Happy Birthday To...

Mom & Baby Carl

    My momma, Millie.  

Fantastical lady, amazing cook, great advice giver, always supportive, intense, tamale maker, 60s/70s fashionista, marine, oakie & mariachi lover.

xxo

OOH RA!!!

My Mama & Uncle James

Happy 236th Birthday to the United States Marine Corp!  Semper Fi

It's A Little Stupid..

how I'm pretty much ready to give up everything to move somewhere.

Dental Pro n Junk - Megan

    Also whilest in Oregon (and the reason for my 3 week extended stay) I am getting dental work done, thanks to my every amazing sister

for helping me out, being a dental assistant and introducing me to a (her former boss) dentist that I'm completely comfortable with.  Therefor I have gotten everything I needed to get done for a fraction of the cost that the gompers back home wanted to charge me and what they wanted to do to my poor teeth.  Aside from my fear of needles (as in injections), I've been told that I've been an A+ patient and then on my side of it, there has been no pain and no real need for my prescribed vicodin (but we got it to be safe). YAY!  

    I leave you with a photo of my star treatment sans my nitrous mask:

 

xxo

ps:  Hopefully we get a decent picture of me with nitrous mask on during my next appt, I look like I'm ready to orbit the moon.

Adventures of 2011..

    Whilest being in Oregon I've learned to shoot.  Let me just say that for 97% of my life I have been petrified of guns and seeing them in my household hasn't given me a sense of protection, its given me minor anxiety.  This has changed.  Might make a good majority of my family, either being marines or cops, quite proud.  I've had a couple friends tell me they would take me shooting because I have, in the past year, been interested in just shooting a gun (hahah, freudian slip & said "guy") for fun BUT coming up to OR, I have family that just shoots in their backyard (being a mountain) and offered to lend their expertise to SO....

    Putting a shotgun in my hands and setting up 2 targets they explained how to load the gun, line up the target and whatnot, BOOM... after my first shot I felt like a kid at Christmas and my eyes lit up.  I turned to Meg, mom & Daddy Rich and said "MORE", which they were pleased with.  Leading to my 6 for 6 with a shotgun.

This is when I realized I wanted guns.

    The following morning as Meg n Rose slept, I chatted with mom & DR, had some coffee and relaxed for about an hour before DR said "Hey, do you wanna go shoot some squirrels" and I was dressed and ready to go within 10 minutes. We drove out to his friends ranch and grabbed another gun and he explained what we were looking for, "they look like squirrels but their tail is about 2" long and they make this noise *enter noise that sounds like a bird* and we call them 'squeeks'."  Color me happy, give me some bullets and show me the way.
    We drove out on to Johns land where its heavily populated by squeeks and DR gave me a gun with a scope and offered to have me shoot w/o a scope but I wanted to learn how to use one so I said "nay".  Took me a couple shots before I was used to the gun and scope but when I got my first squeek I was beyond thrilled.  I do believe my 2hr total ended around 20-25 and I was proud :)  John was giving me shit because there was a a short period where I couldn't find any squeeks and when I finally shot "you finally fucking shot!" hahaha.  What made it better was DR said that in the summer they usually go out there with a cooler full of beer and spend the day hanging out and offin squeeks and told me to let him know the next time I planned on visiting so they could get extra bullets!  I am SO excited to come back/go back and learn to shoot better, I never thought I'd be so excited and all about it!

    Unfortunately I didn't have my camera charger & got no pictures of the squeek firecrackers, therefore this concludes Reggies - Addiction to Guns entry.


xxo

Ohh Happy Day!!!

• HBD Christopher Walken '43, Rhea Perlman '48, Al Gore '48 & Ewan McGregor '71
• HBD to Robert Bunsen as well.  Todays Google doodle is in celebration of his 200th Birthday

• I got a list of the 15 Most Disturbing Films Ever Made, 10 of which I've seen already
• Glamour brings up the idea of wearing statement shoes for spring 
• I love hot sauce of all sorts and I loved Sriracha before it had a cookbook, but I won't judge :)
• Terry Richardsons new Aldo video & you should check out the link at the bottom as well
• My lil' cousin Charlie is too damn cute: "At the bus stop this morning, Charlie asked me if his hair looked like Justin Beiber's. I told him he has his own unique style. But for the record, I have Charlie Fever!!!"

• Todays M-W Word of the Day is:   Osculate  \AHSS-kyuh-layt\  verb:  kiss
• And we mustn't forget:

Happy Opening Day!!!

xxo

My cousins are rad.

    I meant to post this yesterday but didn't get around to it.  I would just like to brag about how awesome my cousins are, along with being adorable.  I give you  Spencer, Felix & Charlie:

xxo

Portland Bound...

   So I'm sitting at the airport in Sacramento, pretty buzzed/close to drunk and cannot wait to be on a plane again. I swear, if I could fly around on a plane for a living, I would do it. Fly passenger, not pilot because I simply couldn't handle that kind of responsibility.
    I had myself a "large" GB Hefenweizen because I saw that my flight was going to be delayed about 40 minutes, then it turns out the plain is delayed an hour and ONE minute "due to weather". Which means I'm ecstatic about the snow that I'm going to be flying into.

photo from this morning in Portland via Shan.

   Time to board. Fuckin YAY!!!

xxo