Never a dull moment.....

First let me say that I often wonder what Autumn and I's neighbors really think about us.  I'm not sure who they think really lives here.  In any given week, we will have a variety of 2-5 different cars outside the front of our house.  Some stay all night and some just come and go.  Between my sister, Autumn's sister, and all of our friends, we never know who might end up spending the night.  And usually about once a month we have people over, which means there are always tons of cars lining the street.

Today we are cleaning because we are having people over tonight to grill hotdogs.  That alone should be interesting because the last time I tried to grill hotdogs on my own was with Maggie in college, and it didn't go so well.  Apparently you have to let charcoal sit for a while before you put your food on there.  They were awful and I think if we would have eaten more than a bite to try them, we would have fell over right there from the taste of lighter fluid.

Soooo..... Autumn and I decide to leave the door open because it's so pretty outside.  I'm on the phone with my mom and walk into the living room to find this.......

Autumn's cat (who I already dislike) standing over a snake.  And it's still alive.  I just started screaming.  I let my mom go and Autumn comes in and starts screaming.  So we are both just screaming and looking at each other.  I think at this point we are both also standing on the furniture. 

Autumn kept telling me to do something.  I calmly told her I would not even attempt to get that thing out.  So she grabs the broom and just holds it down and tells me to go get help.  You would have thought we had some type of medical emergency.  So what do I do? I run down the street looking for someone to help.  No shoes on, just running down the street like a crazy person (I've never been good in situations like this.  I always seem to panick).  I ran one way and then noticed a man at the very end of our road in the opposite direction (4 houses down) cutting his grass.  I've never met him before but I think Autumn has.  Or at least they know her as the "lady that walks her dog at all ours of the day."

So I flag him down.  At this point he looks a little worried like I might be in trouble.  I just said "Sir.  We have a snake in our house and need you to get it out."  He said, "well... I don't really like snakes." I didn't really give him an option to not come and get it.  I just told him to grab a bucket or something and took off back to our house. 

So he comes over and gets it in his bucket.  Then we walk outside and several other neighbors are walking down the street to see what's going on.  His kids said they heard us yelling (4 houses down) over the lawn mower.  I wanted to ask why they didn't come and make sure we were ok then, but I didn't.  Hopefully we don't ever have a real emergency!

I know it's not that big, but I cringe to think where it would have gotten had I not walked in and found it.  Ugh!

Crazy Cat!

Thanks to these awesome woods behind our house, we find all kinds of little friends.

We also have scorpions that like to make an appearance in the summer!  I think last year we ended up finding between 25-30 of them in the house! Not all at once.  One day I had one hiding in my comforter on my bed!

I've searched everywhere online and apparently there isn't a whole lot you can do about this.

Here is another little friend we found in the driveway last year.

Ok, I have to stop thinking about it now! 

Happy Saturday!

Vaca Day 3-Better late than never!

Day 3:

We spent most of the day on Tuesday on Rodeo Drive.  I ended up buying my mom a really cute necklace, basically because it was all I could afford! ha!

Eating lunch at this place that was a major bust....

Ann and Kar

After lunch we shopped/browsed some more and then had dessert and coffee at the Beverly Wilshire (the hotel from Pretty Woman).

I want one!

I really, really, really want one of these........

But I don't want AT&T.  That's a problem.  I've heard T-Mobile could be getting them soon.  I can only hope!

And my cousin started a blog.  I love her, so check it out!

Weekend Review

For some reason, I just can't get motivated to finish posting my vacation pictures.  So until then, here is how my weekend went:

Friday:  I met some girls for dinner and then we went and watched Bounty Hunter.  I thought it was good, but I might have been the only one in our group that really liked it.  I think I just liked it because I'm a big Jennifer Anniston and Gerald Butler fan and I always try to find the good in movies if it has actors I like.  Some call it crazy, but I'm calling it loyal :)

Saturday:  I slept in and cleaned.  It was so pretty outside, so I ran Saturday afternoon.  Saturday night a friend hosted a Twilight party.  I haven't read the books, but I like the movies. 
On the way home, Autumn and I witnessed what we thought was a high speed police chase.  They ended up pulling the guy over, so we turned around and went back to see if there was anything exciting happening  There wasn't.  We were disappointed.

I stole this picture from Maggie's blog. 

Sunday:  I basically went to church and layed around all day.

And that was pretty much my weekend. 

Home Project

I'm finishing up my vacation posts, but until then here is a little home project my mom and I did. 

I took this with my phone, so it's terrible quality.  But it's an earring holder.  Basically just a picture frame with screen behind it.  We just stapled the screen to it.

I hung mine behind my door so you really can't see it, but it's still super cute!

And I'm pretty excited because I finally got the stuff to make my headboard that I've been talking about for a year now.  Hopefully it will get done this weekend!

Also, an update for the People on my "running."  I have to use that term loosely because technically I don't think I really qualify as a runner.  It's more of a jogger.  I started out as a wogger (combination of a walker and jogger), but I have now advanced to just a jogger.  The most I'm up to is almost 6 miles.  Which is great I think, except that between Lacy's vaca to the beach and mine to California, we fell behind a little.  We are supposed to do 9 this weekend.  9 miles!  That seems like so much.  I can run from my house to downtown Birmingham in 9 miles.  It's a little crazy when I think about it.  But we are determined. I think.

Everyone has asked me if I've become addicted to it.  And my answer is "NO."  Yesterday we ran through some trails and I loved it!  We only did 3 miles though.  Which, in my opinion, is just enough.  Once this 1/2 Marathon is over, I doubt I will do another one. Honestly, it just hurts when you run/jog that long.  So I'm just going to stay around the 3 mile marker.  But this woman on the biggest loser couldn't work out and so she walked like 18 miles.  So I thought, "If she can do 18 miles, then I can do 13."  Right?

We shall see.

Vaca Day 1 and 2

Day 1: 

Sunday night the Osborn's picked me up at the airport and we went straight to dinner.  We ate at Geisha House (I'm pretty positive it's one of Ashton Kutcher's resturants).  I am not really a huge seafood fan, so it's kind of odd that I will eat some sushi.  Not a lot of it, but there are some I like.  I think that's mainly why people go here.  They had their own version of a California roll and it was so good!

Karley and I at Dinner

Keith and Ann

Day 2:

Monday was a great day!  I knew I was going to have to run while I was there, so Ann (who has been running for like 15 years) came with me.  We were staying in Santa Monica so we decided to run along the beach.  Our hotel was just up the street from the Santa Monica Pier.

We ran 5 miles and then met up with Keith and Karley at the Pier.

I didn't take this picture, but this is a picture of the whole Pier.

We really had no definite plans for the week (which I loved!), so that day we just decided to rent bicycles and ride through Santa Monica up to Venice Beach.

Venice Beach is not really somewhere I would spend tons of time, but it was fun to go.

I took this pic with my phone so it's not that great.

This is for real.  They have these everywhere.  Keith said his elbow was acting up again!

That night we went to dinner at a Mexican resturant.  Not too crazy about the Mexican food in California.  They don't have queso. 

After dinner we had dessert at Shutters on the beach.  Apparently famous people go here a lot.  But we didn't see any.

Shutters

Here is Karley and Jonathon (who happens to also be from Alabama)

And that was pretty much Day 1 and 2.

Wednesday Weigh-In

First of all something really random, as I type this I can hear my roommate talking in her sleep and for some reason that always freaks me out.  I can't tell what she's saying though.  But that really has nothing to do with what this post is about.

So....... my friend Maggie has been doing Wednesday Weigh-In for the past couple of months.  Basically she is just tracking her weight loss on her blog (P.S. Maggie, you're linky thing isn't working.  You might want to take a look at that!).  And she has done so well.  She's my current inspiration!

This week, she decided to put a link thing on there so other people can join in.  She's crazy if she thinks I'm about to post my weight on the internet for all the world to see, but my roommate (Autumn-the one who is currently talking very loudly in her sleep) and I have decided we would participate since summer time is coming up.  However, we will be keeping the numbers within these walls!  We said we are making a "lifestyle change" not going on a "diet!"  ha!  We shall see! 

So I might let everyone know how much we are losing each week, but a lady never reveals her weight, right???  Unless, you have major guts like Maggie! haha!  I wish I were that brave!

I told Maggie if this thing goes global, I'm getting some of the profit!

Back to reality.

Well I'm back from my trip and back to work today.  I have tons of pictures coming soon, but the trip was so great!