Chavo

Raise you're hand if you've ever had a "office pet."
Okay
Now raise your hand if you have ever had a parrot in your office as a pet.
Anyone?
Didn't think so.

I count myself as one of the very unlucky few to have the privilege of having a parrot in my office. He belongs to my boss and yet, is not in his office. The little bastard loves me. Apparently, he prefers females over males and long dark hair over short hair. [shaking head] I don't know.....he's a special little bastard this one. Once in a while [a few time a week], out of no where he'll start squawking in a very high pitch. It is the MOST annoying sound in the world! I have learned to ignore it and work thru it, but sometimes it becomes unbearable and I have to cover his cage so he's left in the dark. Only then does he shuts up.

For your enjoyment, I have recorded this moment with my sorry cell phone camera. Unfortunately, the video does not capture the true high pitch death cry that almost makes my ears bleed.

People - meet Chavo [a.k.a. Fuck Face or Little Bastard]





Lord save me.

Becoming Literate

This year I set out a goal to read 25 books. I have always loved reading for pleasure [never for school], but in the last few years I had only read 2 or 3 books a year. So, for me, 25 was a high number. The year started off great, but it has slowed down this summer. With only 3 months left in the year and only 13 books read so far, I have a lot of catching up to do! I honestly do not believe I'll make my goal, but that doesn't mean I won't try! I am halfway thru my current read [on the right column of the blog], but now I fear I will never finish or pick up another book with my favorite shows back on with new episodes! You see, I'm also a TV whore and I'm not afraid to admit it. So finishing my list will take some serious effort, but I'm up for the challenge!

As if I don't have enough on my plate, I have also decide that I want to read the top 100 books of all time as voted by the public. No time line for this though. Here is the list stolen from a friends blog.

The books I've read are in italics ["bold" seems to be out of the office today].

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) [half assed read in HS]
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) [seen all these movies too!]
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) [seen all the movies though!]
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) [on my bookshelf collecting dust]
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)[fucking hilarious!]
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible [snooze]
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) [Love the movie]
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

24% -hmmm.....thought I would have read more. I must credit my HS AP english class for forcing me to read a few of these. Although I do feel there are many great books missing from this list, i.e. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury).

Wish me luck!

Damn the Man

Busy day. I really wanted to blog today, but it didn't happen. Now it's time for me to leave work and my only internet connection. Damn the man for making me work for my money today! And damn being too poor to afford internet right now! dang it. Wait....I pay for the damn internet at my parents house! What the fuck am I thinking?!?!? Gawd I'm a retard sometimes.

But I am thinking of you blog.....

YouTube Tuesday

This cracks me up. Enjoy!

Yosemite '98 Revisited

I was at my moms yesterday and found our pictures from our first trip to Yosemite. I can't believe it had been 9 years since we had been! The first picture is with my brother and sister. We made sure to take a picture this time too. Check out how different we all look! This was the summer before my senior year of high school. The good old days......

BEFORE: Summer of '98

AFTER: Summer of '07

Yosemite Trip Recap

In a nutshell: It was a blast!

It's so great to get out of the city and appreciate our natural surroundings. Yosemite National Park is beautiful and breath taking. It was an easy drive up - only took us about 5 hours. The weather was cold, but beautiful. We did get rain the last 2 days.

Thursday:
We got in Thursday afternoon. We check in and got our camp set up and made dinner and just hung out at our camp. We stayed at the Housekeeping Camp located in Curry Village. Despite the name there is no housekeeping available. The room are basically 3 concrete walls with a sturdy tarp roof and a tarp curtain type door. And you get bunk beds and a double bed. You have a picnic table and a fire pit. The best part - electrical outlets! Definitely a luxury when camping. However, we did rough it. We only used the outlets to hang out some tube lights to add some ambiance to our little camp. I didn't sleep much that night as I was really freaked out by the thought of bears invading our camp. We were told at check-in that they had 50% more bears this year. Also, since it was near winter, the bears were becoming way more aggressive in finding food sources. This meant that there were a lot more roaming around the camps at night. So I kept waking up to every little sound the entire night. Good thing we were in bed by 9pm every night! We would get so wiped out.











Friday:
Woke up and made pancakes and made sandwiches for our lunch on the trail. We headed to the Yosemite Falls trail. A 3.5 mile trail that is a bitch to climb! We only made it a mile up to Columbia Rock, which offers amazing views of Half Dome and the valley. The trail up to Columbia Rock is a steep and strenuous switchback. My worst fears were realized as a hyperventilated twice going up this trail. I am WAY out of shape! But I knew that. We were too afraid to continue on, and the clouds were becoming darker, so we decided to head back down and back to camp. I'm sure some of the guys wanted to keep going, but they were nice enough not give me shit for slowing them down. We were all pretty wiped after the hike so we just hung out at the camp for the rest of the day. Ended the night with 2 rounds of Kings Cup before passing out [almost drunk!]. But Yosemite is magical. No one ever woke up with a hangover.









Saturday:
Had rain off and on all day. During a morning break in the rain we headed out to Mariposa Grove to see the Giant Sequoias. As we were getting ready to leave the Grove when the skies opened up and it started to pour rain and then hail. Everything turned white in about 5 seconds from all the hail. It was awesome. We headed back to our camp. After about an hour, the rain cleared and we took advantage and headed back out for a short hike. We took the free Yosemite Valley shuttle to the Mirror Lake hike [2 miles round trip]. Unfortunately, Mirror Lake is a seasonal lake and it was all dried up. So we just saw a lot of sand and a cloud covered half dome. Rained some more as we headed back to camp, and at this point we began to worry about dinner. You see we were really roughing it and did not take a propane stove or a small charcoal grill. The camp fire pit was our only source of heat and fire. Rain was literally damping our dinner plans. Luckily the rain stopped long enough to allow us to start a fire and start cooking! We actually finished cooking in the rain with umbrellas. But we made it work!








Sunday:
We were up early and packing up all our junk. We left Yosemite at 9am. Tired and dirty....we were all ready to leave. Btw - our camp had showers....but it was 2 effing cold! So 2 days without a shower isn't too bad....right? Ok....2.5 days. So gross....I know.... I felt it.

We were all extremely happy with our trip and would stay at the Housekeeping camp again. But I think next time we'll go the cabin route. :) Seriously hope we can make this a yearly trip.

Busy Bee

The day before a vacation is always the busiest. Even work decided to get in on the mix and take up some of my precious time. I mean, seriously, who actually does work at work? [insert evil laugh here]

Tomorrow we leave for our 4 day trip to Yosemite National Park ["we" as in the hubby & I, my brother, sister, her boyfriend, co-worker cousin chris, cousin tony, & my bff mario]. I am super excited to get out of town and into the wilderness. But sorta nervous too. I've camped twice before, but with experienced people, and never with my inexperienced family. That makes me the "experienced" one. Scary! Guess i'll embrace it. I'm just glad the family is finally up for some camping. We never were the camping kind. I guess our Mexican parents never really got the point. Back when I was in high school we took a family trip to Yosemite [with stops in Lake Tahoe, Reno, Las Vegas, and the Grand Canyon]. My parents rented the biggest most awesome cabin ever. They never even gave camping a thought. Those are the kind of wilderness trips we took. In college, I had my first and second camping experience and loved it! The first was at a hot beach and the second at a cold & windy lake. Both equally fun. It was then that I began to look back and wish that our family had been the camping type. So maybe this is the beginning of something. I certainly plan to do it with my own family in the future.

Well ladies and gents, rain and possibly snow are in the forecast for our trip. Wish us luck that we don't freeze out there! Many many many pictures will be shared next week. Until then....stay cool [and warm] and dry this weekend.


SIDE NOTE
If stupid sprint decides to grace us with it's presence while in the Yosemite Valley, I will send updates to twitter, which you can read on the upper right hand corner of my blog. So feel free to check back daily to see what we're up to!

YouTube Tuesday

This is the "other" video from the same Kanye West on Ellen episode I wanted to share. Pretty cool. This guy has too much time on his hands.....kind of like me. :)

Reason #3452 Why I Luv John Mayer

He's funny - nuff said...

check out this TMZ video.

Reason #4373699 Why I Luv Kanye West

In case you didn't catch Kanye on the Ellen Degeneres Show on Friday - here's his interview explaining why he's angry at Mtv. I think he makes some great points about everything. And no matter what [even if he is whiny bitch] the man can put on a damn good performance!



Here's the second part of the interview with Kanye's performance of "Stronger." If anything, just watch it to see the middle-aged ladies gettin' down with Kanye. I luv it!




And since it's all Kanye all day [or at least it seems that way] - here he is at the Emmy's last night.




* I have another video from that same Ellen show that I wanna post, but I'll save something for YouTube Tuesday. ;o) And stay tuned for the weekend Rundown.

Looking towards the future

Yesterday I had a doctors appointment to check on my healing from the miscarriage surgery [D&C]. Everything looks great and I was given the O.K. to resume normal activities. I was really happy to get this news as I have been aching to start exercising again. And literally aching as any type of activity [such as going up a long flight of stairs] gets me winded and sore. I am especially looking forward to playing soccer again [twice a week with family and friends]. I missed it so much, and I have some new cleats that need breaking in. But I also need to do A LOT of walking this week. We are heading up to Yosemite next Thursday [for 4 days] and I am very worried about how outta shape I am and how much hiking we're gonna be doing. So I plan to take these next 5 days to ease myself [especially my legs and lungs] back into shape. Well....not back into shape, but back into walking a few miles without getting tired and winded.

As for this weekend, not much on the plate. I want to take these next few days to get some shit together in my life, and catch up on many tasks that were pushed aside during this pregnancy debacle.

Have a good one!

Stooping to new lows

I've heard from many of you reading this now, that you do actually visit my blog and read it. So why the hell does no one comment!??!?! My one friend that would comment has been so busy with work lately that she has no time to come up with witty remarks. I feel so unloved. Sure, I am mostly to blame. I never wanted traffic because it was suppose to be a private blog. But who am I kidding here? I'm an attention whore! I at least wish my family and friends would comment sometime. If it wasn't for the Google tracking system [and now my site meter] telling me that I do get traffic, I would definitely consider ending this. I don't know why this bothers me, but it does. So please dear readers, comment me every now and then [not on my knees yet, but pretty damn close]. It's not hard. I even set it up so that you don't have to sign in to blogger to comment. You can choose the "anonymous" option! No one will ever know it was you.

Begging sucks. Now I feel like a loser. Maybe it's the content. I need to write more and better posts. Aver que.

Currently listening to:

Reason #4372648 why I love Kanye West

Yes - just like everyone else he annoys me when he bitches about not getting enough attention. But there are many other aspects of this artist that i love. For example - West studied fine art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago on scholarship! This guy is smart & cultured! I recently came across an article at www.interiordesign.net that featured some awesome art work in Kanye's home. I also learned that Mr. West loves interior design. He therefore has decorated his home in a perfect minimalist fashion. And as the article states, his homes resembles nothing of what you would see on Mtv Cribs. Check out the article and click on the sideshow to see more.

I think I'll be swinging by Target to pick up his new album today. That should make my day happier.

[Insert Witty Title Here]

Yesterday was Tuesday....and therefore YouTube Tuesday, but there were other more important things to focus on. However, in honor of YouTube Tuesday I'd like to share a movie trailer with you. Fox Searchlight Pictures brings us Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna). A film about a young Mexican boy that sets out to join his mother in America, after his grandmmother dies. Being the Sap that I am....I totally teared up with this trailer. The trailer says "coming soon" but I've read on it has a 3/21/08 release date. Since there aren't any embeded codes, you'll have to click on the link to see the trailer.

Under the Same Moon - Trailer

*Thanks to twitter friend dayanza for the link.


In other news, football season is underway and this makes me happy. Yes, I love football. I can sit at home alone on a Sunday and watch a few games. I must mention how horrible it is to hear the news of Buffalo Bill's Tight End Kevin Everett. To get injured in the first game of the season and most likely never be able to walk again. It's heart-breaking and my thoughts go out to his family. He was on one of my Fantasy football teams.

I just heard an update that doctors are optimistic that he will regain movement and there a chance he could lead a normal life! That is such great news. I bet everyone is letting out a sigh of relief. Read the story here.

9/11 - 6 years later...

As so many others are doing today, I too will take a minute to remember all those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. I think everyone should take a moment to reflect.

I found the picture below, of 9/11 victims, on a random blog by doing a Google search for 9/11. Click the image for a larger view.



Let's keep on remembering and keep on talking about it - it is our duty. This is our history and we are the lucky batch to have lived through it.

Food Porn

My brother was telling me about a show he was watching....or maybe he was reading this....anyway - this guy was discussing cooking shows and asking viewers [or readers] whether they actually watched the shows and cooked or simply enjoyed "food porn." I thought the term was interesting and realized that I totally love food porn! I love love LOVE watching the food network. I also love cookbooks, but hardly ever cook. When I do cook I do venture out and try new recipes, but its usually the hubs who runs the kitchen.

Food porn aside - Here's the Weekend Rundown.

FRIDAY

Friday night I met up with my friend A for a late dinner. We decided to head down to South Pasadena [instead of the overly-crowded Old Town Pasadena] to look for a new place to dine. We accidentally came upon the Firefly Bistro which we had both been wanting to try out. We were not disappointed. It is a cute restaurant tucked away just south of Mission Street where the farmers market is held every Thursday. It's a very small restaurant so we of course had to wait for a table. Luckily, they recently added a small bar area at the front of the restaurant so we were able to enjoy a drink while we waited. I must mention that the food is amazing. I had the Country Duck and A had the Crispy Fried Ahi Tuna. Both dishes were perfectly cooked and full of flavor. This place isn't cheap, but if you're looking for great food with fresh ingredients, and maybe celebrating something special, this is the place. And you can take your own wine for a $10 corkage fee. I'll make sure to do so the next time I go.


SATURDAY

The hubby conned me into taking him to work at 8am. I prefer to sleep in Saturdays, especially when I've been up past midnight the night before. The effing GAP, once again, decided to hold off on paying their employee monthly parking passes. So of course G had been paying his own parking for the 2nd month [still waiting for that reimbursement]. But, being the loving wife that I am, I agreed to drop him off and pick him up. Shockingly, this was the best idea. I ended up heading to Starbucks for some morning crack. It was such a nice morning that I decided to grab the LA Times and sit outside. I had not had time like that to myself in quite a while. I think I sat out there for about 2 hours before heading off to complete my errands for the day.

at 5pm I picked up G and we headed off to a baptism celebration out in Chino. [I am so over the Saturday afternoon 210 FWY traffic.] We had a great time at the baptism. There was tons of liquor that resulted in many laughs. As always, the Mexicans were the last to leave at around 11:30pm....when I was sober enough to drive the rest of the drunks who managed to polish off 3.5 bottles of wine, at least 2 cases of beer, and half a bottle of patron. Good times.

SUNDAY

Guess what? It was deja-vu from Saturday. My morning began exactly the same! Same time, different Starbucks, different news paper. This time I sat outside and read the Pasadena Star News. I waited till Pet Smart opened just down the street since I needed to buy fish food. You see, we have a new addition to the family - a beta fish. I named her [she's small with short fins which makes the beta a "she"] Negra Tomasa. My cousin Cat has a beta fish names Tomas from our cousins 15-ñera last year. Since this beta fish came from another family party [yesterdays baptism centerpiece], I thought I'd name her after another fish I hear too much about. Let's see how long she lives. Anyone care to place a wager? That's her on the left. Excuse my crappy cell phone pic. She's blue & purple.


Oh yeah - I forgot to mention that I was stupidly entertained with a very small mouse at Starbucks. It kept running in and out of the bushes. I finally had to put my feet up on another chair because I was afraid it would run up my leg. I spent a good 20 min. trying to get a picture, but those suckers run fast.


I then headed home where I did a mixture of cleaning, watching football, and taking a nap. I then picked up the hubs and we headed to my moms to watch the VMA's on directTV. This was great because this meant we were home by 9pm. And don't even get me started on the VMA's. I vowed not to discuss celebrity trash, but I'll make an exception. Some thoughts:
- Props to JT for challenging Mtv to play music videos.
- Britney is a disaster and needs to stop & take care of her kids.
- I <3 Kanye, but he needs to stop whining.
- Chris Brown is assome.
- Rhianna deserved her wins.
- Rock is going downhill.
- The award show resembled the New Years eve show with random performances in different areas.
- The VMA's are going downhill.

That's enough of my whining.

In brighter news, I picked up a copy of Common's new album "Finding Forever" and I LOVE it. I had recently started complaining to G that I am very much over current music. But I can't even seem to find something appealing in my old music. I have finally found something to quench my musical thirst in Common's album. 3 tracks in and I was sold. It was exactly what I need. It's fresh, hip, and his celebrity comments make me chuckle. Also, I really can't wait for Kanye's album tomorrow. I'm even thinking of picking up 50 Cent's album. I've heard some tracks and really dig em so far. High-five for great new music.

Ready, Set , Go!

I have so much that I've been wanting to blog about and have had no time. And this time I even have pictures to share. I don't know how I'm gonna sort this out, but I'm gonna go all the way back to the weekend and share with you what I've been up to.

Friday & Saturday
The night started off with dinner at Wokcano for my cousin's b-day. It was hotter than hell in their outdoor patio, but we managed to stay semi-close-to-cool with lots of Stella's. No need to say more so enjoy the pictures below.

After dinner, a few of us headed off to the dirty-fiver....i mean the 35er for a few more drinks. I then ditched my party for a spontaneous midnight trip to Joshua Tree National Park to check out an impending meteor shower.

The road trip consisted of my brother, cousin, BFF and myself. My brother had agreed to meet up with a few other mini cooper owners. We met up with 3 other minis in Azusa, and then we all headed out to Cabazon to meet up with 3 other mini owners. From there we beelined it to Joshua Tree.

We arrived around 3am, found an open area with some picnic tables and just hung out and waited out till the 4:30am when the meteor shower was to peak. Unfortunately, the shower was more of a sporadic sprinkle. In a 2 hour period we saw about 20+ meteors. But all big and nice nonetheless.

The mini owners left us shortly after 4:30am, but we stuck around for another 15 min. That's when the coyotes woke up and started howling all around us. Scary times so we peaced out. On our way back we made a quick stop at the Cabazon Dinosaurs. I hadn't stopped here since I was a kid. It was a beautiful time to see them. Eyes & mouth still glowing green, just as the sun was beginning to rise.

After a few pictures, we continued our drive home. Unfortunately, I had to make a quick appearance at work before 7am [made it to work at 7:15am]. After my work detour we headed over to Andy's Coffee Shop for breakfast. Great cheap food just down the street from PCC.

By the time we were all ready to finally get some sleep it was already around 80 degrees outside. It was going to be another 100+ day. I knew our apt. would be nasty hot and the hubby had already headed off to work, so I opted to get some z's at my mom's air conditioned home.

The rest of Saturday consisted of a shower and more sleep and food, and then a visit to my in-laws recently remodeled home. We had some friends over to our place later that night, but nothing special happened.

The pics the the left are from our road trip. The fancy night shots were taken by another mini owner with a fancy ass camera [some day I'll have the fancy ass camera too]. I'd like to give him credit, but have no idea who the guy is. The dinosaur stop pics were taken by me.

Sunday
My cousin had a 21st b-day party that we attended. Great people, food, and drinks.

Monday
Swung my my MIL's home. Hung out by a pool [at my cousin Jessica's house], trying to stay cool. Left shortly after they had a power outage [damn rolling black-outs].

Overall, exciting weekend. This week has been great too, mostly due to the drop in temps. Loving this mildly warm weather! Can't wait for summer to be over!

On the agenda for the weekend:

- dinner tonight with my assome friend A
- Baptism in Chino tomorrow
- Lazy Sunday that should be spent working on the prototype invite for my sister-in-law's 15ñera. That means a trip to Paper Source! Woo-hoo!

Have a fab weekend everyone! And I promise to be a better blogger next week.