Buddies.

Last night Dashing Boy was snuggling and talking to G when suddenly and randomly he burst into singing: "My buddy. My buddy!"

then he excitedly exclaimed out loud, "I finally have one!"

It came out of nowhere and he said it with genuineness.

It was awesome and a pretty cute/hilarious spectacle.

We've been laughing about it all night and morning.

I guess Dashing Boy really wanted a My Buddy Doll when he was younger and he never got one. I totally remember the commercial from my childhood and I'm pretty sure my brother wanted one as well.

Ahh to grow up in the 80's.

Those of you who remember this commercial: didn't you think that bike was the coolest?

Thank you Hallmark.

Do you want to know one of my favorite parts about the holiday season?

Well any season actually, but especially the holidays?

Cheesy movies. Hallmark especially. Made-for-tv-movies, those ones are the best.

Yesterday mom and I were at the store and she picked up Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's, To Grandmothers House We Go, circa 1992. "Remember this? she said You and Juju loved this movie."

Oh yes we did. LOVED it.

Later on in the afternoon I got a call from my cousin K. "We're having a Hallmark party tonight!" Juju has been diligently recording all the holiday movies on the Hallmark channel and she had found a particularly good one, Mrs. Miracle.

My favorite part about watching these movies is watching K and Juju watch them. It's wonderful. K smiles and smiles during the cheesiest parts of all and makes exclamations such as, "I love her! I love this movie! Ahhhh...!" and Juju gets the giggles during certain scenes and rewinds them to watch over again.

It makes the holidays so fun.

Anyone else a fan of the made-for-tv cheese?

Crazy Girls

Tonight I am going to see New Moon at midnight.

With hundreds of other crazy girls. A girl in my neighborhood rented out a whole theater. There will be games, and door prizes, and I'm sure lots of screaming.

I got invited months ago by my friend J. She is the one I accidentally pulled my pants down in front of. Against an unsightly beginning, we've become good friends :)

I wasn't interested in the Twilight series at all but once it kept getting bigger and bigger, I decided it was becoming too much a part of our pop culture to not read. I did the same thing with Harry Potter (which is the best!).

The books for me were just ok. They were interesting because I felt like I was pushing through them sometimes but then I read them so fast, so I guess that's saying something. And in the movie Bella was way too pouty for me. The same distant, gazing face over and over. And also I agreed on many fronts with how Natalie felt about the movie.

But here I am, excited for 10:00 to roll around and snacks with ladies and being out on the town.

Will I scream when Jacob takes his shirt off?
Will Bella still be really pouty with weird music in the background?
Will I manage to not do anything too embarrassing (you know like pull my pants down) and maybe make a new friend?

We shall see!

Watching This Video Makes Me Happy.

I'll have the seeds, thank you.

Tonight Dashing Boy and I went out for a date to a Brazilian restaurant. You know, the kind where they come out with skewer after skewer of meat and cut you a slice right at the table.

Now let me just say, I am a very easy going vegetarian. I do my best to be as accommodating as possible in any meaty situation. I never make negative comments about other people's food; I happily turn side dishes into meals when the situation calls; I'll eat any vegetable or vegetarian attempt put in front of me.

So, tonight, on this special evening I joined my husband for a culinary experience in his paradise.

At least three times they used the word "bloody" to describe the meat. "Do you have anything more rare?" Dashing Boy would ask. "Would you like it bloody?" the server would ask completely serious. "Yes. The bloodier the better." Dashing boy would completely seriously respond.

Maybe it's that crazy vampire book (yeah, that one) that I've been reading because the interactions made me a little uneasy... They like the taste of blood? Seriously who likes the taste of blood? Would they like my blood? And so on.

Perhaps it's time to read a different book.

random news...

Yesterday I had 72 visits to my blog because a random message board linked to my sighting of The Bachelor Jason in Seattle.

It made me feel real special.

In other news: google analytics reveals a random person searched google for "I just want a simple life" and my blog appeared somewhere in the results and was subsequently clicked on. I don't think my blog was what the person was hoping for though.

I love it.

I can just imagine... Some poor guy, way too busy with life and work and who knows what else, desperately turns to google for help. please google! please! help me! I just want a simple life!

Not that I've ever done anything like that before with google...

Meeting Jason, the next Bachelor

I've always imagined how I would respond if I were to ever meet or encounter a famous person. Would I be intrusive-instantly whipping out my camera like the paparazzi? Would I hang back and try not to look obvious? Would I talk to them?

I'd like to imagine I'd be pretty cool. After all, we're all just people right?

Well, this weekend it happened. Dashing Boy and I spent this past weekend celebrating our anniversary in Seattle. Much of our time was spent in the Pike Place Market, which is where we were Sunday morning, purchasing pastries to eat while we watched General Conference.

We were crossing the street, exiting the market when I saw him. "Oh my gosh Dashing Boy, that's Jason and his son Ty from The Bachelorette." Dashing Boy was a little confused who I was talking about (What? you didn't watch The Bachelorette!?)but I was positive it was him. So we stopped on the other side of the street and I stared at them for second and then suddenly they crossed the street again and walked right back to where we were.

Literally standing right next to us, I just couldn't help myself.
"We loved you!" I said.
"Oh, thank you," he said. "What are your names?"
"I'm Jenny and this my husband Dashing Boy and he's a really nice guy like you!" I said.
Jason laughed and shook our hands and said, "This is Ty and he's the greatest guy of all."
I asked Ty if he got to see the flying fish at the Pike Place Fish Market. Jason said they did but Ty wasn't that into it.

Ty nuzzled into his dad and they started walking across the street again. Right about now is when I realized there was a small crew filming him. (hmmm, maybe because he's the next Bachelor!) I felt a bit silly, but hey why not? So when they walked back I asked him if I could take a picture, stressing that I didn't want to get in the way and it's ok if he didn't want to.

"Oh no, it's ok!" he said and the film crew nodded their heads. They looked busy so I just took one of Jason and Ty. Then the director- a cool, relaxed woman said "Don't you want one with you in it?"
"Yeah," I said, "but I don't want to bother you guys."
"No, we need to wait for the light anyway," said Jason. So we took another picture.
"It was so nice to meet you," I said.
"It was very nice to meet you too," he said. "Have a nice rest of the day you guys."

All in all, I felt like I was pretty cool.

And Jason was just as gracious and poised as he seemed on t.v. I know I'll be tuning in this January when he makes his appearance as The Bachelor! Any of you girls want to have a party? Dashing Boy, you're invited too :)

Our Commercial Debut: "Luxurious" Star Quality

While organizing photos I recently uncovered this little gem:

A fabulous commercial from two years ago for Bozeman Alpaca Traders in which Dashing Boy and I have some pretty awesome cameos.




Oh my! What talent! So happy to have this for future posterity.