the flip side

i am transferring to a new store in two weeks.
moving.
yay, me!

i ripped this out of a magazine because he is my boyfriend and i wanted to carry his picture with me so i could drool over it. haha. but then it started getting folded up and creased so i decided to leave it here for someone else to enjoy! ha.

had two of these yesterday and they were so delicious but i ended up having a headache for the rest of the day! sucks. i even took a nap and drank water and emergen-C and took an advil. still with the headache.

this evening may be preliminary pumpkin carving will begin. by that, i mean it is way too early to carve pumpkins but so what!

today SHOULD be a good day. the first day of the rest of my life. AND i am not CLOSING, which is always good.

trick or treat

i thought this vest would hide my fatness and distorted shape. nope. it doesn’t hide anything.

this is a child’s hat. i’m a dork, of course. we’ve already established this.

after the army surplus store we went to scheels. i’d never been. i got the grand tour. that place is insane!

it’s like disneyland in there. sort of. it’s pretty cool. we even rode the ferris wheel. didn’t get any photos of that, tho. the guy made me leave my purse in a cubby hole while we were on the ride. boo.

we putted some golf balls, shot some pretend guns…

looked at taxidermed animals. i don’t know what’s going on with the guy on the upper right there. haha

this mountain is pretty tall. the ferris wheel is taller, though.

had some really good lunch. tongue tacos. ew! but actually they are quite good. when i ordered them i go “two tongue tacos” and he goes “what kind?” and i go “TONGUE” haha. embarrassing. sort of. not really.

ended the day sitting at the river with a beverage. then watched three scary movies on netflix! i love scary movies! getting ready for halloween!

and tonight: Fleet Foxes.

all i have to say

i bought a copy of Fantastic Mr. Fox for $5.99 today at the grocery store because i’m sick of renting movies at Redbox. Redbox tricks you into thinking you’re getting a good deal… and well, if i had a car it probably would be… but i don’t always feel like/have time to walk to the store to return my movies so i end up keeping them for three days (or more) and then paying way more than $2 for two movies. right? and besides, Fantastic Mr. Fox is totally worth owning. but it won’t play properly on my dvd player. i wasn’t sure if my dvd player is just too dusty inside or if there is something wrong with the dvd but i have not been able to watch this movie thru at all and i’ve been trying for hours. trying everything. so frustrating.

this weekend is the rib fest here in reno. i did not go today. who knows. i’d like to check it out tomorrow after work maybe. we’ll see.

“ode to a fried egg”

a lovely day off.

a day in the sun.

i’ve obviously been eating wayyyyy too many hotdogs.

messy, but delicious. mustard and kraut. double dog.

cake in a jar.
i got it for the cute little jar.
just what i needed.

i was asked if this was my maternity dress today.
thanks.
people rule.

whatever, man.

this sunblock’s not as whitening as the other. it’s facial, that’s probably why.

hell-raisin

the lotion one makes your skin white. yuk.
i like the stick one. it smells like coconut.

my swimsuit. it’s ok. kinda cute.

tubing season has begun. this will probably be my last summer here. i think. who knows.

i’ll just watch, for now.
it was definitely hot today and the water felt pretty good. i just dangled my legs in it and got a little more sun.

these people are obviously on some sort of organized outing. kinda dorky. nerds! jk

look who’s talking!
call me!

tonight: barbeque time!

day off: 1 of 4

look, this is me pretending that i am going to play tennis.
i would, if i had the balls.
har har

i think i look a ton like my dad in this shot.

my reeboks.

i feel very cute when i am wearing this outfit.
even if the sun is making unflattering shadows on my face here.

you’d think i’d be better at taking self-shots after all the practice i’ve had.
it still makes me feel really awkward when i do it.

vietnamese bun things. a dollar each for these little tidbits.
they’re fun once in a while.

this is a vietnamese ‘taro’ cookie. not bad.
kinda evocative of bird poop, or something. just in the way it looks. no?

cool! look what i captured! yay, me!

the river is still pretty high and fast, but some brave souls are already out there.

the entire time i was outside i did nothing but constantly apply sunscreen. sunburns make me feel so dumb.

and i wish i would tan, but it takes all summer for me to develop a tan, especially because i have to be completely covered in sunscreen all the time.

at your discretion

this bug decided to come live at joe’s house.
it makes that really loud scary beetle noise.
but it’s a cute little bug.
cicada. right?
no. katydid?

look at the lovely cake i got! sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
i don’t know that i will eat it, actually.
if i could have i’d have taken it to my grandma for her birthday which was september fourth.

i just think this is a kinda cool picture,, OKAY? jeeeeeezus. can’t i document that? don’t jerk off to it, okay?

popping corn

i just finished watching my movies. i liked greenberg. now that i’ve seen it, i seem to recall having read a bad review for it not long ago. but i don’t agree with that reviewers point of view. i think the movie is very interesting. i like the way it is.

but AfterLife!? omg! that’s one of those movies that it is probably annoying for other people to watch it with me because i am talking to the movie and YELLING AT the movie the whole entire time like an insane person. i don’t know to whom i am talking but i cannot control the participation with the actors/movie i feel compelled to enact. well, i probably could control it if i really had to. but it’s so fun! that movie drove me nuts! i was exclaiming, “i HATE THIS MOVIE!” but i actually liked it. plus, christina ricci is naked pretty much the whole time. she is so tiny.

all in all i am happy with my dvd rental purchases this time and i intend to rent more movies in the future. such as possibly that one with jude law… repo men? i don’t love action movies, but he looks pretty cute in the previews. he might be eye candy enough to hold my interest. i didn’t get that as much from him in Sherlock Holmes. just like Gary Oldman isn’t really all that sexy to me in Batman.

today i got to wear my new wonder woman bikini. it looks like wonder woman because the top is navy with white stars and the bottoms are gold lame. (no, not ‘lame’ it’s “lam-ay“

which reminds me of a line in that movie Greenberg.. “why do all the men dress like children and the children dress like superheros?”

anyway, i have to squeeze whatever’s left out of summer because it will be over soon. this is the most i’ve ever enjoyed summer weather in my adult life, and it’s all thanks to the old truckee river.

i’ve been looking forward every day to going out there and just relaxing and tanning and enjoying nature. it’s lovely.

hard to believe in just a couple months it will be covered over with snow.

microwave popcorn has too much salt.

the burners are starting to trickle in. i love them.

got a machine head

my poor bike has had a flat tire for about a month. i’m sure if i focused hard enough, i could fix it or at least get it fixed. but it’s just one of those things i procrastinate every single day. lame.

i sort of figure if i walk more, i’ll be in better shape.

so next week is when all the ‘burner’s start to come into town and will be over-running our store… for which we are all quite happy. i am personally quite looking forward to the experience. i really hope that i benefit from it in many ways. one of which might be to get a cool new bike after they all decide to abandon theirs when burningman is over. other than that…. we are going to be having an employee art show and i will be submitting as many paintings as they will allow. minimum of three. yay! they can also be for sale, so we’ll see what happens. if nothing else, it is just exciting!!!!!!!!!!

in other news, i have the sweetest tanlines i have ever had in my life as far as i can remember. it is FUN!!!!!

very soon i intend to get some sweet deals on clearance swimsuits. it’s gonna be awesome. but what won’t be awesome is that winter will be here. i have almost always hated summer. the proximity of the river this year changed that for me.

and i am running out of sunblock.

some random kayaker dude.

in other news, i need a pumice stone really bad.

farmer’s market?

awww. look at this little cutie. frog? toad?

you know a trend has really died when your mom is wearing it. the only reason i have this trucker hat is cuz i was out in the sun and i was bored and i went to a yard sale and bought it for ten cents. now i use it to keep the sun off my face because my face is always too red as it is, and i don’t really want to smear sunscreen on my face, but double protection would probably be better, too, i’m sure.

so, i consider it utilitarian and ironically un-ironic. (‘borrowed’ that cute little purse from my sister. she wasn’t using it. and… GOT MY PHONE REPLACED cuz it’d been not working for weeks!!!! yay! much better. but i lost all my contacts. sniffle.

i hate that when upper arms are squished up against the body and look all misshapen like that. ew.
but my tummy looks deceivingly good. to me, anyway. i like to trick myself.

i think maybe these swimsuit bottoms are too big? i want more bikinis. i am bored of this one.

i feel like i get a LOT of exercise, but apparently it is nowhere near enough nor is it the right kind. mostly, i walk a total of forty five minutes a day. with my ‘shape ups’ shoes on.
and i walk fast. i always do/have.

for some reason this makes me think “Barbarella”