Some Pics from CT

Dave and I went to CT last week to visit his family. It was so pretty there! I'm posting some of my favorite pictures that I took. I really like perspective shots. So hope you won't get sick of seeing those!

Let's bowl, let's bowl, let's rock-'n-roll!

So. I'm not a bowler. I've never been very good at bowling and haven't really wanted to go very often for fear of looking silly and having an extremely low score. But I let go of my bowling inhibitions today and scored a mighty 53!! Dave and I hung out with our friend Thomi today and we bowled at Gameworks for an hour. We played 2 games and although my first score really was a 53, I rallied the second round and came out with a 99!! Possibly my highest score ever. I'm awesome.

We had a great weekend this weekend. Yesterday Dave and I played tennis for about an hour. That's the first time I've played tennis, or attempted to play, in probably about 12 years or so. And it's probably been about that long or so for Dave as well. We didn't get too crazy, just hit some volleys back and forth. I think our record was 4 times over the net that were actually "in" before I would make some wild hit, way the hell out of bounds or over the fence. What can I say, I'm powerful :)

Anyway, it was a good time playing tennis in the beautiful weather and bowling today. Good times. And it's been such great weather this weekend too, it's just been good all around.

And as a side note, we saw some movies, big surprise. We rented Marie Antionette and Unknown, they were ok. And we went to the show and saw Pathfinder (which was just ok) and Slow Burn which was awesome! So this weekend gets rated a 10!!

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We're buying a house!!

Yay!!! Dave and I are in contract to buy our first house together! Our realtor showed it to us last weekend and we loved it the minute we walked in. We went back and forth with the seller this whole week trying to negotiate a final sales price and closing date, and almost walked out on him, but he finally came to grips with the fact that we were making a very fair offer and he was about to lose us, so he accepted it and we're in contract!!! We're closing May 25 and I'm very excited! But there is a lot of stuff to do between now and then. We have to pack up 2 apartments so we're going to start doing that now. There are a lot of things like dishes we're not using, movies we're not watching, etc that we can start packing up now.

Have I mentioned I'm excited?
Here are some pictures from the online listing. We'll of course take more as we start decorating, so I'll add those later.

Friends are fun

So one of my best friends came up this weekend to hang out and shop and just chill and we had such a great time. I miss my friends who are far away!! It was nice hanging out with her again and eating good food, and talking about everything from our old job where we used to work together, to our boys, to annoying people, to awesome people, just everything and it was a lot of fun. She's only about 3 1/2 hours away, so definitely makes me want to get together a lot more often. We bowled on the Wii, which was fun, except I suck and she rocks. But I am awesome at tennis, so that made me feel better and made up for my sucky factor at bowling. She scored when it came to shopping. Found 4 pairs of pants. I didn't find anything but a pretty basic black shirt. Go figure. But I got cute hair sticks to put in my hair, and that's about the highlight of my shopping. But it was fun.

Anyway, the point of this rambling on, is that it was good to hang out with her, and it makes me miss more of my friends. Like the ones in STL, in Anchorage, my sis in ID, friends in AZ, friends in ID, in UT, and in Little Rock. I need to have a friend reunion. I know you all won't know each other, but I find it hard to believe that all these people I like and who like me wouldn't be able to hang out together and have a good time. I mean come on, I'm the common thread here, so it would be worth it!! So you're all invited to the 2007 Friends of Sarah Reunion, location and date TBD.

Please RSVP!!!

Pictures Pictures and Pictures

So basically I'm talking in all pictures here, more detail will possibly follow.


This is my boss Phil and his wife Kati.


I loved her dress!! It was kind of a real creamy white, (eggshell?) with a large brown ribbony tie, and I thought it was beautiful!




Here is me and Dave, chillin at the wedding. Turns out I matched the wedding party. That was by sheer accident! Who knew they'd all be in cream and brown!!













And here is a hottie by a fountain!












Kristen, me and Dave at the reception















Me and Dave, same fountain




























Dave, picking an orange in the middle of their backyard.







On the way to Vegas.












Me and Kristen at Hoover Dam










Dave and Kristen at Hard Rock










Dave outside Penny Town, USA













Me, hanging with KISS












New York, New York













My boo, hanging at the guitar

From Yesterday

I am really liking this song.

Couple funny remakes

Does playing tennis on a Wii count as exercise?

Yay we finally have a Wii! Dave is awesome. I tell you what, he was totally "Johnny On It" this morning. He was looking through the Sunday ads early and saw that Circuit City had Wiis in stock and they were going to give vouchers out an hour before the store opened. So he woke my butt up at 8:30 to have me find out when the store was opening (which turned out to be 10) so we would have a chance to get one. So I braved the cold weather, snow and slush to drive the whole 3 miles :) to stand in line for a voucher. But when I got there there were only 6 other people ahead of me, and within the 6 were two groups of two so really I was 5th in line and there were only 11 in stock. So we just had to come back and get it within two hours of the store opening... like that would be a problem! So I went and picked Dave up, we had breakfast at Perkins and then we went back to get our Wii! It was pretty cool being able to walk out with one. There were a few people looking at us like we were the luckiest S.O.B.s ever! Cause they didn't get one. Poor suckers. Heh heh heh.

Then we went over to Best Buy to pick up another remote, since we have gift cards there and it would basically be free. But they were out of stock. In fact 3 different Best Buys were out of stock, as is online. So we'll keep an eye out so we can get a second remote. Dave wants to kick my butt at tennis. But so far we're taking turns playing a match. That actually works out pretty well cause this ain't no joke! I'm feeling it in my arms just from playing tennis. I'm definitely getting better, but I'm also out of breath by the time I get to the end of the match. It will be pretty cool to play against each other, though. I have this awesome power serve that the computer rarely is able to return, so I think it will be fun to use it against Dave! He can't wait to get in there and kick my butt in tennis, but we'll see after he has to return my awesome serve! I can trash talk like this, cause he probably won't read this for another week :) and by then I'll be just as good as he is. We both started with our skill level at 0 and he's up in the 400s now and I'm still in the 200s, but the high 200s!

So McLong, I can totally understand why you wanted one of these so bad!! I know what we're going to be doing every night this week!! We're going to be playing this Wii every chance we can. We have the playstation 2 that we just got for Christmas, and we're probably going to be playing the Wii more than that!! But we've been loving having a playstation, too. Guitar Hero is so much fun. And even though we only have 1 guitar, we can play it on multiple players and the other person can use the controller and still play. That's pretty cool.

So the moral of this story is, if you weren't lucky enough to stumble onto a Wii at Wal-Mart back before Christmas, you might still get lucky if you have an early riser boyfriend who is diligent at looking at the Sunday ads!!!

Well I'm off to go play some tennis!! Now that I can!!!!!!!

I am banned from renting movies

or at least I should be. So this weekend Dave and I rented The Wicker Man and Lady in the Water. And where do I start??? The Wicker Man SUCKED!!!!!!! I really like Nicholas Cage, but I thought this movie was just bad. It takes place on a privately owned island in WA where this bizarre colony of women and a handful of men work live and have ritualistic sacrifices. So Nicholas Cage is a cop from CA who is investigating the missing daughter of his old flame who ran off years ago without ever saying goodbye. Well he shows up on this island to help her out and that's when the weird stuff starts. Just people acting weird, saying weird things, and it's mainly all women. There are a few men here and there, but none of them speak. In fact, in one scene I think it was a matter of not having a tongue, although they don't come out and show that. And he has no cell phone signal.

Anyway, the whole time he's looking for this little girl, and finding strange connections to this girl all over the island. And he's convinced she's going to be burned to death for some ritualistic day of Death and Rebirth to help the crops grow. So he's running around trying to find her, can’t get a cell phone signal anywhere, he thinks he sees the girl on multiple occasions, and manages to get himself nearly killed each time. He talks to the various creepy women of the island, who all give these little hints about what is going to happen, they say the little girl doesn't exist anymore, he finds a freshly dug grave, they say she's already burned to death, all this stuff that just confuses him. And they mention that he will meet the Wicker Man. Which of course, he has no idea what that's all about. And the mother of the little girl really isn't much help. She's kind of a poor pity me waif that got on my nerves after a while. But turns out her daughter is their daughter. Bet you didn't see that coming. And he finally meets up with Sister Summerisle who basically runs the island. She’s a real piece of work.

So eventually it gets down to the day of the Death and Rebirth. Everyone is dressed up as animals, wearing masks or heads of animals, and let me tell you, that part was CREEPY AS HELL!!! I was just disturbed beyond belief over that part of it. So he knocks this lady out who was getting dressed up as a bear, steals her costume, fights with Lee Lee Sobieski (which it made me incredibly happy to see him knock the crap out of her) and assumes the identity of the bear to prevent the women from burning the little girl. Still no cell phone signal. He walks with the women (in costume) to the field where the ritual is to begin. He sees his daughter standing tied to a large pole, in which she’s going to be burned, right? Well he runs up to the little girl and the woman who’s hanging out there watching over stuff, punches that lady and knocks her out and grabs the girl and takes off. So they’re running away from the women in the field, but the girl is running far ahead of him and he’s still in the bear costume, so he finally gets her to stop, takes off the costume and his cell phone rings. Finally!!! And then as he’s screaming “help us” he gets disconnected and no more signal. Duh!! I got so sick of that part of the story. There’s no damn service on the island you idiot!!! That should have been your first clue! So the girl has taken off again, is running far ahead of him, and he can’t keep up with her, but he can see her. Well then she runs through the edge of the woods into this clearing. Right to all the women of the island and to the arms of her mother, who is not surprised in the least to see her. And here is where I’m going to spoil the ending, so if you don’t want to know the end, don’t keep reading. But if you are still stuck in this stupid story the way I was, go ahead and continue, and save yourself the $4. So it turns out she wasn’t going to be sacrificed. He was. The woman start crowding in closer to him, tightening this circle, and he pulls out a gun, waving it around, threatening everyone, and finally starts shooting. Uh oh, no bullets. His dirty trampy ex girlfriend had taken them out of the gun. Sorry Nick, should have seen that coming, too. So the crowd finally pushes in and basically smothers him and has him pinned to the ground when a few guys come up and roll some big logs up under his feet. So they get his feet up in the air slightly, and he’s still laying down and along comes the bootch with the hammer! Yup, there go his knees. A version of hobbling him, just using his knees, not ankles. So one at a time his knees get crushed and he’s screaming in pain, and the reasoning why he’s the one chosen is because he’s not of the island, but is connected to the island. Through his daughter. And so he was chosen years ago to be the one to visit the Wicker Man. Which it turns out the Wicker Man is a 40 foot tall structure shaped like a person, made out of, you guessed it, wicker. Wood, branches, grasses, everything all woven and tied together to make a large man like structure in which there are already animals tied up in it. Guess they aren’t just about sacrificing people… So the little girl, his daughter, is the one who gets to run up to the Wicker Man and start the fire. And all the while the crazy freaks are chanting "The Drone Must Die."

And this part I borrowed from Wikipedia's review, because it will explain it best:

The girl was in no danger, and the islanders' true plan was to sacrifice Malus - his relationship with Willow was merely part of an elaborate plot to lure him to the island. They needed a stranger who was bound to one of their number, by blood. Though he fights back, he is ultimately burned alive in a 'wicker man'. As Malus is led back to the crowd of women, Sister Summerisle mentions that all the people on the island are her children. In a society of honey bees, all those in the swarm - with the exception of the queen - are brothers and sisters, and therefore all have the same mother. And as Malus is being sacrificed, the crowd of women chant, 'The drone must die', which is a reference to the male bee, known as a drone. When the drone mates with the queen, it dies shortly after, sacrificing itself for the better of the colony, so the people on the island represent a beehive society.

Conclusion: In my opinion, this movie sucked. And I would like a refund. I award it no points, and may there be mercy upon it's soul.


I’ll get to Lady in the Water another day, but the main point of my review for that movie is this: Sorry M, but you hit your peak with the Sixth Sense.



P.S. I just realized the 2006 Wicker Man is a remake of a 1973 version. So it's likely you already knew the ending. You're so smart.

My boyfriend is awesome

I've been at my parents house in ID this last week before Christmas and I go home on Christmas Day. So Dave and I aren't going to be able to spend Christmas Day together, because he left for his parents house in CT today. So he sent me something special to my parents house just to let me know he was thinking of me. He had been planning it for a week ahead of time, too, which is awesome! He was so sneaky, asking me if I liked pears, which I thought he was just asking me for the sake of asking me. I thought maybe someone at work was offering them to him and he wanted to make sure I liked them too. Nope, he was secretly planning to send me some.


He sent me a Harry and David fruit and nut gift tower. The bottom layer has their Royal Riviera® Pears, the next up has Crisp Mountain Apples, the next up has Mixed Nuts, the next up has Chocolate Truffles and the very top one has Bing Cherry Chocolates. It was go good. The chocolates were off the chain and the pears were so juicy and fragrant. I feel like I work for Harry and David now in my description, but I really don't. The only props that are going out here are to Dave for getting me this gift. It was a great gift.

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Thanksgiving

was a blast! We flew in to SLC Thurs morning and came back Tues morning. In that time we ate good food, met a TV star, hung out with my nieces and nephews and sister and parents, got to introduce Dave to more family and some college friends, and it was just a lot of fun.

We saw David Boreanaz AKA Angel, at the car rental return when we were picking up our car. I just couldn't decide if that was really him or not and while I was trying to make up my mind, he was unpacking his car. By the time I finally decided it really was him, he was on his way back to the terminal, but I made Dave go over and talk to him. But he didn't want to do autographs, cause he had to catch a flight with his dog, and he probably just didn't want to be bothered. But he wasn't rude, so that was cool.

But anyway, here are some of the pictures from our trip. I'm going to try to do this all in order...


My baby with my cousins baby.









This is the view from my aunt's house in Riverton, UT













This is in Provo, near BYU. There's a great view from the mountain.












These are some views of Pocatello, where I had lived for 5 years.





























This is at my old campus, Idaho State University.
















This is in Pocatello when we were on our way back to UT. It started snowing that afternoon. Our first snow this year was in Idaho.





















And this is in Orem having dinner with one of my good college friends Tiffany.

Is it too early for Christmas music?

I'm going to go with NO it’s not too early. I'm listening to some at work right now. Granted, it's not all Jingle Bells and the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. There's more instrumental and Trans-Siberian Orchestra but there's also some Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey. What can I say? I’m feeling Christmasy. I can’t wait to decorate in Christmas décor and put up Christmas lights. And I can't wait to go to Utah for Thanksgiving. Then when I get home, my boo will let me decorate for Christmas. But not until then. But this Thurs we're leaving to go to Utah and Idaho. We'll be in Utah until Sun, then we're driving up 3 hours to Pocatello to spend a couple days with some friends, have Chinese, have some pizza bombs, and I can show Dave my college town. I'm really excited about that. And I'm excited for my friends to meet him. Then Mon we'll come back down to Utah, have dinner with another college friend, and then Tues morning we leave at 6 am. Then we'll be at home chilling, and hopefully decorating!

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