I have not posted in 15 weeks, according to livejournal.  That's mostly because I don't usually have anything of importance to say.  However, that's changed a bit.  

I'm engaged!

Weeeeeeeeeee.

Brett proposed at the Foshay tower in Minneapolis a couple days before Christmas.  We have the date picked out (10.8.10) and we're doing the ceremony at the Como Zoo Conservatory.  We're still putting the details together for the rest of the day, but I'm very very excited.  :)

In other fun news, we're going to Florida again in March to watch some Spring Training baseball (and stop freezing our asses off here).  7 nights there, 9 full days away from work.  A-freaking-mazing.

Annnnnnnnnnnd we're fostering a new dog, Truffles.  She's adorable and fluffy and loves me terribly. 


Aren't they cute? :)

I just ordered this dress


to go with these boots



Now I just need a reason to go out.  That'd be super.


I haven't posted in months because nothing new happens.  Pretty much ever.  Which is ok, I like my home life, but work is always the same stupid crap.  I'm wondering if I'm ever supposed to have a job I actually like.  Eh, whatever.

I'm glad it's fall.  I'm already struggling to keep up with my shows, and only Supernatural (oh Cass, how I love you), Gossip Girl, and Castle have any episodes out so far.  I'm trying really hard to watch anything new, but I'm kind of interested in Flash Forward.  Maybe I'll just wait until it comes out on DVD.


I really have nothing else.  Sad.

I hate waking up early, and it's been all I've done for the last six days.  Work is usually the reason, but the last two days, it's been something else entirely...



Meet Bullwinkle (and Rocky), our 2 month old, 5lb dachshund.  He doesn't sleep so much in the mornings, so I've had to wake up at 7-8ish, which is pretty much torture for me.  But he's so freaking cute that I don't even think it matters so much.

In other news, all I do is work, so I decided that needed to change, so I get a four day weekend (the first four days I've had away from Target since I went to Florida in February) this weekend, and me and Brett are going up to Two Harbors to stay in a bed and breakfast inside a lighthouse.  It's my Christmas present from last year that we never got around to using.  I think we might stop at the casino in Hinckley for lobster dinner on the way up, and we will camp for a couple nights too.  I'm so excited to get out of here (and away from work!) for a little while.  Especially since summer's practically over and god knows it'll be -30 by next week or something.

Looking forward very much to TV starting up again.  Keep seeing the ads for Grey's and while I'm not THAT excited for it, it reminds me that everything else will be starting again.  Last season of Supernatural.  sigh.  It'll just be nice to have something to watch that I haven't seen before; I'm rewatching Criminal Minds right now just for something to do.

snagged from messdestruction 

Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

Gah, I guess I'm picking all-time, cuz this is hard...

1. Buffy
2. Supernatural
3. X-Files
4. Veronica Mars
5. Angel

( Another TV Meme )

Another magazine cover that made me squeeee when I saw it at work:


How do they all still look exactly the same?  It'd be creepy if it didn't make me want to run out and buy all the seasons on DVD.  It doesn't include Screech, but... Celebrity Fit Club kinda gave me enough of him, and I don't think I watched an episode of that intentionally.


Absolutely nothing is going on in my real life, so I just kinda give up on posting anything related to that... besides that I turned 24 yesterday.  It's amazing that no birthday after 21 really feels any different.

So I've been reading Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series and I love it.  It's refreshing to read a strong female lead in a vampire series, especially after the mess that is Bella.  I want to download True Blood, but HBO is creepy stalker-like when it comes to people taking their stuff, and I don't want to lose the internet the way some people have.  Is it worth buying?

In other news, we're moved into the house now.  We have amazing bamboo hardwood in the main rooms and it looks fantastic and the paint looks super great.  Thanks Dutch Boy for your corresponding color palettes.  I love you.  I'll take pics eventually, but right now we need a bit more for the living room.  It's a huge room and we have pretty much nothing in it so hopefully that'll change soon.  It's just super nice to have a house that's all ours.

I got to see a 16-inning baseball game on Friday night.  Apparently during the 14th inning, they do a 14th inning stretch.  It was crazy.  The game lasted over 5 hours.  It was pretty freaking awesome.

Yeah, I got nothing else.

Look!  Another beautiful magazine cover, this time, of my husband.



God, he's beautiful.

I saw the cover of People magazine when I was at the grocery store and actually stopped in my tracks.

When the hell did Chace Crawford get so hot?

( TV Meme )

Brett's forced me to watch Lost and I kinda love it.  We just started season 4 and it's weird when I kinda know certain things that happen because of previews I've seen or things I've heard, but everything seems to happen earlier than I thought it would (like everyone who's died so far... I always think it happens like a season later than it does).  I love Sawyer, and Jin and Sun, who would make the most attractive real life baby in the history of the world.  Daniel Dae Kim has like the most amazing facial structure I have ever seen.  Sadly, we're going to catch up with the rest of you soon enough, and then I'll be stuck waiting.  I hate waiting.  I'll probably just have to watch something else?  Has anyone seen True Blood?

With that, I am displeased with this new switch to digital television.  We have a digital TV, but it doesn't pick up on any of the channels, so it's worse than being able to watch it when it's all fuzzy.  I'm sure we need a better digital antenna... but it seems dumb to buy one if we're moving in a week anyway.  We close on the twin home we looked at in Isanti next Thursday and have 5 days to get everything out of here, and paint the entire main floor interior of the new house.  Carpet is also going to be installed in the bedrooms and hardwood in the living room and kitchen.  We have to make this place really sparkling clean too and I have to work 2 of those days... it's going to be hard to get everything done.  It's just annoying because right now we're just sitting around waiting for it to happen.  It'd be nice to be able to get in there earlier... it's not like anyone's living in it now.

Of course it has to be all gloomy on one of my days off.  Again.  I would really enjoy spending actual time in the sun.  I also much prefer working out when the sun's out... it's like a two for one deal cuz I can actually tan too.  I need to stick to a better regemine because I can't apparently stop eating pizza or drinking beer.  I had to pull out my bigger jeans last week.  It was very very sad.

( character meme )

tagged by messdestruction 

Seriously?



He is HOTTTTTTTTTTTT.

Man, what a movie.

My life feels like it's on some kind of cycle that just repeats over and over again.  I've had full time jobs before, but for whatever reason, this one just drains me.  I've been uber tired lately and pretty much just want to sleep every day, all day.  It doesn't help that I've been super busy.  Ally's wedding is next Saturday and our dresses FINALLY came in on Monday.  I actually had to take time off work yesterday in order to go get the thing because I seriously have no time to do anything.  It's super pretty, but the straps are too big, so now I need to get the thing altered too, which hopefully can happen in the next week and a half.  Next week, still working 40 hours, but have a pedicure, massage, rehearsal dinner, house searching and potentially packing to do.  I don't have a single night off and I work mostly days.  It's just stressful.

And yeah, Brett and I have been looking at houses.  We submit offers on two - the first was rejected and the second ended up having a ton of problems (water, structure, etc).  That one really sucked cuz we both really really liked it.  Last night we wrote an offer on a twin home in Isanti.  It's big, but we'd have a lot of work to do right away.  I'm pretty sure we'd paint and re-floor before even moving in.  The previous owners smoked in the house and it reeks after being closed up for months now.  I'm thinking this is the one we'll end up with and while I'm not 100% in love with it, I think once we paint and re-floor, I will be.  It's hard with bank owned sometimes cuz they can still look so crappy (people do not really clean when they're about to get kicked out of their homes, which is understandable, though I wish the banks would do SOMETHING to it, you know?)  It's alright though.  I actually LIKE painting inside.  I'm looking forward to picking out colors (currently, the living room is painted bright pink and the carpet is like... cornflower blue.  Yuck).

Love love love the weather.  I need to start spending some time outside, like working out or something though, because this winter wasn't good to me weight-wise.  Why do I love pie so much?  It's just unfair.  I'm going camping with Brett on Mille Lacs on Saturday night, which should be fun, but of course it's the coldest day in the next week or so.

Hmm, anyway, I should go catch up on all the TV I haven't been able to watch being so busy.  

I'm drunk.

And I wish I had hair like Blake Lively.

And pizza.




That is all.

Right, so, on Opening Day 2009, the Twins busted out vintage jerseys.


These jerseys were imitations of the jerseys worn back in 1982, when the Metrodome first opened.  Since this is the last season, it's fitting they wear them.

However, since that day, they have not worn them again, instead wearing their super trailer-trashy sleeveless uniforms many many games since.  Wanna see their trailer-trashness?


Seriously?  They keep wearing THESE, but not the super awesome ones they wore for Opening Day?

Wanna see again how awesome it is?





My mom has one from 1982.  When she worked at the ridiculously upscale Jax Cafe in NE MPLS, they had to wear these on Opening Day.  She gave it to me last year.  (And since then, I have had Coke and ketchup spilled on me.  It's a problem I face at every game, but that's for a different day).  Yes, it's made from 100% polyester, but we forgive these things, since it was 1982.  Good things were born that year, like Jason Kubel, for instance.

Here's a simple rule to abide by, not just in baseball, but in everyday life as well:
VINTAGE = GOOD.
TRAILER TRASH = BAD.

For example, you female Twins fans, I imagine, don't plan to attend games wearing blue eyeshadow, a denim vest, and clear platform sandals.  We know that this is simply unacceptable.  So why in GOD'S NAME are the PLAYERS wearing SUPER TACKY SLEEVELESS UNIFORMS??!!?  Why do we have modelesque players like Blackburn, and Morneau, and MAUER(???!?!?!), wearing such UNFLATTERING things?

They should be wearing the amazing vintage uniforms they have now. 


... so that way Mauer and I can match.

...and he can realize how absolutely perfect we would be together......


... and because it's important to baseball... and stuff....


....

I just spent $70 for a bag today.  And it was already on clearance.  Yikes.
It's super cute though, right?  I love it, but I'm gonna lose stuff in it even worse than I did in my last one.

Life is busy.  I got the promotion at Target so I've been doing 40 hours a week and sometimes it seriously feels like I never, ever leave that place.  I'm glad I have, for the most part, such fantastic coworkers, but I am so so glad that I have this weekend off.  I really need some time to wear something OTHER than red and khaki.  My sister's having a Pure Romance party tomorrow and I'm bringing a coworker who's never been to one before.  It'll be hilarious.  She's actually nervous about it and everything.

YAY TWINS IN A LITTLE OVER A WEEEEEEEK!!! WHOO.  Oh husband, I've missed you.

I bought the last book of cassandraclare's Mortal Instrument trilogy and I loved it lots and lots and now I want to read nothing but fantasy.  Anyone have any suggestions?

So I had a dream that Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl wanted me to be his girlfriend.  I said no, because I have a boyfriend, but then I gave him this big hug.  That's all that happened.  Is that not the shortest dream in the history of the world?

( Shag, marry, or throw off a cliff? )

I cannot wait for regular season baseball to start!!!!  I just got back from Florida last night and saw two games while down there, in the sun and warmth and loveliness that is the southern US in March and I want to go back immediately never to return (except for regular season baseball, of course).  I was mere inches from pro pitchers.  

( PRO PITCHERS!!! )

It was fantastic.  Also, it's very nice and there's an ocean and Dunkin Donuts are EVERYWHERE and I had a crab cake burger and crab legs and there are WAFFLE HOUSE's (though I didn't get to go to one cuz of needing to eat crab cake burgers and crab legs).  I am currently sunburnt but I do not care at all because I was in Florida and it was like the first vacation I've ever been on.  I also met a gator named Leroy.

( He's adorable... )

April 6th, thankfully, is only a month away. 

( Me and Brett, cuz we're cute. )