Top 10

1) Last week I bought champagne for the very first time. I was doing a coworker a favor in picking it up. My coworker said before I left that it may not be the BEST idea to send the Mormon to get the booze, but I think I did a pretty good job picking it out. The label looked fancy and the price seemed ridiculous, so that has to be a signal for good champagne, am I right?



2) I love it when there are special articles or stories on the internet about people’s weight loss. I’m obsessed with reading through big “before and after” transformations. Today I was reading through some I found on msn.com, and I had to ask myself, why it is that the “before” picture always looks so much older than the “after” picture? Observe.



(Obviously, the before picture is on the right) I know, right? Why is the Ms. Before 20 years older than Ms. After?

3) I love that Google always knows what I’m trying to say before I say it. I was thinking to myself today: Wouldn’t it be cool to generate your own electricity with a stationary bike or treadmill? I think that would be the coolest way to watch TV. You have to keep pedaling or you won’t know how “Lost” turns out. Or your smoothie won’t be blended completely. And bonus: instead of paying for that electricity, your TV watching/smoothie blending capabilities are FREE. So naturally, I searched for it on Google, only I didn’t know quite how to phrase it. Luckily for me, all I had to type was “Stationary bike that” and look what popped up.



Love it.

By the way, this search led me to an article about a man in San Jose who bikes for 45 minutes a day on a stationary bike in his garage. Last year, this guy pedaled $150 worth of electricity back into the grid and charged his own batteries. Google, I love how you read my mind. You’re almost as good as Harry.

4) Last week we saw “Wicked” at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco with some Law School peeps. This was my first time seeing it/hearing the music. Ten high fives (which makes… fifty highs?) go out to my husband for seeing it with me even though he’s not exactly what we females might call a “musical buff.” I loved it. It lived up to all of my expectations except that Kristen Chenowyth and Idina Menzel (upon whom I have girl crushes) were not on stage. And bonus: we somehow eluded all city traffic and got free parking across the street from the theater. Don’t ask me how it happened. I really don’t know.

5) The time has come for new glasses and a haircut. This may be because I need to disguise myself in my efforts to elude the IRS, or because I’ve had the same glasses since high school and am getting headaches and my hair hasn’t seen a pair of shears since February.


6) Have you ever been at work and started an impromptu taking-photo-of-yourself-making-various-expressions-with-your-cell-phone-and-sending-them-to-your-responsible-and-orderly-older-sister session and run off to the bathroom to take various pictures of your various facial expressions in an ill-lit bathroom stall and sending them while trying not to dissolve in hysterical laughter when you see the faces she sends you? I did today. Good times.

7) Have you ever considered… (cue ashamed small font) not going to a Relief Society activity you just found out about so you can sneak off to see Robin Hood with your main loving man because you didn’t get to see it last weekend and Thursday is the only free night you can see it? I’ve considered it.

8) My brother comes home in T minus 23 days. And I can’t help but wonder what will happen when I see him. Will I burst into uncontrollable tears because of HOW MUCH I missed him? Will I pass out with disbelief at how shriveled his once-Rugby-Water-Polo machine self is? Perhaps jump up and down and shout wildly and cause security to escort me off the premises because of my suspicious behavior? I’m certainly curious, aren’t you?



9) We ate the most scrumptulescent tacos I’ve ever laid taste buds on. They were at a place called Super Taqueria in San Jose. The awesome woman/sister-from-another-mother I serve in the Nursery with on Sundays and her amazingly good looking fam took us down there after a ward bake-off (at which our coma-inducing blueberry pie sold for 25 bones in the silent auction. Boo yah!) last weekend. Totally worth the 25 minute drive it takes to get there. We were the only gringos there and this place was packed to the brim with people. The last time I had a taco that legit was on a remote beach off the coast of Puerto Vallarta on our honeymoon, where residents of the local fishing village had cooked us a fantastic lunch over an open flame grill. I’m pretty sure the tacos are still clinging to my upper thighs. Worth every bite.



10) I love having 7 seasons of "Lost" to watch at my leisure. We started the series over (Harry hadn't ever gotten into it, I'd only seen 1.5 seasons). I'm starting to prefer it to watching movies. Last night, Jack pulled a freaking arrow out of some guy's shoulder before Sayid interrogated him. That's intense. Happy Wednesday to all, and to all a good night watching "Lost."