Dog Face.

Wolfgang has recently "joined" this website/search engine/whatever called Stumbleupon. I don't know exactly all the details, but basically it just gives you a bunch of random websites for you to waste time on, according to your interests.

And by random, I really do mean random, because THIS website popped up!

Doggelganger!

Sounds like made up German to me.

You give it a picture of yourself, and it matches you to the perfect dog for you. Yes please!

This first picture shows it analyzing me {I'm sorry I suck at this whole picture thing, you'll just have to click on it.}


Then, here's my result!


That's a cute dog, if I don't say so myself. But does that dog slightly look Asian? Not this again.
Also, is it a coincidence that this dog is German? Hm.


Wolfgang did it too, and here's his result:


Awwww, look at those puppy dog eyes! so cute ooo ooo oo...

what a suck up.

I think if I keep on doing things like this, I'll eventually be able to convince Wolfgang we can have a dog...maybe?

Nails.

I never paint my finger nails; I can't even remember the last time I did it, because I never liked to.

This is not to be confused with painting my toenails, because I do that much more often, but I'm the kind of person that doesn't really keep up with them consistently either.

Wow, am I making myself sound like a really sloppy unfeminine person? Maybe.

Anyway, I decided to paint my {finger} nails the other day, and again today. And you know what? I was reminded of why I DON'T do that. It's so incredibly annoying. You have to waste so much time just waiting for it to dry {I know you are all thinking, "she has all the time in the world anyway, right?" Yeah, you're right, thanks.}, put on another coat, and another {the only nail polish I own is really light, so you need a few coats} then that top coat stuff. Then you know what happens?

You smudge them, scrape them, whatever-to-them within 15 minutes or so.

Ugh.

Not to mention, they weren't painted on perfect in the first place.

My polish is probably ancient so that probably doesn't help, but I'm pretty sure I'm never going to paint my nails again. Or...maybe I'll try buying new fresh polish? Probably not for a while.

To be? Or not to be...

Yesterday in church in one of our meetings, the lesson was based on a talk given by a leader by the name of Lynn G. Robbins, entitled, "What Manner of Men and Women Ought Ye to be?"

During that lesson, we talked about things that we are "To Do" and "To Be." The teacher pointed out that it is easy for us to make "To do" lists for ourselves {or my bucket list??} but do we ever make lists for ourselves that are "To be?"

She went on to say that when New Years Resolutions come around for her, instead of writing things that she wants to do, she writes one word that she wants to BE that year. I thought that was pretty neat and clever. It caused me to think about what words I want to be, and what I need to work on.

The difference between a To Do list and a To Be list, is that the BE list is not something you ever scratch off. It's who you are, and who you want to become, something you will work on for your whole life.

Pretty cool, huh? She said it's important to remember that you just need one word at a time, and take it slowly, don't overwhelm yourself with a whole list of words all at one time.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that like I did. :)

Fake Husband

I was checking out fiverr, and found this great "ad," if you will:

Sorry, You'll have to click on the picture to enlarge

Go get 'em, Tiger.

Silly Dog.

Have you seen this yet? If not, here you go. I've watched it probably 10 times, and it makes me laugh every time.

Enjoy!

You can see more at youtube.com/talkinganimals

Better and Worse.

There are two food items that I haven't had in probably at least 10 years or so. In the last couple of days, I've decided to bring them back into my life, but one taste better and the other tastes worse than I remember.

Here's the verdict:

Oatmeal: Better.

I've never liked Oatmeal by itself; I thought it was disgusting and if eaten, it must be put in chocolate chip cookies {my fav} or something. I would take Cream of wheat over this stuff any day.

Well, I decided to give it another chance, and it actually isn't nearly as bad as I remember it being! Of course though, to make it more bearable, you have to add a little bit o' honey {not to be confused with the actual candy} or something to it.

Pistachio Pudding: Worse.

My memory of eating this is many moons ago when my sister was going to college, and I stayed with her for a few days. One of her roommates shared some of her pistachio pudding with me, and I thought it was amazing.

When I was at the grocery store the other day, I passed it and thought I would give it a try again. To my dismay, it wasn't nearly as good as I remembered it being. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't fantastic. Pretty disappointing, really.


Oh, and I just thought of one thing that I use to absolutely hate as a kid: Tomatoes! This was quite annoying because my dad would always plant many of them in the garden growing up. When my mom would allow, I would pick a couple, cut a slit in them so it looks like a mouth, make it "talk" then make it "throw up" by pushing its guts out {I think I saw it on a kid's tv show or something}

But, I would like to announce, that I actually DO like tomatoes now; although every once in a while I don't like them.

One thing I still don't like? Olives. While working at Subway, I would periodically try them, to see if I've changed my mind- nope. Still disgusting. But I like the smell of them, weird huh? This is mostly for black olives, I tried some green ones last year, and they were ok, but incredibly salty (maybe from the red thing in the middle?)

Ok, enough about food, for today at least.

I want to....

Today I made a list of "things I want to do before I die." {bucket list, right? I remember that movie... ;) }

I've made these before,

One for a class I took {somewhere in a binder at home},

One strictly for Hawaii that Wolfgang and I made for ourselves when we were in that stage of not-dating-yet-officially-but-I-want-to-hang-out-with-you-all-the-time-stage,

And one when Wolfgang and I first got married, mostly of places we want to visit, which is in his "goal book" somewhere.

I can't remember all of the ones I've already put in these previous lists, but I re-wrote the ones I could remember, and added a few. Some of them are ridiculous, some silly, and some definitely achievable. Here are just a few:

-Touch or "play" with a Killer Whale {yes, really.}
-Learn how to play the cello
-Get a Masters Degree
-Translate what someone is saying into a different language to someone else {make sense? it does to me}
-Read the entire Bible, cover to cover {guess I'm not a "true" Christian since I haven't done this...}
-Hike "Stairway to Heaven" on Oahu {can't believe we didn't do this while we were there. Oh well, an excuse to go back!}



What's on YOUR bucket list?

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Think outside the box...

...and into the hot tub.


Who says you can't put a water mattress in a hot tub?

That's right, Nobody.

Happy Day.

Happy Father's day to my old man.

on the beach, where everyone belongs.

I love you very much and am grateful for the good man that you are to your family and to those around you.

May mom let you have all the chocolate ice cream you could ever want (and some raspberry sorbet, too?) on your special day. ;)


Love,

The favorite (and I guess Wolfgang too)

Mr. mom

Have you every noticed that a lot of men will only push baby strollers with just one hand {and usually walk to the side of the stroller, not directly behind it}, and not both? As if it is "unmanly" to put both hands on the handle.

I remember thinking this before, after I had seen a lot of men doing the one-handed-push-the-child technique; I was once again reminded of it today when I saw a man pushing his cranky daughter in her stroller who was, indeed, doing it one-handedly.

I wonder what my husband will do when we have kids? Europeans tend to be a little more 'metro', so he'll use both hands then, right? ;)

My {other} new obsession

DA BERRIES!

Straw and rasp to be exact. I tried blackberries the other day, didn't like them.

Luckily this obsession is quite a bit healthier than the Italian Sodas. (I don't want to talk about it, it'll make me want one)

I'm thinking that the reason why I'm loving berries so much right now is not only because they are delicious, but because A. they are being advertised all over my grocer ads (I guess I'm more of a sucker for advertisement than I thought) B. they are so cheap right now! and C. it's getting freakin hot here in the land of desert. Thanks for being in season, guys.

Anyway, lately I've also decided to add them to salads, thanks to our somewhat recent visit to the celestial Zupas on our last Utah trip. I can only think of one other time that I had fruit on salad (Jess and I; Jackson Hole, WY; summer of...?)

lettuce+berries=duh but tasty! You should really try it. Mine was simple and just looked like this:

Complete with 'Briannas homestyle Blush Wine Vinaigrette Dressing' (as pictured).

I suggest a fruity vinaigrette of some sort, because having that with Ranch would be just weird and disgusting (not to mention putting Ranch on your salad was so elementary school).

Give it a try and I hope you like it as much as I do.

Looking for a job can be so...interesting.

???

Hm, can't say I have.

Next job posting, please...

Trash Talk

Today at the dump, the employee took the time to ask me how my day was, then told me I had a nice smile; kinda made my afternoon.

Never underestimate people with trashy jobs! (heh, heh.) They are people too.

Thanks mom and dad, for the braces back in the day.

My new obsession...

Italian Sodas! About a week ago Wolfgang and I ate out at Olive Garden {love this place! Even if it's a highly commercialized chain, still delicious in my opinion} and decided to go fancy with our drinks and ordered some Italian sodas; I had forgotten how much I like them! So i decided that I wanted them more in my life...and wanted to make my own.

We searched high and low for some syrup, and nowhere had them! I was quite surprised how hard it was to find. In our pursuit of finding them, we passed one of those "Total Wine" stores and I thought maybe that was a good place to try, and sure enough, they had it! I was so happy.

We took our supplies and headed over to some friends house for some games, and sure enough the sodas were a big hit.

Needless to say, I was at church today and was craving one, so I'm just now enjoying another :)

Although I'm not sure what's so "Italian" about them? Maybe it's just one of "those" things.

Don't be sad, Emo kid.

Last night, we went to "First Friday" with our friends Tanner and Mary. They had told us that the event was pretty much overrated, but that the gelato was good, so we decided to check it out.

The event was on several streets where "creative" people could express their music, art, and talents to the world, and it was highly crowded; I felt at times that I was trying to walk the strip in Vegas. There is a website about it here that kinda talks about it, but it makes it seem more cool than it really is.

Let's just say there were a lot of emo kids, hippies, and everything in between. I usually enjoy looking at people's artwork at such, but seriously about 98% was crap- not cool hippie crap, but just crap, that I can't believe anyone would buy.

But alas, the gelato WAS really good, and best entertainers of the night award goes toooo!!!!.....
These guys!



"The devil is defeated, everytime you shout it out" is what our soul sistas were saying, and our cool kids dancing for us.

We had the song stuck in our head when we were leaving.

Next month on first friday, we're going to have to determine of our sistas and the gelato are worth going back for....it'll be a tough decision.

An uncreative day for MSN

on msn.com yesterday

Thank you, but I think I learned that concept when I was about, 5.
Garage Sale= money for your crap; Second-hand store= no money for your crap.

{oh, and sorry it's so small, you'll just have to click on the picture.}

My Thought of the Day

Just something on my mind, that maybe you could benefit from too...

It's easy to want what others have, or to stand in awe of how quickly they got/did "things"...but I just remind myself to enjoy the journey, and that I'm learning more than if I were to be given things when I wanted them.