Winner! Winner!

Congratulations to CallMePretty411!

You are the giveaway winner.

Thank you SO much to everyone who entered.

Check back in late August/early September for my Fall giveaway.

p.s. I used random.org to choose a number

bike photo + giveaway

Only one thirteen more hours to enter the giveaway! 

Winner announced tomorrow morning. 

Thanks SO much to every one who has entered and to the new blog followers! 

My hopes for increasing my readership were WAY exceeded.

it's heating up

photo is from hyperbole and a half. 

if you are not reading that blog, you should be. 

only one more day to enter the giveaway!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekend

get it?
long weekend?

I hope your memorial day weekend was fantastic.
I spent my mine in Long Beach.
It was heavenly.
The weather could NOT have been more perfect.
Just the right combination of warmth, humidity, fresh breeze,
fresh food, crisp wine, popsicles and good movies.

I have photos to share from my new CAMERA,
but I haven't installed the CD thing so that I can upload them.

A project for tonight, I guess.

I hope you're having a lovely day-after-memorial-day....

memorial music monday

thank you soldiers, for all that you do and have done.

and thank you to the families of soldiers for your

bravery and support of the people defending our country.

thinking of you today and always.....

Friday Fun

This is awesome. 

Thanks for sharing, Jessica Ashley.

{I miss you. A lot.}

heidi and spencer

After a frozen yogurt date, roomie and I decided it was time to add to our family.

So we went to Petco for some goldfish.

We bought a HUGE glass vase

and a Buddha head and told the person helping us we thought it would 

be really cool to have tons of goldfish swimming around. 

Like, 10-15? 

She, not so tactfully, informed us that we knew nothing about fish

and that we could only buy two.

That's right, two. 

Goldfish.

The ten cent kind. 

After glancing at each other and enduring her judgmental glares 

we decided on TWO goldfish for our ginormous glass vase.

She also talked us into a thing that makes bubbles in the water.

When I tried to get out of purchasing the bubbler I seriously thought

she was going to call PETA or get the authorities involved in some way.

{side note: never pay more for the pet accessories than for the actual pet.

it's a good rule to live by}  

After we purchased the fish 

we made a trip next door to Target. 

With the goldfish safely strapped in the cart we purchased 

our household essentials

{plus 7 things from the dollar bin that I'll never use}.

I found these cute skinny vases and told roomie that we should 

go back to Petco, pretend to return the huge vase we bought 

for them and show the militant employee our new home for the 

fish. Just to see what she would do. 

but thankfully, roomie talked me out of it. 

Otherwise, I might be in goldfish-abuser jail right now.

 We headed home and decided to name the fish 

Heidi and Spencer. 

Spencer is on the left.

The name seemed appropriate. 

They're slimy, scaly and cold blooded. 

Just like the real Heidi and Spencer! 

It was perfect. 

We made sure they had games to play

Things to read

A candle for some ambient lighting

A globe so that they could reminisce about the days when they swam the 

open seas (ok, I know they never swam the open seas)

An inspirational quote to remind them to love each other

And a bird watching over them to keep them in line

They were so happy.

Until they died four days later. 

Oh well. 

**don't forget to enter the giveaway!