If you haven’t already seen it, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is up and running...I told you guys that NPH is awesome!

I am all geeked out on the new iphone 2.0 update.  It’s all I can think about.  I’ve been playing with all the new apps and I’m am loving my phone even more than I did before.  I’m not getting the new 3G phone just yet.  I like the metal back on the 1st generation iphones so much more, feels more elegant than the plastic back.  Plus I don’t like that ATT hiked up the fees for iphone owners, I would be paying more per month which totally sucks.  Here are current favorite apps:

Pandora
This has got to be my most favorite app.  I love that I can listen to my favorite tunes/artists on my phone.  It’s like Depeche Mode is in my purse all the time.

Evernote
I have this on my MacBook also.  When I’m at work and I want to remember to look something up at home this app will allow you to paste a screenshot of what you need and when you get home you can go back to it.  The cool thing is that you can add tags to your stuff so you can search for more easily.  The screenshot function is by far my favorite feature.

Twitterific
The dudes at IconFactory are geniuses.  I have been a fan of their work for a longtime and love all their apps.  They make my Mac desktop pretty with al their cute icons.  If you are on Twitter, this is a must have app.

Speaking of Twitter, I am sorry for all the panic yesterday morning on my feed.  I was so excited about the new update and when it ibricked my phone I thought I was going to loose everything.  By Noon everything was back to normal.

I have been tossing around the thought of getting a second job for some time now.  I decided to apply at the Apple store.  It may be defeating my goal of bringing in extra cash, but it’s something that I can get excited about which is more than I can say for my real job right now.  I wanted a second job that was going to be fun and I think this will be a great experience.

Courtney and I have also been playing with our Flip this week.  I’ll post some videos soon.  I’m waiting on MobileMe to workout the kinks before I upload the videos.

I don’t have much going on this weekend which is a nice break.  The last two weekends have been jammed pack.  As usual I have tons of laundry to do, most of which is thanks to Courtney’s MRSA infection.  We have to wash his clothes and towels everyday to keep the infection from spreading.  Not fun.  Oh, I did get a microderm facial yesterday.  It did wonders to my face!  I went to see Kathy at Scosh Skincare Studio.  This was my first treatment and my skin is noticeably clearer and smoother.  I got the package deal, $150 for three treatments.  I have sun damage on my shoulders from my many years of being on the swim team, Kathy also took care of that for me.  While the hyper-pigmentation will not go away completely it will get lighter and that’s fine with me.  I just want to look my best on my wedding day.  If you are in the metro Phoenix area, I highly recommend Scosh if you are looking for skincare treatments. 

I’m gonna dig into my laundry and get things done today! 

Why NPH is awesome:

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

NPH in a musical??  That is so awesome!  I can’t wait to see it.  You can read more about it on Valleywag.

My photo of the sunset surrounded by the smoke from the fire in the west valley made it on to AZFamily.com!  Yeah me!

Wait for it....DARY!!!!

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These are the chewy chocolate cookies from Martha Stewart Cookies.  They are suppose to be rolled in sanding sugar but I didn’t have that so I used granulated instead.  Well during baking the sugar melted.  I don’t know why I didn’t see that coming.  I grabbed the Heidi Swapp chipboard and used the negative space as a template.  I think it turned out rather well and they are still really yummy.

I was reading this week’s Entertainment Weekly, the issue lists out the greatest pop culture moments from the last twenty-five years.  As another birthday is looms around the corner, I thought about how much of a pop culture whore I am and decided to put together my list of pop culture defining moments for the last thirty-seven years.  In no particular order her is my list…

The dude who never gets sick has a really bad case of the Flu. 

Karma = 1 Snapper = 0.

Cripes!  it’s been freaking hot over the last few days.  I guess I needed more sleep than I normally get today.  I didn’t roll out of bed until 7am and that’s normally when I’m headed out the door for work, so I worked from home today.  We had the swamp coolers running but today they were pretty much useless so time to switch over to AC.  Normally when I work form home I usually have stuff around the house that needs to be done, but today I was pretty busy with work stuff. 

This past weekend I attended a scrapbooking class at Melrose Vintage.  Jeni Bowlin was the teacher and I had such a great time.  There were only like 10 of us in the class and Jeni gave us a lot of one on one time to help us through our projects.  I love going to Melrose Vintage, they have such great stuff and I get so much inpiration just walking around the store.  I’m so glad that they are incorporating paper crafts.  It was just nice to be creative.

My relationship with Snapper is still hanging by threads.  I tried to talk to him on Thursday, he was still being a jerk and he was making me upset all over again.  I didn’t hear from him all weekend, not that I thought I would but I had hoped.  I need to let him go.  But that’s easier said than done.

A few years back I went through a phase and put some distance between myself and the people that were toxic for me.  I am one of those friends that will stick by someone to the end, that’s who I am, and I’ve always thought that it was an endearing quality to have....but a quality that can easily be taken advantage of.  So I have this friend, and I’m going to call him out on this blog because he’s just pissed me off for the last time.  Snapper and I met at work and he was the one that went through all the CISCO classes with me for the past year.  I love my friend Snapper dearly, just as I do with all my friends, but when his manic twin comes out of hiding he is the biggest dick I’ve ever known.  I continually put up with his crap and behavior during this periods because I like to think that it’s not possible for one person to be that much of a dick at any given time.  He does this every few months or so, then he’ll get excited about something and wants to tell me about it, I listen and give the support that any good friend would do.

Now that Snapper is in a new job he finds himself under pressure to impress.  Snapper tends to perform at 300% when all that is expected of him is 100%.  I get pressure, and I don’t fault him for that.  What pushed it over the edge for me this time is that I expressed concern for his overall well-being and work/life balance and he just crapped all over me.  He started spewing on his diatribe about how he has three things in his life that matter to him, his dogs, running and work...anything outside of that is not worth his time.  I got crapped on all because I asked him if he wanted to go get a mocha with me at lunch today.  Again this is not the first time that he has acted like this to me, but this time I’m done taking this behavior from him.  I don’t need it and I certainly don’t deserve it from him.

Ending friendships are the worst for me.  It makes me feel like poop, it really does.  Am I overreacting?  I don’t think that I am.  I’m just tired feeling like crap when I all did was care about someone.

Can you believe that it’s been almost two months since I’ve scrapbooked?  Let alone done anything remotely creative.  I went to the scrapbook store today for the first time since early April hoping to be inspired.  My scrapbook table is a mess and my supplies are all over the place from when I was trying to organize everything.  I started the organization project with such enthusiasm and then all the motivation blew alway with the summer wind.  So if I’m not being crafty what have I been doing?  I’ve actually been spending a lot of time with family and friends.  There isn’t anything special going on, we’ve just had dinner and hung out like every weekend.  It’s been really nice.  I am so lucky to be a part of such a great family, something I missed out on as a kid.  All this family time has got me wanting kids again.  I’ll be 37 in two months, I don’t have much time.  Shit or get off the pot Elisabet.

I want to say happy birthday to two very special people, Brian and Dayle.  They are the most amazing friends a girl could have.

The doc has bumped up my drugs and that seems to be going well.  I can think without having a million thoughts running through my head all at the same time.  The weight loss has been moving downward for the past month which is awesome.  When I went to try on my dress it was really big all over.  And the dress....oh man it’s really beautiful.  Thank goodness it’s at Brian’s house because I would probably be wearing it all the time.  All the boys have their suits, cufflinks are on the way.  Courtney needs to figure out what shoes he wants to wear.  I say Vans, but he’s leaning towards All-Stars.  Looks like there will be twenty-five people attending the wedding.  It’s going to be a nice party with such a small crowd. 

It’s getting late.  Have a great weekend.  Don’t forget the sunblock!

The dress is here!  I’m so excited!  I haven’t seen it since I bought it back in February and I didn’t take any pictures of it since it didn’t really fit all that great.  I can’t wait to see it now that it’s in my size.  Dayle, Brian and I are going tomorrow afternoon for a fitting.  YEAH!

Wedding plans are moving right along.  I feel like there is a lot that still needs to get done but there really isn’t.  All the groomsmen have their suits and ties.  Courtney still has to get his and figure out what shoes he’s going to want to wear.  It looks like there will be about 23 people attending the wedding...not to shabby.  I am bummed that my BFF Meghan can’t be there.  We’ll have to plan a girls lunch so I can catch her up on the details.

That’s all for now.  Work is calling.

Because Gavin is so AWESOME
“The Love Remains the Same"

Genius.
“Again & Again” - The Bird and The Bee

The last two days have kicked my ass all over the place.  I have never felt so stupid, so out of place, so dumbfounded as I have the last two days at work.  The scale better show a weight loss tomorrow at WW because I don’t have any part of my ass left.  I rely on other people to provide me information.  When I’m not included on an email chain, how am I suppose to know that something was updated?  It was totally obvious that I wasn’t included, I said that I urged my peers to keep me in the loop, what more can one person do?  It was a scene from Office Space in my cube yesterday afternoon.  The emails started coming, one after another wanted to know why there was a breakdown in communication.  I took it personally because I thought I was being so careful and diligent with my record keeping.  I took my meds everyday last week, I was catching all the details.  It’s just so frustrating.  Ok it’s out...I’m done.

I finished my CCNA classes!  Now I just need to keep up the studying over the summer so I can take the certification test after the wedding.  I hope to get back on the path for my degree classes in the fall.  Hopefully I can work something out with the instructors since classes start the week of my wedding.

Now with a little free time on the weekends Courtney and I have been trying really hard to get things done around the house.  Baseboards and crown molding are top on the list.  Then the backyard needs tending to.  We’ve been pretty lucky here in the desert this year, triple digits have yet to hit us.  That will all change this weekend I’m sure.

I’ve been working on a new design for this place.  My goal is to clean up my coding, make everything according to web standards and pretty up the place.  Maybe hang a picture or two.  Dayle’s website will also be going through changes over the next few weeks.  I might as well knock them both out at the same time.  Working on the redesign has really been an enjoyable process for me.  I’m thinking more and more that this is the route I want to take in my career.  It seems to fit.

That’s all for now folks!