Um.....yes please.

Well folks, after a long, fantastic summer, my fav show is about to start up again. October 21st is the big day and if this post and my previous post aren't enough to get you watching, maybe this dreamy picture of Tim Riggins will hook you.


I've said it before and I'll say it again. I promise you won't be disappointed even if the only thing you get out of it is feasting upon these chiseled abs for an hour.

Texas Forever.

It's day 1, and I am already dying

So, a friend of mine gave me this crazy idea to start this little 12 week diet. I am not doing it for the diet aspect, just to tone my not-so-fab areas. She has been doing it for a 9 weeks and not only does she love it, but she is seeing awesome results.

Enter me.

I bought the program about a month ago and have been putting off starting it. To be frank, a big part of my social life is eating out and this little program virtually eliminates that. I was having nightmares of sitting around a table with all my friends, salivating, all while sipping my water out of my trusty water bottle. I honestly can't think of anything more miserable. I decided to bite the bullet and start it today.

Let me paint a picture of how my morning went.

This little gem requires me to get up at 6, something I haven't done since high school. Normal people are supposed to down a protein shake and then head to the gym. I decided it was in my better interests to down a protein shake and head back to bed. As a side note, if the the taste of that protein shake was any indication of what the next 12 weeks is going to be like, the chances of me sticking to this are slim to none. I slept for another hour and then I had to eat again. Seriously?? I am not even hungry. I forced down a breakfast burrito which wasn't half bad.

Enter the water.

Let it be known. I am not a big water drinker. Sure, if I am working out, love it. But never ever would I just pour myself a tall glass of water. I have tried on several occasions to overcome this and I keep going straight back to my milk. I am now required to drink 4 LITERS of water A DAY!!!!!!

Does anyone comprehend how much that is?? I may as well just take my laptop to the bathroom with me. It is 12:30 and I have already been 5 times. It just seems so unnatural. It's like I always have the signal but I just hold it until my bladder is about to burst. My little water bottle just stares at me and every few minutes, I force myself to take a few swigs.

I am not kidding when I say I have never detested something so much.

I even googled to make sure it wasn't harmful to drink that much. Because I am pretty sure there was a story a few years back about parents who killed their child by making him drink too much water. All I can say is, Lord help me. This will for sure be my biggest task during the next 12 weeks. Hopefully it will all pay off when I become svelte with killer abs. I'll report back my results.

Wish me luck! Time to eat again!

Diego....our prince

Diego is a classic. We first met back in highschool and I hadn't been in touch with him until he found me on Facebook. Back in April, he wanted to go to Lagoon so I told him that I would get some friends and we would plan a day in August. I think I got a phone call once a week until August, reminding me that we were going. Here is a recent email I got from Diego after we went. I hope you can tell how great Diego is...

Alli , I just wanted to thank you for hanging out with me to Lagoon last night and it was fun , and we had a great time? i am very appreciated . i am glad i met your friends are Kimi, Monique , Nancy , Jessie, Missy, Elissa, and Jenny , too .
i like them very much because they are my new friends forever , of course . I am a Ladies' man because i like girls very much and i am very irresistible to women and i understand women so much . i liked the rides very much , my favorite rides are : Roller-Coaster ( with white trails ), Bumper Cars , Musical Express , Merry-go-Round like a Carousel , Tilt-A-Twirl , Dracula's Castle and Terror-ride . also Rattle-snake Rapids , too . remember i told you about because i am so brave to go to that Roller-Coaster like 2 times is twice though , too . Lagoon was fun and we all had a good time , and thank you for hanging out last night and i am so happy that you get in touch with me and thanks for calling me ? you are my favorite friend i met a very long time like since High School (Highland) for the past 11 years in 1999 , too . sometime we will go Bowling , maybe at Fat Cats is very close to my house , the Bowling is on 37th South and 9th East , of course . i will bring my own Bowling Ball Bag with my Bowling Ball inside , too .
you, me, and the girls will go Bowling sometime and we will eat Pizza at The Pizza Factory by Fat Cats , okay . Hey, remember we all can go to Disneyland until next summer of 2010 is next year , we all going to stay for a vacation like 3 , 4, 5 days . want to do that?! maybe Disneyland is in California or Florida , of course . we all stay in these Hotels there , there is no trouble at all though .
I want to thank you for hanging out with me to Lagoon last night , and you are really a good friend to me . sometime we will go to the park and play , i will give you and them more massages , all right . i hope you have a great week and take care and write me back , you know my E-mail address? it is ************** , okay . next time , you and the girls will come to my house and see me and my art workings , okay . bye-bye , Alli .

And yes, we all did receive massages from Diegs at Lagoon. He also let us know that he was only looking for friendship. It was a good thing he made that clear.

He is such a little tender heart and seemed to fall for both Nancy and Monique. Was I a little jealous?? Of course I was. How can you not love a guy who refers to you as his princess?? Here are some pics of our day.


Elissa claims she was still wet from Raddlesnake Rapids....pretty sure the White Rollercoaster had an impact on her. She's not fooling anyone...



The best part of the day was when we decided to get some Saloon pics. Diegs was loving every second of this and I think the pics turned out pretty fantastic.



If Diegs has his way, you'll be seeing another post next summer when we hit up Disneyland. The phone calls have already been pouring in!

If only we would have known.

Last night, I came home from work and Mike and I were watching the news. They were doing a story on how all the FLDS people were protesting in front of the Matheson court house about some land dispute. There were hundreds of them....everywhere. We started discussing the possibilities of us heading down to hang out with that crowd. I can already see it. The big poof, no makeup, the homely dress, I think I would probably fit right in. Can you imagine us hob-nobbin' with all the peeps? Conversations would be classic. My only concern is that they all seemed to know each other. Mike just said we could say we were new. If this little debate continues, you better believe we will be down there creepin around.

Oops!

So last night, I went to get a shake with my parents at Hires. I may or may not have said this to the waitress when she took our order.

"Can you please shit that for us?"

Shit, split. Same thing.

J to the ackson

So this picture pretty much sums up our vaca to Jackson last weekend. It was full of good friends, good laughs and good times. We stayed in Colter Bay in what they call "tent cabins". This is basically high-end camping for those who are too high maintenance to seriously rough it. My response to this was "yes, please." I would camp all the time if my tent was already set up, access to hot water is plentiful, and I can turn a light on in my tent.

Mike was our host and we totally doubled his work load by being there. I'm pretty sure on about hour 2, he was questioning the invitation.

Not only did he heat our tent at night but he was consistently bringing over left over scraps from his family's meals. All we brought was crap so it was nice to get something healthy every once in a while.

On Friday night, he was nice enough to take us skiing. Once again, taking five girls on the boat when you are the only one who knows how to operate it is a task. He gave me a quick lesson in driving so that he was able to ski on the glassy glass too.




On Saturday, we decided to rent one of those motor boats that has a top speed of about 7mph. We thought we would take it out, catch some rays, and do a little swimming. What we didn't realize was how difficult it would be to get back in the boat. She may kill me but this was too funny not to post.





No, we didn't bring our parapalegic friend, Jess was just desperate to tan the back of her legs.

After our two hours of fun, we took the boat back. As we pulled up, this old man approached us and asked why we weren't wearing our life jackets. I didn't know that we had to wear them the whole time so he proceeded to yell at us, asked if we thought it was funny, and told us next time he was calling the cops. I would like to see what a cop what have done....please.

That night, after an awesome rain storm, we had a fire and roasted things.



It was a blast, as it always is with these fun gals! I'm so glad that my friends are as random as I am and are always up for a good road trip!


Until next weekend...

What??

So, I broke up with this guy about nine months ago. It sucked and I had a really hard time getting over it. I am not kidding when I say that pretty much every weekend since we broke up, his brother has asked me out. Not only do I think that is shady and weird but does he honestly think we are going to date?? In the beginning, I kept telling him that I thought it was weird and that it would be too hard.

Now, nine months later, my excuses are running out. He called me earlier this week and said he was going to be in SL and wanted to get together. I decided that I would go to dinner so that he might stop calling me. Not that I don't think he's great, cause I do but it just seemed pretty pointless to me. He's a funny guy but definitely beats to his own drum. It was good to see him and we had some good laughs but the best part of dinner was when he said, and I quote,

"You're weird, but in a good way".

What? I'm not even sure what that means.
I think I fake laughed and said that I had to bounce.

Good thing I don't take offense easily. It's safe to assume that we won't be going out again anytime soon.