holla atcha girl

i couldn't resist posting this. i have this weird affinity for snoop dogg that i can't expl-iz-ain. and i dig martha fo' shizzle.

enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPrnas53d4&feature=related

damn recession

i love shelter mags. love love love love love. i subscribe to many and my day is always a little better when i get to the mailbox and there one is waiting for me. but i received some sad news today no thanks to time, inc. one of my dearest, cottage living, has gone the way of the glossy paper recycle bin.

this isn't the first to go. last week O at Home shut its doors. along with many others. coastal living's editor-in-chief was recently let go, as well. honestly, if Oprah can't survive the recession, who can?

so please, a moment of silence...

party!

today's my birthday. i forgot. does that tell you anything about how hectic my life is right now? i left the house this morning for work and had to be at an appt. first thing this morning. got all the way there, got a call from my husband that he needed to see me. for what? i'm thinking, oh great... the dog got out and got hit by a car. so i'm a little in a panic state, but at 8:58 he comes rolling into the parking lot where i am. all is fine and the conversation goes something like this:

[we both get out of our cars]
j: i forgot to tell you happy birthday this morning and i'm really sorry.
me: oh my gosh... i completely forgot it was my birthday!

yep, i forgot my own birthday. it was a little strange this year, granted. my parents have, every year that i've not lived at home, come to visit me for my birthday -- no matter where i am. at some point -- either the weekend before, the weekend of or the weekend after -- i spend my birthday with my brother and sister-in-law. this is the first year in 10 years i've not done either of those things!

but to make up for it we're having dinner with our community group friends and going to see denison witmer, who i haven't seen live in 6 years! and my husband is home this year for my birthday, which doesn't always happen with his work schedule. so that right there makes it a perfect day.

i just have one minor complaint... i was too busy today to listen to woxy!

mr. november

(thanks, national)

the holy crap election

seriously, i'm sitting here thinking "holy crap... this is huge!" (that's what she said.) i've been such a mixture of excited, nervous, impatient, tired... and it is all coming to a close so quickly! maybe that's why i really didn't feel like cooking tonight. i hope we can someday tell our kids what we did tonight: singapore rice noodles for dinner as we sit in our house that is torn up from one corner to another (that's a whole other story), both on our laptops, rabbit-ear television on in the background and our dog chewing up who-knows-what under the guest bed. completely unglamorous, but we've been able to laugh at ourselves all night long and that is priceless.

in all honesty, i thought for sure this would be a repeat of the 2000 election -- not knowing for weeks who the president would be. but, thanks to two states i am proud to have lived in (ohio and pennsylvania), barack obama is more than likely our new president. this is so incredibly exciting!

should we put all our eternal hope in a president? no, not at all. but i'm proud to be an obama supporter and i look forward to what lies ahead.

GOBAMA!