpiece. I'm not sure which roommate brought these home, but they are oh so pretty.

Guess who's getting full Photoshop?

I'll give you a hint:

It's me, and I am soooooo excited.

Because while I love my wonderful Photoshop Elements, it just can't handle all the delightful actions I keep seeing all over the internet. Actions that can make my pictures crazy cool.

I need these actions.

So, Justin's going to "help me install it" on Friday, so I have today and tomorrow to clear all the unnecessary junk off my laptop so it won't freak out trying to run full InDesign, full Photoshop, and Elements.

Those three are going to be the best of friends. I just know it.

Anyway, I'll be parking it at the kitchen table for the remainder of the time, transferring and backing up between mini-laptop (I've named it Wall-E) and the external hard drive, and going through all the music my little sister has downloaded onto my itunes to see what I will actually listen to in the future.

I know some of these are pretty popular, but I'm sure I still won't like some of them, so here's the list of what may be deleted off my laptop, in advance. If you see anything you want, call me up and yell, "STOP! Don't delete that!" And them come over with a jump drive and take it for yourself; someone might as well be getting use from these CDs.

WARNING: Artists that may possibly be deleted in the next 48 hours:
Augustana
Yellowcard
OkGo
Britt Nicole
AllAmerican Rejects
Plain White T's
Jack's Mannequin
Fallout Boy
Miley Cyrus
Gavin DeGraw
Hannah Montana
Killers
Good Charlotte
Cheyenne Kimball
Jo Bros
Date Voegele
One Republic
Sugarland
Metro Station
Simple Plan


Hmmmmm... halfway through the Augustana CD... it's a keeper.

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Sunday Fun

Ryan and Chris invited me to go out and have fun on Sunday, and since one of my goals is to get out of my funk of preferring to stay at home (especially on rainy weekend days) and begrudgingly go along with other people's fun activity ideas, I tagged along.

Don't worry, Ryan. There wasn't so much begrudging yesterday. 

(But I can't wait for real TV Thursdays again, because I really do love our stay-at-home-and-cook-dinner-and-watch-TV activities.)

Our first stop was Mt. Soledad, the top of which neither Chris or I had ever been. It's pretty cool up there. You can see a loooooong way in all directions. 

And we spied on Andy's house!

I know it sounds crazy, but all three of us are in this picture of Ryan:

Here. Look a little closer:

Next stop was the X Museum in La Jolla. I don't remember the actual name of the museum now, but their logo was an X and we got X stickers to wear, so it is now the X Museum.

Highlights of this museum included a hypnotizing video of spinning black and white tops, a haystack made of needles, and a hammer made of ninja dolls. Art can be so weird.

I'm not much of a museum fan as a general rule. But this museum had the most amazing chairs I've ever sat in. And you think I'm going to let those chairs go?!

Ryan, you need to find those chairs and use them to furnish your new apartment.

Here's some fun pics of the outside art (or of us taking pictures of the outside art):

And to finish off the day, we headed to Cabrillo National Monument on Point Loma. We toured the lighthouse, said hi to Cabrillo, and Ryan and I both tripped/fell over nothing while Chris mocked us.




By then we were hungry and tired from our scavengering, so we went to the guys' favorite place, Wahoos, and had yummy surfer Mexican food (Chris' description) with spicy green sauce that, ahem, some of us were unable to handle. (Not me, of course. Me and the spices are tight.)

The end!