Cinderelly Cinderelly...

I spent nearly ALL of Saturday cleaning our house and it was spectacular! I love that feeling of having a gloriously cleaned house without clothes strewn all over the place, dishes stacked high and smelly in the sink, and dog/cat toys torn to pieces making a graveyard out of our hardwood floors. It was so refreshing until I sat down on my couch last night after the long weekend and looked around.

GASP!

I swear someone broke into our house, made a bunch of food and piled the dishes in the sink, threw newspapers all over, and then ripped Winnie's toys to bits and left them dead-all over the house!

No... it was us- the outcome of a long, busy, fun, loverly, holiday weekend filled with Fairs, friends, Twins games, family and a whole lotta love and laughter.

Wish it could have lasted foooooor-ev-er! But alas...

ps... I took many many many many... perhaps too many... pictures both times we went to the fair and will hopefully post tonight (do remember... my house looks like an episode of Hoarders and needs to be cleaned first and foremost... sigh).

TTFN!

Heaaaaaaadache

I have got a huuuuuge headache right now. The kind that feels like the front of your forehead is about to pop right off and there's so much pressure in your ears it's almost unbearable. For this reason, I am tucking myself deep into bed right now and leaving you with my list of things for this glorious holiday weekend. It's supposed to start gettin' chilly!

Speaking of Katrina...

My favorite favorite favorite game right now is Flood It!. OBSESSED! At work, some may go take a walk, some may smoke, but when I want to take a break I go to the restroom and play Flood It!. Is that weird? I'll answer that for you... yes... yes that's very weird.

First: you choose which color scheme you'd like to play with

Then: you start playing
Then then: you try to make the screen one color

Luv it girl!

Oh... and don't get your undies in a bundle... My 'sister' and I single-handedly cleaned St. Bernard's Parish... kind of

The State Fair-est of them All

Well it is that time of year again... State Fair Time! The Fair always signifies the end of one season and the beginning of another and since it's typically the last really, ugly hot week of summer, you just can't help to go celebrate the end of heat and humidity with all the fried food and beer one can consume.


Now, I have had a particularly long love affair with the State Fair. My parents and I have gone every year since I was about 3 and once I hit the "why are you treating me like a child I am now a teeeeenager" years, my friends and I would hop on the bus at Southdale and ride in. We used to take the bus all over the place (Southdale, friend's houses, Uptown) before any of us could drive, but that was when there were more buses going through Edina and parents didn't overcrowd their kids' schedules with sports and clubs and camps and we were really left to be just kids. BUT, I digress...


This year, I'll be making at least 2-3 trips to the great Minnesota get together- sad... yes, but it's a tradition I have held onto for ump-teen years and REFUSE to let it go :) These are a few things that I am excited for:









Wait... that's terrifying.

It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year! Go here for more info:

http://www.mnstatefair.org/

I'll be there tomorrow night wearing something like this:

See ya there!

And I am really Lame-O!

So it's 5:20 and I'm sitting at my desk at work typing this blog because I am a total lame-o. Well... also because my adorable, little Winnie-baby decided to be a bitch (I can say that because she truly is a bitch in every sense of the word ;P) and chewed up the charger for my laptop. Either way my new one comes tomorrow, but for the past week or so, I have been living off of battery life that seems to dwindle faster than I can say boo. I have been limiting myself to sudden bursts of computer use that only include looking up things that I really need to know and unfortunately not blogging about recent accomplishments. Never fear! I have photo-documented everything and come tomorrow will be furiously blogging my head off.

Until then... I leave you with the exciting list of things that I WILL accomplish tonight:




Later gator!

And the winner is...

Yeah, I know... my last entry was during the finale and it's now almost a week later and I still haven't posted anything! You probably know who the winner is, BUT I choose to ignore this and will continue to go on as if it is Sunday night and the winner has just been revealed...

And the Winner is...

Aarti Sequeira!!! How exciting! I'm really interested to see what her POV will turn into now that she has her own show and is no longer in a competition. Also- I'm dying to see her Indian twists on American classics.

Aarti Party premiers this Sunday at 11am. My only gripe... I wish FN wouldn't have changed the name... Aarti Paarti is much more clever in my mind : )

The Next Food Network Star FINALE!!

Who do you think is going to win???




OH wait... they offed Brad for this tool:

I'm hoping for Arti (she's just too cute! plus I love her POV) ooooor Big Chef Tom (he's such a big, plaid wearing bear of a man that looks like he just ripped down a tree with his two hands and then came in to cook you a great meal... kind of hot...).

Well we're on the topic of FN (the only reason I CANNOT give up cable), the two women that I would "skin and wear like last years Versace" are:

Love, Love, LOVE! I'm still holding onto hope that Ina will be like an aunt to me and Giada my bff... here's hoping!