politics and tish

Russ has recently felt the need to get me more interested in politics because he thinks that I am very poorly informed. He gave me a book called "Treason" by Ann Coulter which I attempted to read on my lunch hour. I got past the first two chapters and was thouroughly entertained and genuinely interested until I found funner things to do on my lunch hour, like shop online for things i will never buy. I have super good intentions of finishing the book eventually, but i can only take it in small doses.


Also on my to-do list: listen to AM talk radio. I don't know how many times Russ has born his testimony of AM radio to me but I finally opened my heart and mind this past week. I listen to 570 and 1430 AM and let me tell you that I have become a huge fan in the past two days. Not only are some of these talk shows HILARIOUS but I am actually learning stuff that matters. I have always hated being so poorly informed of political and economic issues but i've never cared enough to do anything about it. I may, some day, be able to have an intelligent political conversation with someone. Also, everyone should probably watch the movie "Hot Rod" because, not only is it one of my favorite movies of all time, but there is a hilarious plug for AM radio near the end.

UNO

Russ and I played an INTENSE game of UNO yesterday. We played best out of five and I suggested that the loser give the winner a foot massage. Well, Russ ended up killing me but, being the WONDERFUL fiance that he is, he gave ME a foot massage anyways. What a sweet boy. I am so lucky.

the fourth

i love love love the fourth of July. I love it because it means that all of the following will likely occur:

1. breakfast at the park. pancakes, sausage and eggs served by cute old members of the Riverdale Lion's club.my cute fam at the park. Russ wasn't allowed to be in the picture because he apparently didn't get the memo that the myers family celebrates holidays the right way - by wearing the correct colors. Non festive color wearers are shunned. (My sister almost had a stroke when her husband told her he was wearing black). we gave russ a break this year since he's not technically part of the family yet.

2. world's best parade. it consists mostly of local jr. high and high school students riding on expensive trucks shooting water guns at people.

my adorable little nephew, Carter, who must be going through a grumpy phase because i refuse to believe that he doesn't like being held by me.

During the parade we sat up on a hill for an ideal view of the parade. this was not, however, the ideal location to catch candy as it was thrown by the hundreds into the crowd. a parade isn't a parade without catching and eating some salt water taffy so, after about 15 minutes of me whining in my best and cutest whiny voice Russ made the trek down the hill to join the 7-year olds in their candy-catching endeavors and brought me back 2 tootsie rolls :( He redeemed himself and saved the day by catching a frisbee which we then traded for 3 taffys with the little girl next to us.

3. Carnival at the park. we make our rounds by the booths and possibly buy a snow cone, nothing more.
4. Pool party/BBQ at my house. Fourth of July would never be the same without stuffing mysef silly with hamburgers and all manner of junky goodness. (then swimming off all of the calories)



5. FIREWORKS! doesn't matter where, but the bigger the better. This year happened to be the best year ever for fireworks. and i'm just glad i'm still alive to tell about it. We started things of by doing sparklers with Russ's nephew Ryan.


Then Russ's older brother and a whole slew of neighborhood friends showed up with approx $800 worth of illegal fireworks from Wyoming. The show was pretty sweet until someone had the bright idea to let 14 year olds light fireworks. Apparently they didn't understand that the firework had to go straight up into the air rather than toward houses and people (which they did). One firework (the big ones you see at REAL firework shows) decided to go up in the air and then come back down and explode in the middle of the street. We had quite the scare when one of the last ones, not even lit by a minor, darted through the neighbor's tree, bounced off their driveway and exploded on our front porch (which I was conveniently sitting in front of). Not wanting to sport burn marks on my wedding day i promptly exited the firework show.

YAY for america!

I not-so-secretly want to drain my bank account of every last penny and spend all of it on new clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry before I get married because then if i do so afterwards I will feel bad because it will be Russ's money too. I am horrible.

countdown

only 11 days (!!) until:

wedded bliss
sandy beaches
near-poverty
possible homelessness

Cookies and Porn

I don't look at porn!! read on for details.

So today at work I was given the task to buy 20 cookies from McDonald's. Sounds simple enough, right? Wrong. Things started out smoothly. I did have to make a U-turn to get there but I made it to McDonald's safe and sound. Waited in line. Placed my order. 10 oatmeal cookies and 10 choc chip cookies. to go please. swiped my debit card...4 times. NOT APPROVED . Do you take checks? nope. Well, this is where things get interesting. I remembered the time in my life (last night) when I was charged $70 on my credit card for something sketchy. The charge to my card read only "introflux.com" and a 1-888 phone number. Did I accidentally buy some crap online??? What the? Of course I did the obvious thing which was to panic. And then I went to the website to hopefully solve this mystery. Instead I found a long list of uber-sketchy websites, a phone number (called, no answer), and a link to the "online help page." Online help sounded pretty good to me so....CLICK! and what did I find? a membership to a PORN site. again, I do not subscribe to porn. I just don't do it. its a waste of money. I immediately called my bank and canceled my credit card. Unfortunately they must have deactivated my debit card as well. So, back to the cookie story. I didn't have cash and I don't even know if I could use an ATM with my cards so I went to my bank which was clear on the other side of town. at least I was on the clock right? I get to the bank and although it was packed the girl in front of me felt the need to share her life story with the teller. not cool. I eventually got my turn and retrieved 50 bucks from my checking account. Good to go. I went back to McDonald's and it must have been a shift change because no one who had helped me before was there. So I ask the cashier for 10 choc chip and 10 oatmeal cookies. He tells me that I can only get 3 or 13 of each. Right. I didn't argue for times sake, just give me the cookies! I paid and waited. and waited. the cashier who helped me started sweeping the floor. two employees got into a heated argument about a cash register. still, no cookies. they must have made them from scratch for as long as I waited. Finally I got the cookies and rushed back to work. i would soon discover that, although i paid for 13 of each, they actually only gave me 10 of each. So what was the 3 or 13 deal? And to top it all off, on my second trip back to McDonalds i noticed that my bank was right across the street. And now everyone things i like porn.