Sneaky snake.

My boyfriend is a sneaky snake.

Whenever we meet up somewhere he somehow manages to sneak up behind me and scare me. I think he's getting better at it too. Yesterday I was walking towards where we were suppose to meet and he caught me before I even made it to the meeting spot.

My reaction is either "you scared the crap out of me!" or "you sneaky snake!" I have no idea where I got the term sneaky snake or why I use it without even thinking about it.

I probably shouldn't even write this blog post because he's going to read this and try to find new ways to sneak up on me. Next thing you know he'll be dropping down out of a tree. Please don't do that.

I'm going to move on here before I give my boyfriend any more ideas.

I think my ipod nano is dying. The battery won't hold a charge and I'm sad. I've had this nano for about 5 years and I don't want another one! I do have an iphone but I prefer keeping my music separate because I'm paranoid about draining the battery on my phone. I listen to music a lot.

Maybe my ipod is rebelling because I downloaded that One Direction song. I'm sorry ipod. I'm SORRY.

Happy half birthday to me!

Last night Derek and I went out in China town. I never really go out in China town and I don't know why. I mean they have a Chinese McDonald's. We did not eat a the Chinese McDonald's though.

Instead we ate a Chinese restaurant with an identity crisis. The decor was a mix of tiki/tropical island/Italian vineyard (fake grapevines not pictured).

The menu was strictly Chinese though which is what we came for. And I still suck at using chop sticks. It's a special treat seeing me try, especially when I'm starving and trying to shovel food in my mouth and I get like three grains of rice left on my chop sticks by the time it reaches my mouth. The food that made it to my mouth was really good.

Anybody want to see a show in Quincy? I think the Asian Kim Kardashian will be there. Too bad, this Superstar event was on July 22nd.

We wandered around the Park Street area and ended up at a bar listening to an Irish bartender's thoughts on divorce.

"I plan on having 12 marriages behind me before I hit the grave."

They had some radio station from Cork playing in the background.

We stopped by one more bar in Davis and then headed to bed. But not before I got a half birthday present!

Happy half birthday to me! I'm officially 28 and 1/2. Good thing I reminded Derek about this all last week (I did not actually ask for anything, so the roses were a complete surprise). I hate having a February birthday because half the time my birthday plans get ruined by snow. This is why I like my half birthday much better. I suggest you do this as well is you're not satisfied with your actual birthday.

I ate the world's supply of kettle corn.

You probably think I give Bosco special treatment because I post more pictures of him on my blog. This is not the case. It's just really hard to get a picture of Mr. Binx. The minute I point my camera or phone at him he gets all excited and tries to climb up on me or rub on the camera. I got him last night though.

Bloggin and nails. That was my super exciting Saturday night. 

Family portrait. Bosco in his favorite spot - my lap.

I finally got my popcorn. I am a popcorn addict. I probably eat about four bags a week. I use to eat kettle corn but I can't find it anywhere. I tried the non-microwave kettle corn but it's not the same. I think I might have eaten the world's supply of microwavable kettle corn. Sorry about that.

Today is Dave's birthday! He thinks he's old. Ancient at 24. We're celebrating next weekend along with my birthday where I pretend I'm turning 27 again.

I watched both Alien and Aliens this weekend and my DVD player is working again. I was having issues with discs skipping and freezing. I was going to say screw it and buy a new one but I decided to try blowing in it as a last ditch effort. I mean it worked with Nintendo right? So I blew inside the DVD player and it's totally fine now. Weird. If only blowing in something would always work.

Denial in the pants

Sorry if you're expecting this post to be sexual in nature because it's not.

It does involve pants though.

I've been shopping for new pants because the current pants I own are pretty much falling apart. Back in December I was out shopping with Dave and I picked up my normal size and he took one look at them, told me I was crazy and handed me the next size down. I told him he was crazy, I am this fat ass size (ok, it's a normal size but I feel like a fat ass) and to prove it I took the pants I picked out and tried them on in the dressing room. Turns out Dave was right. How is it that my boyfriend can pick out my pants size and I can't? Don't I live in this body every day?

I thought maybe it was a fluke. Maybe these jeans were just nice jeans that run big to make you feel better about yourself. To test my theory I bought two more pairs of pants from different stores. I had to buy the pants to test out my theory. I also had a gift card. Turns out I actually have gone down a pants size. I can no longer be in pants denial.

I have to admit this is probably due to Jillian Michaels. I've been waking my ass up early every other day and working out with Jillian. It's not fun being yelled at by Jillian at 6:30 a.m. but I can't deny that she gets results.

My ultimate goal is to go down one more pants size. I ate a salad as a side instead of french fries the other day. That was a really hard choice but life is full of hard choices.

Conversations on cold meds and isn't that Captain Von Trapp and Princess Buttercup?

This is what happens when I get a cold.

I take cold medicine and feel better and then my stomach is like "oh hell no!" and the acid reflux bitch slaps me right in the esophagus. The cold has pretty much passed but now I'm trying to calm down the stomach.

See I told you I was still going to over share on this blog.

Dave and I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I thought it was pretty good until the last ten minutes. What the heck was that crap? I read the books so I had an idea of what was going on but they did not explain it well for those who have not read the book.

And the cat! Why?! I can't handle anything bad happening to an animal in a movie.

Besides that the acting was great, the spirit of the book was captured and Trent Reznor did an excellent job with the score. I'm also glad that they didn't make Mikael a man whore in this movie like he was in the book. If you haven't read the books I hope I'm not spoiling too much by telling you he bangs every chick he meets.

Moving on: hello Captain Von Trapp!

I am a huge Sound of Music fan and I think Christopher Plummer is fabulous (and sexy).

Did you recognize princess Buttercup?

I didn't know Robin Wright was still acting.

Of course I have to compare the two Lisbeth's.

Noomi is the original Lisbeth. She played Lisbeth to perfection and no one denies that. Rooney had a tough job; you can't help but compare her to the original. I think she did very well, even though the eyebrows freaked me out a bit.

Drugged up on cough medicine I had this conversation with Dave:

"I'm going to cut my hair like Lisbeth."

"I think that would look good."

"Really?!!"

"Just don't do the eyebrows."

I should point out that I often try to freak Dave out by telling him I'm going to do weird things to myself but he always says "that would look good on you!"

I also told him that if he throws me overboard on a cruise ship that he has to take in my cats.

"Why would I throw you overboard on a cruise ship?!"

"I don't know but if you do you I'm leaving my cats to you."