Eight Years, High Rollin' and Buckcherry...

This past weekend my hubby and I celebrated eight years of marital bliss(HA! I know I am not fooling anyone, we all know marriage takes work!) by shacking up at a Casino hotel. Classy, I know. I am by no means a gambler but I heard you could get a beautiful room with jacuzzi for an affordable price, so why not? Plus another benefit is they have the fantastic steak house where we planned on eating anyway so we made a night of it. The rumors were true, the room was so spacious and very nice. The dinner was fab. We dined on calamari, prime rib and yummy garlic mashed potatoes...finishing it all off with a DELICIOUS chocolate raspberry Bombay'. Scrumptious!!!! We had window seats and after dinner we headed out to the balcony just in time for sunset. It was perfect. I made my husband take some pretty cheesy pictures and then after thoroughly embarrassing ourselves we slunk back to our room.

A.K.A.~Cheesy Pic!

Not sure what to do with the rest of the night we thought we would try our luck at a little gambling. I went to a quarter machine and deposited like five dollars. Surprise, surprise I hit and won $61.o0. Ding, ding ding! That is all it takes for me to get the fever. We took like three more trips back and forth to the room to dip into some more money. I won some and lost some. We ended it at the roulette table where my husband and I each had $20.00. He lost his really fast. I stayed and played till I walked away with my $20.00 and won his back. I have a knack for guessing the correct color....Too tempting!

Has anyone heard of the band Buckcherry? If you have you would know it is not kid friendly. My friend had me listen to a song entitled, " Crazy Bitch." Heard of it? I generally like rock 'n roll but this I am not so sure about. It is something I would have loved in my angry years...

Lights, Camera...Action!

I have been quite the movie buff as of late. I recently watched Premonition with Sandra Bullock. My thoughts are this movie is a BIG let down. Does anyone notice the fact that indeed SHE is the one at fault for his untimely... well, never mind. You might have wanted to see it. My advice is don't bother.

In contrast to my feelings for that one, I thoroughly enjoyed Reign Over Me starring Adam Sandler and...someone else who is famous I am sure. It was SUCH a great movie. Tough subject but so truthful. I sat back and thought, I wonder how many families are still jacked up like that from 9/11? I ugly cried only once. It really was a lot about friendship and helping each other. LOVED it!

I want to see the movie Shooter, not as in Shooter McGavin...loved that scene in the bar in Happy Gilmore," Why don't you just go live by the bay, and eat some clay...what do you say? I just may!" Adam Sandler is hilarious!!!!

Of course not that Shooter though. I am talking about the one with handsome, sexy, rrrraaaarrr! Mr. Marky Mark. He is so hot. Even with his enormous nostrils...mmmhmmm!

That's what I'm Talking About!

Shark Infested Waters...

My friend and I occasionally venture to our local sports club, aka gym and go for a relaxing dip in the pool. It is always lovely and there is babysitting for up to two whole hours(Score!). On this particular night we decided to head to the hot tub first. Inevitably it always gets too hot after about ten minutes so like always, we headed to the medium pool where two older ladies were soaking and two young girls were. We headed to the deep end of the pool so I could rest my arms on the side. Once settled we began one of our in depth conversations not really aware of our other pool companions. Like usual my shark fear grips me in about any body of water. My imagination is very vivid and cruel. So there I was hip deep in conversation, neck deep in water and my mind started to wander. I thought, if I was in Hawaii right now in the water this is totally the depth shark attacks happen." Now my brain starts sending images to myself of a shark...Jaws(to be specific), coming sideways with its mouth open for my thigh. " You better knock this off. You aren't in a ocean, so no sharks are HERE-DUH!" I shift slightly uncomfortable in my recent thought process. Focusing back on my friend I just happened to glance down mid sentence to see the terror that awaited me. The exact leg I was imagining being dismembered by a shark was about to be hammered into by a dark large object. My instincts kicked in and I lifted my leg quickly and made a sharp inhaling sound. My buddy, as she informed me later, just saw my face look down and freeze in horror. She followed my line of sight and saw a large dark object coming at me and so she screamed loudly. Whatever the object was hit my leg and an idiot girl emerged above water spouting to her friend, " I told you I could make it to the other side!" I wanted to grab her by her innocent neck and snap it. I was so frightened, but of course once it went down it was frickin' HIL-AR-IOUS! The old ladies were pissed because we frightened them with the commotion. Tough shit! One old lady said, "What? Did you watch Jaws today? Did you think you were the only ones in the pool?" We slunk over to the hot tub where I informed my pal of my just prior imaginations. She said she didn't want to admit it in front of ol' crabby patties that what she automatically thought after seeing my face and the "Object" coming so swiftly towards me that in fact it was a shark. She said she wondered, "How did sharks get in here? And how are we gonna get out of these shark infested waters?" I was laughing so hard! It was one of those moments you cannot get out the laughter fast enough. It was such a strange coincidence. Freaking hilarious. I will always remember that night at the pool.

Ebay Is The Root of All Evil...

So lately I have been kept hostage to Buy It Now! and Hurry! An Item You Are Watching Is Ending Soon! Of course how could I forget my all time fav, You Have Been Outbid! Hurry And Bid! Don't Let It Get Away! It is official- I am an eBay addict. It all started when I was searching site. You can find just about anything on there and can get practically anything your little heart desires-for a cost. It is such a rush when the minutes tick down on an item you desire and someone starts to bid against you. It is all blood, sweat and tears in the end. It is man vs. man~3 minutes to go. It all has come down to this moment. The question is who can type the next bid in the fastest to beat the clock and the opponent by 50 cents. I have been the conqueror 5 times. And my bank account is feeling it. I need to just stay AWAY from eBay!

Juicy Fruit is Appropriately Named

Just saw Music and Lyrics yesterday. I love Drew Barrymore and generally like the ever funny Englishman- what's his name who likes prostitutes? Yeah, him. The combination of the two of them? Not so much. The chemistry was lacking and the story obviously far FAR fetched...Nothing like The Holiday with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz. See it already!!!! It comes out the 13th!!!!

In other news the weather has gotten me in the mood to travel. We missed our girls trip last year. This year we shan't miss it! Either San Fran again or L.A.~ Laguna Beach...maybe run into Lauren Conrad. Slap Heidi in the face and stomp on Spencer's big toe if the opportunity arises. Yup, shameless Hills fan. Can't get enough. I wish I could somehow contact MTV and demand the show stretch for one FULL hour. This sampling the buffet isn't what a shallow smorgasbord is all about! I want five courses!

I saw a funny picture of a crazy hat and thought I would bring out my own. Although it is not me in the pic but my ex best friend and her mama. We went out for my ex b's b-day and her mom came along. This irritating balloon guy made a balloon extravaganza hat for Donna. Pretty funny. Of course he made an engagement ring for the b-day girl. Good memory of a LONG night!

The Butt of All Jokes and Chunky Eggs....

My what a pain my computer has been! I HATE the little error/debug boxes that continuously pop up frustrating the hell outa me! Urrggg! Finally I can post! This past week has been nuts. First, most importantly our little miniature Yorkie passed away from internal bleeding. What an unexpected sad thing to happen. He was a good little dog and was part of the family. It was very upsetting. We LOVE TIPPER but are glad he isn't in pain anymore.

On a lighter note, the most DISGUSTING thing happened just this morning. I was going to cook my hubby some eggs before he went off to work. Now let me say right off the bat, I am sure we all have had the horrific experience of cracking an egg and GASP! there is a slight trace of "blood". That too is sick but not even close to what went down in my kitchen approximately 45 minutes ago. There I was cracking my first egg, all good. Here comes the second...crack and thump thump. Wha? What in the WORLD is that extra LUMP settled near but SEPARATE from the yoke. Like "brothers". This grayish, beige-ish "ball" of God only knows what had slid into the frying pan and began to fry. OOOooooohhhhh, ewww and icky and everything foul under the sun had used there vial powers and really messed a sister up this morning. I made my husband do away with it while I scurried away to compose myself(a.k.a. warm up the ol' computer for some much needed web searching). Is that not so awful?

Two days ago I was taking my little boy to school in a track suit(whatever, it is early!!!) and this man in a suit runs up to me as I am making way to his classroom. Mind you directly behind me is a guy I semi had a crush on eons ago taking his son to his class as well. This business guy was 30ish and he says, " 'Scuse me but are those new pants." In my immediate vanity I thought, "wow, this is really weird, I am about to get hit on at my sons school holding my child's hand." " No, why?" I said. I figured his next sentence would have something in it like," Did you want some fries to go with that shake?" Ohhh foolish woman that I am I apparently forgot I was in a TRACK SUIT-velour so help me! Not a real eye catcher. He then bursts my bubble by proceeding to tell me," Because you've got a big long sticker on your butt. Don't worry, I won't take it off for you." I ashamedly reached back and alas my fingers brushed the feeling of something smooth and shiny. Damn. A sticker from one of my kids shirts. In XSmall. Sure these are my new work out pants in xsmall. Yeah right. I mumbled something about him being a good citizen and slunk away. Come to find out my loving husband who is a prankster had put it on me but forgot the not so important step of taking it off before I entered the big cruel world! That butt head! He will pay! He isn't the only trickster in this household. I just have to think of something REALLY really good.

(totally unflattering pic, I know but it serves it's purpose and hey I have lost 25 punds since then so yeah me!)

Lastly I have been tied up setting my son up an ocean themed room. We bought him this bed that looks like a boat. Scene it? They have it at Pottery Barn for kids. We got it for a fraction of the price at Costco. We painted his room light blue with dark blue accents and white trim. That alone took forever! Then I painted ocean scenes all along the bottom of the walls. My back felt like it was breaking after two days of hunching over. It is cute though and he just loves it! Next is new windows and blinds. His room is all windows so it is gonna be pricey! It has to be done though. I tell you living in a 100 year old house means the work is NEVER ending!