Flipping Out

I love tv. I even like reality shows. I've totally gotten sucked into The Biggest Loser this season but that is pretty much my only reality fix at the moment. I watched more reality tv last summer and my favorite show by far was Flipping Out.

It was an awesome reality show for the following reasons:

1. Main character (Jeff Lewis) looks like an alien.
2. Jeff Lewis has OCD and is basically insane, yet he is very aware of his faults and is totally honest about them...but it still doesn't change his behavior whatsoever.
3. He has super cute pets that are loved and spoiled rotten.
4. He has funny people working for him including an assistant who bugs her eyes out all the time and looks like Elaine on Seinfeld.
5. Lots of expensive house remodeling transformations going on and lots of spending and negotiating = fun viewing.
6. Much drama resulting from problems with those transformations and money stress and problems negotiating.
7. Pretty houses and pleasant California settings.

As someone who was getting obsessive over wedding planning last summer, it was very therapeutic for me to watch Jeff Lewis freak out over onions in his sandwich and obsessively move a coffee table an inch to make it perfect. His way of expressing himself was consistently funny. Some of my favorite quotes: "Basically what I'm saying is: I don't want to party like it's my birthday, I want to sell my house." "If you fax that to me, I'm going to write 'F.U.' on it and then outline my middle finger on it and then I'm going to fax it right back." From his detailed scripts for answering the phone("It's a great day at Jeff Lewis' office...") to punishing his assistants for the most minor of infractions, watching Jeff Lewis' insanity was a good time and it made me laugh like crazy.

Nothing I'm watching these days is nearly as funny so that is part of why I miss it so much. They are supposed to be doing a second season of it so there might be more next year. Oh, I hope, hope, hope so. That show was reality tv gold!

Happy Wednesday

We opened our KitchenAid mixer last night. It is an impressive piece of machinery and I can't believe it's ours - I feel like it doesn't really belong to us. But it does - thanks Mom! Jeff is less impressed as he got to use one all the time back when he worked in Faribault and had to use it while cooking for work on a semi-regular basis but I am a little bit scared of it. I flipped through the recipe book last night while we were watching "Bones" and I want to try the mint candy recipe in there first as it looks quite tasty and might be fun to do. I need to get some candy molds though, which might be a good idea anyway as I can use them as magnet molds, too. I really need to make a bunch of magnets to sell this winter and also hopefully next summer at the car shows next door.

I really want to get into this cooking thing before I sink back into the inertia of takeout for almost every dinner. We got all these cool kitchen toys and need to put them to work! I also want to host a kick-ass dinner party soon.

Minimoon

We just got back from our little minimoon to Duluth. We had a great time and finally relaxed and got lots of rest after all of the wedding craziness. Jeff unfortunately had an injured foot which kept us from going on the Glensheen tour or doing any other walking stuff, but we drove up along the lake shore and visited Aero Stitch (where Jeff tried on motorcycle clothes) and got to go out to lunch at a little Chinese restaurant yesterday. I found a little green toy frog on the ground like it was just waiting for me and I knew it was a sign that our marriage is going to be awesome. How did I know, you ask? Frogs are super lucky and I just knew.

I went swimming in the morning while Jeff was at Urgent Care and then we had lunch and drove all over. We got pretty tired by late afternoon, so after a supernap and pizza ordered in from Pizza Luce and episodes of Bones and House, we went downstairs and swam and sat in the jacuzzi. It was very much fun. Today the sun was out and after a big breakfast of pancakes and steak and eggs we headed back home (with a drive back and forth along the Bong bridge first). We stopped and picked up some of our wedding camera photos and then scooted home where we greeted our very happy kitty and opened a couple of presents that had arrived while we were gone (yellow towels and a pretty crystal photo frame) and reorganized and weeded our utensils drawers. Then we went and got appetizers for dinner at Moose Country and used some of our wedding money to fill in some items on our registry at Herbergers. Shopping is so fun. We cased out Williams Sonoma too. It certainly won't be hard to spend our gift certificates there the next time we go. It is just so nice to replace our nasty old stuff that we got from who knows where and which is probably 40 years old with new. No more broken spoons in our drawers! It makes me feel like we are really starting a new chapter in our lives and are really grownups now. Even though I am an old lady, I am still pretty immature in my head and don't feel very grown up.

I MNOT

I love my new initials. I am now getting called Mnot (pronounced "am not!") quite a bit and I think it's going to last. I got frustrated last night with the reception site but today I feel better. I vented a little bit and now I'm able to look at the happy things that happened and everything and feel much better. My wedding was a wonderful day and my ceremony was pretty much perfect. There were a few issues with the reception and timing, but overall it was so much fun. I can't wait to see pictures of everything to help spark my memories of the day and now that it is starting to sink in I am really happy about it and am so happy to be married.

My first post!

This is my new blog that I'm starting as a newly married lady! It will be all about things that I am interested in and doing.