for the past four days i have been living it up in albuquerque, new mexico visiting my family. my nana (grandmother) lives here and my mom and her five brothers and sisters are all from here. while i am having a wonderful time i am terribly homesick. i have never been away from kevin and the pups this long and it is an odd feeling. a mixture of sadness that he’s not here, happiness to see my family, and a longing to be snuggled with my girls.
the trip here was horrendous and i promise to write more about it as well post some really awesome photos.
i come home tomorrow and again it will be a bittersweet departure. i will, however, say that i am ecstatic that i will not have to be subjected to my father’s pranks for quite awhile. waking up to three plastic roaches sitting on my pillow is a shitty way to start the day.
awesome: finding a pair of jeans that both fit me in the waist and are short enough in length that i won’t have to drag four yards of material behind me when i walk.
more awesome: said jeans ringing up to total $3.24. at parisian’s. the store that continuously amazes me by charging $56 for a t-shirt.
played crystal caves. circa 1991. i am so old skool.
amandapandapants is pregnant. mary dangerous d and i will be breaking into APP’s house and decorating the nursery with pandas. in pants.
treated myself to a pedicure. got really high on the nail salon’s fumes. realized vietnamese people don’t know what “ventilation” means.
received a 19″ flat screen computer monitor for mother’s day. suck it!
gave copious amounts of belly rubs to four very demanding greyhounds.
swallowed enough immodium to bind up a bull elephant.
satisfied my husband. not by having sex with him, but by watching Ultimate Avengers II and X-Men III. it’s the little things.
wished my mom a happy mother’s day. received ten minute lecture about why owning dogs does not make me a mother and i should really start working on grandkids.
review complete. we now return to our regularly scheduled program.
i don’t know if you are aware, but i am white. not just white but blindingly white. irradescent even. i couldn’t tell you the last time that i actually had a real tan. well, yes i can…it was 2000 and it was a leftover from an extreme case of sun posioning complete with 102 degree fever and chills and not wanting to be touched or even looked at for fear that my entire body would ignite.
i am probably as vain as the next person hence the bathing and drying my hair and actually putting what i constitute as make-up on my face. i however, am not so vain that i deem tanning beds as a neccessity in my life. my family is just a gene away from being covered in melanoma. we’re irish and pasty and damn proud of it! also, i tried a tanning bed before and frankly it smells something akin to rotting dog ass. i don’t care how many times you spray those beds down with disinfectant you’re still lying in someone else’s burned flesh.
this week i began using jergen’s natural glow moisturizer. normally, i am not one to moisturize anything but my hands and face, the rest of my body can just suck it. but, a friend of mine recommended this product and i actually saw first hand that it won’t turn you into an oompaloompa. i’ve totally been there too.
the natural glow works by slowly adding color to your skin without making you smell like hair permanent or looking like Nemo. or so they claim. the bottle states that it might take a couple of weeks to reach the desired shade. yeah, we’ll see how it goes.
tuesday was probably the closest i’ve come to actually hurling myself off a building. i was being hounded by some attorney’s office for an invoice i had never received, kev was in a shitty mood and talking to him just made my day worse, and to top it all off i was getting a stress headache. i just wanted to go home and crawl under the covers. when the day ended i got in my car and realized that my ipod was at home, so i put in a cd that kev made me awhile back. i had forgotton half of the songs he burned but one in particular made me feel so much better.
