A couple things have happened the past couple days that I’ve been too lazy to post about…

Pornstar Good Looking
Only Dan can come up with something like this - “She’s ‘pornstar good looking’. You know, she’s not beautiful, but she’s not ugly. She’s better than OK. Like the chicks in porn. She could be a pornstar with those looks.”

Picking the Tux
Went to the mall with Dave to pick out a tux and add more stuff to the registry. Never got to the registry part because it took Dave almost 2 hours to pick out a tux. Should I be worried that it took my fiance a longer time to decide on a tux that it did for me to decide on a dress? (FYI - he still hasn’t made a final pick yet)

More Adventures in Registering
Went back to Target yesterday to add more stuff to the registry. Once again, didn’t get much accomplished because we got detoured in the Sporting Goods aisle. Because every wedded couple needs Sporting Goods! We saw the tent section, and since we had never been camping before (well, I went once in 2nd grade) we were enthralled, and WE JUST HAD TO GET A TENT. So we stood around for about half an hour, debating on if we needed a 4 person 1 room tent, or a 7 person 2 room tent, or the 8 person 3 room tent. We decided on getting the 1 room tent. Because, down deep inside, we knew we’d never use it.

More Embarrassment
The ‘blue balls’ episode from the other day wasn’t my first embarrassment of the week. On Easter Sunday, I was in a hurry to get to church, because I overslept. (big surprise!) Anyway, it was a nice day outside so I wore my black open-toed shoes. When I was in line for communion, I noticed that I was walking with a limp. I look down, and I’M WEARING TWO DIFFERENT SHOES. And one had a higher heel than the other. So I bust out laughing at my dorkiness. And I whisper to Fatima, who is in line in front of me, ‘My shoes don’t match!’ She looks down, and she busts laughing, too. So the whole time we’re laughing. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that I was wearing two different shoes - sure, they were both black, but one had a fabric strap, and the other was elastic. And after church, Fatima and Claudine told EVERYONE. Oh well, I guess I deserved it!

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A good friend, and all-round beautiful woman sent this to me today.

These are beauty tips by Audrey Hepburn, who to me was a stunning human being. The poise, beauty and class that you saw on the outside couldn’t even compare to the beauty and class that she held within. She’s definitely someone that I look up to.

So thanks for this email…

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

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A quick, funny story.

Sam was helping out a client today, and he needed some help from me. I went over and sat next to him in his cube. So we put the client on speaker, and we were talking her through a problem she had. In the program that she was using, there was an icon that I wanted her to click on. So I’m trying to describe the icon on her toolbar, which was a hand holding a red circle, with two blue circles underneath. And I say, ‘Ok, click on the button on the toolbar, next to the A-Z button. You see it? It’s the one with the hand. The hand and the two blue balls. Blue balls, do you see them? Click on the one with the blue balls.’ Then I realized that I said. And I stifled a laugh. And I would have made it and kept that air of professionalism. But I looked at Sam, and his eyes were HUGE. And then he started laughing. And then I started laughing - REALLY hard. So I covered my mouth. And I tried talking to the client, and luckily, she didn’t understand what the joke was, and didn’t ask. But I had to take a moment, we were laughing so hard. And I tried talking again, and I would start laughing again, after hearing Sam snicker next to me - we were almost crying. Then Orlando stands up from his cube and says ‘How am I supposed to work when you’re making comments like that, Christine?’ and I laugh even more. Lucky for me, this client likes me and has a good sense of humor. And lucky for me, my new manager who was sitting behind us has a sense of humor, too.

Whoo. Good times. Good times.

And if you have no idea what ‘blue balls’ are, look it up. This is a family show here!

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Yesterday me and Dave went to Crate & Barrel and Target to do our registries. We were so lost. Both of us have lived in apartments, but we had NO idea what to get. Neither of us really cook, and we don’t know what our place in California is going to look like, and hadn’t thought of decorating ideas. So we’re standing there in C&B, and we have no idea what to get. We were standing there, trying to figure out what kind of pots and pans were the best to get, or what silverware pattern we liked, or what we wanted the color of our bathroom to be. Target was a lot of fun, because we threw in a DVD and a VCR, and other silly things that you don’t normally see in a registry. We were going to scan other stuff, too, like men’s thong underwear, Depends, feminine hygiene products, cereal, extra large condoms, hemorroid cream, etc, just so people would be like ‘WTF!?!?!?!’ when they look at the registry. But we voted against it, because people might actually BUY them for us. By the way, doing a registry is the coolest thing, because you get this little scanner gun, and if you see something you like, you just find the UPC and zap the lil sucker. It’s like Christmas. But then again, we wanted to be practical with the things that we chose. We chose a good amount of stuff, but there were still some things that we needed to decide on that we didn’t choose. We’ll definitely have do another round!

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My mom is home from the hospital!

Thanks everyone for your posts, emails, calls, cards and prayers.

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Bryan had a $25 gift certificate to Buca di Beppo, and he had said that he was going to take Dan and me out to lunch with it. Then we had found out that he had told Tony the same thing. So last week it was a fight between us to see who would win Bryan’s affections, and who he would take out to lunch.

So today, we were bugging him, and he gave up and just gave me, Dan and Tony the gift certificate, and said he didn’t feel like going anyway. What a guy. So we went out to Bucca, and we got the table in the kitchen, which is what we consider to be the ‘cool’ table. We got to talk to the other waiters and the cooks and got to see what all the food looks like. Let me tell you, their lunch portions are HUGE! The meatball they serve with the meatball spaghetti is this chunk of meat that’s 1/2 a pound, and their garlic/mozarella bread is as big as a slice of pizza. It’s a lot of fun to sit back there, because you get to watch them make the food and get everything prepared, and all the staff is pretty friendly and they answer any questions you have about the food and what’s in it.

So for lunch we had bruschetta, ceasar salad, penne romano pasta, meat rigatoni, shrimp parmigianna, and tiramisu. And boy, they weren’t shy with the rum in the tiramisu! I swear I got a little buzz after having a couple slices. We left stuffed like that fat piggies that we are. All thanks to Bryan. You are my hero.

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It’s dark and gloomy outside. What a crappy Monday!

My mom didn’t come home from from the hospital yesterday. She’s still there. We stopped by the hospital before going to our family Easter party. She’s in good spirits, still, but you can see that she wants to get out of there. Our dog Ewok is really starting to miss her. He sits by her bedroom door and waits, sometimes getting up and barking at it. My dad has been with her day in and day out. He’s got a pretty nice scam going on with the parking. It’s $3.50 for visitors to park, and $1.50 for patients. So my dad goes to the main desk and says that he has an appointment with one of the doctors there, and they validate his parking. Anything to save a buck.

Yesterday’s family party was pretty fun. I was misinformed in thinking that it was at Marlon’s place. It was actually at my cousin Marian’s. (and Michael and Marilyn’s). It was good for all the cousins to get together again. Saw Marlon for the first time since he came from the Brazil. He lost a LOT of weight, but is still fun to hug. We played a couple rounds of Boggle (and although Fata didn’t want to play at first, once she did, she started kicking our asses). There was a lot of good food - many compliments on the lasagna that I constructed. And pie! French silk pie! Yum! I brought over my DVD’s of ‘Spirited Away’ and ‘Drumline’. They all thought that Spirited Away was too trippy for them, but that’s why I liked it. There were a good amount of band jokes made during ‘Drumline’, but I KNOW that deep down, they enjoyed it. It was nice to watch the whole movie WITH SOUND. And hot DAMN! That ending sequence was HOT. That percussion battle was awesome. Badass! Makes me wanna continue my drumming lessons with Ced. And then I can start up with my band again - Low Fidelity. *chuckle*

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Happy Easter everyone! My mom should be home from the hospital today *fingers crossed* We visited her yesterday, and she was doing a lot better. It was nice to meet her doctors and to find out that they were such good and wonderful people. When one of them came in, and we were introduced to her, she immediately said, ‘Which one is the one getting married? Which one is the one in medical school? Which one is graduating college?’ It was amazing that she remembered these little tidbits about me and my sisters that my mom had told her, and it really made us confident that our mom was in good hands. After we told her a little bit about ourselves, she said, ‘You know, your mom may be sick, but she’s happy. She’s so happy about you guys.’ *sniff* Aww, thanks. Our parents raised some good kids…that I know for sure. And the road is so worth it knowing that during this tough time for our mom, thinking about us makes her happy, that we’re something that carries her through this. She’s a tough cookie, my mom is.

Today we’re heading out to my cousin Marlon’s house for Easter. He’s been in Brazil for the past couple months, so it’ll be awesome to see him. I love to hug that guy. He’s extremely huggable. Though I heard that he’s lost weight, so the hugging experience may not be as enjoyable for me. And it’s been a while since all the cousins got together. It should be a nice time.

My mom invited Dave’s family to join our family Easter. Should be interesting to see them and their interaction with my wacky family. Because you gotta admit, we’re kinda wacky. Worlds are colliding! But in a way, it’ll be a good thing, because if his family gets along really well with mine, we won’t have to decide where to spend holidays, because our families will spend them together. That would be nice!

Here’s some pics from when we went to Build-A-Bear. Some may not work, some may not look right, but you can figure out what they look like. I’ll fix them later.

[picture errors fixed, and bunny’s names fixed - 10:45pm CST]

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Thanks everyone for your prayers and your kind words. My mom was only suppose to be in th hospital for anight, but they’re oing to keep her for observation and testing until Easter. We’re going to go and visit her now. Trying to be the positive and chipper, happy one that everyone thinks I am. It’s tough.

Today, the bridesmids are getting together to try on dresses. Me and my sisters need some smiles!

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A little something to lighten my mood today…

1. Who is your favorite celebrity? Geez, that’s a tough one. It’s a toss up between Madonna and Natalie Portman. Madonna, because she’s constantly reinventing herself, and pushing the limits. Natalie, because she’s classy and she chose to take time off to go to school, right at the time when she was really becoming popular.

2. Who is your least favorite? Mariah Carey. So much potential, so much wasted talent. Watch out Christina, this could be you.

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? Yeah. I think my biggest celebrity experience was dancing with Wesley Snipes at Shelter. I’ve met Michael Rosenbaum (Lex from Smallville), various speedskaters, um, and for the rest, I’m drawing a blank…I’ve seen a lot, haven’t met a lot.

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? There are times when I want to be in the spotlight, and I have dreams of walking on the red carpet, but then there are days where I don’t want anyone to notice me and I just want to be alone. But I’m an actress, of course I want to be famous! Why do you think I tricked Dave into moving to LA?

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? Jennifer Lopez. I’d just love to see what it would be like to be in her shoes for a day, she just has the most interesting life! I’ve already got the ass for it…

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