Almost done with Under the Dome, and have to admit I am kinda sad to see the page numbers go by. It's been awhile since I read a true epic book (seriously this thing is like a brick clocking in at 1072 pages). Most of the books I have been reading lately have been silly fluff novels (reading the books the show True Blood is based on) so it's been nice to find myself in my favorite realm. I have a hard time finding other horror novels that I enjoy since the ones I do pick up tend to follow very lame storylines.

My mouth has been in a lot of pain, and last night I decided that I wanted to hold off on the drugs, but today it looks like I might need them again seeing as we have dinner guests coming over. Tuesday I hope to get my crown put on and then forget abut dental stuff for the rest of the year (though that won't be happening seeing as I need to get a few fillings as well).

The weather is finally FINALLY cooling off out here, and yesterday I found myself actually happy when I saw the grey clouds and little drizzle that we got. I'm a total Apollo worshiper and one of the reasons I hated Seattle was the lack of sun, but there are times when even *I* get sick of it and want to have a few days of nice grey clouds. talked to a few customers yesterday about this (several who were from AZ) and they agreed with me.

Should head to the store and get what I need for the night, so I can come home, drug myself up and then finish my book and hope that I will feel better when our aunt and uncle come up.

ALSO

We are skipping the family thanksgiving this year and are instead going to our good friends Thanksgiving Deep fry and potluck! I can't wait, I never really cared much for the thanksgiving that David's family has (one year they had FAKE MASHED POTATOES! Seriously, on thanksgiving?!) and the house lacked the crazy warmth that I grew up with. Up until our friends invited us we had actually been planning on just the two of us, so this will be nice and hopefully the holiday I love.

Off to the store with me!

So the root canal wasn't all that bad, in fact the worse of it was when he was stabbing me with needles. After that it was just really loud and uncomfortable...Of course now that the numbing stuff is wearing off I am getting pain in the area, but I hope that that doesn't last to long since I hate taking pain pills :/ Also I want my taste buds back!

There was something about the dentist office though that kinda had me "hmm" and when I was sitting there numbing it hit me...It reminded me of the Dentist office in Little Shop of Horrors. This made me giggle of course .

Now that its done, and my tooths been saved in a few days I get to get a crown on it, then just a few more fillings on that side and BAM done with dental stuff for the year.

Been reading Under the Dome, and David has been taking care of me in a very loving and sweet way :)

Thanks for the support guys, I get worked up rather easily sometimes :)

I get to go in for a root canal in a bit and can honestly say that for the past few days Ive been in a horrible mood because of this.

It's not that I have this huge fear of the dentist like I know other people do, I don't like to go don't get me wrong, what gets me is the pain.

I hate pain and have a super low tolerance. Heck I was on pain meds for days after I got my wisdom tooth out :/

Everyone is telling me its no big deal, but still....not looking forward to this at all

Told David that we should drop everything and go to Hatch New Mexico this weekend and eat some amazing food


Sadly he didn't agree with my amazingly well thought out plan :/

Ah well guess I will go Mexican foodless another weekend

"Go for the social justice
stay for the pizza!"

should be the last time!

Suddenly feeling homesick for Colorado.

Actually it came about this morning when David said that he had a dream that we had moved back, and were living in a nice big house and I was excited cause it was going to snow the next day. I often tell customers at work that I love it here and don't think I could ever return, but there is a part of me that does miss The Mile High City.

I like Arizona, don't get me wrong, but I have yet to find my place here it seems, I miss the wildlife, the cold fall air, the mountains, and the colors, the sports teams...heck I even miss the little roof top park that my friends and I spent many a night after the bars or clubs just laying in the grass and pondering life.

I feel like I am trying to will it to be cold out here right now, Been wearing sweaters and long sleeve shirts even if its still over 80 outside. I look forward to a cloudy day right now, cause gosh darnit its November and I can still wear shorts if I want.

I don't know...I know I am looking at it all through rose colored glasses, but sometimes I just feel a little longing ...

Work is starting to get crazy, which is nice, but also makes me worried that here we are at the start of Nov and today the store was so packed at certain times it was hard to hear what people were saying. At least we have some holiday help and one of the new people plays WoW and is a fellow Hordie! I am sure we will talk more, but she came in as I was running out the door.

Watched Gattaca tonight, I thought I had watched it years ago when I was in High School, but I might have just been making up a situation, cause I do that sometimes.

Wish I had something more fun to talk about but lately life has been on the dull side.


I know again with the dragons but like I said, once I "get them all" again I will stop :)

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This shirt is for one day only and is totally amazing! AMAZING!!!! BUY IT!

Zumba is super super awesome! At one point I am like "YAY WE ARE A TRIBE OF SUPER SEXY WOMEN!!" in short I plan on going whenever I have the night off that they offer it


It's my type of workout, dance movement, shimmies, and hips and thrusts and overall just a lot of fun! I love it, and can't wait to do it again :D

What was funny though is I was asking the lady next to me if she had come before (the class is so big that they take up half the gym) and she told me "No I hate this actually! Sure there are a few songs I like, but for the most part I'm just here for the calorie burn!"

I was like "Whaa?!" since I tend to move far away from any workout that I deem "bad" so it kinda blew my mind that this lady would come again and again to this, but I guess to each their own right?

Also the clothing that people wear to this is super super cute and I seriously want the pants....god they already suckered me!

David and I were both impressed with V, though looking back I felt like it moved a little fast, David thinks it was because the miniseries moved rather slow in the beginning and they wanted to set everything on the table right up front.

Also I can rarely remember actors names and will often times refer to them as previous characters I associate them with (like Inara and Juliet!)

Also yesterday was an amazing day! And I got my Hatch print back from the framers! will need to post pictures cause OMG does it look amazing. I kinda hope the rest of the prints are ugly so I don't need to feel bad if I miss out on them :/

And cause I'm obessed Dragons! I just want to get all the ones Ive missed the past few months (which are now the full yellow stripped eggie and the cheese egg)

Went and saw Zombieland with David (we are behind the times) and both laughed and loved it. It's been awhile since we went to go see a movie, and it was just nice to not have to think (and it was fun to giggle at the 2012 trailer)

Next movie we want to check out in the theater is Paranormal Activity since I think that one will be only scary in the right situations

The mall is getting all Christmassie already and honestly I am almost ready for the holidays to be over :/ and they have only just begun!

Been watching a lot of Bizarre Foods on The Travel Channel lately. I think maindly cause it seems to be the only show they ever have on, plus as a Foodie I do love seeing all the great places he goes and all the neat and gross stuff he eats (cheese with worms....no thanks), seriously makes me want to travel the world and just ....eat.


Today I caught the end of his Seoul Korea episode, and it made me think back to all the wonderful homemade Korean food I got to eat growing up. And it kinda made me "homesick" for Colorado. So tomorrow I am going to go try out this Korean resturant that seems to have pretty good reviews (and also serves two of my favorite foods!) and try to warm that little bit of my soul that is longing for younger days in the mile high city.

I need to upload a picture of my NEW AND IMPROVED Dharma Jumpsuit, which is just my old Dharma Jumpsuit but now with my name on it! (though someone asked me last night if my name was really Colleen....and then I remembered Colleen the Other that didn't last to long....Colleen you were a bitch you gave Colleen's everywhere a bad name!! oh wow now that was a tangent wasn't it? Maybe I shouldn't type everything that comes to mind, including this...)

I wore it last night to work and had a great time passing out candy to the candy lovin' mall crawling kids (some super cute costumes were seen!) and had plently of people tell me that they loved my Jumpsuit (ooo Lost fans how I love thee) wish I had a party or something I could have gone too as well after, but everything we were invited to was pretty much pass out candy stuff :/

Heading into work today and have a stupid amount of laundry to do.

Started to play my paladin again on WoW after someone said that herbalism was a good way of making gold. Since I like to try out new ways I thought I would dust her off and try her again, and you know what...it is a good way :D

Need to repost these :D other then that YAY life!

This morning was my weekly weight in, so imagine my glee when after I type in my number I get a message from weight watchers that says.

CONGRATS YOU'VE LOST 25 POUNDS!!!

I kinda sat here and looked at it for a moment, called David over and showed him. That means I'm about 12 pounds away from the goal I set myself (130) and I can't believe it. It's been a little harder lately only because it seems like I'm wanting all the things that are bad for me {stuff with thick cream sauce, cupcakes and candy) and finding that its near impossible to eat healthy inside of the mall. One the plus side though DAvid told me that once I hit 140 we can go back to the super awesome and amazing local ice cream shop that we fell in love with (that reminds me I still want to go to the farm)!

Also ordered my Bento Box and now have to wait for it to be shipped from The Land of the Rising Sun, which is already driving me crazy, so I might go get a sub one at the local asian shop in the meantime.

THIS is the one I picked cause I LOVE Totoro and this made me happy :D (I also had my eye on this stitch one as well but that can wait ;D)

I need to get some more honeycrisp apples

Is it wrong for me to wonder why a lunch box has a "Lead safe!" or "Lead FREE!" sticker on it?

Needless to say I didn't buy one, but now I appeal to you of great and powerful livejournal friends!

I want a lunchbox that I can start taking to work with me (plus some good brown baggin' recipes!)

Drag Me to Hell was good silly horror fun, I think David and I spent more time giggling and cringing then we did scared, but I think that might have been the point of the movie.

I remember going on a date once with this guy and we saw I think it was House on Haunted Hill, (Or the new 13 ghost remake) either way it was bad horror, and he kept jumping and grabbing my hand. It made me giggle, and I'm not sure why I am thinking about that right now.

Also my innards are hurting the the fury of 1000 suns right now...

And the LOST poster thingie going on has lost a lot of the fun the last two weeks, which makes me happy I got my print before the asses and jerks discovered what was going on. I just hope there isn't one other print that I can't live without, but I think I'm okay if all I end up with is The Hatch.

Ugh going to go make some peach tea and eat a cookie and read my book

David and I had a conversation this morning about the lack of futuristic pants that need not be ironed...

David blamed Obama and his lack of vision,
I then blamed George Bush for not putting more funding towards futuristic space pants


Eventually it came down to Regan, had I not needed to go to work I am sure we could have gotten to the point where we were blaming the first creatures that thought it might be a good idea to walk on land.




Also tonight I cut up a habanero pepper and then scratched the inside of my nose....hours later I'm still in pain

I kinda wish I hadn't looked up the nutritional information for the place I like to eat at when I work, cause seriously all I can say is "ouch" when I find out what I thought was a nice healthy meal is actually a crap ton of points.

Sadly when you work in the mall though your options are rather limiting and we don't have a fridge at work that I could store stuff in. A lot of the girls have taken to bringing things like Cup of Soups in, but I just don't think thats enough for me. Maybe I should just start going to Kona Grill and getting Sushi for lunch?

Any suggestions?

You know I am starting to believe that everything that bad that has happened on LOST is all Jacks fault.


Seriously think about it...

Today I got David to leave the cave that is the office and go down to Scottsdale with me. On our way home we decided that we would go get lunch at this Vietnamese resturant that I haven't been to in months (but it seems that David lives at since he goes like once a week with his team for lunch).

We walk in and David says hi to the waitress and she looks and him and she looks at me and says

"OH MY! YOUVE LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT!"

I won't lie, I beamed.

Friends and family will tell you you look good (even more os when they know you are trying to lose a few) but when a random person that hasn't seen you in months notices, then wow. Thats a great feeling!

The other morning I was downstairs making breakfast for David when I noticed something with a huge wingspan flying by my windows. David said "I bet its just a heron" and I said "ooo its not!....ITS AN OSPREY!"


(That's "him" landing on the fence with the fish in his claws)

For the next hour and a half I watched from my binculars as he ate a fish :D Sorry the pictures are blurry and bad, it wasn't until really the end I thought of going upstairs where I could get a much cleaner shot.


Fish heads fish head rolly polly fish heads!



I'm hoping since I didn't pester it in anyway while it was eatting that it might come back around this way again :D I also wished I had lanakila with his camera here to get GOOD pictures :D

I only have 17 films on my Netflix Queue,


Quick make some suggestions! (David and I are open to watching pretty much anything thats good!)


(also nothing more sad then going to watch a movie to find that the disk is destroyed and you need to wait for them to replace it!)

That still doesn't have or do anything on twitter? I mean I think I signed up for an account once when I was looking to win something free from BPAL, but since then never done anything...


Should I become one of the borg? Would anyone follow me? Who should I follow? OOO these are the questions that plague the modern world!

Also...

Almost done with Season 1 of LOST again and loving it! GOD I know I've said it once, and I will say it again, I don't know what will fill this hole in my soul when LOST is gone :(

I don't read non-fiction very often. In fact by very often I mean not really at all, don't get me wrong I love watching documentries (movies or tv shows) but when it comes to reading I like to be able to be taken to another place outside of reality. That being said though...


I've now read 3 non-fiction books that have changed my life.

1. Fast Food Nation: Since reading this book more then 6 years ago I can count the amount of times I have eatten fast food on one hand. The book also opened my eyes to the meat industry as well as the horrible world of processed food and started me on the path that I'm on now.

2. the omnivore dilemma: This book brought to light what I have always known a little about, and thats pretty much that corn is the devil ;D. It also turned me onto local and sustaniabilty (instead of just organic) and also pairing this book with the documentry "The end of suburbia" has made me looking to where I want to live in the next few years, and what it is I want to start doing to start my own garden and even maybe a little more.

3. Born to Run: I am amazingly althetic minded, and this book not only moved me to tears but it also opened my eyes to a whole other side that I feel like has been trying to break out for awhile now. I have never been the best endurance runner, but I do have a will, and if there is anything that the people in the book have in common its that most of them are amazing when everyone told them they couldn't be. Over the next few weeks I am going to digest it more and figure out how it all fits with me, my world view, and what it is I want to do. All I know is that if this has taught me anything its that you should love what you do, and do what you love, and maybe it's time to get back to doing what we are meant to do.


because in the end All You Need Is Love

Goodbye my very first slow cooker,

You were amazing to me during my year in the apartment with JO Ann (like that Orange chicken she made one night YUM!). And never failed to dissapoint me when it came to rich flavorful meals after a long day of work, but I think deep in my heart I knew that your time had come as the last time I used you to cook it seemed the Low setting didn't really do anything, and today after several hours and checking up on you, I find that you haven't even warmed up yet....well it was time to say goodbye.

I will always have a special place for you in my heart, as does everyone for their first slow cooker, I only wish we could of had one last meal together...

Lets start this post off with a trip down memory lane, and go waaay back to a few months ago when I was gleefully sitting at the Comic Con LOST Panel about to glee my pants with well glee. Now as is the nature of the event, they allowed fans to ask questions and the first person presented Damon and Carlton with a velvet print that he named Damon Carlton and a Polar Bear.

Many laughs were had as he said his website over and over again, and we all moved on.

Well kinda,

Cause a few weeks later we found out that those silly shinnanagins where more then just an insane LOST fan, but something so much more.

So For the last few weeks they have posted clues to events going on around the world http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com/dcpb/x/hub.html (go there) with the final clue telling us a website to go to to buy a super limited edition Screen Print of a "water cooler" moment from the show done by various artist. Of course the one that I really wanted in the start I waffled on way to long and ended up not getting it (bonous points if you can figure out which one, but with only 4 sold out it won't make it to hard)

BUT TODAY

OH TODAY I FINALLY GOT ONE!

That's right I bought THIS



GLEE I am so giddy I can't wait! I was really worried that I wouldn't get another chance to get a print that I liked (since the last few have been "meh" to me!), but jsut everything about this is amazing (and it might also be that I am like 5 episodes from being done rewatching season 1 and the Hatch is just such an important part to the story even up to the final season)

So YAY Now all the rest can be horrible for all I care (well not really cause yeah...)

TL;DRI bought myself a Nerd Print of Glee today

Fall is finally FINALLY here! Yesterday was the first day where you could really tell (and believe that maybe the summer is finally behind us) and most of us at work were super restless in wanting to not be inside the mall, but outside doing outside stuff, cause let's be honest here.

ITS BEEN TO DAMNED HOT TO DO OUTSIDE STUFF

So today my plan is to hit the grocery stores and set things up for the week, and then get into my Hammock and read my new book (it's rare I read nonfiction but this one has really captured my interest) and otherwise remember what it is to be like when you can be outside!





Also last night I made an amazing pork roast! And I Love You Man was good silly fun, but anything with LOST related humor is always good with me!

Maybe its just a big sister sorta thing, but I'm always amazed when I run across my sister doing something...I don't know electronic.

Like the other day when she facebook messaged me, and tonight when I sent out a vast text message to my Colorado friends saying "YAY Rockies!" and she responded....which ended up with us having a sarcastic conversation about me buying a brand new belt.

My sister and I have never really gotten along, I think we are far far to different for that, but I have always held out hope that someday we might find some kind of connection and get along...maybe silly little conversations like this will be just that? (But that doesn't mean I want her staying at my house anytime soon ;D)

I don't wanna!

/tantrums


anyone else having an I dont wanna kinda day?

* I need to learn that you cannot, no matter how much you huff, grumble under your breath, and otherwise make huge hand gestures change the actions of characters on a screen. Most of the time you just get funny looks while working at the gym and yelling at Season 1 John Locke.

* YAY Rockies! Way to make it another Roctober! Going to miss those nights with Tara and Aaron though watching the game and eatting crappy bar food...maybe I can find some new local friends to do that with?

* Flashforward still rocks my world. David was wearing my comiccon "What did you see" shirt the other day and that made me go into nerdgasim.

* Speaking of Nerd, I've been super disapointed with the LOST limited edition posters and hope that there will be one sometime during this event that I will love. I can think of a few artist that would have made amazing posters.

* oh yeah I also love Glee.

* And I was "insulted" TWICE today for wearing my Cubs shirt (not on my character, but because well, apperently its the cubs!)

* I feel like I am either at, or coming to a very important crossroad and I need to think about what this has in store for me, luckily I already know that David will have my back and honestly with his support I think I can do anything.

I have gone 28 years without eatting a Turnip, and finally one afternoon I decided that today was the day! AND OMG THE GLEE IVE BEEN MISSING!

seriously I am in love with these things!

So anyone have any good recipes for them? :D

I've been craving yogurt like no one's business lately

So apperently my trainer quit last week ( I had little time off so I didn't have an appointment with her) and moved back home near flagstaff in order to be closer to her kids again. While I am happy that she is happy and back where she feels like she belongs, the selfish side of me is screaming "what about me?!"

Call me crazy but I loved the way she motivated me, and seemed to know just what I needed to get done that day. Sure the Training barn she was at has a few other trainers, and I plan on calling them tomorrow to see what I can hook up as I feel that this was one of the huge factors that helped me in my weight loss (and don't get me started on how I feel off that wagon over the past few weeks, though I haven't gained just maintained) so I want to get back to working out with one of them sooner rather then later.

Just seems as if this happened at the worse time as I could use a good session to get my mind off of a lot of other things running around on it right now.

Though I did just upload the second to last DVD from LOST season 1 onto my iphone so maybe that will cheer my mood.


Still blah

Today: Nah
This Month: I think so
This year: This is hard, but I think I will say no. While I have had some really yucky stuff happen, for the most part its been an okay year, with stuff thats been a blast :D

Oh Flashforward thank you for living up to my hype!

I can't wait for the next episode!

So a series of events lead me to thinking about the Dharma Brainwashing Video today, most notably the phrase "We are the cause of our own suffering"

Now I have been very unhappy lately and have been thinking that maybe I should start pondering that a little more. While I'm by no stretch of the imagination religious, I will admit that Taosim and buddhism both interest me greatly and maybe is something I need to think about more often. Most of my unhappiness is coming from my own self doubt and paranoia, and well I am the cause of my own suffering in the end.




But of course the problem is how does one rework an entire lifetime of personality flaws to be happier and healthier?

Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane.

And others I feel like I'm already there.


Also I can't believe that I'm this close to 30 and what do I have to show for it? Part of this was brought on by a very well meaning conversation with a friend and later another with my hubby.

Forgive me for forgetting (But these things I dooooo)

No one on my friendslist is in Tucson right?

heck According to most pop astrology I am MARRIED to a clashing sign. Though the funny thing is every Leo I have known I have loved (be it David, or people I have worked for, so on and so forth). I dug a little on this at one point and apperently if a Leo and virgo can get past the beginning stuff then they should have an amazing relationship. Also I am living on the other side of Virgo anyway.

In the end though I find most people can be any sign, and very few people fall in perfect with the sign they are born under....and even more so I think its just a lot of fun and don't take it seriously



As for a psychic thingie, I tend to take things like that (much like the second question) with a grain of salt and while I love the idea of psychics (and have even called out to those of you out there that are ones....heck I could use some advice right now!) there has only been one time when someone really hit the nail on the head. So if some random chat room person that I have never met before in my life warned me about staying home....I don't know what I would do guess it depends on what I had planned (like going to a movies, or jumping out of a plane ;D)

Today before work I was stressing out and all over the place.

So I played Beatles Rock band and suddenly all my cares melted away while I rocked and or rolled to Revolution and Here Comes The Sun.

I joke about it, but sometimes I feel like The Beatles look out for me :)

I feel Lost. (and this has nothing to do with the TV Show)