Striking gold!

So my dearling fiance once worked with this guy named Ben Coleman. Have you watched "America's Toughest Jobs" yet? Yep, he's the carpenter with the dreads. Jonathan sent me an excited text message, "The show Ben's in is on tonight!" I decided to set the DVR and save it for him. My poor lovie does not have cable at his own apartment. I will tell you, in person, Ben does not seem so babyfaced. I was taken aback a wee bit. Maybe I just get distracted by those dreads. He's really such a sweet, nice guy in real life. Root for him to win! Anywho. This item of the day is in Ben's honor, who today was debuted as a prospector! He and his competition were in Alaska panning for gold!
So what you need is a gold panning kit. http://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/gopakitdeset.html It's about $50 but come on, it's deluxe! Now, I didn't watch the whole episode, because I'm still feeling lousy and have every intention of sleeping once I'm done updating for you fine people. But when I left Ben wasn't doing so well with finding gold. Let's hope he does better and comes up with a fabulous nugget. :)

So sorry I'm late!

I missed you all yesterday. So sorry. I was at my lovie's house being fed French toast made with cinnamon raisin bread and strawberries. It was delicious. How I adore Jonathan when he makes me breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. He's a fantastic chef, he should have gone to culinary school. But with that delicious breakfast I drank orange juice with some pulp because his other offer was coffee, even though he knows I dislike coffee greatly. Unless it's foamy espresso dunked into a hot chocolate! Sadly though espresso machines are madly expensive and I had to settle for OJ. So I searched and I searched and here I bring you:

Handspresso! It's $155 (okay, still steep but it's a PORTABLE ESPRESSO MACHINE!) You can get it here: http://tinyurl.com/6zl4wg (I apologize that it's a tinyurl, but seriously, it was like seven lines long...) I think I would love to have one of these to take with me on vacation. That way I can have a nice foamy mocha when I'm unhappily stuck in the woods of New Hampshire on the yearly family vacation that we have to take unless we all want my mother to go into momzilla mode and kill us all and then feed us to the wild animals who in turn get some weird disease from eating humans and they proceed to bite other animals and then they bite people and they spread the disease and then next thing you know we're all gonna die or be some weird mutant like in "I Am Legend"!!!! Man, I hated that movie.

I have a secret.

I do, and it's a lovely secret. For quite some time I've referred to my boyfriend as my fiance because we did indeed decide between ourselves that we are going to get married. Yesterday he told me a secret. I'm not supposed to tell yet. He's got to do something "official" before I can tell you what the secret is. But I won't need this item of the day in about 3 weeks time:

The 2-carat cup ladies and gentlemen! http://www.perfectwedding.com/fm-fd-2ccp.html Available in gold or platinum depending on where you purchase it! For about $15, it's a coffee mug and instead of a handle, it has a gargantuan engagement ring attached to it. Yup. In about 3 weeks I don't need the cup anymore... But I can't tell you what my secret is yet!

Heather For The Win

My world literature professor is very strict. Her tardiness and absentee policy is absurd. You cannot be tardy because if you come into class after she takes attendance she will mark you absent and it will not be changed. Keep in mind if you are absent 4 times you will be dropped from the class. Psycho much? Today I was eight minutes late. I came in after she had called the last name on the attendance list. She tells me, "You're going to be marked absent but you should really stay anyway." I said, "I don't know why I should stay if I'm marked absent because I do have other work I can get done." She says, "Prove to me you're worth keeping in the class and I'll mark you present." Today's topic? The Hebrew Scriptures! I am a Bible student. So we go through class and I participate, make good points, mention things that are in the Bible that were not in our assigned reading. At the end of class she begrudgingly marked me present saying she didn't expect such studiousness from a tardy person but clearly I did the reading. I said, "Actually I didn't read your assignment. I'm just very familiar with the Bible." Aaaaand win. My religion has NO connection at all with crosses or crucifixes, but I thought this was still an awesome item for today:

More from Perpetual Kid (http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1865) for $24 is the Good Book Flask! Oh how blasphemous. I will reiterate the fact that my religion does NOT USE CROSSES IN THEIR WORSHIP. Just to get that clear. Jesus died on a stake, not a cross. Aside from the fact that God forbade the use of idols in worship. But yah. Today seemed like a good day to be hiding hard liquor in the Good Book. Heather:1 College: 0

I've gotten lost and I can't get back!!

Anyone who knows me is well aware that one thing I did not inherit from my father is a sense of direction. You could also be told by most friends is that I have a fondness for things from the decade of my birth. By the way, I was born in 1989. So to combine the two, (one being a lack of mental compass and two being fantastic things from the 80's) I present to you:

The Knight Rider GPS system from Mio available for pre-order here: http://www.knightridergps.com/ How awesome would it be to have your very own K.I.T.T.?! "Hello Michael. Where would you like to go today?" "K.IT.T., today we're going to the coolest place in the world. My place."

First day of school!

Today began my second semester of college at good old CCRI. Have I told you what I'm going to school for? Currently I'm a liberal arts major, but eventually I'm hoping to earn my masters in library science. Yes! I am going to grow up to be a librarian! So to help me practice, I would love to own one of these:

Attainable for $19.99 here: http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2045 This way I can practice by lending out my own personal library like a real grown up librarian!

Last day of freedom.

Classes begin again tomorrow thus ending my three days of absolute freedom. Today I decided I needed to make myself useful and made myself some brownies! They were wonderful. But as I perused the intarwebz with my StumbleUpon button (you should try it! It's fantastic!) I found this little beauty:

I am probably one of the nerdiest people you've ever had some semblance of contact with. This pie plate with Pi in it! The rim has the number pi up to the first few dozen decimal points... I would pay $25 for this irony in ceramic in a heartbeat if I wasn't so broke. Does anyone want to buy it for me? PayPal me the money? http://www.thewirelesscatalog.com/wireless/Collectibles_1DA/View-All-Collectibles_1DB/Item_The-Pi-Dish_VC4603_ps_cti-1DB.html Anyone? Bueller? No, I'm kidding of course, I don't presume I'm so interesting that people will provide me with useless things like Pi plates and such. Although really, help a girl out. I now work 4 hours a week and I'm a full time student. PayPal? Bueller?