Bride and Groom berries.

Cutest freaking things Ever!!!

kathy griffin...is funny

oh my god. i've gone crazy. i'm not sleeping because abe is gone, and i can't sleep when he's gone. whatever, cute or crazy call it what you want...i swear, it's some kind of medical condition. but also, i'm currently up because i'm watching some stand up comedy thing with kathy griffin...and i actually think it's Funny. at first, i thought: well only the news is on right now, what else can i watch. so then i find this little gem. it's kind of amusing at first, and then suddenly i realize that i've been laughing out loud for like 15 minutes. that's 10 minutes longer than when i'm laughing at family guy or my name is earl. she did this hilarious impression of paris hilton walking...but walking like a retarded horse. histerical!

hints to santa

If you're looking for ideas on what to get me for christmas, then i am here to assist you.

This 4x6 Louis Vuitton agenda is so much fun. normally, i don't like LV, but for some reason this one really gets my attention. it's younger and more appealing. i also tend to like really obnoxious things.

This Longchamp size Large bag in Navy blue would be great for my gym things, lunch, and change of shoes for work.

And this doggy!

I'm going to name him Barney after Barney Stinson.

poor russell

so this week on Life in the Fab lane, kimora decided it would be a great idea to have a kids line within Baby Phat designed by her little girls. so they girls are meeting with the lead designer to brainstorm ideas, i'm not sure what makes her think that a 4 and 2 year old can do this. they're yelling out: i want a space theme, and underwater space theme, with no aliens, no cat aliens, and blue in the sky to look like water. this poor designer obviously isn't amused at all. but anyways, i didn't have to write all that. i just wanted to write that russell simmons was in this episode where she was fung shuing the party for her hello kitty jewelry launch (diamonds people). kimora introduces the fung shuier to russell and she's like: she's amazing i love her, she's been here all day, and he goes: i know, i got the bill. HAHAHA. oh my god, hilarious. they're divorced and he's still paying her frivalous bills and has a sense of humor about it. i'm freaking addicted to this show.

Racists.

"blondes don't pay cover"
this was text on a graphic tee at abercrombie. wasn't it enough they had to pay a multimillion dollar class action suit to minorities (me included thank you!), and now they go and sell something like that. this makes me angry for so many reasons. 1. blondes are rarely attractive, 2. A&F clearly doesn't realize what an american is, 3. this is what i get for looking at the abercrombie website at the age of 25 when my brain is thinking for itself!

Christmas presents bought = 0

So i know, i really have no christmas list written out, i'm just hoping that i see things that look appealing when i go out shopping. i didn't shop on black friday....i think i sometimes do if i have ideas or see good sales. and now today on..."something monday" "internet monday" no Cyber Monday, i have no idea what it's called, but i really was ready. i had my wallet all ready to go. i had set aside time to tear through all my favorite websites looking for the good sales and free shipping, and special coupon codes in my email. and then what happened? nothing. i only got a few worthwhile coupon codes from shopbop and bluefly, and those are places that i shop for myself not other people...this year, i'd like to buy only gifts for others, not gifts for me too. i must be missing something! amazon has the deal of the day as Buffy the Vampire Slayer box set. i really hope people aren't seriously buying that. that's the kind of shit that's being sold at half price...buffy.

i am missing something though and on top of that my daily multivitamin is trying to kill me.

Wedding Venue and Turkey Day

my mom and i visited The Crane Estate at Castle Hill in Ipswitch today for a wedding and reception. it was perfect!! it's this gigantic estate with a view of the water, and tons of land with rolling hills and gardens, and even an inn on the property. i have no idea how much this is going to cost, but i'm calling to book it tomorrow since daddy is taking care of it : ). abe hasn't seen it, but i think that he trusts my judgement if i love something this much. and now we can spend our saturdays in december apartment hunting so we have a place to live come feb. i really wasn't looking forward to driving around looking at more venues, i just knew this was the one so it's pointless to keep looking. we should really give my car a rest before the winter hits anyways....stupid car.

Abe survived thanksgiving with my family, which i knew he would. most holidays are really really laid back anyways, so it's no big thing. i think at first he thought i was a little unbalanced or like overwhelmed for no reason when i go to his family get togethers, but now i think he's able to see why. it's like going from zero to a hundred. we just hangout, watch tv, and stuff our faces. there's no kids, there's no loudness, it's just calm drinking and chewing ourselves into food comas. i'm sure that will change once me and the rest of my cousins have kids, but that's not for awhile thank god.

i won something!

http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P182406&categoryId=C10905
i entered to win a smashbox lipgloss at lucky.com a few months ago, and i actually won one and got one in the mail today! how exciting is that. $18 retail value! i'm glad that all that i was filling at work with entering sweepstakes actually paid off!

Giant List

I have a giant list of things to-do:

1. find wedding venue (secretly i already have one)
2. find apartment for jan 15 or feb 1 ($1350-1450 heat and hot water included, near a T line, preferably with one parking spot, 1 bedroom, help!)
3. christmas shopping: no ideas for anyone yet...
4. trade in the jeep wrangler and the silver bullet jetta for one car.
5. furnish our nest
6. plan our wedding, with as much Me and Abe as possible and with as little outside butting-in as possible, also ask the wedding party to be the wedding party.
7. save the date cards!
8. lose 5 pounds for a wedding dress.
9. dress shop once 5 pounds remains off.
10. find a place to take lunchtime yoga classes (any good places downtown?? anyone?)

Fakesgiving and wedding planning

So this is what we did on friday night. Can you guess which one is mine? it was actually pretty amusing. she's wearing a beret and everything. abe's is the one where the snowman is actually holding his own head. yuri made the skiing snowman, and alison put together a penguin kit.

Fakesgiving this year was at Pete's house. I think the food was better than i've ever had since i started participating in fakesgiving. then again, this year, i didn't bring anything....

abe stole an apple pie. it never made it all the way home.... it's actually still in my car if anyone wants to get a lick. he thought he was stealthy stealing the pie, but actually he announced "i'm stealing this pie" before we left. there was so much food, i'm sure nobody missed it!

so i'm full fledged into finding a wedding venue for us. i feel very strongly that it needs to be booked by christmas time before a new crop of newly engaged couples start reserving spots. so i find somewhere, call them leave a message, and nobody Fing calls me back. why is that, are wedding planners and wedding caterer's only part time people? so we saw the CliffHouse on saturday, it was Alright. i could see how it would be very nice at night, but it was "cozy new england" and i'm "elegant and classically contemporary". we have appointments made for: Castle Hill in newport, the State Room, Danversport, Crane Estate Castle Hill Inn, and i'm awaiting many phone calls from other places. we only have 3 days total to look at all these places since abe is traveling and thanksgiving weekend gets in the way and then we're going to a patriots game. so i don't know what we're going to do, i'm really stressed about it. and the more people make suggestions, the farther they seem to be from what i want...why is that. people insist on giving me ideas that aren't close to what i want. it's like i say: outdoor ceremony waterfront. and then people give me places that aren't even near any water or have an outdoor area. i feel like people are trying to sabotage me. lauren keeps saying: i don't care, it's my day!! i think she is on to something. i'm starting to realize how normal people, or ever so slightly neurotic people can fall into the bridezilla mode. it's because everyone is against you, and nobody is listening!

the New marc, not the Old marky mark

i think that marc jacobs is pretty much the man. it's like he used to be really hideous with long ugly hair and the kind of fat that people who let themselves go get. but now he's like a vegetarian and works out every single day and doesn't drink or do drugs. amazin. his blue hair and "i'm so much better than all of you and i'm not even going to bother to list why because it's soooo obvi". and i actually made my first marc purchase on a whim. i took a chance on that ivory watch, and i've loved it ever since it arrived. so then i decided that abe must have something marc. it's like i was testing the fashion forward waters for him to make sure it was safe to jump in. however, beware, if you want your boyfriend to wear marc jacobs make sure you pick it out for him. don't let him see the amount of "queen-wear" that surfaces in the lines, just guide him straight to the "i'm so not caring how i look right now, i just look awesome" type stuff.

Engagement Aftermath

Well, it's been a few days and i've had time to really relish in the big news. the shock has worn off a tiny bit, although it still feels strange. things have started to sink in a bit deeper. i love my ring so much, and i love even more how outrageous it is and I Do love that spark or jealousy i saw in a co-workers eyes (who in fact wears a much more outrageous rock). people say: no i don't want a big ring, no i don't want anything too crazy, no it doesn't have to be expensive. but if you are lucky enough to get a big, crazy, or expensive ring, you will feel like a rockstar with big boobies. but if you don't, then that's cool. that probably means you own a house or are close to owning a house, which is a stage that i'm not at. i haven't started any planning yet besides booking appointments to look at venues. but i do love how involved abe is. he wants us to get a wedding website, and he's all for traveling all over new england immediately looking for the perfect place for our wedding. it's really cute. and now although, i've finally stopped worrying about financially sound enough to get engaged, now i'm worrying about being financially sound to move. we're really big spenders. sometimes i think that abe alone keeps the economy going. but now it's really time to buckle down and save.

we're engaged

so of course everyone knew it was coming eventually. abe and i are engaged, and will be getting hitched in 2009....at some unknown venue. but it's really exciting, and totally surprising. and i wish i could relive it because it just happened so fast, and the details are already so foggy, and i really can't express the amount of surprise that i felt. i'm so happy, the feeling of being engaged and being in a serious relationship are completely different to me. i feel much more grown up, and totally awesome, like the very thought of buying something domestic gives me the tingles. and the thought of wearing a virginal white dress makes me laugh.

so three weeks or so ago, i went and tried on a bunch of engagement settings at joseph gann downtown. i found the one i wanted, and brought abe with me to show him the one that i loved the most. i didn't think i'd get to wear it until after christmas. so i just kind of pouted about it, and let it go. then about a week ago, we decided to spend a night away at a marriott this weekend and use some of abe's points for a night to just relax and get breakfast in bed since abe had been traveling so much. so abe comes and picks me up after a couple hours at the office and we start along, and then we pull into the Four Seasons. so i'm like: why are we here? and he's like: i got a really good deal. so i'm like slightly annoyed at the amount of money he was paying, but figured it must have been a really good deal. so we are checking in, and the lady at the desk is like: so you have the Romance Package, this is what is included. so i'm like: oh champagne, that's nice! i love champagne. we go up to the room, which is big and beautiful with a view of the park, and abe goes to the bathroom, takes off his jacket, gets down on one knee and proposes, opens the box and the rings tumbles to the ground, he picks it up and drops it, and the whole time i was just like: oh my god oh my god. so he stands up and i think he said: so? and i said: either Ok! or yes! not sure which one. and we were officially engaged. the other side of the story is that after i picked out the setting at the jeweler, abe made an appointment and went back either the next day or the day after that to look more closely at the setting and then i think he bought it pretty quickly and then hid it away in yuri's room. thank god for yuri. then he took my dad out for a great steak at Ruth's Chris, and asked for permission/his blessing, which was just really wonderful of him to do. and then like two days later, he proposed. everyone knew but me i guess. i really am amazed at the amount of self restraint in not letting up one hint to me. i'm so excited!

my gift to myself arrived

so, my present to myself arrived today!! so it's not exactly what i was picturing from the saks website, but it is pretty awesome. sometimes a girl needs a wild accessory to offset a boring outfit, or a modern accessory to brighten a bland 9-5 outfit, or just something really fun and out of the norm. so what did i buy myself? a marc jacobs resin molded cuff watch in ivory. it's a bit chunkier than i thought it would be, but it still fits the criteria of something fun to have. and i'm not one to wear dainty things.

decoration insanity

i mosied into my office building this morning, and suddenly my eyes were drawn directly to the left. what was there?? starbucks, as usual. but what was different? christmas threw up all over it. trees, ornaments, cards, red and green and gold everything, and everyone coming out had a festive starbucks cup. i Love christmas, i love the holidays, but seriously it's november 8th and thanksgiving hasn't even arrived yet. i think that they might be a little bit insane for throwing out the christmas cheer already. also, i'm completely ill prepared. i'm still wearing my fall jacket, only today i found my scarf. none of my winter things are ready for wearing. i'm just not ready for this yet.

today i'm green, we'll see about tomorrow.

on the today show this morning, there was a piece about plastics in the ocean. so basically, plastic companies have gotten so good at what they do in manufacturing indestructible plastics, that they literally are indestructible. which is good and fine and their mission statements. the problem is that people aren't being responsible with these plastics and instead of recycling them, as they should and is suggested by the manufacturers, they are just disposing them like trash or not at all. so then, we find ourselves in the ocean and the swirl of natural ocean currents. these currents all land in the same places, and also, all these plastics arrive in the same places. there's parts of the ocean that have higher plastic content than plankton, etc. but what actually got my attention was that in Hawaii on the big island, there's actually beaches where tiny pieces of plastic make up the sand dunes. that's awful. it just swirls up onto the beach, and not much can be done about it. i think this is really sad, and only for selfish reasons, i don't really want beaches to be tainted. i know vow to be a full time recycler. yesterday, i was only a part time recycler. but i will still drive my vehicle, and use non efficient light bulbs until i see a real reason at a personal level that makes me do otherwise.

merry christmas to me.

i am not a happy camper this week. i feel like instead of my mood imroving while working out my own dilemmas, it's getting worse by the minute and i don't understand why. so to cure my ailments, what did i do today?? i ordered myself a nice christmas present at Saks to be delivered next week, all wrapped and everything, and took advantage of the free shipping offer. don't worry, it was within reason for pricing, i didn't go totally insane. what is it do you wonder??? you'll just have to wait and see. i'm honestly not even sure i'm going to like it. it's like, i saw it, liked it and then ordered it. if i had seen it in person during a normal mood, i would have seen it, thought about it, and maybe bought it in person. this is the irrational laura speaking, and she made up her mind. she's also have spiral pasta with turkey meat balls, garlic bread, and bruchetta for dinner. carbs! oh my god. i'm chemically inbalanced.

Her blogging surpasses her acting.

http://mindyephron.blogspot.com/

I need to share this blog with you. It's by Kelly on The Office, but you know, as herself: Mindy. she's hilarious. i think it's girl humor though, and something that a guy would label as: retarded or stupid. but a girl would think it's: fantastic and fun. she talks about all these awesome things that she's bought, or parties that she attends, things that she bought and now hates, reasons for buying stupid things, ugly outfits she was forced to wear, wonderful outfits she was given for free, tasty foods that she's sampled and awesome restaurants to visit. it's really very entertaining.

Transformers movie

I finally got to see the Transformers movie. and i have to say that i actually loved it. i thought it was one of those movies that was just a guys movie, or a transformers cult movie. but i've never seen the transformers cartoon from the 80s, and i'm not a guy. there were several annoying things about the movie like obvious corporate partnerships, megan fox's face, and a little bad acting, but the storyline was really cute and it was actually pretty funny. i also kind of enjoyed watching the action scenes. i would definitely recommend this one. shia labeauf was also really good i thought considering he probably was acting to nothing the entire time. coincidentally he got arrested in chicago last night. i give this one an A.

xenu runs

according to one of my daily blog sites, Katie Holmes is running the new york marathon. Whaaaat. if she could run this whole time, why didn't she run away from Tom? apparently, it's not that she was unathletic, it's that she's stupid. and now i'm feeling kind of bad about myself, i certainly can't run a marathon, yet she's had a child and she can. hm....

forever21

i have an annoying problem. i like to check out the Forever21 website daily to see what's been ripped off lately. at the top of the page, they have their print ads of models in their cutest outfits....However, these outfits are nowhere to be found on the website for sale, well not the best ones. is this false advertising? i don't think that forever21 even makes these outfits because they really do stand out as being extra styled and thought out, which are two characteristics not found at this chain store....

nope.

This is the most unflattering picture i've ever taken. i look like a hippo. it was pretty unflattering for becca too, she looks like she's about to eat a corndog. it was taken a year ago at becca's birthday at ned divines i think....