Walking Kateastrophe

Pictures from the girls trip!!!

Our deliciously wonderful Diva Packets, complete with DVD of pictures from last year, rock star names, tattoos and tour t-shirts!!

Julia in all her rockin’ glory

My beautiful Sheila

Hannah getting some mad air at the pool

Sara and her stylin’ sun hat

Much damage done shopping . . .

Maybe the best June weather in the history of Phoenix . . . 79 at 11:31?? What the . . .

Carla, Sara and I ready for our close-ups

All of us girls sassied up to go to dinner

Can it be next June already???

Or in the heart, right girls?? Hahaha. (I know inside jokes on blogs are L-AME but I couldn’t resist.)

Girls weekend? A-freaking-MAZING.

We had SO much fun. So much I can’t even explain it.

There was much damage done at the mall. I think we personally reversed this rumored “recession.” Also, the amount of bags for purchases may cause the landfills to finally overflow and spill over into our homes. Oh and the amount of food consumed? Forgetaboutit. I think I gained fifty pounds. Not even exaggerating. Ok maybe exaggerating a little. We ate at Logan’s Roadhouse twice. You heard me. TWICE. Mmmm buttery yeasty rolls.

We broke in the new house in style. I’m finding little goodbyes everywhere. Sara’s hand prints embedded in the carpet. The face masks we bought and didn’t use. The cake mix box on the counter. Leftover PF Changs reeking in the fridge. Tags from our many purchases sneaking out from under the bed and reminding me about the HOT outfits so-and-so bought and wore. A pink hair across the faucet. Elebenteen magazines piled on my (finally!) rumpled couch cushions (not a bad thing. They so needed breaking in).

There was so much joy and laughter in my home this weekend it almost burst. While it was nice to sleep in the same bed with my husband last night (he was SUCH a trooper over the weekend! He slept on his old bachelor mattress (that has no frame!) in the empty bedroom and hid himself away in the study watching sports. Love that man) I miss the bustle of the girls in my house. The door creaking open as the first one awoke and snuck into the bathroom. The early morning cell phone ring followed by a mad sprint to shut it off before it disturbed the beauty sleep. The blow dryers humming. The murmur and then roar of laughter from the family room. The oohing, aahing and breath holding as we watched the final scene of Pride & Prejudice. The smell of tanning lotion and sunscreen. The complaining about our bodies in bikinis followed by the shrill, shrieking disagreement (and threatening of throat punching) of the rest of the group insisting that every single one of us is gorgeous and amazing. The pure GIRLINESS of it all.

I love these girls like I can’t even explain. They complete my life and make me whole. The fifth annual soiree in Vegas CANNOT come soon enough.

*Oscar Wilde

**Pictures to come soon. We’ve got some DOOSIES!

Just popping in to post the Mr. Linky for Soap Opera Sunday! I have another day of laughter, shopping and eating entirely too many carbs with my best girls ahead of me, so I’m sorry to once again postpone my soapy tale, but I swear I won’t leave you hanging forever!!!

Happy Soaping! Can’t wait to read!

SHEESH I’ve been a downer lately! It’s like I took every good thing in the world and decided I hated it!

In an attempt to be more positive, I have a list of things that are making me happy today!!!

• I just had my eyebrows waxed. Unibrow be gone! I look like a new woman!
• I’m getting my hair done tonight. I’m thinking lots of sexy red and keeping the length. Va-va voom!
• It’s about ten degrees cooler than average here this week. So far this has been the MOST glorious year in Phoenix!
• In just over 24 hours I’ll be on my way to the airport to pick up my girls to start our rockin’ vacation!!
• As a thank you for doing him a HUGE favor (and being the best admin in the history of the world for the two years I worked for him) my former boss (and dear friend) bought me THESE!

  

  I refer to them as my “everyday Manolos” even though they are my first and ONLY Manolos and I’m a wee bit scared to wear them. Maybe when I go to see Sex in the City this weekend I will don them!

   

• I went to the gym last night and I feel SO much better today because of it. I will never go a week without going to the gym again. Even if I have to wake up at the butt crack of dawn.
• I just had a delicious turkey sandwich with avocado for lunch.
• I got a new covered parking space at work . . . away from the outdoor smoking area I was planted next to for the last month. It’s sad how happy this makes me.
• It’s JUNE! I love June.

And with that, I am off to find more things to make me happy, despite sitting at work freezing because the air conditioner is turned up full blast. I’m convincing myself that I LOVE THE COLD!

I’m posting so late that most of you won’t even see this until tomorrow . . . because I suck.

I honestly cannot remember the last time I was as exhausted as I have been for the past few days.  I’ve been a WRETCH to live with.  Poor Matt felt the brunt of my tired attitude as I went full on ape-s**t on him not once but TWICE this weekend.  While I feel like I was somewhat justified in my meltdowns, he didn’t deserve the insane woman who jumped out of my body and attacked.  Did I say insane?  I mean OH MY FREAKING CRAZY PSYCHO.  If I thought he read this here blog I’d write him a huge apology, but I’m pretty sure he’d rather rip out his eyeballs than read my ranting, sooooooo yeah.

I HATED almost every moment of performing in the musical (I, the person who chose musical theatre as her college major because I love performing more than almost anything on earth.).  I couldn’t wait for it to just be OVER.  Saturday we had a matinee followed by a cast party (complete with MEXICAN FOOD.  Who’s lame idea was that?) and then another evening performance.  We were told we needed to add a matinee because every performance would sell out.  Matinee?  1/3 full.  Final performance?  Maybe 1/2.  It SUCKED.  The director kept coming backstage during the final performance to tell me my energy was way down.  YA THINK???  I didn’t even stick around to say goodbye to anyone after the show. I  just left.   Then attacked my poor husband for a good half an hour.  Good times.  I publicly declare that I will never be in a church musical again.  And if I do?  I deserve what I get.  Goodbye, Dolly.  And good riddance.

I need a pedicure.  I need to wash my car.  I need to go to the gym (Matt has told me that my attitude improves so much when I work out consistently that he’s making it mandatory and putting it in a post-nup.  Hahah) and I need to sleep.  Hmm, that’s a lot to do in an evening.

Tomorrow I FINALLY get my hairs did.  I asked around and think I found someone good.  His name is Scotty and his girlfriend manages the Crack (or M.A.C) counter at Nordstrom.  She has FAB hair so I’m giving him a shot.  I’m also getting my woolly mammoth eyebrows waxed tomorrow, thank heaven.  I’m scaring myself whenever I look in the mirror.

Wednesday, my girls come to town for our annual soiree!  I cannot TELL you how excited I am.  Julia, who is a goddess, sent out our Diva Packets last week and OHMYGOSH.  Last year the theme was Diva University (so great, check out the diva packets here), but this year?  Even better.  This year we’re rock stars in a band called Fallen Angel and Phoenix is the final destination of our world tour.  DO YOU SEE how cool the stuff Jewels did for us is?  Holy crap.  We even have rock star names.  GENIUS I tell you.   I can’t wait to see my ladies, we have SO MUCH laughing and shopping and eating to do!!  This trip is the best part of my year I tell you.

And with that, I’m off to take a nap under my desk.

Hey party people!  It’s that time of the week again!  Soap Opera Sunday!!

Our dear Canadian Flake is hosting this week because I’m pretty sure I lost my brain and my ability to do anything but sing like a trained monkey on stage (two performances down, two to go!).  Also because she’s very very cool.
I am going to try with all my might to get caught up with my Richard saga tomorrow . . . we’ll see what really happens!  Now go on!  Go over and read the soapy fun!

I am guest posting over yonder at Brillig’s today, where I’ve written a random list of songs that remind me of my best girl.  Go check it out!  And if you’re not already reading Brillig, you sort of need to.  She rocks the hizous in a serious way.

Three years ago today I married the man of my dreams

The man who has, in every way imaginable, saved me

The man who taught me that a good marriage in my crazy family is possible

Who proved to me that love isn’t hard

Who showed me that a simple, calm, (relatively) drama free life isn’t boring, it’s amazing

The man who still makes me want to jump for joy because he chose me

The man who makes me feel beautiful every single day(even when I know I’m not)

Three years ago today I married the most amazing man I’ve ever met.

And every day I am more in love and so grateful that he is mine and I am his for eternity.

Um, this week, and next week, and the week after that, and the week after that are all going to be CRAZY. Insane I tell you. Between visitors (hi in-laws! Hi Grandma and Grandpa! Hi my lovely ladies, the Girl’s Trip is SO CLOSE!), my play (finally! We perform this week!), work trips, anniversaries, and holycrap it’s my ten year high school reunion, I’m swamped!

Forgive me if I’m a wee bit absent from el Blogo for the next few weeks. I do have some things lined up. I’m guest posting over at Brillig’s pad on Thursday, I will continue to host Soap Opera Sunday (and hopefully write a few of my own!) and I’ll try hard to update you on the stuffage that goes on in my life. Just be patient with me. I’m trying to breathe here!

Word to my homies. (Says the whitest white girl ever born.)

I’m hosting Soap Opera Sunday this weekend, but I have some insanity going on, what with my fantabulous in-laws in town and the last weekend of play practice, so I’m putting up the Mr. Linky now, and I will try to get to my Reason #3 post as soon as humanly possible.

Love, kisses and happy sudsing!!