Doppelgangers

People say that my husband Trent looks like James Roday, the star of Psych.



Bahahahaha.

Hahahaha.

Actually, more like this one:



But without a nose that is deceivingly ginormous.

People also say that he looks a lot like Seth Green. See below.




I get the comparison on this one. The shortness, the Irish-ishness, and the occasionally scruffiness.

Oh that I were a...

I wish I blogged more. I really have no excuse not to, my life is effortlessly dull. 

I sure do enjoy reading other peoples blogs. People are so fascinating to me, which is one of big reasons I was drawn to social work as a profession. I regularly read blogs of people I don't like, have never met, and that I may even think are stupid and annoying. But apparently I still care enough to read your blog. My visiting teaching companion from church up and left her husband last week and moved back to Canada. Her husband changed his phone number and email address. I wish I knew what happened, I wish she had a blog about it, becuase I would read that crap up. 

One of my favorite blogs to read is written by a girl, let's call her V. V went to BYUI, though we never met.  I was in a class with her sister once, but we never spoke. V is married to a guy named J. We had probably 2 or 3 classes together, but we never spoke. I thought he was super cool thus I was very intimidated by him. He used to date one of my college bffs and they would make out a lot. 

I do not recall how I ever came across her blog, I am not friends with her or her husband, yet I could go into great detail about their lives. This is the magic of blogs. Getting to know people without ever knowing them.

V recently posted on her blog a questionnaire. I want to be just like her cause she is awesome so I shall do it too.

1. If someone kindly offers you something you really just do not want, are you the kind of person who

a) accepts graciously 

b) accepts but reluctantly and perhaps trashes the item later 
c) flat-out refuses, in a trying-to-be-friendly way, but you really stand your ground, potentially making things quite awkward.

I have at some point done all of these in various situations, but overall I am typically a B. 


2. People are often told they look like a famous person. Who's someone you've been told you look like?  

In grad school, my given nickname by a number of people was Melissa Joan Hart. 


I'm sure they meant MJH is her teen Clarissa Explains it All years, so I'll go with this picture. Also, the two people that were most adamant that Melissa and I looked alike were black. I'm sure this is like how some people think all asian people look the same, black people must people must think all white girls look like Melissa Joan Hart.




Maybe I can see a little resemblance in this picture, with her chubbier and brunetter. 

3. What sense would you lose if you had to lose one?  

Is it true that without smell, you can't taste? I've had a cold the last few days and have not been able to breathe through my nose, and yesterday I was eating a piece of pizza and thought, why am I eating this? I can't even taste it. Needless to say, I would go with smell. It seems non-essential for daily living. 

4. Are you a fight or flight kind of person? Give an example. 

I think I would fail at either one of these. I sure am not a fighter, but I am out of shape and lazy, and would definitely not be able to "flight" successfully enough to escape from danger. So alas, doomed either way, I would probably be a flighter. 


5. What are one or more foods that you used to hate but now absolutely love? 

Cantaloupe! I hated it, and most melons, as a child, but I distinctly remember a time babysitting when I was in high school where I decided to give it another shot. I loved it, ate it all, and did not give any to the children. Not my best babysitting moment. 


6. What's a food you used to love but now hate? 

I can't say I ever really loved instant mashed pototaes, but as my first post wisdom teeth removal meal I now have quite the aversion to them. 

7. If you had to name your child one of these names, which would you pick?

    a. Gertrude
    b. Hilda 
    c. Bathsheba
    d. Chastity 

Yikes, would probably go with Gertrude on this one based on possible less horrific nicknames. 

8. What's your dream job? Like, if you lived in an alternate universe.  


This is a tough one. Sadly, I don't think my current job is my dream one. Maybe with a few alterations and circumstance changes, maybe. I'm going to have to ponder on this one more. 


9. What's a movie you daydream of being the star of? 

Hm, probably a movie that provided the star with some anonymity, but still lots and lots of money.  Maybe Elizabeth Bennett from the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice, but with an immensely large paycheck. 



10.  If a T-Rex suddenly appeared in your neighborhood, where would you hide? 

Well in Jurassic Park The Lost World, Jeff Goldbloom and his black daughter hid in that elevator tree hut thing pretty successfully, but if I didn't have access to one of those probably my closet.

11. You have mint chocolate chip ice cream and fudge brownie ice cream. Which do you choose after dinner?   

Fudge brownie. Unless I had something for dinner that made my breath funky and I wanted to use the mint to mask the nastiness.


12. What are you currently watching on Netflix? or the last thing you watched. 

I have been watching an episode of the Office every night as I fell asleep. Which is weird, because I own the seasons of the Office on DVD and have seen every episode countless times. But the Office is so so bad now, and I like to remember the good times. 


13. What's a secret about you that nobody knows?   

I see dead people. 

By the light of the moon

About three or four times a week I make a point of it to go out for a nightly walk/jog/wog/jalk. It's fun to go out and explore our quaint neighborhood and get lost in its newness. It has been too hot here during the day for any normal person to stay outside for extended periods, and I'm still not comfortable enough to venture out into the dangerous-sounding city of Orangevale alone at night, so I always pick the most perfect time to go out: dusk. The sun is setting, temperatures are cooling, families are at home together, and as I walk through the burbs I relish in the sounds of children playing in the yard and the smell of dinner cooking on the grill. It's really the prime time for walks. And while I've really enjoyed the newness of my town, and creating new routes, tonight my mind wandered to where I think would be the perfect places for an evening stroll.

PARIS

You must pronounce is 'Pahr-reeeee" 

 I've actually heard a few not so nice things about this city, but in my mind it seems so magical. My idea of a blissful evening stroll is peace, and stillness, and thinking time, and crisp air. I want to walk the streets of Paris with few people around, no sounds of traffic, but silently walk past bakeries and smell fresh baked bread, and whistle to myself the Paris holds the key to your heart song from Anastasia, and the Bonjour song from Beauty and the Beast, and the french classic Aux Champs Elysees. While eating a chocolate croissant of course.

NEW ORLEANS

Disclosure: I am total Disney nerd, and New Orleans Square is one of my fave areas of Disneyland. If I could just chill in N.O.S. with no one else around, that would be heaven. I really don't hate people, or having them around, but an evening stroll is ruined by crowds. An evening stroll on Mardi Gras would be awful. An evening stroll down Bourbon Street when it's abandoned, lightly drizzling, hearing the distant sounds of music and slowing breathing in the scent of jambalaya, sounds awesome. 

EPCOT 

 Seriously guys, I love Disney. And ever since my first trip to Disney World I FELL IN LOVE with the World Showcase at Epcot. Disney really does it up right, and in one place you can walk from ancient ruins in Mexico, to hear a Beatles cover band in Great Britain, to Morocco, to France, to China, and so on. Omg, I'm geeking out just thinking about it, it is seriously so awesome. If you ever want to see my own pictures, I'll show you, I've got lots. Now Disneyland/Disneyworld kind of breaks my rule of having as few people as possible for the stroll, but a big part of Disney is magic, and sometimes you can really lucky and have rare moments of peace. It makes me sad to think that in my lifetime I will probably never have the opportunity to travel to all of these super unique and awesome places, but at least for a moment I got a small sense of what it would be like. 

Hi friends! 

My name is Erin, and this is my blog.  

Now, I've struggled a bit during the creation and implementation of this blog. I wondered, am I cut out for the blogging world? I pondered what I would write about, and what kind of blog I would want to have.  You see, I am a bit of a blog aficionado.  I am a dedicated blog reader and stalker. I've seen all different types and styles. But where would I fit in?

A Fashion Blog? Yeah, right.
Mommy Blog? No thanks.
Dieting and Healthy Living Blog, showing pictures of me getting progressively skinnier and skinnier? I wish.
Diaries of a Social Worker? Sounds like a book no one wants to read.  
 
But I guess I'll just allow this blog to morph into whatever feels natural. Which will probably include musings on my favorite television shows, and will hopefully include fascinating details giving you an insight into my personal life. Because really, I am basically like the nosiest person ever and I think I like blogs cause I love to get an inside look into others lives. The juicier the details the better.