Like Welcoming Back an Old Friend

TV is back!!!

First off I always get excited for Premier Week; whether I watch the show or not, I like to watch the season premier, it's usually the second best show of the year, next to season finale of course. So this week is ABC's Season Premier Week as well as most of NBC's shows. And I plan on sitting at home on my butt and watching all week long, YAY!!!

The best part about this year is that I learned you can watch TV online. Since I sit in front of computers all day, I usually turn on my laptop and watch TV, so if I don't have time to watch TV at home, I watch it online at work. I found out today that some shows on NBC are available online even though they have not premiered on TV yet. If you click here you can go to NBC's website and watch Chuck, Lipstick Jungle and a couple other shows, even though they have not aired.

Oh TV, I have missed you. Welcome back.

FALL!!!!!

Yay for Fall!!!!! I am extremely happy that Fall is finally here; and though the temperatures do not necessarily reflect the season quite yet, I know that it's just around the corner. I love fall, the crisp air, Halloween, the knowledge that Thanksgiving and Christmas are close, but most of all the clothes.

I love winter jackets, sweaters, jeans, boots!!! They are so much more flattering than tight shirts, and shorts that go to my knees (if you have hips at all these make them look twice as big as they already are) . So for those of us that are not a size 8 or smaller, fall is a godsend. We just don't look cute in second skin shirts and shorts, and the pit stains and boob sweat from 100 degree weather is just not attractive (that's right, I said boob sweat).

So thank you fall for coming and allowing me the opportunity to be modest, cover myself up and not sweat to death.

A New Addition to Our Family

No not a baby! Sorry to disapoint. As of Wednesday night, Bryan and I acquired a 7 month old minx kitten. Long story short, we couldn't leave her and are way to nice to say no. So rather we spent Wed. night at the Utah Pet Center, spending $134 to get her a bunch of shots and test her for Kitty Leukemia and Kitty Aids. Yes Kitty Aids. While we waited an hour for the doc we came up with a name for our kitty. Since our other cats have Harry Potter themed names, it was only fair to name our 3rd kitty, so the name we came up with was, Nymphadora Tonks Watson, we call her tonks. Here are a couple pics from the vet while we waited

Here she is waiting with daddy. She is ridiculously cuddly and purrs like a deisel truck.

I love this one because she looks high.

So after we spend the night at the hospital we take her home to meet or other 2 kitties. Yup, that didn't go over very well. You'd think she was a 200 lb. dog by the way they were hissing at her, and then it was like they forgot that they had lived with any cats or humans for the past year and started hissing at each other and then us. It's rough.

So then we go to bed, keep Tonks in our room with us so that the other 2 don't eat her in her sleep. She slept like a rock until about 4:30 in the morning, when she decided to wake up and wander around the bed till she found the perfect spot to drop a load, that's right, she pooped right on our goose feather down comforter. So I yell at Bryan to wake up while carrying her to the bathroom and her litter box, too late, she's already done. So we put her back on the bed and she realizes that she's not done, she then procedes to pee on the comforter. I nearly threw up, don't know what i'm going to do when I have kids, I don't believe all that crap about how it's your kid and because it comes out of them it doesn't smell; bull honky, it's still poop, it still stinks.

This shows her little nub of a tail.

So that leads us up to now, our cats still don't like each other, Tonks is still now potty trained, and I have some very hostile pets in my home. So here is the question...does anyone have any tips on potty training a cat? Any tips on getting your cats to like each other? Please help me, I can't take the evil glares i'm getting from my cats or locking Tonks in the bathroom because i'm afraid she'll poop on couch next or my pillow.

McCain-Palin '08

For any of you who did not have a chance to watch the Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's speech last night click here

She is amazing. For every person that said she was not strong enough, not experienced, this was a kick in the teeth. And can I just say, she has more experience than Obama, who is running for flipping President, what a joke.


I will be honest when I say, I was not a huge fan of McCain, he was simply the lesser of two evils. However, when Palin was added to the ticket, I got excited. She represents the core beliefs that our country was built on, and she is so powerful in her speeches that you can't help but like her and root for her.

So right after I watcher her speech this morning online, I went and bought myself some stickers.

So for anyone else who thinks that voting for Obama is as ridiculous as I do, you can get these bumper stickers at here
Also, in case you have not yet registered, click here
VOTE McCain-Palin '08- Country First!!!!

It fit 2 months ago?!?!

OK, so yesterday I wrote about how my Sister in Law got married. This made me think about my own wedding, and some of the not so Happily Ever After moments....
Let's start with, my dress not fitting the night before my wedding. Well I ordered my dress in Feb 2007 and it arrived at the very end of March, a lot faster than expected. I did a fitting and though it was tight (I kept telling myself I would lose 5 pounds, every girl does) it fit fine. So for the next 2 months, I stared at it, hanging on the back of my door in it's pretty little bag and thinking about how good it would look and how Bryan would cry at the sight of me (He didn't by the way, weirdly enough neither of us cried our wedding day) So I would try it on every once in a while, but usually by myself in my room while spinning around like a little girl. So the dress was never done up with the zipper, so I didn't realize how tight it had gotten. Well in this 2 month hiatus of me not trying on my dress, I did something most good little mormon girls do, I went on the pill. For any of you who have done this, you know that certain things start to get bigger (along with being ridiculously, cry my eyes out emotional. I'm sre there were times that Bryan questioned marrying me because of those bleeping pills).
So finally it's the night before the wedding, and my 2 best friends Brooke and Jill are staying in a bed and breakfast with me in Nauvoo. We had just gone out to dinner and are back in the room talking when I have the idea to show them what my dress looks like. So I strip down and they put the dress over my head, and they try to zip me up. Notice the word TRY...I have Jill on her knees trying to pull my under garments down and hold them tight, plus trying to pull the 2 sides together so that Brooke can try and pull the zipper up. Poor Jill's head is stuck between my larger than normal bum that i'm trying to suck in, and Brooke's bossom that is breathing heavy because of all the work of trying to get me in the dress. They both start to think this is funny and start to laugh while getting me in, that's when I break down and start to cry. It's the night before my wedding, i'm in the middle of no where Illinois, what the (insert explitive here) am I going to do.
So I call Bryan and tell him that I can't fit into my dress and to pray that I somehow miraculously loose 5 lbs. over night, and Brooke Jill and I all saying silent constant prayers that it works in the morning.
So the next morning I nervously walk to the temple, get into the Bride's Room with my mom, sister in law, Jill and her mom Char, and we all start the task of getting me into the dress. This time around, it only took about 5 minutes to get me in. I couldn't breath or sit down for more than 5 minutes at a time but it eventually fit.
So for all you married women who had a perfect day with nothing wrong. Count yourselves lucky, because some of us got slightly chunky and almost didn't fit into our wedding dress.

Happy Mormon Weddings!!!

Yay for people getting married!! Except that everyone seems to get married in the 3 months of summer. I wish more people would get married during the fall, it's soooo much prettier in the fall. I wish I would have but I got engaged in January and was not willing to wait 8-9 months to get married, i'm just not that patient.

Well anyway, this past weekend, Bryan's sister Heather got married in the Logan temple to Drew Baldwin. It was a nice day, except that it started at 5 AM!!!!!! We didn't even think about reserving a hotel in Logan, thought it would be open, well I also didn't remember that school started this week. So all the little freshman getting dropped off by their parents are staying in hotels. So Bryan and I, plus his brother and sister and our nephew all stayed in the Howard Johnson in Brigham City. And ohh my gosh was it ghetto!!!! We didn't get to sleep that night until about 11 and then had to wake up, pack and check out of the hotel by 5:45 and be in Logan by a little after 6. I then did Heather's hair and make up and had her out of the apartment by a little after 8. That gave me about 30 min to get ready, dress, make up, hair, oh and shave my legs...I only do that on special occasions.

Then off to the temple, watch the sealing. It's always nice to be a part of other people's sealings. Why? Because I have no idea what was said at mine, this time I can pay attention. I honestly have no clue what our sealer said. I'm sure it was profound and deep, but all I could think about was "Oh my gosh, I can't breath in my dress" "Is there no air conditioner in the Nauvoo Temple" "Holy crap i'm going to have SEX tonight!!" You know you were all thinking it. So it's nice to hear what others say. So afterwards we took pictures. Good times. Below are a couple pictures.

Bryan and I waiting for our turn to take pics. You may notice I chopped a bunch of my hair off and dyed it blonde.

Our neices Lizzie and Jess, Sister and brother in law Heidi and Shane. Notice that the bouquet is bigger than Lizzie. She's soo flipping cute.

I love this picture. If you travel from left to right we get more and more disorganized. And Heidi looks like she is talking to her tummy.

Now, most of us are ready, well except Drew who looks cranky. These are all the Watson children. Holly Eaton, Allen, Heather & Drew Baldwin, me and Bryan, Heidi & Shane Rees.

Close, but now Heather looks confused by her bouquet.

Uncle Bryan and Lizzie. He will be the cutest dad, I can't wait. Plus he's hot, so hopefully that passes on to our kids.

So yay for weddings. I wish I could go back and do mine again. I wouldn't change anything, except maybe paying a little more attention, OH and the photographer would be different. Our photographer sucked, very few cute pics at the temple. Boo him.

Dear Zits

Dear Zits,

It's time we have a little discussion.

When I was 13, 14 and all the way till I was 18, I didn't mind you so much. I figured that you were a part of my maturing process. I looked around and saw that 90% of my friends had you and so I thought that you were OK. I gave you everything you wanted, I ate greasy foods, I was oily, and I lived in one of the more humid parts of the country so you could breed.

I did all of this with the hope that we would come to an understanding. I always had faith that some day, in my early 20's and definately by the time that I got married, that you would leave and find another 13 year old to live with. I never thought, back in those good old teenage years, that you would still be with me through college, that you would pop up on my lower lip the morning of my wedding, that you would come on my cruise with me, and more importantly that you would try and embarass me in front of my husband every morning. I didn't think that I would still be investing money in concealors and even more money on face washes. Well apparently I was naive. I didn't realize that this was war. That you intend to embarass me for years to come and without a doubt will appear every time I go to visit my mom, have to be in a wedding party, am taking a family photo, or have to do a big presentation for a client.

So for now it appears that we will agree to disagree. I will continue to try and end your existance and you will continue to embarass me everyday for the rest of my blemish filled life.