Mere031

Amy's! Katie and Jenn head back to Dallas (BOOOOOO DALLAS!) tomorrow so we had to go get either wine or ice cream. Seeing as how Dale and I have to be up early tomorrow we picked ice cream. I had sweet cream with strawberries because when I get anything else it is never as good and then I just get mad and wander around trying to figure out why I did that. Yay shenanigans!

Mere030

This is maybe the most awesome pic I've taken in a while. A bunch of us went to see Ben's friend's band Phoenix Down play at Shakespeare's and look who showed up! Andrew's been MIA a whole bunch lately but it was fun to get to hang out with him for a while! Oh and also that's Katie's free tank top he's holding up. We're awesome at getting free stuff!

Mere029

I went to Abel's amazing kickboxing class for the first time in a while. This bottle is my new best friend. I officially can't voluntarily move my body without wanting to cry a little bit.

Mere028

Do you know this d-bag? If you do, tell him exactly what I think of him. Also remind him of Life Rule #322: Do not allow your total d-baggery to be viewed by others, lest you end up immortalized in the d-bag hall of shame. And now all 5 people who read my blog know what you look like. Kthxbye.

Mere027

Amy Adams is officially one of the cutest people on the planet. Today was gross, cold, and misty so I stayed home and got Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day on demand (thanks for not sucking, Time Warner!). Adorable!! I want the DVD now so I can watch it whenever I want. Also I had soup at the Whole Foods with Katy Jo this evening. I didn't get a pic of it but it was worth mentioning!

Mere026

I don't know if I've told you this already, but last week at trivia TToA dominated once again, awesomely, even though there was a chug-off with the Giant Ten Year Old (GTYO)'s team. It was just because they won 5 points for their lame ass team name (although I will be honest, ours was not our best work) we ended up in a tie for first. Their only guy didn't want to chug and none of our boys were exactly down for it either, so I offered to do it if they'd put up a girl. Now, at 25 I'm not the drinker that I once was, but there was a New Year's Eve where I beat every single boy at the party at kegstands. Sorry, hidden talents like that don't just disappear because you left school and moved to Cedar Park. Anyway, I won and we had to figure out what the hell else to do with the trophy, so we added a tier (it's below the skateboard, you can't see it in the pic) and also put a dress on GTYO's damn gnome. And Ben gave him some new facial jewelry!! In the form of a 7" screw. Suck it, GTYO.

Mere025

Here's some copyright infringement for you! Actually, what really happened was that since it was a course weekend I wasn't carrying my purse and therefore did not have my camera but after the course ended on Sunday Ben, Dale, Pam, and I went to Trudy's (mmmmfood.) so I ganked this pic off the interwebz and now I'm using it as my Sunday picture. Deal with it!

Mere024

"Say something, Haircut!" Yeah so on Thursday I *did* actually wander on over to Ulta and get my hair did. I like it, I think. So far most of the ppl I've seen since I did it have kind of raved about it, even though I only asked ONE person (Griff!) since I saw her right after I did it. Anyway, ignore the crazy eyes and the lack of makeup, I was about to clip my hair back and head to the Center so it was early and I didn't really care what I looked like. Katie said she wanted to see it so here's your dorky Caturday pic!

Mere023

Here's some crap I haven't seen in a good long while: a sunrise. Particularly, the sunrise over good ol' 183 Southbound. BOO early mornings!

Mere022

This is my printer. Today, we had a GIGANTIC fight. It was pretty much one-sided, with me screaming obscenities at it and the printer just glaring at me, killing me with its silence and its refusal to cooperate. It used the laptop as a go-between, sitting atop its perch and saying to the laptop "Laptop, please tell Mere I am not talking to her. Please tell Mere that I think that this ink is not compatible with my systems. Please tell Mere she sucks." NOOOO!! Ultimately, I was victorious, because let's face it: I have a human brain. Homo sapiens sapiens FTW.

Mere021

It's so hard to tell from this angle but this guy totally looks just like Dwight Schrute. I'll get a better pic next week, hopefully. Anyway, we won trivia again. Holla.

Mere020

How much do I make you want to puke? Dale went to bed early last night so I went around the house leaving these precious pink sticky notes with cute stuff like "I [HEART] YOU!" and "Have a great day!" written all over them for him to find in the morning. I KNOW! I'm the cutest wife ever! This is one of my favorites, located above the towel bar in the shower (I don't know why we have a towel bar in our shower - I guess we have a giant shower?). Anyway.

Mere019

Screw the gnome! So last week after we dominated crazy-awesome style at trivia we had to take home this monstrosity, complete with a horrid talking garden gnome. It never shuts up! So we decided to put screws in its face. It still won't shut up, but now it's got screws in its face.

Mere018

Check it out! Men's Wearhouse got the boys some adorable tuxes to wear on the weekends, here's Edna modeling her awesome tiara and Eric rockin the rental!

Mere017

Amy at her (our?) awesome wine-tasting/house-warming/drink-a-lot-and-sit-in-the-dark party! Her new house is SUPER cute!!

Mere016

Pug Burrito OR Rygel's Best E.T. Impression. Awesome!

Mere015

So we missed the Anchorman Quote-Along at the Alamo Drafthouse because we didn't know about it until two hours before it started and those things always sell out so Mark, Katie, Dale, and I had our own! Really I just drank a lot of Malibu and occasionally yelled stuff out ("I FREAKIN LOVE YOU BACK!" "I ate a big red candle." "Dorothy Mantooth was a SAINT!" etc.) but it was fun times. So here you go.

Mere014

Trivia trophy or a piece of a float from a Gay Pride parade? You decide...

Mere013

Two pug pics in a row! Not sure if you can tell, it's been quite the slow week. Looking for a new job and cleaning the house don't make for many great pictures, but this is actually a really precious one of Rygel and Dale.

Mere012

PUG DAY!!

Mere011

BLAH, slow day today. All we pretty much did was hang around and recover from our trip. We *did* go wander around HEB though, and Dale stepped on a tomato. IDK, maybe you had to be there but there was the SQUISH sound and he got this weird look on his face and was like "Uhh...I stepped on a tomato." I laughed a lot.

Mere010

In some way this was the perfect end to a great cruise. We pulled into Galveston early this morning, hung out in the hallway and made fun of people for a bit while all the people on the lower decks were herded out of the ship, got through customs, got a shuttle to Ben's truck and just as we finished up loading the luggage into the truck and getting the tarp set the wind started howling and blowing like crazy and the temperature dropped about twenty degrees. And as soon as we started driving, the rain started pouring down. It was like the universe said "Ok, hope you had a nice trip, here's some winter for you!" Thanks for that, Universe, as a matter of fact, I had a great trip. :o)

Mere009

Our last dinner on the ship was awesome! We alternated between talking about how much we loved our waiters Pande and Adi and how much we wanted to cut the people at the table near us. The people at the table near us are due for a blog on Shut Uppp at any minute, so let's focus on the positive here! The two guys in the picture with us are Pande and Adi, both from Indonesia, and they were absolutely awesome!! They were both SO polite and sweet and they were so much fun to be around. The entire staff on the Ecstasy were just amazing, I can totally see how they've won so many awards, and these two guys took wonderful care of us. Aw but this picture kind of makes me sad. I miss the cruise!

Mere008

BEACH! One thing you must know about me is that I was born a beach bum. My dad's mom was from Hawaii and for Dad and me there's something in our blood, if we don't regularly visit the ocean we could, like, die. Maybe that's a little dramatic but life is so much better when lived in salt water. So here's Cozumel, I took this right after a little rain shower and right before Mark and I went out on a tiny sailboat. How do you say Aloha in Spanish? :o)

Mere007

Uxmal! I was reluctant to go, having done the Mayan thing in school (Hey-O Drs. Juarez and Romo!) from like 1998 until...still, but Dale and Katie were really excited about it and in the end I was really happy to have gone. I hadn't been to Uxmal since '98 (how was that eleven years ago?!) and it was awesome! Also, a week into '09 Dale finally makes his first appearance in the 365! Hooray, Dale!

Mere006

It's such a good thing they have the cocktail party early on during the cruise. Already by this point I'd eaten about four days' worth of food and that dress was awfully tight. Oh, and because we're not new to cruising and are also awesome at it we successfully attended both the early and late captain's parties (you can't tell us what to do) and also made it to our dinner on time (like we were gonna skip a meal, please!). I don't remember which party this pic was taken at BUT I do remember that those whiskey sours were gooooood and I had about twelve of them because I would also never waste free liquor.

Mere005

"It's like a hurricaaaaaane! Oh wait, too soon?" - Katie

So it was suuuuper windy and cold the day we left Galveston, but Katie and I managed to take this picture on deck before our hair got too stupid looking or we froze to death like the people in Titanic.

Mere004

T-minus eleven and a half hours 'til we leave for the cruise! Wow, ridiculously excited. The only downside is that we had to leave our FAVORITE little guy (RYGEL!) behind. He's in absolutely awesome hands, though, with some co-workers of Dale's that love dogs so he'll be fine, it just made me sad. Here's a pic of me saying bye to him while he pretty much chewed on my hand! Sweet puggy. See you when we get home, little Rygel!

Mere003

Slim pickins today, folks! Not a lot going on, spent the whole day at work and the only thing remotely interesting was absolutely inappropriate to photograph (even for me). So here's an awesome pic of my sister's dog Miss Ollie! She's hiding under a recliner because that's how she behaves in public. Aw!

Mere002

So epic fail on the swimsuit search BUT Katie and I managed to find this awesome little number at Dillard's. It's so very Selena! I can hear Edward James Olmos now, "ES UN BRA!" Aww. Selena.

Mere001

Camden was really excited to discard his December '08 desk calendar in exchange for the new and improved January '09 model. Aw, changes!

Happy New Year!