New Goal

I want to be professionally snarky.

It is no secret that I love some pretty trashy reality shows. My DVR is set to record entertaining gems like Bachelor Pad, Project Runway, The Biggest Loser, Rock of Love, Real World/Road Rules Challenges, and basically anything that will have contestants crying in a confessional booth at least once per episode. While some of these are clearly more grounded in actual subject matter (Biggest Loser) than others (Bachelor Pad), there is a special place in my heart for each of them. I eat that stuff up. Heck, I even put on Jersey Shore last night to find out what happened with 'the note'. I love it.

This love is not only shown through my recorded dedication to these programs (side note: I like more substantial shows also... they are just not as much fun to blog about), but also by my READING about the shows afterward. I wish I had more time in my day to do this regularly, but I get a huge kick out of logging into Entertainment Weekly's online blogger reactions to my favorite reality shows, and reading the snarky play-by-play of the week's episode. I can't even tell you how many times I have had the same reaction (if not a worse one) to the nonsense that goes on during these shows! I can't help but think that if I were able to get paid to write my reactions to TV shows, I would be one very happy girl.

This is my new goal. Become a paid, supercilious blogger for ew.com and share my "are they serious?" moments with the world.

No posting

It's almost September.

How did that happen? No posts in a long time. Just not much to report, I guess. I've seen more shows, but that's about it.

(sigh)

PICTURES

No, I will not fill up my entire blog with pictures. But I did create a share website for photos from the honeymoon. None of them are labeled yet (give me a break, I'm busy), and I don't have the snorkeling pictures, but it's better than nothing.

Check it out! http://maureenandyshoneymoon.shutterfly.com/

Cheating the blogging system

I am cheating the blogging system by backdating almost 2 weeks of blogs. This is not an effort to look like a more active blogger. Instead, I am transferring my hand-written entries that I wrote on my honeymoon into digital format and backing them up to the day that they were originally written. Read backwards to find out how the honeymoon went. And check out how much attention I paid to the food, using words like "amazing".... it will make sense later when I tell you I gained 8 lbs over the course of the trip.

I am quite pleased to report that I was able to check off a few things on my 101 in 1001 Days list also! Gotta read to find out what... or not. Whatever.

Honeymoon - Day 10

We got up early (again), rolled out of bed, and decided that today could be a lazy day... as if the rest of the trip wasn't. We made coffee and watched a movie (the Proposal) while we slummed around in our pajamas. When we decided we couldn't spend any more time indoors (though the air conditioning was lovely), we decided to do a little shopping. We went to a few local stores to buy the Belizian hot sauce we had been using all week. If it were possible to bring in Belikins, we probably would have done that too. But alas, we had to settle for a year's supply of various kinds of hot sauces. Then it was back to the Phoenix to hang out by the pool and enjoy our last full day of vacation.

After laying by the pool for a while, and realizing that we had eaten nothing for breakfast except coffee, we decided to walk down the beach to Estel's... rumored to be famous for their chicken burritos. Perfect! We sat down under palm branches at Estel's and asked for menus, only to be told that they don't have any. Instead, they have everything written on a chalk board inside. It was pretty impressive. Never before have I been so tempted to go into the ocean, get completely soaked, and lean against something. But I behaved. We both ordered the chicken burritos, and were shocked when they came out and were about 16" long! Absolutely delicious, but super filling! Good thing we had some Coke Light's to wash them down!

Being so full, we didn't want to jump back into bathing suits, so we thought it would be wise to plan ahead and start packing for our big departure the next day... and enjoy some Belikins while doing so. Now that we're married, I guess we're supposed to be responsible adults. Hmm..

For dinner we decided to go back to El Divino, where we had gone with Mark and Brooke a few nights before. Well, when you ride there in a golf cart, it seems much closer than it is. Because when you WALK there, you realize it is over 3 miles away. And you get sweaty. It was a very long walk, but we were rewarded with lots of air conditioning, ice water, and a waiter who was off the wall. Andy ordered the wedge salad, and I got the caesar to start. Then we both got massive burgers - 3/4 lb. monsters that were so delicious! To accompany this huge burger, we got an overloaded basket of fries and a pool of ketchup to dip it in. YUMMMM. Luckily, we found a taxi to take us back.

It ended up being another early night for us. Watching the stars and clouds from the balcony, flipping through the TV, before drifting to sleep in our big comfy bed on the last night of our honeymoon.