The Way We Were

I just got back from an amazing weekend on the Oregon coast with some WONDERFUL people! I joined a small group of wonderful gals and took a trip down to Newport, Oregon to stay at a beach house for my friend Tabitha's Bachelorette Party!

We seriously had so much fun and there was so much shenanigans involved! I loved it! It was also great to meet the other people in Tabitha's life and enjoy spending time just relaxing and enjoying each other's company. Here are some of my favorite pics from the weekend:

I lost every game of PIT that we played

Breakfast with everyone was definitely a highlight

The Dollar Tree is too good to me

Kyle bought play-dough, so I made a penguin

The view from the backyard

Even in our struggling economy,
beach front property is an affordable possibility

I LOVE the beach!

I could play all day at the beach

The Roosevelt House girls representin'

Me and Kyle's matching loot from The Dollar Tree

Giant Chinese man sighted in Oregon!

I figured I should let my pizza know how much I love it

Fake tattoos and glow bracelets make any day better!

ALSO . . .

I think it's safe to say that I officially met my soul-brotha this weekend! I'm pretty sure Kyle and I were separated at birth or something. Let me just say this, when we were together it was nothing but random fun and laughs! We share the same snark-infused sense of humor and the same fun attitude.

This is a video we made at the Tillamook Cheese Factory:




And as a BONUS, one of our outtake videos (we had 3 tries to get it right)

I've Got Friends

Today I got a call from my old housemate Geizel while I was shopping for souvenirs for my family downtown. She asked if we could grab coffee at the Panera near the Northgate Mall, so I said yeah. I met up with her and had a nice latte and she invited me over for dinner. I figured that since we were closer to my house than hers that we should just go back to the Roosevelt House. We stopped by the QFC to pick up ribs and vegetables to eat for dinner and headed home to eat. We had a great conversation on the way to the house. We were reminiscing over the fun times we had when she lived here with us.

One of my favorite conversations went like this:

ME: That's so cool that Rosalind might come back!
Geizel: What was her son's name? Wasn't it Kingle?
ME: hahahaha! It was Kataan.
Geizel: Oh I knew it was something like that.

It was so good to just laugh and laugh and have so much fun with an amazing friend. When we got home we made dinner and it seemed like no one was home, but there were! Karli and Gina were home and joined us around the table as we all ate and laughed about good times and shared updates on what we'd been up to recently. During our discussion, Karli came up with an idea to have a memory board of sorts in our living room. So we once again grouped up and went on a short fun trip to Target to get all sorts of fun stuff for the board. We laughed a lot and caused a few scenes in Target just being silly ;p .

When we got home, we all shared chocolate dipped strawberries and just enjoyed each others' company. I loved being able to hang out with Geizel and just have another fun night with the housemates. I really love the amazing people I live with. They truly make my heart happy!

Funny Face

So I finally got a chance to watch this previous week's episode of Saturday Night Live on Hulu. I gotta admit, I've never really seen Zach Galifianakis in a movie before . . . unless you count the trailer for The Hangover. I'm pretty sure I need to see The Hangover, STAT though. Zach Galifianakis was hilarious!

Here is his opening monologue was PERFECT! His stage presence, charisma, and short joke jabs are totally my style.

Sometimes I think about how great it would be to be a stand-up comedian. But then you have to know that what is funny to a small handful of people, may not necessarily be hilarious to a large audience that will keep you employed. So I tend to stick to small scale comedy. You know, the kind where you tell a joke and your friends give you the pity laugh accompanied by the slight eye roll that says, "Oh no. Here she goes again." ;p

I love making others laugh, but I KNOW that I was not made for stand-up comedy. I just wasn't. I was totally made for small group comedy . . . you know, like 4 or 5 people.

1 to give the courtesy laugh

1 to give the "that was really funny but i don't know why" laugh

1 to laugh at someone else's laugh, thus making it seem they're originally laughing at you

1 to laugh at something they were thinking instead of listening to your bomb of a joke

and 1 to genuinely laugh. Just because they like to laugh.

yep, that's my kinda crowd ;) jk. I really do think I have some good jokes—not ALL, mind you, but a good handful.

But SNL has some of my favorite comedians: Kristen Wiig, Amy Poehler (used to be on the show), Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Seth Meyers, and Jason Sudeikis. They just crack me up!

So to show you the humor i love, here is Zach's opening monologue:



and as a Bonus Plus, here is one of my favorite series of sketches. ANY TIME, and I do mean ANY TIME I watch Fred Armisen portray Patterson, i crack up laughing. And I'm known on occasion to respond to random questions with, "New Jersey!!" (no really, just ask Kelley)