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what what??

Did you hear about THIS over the weekend? Perhaps on the front page of the Sunday Cape Cod Times?

Yeah.

That would be pretty much my freaking BACK YARD. The boggs where Miss Buttons likes to walk with her nose in the grass, eating goose poop.

Bob and Griffin took Belle for a walk Saturday afternoon at the boggs right before the "discovery" was made by the bogg workers... and Bob pulled a bone out of Little Miss Buttons' mouth half way through the walk. He ASSURED me that it was a little animal bone, but I'm leaning towards my dog being a forensic scientist and making a very important criminal discovery.

Bob tells the dog that she can't live her life just sitting around being beautiful all day long. I told him to back off... she's got very important crime scene investigating skills.

 

(Miss Buttons at the boggs about two years ago... so tiny!)

*wicked*

So, while Erin has been canoodling with John Mayer and his excelent famous friends aboard some luxurious cruise ship, I have been working wicked hard and witnessed an almost-shoot-out. Really. I could have died. Ask Jayne, it's true.

Anyway, there still isn't much to blog about as I am in store for a wicked fun-filled work weekend... but there's hope for a quite night at home and *maybe* a bonus day off on Monday, thanks to the best boss-lady in the world.

Speaking of things that are *wicked*... I texted JI last night that I hoped she wouldn't get too jealous knowing that while she was heading to dinner with Big Daddy J and Robert-A and Big Dean at Wicked, she very well COULD have dined with my family at Friendly's. Just sayin'.

ALSO on my *wicked* list: SHURKUS. Why? Because she got me freaking addicted to Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook, and every time I see her ridiculously high score, with her bubble-blowing profile picture taunting me next to it, I want to pop that damn bubble and watch her try to get the gum out of her hair for a week. Why the violence? Because I CAN'T FREAKING FIGURE OUT HOW SHE GETS SUCH A FLIPPIN' HUGH SCORE!!! Game on, bff, game on.

That is all. Have a wicked good weekend :p

Dear America,

Last night's AI elimination was just TOO CLOSE for comfort for me. Seriously, Matt in the bottom 3?!?! For serious. Get your acts together and DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN. Thank you.

Sincerely,

MLPRO

whooooooooooooooosh

(thats the sound of time flying by)

So apparently I've fallen of the blogging bandwagon. What could I have possibly been doing in the last two weeks that has kept me from this fantastical place called typepad?

Working. Working. Working. Crop On The Cape. Working. Working. Working. Getting an oil change. Working. Sleeping. Cooking Dinner (and exploding an entire can of sloppy-joe mix all over my kitchen.... CLASSY). Procrastinating. Getting my hair did (with a FREE haircut AND a $50 gift certificate... cheapest appointment EVER). Laundry. Driving to the airport twice. More working.

Yeah, thats basically it.

That, and typepad was being all PMS-y on me and not letting me log in.

What else can I tell?

Erin is on her fantastic voyage (slide slide slippedy slide-ing with john mayer and such).

Breanne is still brewing her baby.

I have to get to the post office in a MAJOR way.

Anxious to see who gets voted off Idol tonight (the DVR is set, baby).

Um, yeah.

Thats about it for this morning... work is calling.

Oliveira, out.

the one dedicated to a *bump

Hey, party people :)

I was in NJ over the weekend with this lovely girl, celebrating the impending birth of her baby-girl. We were able to spend a little bit of time together around the baby shower... and we didn't take a SINGLE picture together. Not one. We were too busy chatting, I suppose ;)

I did snap a few pictures at her shower, but must have bumped the camera at some point because many of the shots turned out a bit blurry :(

 

Cutest.Mantle.Ever.  She arranged pink tulips in simple vases and hung ultrasound pics from pink tulle... everyone was ooh-ing and ahh-ing over it. It was so amazing to see the progression of the images side-by-side. The human body is an amazing thing (especially when there is a little mini-me growing inside it!).

 

The bump! Breanne wore the cutest pink polka-dot dress for the occasion, a major score from the GAP, so she reported ;) It was all I could do not to molest her belly the whole time. I LOVE that bump!

 

Cuppy-cakes! Sooooooo delicious.

I was so glad to be able to share this time with my far-away-friend. I'm bummed that I will miss the birth of her babe, but hopefully I will be able to sneak away to visit after she's born.

Bobio and I did spend some quality time together over the weekend, too. We ate yummy continental breakfast in the mornings and dined at the Ruby Tuesday restaurant at the hotel... and slept on the worlds HARDEST bed EVER. Seriously. I should have tried the floor instead :p

All the travel was fun-filled... but after everything was said and done I was glad to be home, sleeping in my own bed, catching up on Griffin's weekend excitement and snuggling with my girla-smirla on the couch.

Today brings fun things like store-related emails, digging through health insurance garbage (trying to find affordable coverage is IMPOSSIBLE), making killer Kale Soup, and picking my cousin up form the airport for her spring break. So much for a day off ;)

a day of rest

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

It has been a long week so far, and its only Wednesday. On my agenda today? A little bit ofcrafting, a little bit of showering, a little bit of snuggling on the couch with the best snuggler in the world (sorry Bob!)...

 

See? This little girla-girl has the right idea. She hops up on the back of the couch and wiggles herself under the layers of the blanket, creating the snuggliest of cocoons. This is very much inspiring me to partake of an afternoon nap with this little pup.

I've (finally) booked the hotel for our trip to New Jersey this weekend for Miss Breanne'sbaby shower. Mr. Bobio will be veryhappy that he will have two of his favorite hotel amenities... an indoor pool and free continental breakfast. Hey, it's gonna be his birthday weekend, I thought I'd spring the extra $7/night for the *fancier* hotel. Holiday Inn, here we come! ;)

Miss Buttons and Griffin will be shacking up with Nan and Gramp for the weekend... being spoiled rotten the whole time, I'm sure.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes... So far so good with this whole being 30 thing. I'm really honestly not opposed to it, its just a little bit of an adjustment. You know, actually saying OUT LOUD that I'm 30. Awkward, you know? I am really looking forward to all the things 30 will bring me. I'm hoping to feel more grounded, more aware, more in control of life than just letting the time slip by. Before I know it I'm going to be in the finest nursing home Griffin can afford, looking back on mounds of ridiculous scrapbook pages wondering where the time went.

The plan right now it to just let it be, and enjoy the ride.

Right now, though, I think I'm going to go enjoy a NAP with my little girla-smirla on the comfy couch.

Happy Wednesday :)

heyyyyy 30.

So. Today I turn the big 3-0. And how are we celebrating, you ask? By heading off to work in a miserable snow storm. nicccccccccccccccceeeeee.

Maybe this is a sign of things to come in my 30th year? Lets hope NOT.

While I'm still not sure how I feel about turning 30.. especially since I still feel like I'm perpetually 17 years old... I think I'm gonna be ok.  ((t.h.i.n.k.))

My fantastical husband totally surprised me with a SURPRISE party on Saturday night at my parents' house... I was completely and totally shocked. I was under the assumption that we were heading over for a game of cards and some delicious dinner. NOT A HOUSE FULL OF PEOPLE!!! My family and a handful of close friends were there, along with a freaking pink unicorn pinata. Really. It was strung up on the front porch in the dark. We invited the kidlets out there to bash it open... and I swear I was convinced that we were gonna destroy either the front door or the porch light in the process :D.

Even though I cried hysterically in the car, and hit my husband for allowing me to show up at my own surprise party wearing my freaking pajamas, I really was so happy to be surrounded by the people who mean the most to me.

Dude, even SHAWN was there. And the Gonsalves gang (minus a contagious Ali-cat), and Bob's side of the family, and Erin's mom made a delicious coconut trifle cake, and Tania was there... I can't tell you how great it was. I really am so lucky :D :D :D

Hopefully Natasha and Erin will get me some pics so I can share them with you, but 'til then you'll just have to take my word for it that I was a blubbering mess, followed by endless smiles the rest of the night.

Well, here's to being a big-girl now, even though we all know that age is just a number, and I still won't act like I'm an adult anytime in the forseeable future ;)