Said the Vegetable Man...

I am seriously addicted to Beck right now.

We now have two Beck CDs in our car stereo. I just can't get enough. We got his new CD, Guero, last weekend, and Chris and I both are totally diggin' it! My favorite song on Guero is "Que Onda Guero". How can you not love a song that starts out with the lyrics, "Said the Vegetable Man in the Vegetable Van with a horn honking like a mariachi band." Classic. I decided a few weeks ago that I completely missed out on Beck. I remember the first song of his I heard...."Loser" (better known as "I'm A Loser Baby"). I can picture it like it was yesterday. I was in high school and was the Party Pic girl at a middle school dance held in the rec area of a church. There were chairs lining the walls and these brace-faced little kids acting like they were too cool to dance. And, the DJ played Loser. I'm sure it was just for us "older" folks, but it definitely made the whole night (well, really it was late afternoon). Isn't it amzaing how we relate our memories to music?

Heretofore, My favorite Beck song of all time is "Where It's At" (you probably know it as "Two Turntables and a Microphone"). I love that song. It totally rocks. I've always been a fan, but I've never been very good at buying CDs and really enjoying the music. A few weeks ago, I decided that even though I missed out when the CD (Odelay) came out 8 years ago, what's stopping me from enjoying it now? We were at Target one day, and they had it for $9.99. It's been playing in the car ever since!

We got a couple of other CDs this week. Jack Johnson and a new Dave Matthews Band (at Starbucks, no less!). Wow! I just looked at the DMB CD on Amazon, and it just came out on the 10th. Look at me, I'm on top of things. You could almost call me cool! Oh, and something from Granian. I don't know which CD Chris bought (Amazon), but I love their sound. I'm surprised Chris does, all of these are a little mellow for him. It's okay, I'll take it! Now all I need is an Ipod!

Paper Addict

It's true, I love paper. Love it, love it, love it! I just can't get enough paper. I really must own it all. You never know what I might need, right? Yesterday, Simply Scrapbooks in Claremore had their annual "Paper By The Pound" sale. I missed the first one (didn't even know they'd had a first one), and knew I HAD to go to this year's iteration.

Problem......I thought it was Saturday. So, after the super successful Scrapbook Garage Sale at Scrapbooks Galore, I headed out to Claremore with one of my friends. It was a glorious day, so we took the back roads through the country to Route 66 with the top down and relished the wind in our hair. Fort-five minutes later, we were there. Only they were just setting up. Oops! Guess I read that email wrong!!! We bought nothing with the promise of our return!!

Jump ahead to Sunday. We were the first in line. Somewhat sick, huh? We left my house at 11:30 to be sure we were the first in line at 1:00 when they opened (with the requisite Taco Bueno pit stop). When they opened the doors, we made a bee line for the earth tone cardstock and KI papers. I thought maybe I'd buy a pound or two of paper. HA! I ended up with 16 pounds. That's a lot of paper. Then, I had to come home and tell Chris that I had to write a check because I didn't have enough cash! Thank goodness for the Garage Sale the day before! Now I just have to figure out how to pay for the Iowa trip this week!

Tenika's Challenge

So, I came to this one a little late, but check out my masterpiece!!!

Dear Adidas....

*warning - more graphic pics*

Dear Adidas,

If it ain't broke, don't screw it up. I'm an Adidas loyalist. I wear their Supernova Cushion (size 11) running shoes almost exclusively (let's not discuss that little Nike Shox foray). For some reason, running shoe manufacturers find it necessary to update their shoes year after year. The Supernova Cushion was awesome last year. Just perfect. So, of course, they had to tweak them and "make improvements" on this year's model. Still and awesome shoe, except.......they included a this waffle weave construction on the top of the insole.

Thursday, we were in the OK panhandle and I forgot my socks. So, I went running sockless. I figured it wouldn't feel fabulous, but no big deal. Right? Yeah, right! It completely tore my feet up. It's Sunday now, and I still can barely walk. We're talking serious pain here. I have huge blisters on the bottom of my arches. Not a fab place for blisters.

I've never heard of shoes you can't run sockless in.......ever. It's super common for people to run without socks (we won't even begin to discuss the stink eminating from those shoes). Needless to say, Adidas is going to be getting letters/emails from me! What were they thinking? Maybe this is just another case of people who don't actually use the product designing it?