Time change should be outlawed. For the airheads.

This time change thing? Yeah, not meant for people of the airhead population. First of all, Ben’s been replacing all the outlets in our new soon to be workout room (formerly The Blue Room, now the Licorice Red Room) and every time he changes one (been doing them over a few days before going to work in the mornings) he has to turn off all the breakers which resets my alarm clock. Like every day. Seriously.

So I woke up Sunday morning and it was light out and my clock read 3:05AM. WHAT!? I thought we got one extra hour of sleep how is it light outside already!? Looked at my phone, turns out it’s like 7:30AM. OH! HA! RESET CLOCK TO CORRECT TIME!

Then at some point much later (SLEEPING IN IS AWESOME) I wandered downstairs and was confused because my laptop said 8:30 but my phone said 9:30 and previously both have always reset themselves so somewhere, something failed me. TECHNOLOGY! WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?!

So I walk in the kitchen and we actually have this conversation:

Me: So, what time is it?
Ben: What time does the clock say?
Me: Well, my phone says one thing and my laptop says another and MY BRAIN CAN’T FIGURE THIS OUT.
Ben: Seriously?
Me: DUH!
Ben: So, how do you think you could figure this out?
Me: I could google it but I’M ASKING YOU!
Ben: *pulls up the atomic clock on his phone*
Me: Well, my phone won’t do that, it’s FLASH.
Ben: iPhone fail.

Okay, here’s another thing. Recently, Ben decided to defect from Our Team WHICH IS APPLE and bought himself a Galaxy S2. And it’s a badass phone but there might be a little bit of Who’s Phone Has The Bigger Penis competition going on between the S2 an the 4S. CLEARLY, the 4S is #WINNING but in this case, I had to accept my defeat in the form on a petty insult at my lack of ability to use flash on my phone.

It was short lived though when his ANDROID phone failed to load the site properly. JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE IN THE WORLD.

Eventually I figured out that my phone’s time zone had somehow been set to Denver? I have no idea how that happened but sometimes when I get up at 4:30AM for work and I try to check my email, I unlock my phone later in the day and am like WHAT WAS I DOING!? It’ll be on some random webpage explaining why roosters crow or I’ve made a post on facebook as Kumo on accident.

I got confused again when at 8:30PM my body was all HAHAHAHA YOU ARE DONE FOR THE DAY GOODNIGHT!

And I passed out on the couch.

Then I got confused AGAIN when my bedroom clock was the wrong time because I had set it to match my iPhone before I realized that my iPhone HAD THE WRONG TIME.

Then I had a momentary moment of panic when I got in my car this morning and my clock read 6:10. HOLY FUCK I’M LATE HOW IS IT 6:00AM ALREADY FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!!!

And then the guy from NPR was all “It’s 5:10, time for your first traffic check!” And I stopped peeing myself and was all AHAHAAHAHA I KNEW THAT!

It’s 2011, people. Not only do we not have flying cars or Rosie the Robot, but we still have to manually change our own clocks.

Future fail.

Pictures of a Sunday.

What day is it? Day 6! I made it past my guestimate! BAM! #WINNING!

So I really tried to do a Day In The Life today. SERIOUSLY! Then I realized at some point that it had been like 3 hours since my last photo and in that time I had gotten dressed, done laundry, gone to breakfast, shopped at Champion ¹ and Pearl Izumi ² and was leaving the grocery store. It was a busy day!

I did take a few pictures though so I’ll post my day in a few photos. I think I might actually try the DItL again tomorrow. Possibly.

Waiting for breakfast. We have limited eating out to the weekends to try and save some money. This was the last meal till dinner time Friday that I won’t have to cook. I ate the shit out of breakfast… and then paid the price for HOURS after that because my tummy was like HAHAHAH EAT BAD FOOD, FEEL BAD! BITCH!

Kumo and Danica had friends over for a puppy play date. Their mom will be here to pick them up in a bit. Currently they are all passed out. PLAYING IS HARD WORK!

Dogs do not get the concept of daylight savings. Danica was like, “It was dinner time 15 minutes ago. WHERE’S MY NOMS!?”

I went for a run in my new gear. It was glorious.

Now I’m working on this. I’m kind of bummed because I had another scarf a little father along than this in the same colorway but I realized after I had completely knit the first skein that I didn’t have another skein from the same dye lot and none of the other skein’s stripes matched. GAH! So I frogged it and started again with a skein that has two more skeins in the same lot. I just wish the stripes in this dye lot were more noticible. I do still think it’s pretty cute. I think it’s going to be a Christmas gift for a special friend.

Quickly with bullets.

• I woke up this morning at 2:30AM and thought somebody had broken into the house to do dishes. Turns out it was just Ben cleaning up after making a Shakeology to help him recover from the 3 large Long Island Iced Teas last night. HA!
• I ate Frosted Flakes for breakfast. God, I forgot how good those things are. And also, HOLY SUGAR RUSH!
• I put away all the Halloween decorations today. I am sad. Also, is it to early to put up Christmas decorations and turn on the lights?
• I Redbox’d Fast Five. We saw it in the theatres and I really think it would be an okay movie if The Rock would die five minutes in.
• I can’t share a soda with Ben when we watch movies because I CAN NOT DRINK FROM A STRAW THAT TASTES LIKE POPCORN SALT OMG EWWWW!
• This is my first Diet Pepsi in over a week. It is so good. I assume that if there is a Heaven, they only serve Diet Pepsi. And only from a fountain, never a can. And I want to LIVE THERE.

Back with more tomorrow! Thinking about doing a Day In The Life post. I’ve started them like 500 times and never finished them so we’ll see!

Hope you all are having a fabulous weekend! Goodnight!

Friday.

FRIDAY! Isn’t there some really annoying song about this day? I think so.

I kind of hate “here was my day” posts. Except Becca’s. I love her posts. I love her life. I feel like I’m sitting at an adorable little coffee shop and my friend is like GIRL, LET ME TELL YOU when I read her posts.

OH! And Lisa’s. Because she’s awesome and does awesome things and makes awesome jokes and it generally just… kind of awesome.

So anyway, I’m totally going to subject you to one now.

I got up at before dawn, (LIKE EVERY WEEK DAY YOU SO WISH YOU WERE ME RIGHT!?) and found the closest pair of jeans I could grab and put them on because it’s JEANS FRIDAY and I am very happy about that. I also grab a shirt out of the closet in the pitch black and hope it matches. It does. And it happens to be a shirt with a logo from work on it. SCORE.

I wake up suddenly about two hours later. I guess I slept during the hour drive into work. Probably because it was raining and rain makes me sleep.

Work.

Work.

Work some more.

Come home, there’s teenage drama. This kid, you guys. There is SO MUCH going on with this kid right now but I’ve mostly not talked about it online because I think she deserves the privacy but let me just say, TEENAGERS! GAH!

Melanie texted me and was all DOG PARK! LET’S DO THIS! And YAY! Ben is home early! So we meet Melanie at the dog park and her wife is out of town and she’s like WHERE ARE WE GOING TO DINNER!? I’M INVITING MYSELF TO DATE NIGHT!

And most people would be like WHAT!? Invite yourself!? But Ben and I are like YES! WE LOVE MELANIE! Her wife is out of town and she was so adorable and we love Melanie TO DEATH so we were thrilled to have her along.

Dinner: LAUGH, eat, LAUGH, talk, LAUGH. We have some really awesome friends. I feel lucky and thankful. Mel is telling us stories about her room mate and I’m seriously dying. And then Mel and Ben are making fun of me and Ben has that adorable somewhat tipsy grin and his eyes are doing that thing where they light up his ENTIRE face and I have one of those moments where I’m like I’M JUST SO HAPPY. THIS IS AWESOME. CAN IT LAST FOREVER!?

And now we are home and it’s cold, man! And it might rain tonight. I love nothing more than an open window at night with the sound of the rain outside and the faint smell of clean on the breeze. But it’s cold, man. So I’m going to coax Ben off the couch where he’s already fast asleep and up into bed and fall asleep to the sound of something awesome like a Hoarders rerun instead.

Goodnight, friends! Till tomorrow!

Mostly it’s the endorphins.

I don’t know if you know this but I’ve started running. Specifically, I’m on Week 3 of Couch to 5K. If you follow me on twitter and Facebook you know this because every time I do a run I’m like HEY EVERYBODY I RAN LOOK HERE IS HOW FAR AND HOW LONG AND HOW FAST AND I AM SO AWESOME YEAH!

Mostly it’s the endorphins posting.

Mostly.

It’s also partly that I just want the acknoledgement that I actually went out there and moved myself forward in a fast pace. Faster than my normal pace which is NO PACE.

There seems to be a lot of bloggers that have found a love of running and my most favorite by far is Miss Zoot. I LOVE her attitude. She’s REAL about how HARD it is to run. And I understand there are people out there that just have a body that RUNS. It just WORKS. I do not have one of those bodies. I get HORRIBLE shin splints if I don’t wear my neoprene wraps on my legs. If I don’t hydrated REALLY WELL and make sure I have a good amount of calories in me, I bonk hard on the last sprint or two.

I might be there one day. I’ll strap on my shoes, plug my headphones in, hit the trail and be zen. For now every step is a battle, every sprint is a war and at the end I feel like the motherfucking badass that stormed the castle, killed the giant lizard and wins the heart of the princess.

Mostly it’s the endorphins. They are totally awesome.

Also awesome? The tan lines…

Wordless Wednesday. Except I use words.

In a more perfect world, these girls wouldn’t live 200 miles away from me.