He's my Elvis

So one of my favorite authors in the whole wide world came to Capitola California yesterday. He was doing a book signing and a talk. Thanks to authortracker.com I was lucky enough to get a heads up on his book tour. So since Mom and Natalia read his books too we asked my Dad to drive us an hour away to Capitola so I could get my books signed. I finally did something with my summer that was such an amazing experiance that I still am freaking out about it. I can't belive I met Christopher Moore! His talk was hilarious and fasinating. Dad even strted reading his books now because he was so inpressed with Mr. Moore. I borught 5 books for him to sign since the rest of my collection of his books were lent out and never returned. He signed them all and posed for a photo. I was so happy! I am still happy. I think it may be one of my happiest days ever. I just wish the picture looked better. I could swear Natalia and I looked like normal cute chicks but when we looked at the picture after, Natalia looked like she gained 50 pounds and had a gap tooth and I have 9 chins insted of my usual 3. uuughhhh we so photo blew it. Anyway, if you guys would want to read any of his books they are all awesome. But my personal fave is: LAMB. Mom's favorite is: PRACTICAL DEAMON KEEPING and dad is currently reading: A DIRTY JOB. If you get the chance to read any of his work, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
On a wedding note, Rob and I have set a tentative date of October 22, 2011. We still have to look at our budget and a place to have it. The dress has a deposit already, so that has been figured out. Good news is we have a year to slowly pay for things and make changes, Bad news is Rob needs braces and thats crazy expensive. The other cruddy news is, well honestly Rob is a sacurity guard and I am a teacher's aide, so we make about as much as the paper boy combined. Gurrrrr. I found a book about weddings on a budget and read it cover to cover, there is a ton of great hints to help out, but the more I read, the more I despreatly want to take the deposit on the dress back and go to a drive through wedding in vegas. I forgot how much I hated planning the 1st wedding. It's amazing how the prices for wedding crap has gone up in the past 10 years. It seems to me that it's not the wisest thing to start out a marraige in serious debt. I was looking at veils on like and the lowest priced one I found was $37.00! For the love of everything holy and pure, it's a flippin' veil! So apparntly I will be making my own or skipping it all together. I next looked at flowers.....yeah I said flowers. Apparently normal flowers are decently priced, but if you type in the word wedding first, all of a sudden they are tripple the price! uughhhh! Honestly, they just die anyway! So I will ither go fake or someone's garden will be harvested in the middle of the night. After the flowers, I looked at cake. A normal round cake is about $20.00 at the highest. But low and behold you type the word wedding in and BOOM! now it's $450.00 at the lowest. I called and asked why such a high mark up and they said the frosting is more expensive.....really.....thats what they said. I even asked if they mixed crack in it or black market babies but she said no, just a good butter, then hung up on me. So maybe buying a few round cakes and stacking them up maybe the way to go. How hard could it be to decorate a cake? After the cake phone call, I was too scared to look for food people or a hall or anything at all. Eloping isn't an option now that the dress is 1/2 paid for and mom has seen it. What have I gotten us into? Why did Rob have to insist on a non-court room wedding? Why did I agree to putting a deposit on a dress? (the dress is amazing and perfect and it makes me look like I am thin and have a butt) I may have bought the dress just to vacumme in it. Why? why? why am I an idiot?
But I met Christopher Moore! and thats all that matters right now. I have to keep thinking of that so I don't crank call wedding venders in my area.

Summer Vacation

Summer vacation has started. I made so many plans. I wanted to hang out with all my other pals. Natalia and her brother Rodrigo are un-employed so they have lots of time on their hands. However, everytime we make plans somthing comes up and we end up trying another day. Rob and I made plans as well, but he ended up having training on all the days he had off. I have been pretty desprate for somthing to do, besides clean the house and stalk Edward Cullen on the internet. I have managed to read 7 books in about 2 weeks. I hang out with the parents playing scrabble at the coffee shop. We sit out side and play so mom can work on her tan. Apparently the natural light makes it far too easy for my mom to pin point all my grey hairs and my new wrinkles. Sending me into a spiral of self doubt and fear. I end up making an apointment to dye my hair and research the prices of botox. gurrrrr.....
At least I have Jelly-Bean. He doesn't seem to care what I look like. bonus points for him! He has managed to worm his way deeper into our hearts. Honestly I always liked the stupid bird, but now it borders on obsesive. We buy him toys off the internet, the bird gets more mail and packages than we do. He has a place on the couch between us. He has the run of the house, he climbs off his cage and hops to us when he wants to cuddle. He even took over the blanket Auntie Elaine gave me for x-mas! If we try to use it, he hightails it over to the couch and climbs up the blanket and burrows under it! He drinks my orange juice and my coffee when I'm not looking. We even rent him bird movies from discovery channel. When Rob comes home from work, the bird gets kissed first, when I come home from work the bird gets kissed first. It's finally dawned on us, we are parents. I don't know how it happened, he was suposed to be a pet, he was suposed to be something that we just feed and ignore. Now we have a bird car seat, seed on the floor, special blankets for him and extra money spent on ways to entertain him. So even though I will never have to save for a college fund or bail money and I don't need to buy clothing, I will never need to bring cup cakes to his class for his birthday....I have a kid, he just has feathers. I can't even blame my stretch marks on him. On that note, I gotta go, someone needs sunflower seeds and fresh bathwater....