just so we're clear

i made a quiz on facebook a few weeks ago about "lyndsey trivia" -- and a surprising amount of people missed the question about my favorite snack.

for the record: i LOVE trader joe's pineapple salsa.
love it. especially with veggie-flavored flax seed tortilla chips.



i request a case of this shipped to me once a month while living in utah, because i don't think i can live without it.

that is all.

friiiiiiday!

"donuts are a hand grenade to your health." -- unknown

i love love love when co workers bring in donuts to celebrate fridays. even if they are bad for you.

sorry for the blogger overload lately. guess i've been a little behind :) happy weekend!!

things i learned from the movie UP

1. i am definitely scared of heights. computer-generated or otherwise.

2. garden hoses are quite resilient.

3. my lifelong love of old men, dogs and small children definitely continues. this movie has all three! i smiled 98% of the time.

4. change is okay. whether you're finding a new adventure, rerouting your old adventure or moving away to another state so your husband can go to grad school -- you'll be okay. and when i say you, i mean me. [though i do hope my new adventure involves the same amount of colorful balloons.]

school's out for summer

last night we went to my little brother's high school graduation. and just like that, we have ZERO family members still in high school. sad -- it makes me feel old.

it was freaking freezing cold. here's a shot from the grandstands -- i went early with my mom to wait in line and we ended up with front row seats. sweeeet. here's our view before the big show started -- i swear, there are actually mountains under those grumpy clouds:



b & i spent most of the pre-show looking like this, freezing our butts off -- him was cranky, i was not:



i was super excited to be there because i haven't attended a high school graduation since my own. i missed my sister's because i was living in new york. plus i was just so excited that my little sparky was so grown up -- i wouldn't have missed this for anything.

graduation is always a fun time to reflect. i couldn't believe it's been seven years since i graduated, or that SO MANY of my brother's classmates drive brand new cars, or that they whipped through 800+ graduates in less than 30 min. nice work, los osos high school!

i've said it once and i'll say it again -- grant is way cooler than i was or ever will be. he's in the senior class presidency so he got to sit on the stand and announce one of the speakers:



once it was over we tracked him down on the field for family photos [what did we do without cell phones??].



don't mind the fact that i look like the stay puff marshmallow man in all these pictures because i was quite happily bundled up in my winter coat. i think i'm going to need a few new jackets before utah.

the grad & his soon-to-be empty-nester parents:



grammie & grandad came all the way out from arizona:



here is a picture of me & sparky about seven years ago:



and here we are at graduation:



i guess i can find solace in the fact that no matter how big granty gets, we will always take silly pictures together.

grant is going to byu-idaho in the fall, which is where my sister & bro in law currently go to school. it's also four hours north of provo so i'll be able to visit them a lot. yay! growing up isn't so bad.

item #27 i-will-miss-about-LA: driving

it may seem odd that i will miss the freeways and commutes around here seeing as how i fully own a ridiculous case of road rage, but driving isn't quite the pain it used to be now that i take the train to work everyday. now it's a novelty for me to get in the car and navigate the wild freeways systems around l.a., and now that i'm close to leaving it i'm starting to love it more and more.

once in a while i still drive into work so i can go to client meetings in various nearby cities. yesterday i was driving home from torrance and just loving the view. i took a few pics with the phone:







side note: don't mind the boring, ominous gray sky -- we've been enduring horrible "june gloom" weather since before june 1 and it's yucky. i liked it the first two days but now i'm OVER IT. we californians are so spoiled with our daily addiction to sunshine -- but whatever, we're entitled. isn't that why we pay so much to live here?

purple is in

there are these crazy purple trees blossoming all over pasadena:



[sorry about the blurry & crooked photo...i was in motion while taking it and i guess my camera phone couldn't keep up with me.]

they shed electric purple flowers all over the place, and when i was driving home last week late late at night it looked like the gutters on lake ave. were florescent and glowing. so cool. i love the color purple.

in other news, b survived e3. yay! it's taken me two days to readjust to having him around all the time [without becoming annoyed by him] but we are good now. also our bedroom wall is all patched up! we did take to sleeping on the air mattress in the living room while that hole was here, so it's nice to be back in our own bed -- and to live with the sound knowledge that i could NOT survive in a studio apartment.

also, i've stopped trying to organize / grocery shop / clean / you name it because i blame the upcoming move for everything. why fold my clothes when they'll just get thrown into boxes? why clean the counters when i'll have to deep clean in a few weeks anyway? okay, i'm really not that bad, but i am definitely starting to mentally check out of my current life.

worth it!

as you know, b's been busy with a little something called e3 lately. a lot of prep went into getting his client all ready for the event, which kicked off today. i was a little worried about him making it through all of the stress on little sleep etc. but so far he's been takin it like a champ.

so if you don't know, e3 is like the biggest gamer convention ever. i went down there for a bit today and saw geeks everywherrrrre. all the video game nerds are out in force and it is so awesome. however, it also turns out to be a giant media opp with really cool stuff going on.

microsoft had their big press conference yesterday and the beatles were there. [as i reminded b, you shouldn't call them "the beatles" as 50% of the group is dead, but family representation was in attendance for the deceased so i guess it counts.] yeah. so cool.

all sorts of fun publicity things are going on in connection with the event...most of which b has totally loved. i got excited texts and photo messages all day from him as he toured the show floor. for example, these guys:



and this car [allegedly THE ORIGINAL from the movies -- ghostbusters is b's favorite movie of all time]:



but, the best part of b's day occurred in the afternoon. b LOVES the show chuck...he even helped petition nbc to keep the show on the air for season three [which was successful, btw]. i didn't like it much at first but now thanks to his encouragement i'm even a fan...it's a pretty good show. anyway, yeah. he loves chuck like i love american idol. so you can imagine his delight when he ran into these guys:



that's the main guy on chuck, zachary levi, and his costar. they were both at the show today and b got to have a nice little chat with them. he was so so so excited. and since he doesn't blog on here, i decided to share in his place.

fun times. almost makes it worth it that he had to be at the office at 3 a.m. :)