I Get Attached

I got an email from my boss this week, with this post-script:

"P.S. You've adopted the Graham school of voicemail box management -- it's full."

Very true. Full, and has been full for over a week.

See, here's the thing. I have wonderful friends who leave me voice messages that range anywhere from hilarious to sweet to insightful to blog-worthy, and sometimes all in the same message. So I save messages.

What am I doing right now? Recording the saved messages with my digital voice recorder so I can finally delete some messages and make room for some more fantastically awesome voice messages in the near future.

So please, feel free to call and leave funny messages if I don't pick up. I'll love you all the more for it. 

Thanks, Jillian!

 

Last week one of my uncle's came to LA for the day, meeting with Jillian Michaels. She's endorsed some of his company's products for a while now, and I'm personally grateful to her because I got to see my uncle for an evening! We grabbed some food in his hotel's restaurant and chatted it up until 11pm. My uncle is SO much fun that your cheeks end up being sore from all the laughing when you're with him.

One of my favorite things he shared? He hardly packed a thing. The only things in his luggage were products to show Ms. Michaels. Once he'd shown her the products and given them to her, he collapsed all the boxes in his rental car and had empty bags. What *did* he pack, you ask? 

Everything he has in his bathroom at his house in UT. 

A toothbrush.

Yep. That's ALL he has. He's so low-maintenance that it's ridiculous--props, Jace!

Holy Yum. II.

Went to Las Brisas today for brunch with Christa and Emily this morning and it was YUM. Omelets, waffles, bacon (the national food in my world), etc. etc. Beautiful weather, really good food, fun friends, and the fourth fun thing? Music. I heard at least two Sarah McLachlan songs and a Dido song,

Perfection.

Holy Yum.

I tried a yoga class today at Core Power Yoga in Aliso Viejo. If you've never been there before, you get a free week to try it out, so I went today, taking a break from work. I learned a couple of things.

1. Holy cow, I'm going to be so sore tomorrow. The class I did today was a heated yoga class; I've never done heated yoga before but I LOVED it. But it was hard.

2. People in the yoga community are super nice. I've been to quite a few yoga classes at different 24 Hours over the years, but this is the first time I've been to one at a dedicated yoga studio.

3. I had the most amazing view. A guy in front of me, maybe my age-ish or several years older, had what I consider to be the most perfect body I've ever seen.

I was in heaven. And he was nice enough to come up and introduce himself after the class!

Holy yum.

Brooke Classics

I caught up with my old roommate, Brooke, on the phone tonight. She's called me a couple times lately and has left hilarious messages, but I've been a complete slacker and didn't call her back until tonight.

Luckily for me, she'd taken a Tylenol Cold Nighttime about 20 minutes before I called her, so I got some golden material.

She and some friends got together to watch what was apparently a really crappy chick flick the other night. Her invite list, according to her? "Only girls and gay guys can come."

"Someday I'll go to Cirque du Soleil, and by someday, I mean when a boy will take me and pay for me."

Then, after hearing a friend drop an f-bomb this week, I realized the only time in my life where I ever found that word not incredibly painful to my ears and kind of hilarious was when Brooke launched it. About our other roommate's boyfriend (and now husband). In front of that roommate. It was wildly inappropriate (she did apologize the next day!), but oh, man, at the time it was absolutely hilarious to the two of us.

I love Brooke. (she's in the middle in the pic)

Check!

Anyone else been "home taught" by Facebook? You know, where your home teacher sends you a message with the link to the lesson on the Church's website?

Or "home taught" by text, asking if you can come to Institute so they can count that?

These are both firsts for me . . .