Uff-da blog! I’m glad it’s Friday. This week sucked in a variety of ways–terrible heartburn (solution: Omeprazole), a few items that I’m not blogging about (sigh), and Bear Cub vomiting (solution: stop giving Bear Cub potatoes from your stew, LIZ). The hilarious part about being woken up in the middle of the night to a vomiting Bear Cub is that she walked PAST the carpet to throw up on the laminate! What a smart little Cub! So much easier to clean up.

The topper to this crapp-o week, however, occurred last night, as I was driving myself to my eyelash appointment. This drive used to take 6 minutes, but now that we have moved it takes anywhere from 25-60 minutes, depending on the traffic. You can imagine 5 o’clock on a rainy dark Thursday night in Seattle would be pretty ugly, right? RIGHT. So ugly that as I was waiting in the turn lane for the final turn to get to the salon, the lady behind me rear-ended me. My first rear-ending experience! I suppose it was time. It was nothing more than a “tap”, I wasn’t injured, but today in the daylight I inspected my car and there was definitely a couple of small screw indentations from her car embedded on my rear bumper. Considering it’s a sad 2007 VW with multiple problems, including about a billion scratches from a wild camping trip back in 2012, what am I gonna do? Call her up and make her pay for it? Blerp. I would prefer not to.

One of my patients this morning cheered me up by reminding me that bad things happen in threes, and I have definitely reached the three limit this week. I’m done! No more! Things are looking UP from now on! Speaking of things looking up, we finally put up some art in the office so now I get to look up and see “Hippie Dude” smiling down at me while I sit at the computer. Ahhhhh.

In the midst of all that terrible heartburn, we (ironically) ran out of coffee, and I purchased this exciting Bob Marley coffee. What was I going to do, give up coffee? HA! Of all the items to avoid with a GERD diagnosis (which I don’t even have, just occasional flare-ups), coffee and chocolate are the LAST things I would avoid. The others, alcohol (coming up on 7 years sobriety next month), tomatoes (easy), citrus (no problem), peppermint (I prefer wintergreen) aren’t a big deal. Omeprazole worked like a charm.

Josh bought this framed painting years ago, before we even met–just for the frame alone, which was white. I convinced him to keep the painting all these years, and recently I painted the frame gold. It was his idea to spray paint the fun stencil over the top. A Liz and Josh art collaboration!

Bah ha, we started watching the 4th season of the ever-entertaining, completely obnoxious show “Workaholics”. The first episode, where the boys don neon to attend the Electric Daisy Carnival, caught my eye. Naturally.

We also recently watched Nick Offerman’s stand-up “American Ham”, which was funny, full of great advice, and also very very sweet every time he talks about how much he adores his wife, Megan Mullally. Good old Megan! I’ve been craving Karen videos lately!

Here are those two crazy kids answering relationship advice on the youtubes:

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some glitter-encrusted projects to do in my er…art “studio”. Ha! Have a fabbuu Friday, blog-logs!