agrestic yet majesstic

I haven't blogged in almost two months because life has been a bit busy. Can't believe it's been almost three weeks since the wedding! Insane.

The wedding went really well. Flew by way too quick. Andy and I both really only remember the ceremony (which was the best part :D) and then it felt like we just took pictures/were ordered around to do things like cutting the cake, thanking people, dancing, eating, you name it. Celebrations has it down to a science which was good & ran incredibly well but just seemed so rushed. Barely ate my food, didn't see the ice sculpture or appetizers at all, none of the stations, feels like I actually came late to my own wedding!

The only bad thing about the whole day was that the judge messed up the last name... Huntington. Ned, my sister's date, caught a perfect picture of our reactions right after the judge said it. The picture is pricelessly funny. At the moment, not so funny.

So all in all, the judge would get the only THORN out of the whole wedding. He deserves the thorn more so because he assured us he'd stay since family of his was invited to the wedding (small world when you're Italian!) so I personally paid for his meal and then he left... probably out of embarrassment that he mispronounced Hunting.

Celebrations and the bridal party and everyone else that helped make it a beautiful day gets ROSES. I'll have to post pics whenever I get mine from the photographer... hopefully soon.

The honeymoon was great. We had perfect weather. The ocean was pretty wavy and too dangerous for swimming so that kind of sucked... but we just stayed in the pool anyway. The resort was surprisingly not full... they said that it's their down season & since it was a 5 star resort chain, I guess I'll believe them. Still fun though because we got extra attention then from the staff. The food was excellent and 0ne of their restaurants was on the beach, all windows, overlooking the ocean. The sunset would set on the ocean and it was just spectatingly beautiful and romantic to eat dinner at that restaurant, not to mention, the best food too! We did a couples massage which was so nice and worth it. Andy and I will now do that every 6 months like clockwork ;) Also, we did a dune buggy tour that was like 3.5-4hrs long. It was pretty dangerous (Andy drove a dune buggy on the highway following our guide right next to normal cars for miles...) but it was so much fun. We saw Mexico how you wouldn't normally see it since we went through small villages, farmland, and rivers. We got so muddy, dirty, and wet but it was worth it. Can't wait to get that waterproof disposable camera I bought developed! Should be interesting photos, especially through the rivers!

I would definitely recommend the Palace Resorts chain in Mexico. Don't know if I'd go back to Puerto Vallarta though, but that's strictly on the fact that I'd like to be able to see Mexico... none of the ruins were in close proximity and the majority of the tours seemed to be a far distance away too (didn't want to waste our time in a smelly van/bus!) Honeymoon, you get a ROSE.

And as for reality... work gets a bushel of thorns... per usual. Just heard through the grapevine that they hired someone for that other job I've been doing without compensation for, oh, a year, so that is bittersweet. I turned it down because they said it would be a demotion for me... even though it's clearly not... but atleast it will alleviate some of the RIDICULOUS bullshit that I have to put up with here at work. But then it means I will most likely have to train this woman and explain everything for probably weeks. Whatever, I just need to focus on getting a new job/plan to get my ass out of this place. They treat their employees like crap and I cannot wait to have a good full-time work experience under my belt. And to have employers that do not backstab and disregard everything/everyone except for what helps them keep their jobs.

Enough venting and I guess now I should go back to work and apply for a new job! Wish me luck.

Adios amigos.

so I want to make this a shorty. here goes:

ROSES to all my bridesmaids and mom for putting on such a lovely bridal shower yesterday :) also, ROSES to all my friends and family members that came! my boss even came with her daughter. it was cute. waaaaaayyyy too hot (in fact, the sun gets a bushel of thorns) but still enjoyable. Andy and I took with us a full carload and left about half still at mom's... we put away everything but I have no clue where we will put everything else. we'll just have to Tim Gunn it and "make it work!" (speaking of which, PR returns this week!)

ROSES to almost being done with all the wedding planning. i.cannot.wait.for.this.to.be.over. I'm pretty sure if I was offered a ridiculous salary to be a wedding planner, even like a million dollars per year I would not take it, especially since I'd be dealing with other people's crap and bitchiness. soooo close to being finished!

and it's taking me too long to think up anything to for thorns so it must be a good day!

sionara!

so i'm in a way better mood (thankfully) than last time i blogged.

so, first off: THORNS to living the married life because i realized i gained double the amount of laundry until death do us part... and if children are added into that... even more! not cool!

another thing i realized today is that i'm gaining a permanent shopping partner for the rest of my life. ROSES to Andy for loving and even asking to go shopping :)

and as for some of my problems this week, MAJOR THORNS to my father being a bridezilla and making demands, and actually having the audacity to say that this wedding is not my wedding but his... where's the logic in that statement? Andy and I are paying about $4-5,000 more than he is and my mother for that matter as well, yet they're calling all the shots (even the ones they're not paying for!). I really wish we could call it off and elope but it is too far in to do that now. I think I'd be completely fine if I never talk to my father again either because he's making the supposed "happiest day of our lives" completely and utterably miserable. i'm pretty sure there won't be a father-daughter dance because i can't imagine putting on such a facade in front of that many people for the lenght of even the shortest appropriate song. come to think of it, dad gets a thorn bush.

lastly, ROSES to our new flat screen tv purchase. at first, i was wary about it and thought it was too much and that our previous tv worked fine. the picture is a lot clearer and it's not as bulky (obviously). i did, however, lose the spot on top of the tv where I had a few picture frames :(

and the washer just went off. time for more laundry!

ciao bellas.

this is going to be quick.

THORNS to those who can't talk out their problems and just prefer to pretend they don't exist.

THORNS to the makers of ortho tri cyclen lo and causing one of my best friends to hemorrhage, seize, be in the hospital for about 2 weeks, and require at least a month of occupational therapy, more likely a lot more than that.

ROSES to receiving response cards back in the mail. love checking it and having mail other than bills! so far, a lot of people are responding yes and not so many no... may be a problem! but i'll worry about that when it comes to that.

ROSES to the following websites for being aaaaaamazing: sweet romance and perfect details. great for wedding jewelry and just if you like antique/very pretty things!

ROSES to Colby, my skinny kit cat, for being an athlete cat and making me laugh. his newest thing is to jump up on the divider between the shower and the sink in the bathroom and just perch there. It's seriously a 5 foot jump from the sink to do that. power to you, cat.

and that is all.

title says all i need to say. i want to dream away my life right now.

ok, to say I was disappointed is a bit of an understatement and it pains me to even say that! I've been looking forward to this movie for so long.

here is what I've found to not be so good about the movie:

• very loosely based off of the book - in comparison to all the other movies, they stuck to the plotline in the books. this one, however, did not include key information that feeds into the 7th book/movies. also, they removed the only fight scene in the book, the one at the end with all the action and shock of the plot.
  
• the ginny/harry romance - now, i love me some harry & ginny love, however, it was tacky the way they did it. ginny is dating dean and then all of a sudden likes harry? when did she break up with dean? also, they start snogging and being together for the majority of the movie, which is again, not like the book. they incorporate ginny into many scenes that she wasn't involved with in the book.
• fight scene at the burrow - now, I just reread the book so I know for sure that this was all made up and doesn't exist. why add a fight scene that isn't key to the plot/ending of the story and remove the one that was written??? just doesn't make sense to me.
• harry & dumbledore's relationship change - now this is key in the book, because it changes. harry goes from being viewed as a student to more of dumbledore's equal. the movie did show this a bit, but left out so many conversations and information that I viewed crucial in the book. with the way it was done in this movie, I don't know how they're going to do the seventh one.
• the funeral scene - in case someone actually does read my blog, I don't want to give a spoiler, but the final chapters in the book are about a funeral for a key character that dies. in the movie, there is no funeral. this is also key because it's the scene that harry tells ginny that he can no longer date her because he's concerned about her wellbeing. in the book, it's moving and thoughtful and just portrays the visual image of mourning his true love and his idol. completely cut from the movie.
• horace slughorn's character - now this is just not casted well (according to what I saw from JK Rowling's description). he's suppose to be fat and resemble a walrus. this dude that plays slughorn was not at all what I envisioned and he kept making a weird face with his eye... almost like popeye. just strange.

I'll have to say though, that if I didn't read the book, I would have loved it. It was interesting and well done. All of my problems with the movie somehow were differences in the book to the screen. I liked that it was witty and it brought more comedic relief to the screen than the previous movies. I think that was good because this book is a pretty dark & depressing book between the fight between Ron and Hermione, Draco's shady character, the adventures of Harry and Dumbledore, the memories of Voldemort and the death of the main character.

If I were to be a true movie critic and were to give it a grade: low B

and thorns to you, David Yates! stick to book 7 PLEEEEEASE

i figured out a way to update my blog from work. suh-weeeet.

#974597 things I love: sticking it to the man!

so I decided I'm going to do a new thing every time I post. Roses to things I like and thorns to things that suck. got it?

well, i went home this weekend to dog sit the world's worst dog. mr. puggles was so bad for me! he only wanted to eat peacock shit. ate like 5 piles of it. would search out the peacock shit like deliberately because i was telling him not to eat it. and then he kept getting out of his gates. he only wanted to sleep on my back on friday night and then decided it was puppy play time at 6AM. on saturday, we were out by the pool and he thought it'd be cool to run around on the garage rooftop, you know, possibly drop like 20 feet to his death. not cool, dog. THORNS to mr. puggles. THORNS.

and for my roses, it will have to be time with old friends that i never get to see anymore. over the weekend i hung out with emily and andrew by the pool and then went to see the proposal. the movie was good but i preferred just chilling with them talking over actually doing something with them. odd, but i missed them. and with my bachelorette coming up, i'll get to see more old friends. that should be so much fun. ROSES to friends :D

another thing that gets roses, is HARRY POTTER tomorrow. I cannot wait. currently, it is 39 hours and 27 minutes away. and eddie stroma, the guy playing cormac mclaggen... he gets a whole bouquet of roses himself because he's such a hottie. please see for yourself.normally i don't agree with perez hilton's drawings on pictures, but for once he draws the truth. for reals. ROSES all around to HP and the HBP!

now enough with flowers. i'm going to list what's new in my life.

1. got a cute new addition to the family - Colby the skinny kitty! he's four years old and just so cute. Thomas and him get along great (thank God)
2. most of the wedding plans are finished. just working on invitations, the program, and booking that honeymoon! vacation time was approved so two weeks off! woot! (ok, I lied, I'm not done with flowers. vacation time... that gets a rose!)
3. wedding dress fitting tomorrow night. i have my shoes, purse, and possible jewelry. now to just figure out my hair. maybe i should do it myself in a sort of style to get the gist of what to expect. hmmm.

and yeah, now i think i should go back to work and actually do something i'm suppose to : /

::womp womp womp::

well, life has sure been interesting in the past few weeks. I've had a few job interviews and was offered one job. I took it back to my job where they made me a counter offer and pretty much let me name my price and they said ok, done. it was awesome and so well worth it, it just sucks that I had to go through all that trouble of sending out my resume 92394723497 times to get what I deserved for the past, oh, seven months?! ever since then I've been a bit happier though because mostly I know I'm going to get to give away the crap aspects of my job that I don't like.

as for the wedding, we've made some progress. Andy and I had our cake tasting and picked our cake. it's going to be cute. it's a filigree design, mostly white, with a little bit of purple color that is almost the same color purple as the bridesmaids dresses. also, we had our flower appointment and that is just ridiculous. they are going to look good but it's just insane how everything gets so costly when you mention the word "wedding" or "funeral" people rape you, your wallet, and anyone else in the near area when they hear those words.

in other words... I designed a sweet program for the wedding. all by myself. I plan to print it at work, muhahahaha, whenever... probably September. oh, also for the wedding I booked a contract for a hotel. Now I need to find transport from the hotel to the venue that is not like 1 grand. ridiculous.

all of this makes me wish we could just elope but now we are way too far in to do that now.

it does not feel like it is July. the weather is gross but not gross like typical July weather. in fact, South Jersey had an earthquake yesterday... yeah, South Jersey! I have never seen so much rain in all my life. It rains like everyday. Thankfully it hasn't yet today but the forecast all day was thunder storms. grateful for it to have been sunny but man, there's been maybe like 5 clear days since May? I don't really think that is that much an exaggeration to be honest.

in other news, I am getting another cat tomorrow! the name is Colby and I'm rescuing it from a coworker who had her boyfriend move in with her and he is deathly allergic. she was going to have to give him to the SPCA if no one would take him and I knew she was having a hard time finding a home so I agreed to take him. didn't really have to twist my arm to be honest. he is four years old, supposedly skinny, and black and white :) sounds super cute. I keep telling the fat boy that he's getting a friend tomorrow but I don't think he understands.

and kind of stemming off of this, my boss, Milla, told me that there are such things as pet psychologists that counsel your animals. her friend does this for her dog after they got divorced because the dog was suffering from anxiety disorder. that, my friends, must be the most bullshit job in the existence of jobs. and I kind of want to do it. like what do you do in session, just talk to him and are like yeah, I really thinkg we're making a breakthrough. ridic.

alright, going to go and sweat to death watching CSI Miami, my second favorite ginger. (first being Thomas, of course :D )

I've delayed updating for a while because I didn't feel like writing, but since Andypants is hungover like whoa and sleeping away the day, I have exhausted my internet entertainment means and resulted to this.

We went back to mom's house for the first time since we moved out. A bit strange actually. The hardwood floors she had put in were finished and they look really good. It makes the house a lot louder when you're in the basement but I don't have to worry about that anymore since I'm not there. I made a gin bucket for people to drink and Andy and myself divulged probably a bit too much. It was delicious and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Strange thing though, I don't like gin at all! Go figure.

Mom was suppose to be away in Atlantic City for the weekend seeing Fleetwood Mac but they decided to come home last night/this morning at 230AM... which meant that Andy and I then had to sleep on the floor which was totally awesome... riiiight. My hip is killing me and I feel like I know what it is to be a receiver of a hip replacement now. Also, I stepped on a rusty nail. I really hope tetanus vaccines do their job!

And so I've finally uploaded pics of the apt. I posted an album on facebook but might as well put some of them on here.

this is mostly going to be links to things I love that I found on the internet.

hello! hello kitty overload. i still love it though. like seriously... my sister would want this in a heart beat i bet.
























now to satisfy my LOST addiction, i discovered this lovely site today. I love Jack, I don't care what anyone says. he's one of the best characters and they'd all be dead if it weren't for him so shove it people.

and for my last thing, I'm debating on ordering this to be what I wear for the wedding... that or I make something. which would be cool but do I really have the time to be that crafty to make it look good? it's a bit more than I want to spend as well.

speaking of LOST, the annoying guy Phil from the others is on a Bones episode... I wish Sawyer killed phil's existence in real life. that guy is such an eyesore and so annoying to listen to.

with that, i promise a real update soon.

adios amigos.

Jcarosello's Geek Chart

So it's officia that I'm a twitter geek.

PS: this blog entry courtesy of blackberry... And my hatred for my job.

Andy is at the LPGA tour helping out. He texted me his fancy badge. That's pretty sweet... And I believe he has a press pass because he is working at the media tents. Way cooler than anything I do here.

And on that note, I should probably stop procrastinating and go back to my awful disgrace of a job.

Will blog later about the shitshow bike race yesterday.

Ciao!

ok so this update is strictly because i'm bored and don't know what else to do with myself while andy is asleep. that man can sleep like rip van winkle.

but yeah, i've exhausted twitter and facebook, mostly because no one in their right mind has their biological clock set to grandma. i tried playing with thomas but all he wants to do is be lazy and sleep. go figure.

so i'm ordering the invitations soon. i need to call tomorrow and ask to see how long it will take but yeah, that's a bit exciting. here's an example of what it will sort of look like. mine is personalized from this, obvi.


so yeah. now all i really need is to settle the photographer debacle. me vs. mother round 972492734. i have a feeling she'll win because it's her wedding and all. makes sense. and it's her money that's paying for it. lemme check on that. johnny says no!

and with this, i'll leave you with a pic of my lovely fat boy, thomas.



sianara, suckers :P

so, it's been a while. i'm not good at this whole blog thing just yet.

i was thinking about what i should write about in here... my only real thought was peanut butter and how amazing it is and for me to just write all the different ways it's fabulous but then realized truly no one would read this then.

i think i'm just going to be as uncouth and politically incorrect as possible and just post things that i think are cool. such as this:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7728886&page=1

i particularly love this because American Girl made a big deal that they were making a Jewish doll... and now it's named after a terrorist on the FBI most wanted list, **womp, womp, womp** name fail! sucks to be them!

and this, this is making my panties moist!!! why do i have to wait until july? should have been out in NOVEMBER, f'ing bitches!!!

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/35958172.html#cutid1

seriously, i'm going at midnight, i don't care if i'm 23 and andy thinks i'm a lunatic. i probably am. get over it.

as for in my life, the apt. is coming along. thomas, the fattie, manages to keep finding hiding spots which is amazing because he's large and there's not that many spots to hide. kind of makes me nervous.

we went out last night with one of my sorostitute sorority sisters that lives in the area... the bars were a bit meh. all seemed to be dead. most likely because of the bike race that's going on this weekend and the nonstop blockparty that shuts down the town. but yeah, we were out for like an hour or two and some and andy was being a party pooper so we left and decided to walk back... which ended up being over a mile when he mapped it when we got home. lemme check on the fun status on the funometer. yeah, scoring a big fat ZERO. oh well, we did it and probably wouldn't be a bad walk if it wasn't at 1230AM and we like knew the area a bit? whatever, dunzo with it.

and with that, ladies and gents, i am dunzo with this post.

so this will be short and sweet, just like a sugar coated midget.

ok, that wasn't really right but whatever, when was I ever known to be politically correct?

recently moved from nowheresville to manayunk. the apple of my eye, andy, and I went out exploring tonight throughout the neighborhood and found out that andy has a knack for not seeing/stopping at stop signs so that promptly ended the fun in exploring. maybe we'll have better luck on foot in the future.

this whole moving out thing though is a bit odd. feels a bit like an indefinite vacation that I have to keep paying for. I hope to post pics soon but the place still looks like a cardboard fort exists in the hallway.

this weekend should be fun and interesting as it's the annual bike race in manayunk and it becomes one big shitshow block party. the only time there was anything fun in perkiomenville was... never. yeahhh.

and with that, you stay classy WWW.