i did a very redneck thing today, and i am not ashamed.

my car has had bird poop piling up on the hood for several weeks now and it was driving me crazy. while at the gas station, waiting for my car to get full, i had an idea. i grabbed the window squeegy and took to washing the hood of my car and scraping off all of the dry clumps of poop. i got some crazy looks from a couple of truck drivers and fellow gassers, but i do not care. i live in an apartment and can't wash the car at home, and i am not going to pay five dollars for a car wash when a free one is provided for everyone pump-side. in these trying economic times, we have to make financial cuts wherever possible.

sincerely,
washes car with squeegy.

i'm never eating popcorn again!!

i went to the movies with my mom to see "the women" (good movie by the way. i almost cried like 5 times and it made me love my friends and mom even more) and she bought me popcorn. who passes up free movie popcorn with movie butter on it?? me from now on! a kernel is stuck in the very last molar of my mouth, in the most unreachable part of my gums. it hurts. i have tried everything to get it out, and after much bleeding, no luck.

sincerely,
sore in the gums.

Harry's afraid of a little Vampire competition.

Ok, so I'm all for the Twilight movie coming out... however, when it messes with the opening of the long awaited Sixth Harry Potter movie, it makes me not so happy.
In case you haven't heard, Harry Potter movie makers didn't want to compete with Twilight, which would be coming out while Harry Potter was in it's fourth week from release, causing competition. Therefore they have moved their release date from November 21, 2008, to JULY 18, 2009! What is that?? That's almost a year from now!
If they are doing this just because of Twilight, then they are being babies. I'm pretty sure we can go to more than one movie in a month.
But on the brighter side, Twilight took Harry's spot and moved from December 12, 2008, to November 21, 2008. I'm still a little sad though.

pretty trivial stuff, but I had to get it off my chest..

I attacked my antenna.

It's true and I am ashamed. The other night I attacked our television antenna. We were watching the olympics, and every time the people above us walk around, the clarity of the reception goes in and out. I was getting upset. So I got a little rough with the antenna trying to get a better picture. I'm not proud of it, but I tend to lose my patience with technology (or lack of it) sometimes. The look on Andrew's face after I got our reception back is motivation enough to get a grip on this little problem.

Do you ever get the feeling your life is a sitcom??

I've talked to my friends about this and we joke about it often. It sometimes seems that our circumstances have landed us right in the middle of the plot of a Thursday night sitcom on NBC. Ring any bells?? Ha... So it's not like we have a specific sitcom in mind, but here's what I'm talking about:

In my group of friends there are many different personalities, but we all tend to come together and enjoy each other's company. Many strange things seem to happen to us each making for some great stories (plotlines!) that liven up our everyday lives. At one point, four of us worked at the same place in the mall, two of us with our husbands working right next door, and a group of friends, and one boyfriend, working down the same hall at Starbucks, where I too worked at one point (wrap your head around that!). There has been the occasional drama of a breakup, and the exciting anticipation of new love interests (or, perhaps like interests). Last "season", three couples broke up and Andrew and I got engaged and then Married. I guess you could call that the season finale. This "season" Rachel got into block, Sarah and Ty got back together, and four of the group's closest friends moved to Nashville to be rock stars. Also, Sarah got a grown up job and she and Lori moved in together where the girls get together several times a week. Matt also got a grown up job and recently moved into his own place. Now we have four apartments to hang out at in the same general area. Not very normal for Houston. Rachel, Tiffany, Sarah, Sarah, and Lori went to Paris together, while Abigail and I stayed home and got really tan in Galveston (having just as exciting adventures no doubt!). Then some of us went to San Diego together, then got back and decided to learn how to row. And one more embarrassing little addition... we have this obsession with this vampire...

So in the upcoming "season", only God knows what is going to happen. I have much to look forward to though. Tiffany is staying in Houston to go to grad school(!), Rachel is gonna rock Block's socks off(!), I am going to go insane with work and school, the guys in Nashville will keep on rockin', the mice in between Andrew and I's roof will hopefully leave, there will be a camping trip in the near future, and girl's nights will continue to exist. Oh, and we will continue to be super cute.

When I right it all out like that, we kinda seem like a normal group of friends. Maybe everyone has a Sitcom life:)

I love my girlfriends!!

Last night I was struck by how easy and enjoyable it is to talk with my girlfriends. I hadn't seen them in about a week, except for briefly at church on Sunday, and when we got together last night it's like we could not stop filling each other in on all that had gone on in the past seven days. It just flowed so naturally to share life with these people whom I care about so much. I knew that they would understand, empathize, and be excited about what I get excited about because we are so connected. And I think they know I do the same for them and can't wait to hear what they've been up to. I just wanted to share how much I Love and enjoy my girls. There's nothing like those relationships:) I love my husband very very much, and he is my BEST friend, but he just doesn't have the reaction I'm looking for when I show him my new green purse, talk about how Edward and Bella are doing in Twilight, and on deeper levels, how to be a Godly woman and wife.

why did Sirius have to die?

I'm currently finishing book 5 of Harry Potter (keep ridiculing comments to yourself please) and I am heart broken that Sirius Black, the person Harry loved the most in the world, died right in front of his eyes. I don't even want to finish the series (but i will)! I just don't understand it.

Anyways... I had to get that off my chest. It's weird how we become so attached to characters in a book.