take a minute and remember

oh boy. daylight savings this year is KILLING ME. why? i have no idea.

tuesday i slept from:

4-5:30am
6:30-12:50am

i woke up from my phone ringing and realized i had slept through my alarm!! and almost slept through staff meeting, but Courtney called and woke me up. good thing - because my birthday snack was waiting for me downstairs. YUM. chocolate raspberry cake with black raspberry chip ice cream. YEAH. omg, so good.

staff meeting was good. there was approximately 5 minutes in between the time i woke up and the time i entered staff meeting, so it was very hard to open my eyes for like, the first 20 minutes.

and man, i just stayed tired throughout the day. i napped from

7:30-8:48pm.


today was very sunny and very warm. i don't like it. i don't like that i looked out the window and saw that it was so light and so late.

the sunshine just made me sleepier. Ruby Tuesday too. she's been so sleep lately! i think because our nighttime schedule is all messed up. she does not like it that i'm up so often with the baby.

anyways.

i got a smoothie today. peach mango. it was not orange, which disappointed me. it was white with orange pieces. or, peach pieces. i'm not sure exactly how i felt about it. i would get one again. but perhaps not mix the two flavors. maybe try raspberry. or kiwi. that one intrigued me.

oh!

i have some pictures to post for you. i hooked up my phone to my laptop and imported some very important ones.



MY BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!!! not the one from staff meeting - but the one Kara decorated for me!!!! remember how Kara always gives me the best birthday present ever by decorating WHATEVER I WANT onto my birthday cake. the designs she does are nothing short of awesome, and this year was no exception.

this year's design featured, of course, Titanic, with Jack and Rose standing on the bow, holding Oscars. the ship is sailing into an iceberg, on which the Crash Kings are skiing down. each member of the band is holding their respective instruments. (and Tony is wearing his hott red plaid shirt.) also featured on the iceberg, is Fantastic Mr. Fox. what a cutie.

in the lifeboat directly below the iceberg we have the members of Tally Hall. each wearing their tie color. kara looked at Zubin, who is second in from the right, and said, "wow, that looks exactly like him!!" she was very proud.

in the second lifeboat from L to R are Robert and Jason Schwartzman. Robert is wearing that hott icy blue shirt he wore when i first saw Rooney at The Paradise a few years ago.

and of course, the trademark green seahorse floats in the corner.

LOVE IT. a cake full of HOTTIES, right!!?? YES.



look at those Crash Kings!!!! i can't believe how awesome the red plaid shirt turned out. i mixed the red color and let me tell you - it was a mess. when kara mixes food coloring into frosting, it's like an elegant motion. she's very clean and it comes out perfectly. when i do it? there was red dye EVERYWHERE. i had it allllllll over my hands for like, two days. all over the table. the mixing spoons. the bowl. everything. and it wasn't even coming out red! it was hott pink. finally, after letting it sit for a while, the color darkened to perfect.

i love Mike. he looks like the Mountain Man with his beardy beard. i also love the CLAVINET!!!! i bet my birthday cake is the only cake ever created in the whole world to have a Clavinet on it. unless it was on Tony's birthday cake. or Stevie Wonder's.

man, it came out awesome. i looooved it. i can't believe how awesome Kara is. <3



ok, this is just a picture of Ruby Tuesday being very cute and standing up on the edge of my bed. awww!!! what a sweetie!! (and yes, those are drawers built into the wall. so hip, i know.)




THIS PICTURE i didn't remember taking. this is the Starland Ballroom is Sayreville, New Jersey where we saw JET and Crash Kings last sunday. what a creeper building in the daytime!!!! but in the nighttime - WHOA - rocking.



i also don't remember taking this picture. this picture is evidence that i would make a good member of the paparazzi.

see that van with the white trailer attached? Crash Kings van. YEP. Ol' Blue. and it's parked right next to the JET tour bus!!!!! awesome, right?! this was when we were hanging out in the parking lot all day with Jenny. cool. it was a fun day.



AND THIS - is my car hitting 100,000 miles. 667 miles into our Crash Kings Roadtrip Weekend. just as 'Come Away' was starting to play. i believe somewhere around NYC. pay no attention to that 'check engine' light.... that light symbolizes the $2,000 worth of work my car needed.

oh, more on my car later. i keep putting it off because i don't want to talk about it. i'm still very sad.

or, i guess i could just give you a quick update now.

i don't have the car anymore.

my trip to Boston to see Crash Kings ONE WEEK AGO TONIGHT really did it in. it came back about 50% louder than when it left. it was bad. i absolutely could not believe that i didn't get pulled over. it was truly a Crash Kings Miracle.

i'm glad i got in some good quality time with the car before i had to give it up, though. i feel like those last few miles was final bonding time that we both needed. and yes, i admit, i shed a few tears.

yes, the car constantly gave me problems ever since i bought it in 2004. but overall - it never failed me. and even on it's very last legs, it never failed us once on the Crash Kings Roadtrip Weekend. and, i admit, i was secretly nervous about taking it on such a long trip. but it made it! and i will always remember that fondly.

so, i spent about 5 hours at the Toyota dealership on wednesday and ended up driving away in a 2010 Prius.

it's crazy. this new car is crazy. it has an MP3 hookup. that was really the selling point, to be honest. it's got power windows and power locks! i can't believe i spent 6 years in the old car with crank windows. it's makes having the windows down way more enjoyable.

it's just crazy. there's so much stimulation though, that i have to remind myself to focus on the road and not the computer that tells me how well i'm using the gas engine.

OH! the part that is really awesome are the steering wheel controls. i can turn up the volume, or change the song on the cd player without taking my hands off the wheel!!!!!!! the person who invented that is amazing. i love them. i can also control the temperature of the car on the steering wheel.

i'll have to take pictures sometime. it's dark gray. but sometimes it looks like a bluish gray. it's pretty. i like it so far. i'm still not used to it. i'm not used to the size. or just the fact that it's a different car in general.

i'm not a fan of the rear window visibility. but i am a fan of the rear wiper. YES.

anyways. that's the car story. the new car story.


so, it's actually wednesday now. i never posted this entry on tuesday night because i got too tired/busy.

man, i'm tired.

i have one more disc of season one of The O.C. still great. although, Marissa drives me crazy. and i like Ryan, but not when he's with Marissa. i'm sad that Luke is leaving because he was starting to get hilarious.

ok - Mischa Barton. she needs to eat some donuts. she is disgustingly skinny. and lanky. and gross. her face is pretty. but other than that, she is gross looking.

hm. okay what else can i tell you?

another sunny day.

i'm really liking my Crash Kings ringtone. and alarm tone. it doesn't make waking up any easier. but, it makes is sexier, which is a bonus.

so far it's a quiet night at work. i'm working now, btw. i hope it stays quiet because i'm tired. and i hope the overnight is easy. last night was not easy. the little newborn baby was not a fan of the sleeping. i spent over an hour rocking him to try and get him to sleep. and he would drift in and out, but always wake up again. finally, during one of his quieter moments, i just put him in the crib to see what would happen. and after like, 10 minutes he fell asleep.

but, by that time it was like, 2:15am. and his next feeding was at 3:15am. so, after going back upstairs, finishing the last ten minutes of the O.C. ep i was watching, getting ready for bed, and actually getting into bed, i think i only slept for about 5 minutes before my alarm went off again.

and then i got back into bed again around 4:45 or so. up again at 6:20!! and then back to bed around 7:30. yikes.

i must have gotten up at some point to unplug the phone. but i don't remember doing it.

hm. i don't know what else. i'm just wasting time now.

OH! it's saint patrick's day today. i hope you are all wearing green. i am. color themed holidays are my fave!!!

alright, friends. have a great midweek. i'm sure i'll talk to you later.



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