So I have this new toy

I think I need to use it. It's too tempting not to.

So Kevin and I went to the Fallstitch jamboree on Saturday night. Unfortunately we didn't get to see all the cool important stuff... Kevin ended up having to work Saturday (which he wasn't supposed to) and then he ended up getting out later than he planned, so we got there around 9:30-ish. Mon and Mark were outside chatting, so I saw them right away! It was great! they looked fabulous! And it wasn't awkward at all. Felt like we hadn't had that long gap of years between when we've seen each other (me and mon that is).

Unfortunately my hubby is kinda anti-social when he first gets out of work. He needs unwind time. So after chatting a bit with the Beadles we went inside and saw the gorgeous bride. She had just changed out of her dress and into a HAWT leopard print skirt. She looked fabulous! We chatted for a moment, signed the autograph picture and put the card on the table (I didn't know the cherry hat box was the card box...I'm so dense).

Julia told us to drink drink drink...so we did! We made our way over to the bar and got some beer. I saw Karen and Laura Roncevich and said hi. Then i noticed their mom over on the other side of the room. On my way there I saw Chris Carmody so we chatted for a few. He had grown up so great! He always was, but man he really seems together. Marriage and fatherhood is good on him.

After that I went over to Mrs. Roncevich to say hi. After all, she was my mom in South Pacific (Bloody Mary is the girl I love....) so I say hi and she looks at me kinda strange and I introduce myself and she says "i thought you were Melanie for a minute! I was wondering why she changed her dress" This doesn't surprise me. You won't be able to tell from the pics to follow, but she and I look alot alike according to people we know. The story goes that when Melfish walked into fall auditions at RHS in 1990 as a frosh people thought she was me. Chicken wrote me about her immediately. So when I came home for fall break I met her and we've been friends ever since.

So I chatted with the fish mom for a few and then went searching for fish. I still hadn't seen her at this point. At some point during all this i got to run into Zach and thank him for inviting us. He was sloshed. I wish I had been at our wedding *sigh*

So I finally found fish out front of the PRCU and we sat and chatted. And chatted. And chatted. then I got my hubby and we all went out for a smoke and chatted some more. She had some major issues that were going on with her that night. I'm just glad I was there to be her friend and listen to her. I think it's ultimately the reason we were so late. If i had been there on time I would prolly have been just as sloshed and then what good would I have been.

After awhile she came back in and we took a couple pics. I look horrible in them, but I'll share them anyway. Kevin really needs to learn to take a pic on the level instead of sitting down....it makes me look fatter.

And my favorite pic of the night ....  her with Kevin:

Those are all the pics I got....I kept forgetting to take more. I can't wait to see Julia and Zach's final pics of all the stuff I missed.

By the end of the night fish was all better and we finished our beer and helped Zach and Julia cart a few things out to the car. We said our goodbyes and off we went into the night. (actually to our local watering hole where our favorite bartender proceeded to get us hammered with free pitchers...she was in a generous mood...musta been cuz Kevin looked hot lol)

All in all it was a good night...even if I didn't get to interact with as many people as long as I wanted to. OH! And they played a RUSH song near the end of the night! YAY!

And....as a bonus for actually reading my blog.....cute kitty in the box picture. (yes there's another 30 pack behind the one she's in....it was football friday for crying out loud!!!)

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Yet another reason to switch to Firefox

performancing.com

This is prolly the best reason I have found now to switch to firefox. It's an extension that you dl for Firefox that will allow you to blog from wherever you are on the web. And it allows you to cross blog. So say, like me, you have 50 million blogs out there but forget to post to them from time to time.....now you can make 1 blog and post it to all 50 million with the push of a couple buttons.

I know not all of you will appreciate this, but I know at least Monica will.

I've always heard how great firefox is, and I use it from time to time, but my favorite browser is maxthon. It's tabbed like firefox but the interface is like IE. Unfortunately most plugins don't work with it. But firefox is completely customisable (is that a word?) and with this extension even better for someone like me. Now I won't fall behind with my blogger blog when I post to my myspace blog.

I LOVE THIS!!!! Seriously, even if you don't blog regularly, get yourself some Firefox, then head over to performancing.com for the extension install....then over to the myspace addon. You have to restart firefox after the installs (just close it out and reopen) to the them to work. There's a screencast so you can see how to fully utalize this wonderful extension for myspace. But it's super easy to add regular blogs (blogger, livejournal, etc....)

I learned about this from this blog.

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Really Bad Karaoke

Lions Season is almost upon us

I know I'm boring

my blogs are definitely not fodder for thought lately. I just read over them and I'm pretty damn lame. So I apologize. I don't mean to be boring...it just happens. And like I said before, I'd rather talk about what I DO instead of what I THINK....just a little safer to me that way.

We rented a movie thru netflix and it came today. Battle Royale. It's japanese. to quote a synopsis from imdb.com:

At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is ina a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nations youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act Overseen by their former teacher, Kitano ('Beat' Takeshi) and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobedience.".

It was really really good! Kinda gory, but not nearly as much as, say, Audition. And it was pretty much nonstop stuff happening...once they get on the island. It was recommended to us by Stan, Ian and Michelle's friend. He did good. I wasn't disappointed. I kinda wish now I could friend him on netflix to see what else he would recommend.

Speaking of netflix...I spent about 2 hours going thru movies and rating them and adding them to our queue...only to discover later that I was signed on under Kevin's profile and not mine. Which isn't that big a deal except that now netflix thinks Kevin likes Marilyn Monroe and Gene Kelley and fluffy stuff like Ice Princess. Sorry Kevin.

I love blogs

yes I do. I am (as my friend so delicately puts it) a blog yeti. I'm not as prolific as Monica, nor do I espouse my views as eloquently as she or Jayson, but I hold my own. Blogging for me is a way to get things off my chest mostly.

And I love to read blogs. I don't care what they are about. tell me what you had for lunch, tell me how much you hate current events, tell me why you choose to believe what you believe, I don't care. I just want to read about you. I find even the most seemingly mundane fascinating when it comes to the people I know and love (and sometimes even those I don't). I am a sucker for a blog.

I am subscribed currently to almost 50 blogs of my friends (and a couple random people I ran across and kinda liked) My goal is to be subscribed to the blog of every single friend I have ... even if you don't have one now...someday you may break down and jot some interesting factoid about your day and I will eagerly consume it. I will read it and it will give me insight into the person that you are. And I will love you even more.

Yes I'm a freak. I happily admit that. I am addicted to blogs. But then, aren't you a little bit? Otherwise you wouldn't be reading this.

Old PIcs

These are from Senior Year. First the only Senior Pic I can find of myself:

Then a few pics from Senior Prom....funny I only have pics of the guys.

From left to right: Jayson Cruse, Dave Squires, Ed Kaminski ... Andy Kilburn was in this pic but that part of it got ruined so I had to crop him out :(

Another pic of the guys on the stage. From Right to Left Ed Kaminski, Andy Kilburn, Dave Squires, Jason Cruse:

And lastly, a pic of me and my "date" for prom, Dave Squires.