Bad hair day?

I just have to vent about my hair. I'm having a bad hair day. In fact, I have a bad hair day about 80% of the time. Granted, its partially my fault because I don't take the time to do anything with it except tie it up in a ponytail BUT its also my hair's fault. Its thick, bushy, frizzy, and wavy - just a bad combination. If I want to wear my hair down and have it look decent I have to invest approximately 1.5 hours working on it: blow drying it results in a huge 80's frizzy mess which then has to be flat ironed, followed by some kind of smoothing/de-frizzing serum. Seriously, who has that kind of time in the morning? I'd rather get more sleep!

I keep hoping that one of these years it will miraculously stop being unruly and start being fabulous but then I remember this picture in my baby book from when I was 8 months old:

This hair situation has been going on for 29 years - I'm not having a bad hair day, I'm having a bad hair life!

Not so agile ...

Josh's mom and step-dad just got us a Wii and the game that came with it has all these different sports you can play. You can also do a fitness level test (although in my opinion its technically more of a hand-eye coordination test) where it makes you do a variety of different sports so we decided to give it a try.

Josh went first and this was his result:

Pretty close to his actual age of 28.

My turn didn't go quite as well. I wasn't so hot at bowling, didn't hit a single ball in baseball and had poor performance in tennis resulting in this embarrassment:

I guess this means I have the hand-eye coordination of a 71 year old. Should I be concerned?

Couch Potato

I know I posted a picture before of how Hobbes likes to spend her day (sleeping/lounging on the couch) but a few days ago she took it to a whole new level - she was actually using the couch as a recliner!

I love how they are both in the same pose in this one - it makes me laugh every time I look at it!

Can this be true?

Most of you who know me know that I'm not a sports fan. I don't enjoy participating in sports, nor do I enjoy watching them. (Well I do love watching rugby and equestrian events but since they're never on TV I'm not even counting them.) Josh has tried really hard to turn me into a football fan and although I have learned a little I really wouldn't call myself a fan.

Anyway ... A couple of months ago I noticed that Josh was watching Nascar on the weekends so I half jokingly asked him if he was becoming a Nascar fan and to my amusement he said he was "because football isn't on right now." I made fun of him a little because really how can you enjoy watching cars drive round and round in circles - the whole thing just seems pointless!

Fast forward a couple of weeks and somehow I have guys I am rooting for. I cant sit and watch the whole race but I check in frequently to see how 'my guys' are doing. And I actually care who wins. This is really embarrassing - the girl who hates sports has somehow become a Nascar fan. I don't even know anyone who likes Nascar!!! This is so un-me. Hopefully its just a phase and will end soon so I can go back to my sport hating ways.

I'm in love ...

... with this ring. Basically, I need it.

Yesterday I reminded Josh that there are 3 gift giving occasions coming up in the next six months and let him know that this would be an appropriate gift for any of those occasions. He responded with a somewhat blank look and I knew he was trying to figure out what the 3 occasions were - ummm, wedding anniversary (our first!), my 30th birthday (not a birthday I'm looking forward to but I definitely wouldn't turn down a fabulous gift), and Christmas. I even did all the homework already and found out where to buy it ... and its not even very expensive!

Hopefully there is a pretty blue ring in my future :-)

4th of July Recap

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July! We didn't do a whole lot ...

Monkey spent the day lazing on the bed

Hobbes spent the day messing with the blinds and shedding on the couch

Josh and I barbequed tri-tip (and had a little mishap with the marinade - it was so extremely salty that I had to rinse the cooked meat under the tap to make it edible!) and then watched Spellbound. Yup, we're pretty hip and happenin'!

Smoke Alarm

So we've had this smoke situation for the past week. There were wild fires to the north and south of us last weekend and lucky us in the Bay Area ended up with all the smoke in our air. Usually we enjoy clear blue skies every day. This week we have been forced to endure grey, smoke filled skies - it looks like its overcast but there's actually not a single cloud in the sky. Its kind of creepy actually. We've been instructed to stay indoors as much as possible to avoid any health complications - although it took the authorities about 3 days to issue the warning.

This is Monday June 23rd. At the end of that road you should be able to clearly see hills in the background but they are barely visible.

This is Thursday June 26th. You can barely even see the outline of the hills - way too much smoke in the air!!!

Things are looking more normal today and there is even a hint of blue in the sky. Hopefully we'll be breathing clean air again in no time!

Here are the 3 pics side by side for your viewing pleasure :-)