Monday, May 30, 2005

I Like Grapes

Has anyone ever seen the Ellen Degeneres stand up where she talks about trying to fall to sleep, but all you can do is think about stupid stuff like, "I like grapes..." It's so funny. Unfortunately, I'm wide awake and it's 5 am. This is my thought process as I woke up.

(To myself in my head:)
how do you make pastry cream? 3 quarts of cream, 10 oz. of corn startch, but how much sugar? and how many eggs? whole eggs or just yolks? Then whipped cream and bananas...no, wait, that's banana cream pie. Mmmmm...banana cream pie. Oh, shit, I'm awake. It's still dark out, I shouldn't be awake. Ok, keep you're eyes closed, you'll go right back to sleep. I know creme brulee has 19 egg yolks and 1 1/4 cups of sugar, but it doesn't have any corn starch and only 1 1/2 quarts of cream, then 1/2 quart of milk. SHHH! STOP THINKING! GO TO SLEEP! ok, ok, ok...damn diet coke. why does it have to be so tasty and so full of caffine? I wonder what the girl downstairs is doing...maybe her kid is up. We could play with his cool toys. what are their names? Trevor, I think, is his...like the frog in Harry Potter.

(I open my eyes, but keep talking in my head:)

WAIT! I SAID KEEP THEM CLOSED! now I'll never get back to sleep...I could go sign up for cable and internet...aw, but look at Emmett, I can't move, I'll wake him up.

(Now my other personality is awake and starts to talk)

ME #2: He's a cat. You can wake him up. You have been all night, every time you move.
ME #1: Not on purpose. No, he's too cute lying there. Besides, maybe if I close my eyes and stop thinking...

(I close my eyes...)

I like grapes...HAHAHA...Ellen is so funny

I Love Family Days

Yesterday we had a baby shower for Esther at mom and dad's house. It as nice and fun and everyone had a good time, but the best part was after everyone left and the boys came back and we all hung out on the deck and drank wine until dinner, then ate steak. Sam ran up and down the deck until he was tired of that and then he turned in circles until he was too dizzy to move, and we passed Noah and Aiden around until they were tired of being held and then they impressed us all with their walking abilities.



It was such a great day, but I can't believe how exhausting it was. At least I made it home before I fell to sleep...

Sunday, May 29, 2005

Viagra makes men go blind?

Last week I was at my parents house and I wrote this post:

I'm at mom and dad's house. They have 800 channels, but Mom insists on watching Headline News. I don't know why, since of all the news networks Headline News is my all time least favorite, but, no matter, it's her house, she can decide what to watch. So, during the past two hours I've heard the same 3 stories about 1500 times. One of them is:

Viagra Makes Men Go Blind.

Now, I'm Catholic. I was born Catholic, raised Catholic, got a degree in Christianity and Culture in college. I've learned all of the bible stories, I know all the commandments and the misc. rules, and what will happen if you break those rules and do something bad. Well, I can tell you this...it's not the Viagra pills making men go blind. Next they're going to say Viagra is making hair grow on mens hands...


But then I somehow posted that on Mikey's blog, and had to delete in and wait until I had time to repost it here, on the right blog.

Friday, May 27, 2005

Emmett's Three Thigs

Lisa memed Emmett Pumpkin. Since he can't type he doesn't have a blog, so I'm typing his answers and posting them on my blog...

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Pumpkin
2. Emmett
3. Emmett Pumpkin
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. n/a
2. n/a
3. n/a
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my beautiful soft fur
2. my big green eyes
3. my white tipped tail
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my hair loss problem
2. my consistantly wet paws
3. my eye boogers
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. american
2. SPCA
3. Cecilia's apartment
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. new people
2. loud noises
3. being kicked in the middle of the night
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. cat nip in my scratching post
2. a litterbox
3. Cecilia's lap
THREE THINGS YOU’RE WEARING NOW:
1. a light blue collar
2. cat food on my face
3. eye boogers
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTIST (the same one Cecilia likes...)
1. Dave Matthews Band
2. BareNaked Ladies
3. Indigo Girls
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (same as Cecilia...)
1. Cecilia
2. Lie in Our Graves
3. 100th Meridian
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. I love Cecilia much more than my previous owners
2. Pumpkin is a lame-ass name
3. I'm totally litterbox trainer
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. tails
2. pee-smell
3. how they mount me
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. sleeping
2. licking myself
3. pooping
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. scratch my scratching post for some catnip
2. sleep on Cecilia's lap
3. eat some bacon
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. paper weight
2. pillow
3. lap blanket
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Chuck E. Cheeses
2. NYC to see Cats
3. Sea World
THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Emmett Jr.
2. Pumpkin Jr.
3. Emmett Pumpkin Jr.
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. get the bacon grease out of the jar under the sink
2. get back into the wall behind the bathtub
3. eat the goldfish in the living room
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL/BOY:
1. I'm extremely clean
2. I like pretty things like flowers (to eat)
3. when I'm cranky I I just want someone to rub my belly
THREE CELEBRITY CRUSHES
1. Tigger
2. Symba
3. Snowball from Stuart Little
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW MEMED:
1. Zepplin
2. Fergie
3. Midnight

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Emmett Pumpkin

Hello! I took some great pictures of Emmett Pumpkin. Isn't he cute? Ok, so, he is actually a she, but I'm calling her him...anyway, he's so cute and I love him.

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Scott memed me, and now I have to fill this out. It's a good thing, actually, 'cause I'm too tired to think of anything to write about by myself...
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Cecilia
2. Ceil
3. Poop
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Goalieceil
2. Garveyc25
3. Nhldork31
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my hair
2. my smile
3. my nose
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my legs
2. my stomach
3. my butt
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Irish
2. French
3. German
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. the dead woman under my bed
2. being alone
3. any type of pain -- physical, mental, or emotional
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. 8 hours of sleep
2. my cell phone
3. my computer
THREE THINGS YOU’RE WEARING NOW:
1. my glasses
2. a bandana
3. Monkey sandles
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTIST
1. Dave Matthews Band
2. BareNaked Ladies
3. Indigo Girls
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS
1. Cecilia
2. Lie in Our Graves
3. 100th Meridian
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. It's much too sunny outside for me to consider going to work today
2. I still occationally wet the bed
3. I'm my parent's favorite child - they told me so while we were in Napa
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. stomach
2. shoulders
3. lips
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. sleeping
2. watching TV
3. pooping
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. go back to bed
2. watch some TV
3. eat some Mighty Taco
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. stay-at-home care-giver for Emmett
2. restaurant reviewer (have you noticed Chuck E. Cheeses has never been reviewed?)
3. fat character actress, like the mom on What's Eating Gilbert Grape
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Ireland to have an Irish Car Bomb
2. Italy
3. mom and dad's house
THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Julian
2. James
3. William
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. get married
2. get the stamp from Desidario's off my hand
3. get totally moved into an apartment
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL/BOY:
1. I just bought pink shoes for fun.
2. I can't parallel park.
3. I like the Yankees for rich men in tight white pants
THREE CELEBRITY CRUSHES
1. Orlando Bloom
2. Angelina Jolie
3. George Clooney
THREE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW MEMED:
1.Lisa
2.Raissa
3.Leah

Friday, May 20, 2005

Cat Saga

Hiya! So, Emmett came home with me on Saturday. I opened the box he (ok, so, she's actually a she, but, I like the name Emmett so I'm changing her to a him...) came home in and he ran under the dishwasher. Luckily the dishwasher connects to the cabinets so Emmett spend the first 24 hours or so of his life with me in the cabinet. I went to work on Sunday and when I came home, Emmett was gone. I was sure he was dead somewhere. Then I realized that he had run into a hole in the spare bedroom closet that goes into the bathroom walls. So I sat in the closet and talked to him through the hole for hours and hours. He never came out. I had to work on Monday and when I came back home he still hadn't come out. He finally came out at 1 am Wednesday morning (another story in itself...for a small animal he sure can sound like a big man coming in to rob and kill me...), and went back into the kitchen.

So, Yesterday I woke up and was getting ready for work when I heard Emmett coughing behind the bathtub. I was a little sad that he had gone back into the wall, and confused about how he had gotten there since all the doors were closed, but I looked for him in the kitchen and he wasn't there, and who else would be coughing behind my bathub? So I talked to him for a while through the hole in the closet and asked him to come out. I told him if he did I'd make sure he got medicine so his cold went away, but he just kept coughing and coughing. Finally I gave up and went to get some breakfast...Emmett was in the kitchen cabinet. So, I have no idea what's living behind my bathtub. Maybe Agnes the dead woman decided to shower.

Chuck E. Cheeses was a big success. I got a new wallet with all the tickets I won (well, everyone else won and gave to me. After a few beers from a sippy cup it's hard to actually win any of those games...). It's a SpongeBob wallet. I also got 2 packs or Smarties and 2 plastic rings with big beautiful stones.

Well, I'm off to get my dress fitted for Mike and Lisa's wedding. I don't know how many days are left, but, not many! YAY!

Friday, May 13, 2005

Jury Duty, Emmitt Pumpkin, New Lessons, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Wow, this is going to be a long long post. That's what I get for not posting...

First, I had jury duty. I liked it. Probably because I only sat in the big room that everyone starts out in for, like, and hour. Then they pulled me back into the smaller room with about 25 other people and they questioned us forever. I was positive I was going to be put on the jury, but at the last minute they kicked me off. It was a little bit like Survivor. Really. I was sitting in the front row, which means I was on the jury, and the woman came in with the bibles to swear us all in, and said, "Cecilia Garvey, you can collect your things and go to the front desk. The rest of you place your right hand..." I was so sad. But then I was mad...They kept me there and questioned me for 800 hours and they knew right away they didn't want me. Stupid lawyers. One of them was named John Hickey. I like to call him Richard.

Yesterday I went to Petsmart and I met Pumpkin. Pumpkin is a 7-year-old yellow cat. I'm in love with him. So I filled out an application to adopt him. I hope I'm approved, because I dreamt about him last night. I'm changing his name, though, to Emmitt. I think it's OK, because, first of all, he's a cat. Cat's don't know their names. So it doesn't matter. And second, I'm going to sit down with him and tell him, "Emmitt, your old owner called your Pumpkin, but that's a stupid name, so I'm going to call you Emmitt." He'll be fine. And he can keep Pumpkin as his middle name. That's what they do with kids on Adoption Story on Discovery Health Channel.

Today I learned that no one should move bookshelves upstairs by themselves. Especially if I built them. There's a good chance they'll fall apart and the bottom half will drop on your foot halfway up the stairs. I also learned that if you hammer screws into a bookshelf they'll fall apart when you try to move the bookshelf upstairs.

And, the most important part of the blog:


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Yes, today is the best holiday of the year - my birthday. I'm celebrating by unpacking and doing laundry. I'm saving all my real celebrating for Chuck E. Cheeses. I can't wait! They have tie-dyed t-shirts there. I'm planning on getting one and wearing it for the next week, at least...

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Moving Day, Part 1 and Happy Birthday Leah!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEAH! And George Clooney. His birthday is either today or tomorrow, and I'm sure I could figure it out, but, since he won't be reading this blog, it doesn't really matter if I'm off by a day, does it? Anyway, Leah, I hope you're birthday is great.

So, I'm moving today. I've moved everything from my bedroom from the downstairs apartment to the upstairs apartment. Well, except for my mattress, my dirty clothes, and my dresser. All the drawers of the dresser are upstairs, though. So, I stopped moving stuff for some lunch, and now I'm going to move my bathroom.


OH MY GOD!!! LISA KRAMER IS ON TV! I'm watching the noon news on Channel 4 and a commercial came on and Lisa Kramer was on it...I wish I knew what it was for...

Ok, sorry, ADD...

Anyway, I'm off to move my bathroom. It may take a while, I have a lot of rubber duckies and Mr. Bubble. But I'll update again today and let you all know how the move is going.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Ok, so, I was memed. I have to write about the stupidest thing I've ever done. But, and I've seriously been thinking about this since Mike memed me on April 22nd, I can't think of anything stupid I've done! I'm pretty SMRT, I guess. But I'm sure I've done something stupid, so if you can think of anything, comment and let me know.

In the meantime, LISA HAS A BLOG! And she better keep writting in it, because it's funny. If you can't think of anything I've done that's stupid, you can just read her blog.

Now I have to meme 3 other people...

Raissa - I know you won't read this until July, but when you do, you've been memed.
Lisa - since you weren't officially memed, I'm memming you, even though you've already written your meme blog...
Katie Battaglia - you need to start a blog, and your first post should be on the stupidest thing you've done.