August 19, 2008 · filed under love & hate
love & hate midsummer edition
love: girls’ weekend was très fun, and went by all too fast
hate: dare I out myself as a boring old lady and admit we did not even come close to finishing the wine? I’m not sure why, but the weekend was far more tame than weekends past. but still v fun!
love: we cooked the best breakfast ever one morning. With three kinds of salsa.
hate: I haven’t posted any of my recipes! I suck! but you must make that breakfast.
love: my business card got drawn at my local Starbucks to become their #1 Very Special Person Who Shall Receive Free Drinks All Week Long
hate: Seriously! Free drinks! I guess the only thing to hate is the extra calories that I cannot turn away because they were FREE?
love: I’m going on quasi-vacation next week
hate: first I have to do a day of meetings in New Jersey and New York. SRSLY?
love: Olympic male swimmers, especially the relay teams. Hubba hubba.
hate: swimming is over, and track stars just don’t really do it for me
love: bagels with cream cheese and juicy tomato slices, doesn’t that sounds SO GOOD?
hate: that I didn’t grow my own tomatoes this year – remind me to plant some next year please?
love: I just checked my archives, and I totally missed the occasion of my blog’s three year birthday! Maybe I’ll work on a blogiversary post this week? How does one celebrate such a thing?
hate: I finally decided that every time I watched The Hills I was making PsychoSpeidi a little richer, so I have successfully deleted the show from my TiVo lineup. And it feels so good to rid my life of something I loved to hate!
Leave your mid-week, mid-summer loves and hates in the comments!
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heidikins
August 19, 2008 11:55 pm
Love: Learning new things, meeting new people
Hate: Having to be at work at 6-freaking-thirty AM
Love: Warm summer nights
Hate: Warm summer nights with no A/C
Love: Upcoming fall fashion
Hate: Funky-looking peep-toe gladiator booties…what the?
xox
Wickedly Scarlett
August 20, 2008 3:14 am
Hey, just means more wine for you in the weeks to come, right? Bummer about the day of meetings, but hey, if you get a subsequent vacation out of it, bring on the meetings! I’m so proud of you for deleting The Hills, I just don’t have that kind of iron will. I know I’d catch an episode during one of their zillions of repeats and get totally sucked back in. That is so sad… I sound like an addict.
Viviane
August 20, 2008 4:19 am
Oohh free drinks at Starbucks rocks! And yes, The Hills is pretty awful, I only watched it once because the horrible dubbing job MTV did made it absolutely intolerable. But I remember I used to watch Laguna Beach regularly while I lived in the States even though that was also pretty awful.
Stephanie
August 20, 2008 9:37 am
love: the excitement and dreams of something new
hate: not having the money to support the dreams of something new
love: having friends of every phase of my life
hate: said friends being 4 and nine hours away
love: food food food – peanut butter cheesecake cups
hate: fat fat fat – peanut butter cheesecake cups
jessica
August 20, 2008 9:44 am
Love: You’ll be here next week!
Hate: I’m on the wait list for community credentials, ie: not getting in.
Love: I played hooky from work today so that I can spend the day with my husband
Can’t wait to see you!!
RA
August 20, 2008 9:53 am
Love: Shawn Johnson won a gold medal! She is so teeny and adorable.
Hate: Nastia Liukin will forever come off as peeved because of that ridiculous tie-breaking policy. I just don’t think smiling is her default face, that’s all. I’m cool with it.
Love: I can finally get some sleep now that my favorite Olympic events are finished.
Hate: My favorite Olympic events are finished!
Love: I’m more than halfway through Couch to 5K!
Hate: The workouts are harder than ever, and I fear for my life every time I huff and puff around my neighborhood.
Happy blogiversary! Year three is leather, so you know… get the blog a nice bag!
Zandria
August 20, 2008 10:45 am
How exciting about the Week of Free Starbucks Drinks and also the quasi-vacation! Very cool. I’ve been going on a few dates, but nothing overly exciting as of yet.
Nilsa
August 20, 2008 12:12 pm
Love: All the gifts we’ve been receiving off our registry from loved ones.
Hate: Getting a gift in the mail from people we don’t know. And being forced to do detective work. Only to realize the right gift was sent with the wrong card. Poof goes the air out of that balloon.
Celia
August 20, 2008 12:26 pm
Wow, free Starbucks! I am IMPRESSED with your iron will. Mmm, fresh tomatoes on bagels sounds yummy.
My sisters and I are heading to DC for a birthday/togetherness weekend. We’ve only been there with our parents and done the monuments/museum stuff which is fun BUT we want to do some shopping, eating and drinking also. Any suggestions you have would be awesome.
Thanks!!
Julie
August 20, 2008 1:40 pm
Love: That is already Wed.
Hate: That its only Wed.
Love: THE OLYMPICS.
Hate: That swimming is over. I love swimming.
Love: That I am going to London in November.
Hate: That it is sooo expensive.
katelin
August 20, 2008 2:17 pm
yeah that breakfast looks scrumptious! and i still can’t bring myself to delete the hills, it’s so sad.
as for my love/hates.
love: i’m moving on saturday!
hate: i don’t feel nearly ready enough.
love: i’m still moving
JP
August 20, 2008 3:47 pm
Jealous over your Starbucks win. My personal choice would be the strawberry creme frappachino. But to watch calories I would go with a skinny latte – 100-ish calories when you get the sugar-free syrup.
Love: Happy hour tonight.
Hate: Vacation ended yesterday.
Lesli
August 20, 2008 5:40 pm
Congrats on winning Starbucks special guest of the week–fun! Oh, you deleted The Hills from your Tivo lineup? Don’t you miss it just a teeny bit??
Fishing Around
August 20, 2008 10:03 pm
love: new Zumba class
hate: the day disappearing too quickly
love: the cool and chilly mid to upper 70s this week
Larissa
August 22, 2008 2:21 am
Yeah, how come track and field feels so dull after all the swimming events?
Laurel
August 22, 2008 9:59 pm
Love: That my apartment is MOSTLY put together.
Hate: That I don’t have the patience to hang my art, so I am waiting for AS to visit to do it for me.
Love: I leave for Egypt on Sunday!
Hate: The dread I feel about the state of my Google Reader when I return… can I give up on blogging yet?
Princess Extraordinaire
August 23, 2008 12:31 pm
I recently stopped TiVo’ing The Hills myself – I am now liberated….
Lindsey
September 14, 2008 6:45 pm
I also gave up The Hills this season too. I loved to hate it and I am hoping I don’t regret my decision to delete it. Last season just got on my last nerve and I couldn’t take the stupidity any longer. And trust me, I like a stupid show. Don’t think I’m deleting Keeping up with the Kardashians once that comes back on. Oh no. Never.