Videochattin It Up

So my mom bought a webcam for me for my time in South Africa. And she just got a new laptop which has a webcam built in. So last night we thought we would try it out. Um I have never laughed so hard. She downloaded skype since that is probably what I will use while over there. On her computer there were all of these options for sound, the mac didn't have those...the one time I was like why doesn't my mac have cool options like that. So she could choose what her voice would sound like when I heard her talk on my computer. There were options like you sucked helium, you could talk in accents (one was british...i think ;)), and there was one that made her voice really low like a mans. I have never laughed so hard. The funniest thing was she got it stuck on the man voice. So it was like this sort of feminine southern man voice every time she said something and she kept talking because she couldn't hear it. OMG funny! We finally figured out how to get it off that but it took awhile so it was money...money!

May's List

Satellite - Guster
Come Around - Rhett Miller
Nightswimming - REM
27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty
Two Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money
Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield
Two Times - The Blakes
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
Next To Me (Wait a Minute Sister) - Gavin DeGraw
All Good Things - The Weepies
When a Heart Breaks - Dave Barnes
Just One Day - Jeremy Lister
The Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavigne
Grey Skies - Josh Kelley
I Feel It All - Feist
Hallelujah - Paramore
The First Single - The Format

You know it, I love it.

If you've been around me any amount of time, you probably know I will own this...

Ooooohh...there's a snake

I never like to utter these words. I did this morning as I was picking blackberries behind my parents' house. Good thing I had my contacts in or that garter snake would have looked a lot like a juicy berry. I said "Ooohhh, there's a snake," and promptly backed up. As Bob came over to look at it, I moseyed inside. Bob's been known to throw snakes on you or near you.

YIKES!

All of this after watching 3 Indiana Jones movies yesterday, all of which featured large reptiles. 

Happy Mother's Day, Kay! I hope that snake doesn't get in your window!

Adventures with Nanny

So my Nanny is quite the character. My mom and I went to take her out to lunch for Mothers' Day today. First of all I love the names of her friends, shes got a Lou Gene and Clia T...lets not forget her real name is Letra. Letra I mean how histerical is that, she never tells people that though...if you were to ask she would say Virginia because thats what she goes by. I've got the inside though.

So we're sitting at lunch today chatting it up and she starts talking about Martha Stewart's show "you know I just don't like that Martha Stewart...she doesn't give away anything. But you know ELLEN she's always giving away stuff." Thats right Nanny its all about giving stuff away.

Let me just tell you my Nanny looooves jewelry. Nothing fake, only the best for Letra. She says "you know I can't wear anything but gold". MMm hmmm I'm sure thats true, me too Letra. Now give me some of those diamonds.

And of course she is trying to fix me up. UGH. She said you know I almost called so and so and told her to bring that Blake and meet us. What how awkward would that have been?? Am I really getting fixed up by my Nanny...gosh I need a man.

Then we go to take her home and she starts going through her food giving us stuff to take home. She opens the fridge and there are at least 10 nail polishes in the door. All red and bright pink of course. I think my Nanny sees by one get one free and thinks I have to have that. I have never seen so much food for one person, two of everything. I mean she sent us home with prob. 6 boxes of cereal.

Thats all I've got this time...I'll attach a pic so you can see what Letra looks like.

SIDENOTE - Somehow the ring is messed up on my parents house phone and every time it rings, it plays some Christmas song but it sounds like if you opened a jewelry box and the ballerina is twirling. Necie says I have no idea how that happened...what in the world.

This just in...

Hell has frozen over...Kay McDonnell has a facebook account. I'm not sure what's more disturbing: that I had to go take her phone numbers and home address off of it, or that she hasn't even asked her daughter to be friends.

Amber's May Playlist

Charlie Chaplin - Katie Herzig
Live High - Jason Mraz
The Offer - Katie Herzig
Say - John Mayer
Sweeter Than This - Katie Herzig
Shine (Live) - David Gray
I Want to Belong to You - Katie Herzig (oh how i love this song)
Violet Hill - Coldplay
Split Screen Sadness - John Mayer
Shut Up and Let Me Go - The Ting Tings
The Con(Live) - Tegan and Sara
Ain't Nothing Wrong With That - Robert Randolph
Wonderful World - James Morrison
In Love With a Girl - Gavin DeGraw
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
Who Knows? - Natasha Bedingfield
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Sweet and Low - Augustana
Goodbye, Apathy - OneRepublic