Saturday, April 26, 2008

Novak-Barnet Wedding!

We went to North Carolina last weekend for Lesley and Heath's amazing wedding. We took the red-eye out on Wednesday night; in retrospect, not the best idea. I took Tylenol PM and essentially hallucinated through the next six hours, waking Tim up at 20 minute intervals to let him know I couldn't sleep (as always, I am ever-thoughtful). We arrived in beautiful Wilmington on Thursday morning...Atlantic beaches are beautiful! Our hotel buffered the sand on Wrightsville Beach:
Went to lunch on the pier with Jenni and Jon

The wedding-weekend-extravaganza started out with a North Carolina-style BBQ at the Barnet's house in Wilmington. They live in a beautiful community complete with 3 golf courses. While guests ate and talked, Tim was determined to find out whether or not the compound's lakes held catch-able fish...
Rehearsal Dinner and Cocktails...
Wedding Day:
The beautiful bride and groom!

Happy (drunk?) couples


Michigan Swimmers

Good times...

Monday, April 21, 2008

Carry Us Away From Captivity

Title Reference: "Rivers of Babylon" by Sublime

Phil and Linds came down to Encinitas to house-sit and invited us over for BBQ and a four-hour Wii tournament. How could we resist?

Bowling...



Naturally, the girls won, and the boys had to take shots:

Baseball...

Boxing...

Tim taking a break from the action with CortezSO FUN!

Friday, April 11, 2008

This is a Lesson in Procrastination

(Title Reference: Brand New, "Failure By Design")

Tim: Do you know what I just got the feeling for?
Me: What?
Tim: Fried chicken. I mean, IknowitssobadforyouandIshouldnthaveitbutitssogood.
Me: Do you want to get it for dinner?
Tim: Do you?
Me:...
Tim: (licks his lips with wide eyes) Mmmm...Albertson's fried chicken...

...AND, today for lunch we had Vons sandwiches. Clearly, Tim and I could easily live off of grocery-store deli food forever.

I have so much grading and lesson planning to do it's ridiculous. However, it's obviously time for me to go back to work, seeing as I am updating this blog with posts like THIS, and using the freakin' PAINT application on our computer:


I am completely and painstakingly aware I need a life.


Wednesday, April 9, 2008

I Can Sleep All Night to the Sound of the Ocean...

(Title reference: Buck-O-Nine, "My Town"...they're coming to Cane's in May!)

We're MOVING! Well, I guess I'm jumping the gun a little bit; our credit check hasn't gone through yet (knock on wood, I think we're safe...). Here's the best part: our new apartment is across the street (and, technically, about half a block closer to the beach)! It's a 2 bedroom/ 2 bath, so we can get rid of our storage unit AND have an office/guest bedroom...if that's not an invitation to come and visit, I don't know what is. Chuck and Debbie gave us a beautiful L-shaped couch that has taken up residence in our storage unit due to lack of space in our apartment, so we can't wait to actually USE it! I'll post pictures as soon as I can. In the mean-time, here's a list of what I should be doing over the course of my spring break:

* Cleaning the apartment
* Grading papers
* Calling people back
* Buying printer ink
* Grocery shopping

Here's what I have successfully done so far:

* Slept in
* Avoided grading
* Watched re-runs of bad 90's sit-coms and (only 2!) lifetime movies
* Slept in
* Pretended to do BTSA work
* Stressed out about the inclusion of an 11th grade lit. circles book that may be too explicit for some teenagers (don't worry; I figured it out)
* Slept in
* Wondered if $75 is too much to spend on a new bathing suit
* Shopped on-line
* Went out to dinner with my dad
* Had dollar beers at Gordon Biersch
* Slept in

Productive? I think so...I mean, take a look at my alternative:

Saturday, April 5, 2008

We've All Got Stardust in Our Bones...

So, as many of my friends (readers of this blog?) know, I tend to have obsessive phases that move in and out of my life (River Phoenix, RENT, a certain 5-person band, journaling, The Killers, to name a few...). A few years ago I was really into Ben Harper, and as of late have been listening to his music again. His lyrics may not quite meet the standards of "Redemption Song," but he's got pretty powerful stuff, especially once you've experienced it live.

"A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world, so shines the good deed
Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune that you need..."