my current obsession.

i tend to be pretty quiet about my obsessions. alright, that's a lie, i know that practically everyone knows-EVERYONE knows- that i am obsessed with the jonas brothers. really, there are some obsessions that i keep on the D.L. for example, my obsession with THE HILLS. i know that there is this whole theory about the show not actually being reality t.v. but real or fake, i don't care... i love it. who doesn't want to watch pretty people (sans heidi and spencer) dress in designer clothes and worry about "important" things like, who will be at le deux tonight? you know, i have enough real things to worry about in my own life (i.e. money, schedules, jobs, time, age difference...) so sue me if i like taking a break for a half hour every monday (ok fine... for a four hour marathon) to watch other people's lives (let me clarify... other beautiful people's lives). seriously i am so entertained by whitney the question-asker, and the ridiculousness that is known as justin bobby, and how fun it is to hate spencer and heidi. and how cute are lauren and brody?! why don't they just get together already? come on!! they make the best couple and he is totally in love with her, it is the cutest thing ever. if my world were perfect, johnny depp and winona ryder would still be together, justin and britney would have never broken up, and LC and brody would just get together already! i know this show is nonsensical and the fact that i watch it may give me some minus points in certain people's books. normally i would care about losing life points, but in this case i'm willing to take one for the team (besides i have like a brazillian points so what's losing a few?)

i have included (for my benefit more than yours) some of my favorite brody/lauren moments. or, as i call them, "BRO-REN" moments (don't laugh, you know you love it).

ah, broren in vegas for brody's bday. (don't be concerned, brody isn't wearing a glove, it's just like this post-cast business that he had to wear after lauren broke his finger.) cutest exchange between the two in the episode...
B: "where's my birthday present?"
L: "i already gave you a present!"
B: "ok, fine. where's my birthday kiss?"
L: "do you want a birthday kiss?"
(insert "give-me-a-frigging-break" look here)

funniest line goes to lauren when she whispers in brody's ear "i just saw Lo's 'Britney'!!"


this episode airs after the one in vegas. lauren goes out on a date with some poor shmuck who suuuuuuucks and she ends up at home early. brody calls her to see how the date went and of course she is all like "ummm... it was fine... no sparks" and then he's like "yeah... he didn't seem like your type... what are you gonna do now?"
L: "ummmm... probably just watch a movie or something, i don't know"
B: "not by yourself?"
L: "why not?"
B: "because i'm not gonna let someone i care about sit alone after a bad date and watch a movie by themselves. i'll come over."
L: "you wanna watch with me?"
B: "what movie are you gonna watch?"
L: "does it really matter?"
B: (laughs) "guess not."

ok, well i don't know what this is from but it is just so disgustingly cute i had to include it. do you see the way he is looking at her? come on! TRUE LOVE! this season is going to be so good, i am so lamely excited for it. what's going to happen?! aaaahhhh!! no one knows! i will leave you with the words of the ever-so-intellectual justin bobby: "truth and time.... tells all".

waiters and spiders.

shananagins in my life often come in the form of waiters. just ask anyone who has ever gone out to dinner with me. it is usually the worst with kenny and i, we seem to always get the weirdest of the weird. but last night was one for the books. samantha and i went to the cheesecake factory, and the rest, well... here it is.
i don't remember the poor guy's name, but it started off badly when he had to write down our drink order. sam was like "he isn't going to last a second at this table, he just had to write down our drink order for two waters". then he starts to tell us about the soup of the day for tuesday which is cream of mushroom. but he is giving this speech (the "tuesday cream of mushroom" speech) and he starts mumbling about how tuesdays are his favorite day b/c it's mushroom soup day or something? all i could really decipher was the word "tuesday" which he said about nine times in 23 seconds. he just started rapid firing the word "tuesday". bewildered, i was. his next favorite word was "navigate" which i could tell he thought he was so clever for using. example: "you two ladies need help navigating the menu?" or "can i assist you in some navigation of the menu", etc. at this point, sam and i are aware that our dinner experience is just going to be straight up nonsense. let me also inform you that the table behind us is discussing politics, the classic obama v. mccain duel. they are of course sorely misinformed on every topic and loud as all get out. the table in front of us is discussing filet mignon and their friend amanda, who thought filet mignon was fish! you can imagine how silly amanda is in person, can't you? there have been three birthday songs, and you know how those get me going on the worst rampage. amidst the circus, our waiter walks by with a piece of cheesecake and stops by our table and holds it in front of our faces. he crosses his legs, leans on the pillar and says "white chocolate raspberry cheesecake... our number two most requested cheesecake. just wanted to let you ladies see what you're missing so you can save room for dessert" and walks away. i wanted to die, really. are you kidding me? i couldn't even look at samantha during this fiasco. don't taunt me with another man's dessert!! when we're done eating, he packs sam's cheese pizza into a nice to-go box and then he comes back with it, and does the crossy-legs, lean-on-the pillar business and has the bag in one hand and he tries to pull out the menu and flip to the dessert page with his other hand, just one hand. so he is like, leaning and using his left hand to open this menu/book ordeal and his hand is totally twisted into this claw affair and i'm just thinking "just set down the bag!" then he gives us this speech "you know, here at cheesecake factory, we're famous, and rightly so, for one thing... and that's cheesecake" i cut him off here bc i really couldnt handle anymore at that point so i just tell him our order. we did not, much to his dismay, go with the second most requested cheesecake, we decide on the brownie sundae. i tell the wiater this and he's like "the brownie sundae cheesecake?" and i'm like "no, just the godiva brownie sundae" and he's like "the godiva brownie sundae cheesecake?" and i'm like "no, 'tis not a cheeesecake, my firend, just the regular dessert" (which he could not fathom by the way). so he brings us our dessert and sets it between the two of us and spins it all the way around- a complete 180 (or 360, i'm not really sure) just so we can get a good look at the brilliant craftsmanship of the sundae. then he proceeds to watch us take the first bite, like his face is like level with our table. i'm like "you're dismissed, thank you." then he does one of those "how is everything looking, you guys sure know how to pack away the desserts... har har har, sigh" i don't know who told waiters that it is flattering to girls to tell them how impressed they are with how much we can eat, but they were sorely misinformed. don't get me wrong, i like to impress the males, but not with my dessert eating skills.
i don't know if any of this comes across as funny or ridiculous as it was in person, but it was a straight up, classic waiter fiasco. oh, i also hope i didn't come across as rude or beastly, as i am neither. you just have to understand the situation and know that there was no way we could have taken him seriously.
the best part of the night was perhaps when samantha was attacked by a spider. it all started when we were outside her house and walking to my car and there was this huge spidey on her light pole and she was like "please come and observe the hugest spider you've ever seen" and i was like "you better kill that b/c once it is done with that pole, it is headed straight for your room and it's gonna lay eggs on your face". seriously it was a pregnant spider b/c she had like this huge bulb on her butt and i'm telling sam, that is where she holds the babies. sam decides to spare spidey's life but when i unlock my car door and my lights come on, they highlight this string of silver right in front of sams face and i am like... what the? so i'm about to tell her to step back just as she feels something on her and starts rubbing her face frantically and i am like "you just stepped into a string of spider web" and i am pretty sure that mistress spidey heard us plotting her demise, and being insanely unbalanced like she is, she shot a web out at us. i mean, clearly she knew what she was doing. i have to say, i would have done the same thing had i heard two girls plotting not only my death, but also the death of my loved ones (i.e. the baby eggs on her bulb). when i talked to sam today she said that she checked her entire body last night for spiders. is that like, instant karma for laughing at our waiter? i hope not. i don't really feel like spending my wednesday looking around for spiders droppin' eggs on me. that would really put a hitch in my giddyup.

my amazing thursday.

dear thursday,


holy crow, you were awesome today. usually i'm not a fan of you what with you being not friday and all, but you really came through this time. and now you've left me thinking, "friday who?" it all started at the first of you, thursday, in the morning when i went to cvs to get an evian, and i randomly found the rolling stone with the jonas brothers on the cover. thursday, you know i have been looking for that magazine, but due to the popularity of the jo bros, i have been unable to find a copy of it anywhere. so how excited was i when i found a random copy in a random isle at a drugstore?! good work, thursday, good work.

needless to say, i was one happy child to have the jonas brothers in my tiny little hands. you got a little crazy in the middle there, thursday. i mean, i had four hair appointments, all with little children who start school next week, and i had to take connor on a tour of mountain view's campus to map out a route for all of his classes. and come on, thurs (may i call you thurs?) it got a little hot in the middle of the day. and really, walking around my former high school campus in 110 degree weather is not exactly how i'd like to spend my afternoon "off". (can you blame me?) and then d.w. and i went to nordy's to find nichole's unborn twins a shower gift. and find them one, we did, thursday. the shirts i picked out were particularly good looking. i'm pretty excited about that. and remember that sale at the gap, thurs? where i found those adorable dresses for erika and noelle? i was feeling pretty good by then. little did i know that you had something even better for me. here's where it gets crazy, thursday. i am in the INFANT section of nordstrom's, you know, not because i am looking for an infant but because i am shopping for a gift for an infant (just wanted to clear that up, didn't want anyone to think i was an infant bargain hunter), and i see a set up of cds. most of them are kids' tunes i.e. sesame street, or baby lullabies, there is even a miley cyrus cd, which i thought was a bit tacky for the infant section, thursday. but then, out of the corner of my eyebills, i see... and you'll never beilieve this, thursday, because even i had to rub my eyes and do a double take, but i saw the new, yet-to-be-released JONAS BROTHERS C.D. ok, i know what you're thinking, b/c i thought the same thing, too. it must be a mistake. but guess what... it wasn't. nordstrom's actually MADE A MISTAKE and put their shipment of the cd, titled "A LITTLE BIT LONGER" out a week early! their bad, but my good, because i snagged one of them real speedy quick before anyone could realize the serious error on nordy's part. the crazy thing is, just that morning i had gone to the jonas brothers' web site to try and pre-order the cd, but i was unable to because i missed the cutoff by ONE DAY. you had to pre-order your cd by august 6th in order to get it by august 12th. here is the photo of the cd at nordy's... right next to elmo sings the blues or some madness like that.
thursday, i was so excited!!!! i really was feeling like i was stealing or something on account of the fact that this wasn't supposed to be out for another five days! i couldn't even believe that i found it, and in the infant section no less. how lucky could one girl be?! well... i went to the disney store on my way out of the mall and they had these posters there that they were giving out to promote the release of the jo bros cd. and i grabbed one, and look at what it said on the bottom. i took a picture of it especially because i thought it was so funny, thursday. and partly because i thought i was so clever, finding the cd early and all.
you see that, thursday?! right there at the bottom it says "IN STORES 8/12/08" and i, by some magical miracle, got mine early!! what a lucky lady i am!! i couldn't stop smiling, really. and it sounds silly, but this made me so super happy, happier than anything has made me in a while. while i was at the disney store, guess what? i begged and pleaded with d.w. to please please pre-order camp rock so that we could get the free school folders that came with it. and she did! finally!! and she also bought me a tap dancing wall-e to keep on my nightstand. she bought me the wall-e toy b/c she knows how much i love wall-e and she also knows how similar wall-e and i are, what with our love of musicals, and love of collecting things, and the way we both have binocular eyes. we are two of a kind, wall-e and i.
here is the final picture, thurs, and the best one of all... ME with my official early copy of the JONAS BROTHERS cd "A LITTLE BIT LONGER". and i love it, thursday, i really do.

i didn't include my face because i took that picture after i got home from target, where i got caught (quite literally) in a rain storm. so i was soaked clear through my dress. it was a mess, thursday. oh, and one more thing... remember how last night when i was laying in bed and almost almost asleep? well it was almost friday at that point because it was so late but you managed to throw one more surprise in there before you were over, and it was pretty great. it's something that sunday, monday, tuesday, AND wednesday weren't capable of doing. i got a text message from michael. that was a nice touch, thursday. well played. see you next week.

love, gabrielle.