I made the crazy statement that I was giving up on dating as I am apparently not good at it. My adorable friend RLO, being a guy and therefore always wanting to fix any problem, suggested that he and I and Sarah all move in together and grow bitter and old together. In my infinite womanly wisdom I realized the flaw in his plan and told him that Sarah’s dog Daisy and my cat Aurora might not get along so well. Then Mr. RLO consented, but still being flawed as a male, said “true, Daisy and Aurora might have a lot of sexual tension they don’t know how to deal with”.

Moral of the story: Men may be from Mars and women may be from Venus but cats and dogs just need a little sexual rediscovery to get along.

Blogfully yours,
Summer

Just me, Lessons Learned, Random

On Thursday Karina the Russian sent me the following text message:

“I am walking this sat 4 breast cancer at liberty park at 8! Come with me to SAVE THE BOOBIES”

I think I should recruit Karina to work in advertising, I mean how can anyone say no to that? I knew I certainly could not. So I woke up early, helped Karina get her two kids ready, layering them in more clothes than was probably necessary, and we took off. Here is Pasha, half awake but looking stylish AND warm.

We met up with the rest of the employees of Karina’s salon including Kate, who I found out we were walking for, an amazing survivor of breast cancer.

Before the walk there was some announcements, thanking sponsors, and a group stretching session. I felt a little silly reaching for the sky and bending to touch my toes but man it felt good! There was pink everywhere! Pink balloons, dogs wearing pink shirts or ribbons, pink banners and they even gave out pink Vitamin Water to participants. It made me super relieved that I had thought to wear my pink hat that has been collecting dust in the closet.
It was freezing outside but it felt good to know that I was participating in a very worthy cause. The Russian kids were not sharing the same enthusiasm for being up so early and walking around the park instead of playing in it. I guess telling them we were walking to Save the Boobies just didn’t have the same impact on them so shortly after we finished our second loop we decided to excuse ourselves to take the children home. This was actually kind of convenient cause we didn’t have to deal with traffic. I decided that kids are an excellent thing to have around at times, although, yes…I do feel slightly bad for not finishing the walk…slightly.

*Some of you may have noticed that my Blog title has changed. Those of you who link to me from your blogs (thank you and I love you!) will need to update the title and url to blogfullyyours.com. I will have a new lovely designed mast head in the upcoming days that I am also very excited about. Yay! I have my own blogging identity! Let me know what you think.

Blogfully yours,

Summer

K to the R stories, Out and About

Today I woke up to find that the weatherman was correct, there is snow on the ground. It is a beautiful sight, almost magical. The fact that there are still leaves on the trees lets me know that the snow will not be staying, just gracing us with its presence as a precursor for the months ahead. In fact, even now I can see the sun coming out and the drops of melted snow hitting the ground.

I know sometimes I complain about Utah, but truly I love it. I love having changing seasons. I love studying the mountains. Seeing them change from green to orange then watching as the snow starts accumulating at the peaks then moving down the mountain only to reverse directions when the spring comes again. It’s fascinating to me. I am quite certain this love of seasons and the mountains was instilled in me from my father. He always taught me to welcome and embrace the snow because then the ski season is upon us. Welcome the sun and the high temperatures because then the boating season is upon us. I guess that way you always have something to look forward to.

Random

Today it is freezing outside! Seriously, I think it actually froze last night. Just checked the weather website and it is 32 (crap where is the little temperature circle thingy button????) degrees outside. This actually caused me to get excited because I bought a TRUE fall dress while in California that I haven’t had the chance to wear yet. Now, my friend Kelli, who lives in sunny San Diego, would have us believe that fall dresses are the same as summer dresses but in different colors. I.E. still light, still sleeveless…so not Fall. I have decided to set the record strait as she is obviously confused and has completely turned her back on Utah fashion.

Now the first thing you will notice is that I am like 2 feet taller than my receptionist. This is not an optical illusion. Second you will notice that my dress is long sleeved AND I have leggings on! My receptionist has a sweater dress with a long sleeved shirt underneath. She has fabulous tan legs so she doesn’t have anything underneath and is consequentially sitting at her desk with a space heater. Yep, pretty sure as soon as Kel sees this picture she is going to want to move back home.

Just me, Random, sometimes I get on a soap box

Stress effects everyone differently. For some unfair reason, stress seems to take it’s toll on my physically. Normally I get an upset stomach that is really painful. Lately though it has been not just the upset stomach, but heartburn as well. I’m sure it’s nothing that a good dose of Prilosec can’t fix but it’s still a major pain in the ass. Another lovely accompanying factor of my stress is lack of sleep. Man, I love my sleep too! I don’t really know any way to prevent it from happening either. It’s not like the stresses of work and school and life are going to just magically go away. Maybe this is just the adjustment period and everything will start getting easier soon. Wishful thinking, but hey you gotta cling to some sense of hope right? Oh, and here is the extra icing on the cake. The guy I admitted to liking, well I think I chased him away because he is moving to another state. Maybe as soon as 2 weeks from now. See, I told you it was the kiss of death! Honestly I don’t know why I date anymore. I think I am a hopeless cause. Ok that was a little dramatic but I figure while I am complaining and fishing for sympathy I should throw that in there.

Back to School, Bag full of complaints

It seems as though I am not the only one who is not crazy about homework in this household. My adorable daughter Aurora (also known as my cat or bitch kitty or kitty pants depending on who is addressing her), has been finding subtle ways to make her feelings known about me daring to ignore her. For example, if I am sitting on the couch with my books or my laptop she will jump up, nudge her way in and try and lay between me and the computer or just lay right across it. She will also knock my pen or highlighter off of the couch or bat my notes around or meow in her ultra drawn out whine, like “mommmmmy pay attention to meeeee”.

Here are a few snap shots, just for shits and giggles.

Back to School, Loved One(s), Random

I invited my friend Sarah over for cookies and Heros last night. I had no idea it would upset her BFF RLO. It seems he likes cookies almost as much as we do.

RLO:
Supposedly Sarah is getting cookies, TV, and scissoring tonight. As fun as all three sound I’ll let you off easy and just take a doggie bag of cookies.

Thanks bunches,
Rlo

Me:
Dearest RLO,

I really like the way Sarah scissors me. Will you please extend a hall pass for her to come out and play with me tonight?

Love,
Summer

PS – as I am sure you realize, there will be no left over cookies.

RLO:
Obviously Sarah reserves a tender side for you that she keeps from everyone else. Her secret is safe with me and I’ll let her out for the night in the hopes that you will tire her out and make her more mellow for the rest of the week.

Rlo

PS- I hope you know that I have an “in” with Jesus and I will be praying that all the cookies you girls are hoarding will be going straight to your respective asses.

Love and warm regards.

Me:
Did u just use Jesus to threaten weight gain? That’s not very Christian of you. However since I am such a true Christian myself I will turn the other cheek and do my best to be charitable and save u half of a cookie.

Love Summer

RLO:
I know you can’t see but I have an actual tear in my eye. I’ve never had anyone save me half a cookie. That’s true love.

Me:
I was afraid of this…men always get food and love confused.

RLO:
That explains so many of my failed relationships. Why didn’t anyone tell me earlier?

Apparently RLO’s training is not over. Sarah, there is still work to be done.

Random

Gather around children, its story time. Today we will be hearing Karina the Russian Finds Her Soul Mate

On my lunch break last week, I got a call from a bedazzled Russian, my BFF Karina. She proceeds to tell me this long drawn out story about a man who came into the hair salon where she works to buy some hair care products. She tells me that she doesn’t know how to explain it, but they just connected and she is certain that this God of a man is her soul mate and immediately starts telling me her schemes to find out who this man is because they are destined to be together and get married and live in big beautiful houses and travel the world and and and. I just laugh and go along with her story and tell her, yes I am sure he is everything you imagine him to be and more. No sense in stomping on the girls dream, I mean she is 100% convinced at this point that she has just met her soul mate and who am I to be the one to tell her that in my jaded experience, they just don’t exist. In all actuality, I envy her passion for love. The girl falls in love every other week and somehow manages to be excited each time. She loves the butterflies so much that she creates them out of thin air. I on the other hand am so afraid of being hurt that I can barely manage to admit to liking a boy , yet alone liking a guy enough to let the butterflies in. Anyway…I digress….

About 10 minutes after I get off the phone with the head in the clouds Russian, I get another call and I know what I am going to hear before the words even come out of her mouth.

Karina: He called me! He called the store and said that he felt like we just had this amazing connection and he has never met someone so beautiful.

Me: Of course he did! He IS your soul mate after all!

Karina: Then he told me that he doesn’t know what to do because he has a girlfriend and she is great and pretty and they have been together for like 6 months but he just was blown away with me and our connection you know?

Me: Uh huh….

Karina: Then he says ‘don’t hang up on me or anything, but I think my girlfriend would think you are beautiful too and we have never done anything like this, but do you think you would like to hang out with us together some time?’

Me: Are you freaking kidding me? He did NOT say that!

Karina: Can you believe it?

Me: Just so I am clear, basically what you are telling me is that your soul mate is a swinger?

Karina: That would be correct.

Me: So what did we learn today?

Karina: That all men are dogs and dogs DO NOT go to heaven.

True story. I couldn’t make something like this up.

K to the R stories, Lessons Learned, Loved One(s), Random

OK, so I realize I am a little late getting this post up since the X96 Big Ass Show was last Saturday and Yes, that is the actual name of the show. For those of you who are wondering what the Big Ass Show is, and why I was there I will explain. The Big Ass Show is an all day out door rock/alternative music concert or in other words, rock heaven. I work in advertising and one of my clients had a booth there so I was “required” to attend. I got there early to help them set up and check in on them throughout the day, but I’d hardly call it working.
I love concerts and I go to quite a few, like this one and this one and this one. Oh, and this one too! I’m a bit of a rockstar junkie. Notice I did not say groupie. BIG difference! Anyway, here are some photos of me and rockstars.
This is a picture of the lead singer of Jacks Mannequin. So I guess this is Jack? I’m not super familiar with the band, but I really enjoyed watching little Jack passionately playing the piano while sweating profusely in the direct sun. Armpit sweat marks are super sexy!

This crazy looking band is called Mindless Self Indulgence. I didn’t watch them perform because I was too busy eating lunch and having a cocktail in the VIP section. But they were super nice people, like that one happy goth kid back in high school. Probably high on happy pills. Still their smiles were contagious and I’d like to think if I was wearing all black and had smudged makeup on my face, we could have been friends.

Now this band, 10 Years, I love this band. The lead singer sounds a little like the lead singer of Tool and that sound, that voice, it just does something for me. Not to mention he is super cute, short, but super cute. He could serenade me anytime. Seriously all he would have to do is hum and I’d be undressing. Ok, now I sound like a groupie.

Next up was Trapt. I like this band a lot too. They have a new song out called “Who’s going home with you tonight?”. Unfortunately he did not come home with me as I did not get to meet any of the band which kinda sucked but by this point in the day, there was not too much that could really upset me.

Speaking of not being upset at all, check out the huge shit eaten grins on me and my lovely girls faces while Trapt played in the back ground. Love those girls!

So there you have it, my Big Ass Show experience.

Concert whore, Out and About

Ok…DO vote. If you are not registered, you have about 3 days to get registered so you better get on that. Don’t put it off any longer. Seriously.

Random, sometimes I get on a soap box