Z is for Zach (An Interview with)

By popular demand today's blog will be devoted to the one I love, Zach. He's the best! And today he's agreed to a guest spot on my blog.

Rose: Zach, why don't you first apologize to the readers for taking so long to do this interview? Tell them that you are sorry and that it 's all your fault and that one of us threatened divorce in order for you to be here.

Zach: Sorry readers, it's all my fault, one of us threatened divorce, it wasn't me, but one of us.

Rose: Zach, you've been asked here today to answer some awesome questions to let the readers know more about you and your personal life. We're all excited to hear from you, so are you ready to start?

Zach: Can't hear you.

Rose: Get out of the bathroom, let's go, already. We just started. Are you ready to start?

Zach: I do want to get some coffee, but then I'll be right back up and ready to start.

Rose: I hate you.

Rose: Let's start with some easy ones. What's your favorite color? Turquoise?

Zach: Blue or green

Rose: What's your favorite car? Dolorian?

Zach: I think there's a BMW, Z 3 that I like. I've grown fond of our civic.

Rose: Do you think that I'm going to die from anything I did today? I mean, I dropped those papers on the floor in CVS and about a foot away there was a bloody tissue!

Zach: No, you're not going to die...for the millionth time.

Rose: If we could live anywhere in the world, where would we live?

Zach: Oh man. In Heidi and Anthony's house, but they'd live on the Mediterranean and it would be more like a villa. And they would be rich and support us, which pretty much means Anthony would be rich and support us.

Rose: What's your favorite thing to do on the weekend?

Zach: Drink and watch football. I mean, spend time with Rose. Good close, personal time.

Rose: What's your least favorite chore?

Zach: Work of any type.

Rose: What do you remember about how we met?

Zach: I remember that one of the arms of my glasses was off and that you made good pasta bake and it was delicious and that the pasta bake sauce is magic and that I ate some of your leftovers. But only because I wanted to.

Rose: What's something the audience may not know about you?

Zach: I have a nurple.

Rose: No, you don't. Don't lie to make yourself sound interesting.

Rose: Whose your favorite band?

Zach: Radiohead

Rose: Why?

Zach: Because they rock so f****** bad.

Rose: We don't curse on my blog.

Rose: Ok, seriously, let's bring the focus back to me. What's your favorite thing about me?

Zach: I love how good of an interviewer you are and you're pretty and I like the way you sing songs around the house, like little made up songs that are silly and I like how vinegary you are.

Rose: Why don't you like Murder She Wrote?

Zach: I think it's an acquired taste that I've yet to acquire. Give me another 40 years.

Rose: You're wrong. It's the best show ever.

Rose: Ok, well, I'd like to thank you for being here today. I must say this has a been a lot of hype for a lot of nothing, but I think we all knew that there was no way you'd be more interesting than me. I'm the awesome one in this couple. Rebuttal?

Zach: Right on, the most enjoyable aspect of this interview was listening to your questions. That's pretty much what this has been about, let's be honest. Thanks for having me.

Rose: What's that noise?

Zach: Um... a chainsaw

Rose: Should we be worried? Is it a chainsaw massacre?

Zach: I think it might be. It's been on going for awhile.

Rose: What could they possibly be cutting?

Zach: A tree, Rose, what the hell else could they be cutting?

Rose: Fine, interview over. Now, I'm mad.

Zach: Good, I'm getting hungry, can you make me a sandwich?

Rose: Yeah, fine, ok.

Y is for You're Not Better than Anyone

I just thought that I'd discuss one of my biggest pet peeves. I hate when people think they are better than other people and say or do things that drive home that point.

For example, you don't watch television? That doesn't make you superior. You're not a more awesome, enlightened, intelligent person because you don't watch TV. You're just a person who doesn't watch television. And if you aren't watching because it makes you feel like you're better than the rest of us, you should just turn it on. TV is awesome.

You love the environment and saving it and you do all that you can do make it a better place? Hey, congratulations, but you know what? That doesn't give you the right to walk around telling other people how crappy they are for not "doing their part" and telling everyone how wonderful you are. Doing the right thing is its own reward...and if it's not...well, then you're not doing it for the right reasons, are you, champ?

You don't drink, do drugs, smoke, eat red meat, eat meat at all, beat puppies or any combination thereof? Well, congratulations. That doesn't actually make you any better than anyone who does any of those things...well, except the beating puppies issue. If you don't beat puppies than you are definitely much better than someone who does beat puppies. And if you are out there beating puppies. Stop it, stop it now. At any rate, let's all just agree that we all have vices and things that we know perhaps we should or should not be doing, but let's just let that be up to the individual, yes?

You write a blog that's awesome? Well, that's an accomplishment. Good for you, but still not better than other people. You do get to comment on other people though and tell them what is and isn't ok, but that's just par for the course.

You get irony? Good for you. Still not better.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

X is for Marking the Spot

Well, we're really getting down to the bottom of the alphabet, yes? I'm also getting down to the bottom of my idea well. Yes, I have an actual well. It's reasonably sized, it has its own bucket and it's filled with ideas. Whenever I want an idea for something I just go to the well, lower the bucket and get one. It works well, but the well is getting dry right now. I guess that happens if there hasn't been much in the way of brainstorming. Anywho, today I decided to give you a little taste of some things that occupy my time on the internet. Feel free to check some things out sometimes. A lot of them are food related. I'll let you make your own joke up for that fact. I'm not including the links to the blogs that I read all the time, those are on the sidebar. You should check those out, at least I find them amusing.

Murder She Wrote Website on the Hallmark Channel. Oh man, I wish they were still making Murder She Wrote. Also, Streets of San Francisco. That was a good show.

A Year of CrockPotting. I just discovered this site the other day. Apparently this woman is doing an entire year of crock pot cooking. It's sort of interesting. Sort of weird. Kind of gimmicky...gimmicky like writing a post for every letter of the alphabet.

What Would Tyler Durden Do? I don't check this site that much, but every so often I go back and look at some celebrity gossip. Not really for the gossip, but often he has really funny jokes.

101 Cookbooks. This is a site that has recipes on it. I'm always trying to find new things to make for dinner.

Eat, Drink and Be Vegan. I like to look at all types of recipes. I want Zach and I to eat healthier. I got a pretty awesome Vegan Mac 'n' Cheese recipe off this site. I really enjoyed it. Zach liked it, but it wasn't his most favorite dish ever.

Hulu.com. I love watching me some internet TV. Essentially, I just go to work to watch TV because the computer and internet at work are much faster. I don't feel bad about this. I feel awesome.

I also obsessively check my 3 email accounts. And I randomly find things that are crazy and stare at them. I guess it's true what I learned in my internet class back at Estrella about 14 years ago. The internet is a wonderful thing.


X-cuse me.

W is for Wednesday

W isn't really for Wednesday for any good reason. It's for weenie as in, "weenie out of this post as fast as I can." I like that the word weenie is completely acceptable to spell check. It doesn't even bat an eye or underline it in red. Fascinating.

Other fascinating things, um, I threw up this morning. I think it's because I took my vitamins on an empty stomach and have a weak gag reflex. You can go ahead and ask anyone about that. You might want to ask Zach though because he does the best impersonation. It might be part of some sort of disease though. I'm sure you think that I'm just saying that. But when I finally do succumb to some rare illness, you're all going to be sorry.

W is for worried.

[Wave]

V is for Victory

Today the headache has abated a bit. I may not die. But then again, I still might. As the ever-kind Zach likes to remind me, I will die. It's just a matter of time. Today was a busy day of name changing proportions. I have a new driver's license, voter registration, car title and I'm hoping that they will finally my word for it and change it on one bank account and for my student loans. We'll see. I was a busy girl this morning though and I'm sort (read: really damn) proud of myself. I hate that it's so hard to so anything. I hate that the Social Security office screwed up, but finally did issue me a new card. I find it amusing that they also told me that I needed my card before I could get my license changed...but that wasn't true. I love bureaucracy. The story changes depending on who you talk to. Or whom. I never know which one to use. And you can write and tell me, but I won't listen. So it's just wasting your time and energy.

Other than that, not too much to report. I made some kick ass things in MS Paint today. Paint is the greatest program ever created by man. I would use Paint over pretty much any other program. If you don't agree, then get out.

Veni Vidi Vici.

U is for Unbelievable Headache and Unadulterated Documentation

Hello. I currently write to you with an awesome headache. I think I might die. I'm not sure. I'm not a medical doctor and I don't play one on TV, so I don't really have the qualifications to diagnose this, but I think I'm dying. Or have a tumor. Or something else horrible. My head hurts. It's really radiating from the back of my neck forward. I've taken 5 Advil in about 4 1/2 hours and it's still here. I guess I'll take some more when I go to bed. Wish me luck. I'll miss you all.

In other news, today we went on another picnic. I made Honey Mustard Chicken Wings (which may or may not kill us - cooking meat is hard, don't judge), Deviled Eggs, Carrot and Celery Sticks with Low Fat Ranch Dip and some blueberries and strawberries with Reddi Whip (Fat Free- not worth it, not that good, too sweet to make up for the loss of fat I guess). We walked to the park near our house because one of us stayed up really late and didn't get up until late. The other one got up early, prepared a bunch of picnic food, did 3 loads of laundry, watched a bunch of dishes, ran the dishwasher and put away all the clothes. Guess which one did which.

Anyway, I need to go lay down, so here are some pictures from our day. Love us. You know you do. We're super cute. We can't help it.


This is Zach carrying our picnic basket (courtesy of Sara) to the park.

This is Zach eating some wings. It turns out I can't remember things like, "take a picture of the food before we eat it so it looks nice."


This is another view. We had a nice picnic.

This is the Asian man that we ate lunch with. He was sitting at the only table left. It was under a tree and was the only choice, so we sat down. I assumed (erroneously) that he'd leave. But he outlasted us. He was still sitting there when we left. Apparently, he really likes sitting in the park.

That's me with dessert. It was berries with Reddi Whip. I put extra Reddi Whip on there. As you can tell from the picture, I don't really want to finish it. But damned if I didn't.

Until we meet again.

T is for Time Vampires

Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.

Time Vampires are everywhere and you've probably been a victim in your lifetime...and if you haven't...well, it might be time to admit that you are a Time Vampire. Just get it out there, we all already know.

Time Vampires often come when you have the least time to spare. It's as though they know. The Time Vampire is not well-studied due to the fact that researchers generally have a lot of stuff to do and if you hang out near a Time Vampire for too long, you don't get anything done.

Time Vampires are the ones that email, chat, call, visit, show up unexpectedly, etc. and are filled with need. What need? They need your time. They need your advice, counsel, opinion, response, etc. They just want you to give to them. It's very hard to say no to a Time Vampire and they often don't take hints about you needing to get going.

Time Vampires are not malicious. They don't want to hurt you, they just want your valuable (or not so valuable, don't be so full of yourself) time. And just like real vampires they can't come in unless you invite them. So you can't feel too bad when they show up. If you didn't care about them, they wouldn't be there.

A PSA from the Institute for Mythical Creatures.

Ta-Ta for now.