Ten on Tuesday

1) My current mission in life is to beat Chris' weekly Farkle score. It's very, very sad.

2) I currently despise Ryan and Chris for introducing this horridly time consuming game into my life.

3) Popping bubble wrap irritates the skin after awhile; my fingers are so sensitive now!

4) Really looking forward to getting some computer stuff done today: wedding pics, blog updates, writing, and research. Yes, I am a complete and total geek.

5) Got to go up to Sorrento Mesa today for work. That's $22 to go toward my new/old car fund!

6) Speaking of the new/old car, I've decided to name it the White Demon. Hopefully WD will be ready to go by the weekend, and I can finally test out my ipod on the new stereo.

7) Fighting a cold still; hasn't hit yet, but it's pestering me to slow down just a bit so it can get me the second I start to think about it. That's right, I'm on to you, Mr. Virus.

8) I decided to start stealing Chris' facebook friends for my own. So far I've collected Cody, Emily, and Melody... oh so many more to gather!

9) When going through some clothes last night, I came across a white skirt that I think I've worn once in the past three years. Wore it to work today; it is delightful. Definitely going into the main group of clothes.

10) Listening to the Rent soundtrack over and over at work... because I keep forgetting to bring my work ipod back from home, and Rent's the only CD I've got in here. Well, that and West Side Story.

So much to write about

Yet so little time! It's almost midnight, and I'm exhausted, but I feel like I haven't written here in awhile. Much to add soon, including Lizzie's wedding pictures which came out GREAT. I'm so very pleased with myself over then, actually. Hopefully I'll get a spare moment this week to catch up; perhaps if these cold-like symptoms I'm currently experiencing decide to officially kick into a full blown debilitating bug, I'll find some time to log on as I sip orange juice and chicken noodle soup from the comfort of my bed.

Mmmmm... chicken noodle soup....

The OSF has already been knocked out by this cold thingie. He doesn't want me around in case I get it too, which is sweet of course, except that I was the one a couple days ago saying, "I feel like I'm fighting a cold." So I may have given it to him in the first place. Sorry, boyfriend.

I just like to share with you.

Loser Cake

We had loser cake at school today.

Loser cake, for those unfamiliar, is when one person in a specific location is a 49'ers fan in a sea of Chargers diehards, and the 49'ers get their behinds kicked by said Chargers.

It probably didn't help of course that on Friday Anthony decorated one of the teacher's chairs with a 49'ers jersey and changed her desktop background to some kind of red and gold backdrop. Everyone laughed at that, but we really laughed when Erin brought in this beautiful masterpiece (whipped up this morning before work, I might add).

Losing has never been so delicious.

TGIF

You know what I like about that OSF boy?

It's Friday night, and the text I get from him says, "Ryan's hanging out with work friends tonight. It's just you and me. Can we just stay home?"

And then I respond, "A big, huge, gigantic YES!"

Because we're both kind of nerds who'd rather stay home on a Friday night. Maybe watch a movie. Maybe upload pictures from the week. Maybe watch Brian Regan's Epitome of Hyperbole DVD while uploading pictures from the week. And learning how to make fonts of our own handwriting.

Yes. We are that cool.

So while I wait for him to print off the font template, I'll just go ahead and update the last ten days' worth of Picture of the Day's.

Day 238: I get my official name badge for the Charter School of San Diego, because the time has come to go to an official meeting. The annual fall meeting was held at the Sorrento Mesa office, with everyone from all the locations required to be in attendance. For a four hour meeting, I have to admit there was not one moment when I felt myself getting distracted or falling asleep. We played the personality test game, only instead of golden retriever, beaver, otter, lion (like at camp), we were just normal colors. I was blue, which is golden retriever, and gold, which is (GASP) beaver! Somewhere between summer 2005 and this very moment, I've become more of an an ornery beaver than a fun-loving otter!

A cool thing I noticed was that each of the CAs matched the teachers they worked for in personality, down to the final color. Weird, huh?

Day 239: Chris and I start making this crazy pasta dish for our night to bring Jen and Justin dinner. (Gotta love the new baby/free meals church thing.) Chris decided we were going all out, and Thursday night we started out making just the meatballs for this dish. The rest was completed frantically in between work on Friday and actually going to Jen and Justin's for dinner.

Day 240: Okay, I do finally see a little bit of Justin in her here. I think it's the eyes.

Day 241: 3 months! Woot! Chris found this great restaurant in Point Loma called The Pearl. We had a buy one entree get one free coupon, so we both got the top sirloin-- the most expensive dish on the menu. It. Was. Amazing. You know how usually you can't get a dish with all delicious things? There's usually one thing at least that doesn't appeal to you? Not the case here. It was all delicious. We are definitely hitting that place up again. Along with the nice bar/restaurant, there's a little back room with shag carpeting and pillows on the floor where you can play board games and cards. Chris beat me twice at chess, and we had fun taking pictures of ourselves in the ceiling mirrors.

Day 242: Another painting day.

Day 243: Well, we thought this was the last day with my truck. We were mistaken.

Day 244: For some reason, I was just really enthralled with the line of birds on the sign post.

Day 245: A little discovery when I went to check our community calendar; looks like Jen was there!

Day 246: Adventure at work! Brittany and I head down to the Old Town office so she can show me what mail runs entail. Good thing I went with her too-- this was the day the mailboxes were crammed full of new lesson plans for all our teachers.

Day 247: Today! After second work, I headed over to the church across from the library to find out what Liz's plans were for Brittany and me tomorrow. She asked us months ago if we would take care of photography for the guest book, as well as doing backup photographs for the actual wedding. Sadly, Lizzie was running too late for her own rehearsal, so I snapped some wedding-ish pictures and scoped out a good spot to take our pictures. I know it's hard to believe, but I've chosen a brick wall as my official guest book photo backdrop.

Well, Chris has scanned in my handwriting, so I'm off to figure out how to make my own Jordan font!

The Cavalier

You know the "I'm on a boat" song?

Replace that with "I bought a car" and keep the same tune. Cuz that's what's playing in my head right now.

Long story short, the brakes on my S10 went out again. That was strike three for the good ol' S10. And so the hunt for a replacement car began.

Dad and I went up to Miramar on Saturday to check out a white Cavalier being sold from a used car lot. The salesmen were friendly, if not typical salesmen, and my dad's not one to take any BS, so it was up to me to play good cop. While Dad checked under the hood, I was trying out the driver's seat and learning about the MP3/CD player that was installed. Score! The even bigger score was hearing that they had a brand new player with ipod hookups that they'd switch in for free.

The car looks something like this:

It's pretty clean, inside and out (and they're detailing it too), runs great, has brand new tires, the new MP3 player, and new brakes. The only major thing wrong was the air conditioning wasn't working properly. But we were able to strike a deal, and they threw that getting fixed in too.

Gosh I hope they can fix that air conditioner.

Chris and I went up there again yesterday evening to officially seal the deal, so it looks like tomorrow will be my last day with the S10.

I'm kind of sad about it. Why do I get so sentimentally attached to my stuff?

Um... two weeks ago?

Warning: There are many consecutive Picture of the Days of the OSF in this post!

This is not one of them:

This is. August 13: The OSF, being a man of many talents, searches for the leak coming from somewhere in that mess of mechanics.

August 14: The OSF plays in his living room for an audience of one.

August 15: The OSF has fun with spray paint during Garage Renovation time.

Ahem. It has been brought to my attention, by a certain OSF who shall remain nameless, that he is too often the subject of my picture of the days, to which I respond that he should a) offer to take pictures of me more often, b) no longer invite me over to play, or c) stop being so gosh darn cute.

The photographer has spoken.

Sunday Afternoon Boxing

Chris has an adorable little cousin, Jessica.

Jessica loves to play on the Wii.

Her current favorite games are Wii Fit, Pro Wrestling, and Boxing.

Oh, and any game where she can kick the pants off her twenty-five-year-old cousin, Chris.

He tries. He tries so hard.

But then it's her turn. And he just looks at her like this as she makes her move.

And it always ends up like this:

And the moral of the story is: Don't discount five-year-olds. Because sometimes they can kick your butt at video games.

And it's hard to live that down.