Whovillation

Halloween is fast becoming one of my favorite holidays; mostly because I work with some awesome people who give in to my crazy demands to dress the department up in a theme. The past 2 years have been pretty good...but this year tops it.

Not only did I get everyone to participate, but we even had a Whovillation and invited our reservation team to join us for a Christmas dinner including a roast beast.

To quote the Grinch himself "A holiday Whobe Whatey?"

Welcome to Whoville

We decked out the office in Christmas. We got a lot of people upset with us the day before because they didn't know what we were doing. Many yelled...it was quite funny.

Here's the entire gang...including the Mayor, little Cindi Lou-Who, the Grinch with his dog Max and several Whoville residents.

I was lit up from head to toe...literally. I used battery powered Christmas lights on my skirt and in my hair.

My mom did my awesome hair. (Yes, that's my real hair.) I had 4 styrofoam cups in the middle to keep it standing tall all day.

This is last year's group. Only 3 of us participated. (I think the others felt left out so that is why we had so many participate this year.) We came as SNL and Mad TV characters: Mary-Katherine Gallagher "Super Star", "Coffee Talk" Lady and Stewart. We had fun being "in character" all day.

This was the first year's pic. We were super heroes and villains. I of course was my favorite...Wonder Woman.

I found a surprise...

As I was walking to my car tonight I noticed from a distance that there was something sitting by my car tire that looked like garbage. As I got closer it was the remains of what looked liked a brown bagged lunch. I was annoyed that someone left me their trash.

But when I reached my car, I found more than just garbage...

Someone was sleeping in my car!!!!!

Turns out it was a dummy and I was being pranked.


I will admit that I jumped at first. Who wouldn't if they found what looked like a person sleeping in the backseat of their car? After the initial panic (and testing to make sure it really was a fake)...I immediately had my suspicions of who would have done this. Turns out I was dead on.

Back story:
I still have not gotten my broken window fixed in my car and my friends at work were giving me a hard time since it had been several months since it had been broken. I admit it...I am a procrastinator; especially when it comes to car repairs. I drove through an entire winter on bald tires because I just never "got around" to getting new ones. (I am happy to report that this winter will be much safer.) I did try once to get my window fixed...but they didn't have the right window in stock and I haven't really tried since. Anyways...because of the crazy weather change, we were chatting yesterday in the office about my window and one of my friends joked that some bum could climb in my car to get out of the rain and take a nap. And so the prank was born.

I applaud my friends...this was a great prank! I'm going to have so much fun paying each one of them back! Ü

Halloween Costume Ideas

Halloween is fast approaching...and I thought I would offer some helpful ideas for costumes in case you were having a difficult time finding that PERFECT costume. All three of these ideas were generously inspired by Lady GaGa:

If you want to be a bride...but are looking for something a little bit more unique, here's the costume for you.

If you want to be a princess with a devilish side, this one is for you.

This last one is my ultimate favorite. If you're a huge fan of The Wizard of Oz, and playing the Cowardly Lion is your ultimate dream...this costume is hands down ideal!

(All 3 outfits were worn by Lady GaGa at the 2009 VMA's. I'm so glad girls today have such a great role model to look up to.)

Buses & Trains

I came across a song today that relates to my life at the moment:

Hey Mom

Why didn't you tell me

Why didn't you teach me a thing or two

You just let me go

Out into the World

You never thought to share what you knew

So I walked under a bus

I got hit by a train

Keep falling in love

Which is kinda the same

I've sunk out at sea

Crashed my car, gone insane

And it felt so good

I want to do it again

Hey Mom

Why didn't you warn me

Coz about boys is something i should have known

They`re like chocolate cake

Like cigarettes

I know they're bad for me

But I just can't leave 'em alone

So I walked under a bus

I got hit by a train

Keep falling in love

Which is kinda the same

I've sunk out at sea

Crashed my car, gone insane

And it felt so good

I want to do it again

Hey Mom

Since we're talking

What was it like when you were young

Has the world changed

Or is it still the same

A man can kill and still be the sweetest love.

So I walked under a bus

I got hit by a train

Keep falling in love

Which is kinda the same

I've sunk out at sea

Crashed my car, gone insane

And it felt so good

I want to do it again

I like the last two lines the most...."and it felt so good, I want to do it again." So even though I keep dating idiots, I'm getting back on the horse until I fall in love with the right one.

It's my favorite time of year

Football Season!

Go Utes!

Stupid Vandals!

Some jerk decided to break into my car and steal my haircutting case from the backseat while I was having Sunday dinner at my grandparents house.

The jokes on them...what I'm sure they thought was a computer was just a bunch of combs, clippers and scissors. But now I have to replace all of my stuff before I can do anymore hair :(

I hope they cut themselves while trying to steal my stuff...Rotten THIEVES!

Orange County Swap Meet

The Orange County Swap Meet is a favorite in the Grow family. My cousin and I decided to go down for the day (benefits of working for an airline) and do some shopping. Our flight left at 7:30am so I was up bright and early Saturday morning. Unfortunatetly Kate's alarm didn't go off and I had to wake the entire household to get her up. Sorry Em and Riley! Not to worry though...we made our flight in time.

I don't know what it was about us and airports that day, but we kept coming across some strange men. On our way down to California, the TSA agent told Kate she couldn't fly because "he doesn't let the cute ones go." This was supposed to come across as flattering I'm sure...but it just came across as creepy. Then on our way back (waiting in line again) the guy in front of me was on his phone dancing around (he couldn't keep still). I didn't even know he had looked at me, but as soon as he hung up his phone, he turned to me and said "Your eyes are CRAZY tight!" Um, thanks? This obviously became the quote of the day. hahaha

Whenever we go we always find something unique that we haven't seen before. As you know from my earlier posts I love giraffe print anything. So my find for the day was a carry on luggage case in giraffe print with red lining. I LOVE it! We actually saw a lot of zebra print luggage pieces and were on the hunt for giraffe print. We finally found it at the end of the day.

Kate's great find was a hand-painted pink parasol with flowers painted on it. She got it for her sister's upcoming bridals since the parasol happened to be the exact colors of the wedding. It is going to look so good in her photos.

We rented a car for the day...but did not expect to rent a little fire engine! But that is what we got. We were looking hot in this thing! Well...not really, but we tried. It was actually a really hidious looking car. And of course we had to take a photo with it. I normally drive a manual car and so was not used to driving an automatic. This became very apparant to Kate when we were on the freeway and the car in front of me started to break. On impulse my left foot when to push in the clutch but was instead pressing on the brake which made Kate lung forward in her chair, drop the GPS and hit her head on the dashboard. OOPS. Luckily no harm was done to the car or to Kate's head.

We had a fews hours after the swap meet before we had to head back to the airport, so we thought we would drive to the beach. But we completely forgot that it was the end of June which meant high season for tourists. So while we battled traffic to get to the beach, there wasn't a parking spot for us once we arrived. So we had to turn around and spend the next hour fighting traffic to get back to the airport. But we did get to see the beach on the PCH Highway.

We ended the day by stopping at In N' Out Burger for a quick bite before we headed back home. How better to end a great day?