31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 13

A picture of my favorite band or artist.

The truth is, I really struggle to pick favorites.  Of anything, really.  As a general rule, I claim green as my favorite color, but...in some applications, I prefer purple.  Or red.  Or blue.

I really like colors! I even like yellow sometimes.

Favorite food?  Not a chance.

With so many rockin' awesome things in the world - natural or fabricated - who can pick favorites? There's just so much to love - and I hate to pigeonhole myself!

Maybe I just fear commitment...

But I REALLY love music, and I love music of all varieties.  Rock, punk rock, indie, alternative, country, rap, hip-hop, soul, funk, blues, oldies...the list goes on!  So to try to choose a favorite band or artist is a real challenge for me!

But, it's your lucky day, dear blogosphere!  I've compiled a sampling of some of my faves.

The Beatles                                   Garth Brooks
Maroon 5                                     System of a Down
Jason Mraz                                   Michael Buble
Diane Birch                                  Queen
Adele                                           Hawk Nelson

Three Days Grace                        Breaking Benjamin

Bruno Mars                                 Joe Cocker

Duffy                                           Marc Broussard
Amos Lee                                   Trisha Yearwood
Relient K

Okay, okay - I'll stop there.  You get the idea.  I really like music.  A lot.

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 12

Let's pretend that I didn't just take a ridiculous blogging hiatus and that I've been right on top of everything in my life, mmkay?

Day 12 - A photo of something I love.

Hmm...

Well...

I love a whole crap-ton of things, and I'm finding it difficult to decide what to write about.  I mean, literally, as I'm typing this, I'm still trying to decide: What is it that I love enough to blog about??  The ham & onion cheeseball I'm currently noshing on?  The sound of raindrops on the rooftop?  French fries?  Red Skittles?  Shel Silverstein books?

Okay, okay, I've got it!  He loves to lick everything, he destroys tennis balls on the regular, he's a 25 lb. weapon of mass destruction, and he just jumped up onto my lap and gave me a big ol' slobbery kiss. 

Turk.  Turkey Doo.  Turkmenistan.  Turk Monster.  Turkish Delight. Turkish Gold.  Pupper Doo.  My puppy-love.

*SIGH* 

Is he or is he not one of the cutest stinkin' creatures you've EVER seen???  Seriously.  It's no wonder he gets away with murder.  He's too cute.  The hubs and I can never have children because we're too ridiculously good-looking that surely our chidren will be knockouts as well, and we'll never be able to bring ourselves to discipline them.  "What's that, Tommy? You're painting a battle scene on the dining room wall with assorted condiments?  Well, that's alright, darling, because you're attractive.  And attractive people don't get in trouble on this planet.  Eat your peas.  Oh, you don't like peas? Well, by all means, leave them on your plate as a glaring reminder of all the money we waste on vegetables to keep you healthy when all you want to eat is Lucky Charms with chocolate milk.  Go ahead.  Cause you're cute.  Can I get you some Lucky Charms?  Or perhaps a candy bar would better serve you?"

I'm just kidding.  We'll beat our kids if that's what it takes to get them to eat their peas! 

Just kidding.  Again.  I don't even like peas.  I won't even buy peas.

So that's my dog.  I love him.

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 11

A picture of something I hate. 

Well, those of you who know me are aware that I would probably be considered more irritable than your average person.  But, for this post, we'll be focusing on my hatred for spelling and grammar errors.  This hatred actually breaks down in to categories.  For example, if someone just isn't really great at spelling and/or grammar and they send me a text message or an email with a typo in it, I may laugh.  I may even make a joke out of it (cause sometimes they're just really funny, am I right?).  But it won't fill me with the same kind of rage that comes when I see intentional errors, like those dang "I can haz cheezburger" cats.  I HATE those cats!  And their little bunny friends, too!  The pseudo-word "kwikstop" makes me throw up in my mouth.  You're not being cute, and you're not setting yourselves apart from the competition (at least not in a positive way) by replacing "quick" with "kwik."  Now you just look like a moron.

Okay, so we've got innocent typos coming from people with stubby thumbs (those cell phone buttons just keep getting smaller) or people whose strong suit just simply is not spelling and grammar.  Then we've got the idiots who think it's cute to spell things incorrectly.  And then we've got the people who are trying to be taken seriously, but are too cheap or too ignorant to hire a proofreader.  These are the people who put out ads, books, articles, signs, etc. with unnecessary apostrophes, superfluous quotation marks, and not a single comma to be found.  And sometimes those misspelled words can be quite...embarrassing.

So, there you have it.  One of my many pet peeves. 

And a cute little comic, to boot:

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 10

A photo of me and the person I do the craziest things with. 

Right.  So, I don't really do "crazy" anymore.  I'm too practical for that kind of nonsense.  Or maybe I've just gotten boring... :s

Regardless, I chose a photo of me and the bestie - because we USED TO do crazy things together.  Some of my absolute best memories and worst hangovers were with her...but I don't want to say too much.  I'd hate to embarrass her.  Plus, she's got a significant amount of dirt on me ; )

This is one of my favorite pictures of the two of us - it was a really super-fantastic day and we were both lookin' foxy!  Love you, Beena!

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 9

Oy.  It's been nearly a week since I've blogged...making Day 9 actually fall on, like, Day 16.  Ah well...life happens and I believe I warned you at the beginning that this was a blog of little guarantee.

On to the business at hand - A photo of the person who has gotten me through the most.  I have selected my beloved husband for this one.  While we've only known each other 970 short days, he's wiped a lot of my tears, made me laugh till my guts hurt, and promised to love me till death do we part (and looked smokin' hot doing it).

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 8

I skipped another day ... so sue me.

Day 8 - A photo that makes me laugh.

 
This sad little display is from my sister and her fiance's birthdays last year.  Her birthday is the day before his, so my mom made one cake for the both of them ... and the thing was just pathetic (Mom, I swear, I love you, but a gem like this cannot remain unmocked!).  LOL  It was all sunken and flat and ... just awful!  So when she asked me to "decorate" the cake, this is what happened.

Listen, those silly little frosting tubes are not made for legible handwriting.  Which, truthfully, just added to the hilarity.  Probably didn't help that I was hysterical the whole time I was trying to "decorate" this ridiculous cake-tastrophe (I just made that up). 

This makes me LOL every time I look at it ... I hope you LOLed too :D

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 7

A picture of my most treasured item.

This is my engagement ring/wedding band set (and Michael's wedding band on the bottom).  The reason I chose it as my most treasured possession is that it's irreplaceable.  My rings came from Michael's grandmother who, along with her brother, purchased the rings for her mother about 40 or so years ago.  When her mother passed away, Grandma got the rings back and held onto them for her oldest grandchild (my husband).  Funny thing is, Michael & I had started paying for a new set of rings from your run-of-the-mill mall jewelry store because he had forgotten all about his great grandmother's rings.  In early January of 2009, we went to visit Michael's grandparents and got to talking about marriage and rings and ... when Grandma showed them to me, I almost died.  I had always wanted an antique wedding ring (okay, I don't know if 40 years constitutes antique status or not, but you know what I mean - a used ring with a story behind it), but just didn't really think it was in the cards, so we started paying for new ones.  Then to find that, not only was Michael set to inherit his great grandmother's rings, but that they were GORGEOUS??  Seriously.  I don't think I could have picked better rings for myself.  They are beautiful and they are sparkly and they are unique.  There's a chip in the large center diamond and I secretly love it.  I think it gives the ring character and lends to its vintage charm.  I'd be interested to know what she (great grandmother) was doing when she chipped it. 

As a side note, I found it quite endearing that Michael proposed only about 2 weeks after we came home with the rings.  I truly hadn't expected it to happen so soon, but he just couldn't wait.  When the man knows what he wants, he gets it.  It's his M.O.

Michael's ring was also given to us by his grandmother, and had previously belonged to a family friend.  His is actually sort of triangular in shape, which is supposed to keep it from spinning around his finger.  At first, he found it sort of uncomfortable, but seems to have gotten used to it.

Love our rings.  Love our love.

Okay, now for the fun part.  I've been told that if you step back and look at this photo from a little bit of a distance, it looks like a ship on the horizon of a very calm body of water.  Chew on that - it's delicious.