Making it up to you.

WOAH. I know I totally left you hanging last Friday, and I sorta apologize... but don't you think for a minute I'd leave you for too long. I was busy being cool and stuff... you know, having things to do, and making messes to clean, and wasting time to let my brain re-coordinate. Happy stuff :) Listen here, don't you judge me. I have a life outside my blog! Okay okay, so moving on.

I'm going to recommend other places for you to go read today :)

"But WHYYY?!" you beg? Because I am human, and humans get tired, and 

I'm tired of typing right now. I'll be back Friday, with an announcement that is more for 

my own excitement than yours. 

Maybe I'll see you there?! I hope!!

Peterdewolf.com 

| because if you are reading my shenanigans, then you will LOVE this guys work.

http://smittenkitchen.com/ 

| because I know you all enjoy eating.

http://leilabrewsterphotographyblog.com/

| because she is a wonderful photog and I know you all like to stare down pretty pictures.

http://edped.tumblr.com/

| because if you are here, you like to laugh about relatable topics, and this is relatable stuff :)

[Also I'd like to point out that blogspot thinks relatable is not a word. I'm pretty sure it is. Right?]

Anywho, hope that is enough to keep your little mittens tied over til Friday.

Come back!!!

<3, bex.

Me. In a nutshell.

Me, every morning.

Me, the rest of the day.

tuesday treat... :}

=D Haha. So much truth to this.

Batman Rides Again...wait..

You're Welcome.

Happy Tuesday.

And this was acquired from a little entertaining tumblr... Highly recommended and funny.

This is Top Secret.

I share my most terrifying moments with you, my dearest friends.

I'm sorry. But it was too fun, to keep to myself.

Have a great day and get back to me with a great 'capture' of your own :) AKA:

"whatever-you-think-is-an-attempt-to-top-this-awesomeness."

Sorry this is so short, but I've had a LONG week,
so please accept my apologies and have a SUPER safe, and responsibly fun weekend :D

xoxoxo bex...

I like funny things.

I like this...

Excel Batman... Batman always excels... just throwin' that out there...

Hello-funniest-video-I've-seen-all-week! (big foot caught on tape!)

I was at Azteca(@$$teca??) this last Friday, and this was the 

bathroom stall-door decoration. Cute? I think so.

This is just too funny, in an unrealistic-take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt type way...

Praxis and I have an ongoing joke of ways to get out of the "friend-zone"... 

A laugh was shared.

Also, I've been sick this week, since last Wednesday(thank you, co-worker)... and this is what I saved from an iced-tea-run to gauge my constant massive water-intake. This is a 'venti' size, I think that means 22 oz? 26? I need to be drinking about 6 of these a day... (that equals a lot of potty trips...)

Anywho. One last thing to make you "aww" is this...

Awwww... Tiny pinecone. And my hands are small anyway- so that says something!

Cute!

It's Tuesday. May it melt all your Monday troubles away!

xox, bex.

Gym'n-It-Cricket! PART 1

Scene: bored at the gym(keep reading) jogging monotonously, staring out the ceiling-height windows onto a dark city, with a few sparks of life speeding around the freeways in the distance. Ok, I guess I'll keep my focus closer so I don't trip(again) and fall to my treadmill-conveyor-belt-induced-burn-on-the-face-death.

Me to myself(use your typical 'idiot' voice): "Hmm, there is a TV... I think I will let my mind wander, and get distracted by whatever's there." I am baffled by the crap TV show, 'Jersey Shore' that someone had left on. BAFFLED, guys.

Anyone else agree with me? I mean... they are obviously putting on a nice dramatic 'reality-tv" scharade for VH1's amusement, but really? Pure gross. Anyway, it got me to thinking of what kinds of other schmucks(hey I'm vividly aware that I'm the biggest schmuck in there) I am 'gym-ing it' with. I looked around to find 'Jersey Shore' type-esque gals, and didn't have to look long(I'd say far, but the gym is small). Granted this girl already had the natural tan down, but she broke my #1 rule of life... Leggings do NOT double as pants. Even if your legs are perfect. Shhh, there's no jealousy here, you're imagining that. YES, YOU ARE.

Found another Ginger. Now she's actually a human being, and by that I mean she acknowledges other people's presence. She usually waves at me when we catch glances at each other(or maybe it's just that we share a hair color??) across the gym-fodder, or if we bump into each other in the bathroom. Not much else to say about her tho, cause she doesn't give off any certain stereotype, except that she works her butt off on that stair-stepper(my arch enemy). My  admiration for her continued conquering of that machine = ever growing. I just don't have "it" in me for everyday use. Moving on...

The 50-year-old-woman. You don't know her. She keeps to herself, working out quietly with -sometimes without- her husband. He's quiet too. He doesn't do much, but poor thing is already skinny. He tries to stay out of the way and let his woman do her thing, while giving her support & encouragement. Every woman's mid-life dream :)

The 60-year-old-woman. You all know her. She waves. She sweats profusely. She is there all alone, kicking elliptical derrière!! And not to mention those dumb-bells! Grandma is on FIRE! Literally, someone make her stop- I see smoke trailing off her heels!!

The All-Arms Guy(thanks to You-Know-Who-You-Are, for the idea!). He curls, he curls and then he curls some more. He uses the free weights; he uses the tricep machine; he uses the floor for his personal push-up station; and then he's on the bar for pull-ups galore. Why isn't he working on that booty?? Just sayin...

.....To be Continued. :) Enjoy your weekend, loves.

I heart Seattle. I heart ice cream.

my hair used to look like this...

and now it looks like this...

I've mentioned this a couple times...but now I'm opening the forum. Whaddya think? Which do you like better? I like it, but I want more fake red :] Just to brighten it up a tad, since it has faded a little since the dyeing-date. ha! Dye-ing date.

I will change subjects now! WOOT! Over last weekend I went to a little place called SEATTLE. You may have heard of it? I went to this Ahhh-mazing ice cream place called Molly Moon's(which took forEVer to find, since I'm not familiar with the Capitol Hill area)...

They were "hosting" a breakfast; either A.)waffle & ice cream(BRILLIANT), or B.)oatmeal and ice cream(BRILLIANT) in honor of International Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day(BRILLIANT).

I think I pretty much invented this, like.... 6,789,422,734,657 years ago, but HEY if they wanna act like it's their deal, and make me a fantastic waffle so hot it deforms my plastic fork, I'm ok with it.

(*Shirley Temple Smile!*)

So then, a SWARM of joggers comes in right AFTER we have ordered, and are waiting in these floor-height kiddie-chairs, for our food to magically appear. Drinking orange juice out of paper cups- you know, like 3rd grade snack-time. Point being... well, you can imagine.

 I won't elaborate. It was all of a sudden sweaty up in there, but when our food arrived we were taken back into the anticipated-bliss-that-one-can-only-dream-of.

Exhibit #1...

End of Exhibit.

Hee hee! Where you toss your tester-spoon when you're done with it.

What are your plans for this weekend? 

This is the site where I found out the International EICFB Day. Seattlest!

You should check it out :) If you live around here. Don't be a creeper.

;)
xoxo! the bex.

sigh.

First things first. No really.....

#1. 

IT'S OFFICIALLY FRIDAY. Can you feel the excitement?

THANK THE FARMIN'(new euphamisn alert!) GOODNESS INSIDE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.

AMIRITE.

Secondly.... you all know how anti-mac/apple I am...don'tcha? Well... push comes to shove when your phone royally STINKS(or has a huge blacked out area on the touch-screen), so when Verizon announced(alright, I'll admit this was way back in July 2010 when it was still unofficial) that they were bringing the iphone to their network... I got excited. I thought "AT LAST! MY CHANCE! I can pay good money for a phone that won't rip me off 3 months from now!"

Oh so the news is that I ordered one. And I'm proud to say that I actually have a 'REP' and ordered mine BEFORE Feb 3rd YA'LL! (Don't be jealous. We're all friends, here. I could hook you up, if you gave me some chocolate ice cream... with hot fudge.)

Don't lie, if you don't already have one, you want one.

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THIRDLY... I truthfully did dye my hair. Okay technically, Hoolia- from the Oregon/travel post- dyed it cause she's a professional and all. So here it is... I know you've been DYE-ING to see it(see what I did there?).

Terrible Pun #1, for this post.

 Ok, I'm letting myself get silly, cause I like it.

  aaaaaand FINALE. It's FRIDAY HOORAH.

For goodness sakes.. If you've had a fully-loaded-terror-of-a-week like myself, you are as glad as I that it's close to being over. Soak it up. Dance your booty off, and don't let Saturday & Sunday slip by too fast.

i mean it.
<3 xox bex...

Phun Phacts Phor Phriday!

I just randomly decided to look up types of phobias. 
And guess what? There are some phunky ones out there.


Check my findings...
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions. (REALLY.)
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. (Yeah, you read that right.)
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias (heehee)
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers (pfff)

Don't judge me.. but I don't think this one is so wrong...

Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, 

wax statues - anything that falsely represents a sentient being.

THIS IS WRONG: Bibliophobia- Fear of books


THIS IS RIGHT: Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness


Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks ... Say Whaaa?
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns ... I FEAR that I have this. Ok I don't fear it. I just have it.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain .... Don't judge :}
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions ... Gawl-leeeeeee, I know a few people with this(Grrr...)


GET THIS....It's real YO! I checked...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words... I'm not even kidding.


Now this hurts my heart, and is just. plain. blasphemy....Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of Poetry.
Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love .... oh no! Sad!
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.... uhh, okay.

Sophophobia- Fear of learning.... What a terrible thing to be informed that you have! ;) 

hahaha... oh I guess that's not so funny... but this is: Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.

BTW, Walloons are French-speaking people who live in Belgium.

Yeah I'm lost, too.

Have an entertaining weekend!!

<3 bex

PS. The fear of redheads is real too... Gingerphobia. 

-_-

Dear Anonymous Commenters,

I love you. I really do.

I love the witty things you say, the way you joke on my posts because you(usually) know me personally, and you assume I'll know who you are.

But sometimes... I don't know who you are.
And sometimes I'd REALLY LIKE to know who you are, so I can be all...
"Hey friend! I'm so glad we're hanging out IRL(in-real-life) 'cause your comment on my blog the other day, totally made me 'LOL,' and I'd like to thank you in person for taking the time to read it. 'Cause y'know I've been at this for a year now, and I REALLY can't thank my readers enough, so I'd love to start local and thank you again! In your face!" 


With that being said... :) You should let me know, with a codeword, your real first name, or whatever you'd like to go by, to give me a little hint who ya are. Unless you're feeling creeper-ish(Nichelle).. and absolutely WANT to remain anonymous- then, I will understand.


Thanks for the patience with NO-POSTING last Friday, friends! You won't be sorry if you come back this Friday!! See you then!! :)


xox Bex.

Oregon. Orrrr-eh-gawn. Ore-gone?

I once crossed the border into a distant land.
I once saw things I've never seen before... nor may see again.
And I also tried on items of clothing... I will never try on again.

Can you imagine me:
-sleep deprived
-stuffed with food(specifically Gingerbread Pancake Puppies from Denny's)(<--I recommend)
-just drove straight 3.5 hours- starting at 11:30pm from a previously full 8 hour day at work...?

Now imagine my mood(HA! Gotcha. You thought I was talking about that first, huh?)!! Don't worry, lots of coffee was involved.

NOW IMAGINE... ok just kidding... Why, you ask? BLACK FRIDAY SALES, of course! (yes I realize I'm just NOW getting around to telling you about it.)
Here's the car group...

We've got Jules. Fashionista; in search of boots at le Macy's. 

Also wielding a SERIOUS coupon for Express.

GOOD NEWS! She found boots! TWO pair to be exact! AND at the low price of $60(for both!!!)

Then we have Kid. He's the bodyguard(unpaid, unless you consider my amazing homemade jokes a form of reimbursement), for about 12 hours of work- including, but not limited to:

-holding doors open & following the ladies lead 

-holding most bags in addition to the doors, AND last & most important... 

-keeping me awake on the drive home(he slept, btw!). 

Did I mention he was wonderful company as well??

It's true. Look how good of a sport he was:

A true champ to endure a long-haul-of-estrogen-powered-shopping-extravaganza.
PHEW! I should have acquired this hat.

Anyway. Lastly, & not leastly, we have Abby. 

Quiet, faithfully obedient to my unspoken "come'ere's!" and ADORABLE.

Kid had a hard time fighting off all the paparazzi!

See proof:

Look at that hammin' cheeser :) Precious.
Umm... Are you jealous? Sit down, hooligan. She's out of your league.
She even supported me, when I was sure I was hearing voices. What a friend!

AND when they cheered me on to model the worst jewelry of 2010...

 ...She even helped me load it all on. Oh man, Abby's a trooper :)

Oh? Tired of my story-telling, are you?
You just wanna see pictures and get it over with, do you?
HMMPH!
More hats were seen, check this character...

No, that's not your imagination, this hat really has a tail. ^

Besides my normal-scary picture-capades.... 

...looks like all you lovely dovefaces made it back here with most of your pieces in-tact to read my latest post. So I am glad to wish you all a WARM week(it's dumping giant fluffy snowflakes here within the last hour) and keep putting CLEAN socks into the dryer to warm those toes. Or skip to the end of last Friday's post, for a fresh recommendation from my friend, to get yourself some toe socks(I dont recommend, if you have wide-tootsies.)

*waves*

TOODLES!!! Drive with care this weekend!!!!!

xoxo bex

Jalepeno Heat, I mean heart!

Look everyone!My Food loves me!

Isn't that sweet? It's a heart for cryin' out loud!! I LOVE jalepeno's.

Yum.

I'm reading a book recommended by my friend Nicho, over here. Yes! He not only is a music connoisseur, but also WELL READ, and recommended to me The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. So far, it's so wonderful. I mean, here's how wonderful it is:

1.) I ALWAYS read the very last page of any book I read- by the 

time I'm done with the 2nd chapter...Well, I'm on the 4th, and I haven't hit the last page up yet.

2.) The poetic prose is so heavy, I have to read the scenic description of any given room(usually only about 2 sentences long) TWICE, to grasp everything. And it's not even a flood-like swampy-ICK of too many words just hanging out where they don't belong(cough-this page is a good example of that-COUGH). THEY ALL BELONG. It's just not what I'm used to reading. And it's wonderful.

This is you right now... so overwhelmed with excitement, you just fell asleep, kittenface.

Randomness #2...

I am experimenting this coming week:

I am not wearing foundation powder(gasp! watch out!) on my face for 7 days, maybe longer, to see if my skin clears up a little. It's pretty discouraging when you're still getting teenage acne at 23. Oh AND I take very particular care of my skin, so it's kinda infuriating. Kinda...

Randomness #3...(last one, I promise)

I've been keeping a list of things, well thoughts. 

Thoughts that I want to hold onto for more than the 2.3 seconds 

that my brain gives them to pop in and out of my thinking-waves. Here are a few:

-Need to think more before I speak.

-I think it's funny that I always forget what I label computer files, at work. Not efficient of me, but humorous every time.

-Started to read "Shadow of the Wind" but had to return it for 3 weeks, because I procrastinated to renew it, before the due date rolled around. OOPS- another thing I found slightly funny.

- "Being a vegetarian doesn't require me to exercise, to maintain my weight." And I LOVE that. For now- while the sun is still hibernating. Talk to me again about that in a couple months.

Tell me your weekend plans, sugar-faces!

I miss you! :(

BE SAFE OUT THERE!!!

<3 <3 <3 xoxo bex

PS! This is for Paul:

Manliness, and warmth for each individual toe. You're welcome, interwebz.

[LAWLZ]. I told him I approved, for now. Since each toe DOES deserve it's individual warmth.

GOOD MORNING!!

I've walked to the Alaskan tundra and back!

Okay, so it was to Starbucks. Across the street. But this cozy hood served it's purpose.

I am currently creating an AdWords campaign for another company. If you know anyone who needs AdWords help for their small business, I'd love to assist! Throw my name around.

email contact: zomgitsfriday[at]gmail[dot]com


In other news....
It's Tuesday! And Monday was terrible, AMIRIGHT!?
This weekend I ventured out of my usual hermit-cave and tried something new...
Dancing.
In. Front.
Of. People.
Yeah. I went there. And it wasn't sooooo bad(but still scary, I had to throw myself).
Altho, since I was playing my friend Hoolia's 'Kinect' the game called Dance Central, I got pretty frustrated when it wouldn't recognize that I was doing the dance correctly, so it wouldn't give me the points. Oh well. Maybe it's just proving me right that I am TERRIBLE at dancing ;)
That would be just fine by me. But in other- OTHER news...
This also happened at her house:

Don't ask why :) They're just fake leaves.
BECAUSE! Ok? Because.

Anddddddd...this may have happened too... but I'm still not sure.

Don't judge me.
You're jealous cause your lips are non-existent like mine.
:]
Have a happy Tuesday, people. Try not to let the week get to you...
...Cause it's pretty rough out there.
Love peace & tiny salsa-red lips! (Salsa Red by Mary Kay)

<3 xoxo Bex.

What are you going to do this weekend??

It's FRIDAY finally :) Again. 

Rejoice! ...I SAY, REJOICE!!!!!!

If your town is supposed to be as awesome as MINE is this weekend, you'll be outside doing some sort of recreational activity. Of course, none of you will be nearly as cool as this guy:

Dude, I have those shorts.

Oh, Water skiing isn't your "thing" huh? Try this...

Yeah, that's James-freakin'-Dean... about to whoop you at Ping Pong!

Now this guy...

That's O.G.

HAHA! I guess I spoke too soon, here's a famous guy in his 

pre-presidential candidacy. 

Original Gangsta.

Hey, ya gotta get scholarships into College SOMEHOW... AMIRIGHT?!

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

You could try tennis on-for-size. It's one of my favorite past times. 

And Paul Newman's apparently.

No, really! Lookie, Doveface!

 

Alright, maybe he was a cheerleader too... but I mean, no one's judging YOU 

for sitting here reading my blog all day! ;)

 

So maybe you're into the rougher things of life. Rifle Club, anyone? 

These ladies look welcoming.

Dudes, look at Rhonda on the far right. She's mean-muggin' you, BAD.

 

I watched a Marx Brothers movie the other week with the Grandmother, 

and they are SO FUNNY.

I don't have a photo of them being sporty, but if you're an 

indoor-type-of-person-even-on-sunny-days(cough*HOMEBODY*cough) 

then this photo is for you:

STOOGE! Well, of COURSE they're outside on this fine day. 

As my dad is "that guy" who doesn't wear sunscreen out on the green, he also 

is "that guy" to wear obnoxious plaid like Curly, here. 

But it's sort-of acceptable at the driving range.

Right?

I HIGHLY encourage sunscreen, folks. All day, every day. 

Go ahead, be THAT GUY who doesn't wear it. We'll see whose skin is riper than 

30 year-old-leather when we're all 45!! NOT THIS GUY!

Even 8 SPF, with TANNING OIL built-in. Honestly, how lazy could you be, that you 

don't appreciate a tan WHILE getting sun protection?? 

BTW: All caps, is a sarcastic tone, when you read this in your head :)

 

 ONE MORE! I've always wanted to take up fencing. HAHAHA <3 Sofia.

So Doveface, whatever you decide to do this weekend, please be safe. 

Don't break your faces(if you're me, that's ALL ya got going for ya), don't break any bones 

and for the love of Havarti cheese DO NOT BLOW ANYTHING/ONE UP!

<3 xoxo please stay fun, too!!

zomgitsfriday!

DISCOVERY!!!!!!!
Jeremy Larson. He is a musician, and he blogs too! And his girlfriend is a regular blogger, and owns an ADORABLE(stretch that out in your mind when you read it) store called RedVelvet. Anywho! They recently got engaged, and she blushed about the new song he wrote her, it's so cute. Here you can find clips of his new music coming soon! Click: Clips 2. And then his funny article regarding Kanye Twittering. lolzzzz See the right side of his blog, for her link: "Elise" under "Friends."

Hitler emoticons! Could there be funnier emoticons, that aren't dated from the AOL Era?? I think not.
I took these pictures at the post office yesterday. YEAH, maybe this. lol...

 They gave him a
Hitler-Stache. Wow.
That is all I have to say.






- I. Freaking. Must. Have. This. WANTONENOW! Gold Leather Dictionary! *gasp!*

- PILLOW TIE?! This deserves the ZOMG of the day! so fun.

That's all folks. Maybe a poem treat tomorrow? Doveface, you complete me!

<3Bex*