rave: they're here!!!


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the kitties are here!!!!!!!!!!!
i am SO excited. :)

now i have the ones i'm missing...am selling all extras. will post photos soon.

rant: feelin' good and my toy obsession

so i've been attempting to go to the gym before work every tuesday and thursday since i really need to get back in shape. (it's not cool to be wheezing at your desk for 20 minutes after taking to stairs to your office.) and so far not bad. i'm not as wiped as i thought i would be and i can see some improvements already. but still to drag myself out of bed at 5:30am to go work out isn't exactly what I call my favorite thing to do. but today, i feel MUCH more motivated to continue...it's just what i needed too.


After my morning workout, I stopped into the HEB (grocery store in TX) to pick up something for lunch since i left mine at home. while i was standing in front of the vast lean cuisine section, a gentleman in his late 30's early 40's walked by and stopped. and he said, "excuse me, i don't mean to bother you, but i just wanted to let you know you look great. i just thought you should know that. have a great day." and just like that he walked off. now, in the wrong context with the wrong person and said in a creepy way, this would have been awkward and icky. but the way this guy said it and his demeanor didn't make him creepy. just sounded genuine and it really made me feel good. as a woman in this day in age, i feel that females have a hard time taking compliments. i know i do. I feel like i have to justify it with some witty comment. women either can't except a compliment or feel like the guy is just hitting on you. but i have to admit it felt good and sometimes the perfect answer is just, "thank you so much." we all have things we'd like to improve and work on, but its nice to be appreciated for you efforts...even if it is by a stranger.


Also, as of late, i've been obsessed with toys. no, not just hello kitty (but i am) but all things cute. b and i were just having a discussion about the kung fu panda happy meal toys last night and i'm more and more obsessed with tokidoki and all their characters. what surprises me is how darn expensive these toys are. but come on, how clever is this:



this is mozzarella and her moofia

i love it!!! too freakin cute. and for those who have visited our house. b & i have some toys...star wars, spiderman and transformers potato heads, a labbit, some cactus pups, ciao ciao & adios, the urban outfitter hello kitty set...you get the picture. so now i'm trying to figure out why i'm so obsessed with collecting the whole set of them...can't just have one or two...must have all. i think i've lost my marbles. the overwhelming cuteness has taken over...*sigh*

rant: baby luca


what do you get when you have one curious american eskimo puppy and a pint glass with a couple drops of sprite at the bottom?



luca's head inside a pint glass....

been scanning old photos...starting with luca's baby photos. these two are a couple of my favorites. you can see all the ones i have so far on his flickr set. i forget that he was ever that small!!! check back often. i'll be adding more.

rave: wwdc 2008 + iPhone 3G = envy


ooooohhhhh....prrreeeetttyyy
my phone envy has grown uncontrollable. i am now determined to have one...even though at&t is increasing data plans by $10 and locking you into a 2 year contract so you can't upgrade your iPhone if steve jobs decides to create a better one next year. but i don't care!!! i want it and i want it now! :) well, i have to wait till august for my t-mobile contract to end then it will be mine! (i've even convinced b that he needs one too. i tricked him by saying that we'll save money with the family plan. mwahhhhaaa!)
is it horrible that in the bad economic times we are in where gas is $4.00 a gallon in texas, i want to shell out $200-$300 for a phone? am i such a bad person? can i call it an investment so i can feel better about myself? after watching the 2008 wwdc keynote speech, i was totally hooked...i was even convinced that i needed to pay $99/year for mobile me. yes, i too needed my personal email, contacts, photos and calendar events pushed to me via the cloud. that steve jobs is good. he could probably sell rat infested houses and people would flock. seriously, they say that the blackberry is like crack, but i think apple is the new crack...better, stronger, and more addictive. since my g4 powerbook, i am addicted to all things mac. about 2 months ago, i even considered purchasing a mac pro bundle for $3k+. the mac pro 2.8 Ghz 8 core with 10gb of ram, 500gb harddrive, superdrive, 8800gt plus a 23 inch cinema display.

do i need it? no. do i edit movies or produce music? no. do i even do hard core graphic design work that my powerbook can't handle? nope. just want it. it's pretty and it's got 2 quad core processors and the display is hd quality! do i need a $3k+ machine to check my email, surf facebook and upload photos? not one bit. but eventually i will purchase another mac. its just a matter of time. damn steve jobs for making his products so pretty and appealing especially to women. he knows we are suckers for purchasing things just based on prettiness and cuteness. and everything about apple is pretty and cute...even the logo.

sigh...back to work on my ugly dell desktop circa 1995 with its big o'l crt monitor.

rave: point of view through a polaroid

was browsing through some blogs (thanks brooks!) during my lunch and came across this amazing documentary of one man's life. His name is Jamie Livingston and from March 31, 1979 -October 25, 1997 (the day he died), he took at least one photo a day...with a polaroid camera. what started out as a project in college, ended up being a visual documentary of his life. i wonder when he started, did he think he would document his own death also. i wonder if he knew that he'd have 18 years of his life in over 6,000 poloarids. it shows everything...from the best memories to the day of his death and everything in between. His friends wanted to honor him and pass on his unique and creative view of the world so they set up an exhibit at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College with all his photos and a website. i'd encourage anyone to check it out. it puts life in perspective. i will admit it is hard to look at the photos of him as he battles cancer. but it's real and some is going through the same thing right now. so book mark this remarkable site and take yourself through one man's life and appreciate everyday your are given.
*photo above is take by Jamie Livingston on March 30, 1991

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