hipster glasses and work out tapes

i spent this morning debating which glasses to get at kaiser for about an hour. popop said he'd pay for them, but i decided they were all far too expensive, so i was going to forgo my eye sight for a while. as i was leaving, i asked the kaiser man how much they'd be with my insurance, and he told me i had a 250 dollar allowance with 100 dollars off this month. so i debated some more, then went home to get amanda, and went back to try on more glasses. i almost got the ultimate hipster pair of raybans, see here but decided i probably don't want to be a hipster for the next two years. so i went with a much more professional look, see here. 

later in the day, i walked inside from the porch, and witnessed amanda working out to some excersize TV she had found on demand. so obviously i took a video. http://www.youtube.com/user/anditsparkled#p/a/u/1/s_YJuskVqcA

amongst other good videos: amanda trying to innocently play with loki. loki not so innocently playing back. http://www.youtube.com/user/anditsparkled#p/a/u/0/tozwIe84A5M (ps, cute pajamas.)

i would just like to note that i live in a house full of crazy and the world revolves around our terribly behaved dog, who my parents think is some type of present sent from god himself. pmcg's favorite activity in the world is to play "where's the goose", a game where she takes tucker's prized goose and hides it in another room, then tells him to go find him. he always finds the goose, and i have always thought this was an amazing feat for such a dumb dog, until i decided to play a round myself. i went into the kitchen and "hid" the goose in plain sight on a kitchen chair, then told tucker to go find it. he was unable to complete this task even though he walked by the chair at least 6 times. i even pointed to it. auntie got mad and told me that i have to hide it in the same place for him to find it, which is almost as dumb as the time she told me and amanda we could run away as long as we stayed in the backyard when we were like, 9.

anyway. quick recap of my day: amanda and i traveled to crystal city today to have lunch with uncle larry. we parked in the craziest parking lot of all time, which was actually more like a maze.

we then lounged by the luxurious pool real quick, which was so conveniently located on our floor of the parking garage.

we headed out of the parking garage and into the first starbucks we could find, and amanda told uncle larry to meet us there while i ordered a cool beverage. amanda then saw uncle larry walking down the street towards the starbucks, and yelled "DADDY!!!", as though she was suddenly transformed into a 10 year old, and sprinted out of starbucks. after being sufficiently embarassed, i followed her out and we embarked on a trip to a cafe. lunch itself was otherwise uneventful, except my sandwhich had mayonaise on it which i didn't find acceptable after asking for no mayonaise, but i treaded on.

later in the day, barbara and myself decided to take the dogs to burke lake. tucker was an embarassment as always and barbara seemed disgusted. she also talked a whole lot about how much she enjoyed mike's company on sunday.

i just went over to the bank to change my name, and the man there congratulated me on my marriage. i look like i'm 14, but i guess that's not uncommon in the south.

dog sitting for a great dane next weekend. i couldn't be more excited. i feel like i should be paying them to let me play with him all weekend.

uncle larry just sat me down to go over his family tree so i would know everything about his cousins that he invited over for memorial day. most of the family members were highlighted because they've been disowned from the family. i'm watching my back now because one wrong move and i could be next.

also, the entire family minus me is sitting downstairs watching america's funniest home videos and laughing extremely loudly. i'm in bed because amanda's home and she hates my guts so i'm distancing myself. i wouldn't be surprised if i am highlighted on that family tree sometime soon.

today was the weirdest day i've had all week. i worked kennel this morning, and i was surprisingly chipper though i only drank 3 cups of coffee. there were dogs galore and it was only me and lindsay. at 11, i went to lunch with my boss and then we proceeded to this old woman's house to pick up two of her cats to bring them into the clinic for nail trims because she's been in the hospital for eight months. she was crazy and exactly who i want to grow up to be. she talked about ocean city a lot, out of context, about how everyone's begging her to go up there but she needs to find somebody who will bring ultrasound equipment to her house asap. not sure why. capturing the cats was an issue, as one weighed well over 30 pounds, and the other one was slightly less morbidly obese at 23ish pounds. (speaking of overweight cats, frank sinatra is down to 17 pounds). one of them was hiding in a baby bassonette in the closet, which was never used for a baby, only the cats. finally we caught them and i got a real work out carrying them back to scott's car.

other than that, i'm looking into getting a job at pet airways.

i'm currently dogsitting for my cousin christina's dog, harley. she is easily the cutest dog ever and i am absolutely in love. we are attached and she has been following me everywhere. she has been staying at my house, and gabbie has been locked in the basement yet swatting at her nose under the basement door, and tucker has been acting extremely innapropriate, but that's nothing unusual. plan for after harley leaves is to find a dog to adopt asap without telling my new parents.

also, my name change is official. hi, i'm rosie mcgourty-herring. nice to meet you.

let me recap my night real quick: decided to wait until 10pm to start revising all my papers and putting my portfolio together, which was due today at 8am. i will never know how to not procrastinate. revised papers til 1am, but i wasn't tired, and i remembered that i had two ambiens left over from when i vowed never to take them again last april. so i found them and took one, and after 20 minutes i decided to print out my  blog and turn that in instead. realized this life decision meant it was bedtime. had the craziest dreams ever. woke up at 5:45am and continued to write during that i-still-shouldn't-be-operating-heavy-machinery state of mind. decided to forgo a shower which gave me that 'i've been up all night doing crystal meth' look. left for class at 7:15 forgetting that this was prime traffic time in northern virginia. got stuck in traffic on braddock road, parked and sprinted to class. surprise, surprise, my professor showed up a half hour late. i hate my life.

yesterday after i got out of work, me and my parents plus greg drove down to virginia tech which is about a 4 and a half hour drive. i surprisingly didn't kill greg on the way down, mostly because i slept almost the entire way. we got in a very heated debate over the red sox vs yankees during family dinner at a restauraunt, his only point being that the red sox suck because all the players look like lumberjacks. i vowed never to talk to him again but he made up for it a little bit at amanda's dance show because he texted me saying "taylor lautner, 5 oclock" and then pointed in the direction that 5 oclock was because i can't tell time.

the ride home was good, and by good i actually mean terrible. we stopped for dinner with kathleen in harrisonburg and pmcg complained about the place we went to that she picked not having anything for her to eat, then finally ordered a bowl of vegetarian chili. except they gave her beef chili and then she refused to say anything so i got up and was like, you bitches (in more family appropriate words) and they were like, osry.

then we got home and tucker acted like we had been gone for 49 days even though it was actually one.