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Friends, Life

Angsty Depressed Music

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…..PARTY. Thats right! Sat night, J and I hosted a party at our apt. and we called it our Depressing music party. Everyone had to  bring 2-3 of their most depressing, angs inducing songs to share and they would be judged by everyone. It was a really fun time, ironic , I know for a depressing music party. It was depressing music made less depressing b/c we were among friends. And most importantly, I felt it gave us all a better insight into each others personalities. We also had yummy Seviche Tostadas (courtesy of Y.) and lots of booze. Of course we all go ridiculously drunk and nobody left till 4 in the morning.

 J and I  also made prizes for the winners, which was tic tacs in pill bottles to resemble sleeping pills and we tied it up t o mini bottles of whisky. I’ll post a pic as soon as I upload it, it looked very cute and morbid at the same time. I also got to keep one, because I won second place in the competition, i guess all my years of angst was building up to this moment. Ha!

My two entries were:

Elliot Smith- Fond Farewell

Beck- Lost Cause

I was so busy having a good time and being a host that i forgot to take pics, but I think my friend SVS did take some, so as soon as he makes them available, I will post them. Overall, it was a fantastic night and even J who gets very nervous about hosting events had to admit that things went off w/out a glitch.

Scrapbooking

Heidi Swapp Embellishments

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I looooooove Costco. I went to costco on Wed to pick up some prints and guess what i found. A 567 piece Heide Swapp embellishment collection for just $7.97. This set sells for $35.00 in scrapbook stores and for $25.99 on ebay. I was so thrilled, I bought it immediately. It has so much stuff in it that I haven’t even had a chance to play with it. It even has a  6×6 album and I already know what I am going to use it for. Here is a pic of my new goodies

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Friends

Empty

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JE and her boyfriend and son left for Tennessee today.  We went over to their apt last night to say good bye and it was sad to see the empty apt. The four of us had had a lot of good times in that apt. I am really sad and I ‘m really going to miss her but I am also happy for her. She is finally going to get a chance to go back to school and be closer to her family and her boyfriend found a fantastic job as well.

I know we will still be friends and still be close, but it won’t be the same. Anyway, here’s wishing her good luck.

Family, Life

Auntie

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I just got news this morning that I’m going to become an aunt again. My fave cousin, my hero, my older bro, my pal in late night partying is going to have a baby. I am so excited for him and his wife, that I can barely restrain myself from flying down to Australia right now. I am also excited b/c this will be the first Dasgupta born in a long time 🙂 My other two nephews have different last names.

 Also, on the topic of nephews, I really hope I get a little niece this time. I absolutely adore my two nephews but they are both such “typical” boys. I  have been lucky to be a cool aunt to them b/c I can discuss Star Wars, Spiderman, Light Sabers, cars, Darth Vader, Camping and other boy stuff, but I want to be a cool aunt to a girl too so that I can teach her to play dress up and give her my old dolls and play house, and tea parties with her. Also then I will have an excuse to buy those cute little dresses. (Little boys do not like cute outfits as presents…shhhh….don’t tell anyone). And when she gets older, I’m totally going to give her cool vintage tees and funky jewelry that i’ve collected. Sigh!

Anyway, I’m off to ponder the joys of being an auntie some more.

Food and Drinks, Friends, Funny, Life

Ode to 7Eleven

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Okay, its not really an ode, but in honor of it being 7/11 today I thought I’d post about how much I love Seven Eleven. Right now, there is no seven eleven in my life because they don’t have seven eleven in the south. They have Circle K and I suppose its close to seven eleven, but i aske where’s the green and the orange? Its just not the same.  My favorite seven eleven memories are of course of the slurpee . Walking over to seven eleven on a hot summer day to get the diet coke slurpee…yum.  Or even having a debate about if the seven eleven at the bottom of Big Cottonwood canyon is the busiest 7 Eleven in the country. I still don’t believe it but if think it is , you are not alone, I went to high school with several people who thought that.

Another of my 7 eleven memories is of the one on Main street, Logan, where MB and I would stop by every friday evening to get  their syrupy sweet frozen coffees. This was our friday night ritual after which we would either drive down to SLC or go out and party. Those coffee drinks gave us just the right amount of caffeine boost. I remember we would often show up at a friend’s house giggly and acting stupid and people would think we were already drunk, but it was just the caffeine.

Anyway, maybe the next place J and I move to will have 7 elevens and I’ll make some more memories, but till then Thanks for the Slurpees and the good times 7 eleven. You were a huge part of my adolescent landscape.

Funny, Life

Pillow Talk

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N: (to J) I like white meat better

J: Yeah, thats why you are with me

N: Well, you like Dark meat

J:Yup thats why I’m with you

N: Well then if you are white meat and I am dark meat, I guess together we are a Thanksgiving Turkey.

J: You are the weirdest girl I know.

* Saturday morning conversation in bed*

Life, Wedding

Quiet

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Its been a quiet couple of days in this part of the world, not much has been going on, hence the lack of blogging. This weekend was a nice mellow weekend, where J and I had some traditional summer fun.

Friday, I took a 1/2 day vacation and we spent the afternoon at the pool. It was the perfect temperature, a little cool in the water, but really hot out of it. Saturday, we slept in and then decided to cash in our change jar and we got $40 out of it. We spent the money on dinner and by buying this new game at Barnes and Noble at Blokus. So sat night we spent playing our new game and Scrabble. J beat me at the first two rounds of Blokus but I slaughtered him in the last round. And in Scrabble , I beat our all time record and got a 344. Yipeee. I love Scrabble.

I did my favorite thing in the world on Sunday- Curl up on the love sac and read. We also went and saw Oceans 13. I thought it was a pretty good movie, not as good as the first one, but definitely better than Ocean’s 12. I think I heart Casey Affleck. I want to see him in more movies. Sunday night,J and I also started looking at invitations together and I think we have our favorites picked out. Finally!

In other non noteworthy news, I have got J into Law and Order,so last night we ordered a pizza and watched two episodes of Law and Order on USA and two episodes of the Sopranos (J got me into that) on A&E. What can I say, we are crime loving family.