Brrrrrrrrr...

Gosh I'm cold! How about my fellow east coasters... are you as cold as I am? I have my heat on and a blanket on top of the comforter on the bed. (Was that a lot of prepositions or what??? I deserve an award for that!)
Sean and I have been just hanging out. I'm house-sitting right now at this beautiful place in Hillsborough CA. It sits on the top of a big hill/mountain thingy and from most of the house there is a clear view of the San Francisco Bay. It is sooo breath taking. Maybe I'll take some pictures tomorrow and put them online in the future. You guys would love this place. I'd take this house in a heart beat if they handed the keys over. In the guest room they have a tempra-pedic mattress. Anyone else tried these out yet? MAN are they something else. If you haven't - strut yourself over to the mall and go into the expensive brookstone and lay down on one. They are worth every penny. I stayed there a few nights ago to keep the cats company and that bed was sooo hard to get out of in the morning. Too bad Sean couldn't try it out - he's too allergic :(.
Anyway - gotta hit the hay. I think I might work a little bit tomorrow. Supposed to have the day off but I might do a few hours just for the heck of it.

What are you guys doing for new years? Not sure what we're doing yet. Hopefully we'll go out and hang out with Marisa. We'll see!
G'night.

San Francisco Drivers are the WORST!!

Okay - so I'm driving down the freeway and everyone is going a nice, comfy 70 mph. Suddenly someone saw something on the side of road (most likely) or had an itch or something - and EVERYONE slammed on their breaks. I almost made a car sandwich with the car ahead of me! The worst part is - I was at least 3 car lengths away from the person ahead of me. People weave in and out of traffic like my grandma and her knitting. It's insane! No turning signals, no warning - just HELLO I'm in your lane now and you have to deal. Who gave these people driver's licenses? I want to know. I would love to see the driver's test here. They probably get in the car, drive around the block and the instructor says - welcome to the club! I don't get it. It doesn't help that most of the people who drive around are foreign and didn't get their license until they were over 30. I'm sorry - but when you learn something like that at that age you're probably not going to be as good as someone who learns it as a 16 year old kid.
So that's my rant for the evening.

Damn I'm lazy!

Okay I will be the first to admit how bad I've been about this blog thing. Atleast I'm consistent in my laziness. So Sean's been the big blog-poster and I'm sure it will stay that way. Nothing really too new and exciting. Christmas is on it's way. I'm looking forward to going to midnight mass with Sean and my great aunt Esther. Haven't been in a really long time and I always enjoyed it... well does falling asleep count? The music is just so calming and with candles lit and all... you know what I mean, right? That should be fun. On that note I'm going to go to bed. If I do not post for another month, I wish you all a very merry Christmas. God bless you all. :)
Christine

Gettin' lazy!!!

So I haven't been posting as often as Sean so I thought I might want to get on and leave another boring and lifeless post. Well - not really... I've just been so busy. My old woman cross-stitch project is coming to an end and so maybe then I'll post more frequent - don't count on it though. :P I'm sure I'll find something else old lady like to replace it! (Sean just farted while I was writing this fyi)... Anyway - that's been the extent of my excitement while I'm here at home. I went wedding dress shopping the other day though :-D I'd say more but Sean reads this so I guess you all just can't hear about my hot pink wedding dress!! Oops.. I guess I slipped.

I'm looking forward to our trip back to NY. Can't wait to play some beer pong and go to all the good night spots. Get ready guys - it'll be like two sips this time and I'll be saying "Guess what.....I'm DRUNK!!!" HAHA that will be exciting.

That's all for now- keep it real and think about posting on your own blog site again.. Eh hem.. you know who you are!!!

Wedding planning

So now that we've been engaged for a few weeks I've been thinking a lot. Still fine tuning the when and where factor which leaves a lot of other things still way up in the air. Hopefully once I get a chance to chat with my parents this will all go smoother.. I can hope right? I hear that it just gets more stressful. My goal is to stay as focused on the happy things and enjoy my engagement. Hopefully my good attitude will prevail. And when it doesn't woefully Sean will be there to give me a nice back rub. :) (I love you Sean!!!) So that's all for now. I'm off to a nice relaxing evening with him now.... Hope you all are having a great weekend!

New jeans

Okay - so this is probably such a trivial post but I like being trivial :-P.

With that said, I went out tonight and got a new pair of jeans. I have been putting this off way too long. My other jeans have a patch, a hole and a soon to be second hole in them. So now I'm back to having a pair of normal jeans!!

You men out there have it made. You know your size, and unless you grow, and have no problem just picking up the pants and buying them. You don't even really need to try them on most of the time!
Us girls have it harder. Size 8 can be tiny or HUGE on me... never just right. I feel, as a hippy girl - and I'm referring to the bones - that it's soooo hard to find a pair of pants that fit me right.

But needless to say I found a pair... can I get a HALLELUJAH?!?!?

Goin to the chapel.... :)

So I think I've told everyone I can possibly think of but I feel as if there must be someone I've forgotten. Because, as you all know, I am so forgetful. My happiness and excitement just keeps growing. Everyday I am so amazed by that. Now the plans begin... which for me is really exciting. But then again I am the MOST INDECISIVE person in the world. And Sean isn't much better. At least we both knew we wanted to marry each other and didn't say "you decide..." "no you decide..." LOL.! Now I'm just rambling. I feel this post is just so belated but I've been spending so much time just calling everyone. Wish me luck in the planning. I'm going to try to keep on top of things to make it easier for myself.

That's it for now. Thank you Sean, for making me happier than I ever thought I could be. I love you!

Here's Alexander's father - Mike.

Here's Lynn as a new mom with auntie Kim checkin' out the little one.

My newborn nephew... isn't he adorable?

Welcome Alexander Chase!

First off - this is just a picture of a random baby.. not Alexander. :) Isn't he cute though? Anyway - I'd like to announce that at 3:33am on October 24th Alexander Chase was born. He is Mike (my brother) and Lynn's first baby! Please join me in welcoming him and congratulating Mike and Lynn. I'll post real pictures as soon as Mike sends me some.

Halloween costumes anyone?

So I thought I'd just ask everyone out there what they're dressing up as this halloween. I'm not sure what I'll be... Sean has a great idea I think we might do but I'll let him do the explaining :). And for all you lazy folks out there who don't dress up... BAH HUMBUG!

Telemarketers... :)

To all you telemarketers out there - LEAVE ME ALONE!!! Does anyone else get annoyed with them? I can't think of anyone who picks up the phone and says "Hey hon - the telemarketer is on the phone... can I get this one? I love when they call." NO!! Just so everyone knows - I'm not angry. I just laugh at them. I've found a way to have the upper hand with them. Let's see if anyone can top this one. When they start talking I just say "Can you hang on just one sec?" Then I put the phone down - end of story. Today I did that and went back after a minute to check and the guy was still sitting patiently for me to return. I checked a few more times and still - he was waiting nicely. I didn't say a word! After 5 minutes he hung up. How's that for the stupid companies. They just paid that guy for 5 minutes of sitting waiting for me to come back to the phone. Maybe they'll stop calling me now! Yea right. Well as long as they keep calling I'll just keep doing the same thing and I advise you do the same :).

Halloween MUST be around the corner...

It's amazing what I saw today. It's so weird - so let me get to the point. On my way home for lunch I saw over 15 people just walking. Now this sounds normal to you - right? But they were all walking like there was no purpose to their walking. Here's the thing - it is SO nice and beautiful and hot out today (silly me for wearing long sleeves this morning!!!). So I can understand why people would be walking around. But I felt like if I stopped one of those people and asked what they were doing they would just look through me and keep walking. I swear Californians are freaks of nature. Maybe there's a full moon out tonight. Who knows. Strange.....

What's up with ya'll???

So I get onto this blogger thing and no one checks theirs anymore. I think it lasted like an entire week or so that everyone was really putting any effort in. Atleast with me it's a consistant once in a while!!! Anyway - life in California is goin alright. The fog has been rollin' in more and more lately and "fall/winter" is comin' our way. Oh no - there will be RAIN?!?!? Oh no! I might have to use my windshield wipers for once. I think I need to replace them actually - they're the same ones I had put on 3 years ago :-P. I bet you didn't know they could last that long! So yea - I think the winter will be good though - I'm sick of the dried up "golden hills" look. That's about it for now. Lookin forward to the weekend. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday.

Ciao for now :)

Rico vs Suave

So which would you prefer?

This is L-R Will, me and Sean at the Golden Gate Bridge. If only it was green like in this picture now......  

A whole lotta shakin' goin on...

So maybe my post is a little belated, but I wanted you all to know that I "heard" the earthquake and I am excited about that - as crazy as that sounds. I was at work in an apartment building when I heard some things in the kitchen shaking. The mom comes out and tells me there's an earthquake as if it was nothing... kinda like Sean's post where someone came into his work and asked if he felt the quake - but the way people out here say things - it's like "oh.. by the way the tea is on if you want some." I want to feel an earthquake... just a tiny one - so I know what they feel like. But I guess it's not like I can say.... please, earth, shake for me a little so I know what it feels like... then never do it again. Oh - and while you're at it please only do it away from my home. I sound like a lunatic. Maybe I am!! Who knows. Anways... life is fine here. Nothing like a little shakin' to make sure all the Californians haven't spaced out completely. Lalala. Hope all is well wherever ya'll are!!

Coming to visit NY!

For all ya'll who don't know, I'll be visiting the Jamestown/Rochester areas from December 2-8th. If you're lucky maybe you'll get to see us!! Call the weatherman now - get in a special request. I want warm, 80 degree weather and no clouds. Thanks!
Christine :)

Very vital information...

To all who do not know - P-nut the dog IS A GIRL!!! SHE is a GIRL. Mmmmkay? Just wanted to clear that up. Oh - and she's about 8 years old, likes to sleep a lot, and is a big whimp! But I don't care - who wants a mean pet who wants to bite your ankles. Actually - she does chase after joggers... but that's just funny. Anyway... just letting all you peeps out there know that SHE is a GIRL! Thank you... thank you very much!

-Christine

This is how I feel.... YAWN says P-nut :) 

I'm the one who follows the leader!

So yea--- I thought since everyone else was doin' it.. maybe I should! Life is just grand here... Work is tiring though. I feel like that's so redundant to say though these days. Us Americans overwork ourselves constantly. It's almost like that's the acceptable lifestyle now. Whatever :). Tomorrow I'm only working for a while and it's not really work because I will be having loads of fun. I hear the weather is supposed to be nice and hot for the next week here in the bay area - how about NY?? Well that's all I guess for now. Ta ta.

Christine