Kayaking 09

Melissa and I went kayaking for the first time this year! It was a lovely day, still a little chilly but we had a great time. Good thing we did becuase the weather turned cold again the next day!

We watched this guy pull that chair out of the lake and then paddle off with it, we asked him if he was going to offer rides, he said he was thinking about it.

Happy Birthday to me!!

For my birthday this year went to Todai for my free birthday dinner. I had a great time, I heard that some people didn't have that great of a time (Travis, apparently he doesn't like the food). I don't know how anyone can't be a fan of all you can eat crepes, sushi, crab legs, or any of a number of other things, but to each his own.

My awesome friends gave me some great gifts!!

Dang it, I didn't win $1,000 for life!!!

Pre Birthday Lunch

Carmel, Jenny and I headed to Ipanemas for a meat filled pre-birthday lunch. It was fun to hangout with the girls and chow down on plates of tasty meat!

I can't stop looking at the site!

I find this site so crazy!!! Most things make me sick, but I'm slightly intrigued by this one.

Meatloaf with a layer of Mac and Cheese wrapped in bacon. I could do without the bacon part but the rest sound kind of good.

Whoa, it's been almost a year!

In 2 days time I will return turn to the seen of one of my first blog entries. Yep, it has been almost a year since I have been to Ipanema's Brazilian Grill. Carmel, Jenny and I are going for a pre-Birthday meat celebration!

Pictures to follow!

Darkside!

My slovenly darkside is taking over! My apartment’s messiness is at an all time high, and I can’t seem to make myself clean it up! My plan yesterday, on my day off was to clean the place up. What did I get done? I did the dishes and took out the trash and recycling (my least favorite thing to do, maybe that is why it took 2 trips). Clothes are still everywhere, there is stuff all over the place, and just general clutter.

Seriously I am going to have to do some more cleaning up tonight! That’s right I’m resolving to finish the clean up tonight! (I’ll let you know latter how it goes!)

Vegas here we are!

It was once again time to head to Vegas for some much needed fun in the sun! This trip saw Melissa, Carmel, Chris and I heading off for Sin City, time to drink and party!

Here are the 4 of us on the plane, we all had to work today so we don't get to leave until about 8pm.
Even though Melissa said she was tired we still knocked back 2 drinks each, this is after the prefunk drink I made for the shuttle ride to the airports, we were all feeling no pain!

Melissa taking quick cat nap before we head down to the casino!

Here is Carmel spinning the big wheel for a free prize! Luckily we all just missed out on winning tickets to Lance Burton, we all won $10 in free play!!

Oh look at that cute group chillin' at the Wynn

Here is one of the main reasons for our trip to Vegas, Bette Midler!!

Carmel drinking a Sophie before the great Bette show!

Holy Crap I just won $75.25!!! I love you Mermaids game!!

Amazing umbrellas at the Palazo

The strip at night!

Freeze this!

I am so sick and tired of the cold weather!! Coming from me that is major, I don’t usually care too much about the weather because I love Seattle’s weather, but damn it I’m tired of freezing every morning!!! This morning I had to put my earmuffs on so that my ears wouldn’t freeze and fall off!! My breath was coming out in puffs so thick you would have thought it was December rather than the last days of March, let me say that again last days of MARCH!! Gggrrr, I’m so glad I’m going to Las Vegas this weekend where it is warm but I just realized that is going to make coming home to freezing weather even worse!!!!

Enjoy

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YouTube

I have finally opened an YouTube account so that I could upload some concert videos that were to big to upload here, and a totally awesome video of my Grandma, Mom and Aunt laying out quilt blocks!!

I couldn't not but it up here!!

This Lost theory just blew my mind!

My mind is blown! Seriously who sits around and thinks this stuff up?

Estelle!

Trav and I headed to The Showbox again to catch another show. This time it was the amazing Estelle! We meet at the Green Room again so that we could get into the show early and not have to wait out in the pouring rain, in the 3 minutes it me to walk from the bus to The Showbox I was drenched. We we finally got into The Showbox we got great seats in the bar and this on the quite side, thank the lord.

Now on to the opening acts, yes acts there where 3!!!

Choklate-good voice but no stage presence and she was boring. She talked about how it was funny that her name was Chokolate but she doesn't like chocolate, and that some chocolate is filled with nuts but she is filled with blood, so don't eat her.

Sway and someone else -these 2 were more entertaining than Choklate. Sway and the other dude (don't know his name) switched off after each of their songs, they got the show pumping a little bit more but where still not that impressive.

The best thing about the boring openers was that it gave Travis and I plenty of time to gawk at and mock all the people around us, which I must say is highly enjoyable. First off let me just say that this show attracted the most interesting age groups; there were some teenagers, a lot of the 20's-30's crowd, and then also some in the 50's, which is all well and good but my question is, how do they know Estelle, when most people my age don't know who she is??? There was on particular lady who was standing behind us that was "dancing" and I say it like that because she was dancing how I imagine my mom would dance if someone told her to krump. She is was got us through the openers.

On to the main event ESTELLE!!!

This was my second time seeing Estelle and she brought it again! With her first song she made up for all three of the boring openers, seriously they were forgotten in an instant of her soulfully rocking the mike! Her show was just so much fun, she had three backup singers/dancer guys who were dancing like they were in a Motown group. Estelle told the stories behind the songs, which usually involved a jerk ex boyfriend, or she told the audience her dance moves to get a guy to come over and grind, then go home with. She pulled people on the stage to dance, some hilariously couldn't, but thought they could. Estelle put on a great show, and I will see her for a 3rd time if she is ever returns to Seattle.

Here is American Boy, enjoy!

And the Oscar goes to...

Let me just start with I LOVE Hugh Jackman!! I find it interesting that he can be totally song and dance man and also kick ass as Wolverine! That man is just so hot!

I loved the glamed up nightclub feel of the stage. I also absolutely loved have the 5 past winners presenting the Oscar, having them talk about the role/actor was so much better and special than seeing a clip from the movie. There was only one thing that I hated, and that was the craptastic salute to the musical!!! That was just awful, Beyonce doesn’t need to be in everything and HSM “stars” don’t need to be at the Oscars. I would have much rather had the best song nominees sing the whole song instead of a quick medley.

Now on to the fashion.

Best Dressed

Natalie Portman
I loved everything about this her look was flawless

Anne Hathaway
Loved this column of sparkle

Kate Winslet
She looked so classy, I LOVED her hair

Angelina Jolie
Beautiful, Loved the jewelry, yest Brad is tastey arm candy!

Worst Dressed

Beyonce Knowles
Someone nailed it on the head when they said Beyonce looked like a museum vase!

Miley Cyrus
This reminded me of a dress made out of candy in a cartoon.

Tilda Swinton
Everything about this is just awful; hair, makeup, dress

Reese Witherspoon
This is so ugly; I love blue and black but not like this. It looks like it was made by a blind person, plus these are not good colors to match your makeup to.

And the Winners are…

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz
This is one of the only movies I haven’t seen, I really wanted Amy Adams to win but Penelope was very cute in her acceptance speech, and that is saying a lot from me as I don’t enjoy her.

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger
I don’t think anyone thought he wouldn’t win, his Joker was amazing.

Best Actor
Sean Penn
Thank the lord Mickey Roarke didn’t win!!!!! I really wanted Brad Pitt but all they men did great in their roles except for Mickey.

Best Actress
Kate Winslet
YES SHE FINALLY WON!!!
I loved when she had her dad whistle so she knew where her family was!

Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire
I would have rather had The Reader win but the Slumdog posse was so cute so I’m okay with them winning.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!

I kid you not this is the view out my window right now!!

You can see Safeway from here!

Yes someone is my building is so lazy they can't walk the 1/2 a block to Safeway, they had their groceries delivered!!! I wonder what the delivery man is thinking?

Impress Crafting Night

Here is my crafting area, a little messy!

Last night my crafty friends and I spent the evening at the Impress Rubber Stamp having a crafting and pizza party. We had a great time making cards, eatting, winning raffles; out of the five of us that went 3 of us won a raffle. Melissa and I won 2 ink pads each (which we both gave away, I believe to Carmel or Carla) and Carmel won this great pack of cards and enevlopes (which she kindly shared with us all evening). I haven't done an stamping lately as I'm hard core into jewelry making, it was fun to go back to an old hobby for an evening of fun.

Melissa and Jen hard at work.

Carmel and Carla crafting it up!