Serious entertainment

If you haven't spent a Tuesday night watching this show, you're missing out. Definately missing out.

Back in action!

After several months of being internet disabled, we finally have our computer back. We've had it back for a couple of weeks, but I think my blog and I lost that lovin' feeling and I didn't have any inspiration to put anything down. Well, I'm sitting down now to make amends and catch up on all the latest happenings in the Hilliger household. Unfortunately, in the time that's passed, I've forgotten anything that would have been blogworthy. Whups. Soooo...for now, I'll just put up a few pictures. Pictures of the couple significant events that I can remember:

In April, Josh and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Crazy! It came and went so fast. Much faster than I expected. More thoughts on that to come later...

Last month, I took a quick trip to Fremont for my little bro's high school graduation. Are all high school seniors that young looking? Remember the scene in "Father of the Bride" when Steve Martin is listening to his 7 year old daughter tell him how brilliant her fiance is? It felt a little like that. Like a bunch of preschoolers dressed up in caps and gowns. Joey looked very handsome, though, and he had the time of his life. I wish I had some pictures of his graduation, but I forgot my camera.

In case anyone reads this blog...

somehow, one of us invited a virus onto my laptop and we haven't been able to use the internet. I blame Josh for the virus because of Fantasy Basketball, he blames me for looking at real estate sites and stranger's blogs. I guess we'll never know. Anyway, there's a few things to catch up on, so I'll put up a post and pictures as soon as we can get my computer fixed. Right now, we're too scared to even turn it on.
Food for thought: If a computer virus could come to life, what do you think it would look like?

Question?

Today has been a not-so-good day at work, so I'm taking a break. I'm trying to keep my my cool and focus on something other than the nonsense that happened to me today.
So, I have a question....

Has anyone tried DreamDinners? and what do you think about it?

Répondez s'il vous plaît. Thanks.

A lesson learned

Last night I was ironing a work shirt for Josh to wear this morning. I got about halfway through when I noticed a tear in one of the sleeves. This tear had been there for a while. I held onto the shirt with the intention of fixing the hole. It's about 2 inches long--noticeable. I figured, since I had pulled it out of the pile of clean whites, that he had worn it to work with the tear in it.
"Josh!" I scolded, "This is the shirt with a hole in it. Did you wear this to work? You're not supposed to wear shirts to work when they have holes in them!"
Josh just nodded his head and looked at me with a "who cares. I didn't even notice" look on his face.
This morning, about 45 minutes after I had gotten to work, I had an itch on the back of my neck. Somehow, the 3/4 sleeve got tugged at my left elbow and I tore a 2-inch hole in the back of my shirt between my armpit and shoulder blade. Are you kidding! Right in the beginning of the day? I cringed! My supervisor walked in, and being self-conscious, I showed him right away so we could laugh about it.
Around lunch time I had to go to the post office to mail out our tax forms. You can imagine how busy the post office was. The day before taxes are due? And it's not like I could wait on it for another day and another shirt. So, there I am in line with about 50 other people, trying very hard to stand up very straight so that the hole in the back of my shirt wouldn't be noticeable. How embarrassing.
Later on, back at my desk, my supervisor came over to talk to me about something. I was telling him some story and (like I'm known for doing) I was waving my arms for emphasis. Mid-story, he stopped me to point out another 2 inch-long tear on my right sleeve in the front, close to my armpit. Turning red with embarrassment (another thing I'm known for doing), I remembered how I had scolded Josh for his own indiscretion just last night.
Moral of the story: Always take an extra shirt with you to work, just in case the one you're wearing is ridden with holes. Oh yeah...and something about not being a scolding-hypocritical-shame-on-you kind of wife. I guess I owe someone an apology.

What we've been up to lately

• A couple of weekends ago, Josh and I spent a night in the fabulous Newport Beach. I've wanted to go there since I was a kid and read the story of Christy Miller meeting the handsome surfer Todd (a few of you will know what that is from...) I didn't meet any handsome surfer, but my own handsome husband and I cruised around Balboa Island, admiring the funky little downtown area and the sunny beach. We took a nice long walk on the Newport pier next to the most beautiful houses. Josh had to remind more than once that coveting is a sin and to watch myself!!

• We at at a most amazing restaurant called Agoura Churrascaria Steakhouse. I've never eaten in a Brazillian steakhouse before, but it was quite the experience. A little expensive, but a very great dinner!
  

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  Since the Academy Awards a couple of months ago, Josh and I have decided to catch up on old Best Picture winners. Easy to do with Blockbuster thru the mail:

We really liked this movie.

We did not really like this movie.

This movie is waiting for us to watch it, we'll see...

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  Our very good friends gave birth to this handsome little man, Ethan Spencer, a little over a month ago, and I never put up a picture. They are such a sweet little family and it's been such a pleasure spending time with them and watching them grow. Here they are pre-Ethan, and this is the little guy when he's about 4 days old.

• My best friend had her 26th birthday last weekend. We had a very fun time and a very yummy dinner with good friends. Happy Birthday, Ems! I love you so much. Just so you know...this was the best picture we took. HAHA!














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• Josh's family has had season tickets to the Dodgers for may years. Last week he got his portion of the tickets. On Saturday, we're going to the first game of the season together. If you know me and my appreciation for baseball, you can imagine how excited I am about it. If you don't know me and don't know my appreciation for baseball...I'm not that excited about it.


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  We've been busy watching past episodes of The Office to get ready for the new episode on tonight. You have no idea how excited I am! Really--no idea!!

Tag! You're it...

Four jobs I have had in my life:
-Babysitter
-Bicycle store employee
-coffee barista
-librarian (sort of)

Four movies I've watched more than once:
-Dumb & Dumber
-Emma
-Anne of Green Gables
-A Christmas Story

Four places I've lived:
-Fremont
-Santa Clarita
-on a Moshav in Israel
-Granada Hills, I'm an official "Valley Girl"

Four tv shows I watch:
-The Office
-American Idol
-30 Rock
-Top Chef

Four places I have been:
-Hawaii
-Israel
-Italy
-Florida

Four places I'd rather be right now
-in a hot bath with a good book
-at my parent's home
-at the beach
-Switzerland

Four favorite foods:
-Macaroni and Cheese (the blue box, blue!)
-chocolate and peanut butter ice cream
-mom's chicken enchiladas
-Belgian waffles with strawberries

Four things I'm looking forward to this year:
-the DeClercq family cruise to Alaska in July
-my first wedding anniversary (this month...yay!)
-watching my friends' new babies grow bigger
-Water skiing at the Deltas

Four places I love to shop:
-Costco
-Target
-Macy's
-Vons

Four areas I'd like to improve:
-greater diligence at washing dishes (not having a dishwasher is the pits!)
-better correspondence with old friends from high school and college
-my attendance at the gym (may have been inspired by the Victoria's Secret magazine I got in the mail-Yikes!)
-my cooking skills

In case you're like us and are into artsy, independant, indie-type films, here's a couple that we saw recently and would definately recommend...

A walk in the park

Ever since Josh has been at his new office, he's been working nearly every Saturday. Nearly, as in, 9 out of 10 or something close to that. This last Saturday was the exception to the rule and he didn't have to work. Thus, he got to choose the day's activities. On Thursday he asked if we could get up early and get to Disneyland when it opened. Of course I shot out an immediate "Heck No!" I was not going to sacrifice my chance to sleep in to go to Disneyland! Can you tell that Josh loves Disneyland slightly more than I do?

It didn't take long for the guilt to kick in--what kind of wife would say no to his one request on his one day off? Ha! Leave it to me. Well, I came to my senses soon enough (the next day) and we did go.

Here's me at 7:30am on our way to the park (running only 30 minutes late):

Here's Josh at 7:30 am on our way (wishing we weren't 30 minutes late):

And as if leaving before the sun was up on a Saturday wasn't enough... RAIN!!

All in all, we did have a great time. Josh got his fill, and we didn't get rained on! Yay!