please tell me you're watching this

my favorite show right now! 

and Mike and I got to meet this zombie at Dragon*Con!

Zombies and AMC? You can't go wrong.

Our LOST party invitations!

I emailed out these invitations to our local friends earlier today, so I can finally share these on here with you guys. Mike and I are huge LOST fans and thought it would be a blast to have a party for the series finale on Sunday. I have lots of fun things planned-- DHARMA labels for all the food & beverages and lots of LOST themed decorations. But for now I'll just share the invitations:

This DHARMA letter was emailed out to everyone with the customized boarding pass and the Oceanic airline confirmation letter attached to the email.

Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications Classified Information

Dear MIKE SOLANO, The DHARMA Initiative would like to personally welcome you as a new member of our Viewing Station team. We are very pleased that you have decided to join us, and look forward to meeting you at the new recruit orientation meeting. Though your assignment will be short, our hope is that you will find it to be an enlightening and rewarding experience. Upon your arrival, you will be given a simple set of instructions for how you and your partner will fulfill the responsibilities associated with the station. Your primary function will be to observe the subjects of our studies. Every observation, regardless of how subtle, is to be processed and analyzed. Your station will be equipped with a large, high definition surveillance monitor. Do not attempt to use the television for anything. We understand you may still have some unanswered questions about The DHARMA Initiative, but please rest assured that any and all questions you may have will be answered upon your arrival to the island. A new recruit orientation has been scheduled for May 23rd at 6:00pm. All new recruits must report to the DHARMA Welcome Center, located at: 38 Tamworth Circle Bella Vista, AR. Your attendance is essential to achieving a greater understanding of the program. For your convenience, The DHARMA Initiative has provided complimentary travel arrangements. Please see your attached letter of confirmation and boarding pass from Oceanic Airlines, a proud DHARMA Initiative partner. Once again, the DHARMA Initiative would like to welcome you to our island, where we are building a prosperous future that can support, enrich, and cradle us all in a peaceful society. On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso, and all of us at the DHARMA Initiative, thank you, and good luck. Namaste, Angela Solano The Dharma Initiative

You should be able to click to enlarge both of them. So yeah, I'm a dork but I thought it was pretty freaking cool!

storms, reality tv and a weekend trip

It's about to storm here-- the weatherman is predicting huge hail-- thank God for a garage for our cars and good homeowners insurance! Anytime we have any severe weather we know several hours in advance because Ellie starts pacing and freaking out. She absolutely hates storms. Jack Bauer could care less. (I mean come on, he's Jack Bauer! Did you think some thunder and rain would bother him? haha) Mike is off with some friends tonight playing some nerdy games so I have complete control over the tv-- that means some bad reality tv-- Real Housewives of NJ!! Such a guilty pleasure. :-) We're also getting ready for our weekend trip to Tulsa. I am so excited to see Conan O'Brien! The only problem with coming to Tulsa is trying to cram in all the things we want to do in just a day or two. We really miss our Tulsa friends and it's impossible to see everyone on every trip. I'm hoping we can do as much visiting as possible!
And since I hate posting without a picture-- here are a few from our garage sale last weekend:

We call this our 2nd Annual Solano-Farrar Garage Sale. :-) We held it at our friend's Matt & Amy's house and even though the sales were sloooow, we still had a blast. And wow, in the next picture my teeth look enormous... hmmm wtf

WHOA!

Holy hell, Christina Hendricks is so gorgeous it's ridiculous.

and I just read that Mad Men is coming back in July!! Woohoo!

Team Conan!

Saw this on Twitter today and I had to re-post!

How I Spent My Christmas Vacation Part Six & Seven!

Last cruise post!!!!!! Are you excited??

So last time I posted, we were enjoying Christmas with some sunshine, drinks and a formal night. December 26th for me is usually spent driving all over town hitting up all the after Christmas sales. This year it was spent on a private island in the Bahamas. Don't hate!

We woke up to lots of fog-- pretty and kinda creepy out in the middle of the ocean:

A few hours later we docked at Great Stirrup Cay- NCL's private island. We knew we wanted to snorkel, and the water and conditions couldn't have been better!

ahhh, toes in the sand! I miss this.

I had a few too many strawberry daiquiris from this little beach side bar:

Mike & Rob had some giant nasty beers while we waited in line to get back on the ship. Yuck.

The next two pics aren't great- but I thought it was kinda humorous that Mike and I accidentally dressed in coordinating colors for dinner that night. Ha! Yeah, we're that couple.

And that concluded our last night on the ship!

The next morning we woke up to this view:

We were back in Miami. Boo.

We all had breakfast together and starting saying our goodbye's. Mike's family was leaving before us, so we all gathered for some pictures in the ship's atrium:

Mike and I wanted to do a cheesy pose using the ship's props- they loved this roman column thing and tried to incorporate it in all of their formal pics. Funny thing is, I actually really like this picture (you know, minus the column and the tacky marble wall)!

Mike's family left and we decided to have one last drink at one of the ship's bars:

We headed back to the room and waited to be called over the intercom. We used the ship's transfer service to the airport. It was awesome because we didn't have to worry about our luggage until we landed in Arkansas that night!

Mike decided to use the balcony one last time for some reading.

and I just had to share this picture because it shows off the messenger bag I had made before we took the trip. I found the seller on etsy and she was fantastic to work with. I have a post later this week that tells just how fabulous she is. :-)

 another random pic-- we called this guy Jorts (you know, jean+shorts=jorts!) the entire cruise because he seriously wore them every day. Sometimes with a black mesh tank top. Not kidding!! LMAO!!

and one final picture from Miami International airport. I kept joking that I was so disappointed that we never saw a single Golden Girl or Dexter.

do you like the "gritty" effect I put on the picture?? haha!

So that's it! We survived my tedious vacation posts. And it only took me about a month to do it all. It really was a great trip. I cannot wait to go back to Belize, was pretty disappointed with Miami and made some great memories with Mike and his family. All in all, a pretty awesome Christmas. :-)

Great Minds

I just came across these today-- I can't believe the final season is almost here!!

 as always, you can click to enlarge. (and as always, that's what she said.)

I'm sure there are all kinds of hidden little things in there since the Lost people are sickos and love torturing us with clues and whatnot.

Two of my other favorite shows, Battlestar Gallactica & The Sopranos (may they both R.I.P.) also did the whole Last Supper thing:

McSexy? McHottie? McMercy West-er?

I tried to hate the Mercy West people, but I kinda love one of the new doctors- Dr. Jackson Avery aka Jesse Williams. I've been searching for decent pics of him and this is all I came up with.

HOT!

 

 

I don't want him to screw up the Cristina/Owen relationship, but I sure hope he sticks around!