Soy milk drinkers beware!!

For those out there who are soy milk drinkers and enjoy paying too much for coffee at Starbucks, keep your eye on the container that your soy milk comes from. If you are lucky enough to get the butt end of the container, its in your best interest to ask for a new drink, or at least, soy milk from a new container. Twice I've been the lucky recipient of chunky soy milk in my coffee and its getting old, no pun intended. If its a hot drink the chunks tend to solidify into a strange waxy clump, but if its a cold drink it tends to be a rubbery and also slightly chunky mush at the bottom of the drink.

Its always so frustrating when you treat yourself to Starbucks before work only to end up with a drink that you can't drink!

Exercise smarts

Don't get overzealous when attempting to do side squats for the first time. And by overzealous I mean, 10 on each side. I felt the need to be fit on Sunday, and am hoping to god that I'm able to walk normally by this Friday. My stiff, Frankenstein stroll surely isn't helping me make friends at my new job.

Day 1

To all those taking the bar, good luck today, and good luck tomorrow. Its been a long, stressful haul from May until now, but shortly it will all be over with and we'll be able to continue on with our lives. Hooray!

Jonathan was fortunate to have a kitty study buddy for the last few days of his studying, however, I highly doubt Toby was much help. Sure he makes it look like he studies till he has nothing left, but don't be fooled by his cute kitty ways.

Yuppie Shame

Tonight's dinner menu included salmon, rice, spinach and of course an appetizer of bacon wrapped dates. So like a good little cook, after work I went to my local Safeway, the whole time desperately fighting the urge to go to Whole Foods, to pick up a fresh salmon fillet. After a few seconds of checking out the single salmon fillet left in the seafood case I decided its never a good thing when seafood is being sold at a clearance rate of half off.

Back in my car I headed to a Safeway I'd seen in a ritzier part of town. A part of town that has a higher ratio of Lexus' and BMWs than beater trucks and Civics. Yes, I can be a judgmental bastard. Even the outside had an appeal that made smile on the inside, this was going to be a good grocery trip.

Here comes the yuppie shame.

This Safeway is the kind of place that makes me want to get a second job. The fresh meat and seafood displays made my mouth water. I longed to throw a dinner party, who cares if we don't have friends yet. The isles were just slightly larger, more spacious, and better lit than our local Safeway. The coup de gras wasn't the amazing wine/liquor section, nor the beautiful bakery and over priced bins, but the nut bar. The nut bar was a doughnut shaped glass enclosure of shear nut glory. Surely during the day a nut expert would wait in the nut bar to serve your every gourmet nut need. Never have I ever seen such a thing. I'm not the biggest fan of nuts, but the sight of it made me want to buy some just to have the nut bar purchasing experience. It took all my will power not to stop and stare for too long. Too hard of a stare would surely signal that I wasn't from around these parts.

Yeah I admit, its strange to have such strong feelings for a Safeway, but for all those who do the weekly shopping, I'm willing to bet you understand the experience. This is a kind of place that makes you re-prioritize your budget. Should I feel guilty for being so materialistic, probably, but did I enjoy the fresher tasting salmon, baked goods and bin treats that I gathered... hell yes I did.

Wienermobile

The Hupps heart the Wienermobile. Hell, if we had a house, we would be proud to be the house that the Wienermobile crashed into. Check out these lucky bastards http://jalopnik.com/5317291/wienermobile-crashes-bun+first-into-wisconsin-ho
use/gallery/. You might say its sick to consider an over-sized hot dog on wheels stuck in your house a good thing, but I dare say its a National icon and, darn it, it would be an honor.

PS. Apparently the Hupps also heart beer, "what's a hot dot without beer"? Personally one of the Hupps prefers a visit from the Captain, or rather his better tasting, higher proof associate, "Sailor Jerry", but let's let bygones be bygones and have a moment of silence in respect for the awesome Wienermobile.

Our casita

Check out some pictures of our casita! All of these pictures are pre-moving truck. Once we get our stuff organized I'll post some pictures of our house complete with way too much of our stuff.

Alerts

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Home sweet home

Rock band is up and running. All is well in the Hupp residence.

Moving day in Phoenix - temp around 115

This past Sunday was a beautiful day because at 7:30 am on the dot, the ginormous moving truck containing our worldly possessions finally arrived. I'm not one for Semi-Truck love, but this truck stole my heart. I mean look at it, its the biggest truck I've ever seen and its, well, its just cool! We loved the fact that, despite the truck's massive size, like the average mover, it too ran out of room. Strapped to the back were 4 mattresses. Strapping mattresses on the back of an over-sized tractor trailer is just about as silly as "holding down" a full sized mattress on top of your car while you speed down the freeway.

Some of the side shots show how tight our stuff was packed in. It took the movers about 2 hours to get everything out of the Arlington apartment and into the truck, but it only took them about an hour to get it all crammed into our living room.

Despite having almost passed out due to a shelving assembly injury (mind you I have 3 tattoos and have never in my entire life come this close to passing out from pain), in 13 hours of unpacking we made darn good progress. We still have a little organizing to do but for the most part it was a rather productive day. Granted, about 2/3 of our boxes remain closed and "neatly" stacked in or second bedroom, its finally nice to have our stuff and make our temporary apartment more of a temporary home.

Check out the album for some lovely moving photos. (**includes a picture of my gross injury, yes I can be dramatic**)

Keepin it classy Arizona

In Arizona they're called Cabarets, thank you. Some less than choice names include: Dick's Cabaret, and BandAids. BandAids has to be the strangest. Maybe there is some sexy allure there that I'm not picking up on, but all I can think of is the random scraggly dirty band-aid you occasionally come accross on the street. aka- not sexy.

Road trip pictures

Welcome to Huppdates, where you'll find all the latest news on the Hupps. Thrilling, I know.

Check out the slide show for a variety of pics from our trip. They're in order from VA to TN to AR to OK to TX to NM to AZ. Please keep in mind these are pretty much all taken through a bug covered windshield while driving, so some may be a wee blurry or spotted with windshield victims.

Religious disclaimer: Please be aware there will be Jesus billboards as well as pictures of Jesus truck stops. No intent to offend here, just interesting observations from the non-religious Hupps.