Lightning and Childhood Memories

Last night we had the COOLEST Monsoon lightening storm in the northern part of Phoenix where we live. The lightning was very close to our house and very close to the ground and you could see the dark clouds and feel the electricity in the air . . .

When I was a little girl in Denver we used to lay outside in our huge yard and watch the lightening storms. I loved just laying in the grass and watching the bolts of light fly across the sky. As I got older, when there were huge thunder and lightening storms in Utah, all four of us kids would pile into my Mom's tiny day bed and we'd count the seconds between the lightening and the thunder to find out how far away the storm was.

Last night I sort of did the same thing . . .

It was ridiculously hot, so I didn't lay outside for long (I went inside, turned out all the lights and watched from my bed!!), but I got to watch some amazing lightening and I was so happy.

Then I was remembering a specific thunder storm when I was in high school . . . I think it was just Julia, Katy and I, but Hannah may have been there too . . . Katy was TERRIFIED of the storm and when the first really loud thunder clashed, she came BARRELING across the floor screaming at the top of her lungs and she jumped on top of Julia on the couch. Mike and Jennifer (my aunt and uncle) were living in the basement at the time and the loud running really made them mad, so Mike came up and got mad at us. Katy, in the true Katy fashion said to him as he walked down the stairs "you two just go down stairs, take off your clothes and have see . . . . ven children" Something we still say to this day!

Anyway, this is a picture I found on the internet of the kind of lightening that hits the Valley during these Monsoon storms. It's amazing isn't it?! This is the kind of lightning I was watching last night!

Anyway, to sum it all up, the storm last night was very cool and I am so glad I have so many fun memories of lightning!

More Peechas

As Julia would say "F freaking Y I" this post has been a pain in my butt!! I have been trying to post it for like twenty minutes and the pictures will NOT cooperate. So I was going to say all kinds of cool things about our adoreable house but instead I will say with frustration:

"Here are some more pictures of my house. If you can't figure out what and where they are in the house, call me and I'll explain it to you really slowly."

LOVE YOU ALL!

Cake or Death?

Death please!

Today was one of our company Board of Directors meetings. These are pretty stressful days, not only for me but for our executives. Especially this one because the executives were all traveling yesterday.

We also got to celebrate at work today though. We successfully launched a REALLY difficult client this week and got rave reviews from them. So to celebrate, we had this awesome cake made and delivered to us today. Can you guess who our big client is??

Isn't the cake awesome? I gave the bakery a little bit of direction, but they pretty much created this masterpiece on their own.
This is Daniel, one of our awesome software developers. He worked really hard on the launch so he got to cut the cake . . . he cut right through the dog's head, hmmm.

So I love frosting, especially fondant, which is what this cake was covered in. I ate a lot of it now and I feel SO ill, I just want to die. We still have lots left over too . . . anyone want some?

So, cake or death is the theme of the day, as you can see from the title. (Any of you who don't get the reference, you should probably go check out Eddy Izzard, funniest man ever. Careful he does have a bad mouth . . . ) Today I choose death because when I tried the cake I wanted to die . . . maybe tomorrow I will choose cake . . . we'll see. I have to be at work again, so it might be another death day! I'll let you know . . . and if I don't, it means chose death for reals :)

A slight view of our house

Well, it's what we call home . . . our little house in the middle of the hot desert . . . Here are a few pictures for those of you who have never seen it. There aren't many right now because I haven't cleaned to my liking for display, so I took some pictures of the most pleasing angles and I will take more as the rest of the rooms are straightened up to my satisfaction. (Those of you who know me well know not to hold your breath for this to occur!)

The room I am most proud of . . . my dining room. No art yet but i'm taking my time picking it out. This room has the beautiful furniture in my home. No chairs yet, those you see are from the kitchen. It's too hot to eat in the kitchen right now so we're taking a risk and eating on the dining room table. With coasters, placemats and protective coverings all over the table, of course. What do we think it's for, eating?!?!?

This is a shot from the front door . . . the kitchen is back through the mini-hall. No you don't get to see the kitchen. I made dinner tonight. Enough said.

Ok folks, that's all she wrote today . . . I do promise more pictures to come . . .

Dreaming of Superman

See the look on my face in this picture? My spazzy look? The one I usually reserve for Disneyland (where I happen to be in this picture)? Yeah that's how I'm feeling right now and my husband is passed out in bed. So, a-blogging I go.

I had an absoluetely INSANE week at work (I've started doing my new job along with my old job along with other people's jobs . . . and this will continue for quite some time I fear!) It was crazy, but I did get to call Rhonda's work and ask for her . . . and when the receptionist asked who was calling I said "First Mate Kate." (Rhonda dared me to do this.) When she said "Excuse me?" I articulated.

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Her reaction was a puzzled "Ok . . . hold one a second please?"

I did it again the next day to another one of the receptionists. I think this might become a habit.

ANYWAY, after the heinous week I was hoping for a fun weekend. I think my mission has been accomplished . . .

Friday night we were planning to go see "You, Me and Dupree" with Rhonda. We were meeting for dinner at 7:30 and had tickets to the 9:35 show. At 6:30 Rhonda called with some bad news. Her brand new Mini wasn't starting! She was stranded in a parking lot waiting for AAA, so Matt and I decided to go rescue her and our evening! We waited for a while until the tow truck got there (I would like to mention we have had record hot days for about the past week. And for those of you who think record hot is like 106, think 120 . . . at night after the sun goes down. Yeah. And poor Rhonda was stuck without AC until Matt and I could get there) so needless to say she needed rescuing. We sat in my car hoping it wouldn't run out of gas . . . then the tow truck arrived and the driver was VERY serious about the business of towing cars. We learned all kinds of new things. Most of all to "relax and get confortable" while looking for your tow hook . . . then we grabbed some food and barely made it to the movie before it started. Which also means we were on the FRONT ROW since it was opening night. Oh and on the very edge of the front row. The actors look very large and very distorted from that view . . .

ANYWAY, I thought the movie was hilarious and I know Rhonda did too. Matt even chuckled a few times (those of you who know him will realize that means this movie was pretty freakin' hilarious to get that sort of outburst out of my husband) so we were all happy we went and Rhonda and I will most likely add many quotes from the movie to our random quote stash (which means we will add it to every day conversation and most people will have ZERO idea what on earth we are talking about.) All in all it was an action packed night. (And for those of you so concerned, Rhonda's car is fine. Her transmission connection wire-thingy (you heard me) had come loose and now is reconnected. The Mini is back to zipping around town.)

Today was a day of errands . . . We went to Costco to look at desks and furniture . . . picked up my new curtains (yay! I'm so excited to have lovely valances . . . though not all of them are in yet so for now it will just be a half-way thing :) ) We went to the gym (it was shoulders, chest and triceps day for me. It hurts to be typing right now) and then we came home, got ready and went right back out to get some more curtain supplies. THEN we went to dinner at the Elephant Bar (mmmm cashew chicken and lava cake . . . mmmmm) then went to see Superman Returns (mmmmm Superman . . . . mmmmmm so pretty . . . . mmmmmmmmm) Another recommendation from me. Besides Brandon Routh being GORGEOUS, he did such a good job and was so much like the original (in my opinion) it was almost scary . . . I LOVE the Superman story and the music . . . and everything about it (except the two elderly ladies behind us providing commentary the ENTIRE TWO AND A HALF HOURS. I thought old people went to bed early? What's with them being at a 9:40 movie huh?? They didn't even like it! Thought it was "too violent at the beginning" Whatever!) Like I said, I loved it, loved it, loved it. It brings back such fond childhood memories for me and I get all emotional just thinking about it. Plus did I mention Brandon Routh is hot? Well, he is.

So now, I am home, it's 1 AM, Matt is still sleeping . . . and I'm dreaming of Superman. Do you think Matt will care if we name our first son Kal-el? It's not that weird is it??? I mean really! Just look at him!!!

Sigh. Sigh again. Sigh a third time for effect.