Vlog: Atlanta

I finally finished my video for the Atlanta trip. That whole video process thing is normally the first thing I jump on when I get back but it's been kinda crazy with back to back trips and what not. I make good use of my weekends that's for sure. This video is prolly my least fave by far. I don't think I did as good of a job as for my previous ones. I'm posting it even though I feel I can work on it a bit more. But whatevs. I still like it none-the-less cos it gives me a summary of all the things that took place that weekend. The song I used is one of my fave songs this year. Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event, a group that big poppa intro'd me to. My favo song of the year is still hands down Greg Laswell's, Comes and Goes. Anyways, enjoy the vid!

Paw Pals: Spayed

My little Stewie was spayed a few months ago. Hours after she came back home, she was walking around like she didn't just have major surgery. What a soldier! The next day, she was jumping and doing this slight jog everywhere. I was worried her sutures would come apart. Luckily, she healed like Wolverine. I wish that she was a more affection cat. She has her sweet moments where she'll come up to me and asked to be pet and rubbed but mostly, she's running around and hiding and laying by herself. Miss independent! I also would like for her to gain more weight but judging by the amount of exercise that she puts herself through, I doubt she'll get fat any time soon. Take this morning for example. She was darting around the room in zig zags, making a LOT of noise in the process. She would jump and run across our sleeping bodies, go up onto the window ledge, jump down and run to her scratching post, do a quick burst of scratching, run back towards big poppa's side of the bed, run into the bathroom, jump onto the sink counter and then just sit and eat her food that we put there for her. Crazy right?!? Here are some pics of Stewie in her nice mode. I was petting her and when I stopped, she simply nestled herself up against my leg and a blanket and knocked out. It was so cute! You can see where they shaved her for the surgery. She's freaking HAIRY. Please do the right thing and spay/neuter your pet! I think they end up having a longer and less stressful life.

This is normally what she's doing. Stalking her unsuspecting victims.

Musik Mundi: Ingrid Michaelson

If you're a fan of Grey's Anatomy, then you should be familiar with Ingrid Michaelson. You should be if you're a music lover anyway. I got a chance to see Ingrid live at my much blogged about Hotel Cafe Tour with the all female line-up. She was great. Just as cute as she sounds. I only saw her play the piano/keyboard but she also is a guitar and ukele player also. Ugh. Jealous! I was listening to her Be OK album today and my conclusion is that it is mos def not as good as her previous album, Girls and Boys. But that's just me. Her new album drop next month, till then, here are some of her songs from my preferred album.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Ingrid Michaelson
Album: Girls and Boys (2007)
Song: The Way I Am
Song: Breakable
Song: Die Alone

Daily Shots: Combo Update

Some different random fotos that I have sitting on my lappy that I want to blog about.

After seeing Swan Lake about a month ago, several of us met up with some of the snowboard crew over at Max's Wine Dive. Mascara's belly is getting so big! She looks incredibly cute preggars. It's all belly. I can't wait to find out the sex of the baby!

Here we are comparing big poppa's belly to Mascara's belly. Aging really sucks.

While pumping gas one day, big poppa and I were entertained by this guy riding around on his bike. Pretty normal right? Well, this guy had ghetto rigged his bike with this extra bed/ramp and also installed his own sound system. He had a tuner/stereo attached between his handle bars and wired it to blare out through a pair of megaphones. That is so awesome. Haha!

This is a group foto of me and some of my co-workers. We're in the Cardio field so hence our hand-shaped hearts.

The weekend after we came back from Atlanta, big poppa and I hopped right back onto a plane and headed to McAllen. We would be visiting Mascara, Transam, Fabulous and Rice Boy. Flower Child, Jacques and Gilles would also be coming into town. It was a spontaneous trip that was cooked up at 2am while at Max's. During the trip, I saw the abbreviation RGV everywhere and had no idea what that was. Now I realize it stands for Rio Grande Valley. And it also makes sense as to why people call it The Valley. Hah!

Boxes and boxes of diapers everywhere could only mean one thing. Back to back baby showers! More on that later. So many babies everywhere!