Want to see my handwriting?! And a slew of other random info!

Do you want to know random things about me? Yes? No? Maybe so? Here you go friends!
I saw this on a blog a whooooole lot of months back and thought it was pretty fun!

Three things I use every time I shower
1. Shampoo/Conditioner
2. Body wash
3. The shower head…..I mean, face wash!

What does your handwriting look like?
My handwriting is weird. Some days it's super neat, other days it doesn't look like an adult wrote it....actually that's most days!

Three things I'd like to do before I die
1. Write a book with a sequel
2. Try every type of cuisine
3. Be on the Amazing Race (even though it scares me!)

What is making you laugh at the moment?
Definitely the Overly Suave IT Guy meme! Hilarious!

Three embarrassing moments
1. That time I wrote an entire paper about the Youth in Asia rather than Euthanasia
2. I buried a pair of underwear after a bad timing “time of the month” moment and I still wonder if they’re still in the same spot.
3. I sent a really awkward text about someone TO that person instead of my friend and had to play it off as a joke somehow. Luckily the person bought it? I hope?

How's that for a little bit of random?!

Weekend weekend weekend, can't you see?

Sometimes your days just hypnotize me...and I just love your weekend ways, this is why....(I can't figure out a lyric to finish this off ha!)

Well this weekend was pretty jam packed if I do say so myself! Isn't it the truth that the more you say "I want to relax this weekend," the more stuff you actually do instead of relaxing? Yes, that was my weekend! Let me start with this...which was actually Wednesday night but I felt the need to post it so that on the morning I wake up 504729 pounds, this is an assisting factor. Just Kidding...I love nachos and could never part with them!!

We had actually ordered them sans chili, but when she brought it over and we saw the chili, no one was mad! 

Okay so let me get to the actual weekend. Friday night Kurt and I stayed in and had a few drinks. A few months ago, Kurt had the genius idea to buy Everclear. Why? I do not know but it gets him pretty loopy. We did however, carve pumpkins...Mickey and Minnie pumpkins to be precise!

Mickey Mouse was pretty difficult..especially his random chin and lower lip? However I think he came out pretty cute right? Minnie I wanted to tackle differently, we stuck two small pumpkins into her body with two wood sticks and just used the face stencil. Her nose is a little big though ha!

Saturday I cannot for the life of me remember what we did during the day besides go to the mall so I could pick up a few things for our upcoming Disney trip! That night, we went to the Bruins game, and unfortunately they lost!!

I promise this isn't an entire post about Disney BUT...as we were strolling through the TD Garden, I feasted my eyes on Bruins Mickey with a little towel! I needed him!

Sunday was deffo the most relaxing day of the weekend except for the part where I said I wanted to make my grandmothers famous spaghetti sauce, and that's when Kurt decided he was a huge know-it-all and wanted to try some "cooling" contraption after we cooked it. Needless to say we started it at 130 in the afternoon, it took 3 hours to cook, and at 10pm, it finally went into the freezer. Sorry Kurt, I'm sure when my grandmother was alive and making sauce at 90 years old, she wasn't turning it into a 9 hour process.

Oh and then there's this....MUAHAHAH. Happy Monday!

Link up with Sami for weekend shenannies!

My Video Game Brain

Can I tell you all a story? The other morning, I wanted to pass a car on the right by driving on the sidewalk to get around it.

ON. THE. SIDEWALK. 

Did I mention I was also in a school zone? Obviously I did not, but because that thought even crossed my mind, I had to be like whoaaa Erica. This is not Grand Theft Auto V and you are not trying to escape from a 4 star wanted level.

The reasoning behind this post is because I want to document the fact that this game caused me to think violent thoughts that I will want to say to my kids one day: don’t ever think about driving over sidewalks and knocking over a lady with a stroller! But you guys...I'm obsessed with this game.

Almost every day without fail, Kurt and I race to the TV to play the new Grand Theft Auto 5. The day we bought it, I’m pretty sure I played 3 straight hours and didn’t even hear Kurt ask me if he could play. #PoorGuy. However he is farther ahead of me in the game on his user name, so he must be sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night to play….or skipping work. Remember that sick day you had last week, Kurt? You totally played all day I know it.

I’ve been a huge player of the GTA series for a whiiiile. I read all about the games, the critical receptions, the ways they’re planning for future games and even the articles about why people think it’s such a horrible game blah blah blah. Let’s relax a bit crazy peeps, you all played Super Mario at one point I bet. Are we supposed to think that Venus Fly Trap plants and turtles are bad because they eat people?

Needless to say, I was as happy as a clam when I got home one day and found out Kurt bought it. I have so much fun playing that game…it’s like I turn from normal, nice Erica to ravenous beast Erica whose willing to punch a person because I want their money or crash into a motorcycle because I want their motorcycle.

This time in the game, you can play as three separate characters who work together on the missions. I am mildly obsessed with one of the characters; Franklin. He is HOT! He also dresses really nice, drives a sick car and is my best driver. All thanks to me, because I shop for him and pimped his car out to the max. I mean, look at what I've done for him! Started from the bottom now he's here.

And that, my friends, is an entire post on GTA all because I had a rogue, wild thought about getting around an innocent driver who was probably just being a law abiding citizen!

Happy Thursday Friends!

I'm somewhat of a Halloween scrooge---for now...

I have a confession to make. Every year on Halloween night since Kurt and I have lived in our apartment together, we go out for dinner, shut the lights off and are complete scrooges.

I know, I know, but for some reason, our little neighborhood where we live now doesn't get many kids! Actually that's not entirely true. Our apartment is on a dead-end street off of another dead end street. We get  SOME kids, but they come at like, 3:00 in the afternoon! What happened to starting at night!?

What I will say is this...I cannot WAIT to own a house one day so I can deck it out for Halloween and give out candy and dress up. I don't know why we aren't into it right now. Maybe it's because it doesn't feel right? I can't explain, but when we own a house, you bet your bottom dollar we will be going HAM.

Speaking of going HAM, I've always envisioned my future family and I doing the themed costume idea. I can't wait for my first child's first Halloween where Kurt and I can be Mickey and Minnie and our baby can be Pluto. I tell people this and they give me the "are you effing serious right now?" How can you deny this?

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Would that not be the cutest thing you've ever seen? Daddy Mickey, momma Minnie and baby Pluto? Am I right or am I right? Anywho......

I found this a while back on Pinterest and had to bookmark it. Kurt and I are insane Cirque Du Soleil fans. We have seen a bunch of different shows, and it just overall amazes us. How cool and different would this be? A little creepy but, it is Halloween!

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I honestly laugh so hard looking through pictures of family themed Halloween costume ideas because I cannot picture Kurt doing any of them without him either putting up some sort of fight or being like, "really Erica.." I think once we do (if ever) get married and have kids his mind will change :-)

Just now.....

ME: Kurt would you ever do a family themed Halloween costume?

KURT: With whose family?

Yeah...

Can you imagine us as this family? I am literally dying. Kurt needs to muscle up a bit for this

Maybe Kurt should stick to the Blind Ref like last year with DDHP.... :-)

Would you do a themed costume?!

What the F do you do with a hundred apples?

Three more Mondays to get through before we skidaddle on over to DisneyWorld! While I'm not one for rushing through days/weeks, I am just in desperate need of a vacation! Especially to one of my favorite places in the world :-)

Speaking of DisneyWorld, that little half marathon we are running while we are there, well our training took a turn for the "holy shit" when we ran 10 miles yesterday. TEN MILES. I honestly wanted to cry afterwards out of pain and overall excitement because a year ago I could barely run 2 miles without dying. Therefore, I feel like I birthed an elephant over the weekend because my legs/hips are screaming at me. I also may or may not have had a temper tantrum at mile 4, causing me to throw my running watch onto the ground like a child throws a toy. Oy...

But let me back up to Saturday! It was a perfect day and I just knew we had to go get apples and pumpkins. We went to Honey Pot Orchards which is in Stow, Massachusetts! I also decided to finally brush off the cobwebs of my camera and took her out with us. It had been like, a MONTH people! I almost forgot how to press the buttons.

If you look real close, you'll see how Kurt got assaulted by an apple tree branch and cut his head

As I sit here, knowing theres a giant bag of apples in my kitchen, I have to wonder; what in God's name do we need a million apples for? I love apples the most as is...crunching into them, but do you think the appeal of apple picking is actually going to pick them and that's it? I need some ideas of what to make with apples besides the normal pie or apple crisp! I'm kind of loving these baked apple cinnamon chips. What else can I make?!

Saturday night, kurt and I tried a new place for dinner in the South End in Boston, called Toro. It is tapas style and absolutely delicious! We got amazing bread, brussel sprouts, garlic shrimp with a red sauce, grilled steak/caramelized onions and potatoes. My mouth is watering just thinking of it!!

I also decided this was the night I would wear my spicy new leather leggings. You guys...I know they look like they're part skin, but they are so unbelievably comfy and they fit like a glove without that whole, omg I need to shake my butt and wiggle all around to get into them.

Before I go, it is a special lady's birthday today! Guess who....

Miss Sabrina! Happy Birthday to one of the most beautiful people, inside and out, that I've ever met! Love you and hope today is the most amazing day in the world!!

Link up with Sami and tell us about your weekend! Hope you have a fabulous day :-)

Blowin' Money Fast into the Weekend

Kurt is currently sitting across from me on the couch sniffling, coughing and just overall looking pathetic. I can't complain though because as much as guys bitch and moan when they're sick, they're kinda cute!

Last night I went all mommy and created chicken soup from scratch. I then demoted myself by making break apart frozen cookies (but aren't those always so much better sometimes??)

Anywho, I am kind of kicking myself this week. I've been letting the littlest things bother me, depress me, make me sad, and I hate that! On Wednesday I had full intentions of blogging, but I woke up early for a morning meeting conference call and shit just hit the fan and BOOM---automatic mood buster; don't you just hate that?

How I felt...^

On a better note, today is Friday and how can you complain about Friday? This weekend Kurt promised that we could go and get some pumpkins and apples, just like every other human being has been doing this fall except for me. Even though we will only get to enjoy them for about 2 weeks because then we are jet setting off to Disney, I still want them! More on my Disney trip to come since I know you are all iiiitching for details ;-) Speaking of Disney and pumpkins, I'm determined to carve a Mickey pumpkin like this:

I guess we'll see how that catastrophe turns out

Like on Wednesdays we wear pink, on Friday we shake our booty's! Linking up with Whitney this week with a song that is the exact opposite of what I should be doing. Lately I've been throwing money around like I'm a Cash Money Millionaire and that's just not okay...however it is okay for Rick Ross.

My parents surprise 30th anniversary party!

This past weekend was one for the books! :-) Let's back up to this past spring when one of my best friends Liz and her sister threw their parents a surprise 30th wedding anniversary party. I thought to myself, okay my parents 30th is coming up in October....I want to surprise them! So that's what my sister and I did this past Saturday---surprised the mess out of them!

Let's get one thing straight. My mom is the most DIFFICULT person in the world. My sister Lauren and I were quite worried about how we would pull this off and make sure 80 people kept their mouths shut!

The way we got our parents to the restaurant we had the party at, was by telling them I won a $300 wine tasting and wine basket at work to this restaurant and it was on a heated rooftop bar. We had to throw in the rooftop bit because the room for the party happened to be upstairs as well---so we had to make them come upstairs! Well, I made the mistake of telling my mom that my gift basket came with information on the tasting. She asked me to bring it over so she could see it, and yeah....I had to create some fake flyer/brochure thing to make her buy it. Ridiculous right!

If that wasn't bad enough, the night I came over to show her the wine information, she said I could call the restaurant to see what it was all about and to see if we could bring 10 people (my sister's boyfriend parents came up that weekend for the "long weekend" but were totally in on the surprise). I had to fake a call to the restaurant all while my mom's behind me saying things like "ask them this, ask them that." Told ya she was difficult! Thankfully my dad just went with the flow for everything.

The night of the party, I got there an hour earlier than my parents to greet all the guests and such, all while furiously texting my sister to make sure the plan was going to work. I got the text that they arrived and Kurt and I headed downstairs to the hostess stand to pretend like we had just gotten there and were waiting. I handed the hostess my fake flyer and she brought us up to the "wine tasting," and well, the rest is history! They had absolutely ZERO idea!!

My mom has the worst problem keeping eyes open in photos!

Lauren and I could not BELIEVE we pulled this off. My mom cried, my dad couldn't even SPEAK he was so shocked! The first thing my mom said was "I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN MORE DRESSED!"

We partied until almost 1 am with food, an open bar, cake, laughs and music! Just looking at these pictures from the night and seeing my parents, family and friends all celebrating 30 years of my parents, has me SO happy! It was such a fantastic night that I will never forget!