people everywhere just want to be free

I'm up early today listening to Zack on The End this morning and Aadi has been drinking my coffee. I spilled most of it on the floor this morning. Oh it's totally a Monday.

Life as of late:







Lots of doggies and Star Trek makes for a good weekend.

things that ruined my life - my top 6

In the past I've usually done top 9's. Sometimes, 9 is just too much, so weekly now I will be wowing you with some form of another of a top 6 countdown. I figure what better way to start than with top 6 things that ruined my life - television edition. In no particular order...


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1. The Golden Girls - I will never be Dorothy Zbornak. Seriously, it's upsetting to me. Since I was nine she has been a woman of great knowledge, someone I have looked up to repeatedly. "So far today I have turned down every job in the county that didn't involve selling cocaine." She is brilliant. She has humor and wit, charisma, and she can snap a friends neck like a twig. She is self-sufficient, but not enough to be annoying. That's a quality most of us strive to achieve and I have strived and strived, but I will always be a little needy. I'm sorry, Dorothy, I hope you'll forgive me.


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2. Sex and The City - I will never afford Carrie's shoes/wardrobe or have her career. I also know that I cannot live on a weekly column writers salary and still afford all the fancy meals and fancy shoes she takes in on a daily basis. That is not realistic, writers are lucky if they make any money at all! "I've spent forty thousand dollars on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes." That would be me, I'd be "a bag lady, a fendi bag lady, but a bag lady." Good lord, SHE IS WHY I CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.


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3. Roswell - Aliens aren't real...or are they? Ever since I was fourteen I've been wondering that. Now days, anything involving the paranormal intrigues me be it aliens, ghosts, you name it. So now that we know where that stemmed from, I am constantly questioning everything in the universe because HOW COOL WOULD IT BE IF ALIENS WERE REAL? "We're not from around here..." Seriously when Max Evans uttered those words I was floored. As Liz casually asked "Where are you from?" I was yelling it at the screen, "YES WHERE ARE YOU FROM." I didn't trust them. I know better now that aliens are our friends (well, most of them, excluding Romulans but we'll get to that) and they can help us discover things. Discovering things is good, right? Speaking of...


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4. Star Trek: TNG - so what if i want to attend starfleet academy? Why can't I be a telepath? So many unanswered questions in the universe. I want to be a Starfleet captain, I think I can learn from Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he is way smarter than Captain Kirk, ask Sheldon Cooper. "Make it so, number one." AND HE LIKES TEA. "Tea, earl grey, hot." You cannot go wrong with that.


via 5. Gilmore Girls - You can't be best friends with everyone in your city, you just can't, plus I cannot come up with witty comments that quickly. I want to invent my own catchphrase "Oy, with the poodles already." I want a weird town Kirk (not to be confused with the Captain) to make shirts that says what people in my town are doing "Babette ate oatmeal." What amazing comradery that is.


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6. Dexter - for all I know, my brother is a serial killer. Or my neighbor. If I didn't learn to "trust no one" from the X-Files (which contradicts Roswell, but whatever), then I would learn that from Dexter Morgan. He comes off as the sweetest, most upstanding dude, yet little does anyone know of his "dark passenger". Now that's just it, I believe he is a sweet, upstanding dude, he just has a Boondock Saints vibe about him wanting to get rid of the horrible scum that walks the earth. I am so torn with him, yet can't help but wait for what happens next. He also makes me really want to buy a Dodge.

merry holidays

All in all I had a fantastic holiday. It's so different to wake up on Christmas as an adult than when I was little. No more waiting up all night for Santa, no more anticipation of the following morning. Honestly, it's kind of upsetting but I'm sure that will all change once there is a baby Shutt running around.

I've been kind of on the grinchy side this year, and I realize Thanksgiving is the optimal time to remember what you're thankful for, however I find Christmas to fall under the same hat. This years Christmas made me realize how thankful I am to have what I do have, even if it's isn't that much. I still have quite a bit of good to relish in. I have a great family and extended family, I have good friends, I have my health. I may not have all the material things I want to possess, but I'm still very grateful for that which I do.

Not much happened on our Christmas Eve, but our Christmas day was filled with lots of light. We spent the morning over at Zack's families house opening presents, eating Breakfast and setting up Zack's little sisters Lego Harry Potter set. She came to me after she had fixed Gilderoy Lockharts hair on Ron Weasley's body and asked me to remove it. She then proceeded to tell me how Ron Weasley was her new boyfriend as well as Harry Potter. I understand wee one that you are from Utah, but that is one footstep you need not follow, m'dear.

After a quick jaunt to Ogden to visit my mom we headed back to Zack's parents house to play a rousing game of Star Trek scene it. We received it as a gift from our friend Kramer this year and I've been dying to rip that plastic off the second that we opened the amazon box with the smiley face on it. We figured Zack's parents house was the perfect place to try it out since his family is made up of Trekkie's (did I not marry into the perfect family? Yes). Turns out, the game is actually kind of hard. I may be a relatively new Star Trek fan (Next Generation FTW), but I think I held my own. Zack, of course, dominated, and we found that just watching the DVD clips and shouting out answers was a lot easier than trying to play the actual game (it took us nearly 30 minutes to move 5 spaces, I kid you not). Either way, it was nice to expand our Star Trek knowledge while eating celery and spray cheese.

Dinner of sandwiches came and went, even though I was still carrying my spray cheese food baby, and then a rousing game of Just Dance was played, and to all a good night.

I'm kidding.

After Just Dance, we came home, snuggled in the bed and watched Die Hard. Hey, it's a Christmas movie? I haven't seen it in probably ten years and I was thrilled to see Alan Rickman expand his acting from Severus Snape (I kid again, he acts just like Snape in this movie, only younger, am I right)? Then it was to all a good night.

Today I plan on doing about fourteen loads of laundry, watching some Star Trek (I have to show the Father-in-law my favorite Borg episode) and reading. Oh yeah, I have to go to the grocery store and make Zack cuddle with me some more. Then tomorrow it is back to the grind.

I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday!

happy sunday

Today was a good day. Full post later on the happenings of Halloween but for now I will leave you with a lovely little gifty Zack bought for me to bring out my inner nerd.



A mini Captain Picard and Commander Riker!


It's horrible how much of a Trekkie I have become. Speaking of random tv, we watched the return of Beavis and Butthead this afternoon and speaking of a completely non-fan of the old show, I have to say I laughed entirely too much during the new episode. I'm sorry but Beavis and Butthead ragging on Jersey Shore, Twilight and The Bachelor was classic.

Alright, off to a movie with Maddie and I'll post Halloween/Randi's bday photos upon my return.

Happy Sunday!

to boldly go...

Gene Roddenberry d. October 24, 1991

Roddenberry with Jonathan Frakes
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I have to admit, I'm a relatively new Star Trek fan, but I can't help but acknowledge the death of one of the most brilliant creators of our time. Gene not only created an excellent television series which spawned several successful spinoffs, but he created an entire culture...a world if you will. A world that I am completely enveloped in.

Growing up I did watch the occasional episode of Deep Space Nine, but I'll be honest. I really didn't enjoy it too much. I only watched because a neighbor of a girlfriend of mine would only let us play with her if we played Star Trek. Now being the cool, older girl we envied, we happily obliged (they always made me be Deanna Troi, I didn't appreciate it at the time and now I regret that).

After meeting, falling in love with and marrying Zack, I sort of knew that the Trekkie life would be revisted, I just didn't realize it would have the impact that it did. When the entire series of Next Generation showed up on Netflix, Zack was more than eager to watch it all and of course he wanted to drag me along. Reluctant I sat down and watched the Pilot and was bored to tears, I'm not even kidding. And then, something happened. I watched the second episode, the one where they're all infected with something...that makes them appear drunk. It was absolutely hilarious and brilliant and I was completely hooked from that moment on.

I'm an avid Wesley Crusher fan, I think Data is the smartest Andriod alive and I have submitted my application to Starfleet Acadamy (after I graduate Hogwarts, of course). Needless to say if you've never been a fan, try Next Generation, you may be surprised.

Engage.