Presumed to be awesome.

October already??? How the heck did that happen? Seriously, this year is just zooming by. But, I do gotta say that I'll be happy to see summer and its hellish temps gone. Please to be bringing on Fall now, Mother Nature!

I've been cranking out the resumes and werking the job search this week. And, seriously, this shit is exhausting. It's just damn tiring to be "selling" yourself all the time! Yes, I'm fabulous, now hire me dammit! *sigh*

In betterer news, the Phoenix AIDS Walk is this Sunday and now not only is my mom walking with me *loves* but my 7 year old niece, Rianna, is also walking! She told me today that she's invited to a birthday party on Sunday, but she'd rather do the AIDS Walk with me because that's more important. So proud of her!

In other Octoberish news, I really want to go see this burlesque show! They have a show on Saturday and then a Halloween show on October 30th. Any locals wanna go with me?

Also, relevant to none of the above, I really want a Datman T-shirt!!! Jeremy Shockey tweeted about getting a new Datman shirt because he had worn his old one out with too many washings! Haha! He's fabulous! So is that t-shirt! *wants*

Today's happiness, let me tell you about it! *g*

First, last night there was this:



Thank you, boys, for the epic degrees of fanservice you are dishing up on this tour. Please feel free to lick each other any time the mood strikes. *g*


And then there are the plans for N'awlins shenanigans in September that are underway! I managed to put all my lawyerly skills to bear and persuade azewewish to join me and coolwhipdiva for said shenanigans. Or, you know, NOT REALLY. Because, really, she did not put up much resistance. *g* But, OMG, New Orleans, and Adam, and Adam and Tommy licking each others' faces, and Saints football, and Jeremy Shockey's abs and ink, and beignets, and ME AND MY GIRLS RAISING HELL IN N'AWLINS!!!!! I might be a little bit excited about this. *g*


And then there's all the World Cup related excitement. I, sadly, missed this mornings amazing U.S. win because I had to be in court. Nevertheless, GO USA!!! I hope those boys are celebrating properly, which, you know, should include lots of post-game adrenaline fueled sex. *g*

ETA:


More awesome picspam of pretty boys celebrating (sadly NOT with hot, post-game adrenaline fueled sex) HERE. (Link courtesy of mistresscurvy.)


But the HAPPIEST part of today involves one adorable and ridiculously hot POCKET IDOL!!! KRIS!!!!!! Tonight! I'll be skipping out of work early to drive down to Tucson with llandaffaz and zoniduck. We plan on getting lost on the way to the Rialto (dear gods, I've never managed to make it there without getting lost and then accidentally finding it!), and then we plan on stalking accidentally running into Kris and the band (what? it totally could happen by coincidence! *g*), and then we plan on ROCKING OUR FACES OFF at the show!!! Good times, people, this is sure to be damn good times.

I didn't actually get lost on my way back from L.A. It's just that this week has been certifiably insane, and I haven't had a spare moment to come here and properly exclaim over my fantastic weekend!

coolwhipdiva and I co-hosted an early Mardi Gras party on Saturday, together with hurricanes (dear heavens, the rum consumed!), jambalaya (J outdid herself! so yummy!), lots of beads (although there weren't nearly enough accompanying bared boobs *sadface*), king cake direct from NOLA (I'm pretty sure azewewish is now tasked with throwing the next bash), good times with a whole bunch of truly amazing friends, and the awesome music of one Cassidy Haley! It was a blast! As you can clearly tell from this hilarious picture:



( Obviously the rum was flowing freely! )

And then Cassidy showed up and proceeded to rock the hell out of The Living Room of Acoustic Awesomeness.



He sang several songs off of "Little Boys and Dinosaurs," including Burn, Whiskey in Churches, and Daylight Breaks He also played some of his new material that will be on the CD that's slated to release next month -- The Spindle and Foolish Boy. I probably won't remember his full set, but I know he also did This Time and Dying to Live and his newest Cheesy Love Song, which I'm not sure if that's what it's really called, but it was fantastic!

He was AMAZING live! I am more excited than ever for his new CD and upcoming tour!!!

Also, just for the record, Cassidy is very, very pretty. And he has incredibly white teeth. *g*



( Moar Cassidy! )

In addition to being amazingly talented and just really fucking pretty, Cassidy it turns out is just a lovely person, so nice and personable. He is ridiculously charming!

Here's me, being ridiculously charmed by Mr. Haley! *g*



One of the guests also video recorded most of Cassidy's set. She's unfortunately turned off the embedding code, but you can see them [HERE].

( ETA: Vids now embedded. )


In addition to fabulous Mardi Gras festivities, on Sunday we got together for a Super Bowl party at Casa Hooker. It was amazing beyond my ability to adequately describe to watch the Saints win that game, AND to watch it with my girls! We screamed our throats raw, and there were more than a few tears shed. Sean Payton has balls of steel, man; and Jeremy looked SO happy *pets*; and Drew is just too awesome for this world! It was, in short, AH-MAY-ZING!

The entire weekend, in fact, was AWESOMER!

This week has not been easy. I'm definitely ready for it to be over. But, even so, there have been good things, small rainbows among the rain.

:: I made a large pot of gumbo from Thanksgiving's left over turkey and it's DELICIOUS! How did gumbo end up being my comfort food of choice???

:: While today was insanely busy, with crazy clients, back-to-back court hearings, difficult negotiations, and no time for lunch, I did manage to squeeze in time for a Starbuck's Peppermint Mocha and it was SO GOOD! It was like Christmas in a cup! Mmmmm.

:: idiosyncratic wrote this Jason Taylor/Jeremy Shockey bit and it made me insanely happy!

:: I've got the most amazing friends ever! *loves*

:: Disneyland in only 15 days!!! Which also means a trip in to L.A. to catch Steve Carlson's show and, most importantly, to see my girls!!! I can't wait!!!

Oh my. I just had the most delicious dinner!!! I tried a new recipe -- mediterranean lemon chicken -- because on one of my walks through the neighborhood last week, a neighbor was freely giving out huge bags of lemons. So I had lots of lemons, even after the delicious fresh squeezed lemon aide. The mediterranean lemon chicken recipe is definitely a keeper! Lemon-y and garlic-y and absolutely delicious!!! I paired the chicken with a baked potato and carrots and the whole thing was just YUMMY!

Also, most definitely in the YUMMY category, Tom Brady was practicing in my neighborhood earlier today:


( More of the yummy. )

As much as I love Captain Hotass and his boys and I'm really looking forward to Sunday's game, their presence in town is fucking with my daily zen-like existence. Holy hell, traffic downtown this morning was a mess! I was more than 30 minutes late to court this morning because I just could not get near enough to the damn courthouse. And while I won't go near downtown Scottsdale or the arena in Glendale if my life depended on it, I can't help but have to make my way downtown every day. *grumble* Tomorrow I'm giving myself an extra hour, because I'm sure the craziness will only get worse as we get closer to the game. *grumbles more*

( In other yummy, but definitely sadder, news... )