A Brush With Greatness. And Hotness.

Z informs me last week that he heard where 2 of our favorite Sounders players, Kasey Keller and Freddie Ljunberg, were going to be signing autographs at the Home Depot by our house at 5:30 on October 22nd. We make plans then and there to leave work early so we can attend. Z buys a mini Sounders soccer ball for them to sign. We don (is that the right spelling?) our Sounders attire in the AM and head over yesterday at 4:30pm.

The line was really long – looped around most of the inner perimeter of the store – by the time we got there a little before 5. But we finally got up to the front and got signatures about 6:30 I think. Let me just say this – Ljunberg is hot and I’ve always known that. But there is something about him in person that makes him HOTTTTTTT! Seriously. First off, he was wearing this nice white shirt and vest – so hot. And then we get up to the table and he looks up at me with a big ol' smile and says in his great little Swedish accent “Hello! How are you doing?” Like he genuinely cares and hasn’t just said the same thing to 300 people already (which I’m sure he has). I say “I’m good! How are you?” But before he could really answer the stupid woman in charge of keeping things moving snaps at me “what are you having signed?!” to which I point at the scarf (that I’m having signed for Z since he’s getting the soccer ball signed) that Kasey was already signing at that very moment. She then realizes that she probably sounded pretty bitchy and says “Oh, ok. I just wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out” or something like that. Yeah, well guess what Lady. Now I have missed out. Missed out on a brief conversation and possibly deep, spiritual connection with an underwear model. Not cool.

And then I really didn’t get a chance to say anything to Kasey. Although I feel we must’ve had a subconscious connection, as we both wore our Seahawks hats yesterday. Kasey looked pretty hot, too, I must say. He was kinda scruffy and was wearing glasses – a feature that I have liked about guys since I was in highschool. Glasses get me. Anyway, we did smile at each other at least and Z and I thanked him as we took our stuff. The girl in front of Z was hogging Kasey and after he signed our ball the chick makes like she’s going to pick it up. Z grabs it and says “Um, that’s mine.” To which Kasey says “Sorry. Man, I don’t know” with a sort of shrug as if to say “it’s chaos. I don’t know what’s going on” in a funny sort of way so he and Z share a chuckle I guess. I don’t know, I was too busy bonding with Ljunberg and gettin’ ready to rumble with the hooker who interrupted us.

So anyway, we got the signatures on a ball and on Z’s scarf. I realized afterward that if I’d been thinking, I would’ve printed out pics that I’ve taken of them at the games and had them each sign them. D’oh! Maybe next time, I guess.

For your viewing pleasure, please enjoy these rushed-so-not-great-but-passable photos taken on my iphone:

"Camel is EVERYTHING!"

Snuggies are funny. I laugh at the commercials and I laugh when I see them at the store. But I've gotta admit, as one who is always cold during the fall/winter/spring in Seattle since it's hella expensive to turn on the electric heat, I kinda want one.

So I hear rumor that you can find Snuggies now that have your favorite team's logo on them. Sweet. Thanks to Google I quickly find a Seattle Seahawks "blanket snuggie." No, this is not a legitimate Snuggie. It's a knockoff. I'm apparently a Snuggie snob now, as I found myself thinking "I don't want to fork out the cash if it's not a real Snuggie." Seriously. Then my train of thought had me wondering if they came with the logos of colleges, because a BSU Snuggie would be pretty sweet, too, and could double as a Christmas gift for a few folks on my list. That's right, I said it. So I return to trusty Google and am informed that not only do such Snuggies exist, but they are LEGITIMATE Snuggies! Made by the real Snuggie company that started it all. Oh, the glory of it all.

For those of you not familiar with the many options presented to a shopper when deigning to purchase a Snuggie, I can tell you there are many. At the grocery last week I saw the "Designer prints" of "leopard" and "zebra." I also saw the standard blue Snuggie, as well as the ever-so-feminine pink Snuggie. There is also a child's size Snuggie and, though it was not available at Albertson's (or perhaps sold out), there is a Snuggie for dogs. Brilliant. What dog wouldn't love it? According to the website, you can also get a green snuggie. You can even custom design your Snuggie to say whatever you want! Oh, the possibilities.

So to summarize - there are 3 colors - pink, blue and green. And there are "Designer Prints." That's ridiculous in and of itself. But here's where I started laughing: On the website, there is an ad for all of the "Designer Prints." Apparently, Albertson's was not offering all of the options, and the one they were missing is the one I probably would've bought for the pure hilarity. The 3rd print: "camel."

You may be asking yourself, "what exactly does a camel print look like?" Well I can tell you. It's brown. That's it. It's a brown Snuggie. But I guess some genius at the Snuggie corporation decided that it would not sell as well as the green, blue or pink Snuggies if it was just sold as a brown Snuggie. But if you market this gem as a "Designer print" and call it "camel," get ready for them to fly off the shelves. Again, they weren't at Albertson's, so perhaps this was true and I just arrived too late.

Anyway, Z and I have a long-standing joke about camels being "everything." We were once watching some travel show and the host was interviewing a Bedouin and he was describing how the camel is everything: "Camel is shelter. Camel is transport. Camel is everything." (To be honest, I don't remember if those were the examples he gave. We've added so many things onto the list over the years that I don't remember what the original definition of "everything" was, but you get the idea). Anyway, it is now official. Camel is Snuggie. Camel IS everything.(Thanks again to Google, who supplied me with this random photo of 3 random dudes modeling 3 Snuggie options, most notably, "camel.")

New and Improved! Well...new.

Oooooh! Ahhhh! Look at the pretty new colors! Until I learn enough about html to actually know how to create my own layout here, I'm kinda stuck with whatever generic layouts Blogger gives me to choose from. For giggles I decided to check it out and see if they had anything new for me to pick today, perhaps giving me inspiration for a new post. And look - new colors! I mean, it may not even be a new layout design option, but for whatever reason, the darker colors spoke to me today. Perhaps it's my mood. Or maybe the weather. Whatever, now the background is blue. It's exciting stuff, I know.

However, still no inspiration to write about anything even remotely interesting. I'll keep trying.

Oh, and if anyone reading this has any suggestions for topics they'd like me to tackle, I'm open to suggestions...