Thursday, April 30, 2009

Cookies

Arlene brought neimann marcuss cookies to our meeting. They make any meeting better. Is the story about the lady who accidentally bought the recipe true or an urban legend? Either way, I'm glad arlene got a hold of the recipe. YUM!
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april is ending...

yesterday jeremy got out of bed when i left for work (about 45 inutes before he needs to get up) to go running. then he was going to go again with me after work except i fell asleep and was too groggy when he got home to go. he is amazing. i love running with him so much more than running by myself, even though he is much faster. he likes running with me because i am better at keeping a steady pace so even though he is ahead of me, he can still pace himself by looking back to see where i am and run for longer distances. we make a pretty good team. hopefully after my race this weekend (when i no longer have a race that i am "training" for) we keep up our 2-3x weekly runs around the block.

we are gearing up for the next mosaic production, broke. we stage managed broke last year and it was awesome. the show and its elements have been workshopped and improved and we are excited to be a part of broke 2.0! the performances are during our westside and mayan gathering times on may 10 and then a freestanding performance at william carey university on the 15th. we have our first meeting tonight (jeremy is the technical director - he is moving up in the world!) and i cant wai tto get a copy of the script!

i saw kevin mckidd (one of the doctors on greys anatomy) at trader joes on sunday. actually jeremy saw him (he has a great eye for spotting greys anatomy characters in the wild even though he claims to hate the show) and discreetly pointed him out to me. he was buying produce, wearing crocs. stars! they're just like us! or just like that percentage of the population ho thinks it is socially acceptable to wear crocs outside of the garden/hospital! maybe he wears them for authenticity on the show and had just come from a read through or something. anything is better than the probable truth. boy is wearing crocs for fun.

anyone else thankful that we never have to watch matt sing again on american idol? i will see him on ellen on monday (she has all the losers on her show) but after that... good bye and good riddance. if adam had been voted off i think i would have quit watching the show. or at least watched it, but not paid as rapt attention to it. or something.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

AI: Big Band Week - the rat pack

jamie fox is kinda annoying. just wanted to throw that out there.

kris sure looked handsome tonight in his suit. (and humble too!) this was the first time i really liked him. i wouldnt purchase his album prolly but i enjoyed the performance.

happy birthday allison! who out there who is actually voting (not me!) isnt voting for allison? shes amazing! i love love love her voice.

dear matt, i am bored of you. please go away now. thank you. sincerely, meaghan

dear danny, even though you are a good singer and (other) people seem to like you, i do not think very many of them would actually buy your music. sincerely, meaghan

(p.s. is kara taking something? did paula hook her up? girl is nuts tonight!)

adam is still far and away the best. i would go to see him perform live and probably buy his album. he got some lungs!

wasnt very interested in posting my thoguhts this week because i think most everything i need to say about these people i have already said in previous blog entries. i think tonight's bottom three is matt, kris and allison and i sure hope matt is gonig home!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

close only counts in water balloons

Ephesians 4:15 (New International Version)
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

ask anyone and they'll tell you. i am really really good at speaking the truth. in high school i won an award for being the most opinionated person in the senior class (and im guessing no one in the lower grades really came close either). i tell it like it is. i cannot remember the last time i told a lie. (i know i have before - i'm definitely NOT trying to say i have never lied, because that would be a lie. there was that whole makeup at a rich mullins concert inident in middle school - bad bad news). my friend sarah actually introduces me to people as sassy. members of my family ask me to confront other members about things because they know that i will say the actual truth.

i say all this to say: the hard part is speaking the truth IN LOVE. also if you know me, you would know that this is something i struggle with.

my latest campaign is the "get caught talking about someone behind his or her back BUT saying good, nice things." every time someone walks past and i was just saying something nice about them and they overheard i feel really good. and i think they might too. even if there are true bad things to say too. so go talk about someone behind his or her back today. try to get caught. its kinda fun.

im hoping that this is good practice for speaking the truth in love in confrontational situtions. when my dander gets up, its UP and while i try (and usually succeed) to fight fair (using "i feel" and "sometimes" instead of "you," "always" and "never") i dont necessarily fight nice. and i think i should.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

taking one for the team

yesterday we got up (after a late night out with friends it was really really hard to get up) and drove to pasadena to help our friends ryan and sarah move. they were super organized and well packed (you guys rate #1 on our list of people we have helped move and thats a looong list) and we knocked that thing out in about 2 hours. their new little cottage is super cute and sarah will have that thing put together and looking good in no time flat. after eating some pizza we left the unpacking party and headed to our football game.

there are 8 people on the team and 2 of them have to be girls. we have two girls on our team. i get a pretty good workout during the games. i love it. i run around a lot and block and rush but overall dont contribute a whole heck of a lot to the score. jeremy has made a few great plays in weeks past and had a touchdown last week which was awesome. this week i tried to make an interception and almost succeeded except my face doesnt have any hands to catch the ball. no bruises to show for it though - how lame is that?

just around the corner

This is the stack of filing waiting for me on my desk for tomorrow. Ugh.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

too many holidays at once!

happy birthday jessie!
my sister turns 19 today. yay for her! she has almost made it through her first year of school at k-state (go wildcats!) and i get to see her in about a month. all good things.

happy administrative assistants day!
this would be the one day a year when some people at work recognize all the crap i put up with evryday and say thank you. better yet, all of us office girls are going out for a drink after work at a bar and grill called the office. how appropriate!

happy earth day!
think green and do something nice for the planet today. turn off the lights and television and go outside for a while. buy a couple reusable shopping bags. take a shorter shower. easy easy easy.

any other celebrations today that i missed?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

AI:Disco Week

chaka khan is a strange woman. that has nothing to do with american idol, just a freebie observation. every woman is a major song. lil was eh. she just isnt as good as i thought she was going to be at the beginning of the show. buh bye. (maybe i am somewhat ignorant here but what exactly is the definition of disco? this song doesnt come to mind at all when i think of disco... can anyone explain that to me?)

she works hard for the money: you were probably expecting some lame joke about kris working hard for your votes or some other such nonsense. you wont find any lame jokes (or cliches - right beka?) on this blogs. no siree. just like kris and the mystery woman (hooker?) in this song, i will never sell out so you better treat me right. in actual critiquing the contestants news, i liked the way kris's voice sounded on this song even though, in my limited knowledge, i KNOW that was not a disco version of that song.

september. am i too young to know this song? i do believe i am unfamiliar with this particular tune. can you hum a few bars? i guess technically his performance was good but he aint got no soul. i am just a danny hater. im sure he is a perfectly nice person but i cant help it. i do enjoy how they cut out all the video packages in order to allow the judges time to argue about who buys ladies undergarments but i miss seeing multiple pairs of dannys glasses. allison looked cute in his pair from tonight (the glasses, not his ladies underwear as i am unsure about his choice in foundation garments and am perfectly ok with that).

although i probably wouldnt wear them all together i am coveting each piece of allisons wardrobe tonight. shes hot stuff yeah! her parents better watch out for dem boys. the run at the end of her song - woo baby!

adam, if i cant have you as my american idol then i dont want nobody. well maybe allison. ok, there was my lame song lyric joke for this blog post. anyone else catch paula's tears? shes nuts! adam is good and thats all there is to say. week after week.

ok everyone say it with me: will this performance help matt stay alive in this competition? groan. i had to. we were all thinking it. pretty good overall but we are still dealing with the same problem - he just isnt as sexy as he thinks he is. but the most disco-y of the bunch tonight. is there a special prize for that?

oh the chin fuzz! why anoop why?!? he and matt are suffering from the same overly-inflated-opinion-of my-own-sexiness syndrome. not many men can pull off the whole wearing a pick sweater while singing about having sex. unless they are singing about a mana and not a woman. just saying.

whats the group song going to be tomorrow? is brick house disco? id love to see that song on american idol. just tickles my fancy. bottom three? anyone? jeremy isnt home tonight so im watching it live (recorded from an earlier telecast) instead of biggest loser because i have to wait for him for that. so tehre is time for feedback before the show. i think: lil, anoop, and matt. lil is going home. not sure who the other person will be. matt wouldnt surprise me. anoop wouldnt either.

Monday, April 20, 2009

knife fighting?

when i got home from work today (at 3:30 thanks to my new schedule of opening the school at 7am) i was HOT and sweaty and ready to sit on the couch in the air con and pet cricket. i stick my key in the lock, turn it and run into the unmoving door. why is the deadbolt on? jeremy came home for lunch so i bb im-ed him to ask why he deadbolted the partment. he said he didnt and i wasnt too concerned. i put my dirty clothes in the laundry in the closet, went into the bathroom to get a band for my hair, and sat on the couch. cricket jumped in my lap and jeremy was asking me all sorts of questions like does everything look like it is in the right place? is cricket still there? all of our valuabes were here and cricekt was in my lap. jeremy called the manager who didnt answer and started to get worried. he told me to look in the closet to see if there was anyone there. wth??? what am i supposed to do if there IS someone in the closet? ask him nicely to please leave? wheres our baseball bat? oh, in the closet. awesome. and the guns? locked up, but also in the closet. aha! the nasty looking hunting knife that he usually has in his pocket? in his bedside table (which of course is in the same room as the couch since our apartment is small and sucks). so i have my phone in one hand, cricket in my lap, the ellen show playing in the background, and a knife in my other hand...

jeremy calls again. "i got ahold of the managers boyfriend. he said he went around testing all the locks but never went into any the apartments. so he left the deadbolt locked and thats why. i told him that if he ever does anything like that again to tell us because we were both worried." worried? i was pee my pants scared. now that i knew there was PROBABLY no one in the house i took the knife and went to investigate. i only felt minorly ridiculous (and still freaking scared). finding no one in either the shower or the closet (and in this little box those are the only two potential places a human could fit) i returned to the couch a little less scared. thirty minutes later i am typing this post but i still have the knife in my lap.

just in case.

because you never know.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Recipe for...

..a perfect sunday morning in bed. a warm, furry cricket and a good book.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

tree planting day



today dubnoff had a tree planting day. we had several trees donated from huntington library. we are making the lot at the end of the block by the school, which used to be the site of a group home that was condemned and torn down several years ago, into a safe, green space for our kids. the ground had been tilled and grassed by the cemetary across the street from us so all that was left to do was to dig some tree holes. an entire crew of firemen, lots of staff members and their families, board members, the boys living in the group homes and people who had seen the story on abc news on friday from our community showed up to help.

the trees were already placed where they are supposed to be. after we received our instructions, jeremy, cara, captain reyes and i started digging a hole for our japanese cherry blosson tree. we finished it up in record time and moved on to the cypress trees. captain reyes had to leave on a call from the fire department so the three of us planted the second tree. everyone pitched in and the trees were planted in record time. we had to leave to a football game before the pizza and news vans showed up which was sad. all in all, good workout, fun people, great time. plus we get that glowy just volunteered in my community feeling. :D

Thursday, April 16, 2009

happy birthday crickey!

crickey poo turned 2 yesterday! we have had her for 14 months and she is the best cat ever. on tuesday night i was looking online at the shelter cats in the area trying to find her a brother or sister even thoguh jeremy says we cant have two cats at a time and if i got a new one i would have to give cricket up. boo! he did tell me that if we got $1000 back from our taxes i could get a second cat but we both knew we were going to have to pay. and pay we did. i am so ready to be out of california! state taxes here are ridiculous! thankfully thats over and done with and hopefully next april we are paying our taxes in a different state... ???

it has cooled off here (winter temperatures recorded! that means it gets down to the 50s!) and been rather windy for the past couple days. on cold nights cricket sleeps with us, usually at jeremys feet or on my pillow but she has a new habit of curling up right in between us then yowing at me in the morning when i wake up and turn over to hit the alarm button. so sorry princess! did i disturb your precious slumber? dont worry - im sure youll get your 20 hours of sleep in today somehow! she is such a goof...

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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1. What are your current obsessions?
reading, cricket (the cat, not the game)

2. Which item from your closet are you wearing most often?
my new joe's jeans that make me look amazing

3. Last thing you bought for yourself?
food.

4. What’s for dinner?
shannon is cooking so i have no idea but it is always good!

5. Say something to the person who tagged you:
beka inspires me to run longer and faster. she is super cute and if we lived in the same city we would be inseparable. also, she likes gucamole and beef. i know that sounds factual but is actually really nice!

6. What is one item you could not live without?
my blackberry.

7. Vacation spots you must visit before you die?
too many to name... seriously

8. Three things to do before you die:
reproduce (maybe a few times?)
convince jeremy that two indoor cats is doable
do something amazing

9. What are you reading right now?
love in the time of cholera and it kinda sucks.

10. What is the last movie you saw and enjoyed?
slumdog millionaire. since then we have watched quite a few crappy movies.

11. What’s your guilty pleasure?
bryan adams, n'sync, drinkies, trashy novels

12. What’s your favorite smell?
jeremy fresh from the shower, kansas when it rains (i agree beka!)

13. If cost wasn't an issue and you could live anywhere in the world for a year where would it be?
england - minimal language barrier and close to everywhere in europe

14. Do you have a goal that you are trying accomplish before 2009 is over?
pr in a 5k, the splits

15. Describe one of your happiest moments.
i feel like i am supposed to say walking down the aisle at my wedding and while that was pretty incredible i think i am happiest sitting next to jeremy on zuma beach listening to the waves and soaking up sunshine

16. What was your best Halloween costume?
rockstar was fun...

17. What do you have an addiction to?
facebook. twitter. blogspot. gofugyourself. many other internet related activities.

18. What do you do that you would be embarrassed for others to know about?
if i dont want people to know why i am i posting it on the internet? beka, i too am a horrible singer but thats no secret. i guess if someone was sitting next to me in the car while i am driving on the freeway with my ipod plugged in i would be embarrassed at the volume and passion of my singing... traffic is better with mariah and kelly.

19. What is one totally irrational fear you have?
undiagnosed brain tumor (beka - im starting to freak out on how many of our answers are the same!)

20. Do you have a favorite training tip?
dont stop swimming.

21. What's your most embarrassing moment?
??? i dont get embarrassed all that easily.

22. What is a little known fact about you?
i am a trashy reality tv addict

23. (my addition) who is on your list?
strange as it may sound: joel mchale and stephen colbert. jeremy knows, and he is cool with this.

i am tagging
anna o
sarah s
amy m

enjoy!

AI: music from the movies

what does quentin tarantino know about music? i know he is good at directing weird movies and bizarre episode of tv shows but does he have any musical credibility at all?

i dont want to miss a thing - this song reminds me of my senior year of high school watching movies in mallory and tjs basement. gt gt. allison - i'd miss ya babe if you got kicked off tonight.

p.s. blake, the guy from tom's shoes that was in the first commercial break (for all you non-dvrers), goes to mosaic. tom's shoes is a really amazing business. check it out.

everything i do, i do it for you: when bryan adams sings this, i must say, i just melt. when anoop sings it... not so much. im just saying. it wasnt bad. i think thats the nicest thing i can say.

not digging the new judge format. maybe they could come up with another way to keep the show on time without only letting two judges speak?

born to be wild: and boy, adam is. he can get my motor running anytime! (oops did i just say that out loud? dont tell jeremy! it was supposed to be a clever play on song lyrics... but really he can. but im still not convinced on the matter of his sexuality, either way. can anyone provide confirmation one way or the other?) the boy can sing. should we just call teh competition right now?

have you every loved a woman?: eh. is he as sexy as he thinks he is? my answer is no but maybe other girls out there disagree??? his performance of this song does not convince me that he has, in fact, loved a woman of his own.

i didnt really recognize danny without his glasses... my endless love: i liked his cover here. also i like harp music.

falling slowly: one of the best movie songs ever. i love when jeremy i watching once while i fall asleep. kris's version wasnt as good as the original but still ok.

the rose: i learned this song at girl scout camp in middle school and have loved it ever since. super cheesy and my parents hate it (that song has no chorus! it is horribly written!) but i love it. this is my favorite of her performances in a long long time. having said that, i am so over lil rounds.

tonight's bottom three: lil, matt and anoop.