Eternal Damnation, Anyone?

I have a new crush. His name is Alex O'Loughlin - but I know him as Mick St. John, from my new favorite show 'Moonlight.' The picture does NOT do him justice - you have to actually see him in the show. He is DREAMY. Oh, and he's a vampire.

Most people who know me, know that I am obsessed with vampires right now - after reading Stephenie Meyers' 'Twilight' books, mere mortal men just don't do it for me anymore. I'm all about eternally damned monsters. ATTRACTIVE eternally damned monsters. So when mom and I happened across this show a couple of weeks ago, and learned it was about vampires (she likes vampires now too, hehe) we decided to watch. The show itself isn't anything special so far... it's a murder-mystery without the mystery. Very predictable. But there IS something about it that draws attention - probably the vampires, hehe. Mick St. John is a private investigator -and a vampire with morals, like the Cullens - who hunts down and kills bad guys, and at the same time is watching over Beth, whom he saved when she was a child. So you know it's going to turn into a love story - they opened that right up at the beginning. But there are so many pretty people in it to watch - among whom is another favorite, Jason Dohring of the 'Veronica Mars' fame.

OH yes, we love Jason. He's exactly like Logan Eccles (his character in Veronica Mars) but with fangs. He's the 'leader' of the vampires - kind-of like the Volturi in the Twilight books. Very boyish and cute - and irresistible.

Read about the show and the other characters at http://alpha.cbs.com/primetime/moonlight/

In the meantime... I'm just gonna sit back and look at my attractive, eternally damned new crush. *Sigh*

FINALLY!!!

OCTOBER WEATHER! It's about time. This 80-degree crap is just bizarre October weather. But it was rainy and windy and cloudy an creepy all weekend - now THAT is what I'm talking about! Fun colors in the canyons, creepy weather, and Halloween!

At a family dinner yesterday, I was at a table chatting with some cousins, when one of them made the comment that Halloween ceased to be fun after you're too old to trick-or-treat... to use a phrase from Steve, "I disagree vehemently." There's still scary movies (which I don't usually watch), Haunted Deseret where they do scary story-telling, the Haunted Canyon on the Heeber Creeper (geared mostly toward younger kids, but still fun), and I still dress up every year for Halloween - who cares if I don't trick-or-treat? Thanks to my good friend Holly, I get to wear a cool dress! And as Holly says, Halloween is a great excuse to wear a really cool dress that makes you look better than everyone else, hehe. This is me last year:

For anyone that doesn't know the Lord of the Rings movies, this is me as Eowyn, from the Two Towers.

Oh yes, Halloween is for EVERYONE, not just kids! :)

Office Shenanigans

Generally, I like my job. Maybe it's not so much the job itself, as it is the people I work with. I enjoy coming to the office because everyone is so fun, in spite of all the "office politics" that go on, and I have friends here. I also have some... well, not enemies, but... people who don't appreciate my "enthusiasm," I'll just say. :) There's someone that sits nearby that has complained about me twice in the past six months, saying I'm too loud and there is too much visiting going on at my desk. Hey, I can't help it if I'm popular! Okay, I'm kidding. She's right, though, because I'm not that quiet - when I get excited and animated, I get loud. But the people who DO appreciate me... well, for example, last Monday, Mug (Emily) came past my desk, and for some odd reason I got too shy to ask what she was doing for lunch, and to see if she wanted to go out; so all I said was, "I'm SO hungry!" She laughed, and continued on her merry way. (Generally, I'm NOT shy with Mug - she knows me too well.) Ten minutes later, SHE called ME and asked if I had lunch plans and wanted to know if I wanted to go get Mexican food with her and Matt. Um, YEAH!! Either she felt sorry for me not being able to be subtle, or she just wanted to invite me to lunch. Whichever, she's just AWESOME.
The guys in the mail room are a blast. They drive me nuts sometimes - I'll get to my desk, and my computer speakers will be turned up all the way - only I don't notice until my computer makes a blaring noise. (They still deny doing this...) Last year sometime, one of them put a cell phone in my jacket pocket (the jacket was hanging on the back of my chair) when I was away from my desk, and then they called it and the ringer was Darth Vader breathing - scared the crap out of me. The other day, a couple of them (Matt and Dustin) were out visiting at my desk, eating candy, and Dustin picked up a candy corn and aimed it at me, like he wanted me to catch it in my mouth. So I opened my mouth, and he tossed it - but at the last second, I chickened out and closed my mouth and backed away. The fate of the candy corn? It sailed right down my shirt. I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes, but poor Dustin was mortified. I STILL like to tell people that story because it's so funny. Yep, those mail room guys - they're so fun!
It's people like Mug and the mail room guys that make work so fun. That's the reason I come here every day. The actual work and the paycheck? Minor details. :)

K-9 Conspiracy...

I SWEAR I almost killed Indy this morning. It's a good thing he's so dang cute, otherwise he might be dead right now. (I snaked this picture from Mike, hehehe!)

I heard him barking this morning. That's not unusual, you might say - because it's really not, he and Bo bark at the littlest things, starting at about 6:30 or 7:00 a.m. No, what was unusual about THIS bark was that it was 4:00 IN THE MORNING. It wasn't a crazy "I heard a noise, somebody do something" bark, it was more of a "I'm not getting any attention" bark - like, "woof." Silence. "Woof woof." Silence. "Woof." Whine. Silence. "Woof."

ARGH. This went on for a few minutes before I heard mom get up and let him out. I sighed in relief that I didn't have to go downstairs (sorry, Muti!) and rolled over to go to sleep. I heard mom let him in and go back to bed.

Then...

"Woof." Silence. "Woof woof."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

I looked at my clock - it was now 5:00 A.M.!!!!!

I marched out of my room and down the stairs, and he was in the hall, aimed right at the stairs. I'm sure he would have come up if I hadn't had my gate blocking his way. He got up when he saw me. "WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU WANT???" I whispered loudly (if that's possible). He wagged his tail. I walked toward the back door - he walked right next to me, so I stopped, thinking he'd lead me to the back door. Nope - he stopped with me, and looked up at me. I took a few more steps and stopped. So did he. I went to the back door and opened it, and he went out and laid down in the grass. WHAT???!?!?!?! "YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO PEE???? GET BACK IN HERE!!!! You did NOT just wake me up again to HANG OUT!!!" So he came back in and went and sat down in the living room. I marched back up to my room, and ALMOST slammed the door.

But I didn't.

I was fuming. It took me a while before I got back to sleep - then my alarm went off. GREEEAAT.

I heard him do it again when I was getting ready for work this morning. "Woof." Silence. "Woof woof." Silence. Oh man, it's a good thing that dog is cute.

Someone told me today that there was a full moon last night, and that her dog was acting funny because of it - a few others agreed and said their dogs were acting weird too, and thought it must be the moon. Well, I'm telling you, it BETTER be the moon... because if Indy makes a habit of this, I might go postal.

I am NOT too old for Sleepovers!!

When we were younger, my sisters and I used to have sleepovers with our cousin, Emily - as often as we could seeing as she lived in Orem and we lived in Sandy - and they were always SOOO much fun. Even as we got older, we'd still have over-nighters - mostly road trips to St. George, California, and once or twice even to Bear Lake with other cousins and Idaho to visit family we had there. But since Mar and Em have gotten married, the over-nighters have tapered off... those darn husbands, hehehe.

But last weekend, I went and had an old-fashioned sleepover with Em! Jorg was out of town, so we decided to have an over-nighter! It was (almost) just like old times, but this time, there was an extra girl - Baby Rebecca!

We stayed up late and talked, giggled like girls in the morning, wandered around in our PJ's until it was absolutley necessary to get dressed and leave the house, and Em even made breakfast for us! YUM!

Then we played dress-up with Rebecca - Em and her mom bought some cute new clothes for the baby, and we wanted to see what she looked like in her cute new outfits. She looked adorable, of course.

Even Rebecca herself thought she looked cute!

That was fun, Em - thanks for letting me come over! Fun times! :)