FYI

Amber from Teen Mom just might be the biggest beeyotch in the history of the world. Oh, and she is a total psycho too.

Must Have Now Please

I want these sooooo bad! They also come in black and light pink, but I'm into purple lately. Now, how do I finagle buying these $140 hot shoes without Karl knowing about it.........

For your viewing pleasure......

Realization

Birthdays are grossly overrated. It's not that I don't like getting older (yet), it's just that no matter how low my expectations are..........it just ends up being like any other day.

*But thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!*

Work phone issues = Highlight of my day

I received this email at work yesterday afternoon. We haven't heard that its been fixed yet so I'm not going to be answering my phone at all today just for shits and giggles.

The facility phone's are inadvertently being transferred to an outside line (holiday liquor store) after 3 rings. DTS is aware of the problem and working to correct it.

Flaming Gorge

I'm going to make this short and sweet.
Karl went fishing at Flaming Gorge with his boss.
They caught some fish.

Karl caught the biggest one of the trip, 33lbs

Lagoon

Karl & I went to Lagoon on the 4th with Steph, Chris and the girls. It was the perfect day for Lagoon. It wasn't busy at all, the longest wait was maybe 10 minutes and the weather was just right.

We made Chris and Karl go on most of the kiddie rides with the girls.

The look on Lizabeth's face during the white roller coaster was so funny (even though it was a look of pure terror) it was so cute and I couldn't stop laughing. I wish I could have gotten a picture of her, but here she is right after it.

Karl in action

Karl & his prize

Izabelle on Bulgy the Whale

Blurry photo of the Puglieses

This is Karl's phone after Wicked. During the ride it came out of his pocket and flew out. It hit his collar bone and he thought a bird hit him until he got off the ride and realized his phone was gone. He got it back, but the phone didn't survive the fall.

Florida Pie

This is the kind of pie that I made and Karl gave away before I had any. For the full story see this post. I've made it a couple times since then and it never gets old. It's soooo good. I made this pie for Karl's dad for Father's Day. The recipe is in my favorite new cookbook, Baking from My Home to Yours. It's called florida pie in the cookbook but it's just a key lime pie with a meringue topping. Notice I didn't do the meringue, not a fan of that so I just use whipped cream.
*Sorry for the crappy photos, I don't have a fancy shmancy camera like everyone else seems to have these days.

BOTW (Book of the Week)

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

With lots of great information, the point of the book is not necessarily to try and make everyone vegetarians, but more aware of where your food comes from, and what goes into making food so readily available and incredibly cheap. Yes, I am teetering on becoming vegetarian after reading this but I love my meat so I will probably just cut back and be more conscientious when buying meat, trying to buy from small, local farms.

MOTW (movie of the week)

The Cove

YOU MUST WATCH THIS MOVIE!
Excellent movie, great information, and I'm in shock what actually happens on a daily basis from September - March every year. I cried like a baby.


Oh and p.s. if you don't watch Whale Wars, start now, great show!

VOTW

Cool

*After you press play click on it again to watch it full screen*

VOTW (video of the week)

I LOVE the Real Housewives shows, they are definitely my guilty pleasure. Season 3 of The Real Housewives of New York just ended and I had to post this hilarious parody of the show. If you loved the show you will love this. Warning, it is R rated for language but completely worth watching if you're a housewives fan!

BPOTW (beauty product of the week)

Last year I starting using Smashbox photo finish foundation primer. I love it, but I don't love the price. It's around $40 for 1 oz. A couple months ago while perusing around on the interwebs, I came across a certain product that sells for around $5 and is the exact same formula as the Smashbox primer. What is this product you ask?



Yes, Monistat Chafing Relief Powder Gel. I don't know who figured this out, or how they figured it out, but it has saved me some major $$$! If you love the Smashbox primer, or are in the market for a good primer, this stuff is amazing.

TOTW (tip of the week)

WEAR SUNSCREEN
Last Thursday was our section retreat for work. It's basically like a day off (even though work is discussed) because we don't actually go into the office and we're usually done around 2 and then we can just go home. It was at my coworkers house and he has an awesome deck with an amazing view so we hung out on the deck the whole time. It was nice weather, definitely more cloudy than sunny, but warm and pleasant. I didn't even think about wearing sunscreen. Usually I'm pretty good about it because I burn very easily. So from 9-2 I was outside sans sunscreen. I ran a few errands on the way home, did some stuff around the house and made dinner. At about 7 I started feeling not so great. I can't really explain it, I just couldn't do anything other than just lay there. I hung out on the couch until about 8pm when I was ready for bed feeling completely exhausted. Karl got home from work at about 10 and walked into the bedroom. He sat down by me and was like "What's wrong with your face?" Apparently I had gotten sunburned and didn't even realize it, and boy was it a fabulous sunburn. It was only on half of my face with a raccoon eye from my sunglasses. Oh, and even the top of my head along the part line in my hair was sunburned. Awesome. I think I must have gotten sick from being in the sun and getting sunburned. Luckily the sunburn toned down quite a bit the next day. However that leads me to my current situation: peeling skin. Half of my face is peeling and sloughing off dead skin, real cute. And remember how the part line in my hair got sunburned? Well that is peeling too, so now I have dead skin dandruff.

I couldn't give this valuable tip without posting this song, especially since it was specifically for the awesome class of '99. It's a little long but it does have some other great advice in it and will probably make you smile.

Hello abs!

Ok, it's definitely not normal for girls to have abs like that. Thanks a lot Megan Fox for continuing to perpetuate this totally unattainable standard that women try to live up to! Totally lame.
If you so desire, you can see more gratuitous pictures of Megan's ridiculous abs here