The Sharpe Rocks

That's the name of our "Rock Band" group. You see, my hubby and I are the Sharpe's and my BFF and her hubby are the Rockafields...get it, Sharpe Rocks! I thought it was kinda catchy.

They recently bought a new house and we have been spending a lot of time with them, which is great! We do dumb crap like watch old episodes of Chappelle's Show, drink, play Rock Bank, drink. You get the picture. The last time we played Rock Bank my BFF's brother was there. It was hilarious! All the guys were passing around this dark brown wig trying to look like a rock star. I got some great black mail pictures.
We are just starting out here. Gettin' warmed up. Everyone but Matt, far left, is calm.

Close ups of the band

<<<Matt and Kevin>>>










<<<Me and Austin>>>





And best of all...Matt rawkin' out. This is the best action picture I have ever seen. I think he was born to be a rocker. Too bad I was born to be lame!

I know...you thought I died.

I have been so busy lately. I feel like such a bad blogger.

My job situation has changed drastically and I am so busy all the time I can hardly find time to read my favorite blogs let alone write my own. Not to mention that every weekend since May I have been inundated with parties and BBQ's and graduations and craziness. It's fun but really I just want some time to myself and to top it all off, I don't have a free weekend until the middle of August! OY!

I would like to say THANK YOU to Kaylyn, the coolest blogger/blog designer I know! She made my blog so pretty today.

I promise to post more and read more in the weeks to come!

Friday Fun...

I went out on Friday night with my homie Tootie and my mom was our DD. If I haven't said this before, my mom ROCKS. She is usually more than willing to be the DD as long as that means she is going with us.

We start out at an invitation only wine release party at Darby in Woodinville. We saw a bunch of people that we know from our job as wine wenches. We snacked and drank and drank. There was one wine that was SOOOOOOO good. The Aunt Lee Syrah. We went back for three samples. The lady pouring the wine was pretty light on the last pour so we decided to go to the winery next door and drink some more. We were slightly buzzed by the time we had to head into down town Seattle.

Our next stop was The Can Can at Pike Place Market. We had tickets to see Plastique featuring The Heavenly Spies. It's a cabaret style show. We got there a little early so I downed two glasses of wine before we were seated. At our table we had some bubbly, yay! We orders some snacks and I crack my baby bottle of bubbles.

The show was AWESOME. I was totally impressed with Ultra, the lip-syncing drag queen. She rocked. The dancing was pretty amazing too. I would love to go see their next "show."

We were parked across the street in a pay by the hour lot. I guess that we were so excited that we forgot to pay before we went in. There was a dude in the lot and he asked us if that was our car. We say yes. He says he needs to collect our fee so we give him $20. He then runs away! We all get in the car and notice an envelope on the window requesting payment. We got scammed! Damn drunkeness!

It was so much fun that I didn't care!

Tootie, Mom and me

The last of my hummus and bubbles!

War of the Wii Mii

I finally did it! I bought a Wii Fit. I was hoping to change up my workouts with out having to get a gym membership or a trainer. I have done all that before and always get sucked into buying a junk load of freakin' training sessions.

So, I wait for the lazy husband to get up at noon and ask him what he thinks about it. He thinks it's a great idea, especially because we hardly every use our Wii. We go out, buy our Wii Fit, look at some games. I really want the Jillian Michael's work out game. I want her to scream and swear at me if I am not running fast enough, like on The Biggest Loser.

At home I get it all set up. I am excited to see my Wii age. I step on the board. "Oh." The little voice says. WTF! Don't make me punch you. I go through all the balance tests...calculating, calculating, calculating. 35! Are you kidding me? I am in fairly decent shape, maybe a little on the chunky side, but in decent shape. The Wii makes my little Mii all chunky. Whatever! I start some of the strength training, yoga, and aerobics stuff. Of course, since I am the first user, I get all the high scores. After about an hour I am DONE. The hula hoop was crazy fun. I hand it over to my Redneck.

I am thinking to myself, his Wii age better be more than mine. It's not! He is 30. So he starts doing all the same things that I did. Trying to beat my score. Oh no he didn't! He turns around, looks at me and says, "This is going to be a competition now, isn't it?"

"YES IT IS!"

Fast forward to this morning. I am so sore. I look like a tard when I have to go down stairs because my thighs are so sore from lunges and warrior poses. My abs feel like someone has punched me multiple times from crunches.

But I will be back on the game tonight after work, beating his scores that beat mine.

It's WAR!

Day 8

Goody, goody gum drops it's the last day of finding happy things..

• I had another VERY productive day at work. WTH is going on!
• I got around to blogging about my birthday party.
• I went out for drinks with my Redneck. We got there at the same time as two of our favorite peeps...Jamie and Drew! They rock!
• I made fillet mignon for dinner. It was super delish even if it was a little well done.
• I am drinking a glass of wine...yay!
• I am going to try to pay attention to the good things that happen everyday from now on, even if it's the crappiest day ever!
  

Birthday Fun

My 30th birthday has come and gone, but I wanted to share some of the pictures. It turned out pretty low key, which was fine with me. We were out late the night before and I was pretty tired. I guess I am showing my age! Ha ha!
This is my bestie, Melissa. She took care of most of the event planning.
I heart her!
This is my bestie's husband.
I don't know what he is doing...posing by the flowers, trying to look tough...IDK.
Anyways, it made me laugh.
Irishgirl and Steve came out.
They are always down for some wine drinking!
They also got me some fabulous champagne flutes.
Thanks guys! You rock!
I still owe you some Fruit Salsa Brie...don't let me forget!
Me and my niece Andrea aka Annie.
We were twins that night!
Annie just turned 21 and was enjoying many beers with my mom/her grandma.
Let me preface this by saying that my mom doesn't drink!
She has a glass of ultra sweet wine once in a blue moon.
Let me also say that she cracked two big bottles of Lindeman Framboise Lambic.
She shared but was down right loopy! She looks a little evil in this picture too!
Shhh....It's the Redneck in his natural habitat! Beer in hand!
If you look closely you will see the infamous Alf in the right corner.
It's a rare sighting of my brother and sister. Weird! I get this look from him a lot! It's almost like he is embarrassed by me.
I really don't know why! Probably because I purposely closed my eyes for this picture. IDK! Me and my cake before they had to go and set it on fire! Trying to lick the cake? Taking a deep breath to blow out all the candles! And, finally....

Say I hate you to my niece Chaz,

who was at prom instead of coming to my party....BOOOO!!!!!

Nice dress though! =)

Day 7

Events that were to tha good

• Another highly productive day at work today. Yay me!
• I might actually make my sales goals and get a bonus. Yay me again! The combo of bad economy and craptacular insurance rates provided by the company I work for have meant no bonus for Day-Day....boo.
• I got to give Redneck a big hug before he left for work this morning. He is my squishy!
• I am going home to watch another movie. Maybe Yes Man, maybe Midnight Meat Train.