So I know it's a little voyeuristic of me, but I just had to! This is Mike's neighbor, the urban cowboy himself. Long blond hair, cowboy hat, wranglers, GIANT belt buckle, and of course the cowboy shirt and a...LASSO (to rope a TRICYCLE [read animal]).

As I sit outside this is what I hear through the pounding bass (alicia keys, no less) coming from their little neon car that has the doors open:

COWBOY: Let the dog out.
Wife?: Oh, I'm not letting him out.
COWBOY: Why?
Wife?: I know what you want to do.
COWBOY: I want to play fetch.
Wife?: More like you want to play CATCH.
COWBOY: CAtch, FEtch, it's only one letter difference.

So that glorified muppet scared the bejeezus out of me. Mike and I were wandering around canal park wasting time b/c we were so excited to go to the omnimax we got there before they even opened. He starting singing and playing the piano out of nowhere right as we we're next to it. Can you tell how much mike loved it?

So we saw the deep sea at the omnimax and i had no idea how scary shrimp could be!

We did a lot of just wandering around this weekend doing a lot of shopping (without a lot of buying) and dreaming about what Mike's kitchen could someday be while we wandered around Home Depot. It was great. Absolutely no timetable! Well except for the movie time, which we were clearly ahead of schedule for. We went to Famous Dave's to eat and yum, I forgot how much I love their cornbread muffins (or fish-tasting muffins to mike). He thinks a lot of things taste like fish.

Anyways, it was great to get away, even just to Duluth and have a weekend where I could do whatever I wanted. I could really get used to that, too bad I won't have the chance to yet. Someday though...I swear someday I'll have a job where I don't work every single weekend.

So this weekend Mike and I are going to go to Duluth and just hang out, go shopping, watch some shows at the Omnimax, and do whatever the heck we want. I'm pretty excited. We were originally going to go camping but it's supposed to be icky out so we nixed that idea. Thankfully, we we're able to priceline a decent hotel for a pretty decent price, so yay :D Anyone need anything in Duluth???

Oh and girls, I just ordered this from QVC (insert laugh here but it was the today's special value!) and I love it!! It's a kit and I just thought I needed to share that maybe someone else should try it too. It's Bare Escentuals (Bare Minerals)

I came about these while looking for Reel Big Fish videos.





You can go to youtube and search for manualist and beatboxing flute to see more awesomeness.

And because it's so cute...A PIG IN BOOTS! He was afraid of mud. Aww!

Well it was and it is again (in my car). After a multiple year hiatus reel big fish has entered my cd player to critical acclaim (from myself). I really needed some upbeat music as of lately and even if the lyrics aren't the cheeriest, the music sure is.

It reminds me of what I like to call the "funnest summer ever". The days and nights were spent outside not doing much and sometimes inside not doing much. It's when I really got to know that little Aaron character and when thoughts of, "hey lets drive to boston for a couple days" we're entertained seriously and later shot down by parents. It's when I allowed myself to get sooo incredibly sunburnt just to see some fun bands and even meet those RBF characters. Let me relive that for a little while.

We've decided on a name...Toivo. We're taking a hint from our Finnish ancestors and giving him a proper Gnomey name. Thanks for the suggestions.

On another note, today is my day off and I don't know what to do with myself. It's crazy windy out right now and starting to sprinkle so that kinda cuts out doing any gardening like I had wanted to do or doing anything else outside really. Mike tells me it's okay to relax and do absolutely nothing because well, it's my day off. Why do i have to have a guilty conscience? I really do want to do nothing but then I spend the time thinking I should be doing something. What a tortured soul I have. I'm a tish bit dramatic too.

And just because here are some sillyish pictures from the last awesome brett favre game that I'm feeling a little bit sentimental about.

Alright, I had a name all picked out for my new gnome but to my dismay, Mike said no to Larry. Some bad feelings associated with the name I guess. Boo. So now I'm looking for suggestions. Got any? Again, thank you aaron and arianna for going out of your way to get me this handsome fella.

Well as you can see I found the cord to my camera! Finally. Thank you Jolene for the kind offer but my disorganized bum finally found it underneath a pile of clothes...unfortunately that's not too surprising.

In other news, I went on a couple job interviews yesterday and today. One was interesting in the fact that it was out of someone's house and an old barn and the man ate an apple during our interview. And the other seemed like it might be promising so we'll see. I'm just happy people actually wanted to interview me, b/c it's been a long time since even that's happened.

Has anyone ever had the person interviewing them for a job eat an apple as they were asking you questions?