Ever since Costco’s Expo sale, a large case of my new favorites have been clanking in the trunk. (I’m sure my neighbors think I’m crazy and the cops will soon pull me over expecting to find open containers.) Yes, I love them so much that I want to take them everywhere with me. Introducing the best-tasting (non-alcoholic) drink ever: SoBE Lean diet cranberry grapefruit! It has no sugar, 5 calories and 100 percent vitamin C.

I first found this genius liquid at Quizno’s in the soda fountain. And it was in Togo’s, too! Sugar-free SoBe AND sandwiches?! Life is good.

Even though plans may change, fun must be had. Dave & Buster’s = grown up’s Chuck E. Cheese.

Dodging water pixels is way more fun than actual water.

Wrapped up in my big ticket winner.

Some say we look like sisters, and sometimes I believe we are.

Thanks Christine for remembering your camera!

At first I thought this was the funniest Project Runway clip ever. Oh was I wrong.

Thank you once again Best Blog Week Ever!

From the Today show, via Post-Gazette.com (and Best Week Ever): Cookie and Fruit Monster?

Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006
Lauer gets Cookie Monster scoop
“Today” anchor Matt Lauer gets to the bottom of the controvery over Cookie Monster giving up cookies on today’s “Sesame Street” (10 a.m., WQED). Here’s the transcript:

Matt Lauer: Cookie Monster, the world wants to know, why have you stopped eating cookies? Isn’t it true that only moments ago you decided to eat a fruit salad instead of a cookie? So will you have to change your name now? Should we be calling you “Fruit Monster”?

Cookie Monster: Well, dat got nice ring to it, but…

Matt Lauer: Cookie Monster, the question on everyone’ lips is –

Cookie Monster: That a lot of lips!

Matt Lauer: Why?

Cookie Monster: Me like fruit.

Matt Lauer: And there you have it. Cookie Monster likes fruit, and not cookies.

Cookie Monster: No! You members of the media blow story way out of proportion! Me still like cookies!

Matt Lauer: Then why fruit?

Cookie Monster: Why not fruit? It delicious! And healthy. Me still eat cookies, like me world-famous for doing, but now me eat other things too.

Matt Lauer: So what you’e saying is, if I were to offer you this cookie, you would eat it right now?

Cookie Monster: No. Me eat fruit salad — and then me eat cookie for dessert!

Matt Lauer: Well, you heard it here first! Cookie Monster has not given up cookies. From the looks of it, he eats just about everything.

Cookie Monster: You got dat right.

Blame the Cookie Monster for the American obesity epidemic? I’m so sure. I guess Super Size Me was a fluke and Fast Food Nation will change the script to do an expose on the fear-inducing Children of the Cookie! Large golden monuments of Cookie Monster have been erected in every major metropolitan city. The Children of the Cookie stuff massive chocolate chip confections in the mouths of their former aggressors and toast a cookie to the sky as they cry, “Death to dinner! Me want cookie!”

In ten years, we’ll have skinny adolescents with sparkling teeth saying, “Me thanks Seasame Street lots! Cookie and grammar bad, nummy fruit good!”

I’m having way too much fun with this: snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/

Friends, www lurkers and the like, I still love you and want you to love me. How can that be if I’m not around? Well, things have been changing over here in the Sassosphere. Just thinking about all the ch-ch-ch-changes makes me dizzy.

When I haven’t been feverishly chasing a Frisbee for several hours in extreme temperatures in various parts of California, I’ve been starting my new (third) job. That’s right, I’m putting my degree to good use by having salary dollars infiltrate my bank account via direct deposit. (Oh how I’ve missed direct deposit.) It scares me to say that I like — maybe even love — my new job. I’m wary of being excited for fear that fate may snatch the joy of a pleasant production day away.

The new job is like senior year but FUNNER! Working on a project is much more fun when everyone actually wants to do well and still feels the need to watch the Snakes on a Plane trailer several times in a row while brainstorming awesome sequals (Komodo Dragons on a Plane, Lizards on a Cruise Ship, etc.).

I’m still not sure how I’ll manage to balance three jobs, ultimate, spending quality time with the bf, blogging and sanity. This must mean that I’m beginning to morph into an adult.

My total credit card payment was only $43 last month. If only every month I was that frugal.

I’ve gone many miles in a few days and the blog just can’t keep up. So far I’ve posted the photos from the Tahoe and Friday’s birthday extravaganzas in the Photo Gallery. Maybe it could be the staying up until 4 a.m. far too often, but I’m stumped on how to relay the past couple weeks to my dearly devoted fans without boring them to tears for years and years and years.

So check back for more pictures and actual blog posts.

August 1 is an important day. Mostly because it marks the birth of the beautiful and charming Miss Emily Atwood. But some other cool stuff happened too:

*MTV
*Switzerland
*Moby Dick
*Coolio
*Oxygen (not the network)
*The Jeep
*Jerry Garcia
*Herman Melville
*Prince’s “When the Doves Cry”
*Emancipation of slaves in the British Empire
*Sony and Cher

And unfortunately, some not so good stuff:
*The death of thousands when the Yangtze River flooded China
*The beginning of WWI
*An ex-Marine’s killing spree on the University of Texas

Sources: MSN Encarta, This Day In Music, and The History Channel