A Sigh of Relief

Hi!

So, HeatherRae is going home from the hospital today! YAY!! It's such a relief!

And...only 8 more days until I venture home to meet that sweet little girl Sarah Beth, and actually get to hug my sister!

AND! I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow! At the Aveda Institute. Hopefully they'll do a good job. I know someone who gets her hair cut there and it always looks good, so hopefully I'll come out feeling much better than when I went in. I am in some serious need of a hair transformation. :)

So, I watched my Tivo'd Pushing Daisies episode last night and I found myself just wanting more at the end. Jules watched the first 15 minutes with me before commenting on the "silliness" of the show and going into a different room. It is a silly show, but it's really funny to me. I have that sense of humor that laughs at general funniness. You don't even have to be REALLY that funny for me to laugh, because I find humor in most things. I laugh so loud at that show. Anyway...the episode from Wednesday night was about Chuck trying to find out about her family history, Olive's best friend at the convent was murdered, and Ned was trying to avoid his past while trying to convince Chuck that she didn't need the past in order to enjoy her future. It was all-in-all a pretty funny and sweet (as usual) episode. In short: it made me happy, as usual. And I swear, some day I will find a wonderful who looks at me like Ned looks at Chuck.
OH, i just realized it looks like I'm talking about two boys. Chuck is just the nickname of a girl named "Charlotte Charles". Sorry! :)

And Survivor China (two seasons ago) and Survivor: Fans vs Fave's were such good seasons! I mean, they had lots of the sneaky, blindsiding, back-stabbing, and repercussions for all of those things! I loved it! I loved it when in Survivor:China, James had BOTH immunity idols and didn't play either of them and got voted off! I love the surprise twists and turns of the show. I love to be shocked when i find out who gets voted off. This season, Survivor:Gabon, not so surprising. so far, every person who's been voted off has been exactly who was expected to get voted off. It's BORING! I will stick with it and see if it gets a little more juicy once they merge. Hopefully it will get a little more interesting!

And Grey's! Oh, I feel like it's getting back to the MEDICINE and a lot less soap opera-ish. I'm so glad! I think that the writers of the show are using the Chief to reign the show back in. I'm excited to see what changes will be coming. I like Meridith's vulnerability this year, and how she and Derek might actually work! I'm excited to see what comes!!

Anyway, that's all my TV Talk for now! Have a good weekend (my two readers!)

OH, and if the haircut is good, I'll post pictures!:)

My weekend

So, Julie had to work on Saturday and Sunday, so Saturday morning I woke up and went with the Men@Work group (that's not really a link, so don't click it) and helped a lady paint a bedroom in her house. Simple, right? WRONG! It was her daughter's room and it was painted purple with craft paint artwork and oil pastel drawings all over the wall. It didn't take us long to realize that the oil pastels were mixing with the primer, giving the whole wall a rainbow effect (which judging by the girls artwork, she would have LOVED.) So, we had to send one of the men to the Man's Store to get something to get the oil pastels off the wall. I said specifically what he should tell them, because they would know exactly what to get it off with. He didn't ask anyone (go figure that!) and came back with a huge tin jug of Acetone. So, yeah, acetone gets the oil pastel off the wall, along with the paint...and the primer....and the sheet rock. :) After 4 hours of scrubbing we were all high as kites from the fumes and all the oil pastel was off the wall. We started priming, but since the room was pretty small there just wasn't enough work for 5 people to be doing. So, I did what any good city worker does everyday...i stood and watched. And occasionally I pointed.

Once that was finished I drove home with my windows down, because it was one of the most beautiful days I've ever experienced. Then, when I got almost home, i decided it'd be a good idea to go to the library and get some books to read while Jules was working. So, I got one Karen Kingsbury book and two Fannie Flagg books.

Then I went home, had some Ramen Noodles for lunch and took a shower. Jules got home around 5 and we had to leave at 5:15 to go to church. When we got there we met another lady who was also from Alabama and we discussed whether we thought Bama was winning at that precise moment. We had to do a singles event, and it pretty much stunk. We were promoting our Community group and that pretty much bombed. I thought people would really be interested in our group, but they really weren't. It turned out to be okay, though, because we already have a "core" group that attend the community group. The only thing that really stunk was that while wasting 3 hours of our time, we also missed church and the bama game. :(

Sunday morning Jules had to be in very very early. I woke up at 8:15 on my day off, and got up and read the Karen Kingsbury book I checked out on Saturday. I read it all. All day. That's all I did. Then when Jules got home she ate Ramen Noodles (notice a theme here??) and we watched the Bama Game and screamed our heads off at how EXCITING IT IS FOR BAMA TO BEAT GEORGIA!!

Then Erin and Sass called and said they were making Homemade Doughnuts and asked if we wanted to come over. We did. They made doughnuts and I made some glaze and they were pretty good.

Then we went home and went to sleep around 9:45.

This morning I woke up with a really dry, scratchy throat. YAY. I've started one of the Fannie Flagg books and it's hilarious!!

OH, another exciting thing of the weekend. I made plans with Catie Grace to go see HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 with her when I'm in town later this month! yay!!!!

Anyway, that's my weekend, and now, Heather, I bet you feel like you were actually there!! :)

Step away from the remote!

So...I hate to admit it, but I love TV. I especially love getting hooked on a new show. And when I do get hooked, it's pretty serious. Jules jokes all the time that you don't even try to talk to me in the middle of a show/movie that I enjoy. Because, basically, I'll ignore you completely. I probably won't even hear you talking because I am so enthralled in my best friend: the telly.

When I went home to visit in April my mom and sister were watching this show called "Dexter." I had never seen the show before because it is a Showtime Original. They began re-airing the show on CBS or something, in an edited format. I watched one episode with my sister and mom and LOVED it. So later my sister bought the first season on DVD. This past birthday in August my sister sent the first season to me along with my present, so that we could watch it. So, I introduced the first episode (which I hadn't ever seen) to Jules and we were immediately hooked. We sat there and watched the WHOLE first season and finished around Saturday at noon. Then, because we are seriously addicted we went to Blockbuster and rented the whole second season. AND WATCHED EVERY EPISODE. :)

I know. but it was SOOOOOOO good. I love it. So, yay for next year being able to rent season 3!!!

Also, we watch...

....High School Musical: Get in the show....or whatever it's called. On Monday nights...with REAL teenagers as "contestants". It's so dramatic that it literally leaves you thanking the Good Lord that you're not 16 again! It's dripping with crying teenage girls, catty whispering, and much much waving of the hands paired with high-pitched squealing! The guys are all, "yeah. I'm hot. She's hot. We're hot. I like to be hot." all the time. It's so funny! I know it's not that long ago that we were teenagers, but it's such an awkward time and it cracks me up to think about us acting that way! Well, anyway, last night Zac Efron appeared on the show and you can only imagine the squealing that occurred. I muted the television just to protect my ear drums and the closed captioning just read ". Folks, that is NOT a good sign! We just laughed and laughed.

I love mindless TV. It's so nice to sit and watch some redneck with a mullet chase down his half-naked girlfriend who has, as chick would say, an inner-thigh tattoo, and just laugh. It's a nice reminder that no matter what problems you may have...you aren't that guy! :)