Recreational Vehicle Hell

My mom unintentionally inspired a cartoon for this blog!  She emailed me yesterday and said "Hey, how about we rent an RV and go on a family trip?!"  Sounds fun!  But the picture in my head of my family on an RV trip inspired the following cartoon:

And so, I dedicate this blog post to my mom, just for making me tee-hee.  Love you, mom!

Tailgate Adventures

Dad and Becca

Me and Jacquelyn

So there are some tailgate pictures as promised.  I only took three because I'm not some sort of camera wizard......I had stuff to do.

Anyways, I should say something witty here.  But I'm tired and I wanna go to bed.  I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head.  Bum bum bum.......

Okay, goodnight.

I love Cody.....and Steve Jobs

Cody gave me his iPad.  Well, it's more like a long-term loan.  Like, he still owns it, but I can use it if I be good.  Immediately after getting it, he decided it was pointless and never used it.  It sat in the box for a few weeks before he even opened it up.  He already has a laptop, so he gave me the iPad.  I'm uber lucky.  The stipulation of this is that since its connected to his work email, I will let him use it when he goes on trips so he can stay connected.  And also so he can read the Wall Street Journal on the airplane (which is apparently very hard otherwise, not that I would know).  I had never used one and thought they were sort of ghey.  IPad?  What kind of name is that?  It sounds like a high-tech feminine product, right?  And then I started playing with it.  I added the Netflix app.  I added the crosswords app.  I added the weather app and the dictionary app and the YouTube app and the solitaire app and the Betty Crocker app.  And then I realized something.

IPad is the greatest invention EVER!!!!  It's small, but not as tiny as a phone, so the text is readable.  I can put it in my purse.  I can whip it out wherever there's a wi-fi signal.  I can surf the net at the TAILGATE parties, for cripes sake!  Since apple has super duper awesome programmers, it's nearly impossible to get a virus.  I could connect to the wi-fi signal at a Turkish brothel and not get a virus.  I can surf the net IN BED!  IN A TREE!  IN A DINGHY! I can turn it on and I don't have to wait for it to power up.  It's ready to go instantly.  It holds battery life for HOURS!!!  I am in LOVE WITH THE iPAD!!!!  It's like a new friend.  I didn't realize how lonely I was until I got an iPad.  I don't feel lonely anymore when I'm at home or driving to work or taking a bath.  I have a buddy!  My buddy and I, we can go anywhere!  We can do ANYTHING!  I want to buy it accessories! I want to knit it a sweater! Everywhere me and iPad go, we can kick it.  I feel like wherever we go, people are throwing confetti at us and cheering.

I can surf recipes and then prop it up on its little kickstand and read from it while I cook!  I can play solitaire while I'm waiting for coffee to brew!  I can check my email while I'm waiting for my work computer to boot up so I can check my email!
Everyone should own an iPad.  They are super-fun fantastic time.  It's like a really really smart pet, only it doesn't crap or get fur on your blankets or puke hairballs on the carpet.  I should work for Apple.  They should pay me a thousand dollars just for posting this blog. I'm so pro-iPad, I should get paid by Apple to write slogans.  I even made some samples:

I'm in the wrong business.  So, give me a job, Steve Jobs.  That should be easy.  You should have lots of those.  Jobs is like your middle name.  Except its your last name.

Kiera Knightley Sucks

Cody:  "Why does she look like that?"

Me:  "Kiera Knightley?"

Cody:  "Yeah.  She's always got her face sucked in really far, like Zoolander.  Why does she make that face all the time?"

Me:  "Babe, that's just how her face looks."

Cody:  "She and those Olson twins......they always make that face. It's ridiculous."

Me:  "They're not making a face.  It's just hard to NOT look like that when you don't eat food.  That's just how she looks.  Food is not her friend."

Cody:"Well, food is MY BFF."

Me:  "Yes, I know that......Me too."

Okay, Secret's Out.....We're boring.

Hey all.  Rae here.  I realize you've all been super-sad emo pandas because we haven't posted a new adventure recently.  We haven't had one to post, unfortunately.  The last two weeks have been completely bereft of anything worth blogging about.  Since I know you're awaiting another post with baited breath, I'll just tell you what we've been doing anyways.

Cody went duck hunting last weekend with the Barney men.  He claims he's a "crack shot".  The Barneys killed 20 ducks from Saturday to Sunday, so if you're wondering why there aren't any for the rest of you.....that's why.

I've been sick with Botulism.  Or E-Coli.  Or some other horrible puking wrath of satan death virus.  I visited my family in Idaho Falls and came home with it.  We all got sick in a very craftily executed simultaneous assault on our immune systems that could only have been pulled off by some sort of elegant, sneaky Jack the Ripper disease.  I was not so much fun.  I barfed.  A lot.  I think my toes came out of my mouth.  Horrible.  

*Also, I must credit Allie Brosh from Hyperbole and a Half for the brilliantly done illustrations, which perfectly capture my horrible affliction.

Cody and I ate at P.F. Chang's recently.  We made fun of their over-the-top production of mixing your P.F. Chang's sauce for you.  We plotted planned some upcoming adventures.  He insisted on picking up all of the plastic display desserts and sniffing them.   

I just watched the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:  Part 1.  I had a nerdgasm.  Cody is furiously reading trying to get to the 7th book so we can read it together.  If you're truly as geek-tastic and rad as us, you'll watch the HD trailer because it will make streamers fly out of your nostrils and double rainbows shoot all the way across the sky.  It's so intense. 

Watch the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 trailer on #Fandango

*PSSTT!!  See those words up there?  That's a link!!

We walked to the Apple street Albertson's last night to buy an ear of corn, some apples & caramel dip, and an acorn squash.  We talked about notorious serial killers until I was really creeped out.  On the way home I realized I forgot to put on any underpants. 

*And now you're creeped out too.

Fret not, dear friends.  More adventures are coming.   For this is a three day weekend and Cody and I cannot have a three day weekend without having at least four adventures.  Plus, there's always our upcoming trip to Seattle on the 15th.  Until next time.........