10 Little Things That Happened Last Week

1. Monday of last week, Bill and I decided to be irresponsible adults, and play hookie together at his house. I know, we're terrible people. We made breakfast, watched Party Down {one of my new favoritest shows} and basically laid around all day being awesome. It's ok, I know you're jealous.

2. Last week I was also able to indulge my long standing Ryan Gosling crush {shhh don't tell Bill}, by seeing the Ides of March during my skip day with Mr. Becker. The movie was good, definitely different than what I expected, and Ryan Gosling really does just get better {and cuter} with each movie he does.

3. I got to hang out {briefly} with Miss Lucia Williams, my long lost friend and sister in law, on Friday for some much needed girl talk. I think I got her all caught up on the drama in my life as of late. Now here's to hoping next time I see her I have nothing dramatic or crazy to report.....a girl can dream, right?

4. Had some pretty intense girl time with my Samus on Friday night, which included a short stay at Chopper John's where I was serenaded by some douche's and we were briefly followed by a very drunk guy who's penis touched my knee. The exciting life I lead....

I also wrote this on the bathroom wall, cuz I am the best girlfriend in the world:

5. Did you know that there are candles that melt into warm massage oil?! I DID NOT. I learned that over the weekend, and I don't know how I lived 24 years without possessing one of these awesome candles.

6. The kids and I made Halloween pizzas, which was amazingly fun. Each kid got a small lump of dough, which they were to flatten, shape into a crust, and decorate with whatever toppings they wanted, into some sort of Halloween creature. I made a pumpkin {original, right?!} Tiny made and owl and the Jedi made a puppy. Not exactly Halloween themed, but cute. I didn't get pictures, cuz I suck, but it was awesome!

7. My CD player in my car broke. And then my head exploded because the CD stuck in there sucks. 

8. TOTALLY got into an altercation with a stranger in Safeway. Yep. That happened.

9. Took the Jedi to Starbucks Saturday morning, where we sat outside drinking my coffee/his juice, when the Jedi asked to talk to my dad. We called him, and when my dad asked the Jedi what he was doing, he responded with "Oh just having some drinks with mom". Great, kid.

10. Finished reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. Had a lot more graphic gay sex scenes in it than the cover suggests:

10 Little Things That Happened This Week

1. After over 3 months of applying for jobs, I finally went on a job interview for a position as a customer service rep for a company called Healthways. I wasn't crazy about the position, or the guy that interviewed me, who was going to be my boss if I got the job, but I need a job, so I'm in no position to say no if they offer it to me.

2. Over the last week, one of the books I've been reading is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's amazing. I had been seeing pictures of portions of the book all over the internet {See below}, and the passages were so beautiful and moving, or just plain intriguing, I literally had to read the book. It was a need, not a want. I'm a little more than halfway through with it, and it's made me cry 3 times. That's what I call some good writin.

3. It's a long story, and I won't tell the whole thing in this post, because this is supposed to be a post about 10 small things that happened to me this week, but in short, I am not getting married. Neil and I have broken up, Bill and I have gotten back together, and I'm hoping that soon we can all have somewhat normal lives again.....Well, normal for us anyway.

4. Over the weekend, Bill and I went to Sedona for the night, which was supposed to be the weekend, but due to babysitting snags, it ended up only being one night.  We drove up Saturday night and rocked out to some pretty sweet mixed CD's, courtesy of me, cuz I'm awesome. The weather was BEAUTIFUL, really couldn't have asked for better. The grounds of the hotel were very pretty, and there was a little creek behind the property that looked gorgeous at night in the moonlight. We also had pretty much the most awesome bed in the universe. I think it was stuffed with the fur of baby Unicorns or something {no Unicorns were harmed in the making of our bed, I'm like 94% positive}. 

5. At this point, even the Jedi is done with me being out of work. He told me the other day he's all done with my attitude. I think we've been spending too much time together.

6. Miss Tiny got her freaking EARS PIERCED this weekend! I don't have a picture yet, because I suck, but I will take one and post it asap. They make her look like quite the little lady.

7. I have, in the last week, discovered two, yes TWO new bands that are pretty much rockin my socks off right now. Mother Mother and Frightened Rabbit. Mother Mother is an Indie rock band from Canada {y'all know how I love my Canadians!} and they sound like pop meets indie meets electronica meets heaven. So far from what I've heard, their lyrics are never very heavy or serious, but they are catchy, different and very original. The fact that their are two lead singers, one male one female, and they definitely have that duet thing goin on, makes it easy to sing a long to.

Frightened Rabbit more or less fell into my lap, whereas Mother Mother was introduced to me by my friend Sam. Frightened Rabbit is an Irish {or Scottish?} band that sounds like a pumped up, more energetic version of Mumford and Sons, but also with lyrics far more raw, emotional and real. Their music also has this very wonderful sexual quality to it, even though it's primarily sad/angry break up/unrequited love songs. 

In short, they've changed my life. For reals.

Listen to my favorite song of theirs called The Twist, here.

8. I am in desperate need of new music in The Nerd Cave, a.k.a. the minivan, but I am currently OUT of blank CD's and just far too lazy to get more. If someone were to perhaps purchase me more, I would be probably be their best friend forever. 

9. It's almost Halloween, and I am a little depressed about the fact that for the first time in my life, I really do not care at all about this holiday. It's always been one of my favorites. I've been thinking about this all week.

10. I made my first pot of Chili on Monday! This is exciting to only me, because it's always how I kind of signal to myself and my kids that Fall is finally here. Tiny helped so much with making it, she practically made it herself. She stood on a chair in the kitchen, with a hand towel over one shoulder just like I do when I cook, one hand on her little waist, singing along to the radio and dumping garlic in the chili pot. It warmed my soul, really.

I hope you all have had an awesome week!