My Quarter Life Crisis

I'm baaaacck!!

2011-06-22T10:30:00.001-06:00

Good morning everyone!! Holy cow, talk about an unintented blog hiatus, whoops!! I have been so insanely crazy busy I have not even had a chance to catch my breath, and I'm not sure the rest of the summer is going to slow down at all either! I will just do a quick overview of what I have been up to the last couple of months.

-Two more weeks were spent in Houston
-1 Week was spent in Tulsa
-1 long weekend with Mr. Man's family
-1 long weekend visiting sissy face in Chicago
-1 weekend in Austin and Dallas for a friends wedding
-Not to mention we finally found our dream house and moved in between all of this!!!!!
I am still in shock that we are homeowners but I'm sure once that first mortgage payment is made it will feel like something for real.
over the next couple of blog posts I will go into greater detail of the great trips I have been fortunate enough to be able to go on and take you on a tour of the new digs.
Soooo glad to be back with yall, YEAH!!!
Happy Hump Day everyone!

FINALLY

2011-05-10T10:48:00.003-06:00

Every single time I think life could not get any more crazy, it goes and does another flip! I have spent the last month (very last minute) in Houston helping my company do some research. I literally would pack my bag on Saturday or Sunday night and fly out the next day for 5 or 6 days...talk about exhausting! I finally got home last week and spent the whole entire week unpacking, doing laundry and 'attempting' to get back on track at work, wowza! To add insult to injury I would try to spend the weekend with Mr. Man and the realtor house hunting! Guess what? We did it!!! We did it, the house is purchased, well as of close on May 25th. I still am in complete awe. Not to mention appliance hunting is pretty darn overwhelming too. I feel like I fianlly might be able to settle down a little bit when work surprises me again and I leave for Tulsa tomorrow...FOR REAL!? It has been soo crazy, but crazy/busy is always great in my book. Can't wait to be back in Colorado for a little while and celebrate being half way to 26 (!?) this weekend. Finally back to some reagularly scheduled programming, I promise!

We are on the hunt...

2011-04-08T10:35:00.003-06:00

For a house that is!! Mr. Man and myself have been on the hunt for about a month now for the perfect starter home for the two of us. Let me tell you how excited I was to begin this process, that is until we are now knee deep in decisions and talking about more money than I could have ever imagined!! My goodness, you want to put how many zeroes into that space?? So far it has been an eye opening experience and it has been wonderful to look at different potential homes and thinking about the life we will start together, it is all just too much sometimes!! It is frustrating and rewarding and luckily today we are going to look at a place for the second time. Everyone cross your fingers for us! It is rather difficult to come to reality and realize that the house you are actually able to afford is not going to look a whole lot like the house in the movie Father of the Bride...sad sad!!

Where am I??

2011-04-06T12:25:00.003-06:00

Holy cow it has been a crazy whirlwind of 3 weeks at my house. Last minute I was asked by my company to depart Denver for in 3 days time to Houston, come home for the weekend, and depart once more on Monday night for another 4 day stint. Wowza!! If any of you know me personally you know that I am absoloutely 100% TERRIFIED to fly. I have no idea why, it is one of those unexplainable fears. Anywho, not too exciting to fly for me especially when I may or may not break down in a massive panic attack in front of 6 co-workers. To me that just equals total awesomeness! Where do I sign up. Enough of the boring details, I end up working 15-18 hour days while I am in Houston and completely exhausted by the time I get home. Poor Mr. Man was landing in Oklahoma City, while I was taking off from Houston so I didn't get to see him :( Cue the violin music please, hehe. Anyway, week 2 was about the same work wise, we kicked some serious bootahy and boarded the plane back home late late Thursday night. I swear to you the only thing that got me back on that plane and through the rest of last week was knowing that Colorado Rockies Opening Day was on Friday!!!! Lucky for me, my office offers 1/2 day Friday's so I took full advantage of that and happily skipped down to Coors Field!! It was an amazing day!! Great weather, great friends, and I may or may not have indulged in a hot dog and embarassingly enough an ice cream cone too!! WHAT!?? I had a rough two weeks!:) Regardless, I am back with a blogging vengence, so get excited for a summer full of fun activities, travel, and excitement. Hope you are all well!

A decision is made!

2011-03-14T16:36:00.002-06:00

After tons of discussions and waaay too many hours searched on the internet, Mr. Man and myself have decided to bite the bullet and go on a fabulous beach getaway to HAWAII!!! AHHHHHH, I seriously cannot even wait. I am too excited to sleep and when I finally do get to sleep I dream of a fruity cocktail with a little umbrella inside, fresh smelling plumeria and sandy beaches for miles. Do you ever have to check yourself and think how you ever got so lucky!? Recently I have been pinching myself every single day. Life is busy and filled with such great opportunities you can't help but take a step back and realize how lucky you are to live the life that you do. Thanks for the input and more to come this week (I promise) of some of the fabulous beach details!

California Dreaming....

2011-02-25T09:56:00.003-07:00

Or something like that at least! I am dying for a beach getaway, my goodness. Mr. Man and myself are trying to pick a budget friendly beach destination for a couple days and let me tell you something, that's NOT an easy feat! Loves me some Mexico but been there done that. I would basically give my left arm to be tooling around the Italian countryside, sipping wine one day, and laying on a Grecian beach the next, however, that is not in this gals budget :(. So where do I go?? The caribbean? Costa Rica?? Perhaps a nice beach getaway in the states?? HELP! What are your favorite vacau spots??

Ahhhhh, wishful thinking!

I swear this picutre is the only thing getting me through the cold dreay day today!

Total side note, however, I bought my first pair of skinny jeans last weekend and I simply cannot get enough of them! Happy weekend everyone!

Its A Party For Your Feet!

2011-02-03T16:39:00.003-07:00

Listen up ya'll! Is there anything better than looking down at your shoes on any particular day and just know that your feet are happy with your choice of shoe today?? I know that if I had these two pairs of shoes my feet would be have a PAR-TAHY all day long. I have decided that these shoes are past want in my book but have moved on to a flat out NEED!! They are way to fabulous to pass up!

Flat out fabulous!!

Snow Day!?

2011-01-31T15:54:00.002-07:00

I have been praying to the snow gods all afternoon hoping for a snow day tomorrow!! Most of the schools around Denver have already closed and my office is closing early, so can it be that tomorrow is a fun filled day spent romping around in all of the fluffy white stuff!?? If everyone out there can please get out of your chairs and do the snow dance with me that would be most greatly appreciated!!! PLEASE!!! If there is no snow day tomorrow we are looking at facing bone chilling temperatures of -18 without windchill and playing ice capades with our cars...Nothing good!!! So please please please SNOW!!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend and ya'll are staying warm and cozy!

I finally did it!

2011-01-24T12:46:00.003-07:00

I finally bit the bullet and signed up for a road race. I have been talking about running my first half marathon going on three years now and have never done it!! So I decided enough was enough and I took the first step. I signed up to be on a relay race for the Colfax Half Marathon in Denver this summer. I opted to get my 10K race out of the way before the summer marathon so I will be running a little over 6 miles. I better get my booty to a gym STAT!! I have always been the type of person to need a little motivation in my life. If I say I am going to do something I need to have an end goal in sight, not just oh yeah this year I will do it. I need a firm date of when I will complete this, just the way I do things I suppose. Not only is it my first ever 10K but it is also on the morning of my birthday, I'm thinking this one could not get any better. Have any of you had good experiences with road races, or horror stories for that matter??

I have chosen to work with Hal Higdon's novice training schedule to ensure that I stay on track with my training and that I kick some booootay in my first half marathon. Here's to 13.1 in 2011~!

Thanks goodness that's over!

2011-01-05T13:30:00.002-07:00

I don't know about you all but I am breathing a sigh of relief that all of the holidays are over. Call me Scrooge but I had my Christmas tree down the day after Christmas and all of my gifts were put away instead of displaying them proudly under the tree for another week. Quite honestly I was just really anxious to get back to my real life. I like my schedule and I like my daily routine, what can I say, I'm boring.

New Year's came and went and there was not too much excitement, just good friends at an un-crowded bar sharing in merriment and a few drinks, it was good. Of course Mr. Man decided he needed to go skiing up in Breckenridge on New Year's Eve Day, even though it was slated to be a bone chilling -25 degrees, for real!! I obliged because I told him he would learn his lesson sooner rather than later. I have skied these slopes my whole life, the mountains have never once left my sight except when I am on vacation, I do not feel pressured to get a million ski days in for one season...for goodness sakes we have already gone 8 times, phew!!! But like I said I went, I skied run one and....I went to the bar with the girls. Are you all shocked?? I wasn't doing it. I gave it my best shot and I gave up, yup I said it, I GAVE UP!! Here's to a better ski weekend coming up and a little bit of warmth in these moutains of ours...brr!! Happy Hump Day everyone!

Happy Holidays!

2010-12-29T15:33:00.003-07:00

I can't believe Christmas has come and gone and we are on to New Year's already!?? I swear when you get older the days and years for that matter go by so much faster, man oh man! I had a wonderful Christmas this year that was spent in Denver and the mountains. I got some great skiing in and spent some time with my great family. I am still deciding what to do for New Years...I HATE New Years, blech! No thanks!! I am debating going over to a friends house with Mr. Man in tow and just grilling steaks on the Bar-B-Que or just staying home and cooking a fabulous dinner just the two of us and drinking wine. I can't quite decide. What are you all doing for New Years?? Any big travel plans??

I am going to catch you all up on the last couple weeks of festivites through pics...enjoy!

We had a great turn out at our 3rd annual ugly Christmas sweater cookie Exchange...I found the most hideous night gown that I turned into a dress, it was phenomenal to say the least.

PS, I got Mr Man the sorel boots he has been dying for...DORK, lol.

A little ski date up in Vail, and yes we may or may not have similar jacket, I swear I have had mine for a lot longer than he has :)

Another great date weekend up in Breckenridge where we were able to get some great early season skiing in.

A final shot of the great mountain of Breckenridge...really wish I was there right now instead of at work, yuck!!

HELP!!

2010-12-14T14:29:00.002-07:00

I am in some serious need of some advice for Christmas ASAP!!! I have to tell you that Mr. Man is the hardest person to shop for ever! He wants floor mats for his new car for Christmas, seriously this is not a joke. Instead of buying him the floor mats (thank goodness I didn't order them becuase they ended up coming with the car) I went ahead and bought him his very own pair of Sorel snow boots. Yes, he is that nerdy and I love it :) However, the most brilliant idea popped into my head this morning that I should buy tickets to go see his beloved Oklahoma Sooners play the Connecticut Huskies at the Fiesta Bowl in AZ. It is close enough that we could actually drive and I found a killer deal on Ebay for some great seats. The only problem is that Mr Man is a little upset with his Sooners becuase of their past bowl game appearances. Needless to say there have not been too many victories in the past couple games he has been too. So do I go ahead and buy the tickets anyway, taking the chance his team will lose and we drove 10 hours to watch it? (Hello Missouri all over again!) Or do I stick with some sweet new rubber boots for the snow??? Help me!!
Thanks!!!

It's That Time Again!

2010-12-10T08:44:00.002-07:00

That's right folks, its cookie party time!! This is W and I's 3rd annual cookie party extravaganza and the baking as begun!! We could not be more excited to get together with all of our great friends and share yummy recipes and perhaps a cocktail or two around our beautiful Christmas tree. This is always one of my favorite times of the year becuase it gives everyone an excuse to gather around and eat tons and tons of stuff you normally wouldn't eat. Oh yeah and see people you haven't seen in a long time, that too :) Here is a yummy list of all the great things W and I will be baking/making this year for our party.
-Cream cheese dessert ball (my mouth is watering even thinking about it!)
-Sugar Cookies
-Cake balls
-Cream Cheese with Pickapeppa and wheat thins (sooo good, you must try it!)
-Bruschetta
-Queso (Loves me some cheese)
-Classic Veggie tray
-Puppy chow
-Chocolate covered Pretzels (homemade of course)
-Cream Cheese and Salomi tortillas (sounds weird, but again soo delish!)

That about covers it! I promise I will be back on Monday with a full recap with pictures and everything along with a re-cap of our great weekend spent in beautiful Vail, Colorado! Have a great weekend ya'll!

It's Christmas Time

2010-12-01T16:02:00.002-07:00

I can't believe it is already December, time flies!! W and myself are preparing to put up our Christmas tree tomorrow evening, I know a little bit behind the 8 ball on that one, whoops! It has been surprisingly warm here in Denver today so it doesn't feel like the first day of December. Here are a few things I am looking forward to this month:
-Looking at all the festively decorated houses throughout Denver
-Listening to Christmas music at work and not getting glared at for doing so!
-The smell of fresh cut X-mas trees
-How extra beautiful the mountains look with a bit of snow on top
-Eating some extra sweets and not feeling too guilty about it :) (I might have indulged in a few today, shh told tell)
-Baking and decorating Christmas cookies!
-Watching the Parade of Lights go through downtown and seeing the little kids faces light up
-Dew tour in Breckenridge
-Being surrounded by family and realizing how lucky you are to have such great relationships with everyone
-Purchasing presents for all of your loved ones and really putting the time and effort into each individual gift
-Finally CHRISTMAS DAY!!! I can't wait and may have a mental counter in my head that is ticking away as each day passes. Something similar to what we all had when we knew Santa was coming soon! Haha.
Hope everyone has a great first day of December. Great things are coming this month!

That's all she wrote

2010-11-29T14:24:00.002-07:00

Very short and quick post today folks, busy busy as usual. However, I would just like to say how excited I am to watch those crazy Sooner football players take on the Corn Huskers in this weekend's BCS championship game! Bring it on! Just a sidenote...I actually had to flip back and forth from the game on Saturday against OSU, it was waaay too intense for my liking. I thought I was going to have to pop a few Xanax, hahaha.

Hopefully you all got you your fill of yummy food and great family memories! Just a few more weeks till Christmas, I can hardly wait!

BOOMER SOONER BABY!!!

Lately...

2010-11-22T09:36:00.002-07:00

Pretty much I have just been trying to keep my head above water, busy busy busy bee!! I love to be busy and function much better when I have a million things on my plate, but this may have put me over the edge. Work has been INSANE!!! I do actually enjoy what I do for the most part but we are so far behind on a lot of things and have received so much activity this year that it is darn near impossible to keep up. Anyway, enough complaining!

I have to tell you about my awesome trip up to Breckenridge this last weekend. The weekend before last W, Mr. Man, my friend H, and myself all piled into the car at quarter after six for a fabulous day of skiing. Considering it is still early season (like really really early season) the snow was AWESOME!! We all had a great time and we left a little early to miss the ski traffic, so I was still able to get in an epic nap on the couch! For real is there anything better??

Now onto the good stuff. This past weekend was busy busy as usual. Friday night we went to go see one of the infamous Warren Miller films at a huge theatre here in Denver. Needless to say we were pretty pumped to hit the trails on Saturday and see what we could do! After some yummy mexican food at our fav local spot, D'Corazon, we headed home and called it an early night so we would be well rested for our weekend activities. Saturday we went to Breckenridge and again and skiied like there was no tomorrow. The weather was absoloutely gorgeous, think Spring skiing, and the snow was heavenly! Mr. Man surprised me with a great hotel stay for the evening so we coudl get up on Sunday and ski some more before calling it a day. I tell you I am a lucky girl ;) We enjoyed a fabulous steak and lobster dinner and walked up and down main street until we couldn't keep our eyes open any longer. It is weekends like this when I am truly grateful for being given the good fortune of living next to the great Rocky Mountains. I am looking forward to many more weekends like this last one and also perfecting my skiing skills! :) Happy Turkey week everyone and hopefully you all had great weekends as well!!

It's snowing!!

2010-11-09T17:29:00.001-07:00

The first snow of the season started to fall here in Downtown Denver about 3 hours ago! I.AM.ELATED!! Sooo excited!! If it is snowing down here you all can only imagine what it looks like in the mountains!

Love it!!

Friday Fun

2010-11-05T10:40:00.004-06:00

This weekend my friend will be celebrating her glamorous 30th birthday filled with good friends, laughter, a limo, and who could forget the yummy cake!!! Can't wait. Also, tomorrow we are heading up for our first official ski day. Pay no mind to the fact that it is going to be 75 degrees here in Denver tomorrow, I honestly think mother nature forgot its September. Tonight is going to be nice and relaxing. Maybe a movie, maybe some wine, things might get crazy, haah, just kidding.

Here is just a little preview of the fun we had on Halloween last weekend, enjoy! Happy Friday everyone!!!

Gus, the Ostrich, needed a little lovin'

All three of us ready to go!

Neeeem-ho!!!

2010-11-03T11:58:00.001-06:00

Yes you guessed it, I was nem-ho for Halloween. Let's not mistake ourselves here though, have no fear that I was about the least scantily dressed lady in the bar that evening. I doctored the costume up with a tank and a cardigan as well as some tights, so there was no 'ho' in this girls outfit. Halloween was an absoloute blast though. Mr. Man was one of an ostrich jockey, it was one of those big blow up costumes and let me just say...HYSTERICAL!! His outfit was so much fun. He had a big beak and he kept walking up to complete strangers and sticking the ostrich beak into the patrons beer/drink cups. It made for a very fun night! This is going to be a short little post but I will be back tomorrow with some picture udpates!! Happy hump day everyone!

I know, I know

2010-10-27T13:27:00.002-06:00

I honestly have no idea what I do with my days anymore. All I know is I get home late fall into bed and repeat it all the next day. I am definitley the type of person who thrives on a busy schedule, but these last couple weeks have been a test! I have been CRAZY busy at work, and I finally for the first time in 3 years, feel like I am accomplishing something that helps the bottom line of the company :) My flag football team is in the semi-finals and I even managed to play last weeks game with a broken ring finger, (I know of all fingers, gasp, hahaha) from the game before. My chili was totally to die for!! Thanks for the helpful hints and suggestions, its was a total hit!! Albeit I did not win and neither did Mr. Man's green chili entry but there was not a drop left in that darn crock pot at the end of lunch. I travelled to Missouri to watch Mr. Man's beloved Sooners take on Mizzou and lets just say it was one heck of a long 11 hour car ride home after that game :( One of my good friends since kindergarten (not a typo) got married two weekends ago in a gorgeous ceremony and reception. It is still so wild to me that we are not boarding the school bus home and we are starting real life AKA marriages, babies, etc. Sooo wild!

so for no I am just trying to stop and enjoy the last couple days of fall before the first snow hits and I am spending my weekends on the ski slopes!! Can't wait for that by the way. I PROMISE you that I will update this blog and look for some fun pictures of the last couple of weeks of activities.

PS I'm thinking with the cold weather out there today, I"m going to have to make a pot of that delicious chili again! Num num num!

It's Chili Time!!

2010-10-11T12:24:00.002-06:00

HELP!! I am due to make a batch of yummy chili for my company's annual Chili Cook off and I don't have a stinkin' recipe!! WHAT you say!?? Well let's be honest here, I'm not exactly Betty Crocker, although I do try very very hard. So I need you all to help me with what you think is the tastiest, most yummy, best fall Chili you have ever made!! It would be greatly apprecitaed!! Plus, I totally need to beat the pants off of some of the more 'seasoned' chili cookers at my office. Thanks in advance!!!

Whats ahappenin'?

2010-10-07T13:03:00.003-06:00

Hello out there!!! Sorry it has been a while, I feel like I am treading a ton of water just to keep from drowning...anyone else feeling that way?? Anyway, HAPPY OCTOBER!! We have had the strangest weather here in Colorado. I keep reading everyone's blogs and they are all wishing it would get cooler where they live. Surprisingly, here in Denver we are experiencing an Indian Summer. No joke it hasn't been below 80 degrees, with the exception of yesterday) at all yet this fall. Quite frankly, I am not complaining. Today I went and ate my lunch out on the patio of our office, and it was GLORIOUS!! Love that beautiful 75 degree (no humidity) weather in Colorado.

A little catch up to begin with:
-OU beat Texas: YEAH!!! Let me just tell you that it makes my relationship with Mr. Man that much better when those crazy Sooners beat their opponents :)
-I'm thinking I need to make some new fall wardrobe purchases, my clothes are pretty pathetic at the moment
-I'm going to start a cooking club that meets once a month with new yummy foods to try along with new recepies.
-One of my best friends since Kindergarten is getting married next week Whhhhhat!?? Crazy!
-I went to the circus last night!! I love being the only person within a group of 5,000 without a small child...I'm telling you it was some GOOD people watching! I honestly had no idea the circus was so trashy, all I remember is the yummy snow cones and trying to count how many clowns came out of the Volkswagen Beetle :)
-I have no plans this weekend (YES!)
-I'm putting myself on a new strict budget, which means the fall wardrobe may not be so fabulous :( I have to save my dollar bills!
-I have been try to get Mr. Man to buy tickets for us to go see Cavalia (awesome mix of a horse show and cirque du soliel...google it)...sor far no such luck, but I won't give up :)

Those are about the only exciting, or non exciting for that matter, things going on in my life at the moment. What have ya'll been up to?

I'm a busy Bee

2010-09-29T16:39:00.002-06:00

So after my week long hiatus from the 'real' world I am no back in action at work and let me just tell you it has been one heck of a week!! Wowza, I feel like I am barely keeping my head above water these days, but busy is always a great thing. After work on both Monday night and Tuesday night I attended my last Rockies games of the season, resulting in loses from both nights...bummer. The Rox are now officially out of the wild card contention and their last home game was today at 1...bummer!! Whatever will I do to fill my evenings, haha. I have also been buried at work and am taking on some more responsibilities which is great, and overwhelming all at the same time. Still no complaints from me. I am already looking forward to the weekend and its only hump day. However, this weekend is a big one...OU VS TX. I am hoping those good old Sooners can bust out a W for my relationships sake, haha. Here's to hoping the rest of this week flys by as fast as the first part. Happy hump day everyone!

Big Weekend Plans??

2010-09-24T09:12:00.002-06:00

I am proud and elated to say that I have almost no plans set in stone for the weekend. Most people would dread this thought, but for me and the last weekend for baseball in the Rockies I am thrilled. I hope to attend at least one of the baseball games this weekend and have a little birthday dinner for my cousin, but other than that, nada!!! Perhaps if I am not feeling entirely too lazy I will jump in my car and drive up to the mountains for an afternoon and check out the beautiful aspen trees changing. I swear to you, it really doesn't get much better than jumping in your car and enjoying a warm fall afternoon with a yummy pumpkin spice latte, and enjoying the gorgeous changing scenery. Does anyone else have any exciting weekend plans that contain more than a couch and some coffee?? Hopefully ya'll do and enjoy yourselves!!

Finally Settling In

2010-09-22T14:06:00.004-06:00

Who knew being a short term jet setter was so taxing on your body. I give all of you peeps out there who can travel week in and week out made props, this $hit is mad exhausting!! Of course every ounce spent away from my home was waaay more than worth it. I came home with one heck of a head cold and a lifetime of memories, who can beat that!?? Let's start from the beginning shall we!??

Yeah remember way back when, when I was having a darn heart attack over what I was going to wear to the OU football game and the meeting of the parents, well that is now a distant memory. All went well, as previously stated and we all had a GREAT time!! Next up was unpacking from that fabulous weekend only to literally pull out a bigger suit case from the closet and pack it up for 5 glorious humidity filled days in New Orleans. I lugged my 49 pound bag (yeah whoops) through the airport and happily arrived albeit 3 hours later than anticipated, in the crazy party city New Orleans!! I was there for a work conference the first three days and mister man was meeting me there on Thursday to spend the remainder of the weekend. Unexpectadly we went out and had perhaps one too many of Bourbon Streets infamous Hurricanes and lets just say it made for an interesting Friday morning at my conference. Lived and Learned!

While in NOLA we had no real plans except to eat at the fabulous restaurant that is Commander's Palace on Saturday night. Up until that point the days were ours. We went on a Haunted New Orleans House tour, which was awesome, totally recommend it! Had some choice beverages and toured the city! It was so much fun!!! Commander's Palace did not disappoint and I surprisingly loved the Turtle Soup, whoo go me!! It was so great. There was one downfall...this Colorado mountain girl is soooo far from used to the humidity. I was 'glowing' a lot!! It was so much fun and I will post more fun things about the week to come, but for now here is your wordy post with a few pictures :)

Mr Man and I in front of the oldest bar in N. America (not to mention haunted)

I could've eaten this beignets all day everyday num num num!

Who could resist a picture with a huge a$$ beer!! All class I tell ya!

The awesome haunted tour we went on, bwahahaha!

Just A Brief Stay

2010-09-13T15:04:00.003-06:00

I returned from a FANTASTIC weekend in Norman, OK and couldn't have had a better time while there. Everything from the home made cookies fresh out of the oven at Mr. Man's house right when we arrived (at 11PM no less) to the great victory OU had over Florida State it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!! Everything went off without a hitch and I can say that I found a great shirt at one of the local shops and I was proud to sport my new OU shirt while at the game. I lucked out big time becuase 90% of the stadium was in the sun the whole time and we had seats in the shade, whooo hooo!! Coming from Colorado and still trying to acclimate to the crazy Oklahoma humidity was quite an adjustment so needless to say the shade was key to me having a good time.

Now I am here for just about 36 hours before I leave for New Orleans tomorrow. Talk about a crazy week! My goodness! I will be there until Sunday where we are hopping on the earliest flight out at 7:30 to make it back in time for the Zac Brown Band concert at the majestic Red Rocks Ampitheatre. What a way to close out the summer right!?? I have a Rockies game tonight and let's not jinx it too early but I do feel a bit of ROCKTOBER fever coming on!! They are on a crazy winning streak and hopefully I don't bring them any bad luck with my prescense! I will try to update while in the French Quarter eating benigts and such, (haha, just kidding). Here are some pics from the great weekend spent in Norman!

Check out this stadium that holds something like 80,000 people and they sell out EVERY game!

Just having some brewskies on the street before heading in. It was seriously like Vegas but for football. I love drinking on the street!

For real, one of the main streets is named after me!! Haha, same spelling and everything!

My crazy hair hadn't hit the humidty yet, so still looking almost presentable :)

Have a great week ya'll and if anyone has any great must do/see/eat in NO, let me know!

It is upon us...

2010-09-09T11:51:00.002-06:00

I have my bags packed and I am ready to go!! Not to mention I have almost passed out from all the anxiety that has been building up for the last month, its a tough pill to swallow ladies. I have meticulously planned out my outfits and have allowed Mr. Man to talk me into finding a good OU football shirt while in Norman, we will see how that turns out :/ W is at home with the kitties so heaven only knows what kind of trouble they will be getting into while momma is away, haha. I have primped and tweezed and whitened to the best of my ability so I guess that means I am ready to board that United flight to Oklahoma City. Now the only question is...am I ready for Sooners football?? I'm used to tailgating in a dirt parking lot outside the stadium lucky to make it into the game before half time, apparently that is not the case with OU. It is commonly referred to by Mr. Man a religion in OK. No joke he has even been trying to teach me some of the OU chants...oh lawd. I will be sure to give you an update as soon as I return on Sunday afternoon. But until then, have a great weekend everyone and wish me luck. (fingers crossed)

Mom for a Weekend!??

2010-09-03T11:42:00.003-06:00

So for my labor day weekend I will be knee deep in spider, guitars, and pools! I'm watching the two little boys that I used to nanny for in the summers during college and some of high school. Can I please tell you how old I feel now that the oldest one is in high school!?? What!? Where does the time go. Their parents decided to go on a last minute trip to New York and I am responsible for another persons well being...YIKES! I have spent the last couple of days trying to figure out fun acitvites for the boys to do that they will both enjoy. Not an easy task for a freshman in high school and a 4th grader. I'm thinking maybe take them to the butterfly pavillion to the new tarantula exhibit (again YIKES) and then perhaps the water park or go carts for the activity on Sunday. It is supposed to be nice here in Denver so I'm trying to think of activites that gets us all out of the house and keep everyone entertained. This could get hairy. I only see these boys about every 6 months or so, so hopefully they will behave and we can all enjoy a weekend of fun!

In other news, there are two little college teams who are prepping for the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown tomorrow afternoon. Unfortunately, due to previously stated engagements I will not be partaking on cheering on my little CSU Rammies, but you better believe I will be sporting my CSU shirt all day tomorrow! I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend and enjoys the beautiful last days of summer!

Go RAMS!!!

The Search Continues...

2010-09-01T15:46:00.002-06:00

Thanks for all of your help with picking out the best Sooner outfit, however, the search is still on. After talking to Mr. Man, quite possibly for waaaay too long about an outfit, it was decided that I will just go to what they call their campus corner on Friday afternoon and find some fabulous shirt to wear on game day. Here is the funny part, I may or may not have been on the search the last 7 days for the perfect pair of either shorts or jean capris to wear. Seeing as the weather is supposed to hover around 100 degrees I decided shorts was the way to go. Has anyone else ever tried to find shorts at the end of August/beginning of September?? Yeah not easy. Finally after scowering the internet high and low and stopping by a couple of stores I found the perfect pair of shorts!! I may or may not have accidentally purchased both pairs but I wasn't sure which color of shirt I would find in Norman. I found a great basic pair of white shorts, if I chose a red shirt, and a pair of khaki shorts if I choose a white shirt. Best part is they were only $15 bucks a pop. Thank you Old Navy!!! So yes, some of you may think I am obsessing over what I am going to wear and you would be correct in this statement, but hey a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!! With that said 8 days and counting, yowza!!

P.S. I can't believe fall is literally right around the corner!?? Where did summer go?

HELP!!

2010-08-19T15:37:00.003-06:00

So in a matter of 22 days (but really who's counting?) I am going to Mr. Man's home town of Norman, OK to go to an OU football game. Needless to say I'm just a bit anxious about this visit. I met his parents when they came out here a couple of weeks ago and everything went fine, but is weird to say I might be more nervous about meeting his friends!?? YIKES!!! Not only that but I am staying with his parents on Friday night!?? Holy freakin' cow!! The funny thing about this whole situation is I can totally deal with the parentals and the friends, however, what the heck am I supposed to wear to the football game?? This will be the first impression I give to his friends and I can't come off looking like a total dork. I'm thinking I'm either going to wear black capris, of which I already own, or cute jean capris (hello Nordstrom sale!) So here are my fav shirts to choose from, and please please please help me pick one, I'm FREAKING out!

And We're Off!

2010-08-13T08:44:00.002-06:00

This weekend I am heading to beautiful Beaver Creek, CO to help celebrate the marriage of a good friend. I am so so so excited for this weekend. Mr. Man and myself have decided to make a weekend out of it and we are heading up today (11:30 to be exact) and I'm ecstatic! We are planning on leaving straight from work this afternoon and heading up to Vail to do a little mountain biking. Let's be real here, Mr. Man will be flying off boulders and mountains, etc, and I will be sipping on a glass of wine at the bar at the base of the mountain...much more my style. We will be dining at one of my favorite restaurants in Vail, the Ore House, stuffing our tummy's to the brim of steak and wine. It will be a fabulous weekend!! I hope you all have fun plans this weekend, get out there and enjoy the last couple weekends of summer!

My Little Houdini

2010-08-12T13:15:00.003-06:00

After an extremely tiresome and less than enjoyable dinner with some old friends (a whole other blog post), I finally got home for the first time around 9:30 last night. It was an exceptionally trying day at work and all I wanted to do was snuggle up with my little fuzz butts. Remember them? Banks and Hitch, the little kitten rascals. So I get home and am immediately greeted by Banks (not unusual,) however, it was extremly unusual for my little black cat not to be by his brohters side in rubbing up on my legs. I immediately went into panic mode and searched every nook and cranny, even the dishwasher mind you, and I couldn't seem to locate the furry rascal. I paniced some more, called W, and then went downstairs to see if my concierge had any reports of a little black cat roaming around the halls. Turns out the little nugget must have slipped between either my legs or W's legs while we were leaving and ran out into the hall. One of his favorite games, LOVES it. He was found by some cranky old lady on my floor who was trying to swat him with a broom!! Can you believe it? I was so upset but I went to the back room where they were keeping him to find a shaking and terrified little Hitch. The relief I felt was unbelievable!! I couldn't believe he had been roaming the halls all by his lonesome for 3 hours. Bad bad kittie momma. Lesson learned, always check your surroundings for little Black kitten houdini's. Never know when they are going to strike again!

Hitch's typical sleeping position.

Of course one of the little gray trouble maker!

I rode a camel...

2010-08-02T12:42:00.007-06:00

Oh hey there...yes its me, and yes I stink big time at this blogging thing most of the time...whoops! Time for a life update, I suppose so here goes. First of all the Brown Palace wedding was magnificent, couldn't have been anymore perfect if you ask me. Mr Man and myself had a great time and I'm pretty sure we made that open bar of the brides well worth the money...whoops. Since then I have been beyond busy just bustling around town and trying to get some things accomplished before the summers end. Some of these activities include the Renaissance Festival, yup we went, soaking up every minute of Mr. Man being in town, some pool days, Lots of Rockies games and of course the Tim McGraw and Lady Antebellum concert this last Saturday. I swear I keep telling myself that once I reach a certain date things will calm down, however, there is no end in sight. Seeing as it has been so long since I have blogged I will update you with pictures of the past few weekends and fill you in as to why the name of this post is I rode a camel, its a good one.

Anywho, this past weekend was filled with tons of fun and sun. Mr Man's parents and grandparents were in town to visit and they wanted to meet me...gulp! Turns out there was no need to panic and we all had a blast. We attended the Rockies game on Friday night where the Rox broke a MLB record for the most consecutive hits in a inning crushing the cubs a whopping 17 - 2. Yeah we rocked their socks off. Saturday was filled with errands and then the amazing concert that was Tim McGraw and Lady A. Ummm, holy AMAZING!!! Loved every minute of it!! Sunday it was off to the last game of the Rox vs. Cubs series with all of Mr. Man's family. I was burned to a crisp and the Rockies pulled out another fantastic win, sweeping the Cubbies! So all in all, a fabulous weekend spent with great friends and many great memories. Unfortuantely due to the BF's parents being in town I was unable to attend a good friends bridal shower that W threw for her, but I heard it was magnificent and I can't wait for the Beaver Creek wedding in 2 weeks...woah two weeks!!! Awesome! Now onto the picture slide show of the last couple of weeks of my life, prepare yourself!

Another wedding the weekend prior, high school friends!

Beautiful girls at the cocktail hour...is her dress not amazing?

Some of the girls and the tea.

Mr. Man and myself and the wedding

Now onto the more pressing matter of the camel but first a little bit more fun!

Face painting anyone?

Clearly I have never seen anythign soo amazing!

Wouldn't be complete without a pirate picture!

And finally at the Renaissance Festival you can ride a camel and clearly I cannot pass up that kind of opportunity...it was breathtaking!

Tea Time

2010-07-09T09:21:00.002-06:00

So as mentioned previously I have another wedding to go to this weekend. This one is probably one of the larger more elaborate weddings I am going to attend this summer and it all starts TODAY!!! Thank goodness I only work half days on Friday's which allows me to be able to partake in the tea she is throwing for all of the people involved in the wedding. It will be held at the fabulous Brown Palace Hotel, which is a beautiful historic hotel right in the heart of the city. It is known for its great tea and it should be absolutely wonderful just to have a girls tea. How fun!! Shortly after that is the rehearsal dinner where I am sure to stuff my tummy to the brim of delicious wine and yummy pastas only to not be able to fit into my dress tomorrow...fingers crossed everyone. Then the big day. The grand daddy of them all, her wedding day!! I am really looking forward to this and promise to post pictures of everything! I am sooo excited. Not only that but Mr. Man is flying in for the weekend as well, double whammy. Its going to be a busy busy weekend and of course we are topping it off with a Rockies game on Sunday. BTW did anyone else see them sweep the Cardinals?? Haha, GO ROX!

Happy weekend ya'll!

Rain Rain Go AWAY!!

2010-07-07T15:16:00.002-06:00

I had heard on the radio in my way into work yesterday that the weather was supposed to drastically shift from a comfortable high of 88 yesterday to 68 degrees today and rainy! Yuck, no thank you, I do no approve! So low and behold when my alarm went off at the ungodly hour of 5:45 this morning sure enough it was drizzling rain and miserable to try to get out of bed. I could have curled up with those two little snuggly kittens and gone right back to sleep. Quite honestly I could have stayed there all darn day today. Now you see, I love myself a good summer thunderstorm, however, when the sun does not peek out from behind those clouds all day long it gets to be a touch depressing. Picking up what I'm throwing down? Oh well, life goes on and so does the rain apparently. It is supposed to clear up by tomorrow morning, yipee!! I love summer and how much easier it is to get out of bed when the sun is out and already above 65 degrees when you get in your car. So here is to warmer, sunnier days tomorrow! Happy hump day ya'll!

The Wedding Itch

2010-07-06T11:38:00.004-06:00

First of all please excuse my lack of attention to this pathetic little blog, I've been just a bit busy with 7 weddings this summer...oh my!! My first wedding of the season was actually in Nashvile and the same weekend as the bachelorette party in Phoenix so Iwas unable to attend. However, the pics of the bride were AMAZING!! I wish I could have gone :( I had a wedding of a good friend that I have known since 2nd grade get married on Friday at a really neat Tuscan Villa. More pictures to come. Anyway, the bachelorette party that weekend was sooo much fun. I swear to you that I can no longer look at Vegas bachelorette parties the same way. A nice relaxing weekend in sunny Scottsdale was awesome! I loved loved loved the great drinks that we were served everyday and not feeling like you have to go out to the typical Vegas hot spots. This party leads me into the next wedding which is this weekend. Its going to be at the gorgeous Brown Palace. It will be a weekend of great fun filled with a tea party, a great rehearsal dinner and a gorgeous ceremony at one of the grandest churches in downtown Denver. It will be quite an exciting weekend. I have also participated in a number of gorgeous showers and I will have to download pictures to show you all. I can't wait for the remainder of the summer which will be filled with more weddings, baseball games, bachelorette weekends, NEW ORLEANS, Beaver Creek and other fun little weekend trips. Is it so crazy to anyone else that the summer is half way over?? Man, time flies when you're having fun. I will post a few pics of the past couple of weeknds and I will have to upload more and actually continue to post (gasp) Happy short week everyone! Oh and get ready for a total picture overload...

Let the weekend begin!

Cutest idea EVER!

Kind of a crummy picture, but you get the idea.

Just a mini group shot with the beautiful bride and her cousin. SOOO FUN and I can't wait for this weekend's festivities!

Whoops...

2010-06-23T13:30:00.003-06:00

Sorry ya'll I have been crazy busy out of control and have had no time to blog :( But I'm back now with a vengance. Here's a little update as to what I have been up to:

-Bridal showers galore

-Bachelorette Parties
-50th Birthday extravaganzas

-Rockies games

-Dad's day

-Softball (games and practice...um excuse me!?)

-Consuming entirely too much yummy food with Mr. Man
-Spending as much time with Mr. Man before he heads back up to Montana :(

-Working (blah) But someone has to earn the kibbies...right?

-Official World Cup cheerleader (hahahahaha, yeah right!!!)

-Consuming more yummy food.(Sensing a theme yet?)

Yup that pretty much sums it up. On Friday (at 6:30 mind you) I am leaving for Phoenix for another Bachelorette partaaaahy!! I'm really excited for this one and foresee some crazy fun on the horizon. Look out Phoenix, here we come!

A little bit of this

Some lazy river action, duh!

And a whole heck of a lot of this! Sooo excited. Happy Hump Day everyone!

Just a little Friday Happy

2010-06-11T10:57:00.001-06:00

Have a great weekend everyone!

Drama for your mama!

2010-06-10T12:44:00.003-06:00

I may have been a tad over dramatic about the volleyball tournament last weekend especially considering my team WON!!! I know I'm still in shock myself. I actually only had to hit the ball a couple of times due to the fact that my coach kept the two best guys on either side of me so I wouldn't panic..phew. All in all, it was a great time! It is not yet 100% postive quite yet, however, the Denver office is thinking about sending my team (#1 duh) to the Houston volleyball tournament in a couple of months! All I have to say is those sweet little Houstonites better watch their backs, we are coming to town :)

On a totally different note I would have to say that this last weekend has been one of my favorite in a very long time! It was nothing special per say, although I did get to spend quite a chunck of time with the mister man, which you will will never hear me complain about. A little bit of pool time, some golf, good dinners, good movies, great weather. Does it get much better than that?? Didn't think so. This weekend is going to be kind of calm around the little apartment. W is out of town for a bachelorette party in Vegas that I decided to opt out of and instead am attending a different bacheorette here in Denver. The theme is pub golf, should be awesome. Other than that, a whole lotta nothing, and I am pretty darn pumped about that. I am just gearing up for the crazy weekends to come, filled with wedding celebrations, pool parties, bachelorette parties, showers, etc. Needless to say I will be taking in every ounce of free time I have this weekend and relax to the fullest extent possible. Quite honestly its not that hard for me to accomplish. Stay tuned for another overly dramatic post about my company softball league that started last night...now that is a riot!

Bump, Set, Spike...umm what!?

2010-06-04T10:02:00.002-06:00

Oh boy! Ya'll this is no joke. Somehow I got talked into participating in my company's volleyball tournament this afternoon. The people that are participating in this 'fun' event are not kidding around either. They have held several practices at lunch time and after hours to try to improve their teams skills so they can win the coveted title of Volleball champions. We are talking INTENSE. I, however, am not so intense. In fact, I quite loathe playing volleyball. I am of rather a short stature (5'2" on a good day) and therefore, have never really excelled in this particular sport. I have put a smile on for the several practices we held while I scream and run the other way from the ball, whoops, but have no fear I am there and willing. This is going to be a disaster. I'm picturing a volleyball flying at my face AKA the money maker, and I leave the sand pit crying hystercially and being driven a way by a paramedic in an ambulance. Dramatic? Nah. Anywhoo wish me luck, it should be fun. Plus, there are pina coladas involved, whooot whooot!!

"Take me out to the the ball game"- A little weekend recap

2010-06-02T15:11:00.004-06:00

As many of you know I am a huge baseball fan! Not for the acutal baseball, but for the atmosphere that comes along with going to the field. A hot summer day spent by the pool, followed by a quick shower, a basball hat, your favorite Rockies shirt, the smell of grass, and of course the hot dog and beer! Does it get any more summer than that?? Luckily, I have managed to find a great group of people that enjoys going to the baseball games almost as much as I do :) W and I used to live 4 blocks from the beloved Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, and if we needed something to do on a Sunday afternoon you better believe that was the first place you could find us. This weekend I feel very fortunate to have been able to go to not one baseball game but 2!! The Dodgers were in town and that is always a great series to go watch, and on Memorial Day weekend no less! Am I blowing your mind yet?? Haha. So anyway, I was able to scrounge a couple of club level seats from a co-worker of mine and Mr. Man and I headed to the ball park. Honestly, it could not have been any better. Perfect weather, perfect company, and unfortunately the Rox lost that night, but hey you can't win them all right? Saturday we opted out of the game and went to see Robin Hood and tried a delicious new(er) restaurant and we were certainly not disappointed. The food was delicious and I even enjoyed the movie! Holy cow, I'm exhausted even writing all of this stuff that I managed to cram in this weekend and I'm only till Sunday, just kidding. Sunday was, we shall say...interesting. Mr. Man was dead set on climbing a 14er and I am not one to back down so I said 'sure!' Probably should have thought that through a little bit better, but have no fear we got lost....driving! Hahahaha!! We ended up driving, not hiking, to the top of Mt. Evans. Regardless the views were breathtaking and it was a great experience! We finally got back into Denver after a 5 hours of driving around 11 AM and decided we needed to go to another ball game! It was awesome, the weather was once again beautiful, sat in the sun and then we were able to meet up with W for some drinks and bar fun!! All in all it was a great weekend. Unfortunately the Rox lost the series with the Dodgers, but there is always next time. Monday, was another beautiful day filled with BBQ's family and good old fashion fun! Loved it! Did ya'll do anything exciting for the long weekend???

Some pics of the fateful 14er attempt...oops.

Quarter Century Old!!

2010-05-20T14:14:00.003-06:00

Oh my how time flies when you're having fun :) I'm finally getting my ducks in a row and doing a birthday post, albeit a bit late, but better than never right!? The celebration started on Friday as soon as I got off work and I went to go pick up the much anticipated cake! It turned out quite well and I think most people, the bakery included, were somewhat impressed by the 'quarter' theme, haha. I rushed home to grab W so we could hang out with our aunt 'D' and go to the movies. We saw the new movie 'Letters to Juliet'. Very disappointing. I'm not one for predictable lovey dovey movies in the first place and quite honestly would have much rather gone and seen Iron Man 2, but I digress. As soon as the movie was over I left W and D's company and rushed to aiport to pick up Mr. Man. He was orginally not supposed to be in town for my birthday weekend, however, he was able to work his magic and he was able to be here (insert ridiculously huge grin here). We all went out for a family dinner, not the parents but my aunt d, cousin, Mr. Man, W, Uncle R, and cousins girlfriend. We managed to make a scene at a very small italian restaurant where we always go for birthdays and laughed until our stomach's hurt. We went back home enjoyed some of the delicious red velvet cake and by that point I thought I was going to have to be rolled out of the door from so much food!

Saturday the day of my actual b-day, we went to breakfast, hung out and got our nails did, and then it was time to partaaahy! We enjoyed some hot dogs and beers at the baseball game and the party continued into the wee hours of the morning. It was honestly one of the best birthday's in a very long time. I was surrounded by the people that I love and cherish and that in itself makes for a great day regardless of the activities planned. Here's to being half way to 50 and offically part of the quarter century club! Enjoy the pics, and I had to throw a picture in there of the little guy trying to look big and tough as well :)

He thinks he is as big as a dog on most days.

The epic cake! Bow, stripes, and quarters, oh my!

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L flowers from Mr. Man.

Close up of the whale and on of the quarters, it was just as delicious to eat as it was pretty :)

Meet Banks and Hitch

2010-05-19T09:25:00.004-06:00

So I may have accidentally went to the local shelter here in Denver and come home with not one cat but TWO cats!!! I went with a family friend who's dad was looking to get a companion for their two year old cat. Unfortunately the shelter only had two kittens and they were brothers who were looking to be placed together. I knew right then and there I was going to be in trouble. I went into a room and began to play with the two little trouble makers and immediately fell in love!! I had to go meet my parents for my birthday lunch on Sunday so I put the kitties on hold and gave myself some time to think about this big decision. As soon as I left the shelter I knew that they would have to come home with me. I talked it over with W and my parents and we all agreed that they would be mine!! So without further ado I am pleased to introduce Hitch and Banks.

This is Banks and he is such a little trouble maker! He jumped up on the vets counter last night and started licking all of the dog treats! He will be quite a handful I'm sure.

Hitch, the love bug. You can kind of see he is polydactyl which means he has extra toes. It looks like he is sticking his thumbs out trying to 'hitch' a ride or it just looks like he has on a set of mittens. They are soo precious!

Some Ups & Downs

2010-05-14T09:27:00.003-06:00

I am going to start off by saying this post has the potential to be kind of mushy, so don't say I didn't warn you. This week has been a little rough to say the least. It had all started out fine, you know the usual planning for the week of my birthday (a blessed event) :), some kickball games thrown in and Rockies game to boot. Not a bad schedule to wake up to on a Monday morning. I knew I needed to get my act together on Monday to help prepare for the crazy week that was to ensue and that's precisely what I did. Things were looking pretty good. Then Tuesday hit. I got a phone call from mom and she RARELY calls me, especially when she knows I am at work, this couldn't be good. I answered immediately and I knew something was wrong. Now before I go further I would just like to put a statement out there that my pets are my family, I love them with my whole heart so this may sound kind of silly to people who don't necessarily feel the same way, that's cool. Anyway, my mom said that our 10 year old German Short-Haired pointer had suddenly taken a turn for the worse. How could this be?? We had just seen her running around chasing squirrels and throwing her toys all over the backyard on Sunday?? What happened?? I immediately called W and we rushed to my parents house. Indeed the sweet, loveable, Brandy was in bad shape. Usually she is greeting us at the door the second she hears a car pull into the driveway...she didn't even come downstairs. It was heartbreaking. We rushed her to the vet, of course she couldn't walk so I was carrying my poor pup, who weighs over 100 pounds, like she was a baby. Sure enough the vet told us that she had some severe internal bleeding which is why she appeared to be fine just a few short hours prior. We could take her to the ICU and hope for the best but given the fact that she had a GREAT 10 years chasing squirrels, barking at bad boyfriends, and being a love bug, it was time to let her go. If any of you have ever lost a dog, it is by far one of the worst things I have ever had to witness. I know now that we did the right thing but she was part of our family. She was there for my senior prom, when I went off to college, and for that matter when I moved home after college, alway with a wagging little nub ready to brighten your day no matter what happened. Seh even let me put some of my old polo shirts on her and take her for walks, I'm sure she LOVED that! :)She was awesome and will be sorely missed. So today, if you have animals give them some extra little lovin' and your loved ones for that matter too.

Yes that is Brandy dressed up like Santa Claus, don't be confused. :)

Anyway, enough of the sappy sad stuff!!! Tomorrow I will be half way to 50. OMGEEE!!! I'm old!! Haha, we will be celebrating with my lovely cake, which I will pick up this afternoon, and then some Rockies baseball, (don't forget the beer and hot dogs of course.) I'm looking forward to spending the day at the nail salon gettin' my nails did and just relaxing! Just what I need after a rough week! I hope ya'll have a great weekend and I will be back with some lovely pics I'm

sure! Happy Friday!!!

Some 'happy' pictures!

Just a lovely cake picture, can't wait to see what this year's cake is going to look like!

A little derby pic makes everyone happy!

To block or not to block??

2010-05-10T13:20:00.002-06:00

I have always struggled with accepting friend requests on facebook from co-workers. Fortunately for myself and many others at my office, nothing is really blocked from our internet search hungry minds. Unfortunately all of those hesitant friend requests who you ended up requesting can see that you uploaded your pictures from last weekends shenanigans during lunch. Meaning they can see that you were on facebook when you probably shouldn't have been. Not too big of a deal considering obviously that co-worker is on fb as well, but still no one wants to be that person who everyone thinks is a big slacker and blogs and facebooks all day...ceratinly no me. Anyway, an aquaintance of mine from work had asked me when I was uploading my derby pictures to facebook so all the world to see. I had kind of disregarded the e-mail because I had made a specific group on my settings to include all of my co-workers and had set it up so that none of those people could see my wall postings, uploads, wall etc. Here's the thing, this girl was legitimately upset!! She wrote me a nasty e-mail stating that we may as well not be friends on facebook anymore becuase having her blocked from seeing most of my activity was a waste anyway. Ummmm....what the heck do you even say to that?? I had honestly figured that none of them would have even noticed. I would have been happy to make snapfish account and sent interested parties the link but we are at work here people!! HELLO, I actually do work occasionaly here! So my question to ya'll is what am I supposed to do now?? Do I just let it go and have her de-friend me (which by the way I think is the lowest thing possible) or do I just let her see all that I do?? It's not like there are terrible pictures or anything I just don't think it is a co-workers business what I was doing on the weekends. Am I wrong here?? Help!

Derby Day Take One

2010-05-04T13:41:00.004-06:00

So I'm sure many of you saw on the coverage of the Kentucky Derby that the weather in Louisville was nothing shy of miserable. When we arrived in Cincinnati the weather was a beautiful 80 degrees and same with the weather in Lexington on Friday. Unfortunately I was awoken by massive thunder on Saturday morning, of course the day of the derby!! Needless to say we got soaked from head to toe, but it was one of the top 5 best weekends of my whole life!! There was seersucker, critter pants, and lily pulitzer galore, my dream!! I will post of few pictures and then continue to do a full recap tomorrow when my brain is a little less foggy. I hope ya'll had a great derby day and celebrated with a mint julep!

The famous Churchill Downs. This was right after the derby, look at all those people!

First drink of the derby, my mint julep. Unfortunately not in a silver cup, sorry firecracker :)

Before the crazy muddy mess!

Shot of the group still looking kind of dry.

Totally SOAKED!

After my slilp n' slide adventure..notice the color variations in my dress?? I think its ruined :(

PS Soooo glad sissy face H could make it down from Chicago, lover you!

I"m too excited to sleep!

2010-04-28T14:45:00.004-06:00

Seriously that is no lie! I have been soo busy this week I don't know where I leave my keys 99% of the time. I'm losing my darn brain! There is one big reason why I may be losing my brain though and that's becuase I'M LEAVING FOR THE KENTUCKY DERBY TOMORROW!!! Oh.My.Gosh, I can't even stand how exhilirated I am. This is one of those things on my list of things to do before I die! I can't wait. As it turns out my best friend from college lives in Kentucky and works on a Chimpanzee Sancturary so we will hang out with her tomorrow night and hang with the chimps (hopefully my face doesn't get mauled), and then head into Louisville for some seriously preppy fun!! I"m talking critter shorts, seersucker, linen loving folk. Just my style. I do have one fateful confession to make however. I decided I could not stomach spending the money on a ridiuclous hat that I would never wear again. I understand it is a once in a lifetime thing to go to the derby but I couldn't do it. So I will be sporting this fabulously tacky number! What What!!! Don't be jealous, its awesome!! I love it. I will taking more pictures than I have ever taken so you will all get a lovely dose of the derby VIA my blog!! Wish me luck and the horse I bet on too.

Can't wait till I see the ever famous Churchill Downs O.MG.

Something I will not be sporting :)

Here is what I will be sporting :)

Of course I will be drinking plenty of these tasty mint juleps...YUM!!! Have a great weekend ya'll!

Birthday cake time!

2010-04-23T10:15:00.002-06:00

I love love love birthdays. Pretty much for the sole reason that I allow myself to eat as much birthday cake as humanly possible without too much guilt. I know bad, but I can't resist some yummy red velvet cake....mmmmm!!! So for the last 2 years W and I have decided to splurge on our birthday cakes and get them made at a local bakery and let me just tell you there are OHMYGOSH I might have just accidentally eaten 5,999 calories in a piece of cake that was totally unneccesarily HUGE!!!! They are amazing to put it simply. It is always the same flavor, red velvet. Oh my gosh I just found myself staring off into space picturing myself at my refrigerator with fork in hand telling myself this is my last bite 10X over. Oops!! Anyway, we never seem to have our ducks in a row and end up just buying one of these delicious monsters straight from the cake. But this year my friends, I'm having it made up to my specifications. I'm talking red velvet cake, buttercream frosting, pink mock seersucker fondant, hot pink quarters (get it the 'quarter century old'), and some pink whales with perhaps some lobsters thrown in for good measure. I'm sooo excited!!! We are off to Geteaux this afternoon to finalize the order look out!!! My jeans may not be fitting quite like they used to as I apporach my half way to 50th birthday! Totally worth it!! Here is a picture of my cake last year...sooo good!!!

Flabbergasted!

2010-04-22T14:33:00.002-06:00

Pretty sure I botched the spelling of the word flabbergasted, ha! Oh well, on to the reason for the flabbergastedness, yes that is a word in the dictionary of Lindsey. So for quite some time now I have toyed with the idea of spilling the beans of a super secret relationship VIA my blog. I finally feel like I have a legitimate reason for letting the cat out of the bag. I'll go with a touch of background first just so you can fully understand my complicated 'love' life. First off, I L.O.V.E. everything southern. The style, the life, the clothes, the ACCENTS, oh my! I have always fantisized about dating a sweet southern gentleman but they are hard to come across in this crazy square state. Fast forward, I met a sweet attractive, southern gentleman. He's got the accent to boot, what what!! He travels A TON for work, I'm talking he is really really lucky to be home in Denver for more than 2 weeks out of a month. Bummer for me. Here's the flabbergasted story. He was gone all last week and all last weekend, he came home Sunday night through yesterday morning. Boo, only 3 days before another two week stint away. He knew I was really bummed about him having to leave so early and the two of us not really being able to spend a lot of time together. I got a bizarre phone call yesterday morning right around when his plane was taking off from a local florist saying he had flowers at my front door!!! UMMM WHAT!!?? Flowers!? I have never received flowers that weren't for my birthday or for surgery, I was beside myself. Of course I could not wait till after work to see what he had gotten me (assuming they were from him), so I ran home during lunch to be very plesantly suprised by these puppies!!

I didn't even know what to say. Sweetest guy ever. He may just be able to stick around for awhile longer. I definitely have been sportin' a perma-grin for the last 24 hours and don't see that going away any time soon. :) Just had to share that exciting bit of news with ya'll. Hope your having a fabulous week, and it is almost FRIDAY!!! YEA!

7 Days in a Yellow Crayon Box

2010-04-16T09:03:00.004-06:00

The yellow crayon box being a yellow bug of course!! Once again my beloved mini cooper, which has less than 20,000 miles on it and is only 3 years old, had to go to the shop. It was for the same thing that it was for last time which is beyond frustrating. The darn seat belt chime WILL NOT turn off. I almost jumped out of my own moving vehicle when it happened. So I promptly called the dealership and gave them a piece of my mind and told them I would be bringing the car in immediately. Unfortunately for me they did not have any loaner mini's available so they stuck me in a yellow volkswagon bug. I felt like a fool! Haha, you could see me coming from at least a mile away, not to mention trying to cram 4 people into that tiny little thing (it feels smaller than my mini) was quite the show for people on the street :). So it is now seven days after I took the car in and I am just now able to go pick her up. Of course they tell me that somehow the seat belt chime is tied to my low tire pressure light and I need to replace my tire, even though they repaired it and think the repair will hold. So now I'm out $220.00 for a new tire, no joke!! I am not happy about this and unfortunately I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, no good. The poor technician that has had to deal with me has had his head ripped off more than once, oops, but this girl is pissed! We'll see if throwing an extra $200 at a perfectly good car will keep her in line for another 6 weeks when my lease is up. Any suggestions on what my next car should be?? I'm thinking of an Acura RDX...keep your fingers crossed. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Dance Party!

2010-04-13T08:55:00.003-06:00

This past weekend ended up being one HUGE dance party for pretty much 48 straight hours. Let me tell you, I'm still trying to recover. Between the spectacular patio weather we had Friday afternoon, the Rockies home opener, the Garth Brooks cover band, and another baseball game, I'm EXHAUSTED!!!

Let me start from the beginning. I got off work on Friday afternoon around 11, (did I mention I only have to work half days on Friday's?), went to grab a quick bite to eat with a friend who was staying with W and I for the weekend and then the weekend started!!! We all showered got ready to head downtown for a night of debauchery and fun. The weather couldn't have been more perfect. I'm pretty sure even when the Rockies made it to the world series there still weren't as many people downtown than there were on Friday afternoon. The girls and I posted up at an Irish bar right on the patio and enjoyed hot dogs and beer!! My favorite!! Once we had enough of the downtown scene we headed straight to the country saloon (yes its a saloon) and sang out hearts out to Garth Brooks biggest hit. What a night!!

We were all a little slow moving on Saturday morning but we had another big night ahead of us. There were six of us that ended up going to the best gay bar in town and having some drinks before we had to pay $6.00/beer at Coors Field. We all fell into cabs and headed for the stadium. I wish I would have taken some pictures of where we were sitting because I had the most amazing view of Brad Hawpe's booty!! Not too shabby! The game ended up going into extra innings (I'm talking 14 total for the game) so we headed over after the tenth and finished watching the game. This is where the fun started. We met up with my brother and his friend and went C.R.A.Z.Y!! We were dancing fools. I was soo sore the next morning! What a work out. I guess after a dance extravaganza like that I could justify the hot dog I had at the game. :) All in all, it was one of the busiest weekends I have had in awhile and I couldn't have enjoyed myself anymore! Here are some stellar (sensing the sarcasm?) of the dance party and concert. Happy Tuesday everyone!

It's officially hot dog season!

2010-04-09T08:07:00.002-06:00

Yes, you read that right!! I love, love, love baseball season, otherwise known as hot dog season in my house!! Today is the Rockies home season opener and unfortunatley we could not get tickets to today's game but you better believe we will be at the rooftop bar right next door to it listening to the roar of the crowd as the Rockies kick some bootaahy!! W and I got tickets to Saturday's game about 3 months ago and we are so excited to go with our 2 great friends, both sisters as well, so we aren't completely missing out on opening weekend.

On top of the Rockies opening games this weekend I have plans to go with my dad to the car show tomorrow morning which should be a blast! I love going to the car show and my dad is such a mellow guy he loves to walk around and hang out with me :) Can't wait!! Tonight we have plans to go to a Garth Brooks cover band here in town called According to Garth. Apparently the band is supposed to be top notch so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It should be a great weekend, with great company, and great weather! Soooo excited to munch on a hot dog for lunch too :) That's totally on the biggest loser diet...right!?

Here are some pictures from great Rockies games in the past.

I hope ya'll have a fantastic weekend and go out and enjoy the start of hot dog season!! Goooo ROCKIES!

Not again...

2010-04-06T13:16:00.003-06:00

What a doozy this last weekend was. It was crazy busy from the time I stepped out of my office on Thursday afternoon up until my 2 hour nap on Sunday. Yeah that's right...a 2 hour nap! However, my weekend was completely exhausting. Fortunately my company always gives us Good Friday off so I had a 3 day weekend to boot...whooo hooo!! This is going to be a long one so settle in for the long haul!

Thursday afternoon my office gave me the company's tickets to the Nuggets game, 6th row behind the bench, holler! Somehow we scored biiig time and landed next to this great couple who apparently played college ball with the Trailblazer Andre Miller, and had 2 extra friends and family passes to meet all the players after the game. Being the generous people that they were they gave them to W and I. Let me tell you it really puts you in your place when you are standing next to a professional sports playing measuring over 7 feet tall! WOAH!! I literally came up to their nipples...yeah picture that. So after an exciting day on Thursday I layed relatively low until the infamous Kamber (Katie and Amber b-day party) that was to occur on Friday night. IT.WAS.AMAZING. There were some old friends present whom I hadn't seen in a while and a great time was had by all. So great in fact that I managed to leave my credit card and ID in some unknown location...big whoops! I spent a large part of Saturday morning trying to figure out where I could have left it considering we only went to one bar and came to the conculsion I must have been sitting on it in the cab and not realized it...sweet! Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. Saturday had a great mexican dinner with my aunt, uncle, cous, and W and saw 'Clash of the Titans' (maybe a 3 out of 5 stars), made one last pass by the bar to make sure they didn't have anymore of my belongings and headed home.

W and I both had a wonderful Easter Sunday. This post wouldn't be complete without a crazy mom story thrown in there so here it is. I opened up my plastic eggs in my Easter basket (yes I'm nearly 25 and still need an Easter basket) and I received 1 dime and 1 quarter. In another egg I received a crinkled up 1 dollar bill. Flashback to the 100 1 dollar bills from Christmas anyone??? That leaves me with a basket full of a whopping 1 dollar and 35 cents. I can sense your jealousy!! Happy Tuesday everyone, enjoy the pics from the partahy!

Even some old sorority friends showed up to play!

Kaite and I at Emilio's! Those margs can be dangerous!

Just having a grand ole time!

Big Plans on the Horizon!

2010-03-26T10:06:00.002-06:00

I'm really excited about my plans this weekend, let's start with that. W is working all weekend long, big bummer, so I am fending for myself!! I have decided that after a year and half long break from visiting my college town it was time for me to bite the bullet and head on up North. I went to school at Colorado State University (ram fan through and through), in Fort Collins and the year after I graduated I still knew a lot of people who were up there so I frequented the town every weekend I got the chance...yeah I was that girl, whatever. However, a year ago last June there was an 'incident' which resulted in a self ban from ever attending Brew Fest ever again and by no means speaking to any ex-boyfriend who you run into while walking on the streets of old town holding a huge turkey leg and your 7th beer. Let's just say it was a deadly combination and I could not bring myself to show my face there for a while. Anywhoo, I believe I can face those demons once more and hit up some of my favorite alumni at my sorority's annual pancake breakfast!! I'm really excited to see some old friends who I have not gotten to catch up with in quite some time and pretend like I am back in college for one more day. Totally acceptable right?! Don't worry after the pancake breakfast we will be going here...

So excited!! I haven't done a brewery tour in over 2 years and lets just say sliding down the big curly cue slide at the New Belgium brewery will certainly bring a smile to just about anyone's face. Whooo hoooo!!! Wish me luck I can pull myself together and there are no more incidents. :) I hope ya'll have a great weekend and I promise to bring my camera with me this time around so I can quit pulling images off google to entertain ya'll!!

Here we go again

2010-03-24T13:53:00.002-06:00

Yet another ridiculous Spring snow storm here in the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately my company did not offer us a snow day, however, I did get to go into the office at 10, so something is better than nothing.

In case you haven't noticed, I have ONCE AGAIN, decided to change my blog template. For the life of me I cannot find one I like. This time around, I think this one may stick. I love paisely so we'll see how long this little stinker lasts.

This morning I have been finalizing my weekend plans and have decided to go up to my old college town about an hour or so North of where I live now and go to my old sorority house Tri-Delta and support the actives in their annual Spring philanthropy event, the pancake breakfast, should be a good time. I'm hoping to run into some old friends I have not seen in awhile, hopefully it will be a great time!

Happy Snowy Wednesday everyone!

You want me to what!??

2010-03-23T15:25:00.002-06:00

Last night I decided it was finally time to go grocery shopping. Usually W and I have mounds of food in our fridge and very rarely are we scrounging for things to eat in our house, however, our lives have seemed to have gotten the best of us and we have seriously neglected our grocery shopping. Literally, running into the store when we have run out of our staples, like T.P, bread, and the likes, this is not a joke. So last night we did it!! We went grocery shopping!! Whoo hooo!! The point of this is that I made a delicious salad for my lunch today, I'm talking bleu cheese crumbles, turkey, pear slices, the works!! I was getting ready to leave this morning all the while thinking "I hope W remembered her lunch", when I absentmindedly walked out the door without mine!!!! WHAT!!?? Whoops. I realized this about half way to work, so I thought, meh I only live 10 minutes from the office I will run home during my lunch break and eat at home, brillant! Yeah, brilliant idea until I walk into my building and realize that there is a group of angry old bittys and men for that matter too, laying into our concierge staff and the management company. Apparently there was a water main break which caused the fire alarm to be activated, which in turn caused the elevators to shut down!! No bueno for my lazy booty!! I was in a rush so I had to take the stairs 15 floors up to my apartment. By the time I finally dragged my poor, pathetic, out of shape butt up those flights of stairs I was so exhausted I didn't even want the scrumptious salad waiting for me in the fridge...sigh. Well at least I got my exercise in for the day seeing as I weigh in tomorrow and on top of that I had a 'light' lunch, maybe tomorrow's number won't be half bad...:) Wish me luck!

Weekend re-cap!

2010-03-22T09:17:00.003-06:00

I'll start off with saying that last Wednesday's biggest loser weigh in went much better! Thank goodness because I thought I was going to have to start running laps around the office to try to lose weight...just picture it. Ha.

Onto the weekend. Honestly not a whole lot to report. With my fabulous Friday afternoons off from work I decided to spend this one in my house doing some deep Spring cleaning. I scoured every surface as well as disinfected. The only problem, W was sleeping from her previous night shift and I just couldnt' wait any longer to vaccuum...BIG mistake. Apparently I woke the sleeping giant and $hit hit the fan. She was less than thrilled with our immaculate apartment and I swear at one point during our altercation I think I saw steam come out of her ears and perhaps even a little bit of fire come out of her mouth...It wasn't prettty, AT ALL!

We duked it out for a while and then all was good. Saturday we were supposed to go to The Melting Pot with 5 of our friends and unfortunately about an hour before one had a sinus infection and the other two just flat out bailed, so we decided against it and I had my first Thai food experience. All in all, not too shabby, I would even venture out and eat it again :) Sunday was a little furniture shopping extravaganza as well as a little lunch and we then we saw "She's out of My League". Highly recommeded. I was laughing my booty off!! Hysterical!

That pretty much sums up my less than exciting weekend filled with lots of food, sitting around, and a trip to the movies. I can't wait for the Spring weather and for the grass to get green. I L.O.V.E Spring and everything that comes with it, most of all hot dog season AKA baseball season. Will you all be going to some baseball games this summer?

That's it for my completely random post, but Happy Monday everyone!

Biggest Gainer!?

2010-03-12T08:34:00.002-07:00

Wait what!? That is correct. This year I have decided to join about 40 or so of my co-workers in a friendly 'biggest loser' competition in my office. I have been wanting to shed some of my stored flubber (yes like a whale) for about 2 years now and the fact that I call it my winter weight all year long I think is getting a little old...just saying. So I bit the bullet, turned in my $25 entry fee and cut out reagular soda. If any of you know me you know that I cannot stand to drink diet soda. I know the sugary brown stuff is bad for my bones, my skin, my teeth, blah blah blah I L.O.V.E it, so giving it up is a huge feat for me. The first two three weeks of this competition went fairly well. I even won one week for losing the largest percentage of body fat, what what! So now we are almost half way through our 12 week journey and I had been consistently losing weight..until this fateful week. Whoops!! I jumped on the scale knowing the numbers weren't going to look pretty and sure enough NO GOOD!! I'm talking like almost back to where I started, not quite there but darn close enough, bummer!! I know now that I need to start exercising more (that whole look like a cheetah while running thing kind of fizzled), and need to start watching what I eat more closely. Unfortunately, this means I cannot make the cab stop at McDonald's on the way home from the bars at 2:30 in the morning and I must resist the concession stand at the movies, my two weaknesses. So here is to a new week of losing the winter weight and changing my habits! Have a great weekend everyone! I promise to show pictures of my finally complete bedroom. Oh and of course, Kaneil if you're reading this have a wonderful time at your engagement party and sooo sad I can't make it!! HAPPY FRIDAY everyone!

A Dreary Monday...

2010-03-08T16:08:00.003-07:00

We don't have many overcast days here in Colorado. Usually the sun is out and shining or the snow is falling in beautiful little crystals, but today....not the case. It rained a little bit last night and I was awoken to wet streets and when the sun did finally 'rise' it was gray and gross. This is not the reason why I live in Colorado! No thank you. Not only is it dreary outside but I have a nasty case of the Monday's as one of my co-workers referred to it. Whatever, I may have woken up on the wrong side of the bed today and I may have shut my door at work all day today but there is a reason for that. Therefore, when my door is polietly shut and I do not have 'come on in' sticky note on my door, DO NOT COME ON IN. I am a very friendly person who could probably have a conversation with a frog, however, when I am in a bad mood, STEER CLEAR!! Do not try to cheer me up with your funny baby stories or cool skiing stories, I quite frankly will be in this foul of a mood and will not be wiping my mean mug off of my face until tomorrow morning. Some days everyone is just down right entitled to be a little bit bitter. Ahhh, that feels much better just putting down.

Anyway, I had a wonderful weekend and was even able to spend some time with W...shocker!! She has basically been working non stop at the hospital and I have not been home much in the last week either. We have actually had to start planning catch up dinners, which considering that I live with her is well, pathetic. She is off to see Bon Jovi tonight, that lucky little duck. That may have something to do with my sourpuss mood today, who knows.

On a lighter note I will have pictures for ya'll at some point this week of my bedroom. I finally have my pillow cases monogrammed and my new headboard has arrived!! Whooo hooo, get excited everyone!

So here's to a better tomorrow, some sunshine and turning my frown upside down.

OKLAHOMA!!

2010-03-05T08:52:00.003-07:00

Oh yeah that's right, everyone can be jealous of my suhweet trip to Oklahoma! I had to go to Tulsa for some work stuff for two nights and let me tell you that town is full of exciement. Just kidding, it really wasn't too bad, especially when I was eating breakfast in my hotel and Eric Clapton walked by, whoo hoo!! He was apparently playing a concert right down the street from where we were staying and he happened to be staying at the same place, pretty cool actually. I got a lot of work done and played a little bit so all in all a successful trip. Many of you don't know me and don't know that I have a TREMENDOUS fear of flying. I realize that it is completely irrational and on a plane I'm unable to lash out irrationaly (Santa Claus!?? Anyone?) Anyway, I very rarely travel by myself, usually I have my secruity blanket AKA W. This time however, not the case. I was travelling with 5 other co-workers. I think it would be slightly inappropriate to throw back 4 drinks on an hour and half flight, so I sucked it up and acted cool. I had planned on arriving at the airport a good hour and half early to ensure that I was able to save my company some dollar bills by parking in the economy lot, even though my other co-workers opted out of this decision. I ended up getting tied up at work, leaving late, getting stuck in traffic, missing the shuttle from the parking lot, and getting stuck behind a slew, and by slew I mean the entire state of Texas's high school volleyball teams in security, which in turn caused me to have to RUN to my gate like a total fool. I barely made my flight, not good!

When I returned from my ever so productive business trip, I went straight from the airport on Wednesday night to Customer Appreciation night at my favorite bar. Let me tell you, it was out of this world awesome. Free drinks for everyone, ALL NIGHT LONG!! I don't just mean measly little cups of beer either, I'm talking run of the joing do whatever you want and its all on us type night. Love those. However, I left my iphone on the table and was dancing the night away, when I realized my phone was no longer on the table. Denver is a nice place, I don't feel unsafe that often and apparently I trust all to easily. Ya'll this is the second phone now that has been stolen when I am a mere five feet away cuttin' a rug on the dance floor. Seriously, what is wrong with this picture? So even though the bar picked up my tab for the evening I still paid for it by having to buy a new cell phone last night...big bummer! I have a busy weekend plannedand also I am hoping I will commit myself to blogging more, I have been slacking big time lately and I am going to change that! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Here is a little gift for ya'll straigh from the Tulsa airport...enjoy!

I'm a professional

2010-02-26T10:00:00.002-07:00

...a professional bowler that is! Yes, I am in a bowling league and yes, I LOVE it. The league is sponsored by my work and it is a league of a lot of young professionals in the oil & gas industry. It is a BLAST!! The league is every Thursday night and I am extremely saddened to report that next week is our last week :( I have had so much fun laughing and getting to know some of my co-workers, I am honestly not sure what I am going to do with my free Thursday nights now... bummer. I just have to brag a little bit and say that I scored a 164 last night, what what!? Hah, that is my high score for the season so I have to give myself a pat on the back every now and then :)
On a totally different note let's talk food shall we? I love me a good piece of meat. I'm not talking any meat, I L-O-V-E a good steak. My mouth is salivating just thinking about, yum! Fortunately for the residents of Denver the town puts on a 5280 week where a whole slew of restaurants get together and offer set menus for a whopping price of 26.40/person or 52.80/person. Get it 'the mile high city' 5,280 feet? Just checking ya'll were still awake.

This is pretty much my favorite week of the year. I'm being serious here too! Tonight we are venturing to Del Frisco's for a mouth watering steak and yummy wine and tomorrow we are trying out a new restaurant called Trappers. Apparently you cook your steak on a lava rock...totally awesome!! If I parish due to a heart attack of red meat overload I 100% blame it all on restaurant week. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Spring is just around the corner!

Skiing, Bingo, and a concert

2010-02-24T09:20:00.002-07:00

The title pretty much sums up the last 5 days of my life. I feel like I have been on the go non stop since this winter began, a busy bee if you will. Last week I decided I had enough of living in Colorado and not utilizing the beautiful mountains a mere 1.5 hours away. I grew up skiing and since I began to work I have not been nearly as much as I would have liked. So I gathered up a nice little crew and we set off for the great Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately, we got about an hour behind schedule Saturday morning which put us in the worst ski traffic I have been in!! I'm talking 3 hours of stop and go all the way up to Copper Mountain..not that exciting. Luckily the poeple I went with had good senses of humor and we made the best of it. When we finally got up there the snow couldn't have been better. I skied with one other person while W and another friend skied together. AMAZING!!! Unfortunately we all had to leave the mountain earlier than we wanted to because we had a Bingo ball to attend that evening. That's right, formal Bingo. So we all got gussied up and headed on over to the ball. It was great charity event that promoted an awesome organization and I was happy to be a part of it. I think its safe to say everyone had a wonderful time. After a Saturday like that I needed a week to recovery, not gonna happen though. My work generously provided me with a ticket to the Elton John/ Billy Joel concert on Monday night!!! Holy freakin' cow!!!!! We had a huge box up on the press level and I sang and danced my happy little heart out. I am completely wiped from all the activities and am excited for a weekend with no plans for once. Perhaps see a couple of movies and lounge around the house. I have actually considered getting a subscription to netflix for the month so I can catch up on all the seasons of lost I have missed. I would like to refresh my memory as to what the heck is going on becuase quite frankly I'm lost. (Sorry for the cheesy joke, but lets be honest...) Haha.

Here are some pictures from the EPIC weekend last weekend. Happy hump day ya'll!

TGIF!!

2010-02-12T10:40:00.002-07:00

For real ya'll. THANK GOODNESS ITS FRIDAY!!! Today is kind of a neat day for myself and my company, it's BONUS day!!! Each of our respective groups managers walk around with red evevelopes in honor of Valentine's day and they basically praise you for 5 minutes or so and then move on to the next office. It has changed a lot since I first started here due to the sheer volume of employees we know have. When my first bonus came around it was the Prez himself that delivered the checks and sang your praises which was always pretty neat, but this year was almost as good. Now that I have that check it is burning a hole in my pocket. I need to use all of restraint in my body not to run to the mall and blow the newly acquired cash money! Good thing I have no valentine (except W of course) otherwise this money would be long gone. I don't know what it is but I have the great ability to go completely and utterly overboard with buying gifts. Good for the recepient, bad for me :) I'm trying to save my dolla bills for the 6 weddings I will be attending this summer, so lets hope that mall doesn't call my name too loudly :)

On a different note, W made the most delicious, not to mention precious, Valentine's cookies that I passed around the office today. Check em out.

Do any of you have any special plans for the weekend of LOVE?? Haha. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Get me outta here!!?

2010-02-09T15:26:00.002-07:00

Funny story... I'm walking with 5 of my co-workers today at lunch minding our own business when one of those obnoxious (I mean very sweet) people on the street handed me a flyer for goodness knows what. Of course I am the only one in the group who is handed it. So I nonchalantly carry on my conversation with my co-workers until we get to another crosswalk where I glance at the sheet. It's a flyer for a singles charity event...GREAT!! I am pretty much 1 of, oh lets see, 1 single person in my office and its like these sweet, caring, girls knew exactly who to target out of the group of all married women..MOI!! Everyone got a great laugh out of it, including myself. If only those girls knew :)

Another busy weekend on the home front an sooo ready for a vacation!! OH.MY.GOODNESS. It is frigid cold here, dreary and quite honestly not that pleasant. W is starting a 9 in a row nursing shift and I am left to my own devices for V-day weekend. Could you sense the excitement in my voice? I am honestly just looking forward to having a fabulous 3 day weekend hopefully filled with some relaxtion, some movies, and perhaps if I am really motivated some skiing. I'm thinking I am going to have to be REALLY motivated to have the last one happen, but you never know, things could get wild!

W's birthday was a huge success. I will post more pictures later but leave you with this one of her darling cake. I was joking with her that this is more of 'Lindsey' cake than a 'W' cake but it was cute and sooo darn yummy.

I may or may not dream about W's birthday and my birthday all year long just so we can get a cake from the best bakery in town. It's the little things, right!? Have a great day everyone!

Where does the time go?!

2010-02-01T12:19:00.002-07:00

Seriously!? How is it February already and how I have not blogged in 10 days!?? Wow! Needless to say I have been burning the candle at both ends over the last couple weeks or so. Jam packed weekends and trying to catch up on the weekends chores during the week is no easy feat let me tell you. I'm positive that after this week it will be back to our reagularly scheduled programming. I have been a busy bee trying to help my uncle find a new home in Colorado from Reno and have spent many a hours hopping from house to house hoping that the next one we walk into will be 'the one'. I swear I had no idea finding a house could be so darn complicated, whew, what a whirlwind. Hopefully, the one we found on Saturday and re-visited on Sunday will do the trick and we can stop that nonsense. I have been trying to catch up with old friends that I may have neglected in 2009 and maintain the ones I have. One of my New Year's resolutions, which I mentioned on here, was to rid my life of the toxic people in it. Honestly, I feel less stress and less anxiety about saying no to social gatherings with those individiuals and it makes for a much better weekend!!! This week is jam packed as have been most of January's weeks. However, this week is espeically awesome due to W's 26th birthday!! Wow, how are we already that old?! Crazy! Her actual birthday is on Thursday and we will do dinner at our favorite italian restaurant outside of town Cafe Jordano's and then we will have her friend celebration on Friday night...I'm sure I will have some absolutely stellar pictures from that evening :) Also, on Saturday of this week we have planned to go to the Mizzou Vs. CU basketball game where we will obviously be rooting for Mizzou, BOO CU!! I can't help it, I'm a ram fan through and through. More friends birthday celebrations on Satruday night and then hopefully some recouping for Valentine's week/Denver's restaurant week the following week on Sunday. I'm telling ya'll I am exhausted even writing this post. I also have a favor to ask all you readers out there. I have yet to get W a present...any suggestions? The girl has got every handbag and outfit possible, any 'unique' suggestions are welcome! Thanks and hope everyone has a great Monday!

'Wave on Wave'

2010-01-20T14:59:00.005-07:00

Warning picture overload!!

This past weekend a couple of friends and myself attended the Pat Green concert at the Grizzly Rose. Let me just preface this by saying the last three PG concerts I have been to they have never failed to be a 'top night'. This concert was no different. There were a group of about 10 of us that met up at my house for some pre-concert fun. We had a blast stomping around my apartment in all of our cowgirl/cowboy glory. My dad stopped by to drop my brother off and he even got in on some of the action, hah.

W, my dad, me.

J got in on this photo!

Some of the girls in their $hitkickers!

W and I ready to rock out!

Once we arrived at the Grizzly Rose we were raring and ready for a grand ole time. We two stepped and danced with all the cowboys who were in town for the stock show, it was so much fun! My brother, J, was less than thrilled with the crowd but he managed to entertain himself for a bit. All in all, it was a fabulous night, which made for a REALLY lazy Sunday!! We went out to breakfast at IHOP (classing it up) and then headed home where W and I did not leave for the entire rest of the day. Even though our apartment looked like a bunch of crazy frat boys had partied there the night before, we didn't move off the couch. What a great time and I am already looking forward to Pat's next show in Denver!! Love, Love, Love!!! Happy Hump day!

Anything else!?

2010-01-13T15:47:00.005-07:00

So here I am happily working away at my office job, just type type typing away. Suddenly my cell phone rings and its my dad. Never a good thing. He definitely had a lower tone in his voice and I knew something had either happened to one of our family pets or something happened to my mom. This time it was my mom. Apparently she had slipped while out walking the dogs and sliced her pinky and ring finger open pretty nicely. I'm not really sure how you accomplish this task but it was certainly S-P-L-I-T open. My dad had a late meeting which meant my lucky little tush got to go pick up a throughly medicated mother from the ER. YES!!! Let me tell you how much I love spending quality time with a medicated mother, haha! I swooped her up and we flew off to the pharmacy to continue her drug induced happiness, at this point I really didn't care what was making her nice, I liked the stuff! So we spent a good hour in the pharmacy filling her prescriptions while she chatted everyone and their mom up...lovely. I finally dropped her off 3.5 hours after the ordeal had begun and my oh so helpful brother comes trapsing in my parents house straight from Boulder. Check!!

I am finally on my way home last night after an exhausting day when W calls and is complaining quite a bit about the level of naseau she is feeling. GREAT!! Can't wait to get home. She tells me she is laying on the bathroom floor she feels so sick...holy cow. I get home and get her some sprite and do pretty much all I can to help make her feel better which was wildly unsucessful, but what are you going to do. Man oh man, what a night.

My mind was racing a million miles a minute last night and could not fall asleep until well past my bedtime, which in turn made for a bit of a rough start this morning :( But today is a new day and things are going to start looking up. W tells me she is feeling much better today and we are hoping to have her completely off the pain meds by Fri. As for my mom I'm saying keep the woman medicated. Haha, j/k. She seems to be doing fine today and will be a little bit of rehab involved with the muscles etc. However, if I could spend my time with her like that all the time, where do I sign?!

I'm just going to keep looking at my pictures of Hawaii from last May and dream of the cold beer on the booze cruise and tropical drinks. Here's to a better tomorrow!

Here's to a fabulous hump day and better times! I need a glass of vino or 2, pronto!

Toxic People

2010-01-12T13:18:00.002-07:00

You know we all have them in our lives. Those people that just seem to suck the life out of you and you are left wondering...how did that just happen?? One of my New Year's resolutions is to remove the toxic people in my life. Part of this 'quarter life crisis' is finding out who I am as an individual. That may mean growing out of friends, relationships, etc and becoming my own person. Seeing as I went to school in state (go rams), and once I graduated I returned to Denver, I have basically stayed in touch with most of my college friends. I love them all dearly but lately I think we are all feeling the strain of the 'real' world per say. With friends getting into long term serious relationships, engaged, married, babies, etc. Sometimes I think it is hard to remember what you had in common back in college. Are you picking up what I'm throwing down?? I will forever and always cherish the memories we all created together and they will always have a special place in my heart. However, as time goes on and each of us come into our own I don't think it is a bad thing to not have contact with them every day or go out for margaritas EVERY Friday afternoon. I just don't think that is in the cards for me right now. I know that as a human being we crave the attention of others but as I grow up a little bit I am realizing that it is a good thing to have some alone time. Some time to reflect on who you are as a person and what you want out of your day to day life. I don't want to be petty and worry about what so and so said to so and so. I just don't want to be involved. At the end of the day as selfish as this sounds, YOU are the most important thing. YOU need to take time out of your daily schedule and do things that YOU want to do and not do it because someone else asked you to. Obviously as we all grow up this priority of yourself will change so why not take the time to figure it out now. Be a little bit selfish and occasionaly do things just because you want to do it! My dad was constantly telling my mom, 'don't sweat the small stuff honey'. I know this is not that deep by any means but there is a heck of a lot to learn from those six words. Take things for face value and enjoy the time you do have with your friends, make it quality time, not quantity time. Just a little something to think about on this somewhat rocky journey. So next time you are in your jams at 9:00 on Saturday night and a friend texts you to go out...think twice about why you are really obliging to that cocktail filled evening. Do you want to do it? Or are you just feeling a bit guilty?? Think about the toxic individuals in your life and try to gracefully move away from it, I promise it will feel much better at the end of the day.

Whew what a post...Happy Tuesday everyone!

Are we having fun yet!?

2010-01-11T14:28:00.003-07:00

How is that we are already 11 days into the New Year!? I guess time flies when you're having fun...right!? I feel like I have been running around with my head chopped off lately. Between tending to a not so abiding patient (W) and the crazy work place I don't think I will survive 2010. I love being busy don't get me wrong, I think I would go crazy if I didn't have plans most of the time, but sometimes you just need to sit back and relax. Although this weekend was very laaazy I still felt like I had a bazillion and ten things going on in my head that just had to get done.. I H.A.T.E that! Oh well, what are you going to do about it, so you may as well just embrace it while you have the time to. Haha.

I have started my half marathon training (kind of) once again. I am actually just trying to get in shape so I can begin the real training but everyone has to start somehwere I suppose. Being couped up in the house for most of Saturday I needed a breath of fresh air. Outside was beautiful and the sun was shinging bright. So I decided to bundle up and go for a run along the cherry creek. I loved it!! I was out for almost and hour and really just tried to enjoy being out there with no place to be. I'm beginning to really enjoy running and am looking forward to doing more of the long runs, especially when the weather warms up!

Along the running note, I am in a total music slump! Yuck! Usually I will listen to a playlist on my ipod or just bring my iphone and listen to a pandora station, but man oh man I am BURNED out!! Do any of you have any awesome running song suggestions?? Really motivating and upbeat!?? The help would be greatly appreciated!

W update: She is doing great with minimal naseau and not in an excrutiating amount of pain...keep those fingers crossed!

Yowza!!

2010-01-08T09:08:00.003-07:00

Wow what a week! All I have to say is seriously TGIF! Not only am I having to work a full work this week, which I have not had to do since 3 weeks ago, but W also got her tonsils out on Wednesday! O.U.C.H. Monday and Tuesday were spent cleaning the house and preparing to have her locked inside for at least a week if not more. We wanted everything to be nice and spic and span so she wouldn't have to look at the dust bunnies while watching television. Haha. So far we are on day 2.5 I guess, and she is doing really well. Both myself, her doctor, and W were all very concerned that she would have a bad reaction to the anasthetic and result in a not so pleasant recovery, however, I am pleased to announce that she is doing great!! Granted, the surgeon told her that she woudl more likely than not begin feeling a whole heck of a lot crummier around days 4, 5, and 6 but so far so good. The fridge is stocked from top to bottom with apple sauce, pudding, jello, smoothies, ice cream and all the other liquid treats you could think of. My aunt and myself have been caring for W, but let me tell you she is not the easiest patient. She is a nurse and is used to caring for the sick people not being sick herself. I came home Wednesday afternoon from work and sure enough she was up hanging out at the table with my aunt like nothing had ever happened. I have threatened on numerous occassions that she needs to stay in bed and rest and let me get things for her, but man oh man that girl is STUBBORN!! I'm sure by the time she gets to feeling a little better she will be used to the complimentary wait staff (AKA myself) around the apartment not want to go back to the way it was before, haha. I will keep you all updated on the healing process but keep your fingers crossed there is minimal swelling and we will be up and about shopping this weekend. (a girl can wish right?) Now just because I hate posting without any pictures, and she would KILL me if I posted one of her right now, I'll post one of better times. Enjoy your weekends everyone and stay warm!!

In no time flat I'm sure we will be able to consume pizza like this again :)

Nothing beats a little Vegas trip!

Ringing in the new Year with some Nuggets

2010-01-05T08:37:00.003-07:00

Sorry ya'll, it seems I have gotten tied up in a little thing called life and completely neglected my blog! New year though, and a fresh start! I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and a great New Years! I for one had a wonderful Christmas. It was nice and relaxed without all of the crazy family drama that usually comes with the holidays. I spent X-mas eve with our good family friend and went to a delicious Maggiano's family style dinner with her brother, niece, grandparents and W and I. It was so great. We all left a few lbs heavier and a great joyful spirit! Unfortunately W's holiday work schedule gave her Christmas Eve and Christmas day to work so she was pretty limited in her activity this year for X-mas. We definitely made the most of it! X-mas day we opened presents (santa was soo good to me) and then I hung out with our family friend and watched the Grinch before meeting W at my parents house. So many of you read this blog and actually know me in person and know that my mom is a few notches of normal, like quite a few notches. Even around the holidays it can get kind of hard to spend a significant amount of time over at their house without some kind of blow out. This year we just did the dinner and bascially parted ways, however, not before seeing what Santa brought to our parents house. Get this....my mother wrapped a box for all 4 kids filled with (drumroll please), 100 1 dollar bills. Apparently she thinks I frequent some kind strip joint or other not so classy joint and needed the one dollar bills, honestly who knows. My brother, being the comedian that he is, grabbed a stash of his bills and threw them all over our dining room yelling "I'm makin' it rain". At that point W and I knew it was time to part ways and head home. What can I say it made for a great laugh!

Onto New Years. I. HATE. NEW. YEARS!! With a passion. I believe it is an overrated holiday where bars charge a ridiuclous cover charge and every guy at the bar is on SERIOUS creep mode! I dislike it strongly! I had seriously considered purchasing a glass of wine and just hanging out in my hot tub, but I was talked into venturing out into the cold and crowded streets of downtown Denver....BIG MISTAKE!! We ran into some drama (shocker) and W, myself, and one other friend spent midnight in a cab trying to find an open McDonald's. What can I say I live a really glamorous life! Haha. It wouldn't be a new year without a delicious nugget from McDonald's. :) The rest of my long weekend was spent relaxing and cleaning our apartment.

Sorry for the ridiuclously long post ya'll, I needed to catch everyone up! Happy New Year to everyone and can't wait to see what this year has in store!

One more thing congrats to Miss Kaneil, who recently got engaged over the holiday. Can't wait for the awesome Nashville wedding!!

Who knew!??

2009-12-23T10:33:00.004-07:00

I seriously had no idea that a company holiday party could be as much fun as mine was on Friday night. I can honestly say it rivaled some of the best sorority/fraternity formals that I attended in college. It was freakin' awesome! It was all held at a hotel near our office in downtown Denver. We started off with a really neat cocktail hour, offering different 'cultures' in different rooms. There was a 'South of the Border' room which was serving margaritas and coronas, an Asian inspired room offering saki and Japanese beer as well as an Italian room with yummy sangria! Once the cocktail hour was over we were heading across the street to the hotel ballroom. This is where the dreaded carriage rides were taking place, ugh! Luckily, my date, who was a fellow co-worker who's husband couldn't make it, and I had a blast!! We boarded the carriage with two other single ladies and had a wonderful time cruisin' down the 16th street mall in our carriage. Food and drinks were flowing like crazy and I don't think I have ever seen so many people dance at any function, even a wedding, than at this reception. There were people doing the worm, swing dancing, and two stepping up a storm! When the party regretfully ended there were a couple of 'younger' individuals including myself that headed out for a couple more hours of drinking! What a riot!! The night finally came to a close at nearly 5:00 AM where I dreadfully hopped in my chariot (AKA a yellow cab minivan) and colapsed as soon as I hit my bed. I was so sore from dancing the night away the remainder of the weekend...TOO FUN!!! Hopefully next year will be twice as much fun, who knows if I will even be able to survive that though. Haha. Here are some of the few pictures I took of the evening, there aren't to many becuase I was clearly too busy bustin' out my moves on the dance floor. :)

Merry Christmas everyone and enjoy this time with your friends and family!!!

In the horse and carriage, YEAH!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

2009-12-17T13:04:00.006-07:00

If you can't tell that says 27 in cupcakes, h's fav!

Happy Birthday to my oldest sister H, who lives in Chicago. This will be her 27th birthday and I just can't believe we are getting that old. I remember like it was yesterday looking through our neighborhood 'buzz' book (phone directory) trying to figure out different neighbors who we could call with kids who were close in age to us. If we came across someone in the book who had kids that were older than 12 we thought they were sooo old and they most certainly could not play night games with us. Ooohh how the times have changed!

Oh formals!

Good times at the Tri-D house. They had no idea what was in store for them with all 3 sisters living in the house at the same time. Oh boy!

Best Halloween ever. Too bad you lost your big toe nail that night. SICK!!!

Nothing better than tailgating with a whole bunch of family ram fans!

Great family vacation 2 years ago, loving life in Beaver Creek.

I hope you are doing a little bit of dancing like this evening!!

I love you very much H, and hope you have the best birthday and year yet!

Ice Capades, encore!!!

2009-12-15T15:30:00.003-07:00

Lately W and myself have been having some car issues. As previously posted, W's brief encounter with a median on I-25 which in turn will cost her about $450 dollars in new tires!! I don't think I mentioned that one, but are you freakin' kidding me!? We had gone back and forth as to actually purchase the new tires or just wait and see if we can get through the winter and then she is purchasing a new car. After putting on her very own display of ice capades, we both decided it is probably wiser to just go ahead and purchase the tires. Damn!

Fast forward a week or so and you have my cute little mini cooper, lovingly name miss minifred. There have been a couple of different issues with this car and I finally scheduled to take it in and have the dealership look at it. One of the reasons I took it in is becuase I thought the tire pressure light was malfunctioning and needed to be reset. I told the service man exactly this which looking back on it I guess I could have been a little bit nicer to the poor guy. I just got off the phone with the dealership and it turns out that sure enough most of the funny noises and flashing lights in my car all have to do with the fact that I have two severely damaged tires. Apparently minifred has been four wheeling while I am asleep. Going through nail beds and getting them stuck in her two left tires. I mean seriously!?? So now I am left feeling like a complete dummy to the people at mini and my wallet is a good $450 dollars lighter. Get outta here!! A week before Christmas!?? Ugh, oh well. I'm just considering this a very lavious gift to myself for being so good this year :)

In the meantime they gave me this beauty to drive. Yeah that's right its a convertable. Which is totally awesome, minus the 40 degree temps. Unfortunately I don't think I will be feeling the wind in my hair any time soon. ;)

Have a great afternoon!

Are you a Fanilow?

2009-12-10T14:53:00.007-07:00

Of Barry Manilow!?? Well I am just bopping away listening to some amazing X-Mas tunes and what'd you know, Barry Manilow's 'Christmas is Finally Here' came on. One word is WOW!! Haha, I love the cheesy pop inspired Christmas music, darn right cracks me up. Did any of you watch the lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockafeller Center last week? He was sporting some sweet moves on stage while crooning in his best holiday voice. Man, I love the holidays.

I promise you I will take a picture of my little Christmas tree and post it soon, and I won't do another post on Barry Manilow, haha! To tie ya'll over. here are some other great X-mas trees I can only aspire to. (sigh)

Just a nice, pretty, traditional tree. You just can't go wrong.

Can't beat the beautiful tree in Rockefeller Center!

I love this tree, it is lit in the center of my favorite mountain town, Vail and it is GORGEOUS!

A little nautical inspired X-mas tree, love it! :)

It was like freakin' ice capades!

2009-12-08T12:51:00.004-07:00

Don't get too excited, I did not go see ice capades, although I am seriously thinking about getting tickets to Disney on Ice. Too childish for a 24 year old?? Haha, never!!

Anyway, onto the situation at hand. So this morning W and I were just talking about her possibly replacing the tires on her car, even though they seem to be in OK condition(not like we would know), but she has been sliding around a bit on the highways when it snows so better safe than sorry. While on the phone with her I am trying to find that quarter trick on the interenet, the one where you stick a quarter in your tread and if its below a certain point its probably time to replace your tires. So, I tell W to do this and we both agree that at least 2 tires should be replaced. Cutting to the chase, I just got a phone call about an hour ago as I was getting set to go to lunch from W. She sounded slightly flustered but thought, meh no big deal, its W. In her very exasperated voice she says "you will never believe what just happened to me?" I'm thinking to myself, oh goodness what has happened know. She claims she just put on her very own performance of ice capades on I-25 WITH HER CAR!!!! She said that she was driving in the middle lane of our main 5 lane highway minding her own business when she suddenly began to slide all over the place. She started by swinging the car towards the 'fast' lane and was sure she was going to hit the median on that side and then she started to slide the opposite way across the other 4 lanes of traffic. Somehow in this whole debacle she has managed to avoid every other car out there and ended up slamming front first into the median on the opposite side of the highway. Now, I haven't seen the car yet but she says there is minimal damage becuase good ol' Felicity(her car) is built like a freakin' rhino. I guess that's a plus, and she has been looking into purchasing herself a new car within the next couple months. But still back and forth across 4 lanes of traffic completely unscathed!?? I swear only W can manage this kind of skill, especially from someone who is a self-proclaimed passenger NOT a driver! Oh goodness! I guess we look at this as a sign to get new tires, what do you think?

Drive safely everyone! We have a heat wave coming through tomorrow, I'm talking highs in the mid 20's, we're really getting up there!

What a whirlwind!

2009-12-07T12:35:00.002-07:00

Quite frankly I am glad this weekend is over!!! W worked really hard for most of last week on top of her reagularly scheduled nursing shifts in order to get all of the food prepared for our annual holiday cookie exchange party. I'll post more on that later, but as far as we are concerned it was a huge success!! Everyone brought the tastiest treats and it was great just to gather and mingle with friends who I had not seen in quite some time. Loved it!! Also, the Big Brothers Big Sisters party I had been talking about all week long was a success as well. All of the children loved the different arts and crafts we had set up for them and each of them loved the gifts from the sponsors. All in all, it was a great day!! I was exhuasted by the time I got home on Saturday morning from the party and crashed for a good 1.5 hours, what an awesome nap. W and I had been wanting to see the movie with Robert Dinero called 'Everybody's Fine'. Oh. My. Goodness. What a tear jerker! I would see it again in a heart beat but bring your own box of tissues, you will need it for sure. Sunday, it was fuuuuhhhrrreeeezing cold and W and I did not move off the couch for pretty much the whole entire day. I'm talking NO MOVEMENT. We ordered dinner in and watched lifetime movies all.day.long. Can't beat a cold snowy day and some classic lifetime movies! Can't wait to show you all of the fun pics and to re-cap our stellar cookie party. Happy Monday everyone, Christmas is sooo close, can't hardly wait!

Carriage for one please!

2009-12-03T16:24:00.005-07:00

Okay for real, 14 flipping degrees, that is straight up ridiculous! Not to mention that does not include the wind chill...BRRRR!!! I have worn my warm wool sweater and a long sleeved button up under, and man oh man, I am still chilled to the bone. I am seriously considering putting on some gloves to type this post. Mental image??

Onto a little bit of a rant, sorry I need to get this off my chest. So a particular indivdual we will call her A, had told me a little secret about a surprise at our annual holiday party that our company was throwing and had asked me not to repeat it because it was a surprise. Since I am 100% positive only 1 person reads this from my office I will let it out...we are having horse carriage rides. Wow, totally awesome right?! Well, yes and no. For every married couple (I'm going with 99% of the people that are attending) totally awesome romantic, blah, blah, blah, vomit! For me the fabulous single girl in the city, not so much. What am I supposed to do when I get up to the horse and carriage? Ask for a carriage for one?? Or worse yet have to ride with another married couple while they feel bad for me for not finding a date...not so awesome. Annnyway, the problem. So A told me this 'secret' and I was out for a friends birthday at a bar on Friday and ran into we will call her B who also works in HR at our comapny. I was joking about the carriage, for one thing because let's be honest here there is some humor in the situation. Didn't think twice about the situation, she already knew the secret, not a big deal. Haha, all is good and dandy until this morning. Before 8 O'clock A was in my office all flustered and angry that I had talked to B about it even though B already knew!?? What the H!??? Anyway, I got a swift reprimand from A, even though she is 2 years older than me, which for some reason jabs the knife in my back a little deeper, and basically at the same level, and was left feeling like dog poo. I hate it when people make you feel like that. I feel like for the most part I am a kind, caring, and generous person, but I feel like more and more each day people are throwing me under the bus. Why?? On top of it all I had planned on making a quirky little post about the carraige for one and now look where I am?? Bitter table for one? Now!!! I realize that is a rather pointless story to most of you out there but I needed to put it in writing somewhere where hopefully it didn't get repeated to someone else and in turn another reprimand. Not a fun day.

On a brighter note, some of the bows turned out pretty darn cute. Others turned out like I had been sitting on them the whole night, haha, whatever, they are still cute. I forgot to take a picture but you can take my word for it. :) Now all I have to do is celebrate at the infamous cookie party tomorrow and show up for the Big Brothers Big Sisters event on Saturday, then home freeee!! Can't wait! Sorry again for the ridiculous rant but my oh my what a morning!

I just need to put on my happy face in a sea of debbie downers and

maybe buy me one of these on my way home just for good measure.!

Wrapping Extravaganza & the Perfect Bow

2009-12-02T14:07:00.006-07:00

I'm not sure if many of you remember me talking about my company sponsering a Big Brothers Big Sisters party for all of the mentors and children this year, however, the time as come!!! It is this Saturday beginning at 6:30. After our cookie exchange party that may be quite a challenge to have me up and in the car by 6 AM, looking presetable nonetheless. Oh well, all for a good cause right? It should be great!! After all that has gone in the last year with the economy and so many parents jobless, therefore unable to purchase even the smallets gifts for their children it really got me thinking. Am I selfish for 'wanting' everything in sight and occasionaly buying for myself?? Is it bad if both W and I bought each of our family members rather nice gifts instead of buying them for children and parents that perhpas have nothing?? In turn, I have decided to really try to make this party special for all those children who will be in attendance who may be less fortunate than myself. All of the crafts are bought and the decorations are coming together so well!! I spent almost an hour and a half this morning wrapping over 40 EMPTY boxes, just for decoration. Let me tell you they are soooo darn cute!! Last week I ventured over to Hobby Lobby and found the cutest wrapping paper for 50% off. Top quality no less!! I wrapped my till my poor fingers could wrap no more, brining me to the finshing touch on these presents. I bought some absolutely darling ribbon in all different colors to finish off the gifts, however, I have no idea how to make one of those big fluffy bows for the top of the presents.

Something like these??

Does anybody have any good tips on putting these types of bows together. I kind of attempted it and it didnt' seem to hard but this is for 300 people so I don't want to put my name on something that is not top notch. Picking up what I'm throwing down here? Suggestions and comments welcome!! Have a wonderful day. The weather here in Denver is supposed to top out at a whopping 18 degrees tomorrow, YES!!!

Gobble Gobble and a little shopping

2009-12-01T13:22:00.004-07:00

I'm back!! Phew, it had been a litte while since I had posted but figured I would give you the full recap here and now. Our first Thanksgiving hosted at our house was a great success. Let me just tell you it really puts you in the holiday spirit to be able to wake up early on Turkey day, pick up the last minute meal items, cook, and watch the parade. It really did something for me. My mom, dad, brother, and oldest sister all came over and we munched on some really yummy appetizers while the boys and W put the steaks on the grill. Oh.my.goodness. those steaks were so flipping tastey I can't even describe it. W and I let them marinade in a peppercorn marinade for only a couple of hours, but man oh man, they rivaled Del Friscos (Not to toot my own horn or anything :) So we all drank too much wine and ate too much delicious home cooked food and then watched 4 Christmas'. Usually our Thanksgiving's are drama filled, someone leaves the table crying, etc, etc, but this year was awesome!! No drama, no expectations made for a wonderful day. Let's just keep our fingers crossed Christmas goes just as well.

Friday, W woke me up and we hit up the Coach outlet for some awesome deals! We pretty much were stealing our goods from them it was soo cheap. Love me a good deal, whooo hooo. I have most of my list complete except of course for W who is the hardest person on the face of the planet to shop for, any suggestions??

All of that pretty much sums up our awesome weekend and Turkey day. Christmas is a mere 25 days away, are you ready!?? Here are some great photos from our impromtu photo shoot with brother and the girls. Have a great day everyone!

Once again the quality stinks, I really need to charge my camera!!!

Good morning!

2009-11-25T10:02:00.003-07:00

Once again please excuse the poor quality of the Iphone pics but I was STRUGGLING to get out of bed this morning, that is until I turned over in my bed and saw this magnificent sunrise. Not too shabby for the day before Thanksgiving and hopefully a short work day. You just can't beat living in Colorado on days like today. Happy Turkey day everyone!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

2009-11-23T13:54:00.005-07:00

I know there may be a large number of 'haters' out there but W and I have decided to put up our Christmas tree! Finally. I love love love deacorating for Christmas and your house always looks that much warmer and cozier when all of your ornaments are hung on the brightly lit tree. Don't worry I won't post a picutre of our fabulous Christmas tree until after Santa has made his grand entrance at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but I am already sooo excited!! W and I have our annual Cookie Exchange party planned and the e-vite has been sent. Last year was just too much fun so I know that we are both very excited to see what this year has to bring. No one here fret there will be a whole post dedicated to this day, get excited.

On a totally different note, we went to go see Blind Side this weekend and let me tell you it was A-MAZ-ING. Completely awesome! It was one of those movies that you leave the theatre wanting to make more out of yourself and help people who are less fortunate than yourself. I would highly recommend seeing this movie, it woudl be a great post Thanksgiving flick! Other than that I'm just bopping away to Christmas music while putting up my decorations. Hope everyone has a great Monday! Here are a couple of wish pictures. How I would just die for any and all of these trees/houses for that matter.

Wouldn't you just love to be tying your bows and putting your finishing number on all of your gifts with this fabulous wrapping station?? Please, please Santa!!

S.W.E.E.T glasses!

2009-11-19T14:56:00.008-07:00

Yeah they are pretty much the most amazing glasses you have ever seen, no?? Haha. W and I went to go see a Christmas Story 3-D this weekend and we had to wear this goofy glasses. It was pretty funny to watch people throughout the movie with their dorky glasses on, but hey it made for a fun afternoon. Overall, the movie stunk!! It was so disappointing. I was hoping for something more along the lines of The Grinch that Stole Christmas and I was so sad when it was not even coming close to it. Oh well.

Yes I did just post that totally awesome picture of myself on a less than glamorous day because of the comic relief I thought we could all use. I don't know what was with the goofy glasses this week but we had to go to the dermatologist office yesterday with our aunt to look at some crazy cool laser skin treatments and we were forced to wear those babies. I know it is extremely hard not to be jealous right now, but please refrain, it's embarassing to get asked for my autograph all the time! Just kidding. I think W pulls off the doctor look to a tee, don't ya'll think so as well. Oh man! I dont' think the doctor thought it was funny as W and I did, but whatever! Anyway, this week has been pretty good so far, I took a couple of sick days from work with a crazy stomach bug (not fun) and have finally returned back to work today. Luckily, I was just in time for our annual Thanksgiving pot luck. My favorite of the whole year. I will post on my delicious concoction tomorrow, but man oh man was it tasty! I believe some co-workers of mine were referring to it as 'creamy crack'. Totally appropriate, I realize this, but I could've eaten the whole thing. YUM!!!

Karma is a what!?

2009-11-13T11:41:00.004-07:00

I strongly believe in Karma. What goes around comes around. If you treat soemone unkindly I would not think twice about some other aspect of your life coming around and kicking you in the booty one way or the other. Recently, I have really come to realize that this really holds true in day to day life. I have been trying to treat people more kindly and not gossip about what happened at last night's work gathering, friend gathering or whatever, its just plain old not nice. I would not want someone airing my dirty laundry all over the state of Colorado, no thank you. All of us have a friend, (or 2 maybe) that make deicisions we would not necessarily make, but does that make them a bad person?? I have recently been on a kick that I do not want to surround myself with poisonous friends. If we all have those friends out there perhaps we should do a friend cleanse. Of course, easier said then done, but you want to surround yourself with people that are like you, or bring out your best qualities. You don't want to be around people who bring you down or make you feel bad about yourself...not okay!! You also don't want to be put in a karma situation where you are constantly thinking 'will this come back to bite me?' I have a couple of friend gatherings this weekend and I am going to keep an open mind and truley see my friends for what they are not put them on a pedastol and try to justify anyone elses' behavior etc. I'm out there to have a great time and not think twice about it! So everyone have a greatweekend!!! Enjoy yourselves!

Big Brothers, Big Sisters??

2009-11-12T16:36:00.004-07:00

Have any of you every volunteered your time towards this organization?? This year my office has decided to sponsor some underpriveledged children through Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Each individual that is involved picks one child off of the tree and they are responsible for purchasing holiday gifts for them for $25.00. I have participated in a similar gift sharing process through other organizations and when all is said and done you really do feel good and that you have helped someone in time of their need. The point of this story is that this year I have been chosen to be on the committee that helps plan the party where you meet your child and give them your gift(s). I was really excited when I was given this opportunity and suddenly my creative juices started flowing. Just imagine all of the fun holiday decorations and crafts you can create for little kids, SO EXCITED!!!! I get to make a couple different craft tables and other fun games for the kids to participate in at this party. Do any of you have any suggestions of fun (cheap) things for children can do that are holiday oriented??

I would really like to do something with these great martha stewart inspired tissue balls.

Wouldn't that be so fabulous in holiday inspired colors?? Let me know what your thoughts are! Happy Thursday everyone!

LmA

Holy TMI Batman!!

2009-11-11T09:20:00.004-07:00

I feel like I was just bombarded by the most inappropriate conversation of my life. I'm going to rant for just a second. But seriously TMI lady, what makes you think that you can waltz around talking about your innards and how they work to random people? I'm all for a little office break here and there, catching up on what people's kids did over the weekend, etc. But man oh man this one CROSSED a line and then some. Clearly I am not going to go into detail regarding what this individual said to me but it left my mouth gaping open absolutely speachless, a hard task to accomplish. Rant over, I'm sorry but I needed to get that off my chest before it sunk into me for-ev-er!

On another note, I have the wants...BAD!! Every store window I pass by, wheather it be Nordstrom's or Starbucks, I want everything in it! I want the fall coffee cup at Starbucks and I want a new Kate Spade bag from Nordstrom. I want, I want, I want. Seeing as we are getting into the holiday season I need to stop myself and remember what time of year it is and that I do not, in fact, actually need another handbag (unfortunately). I am thankful I have a steady income at a well of company, I have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and food on the table every night. Do I really need anything else?? As we get into this holiday season I recommed we all take a couple steps back and really think about where we are in our lives and try to focus on giving more instead of receiving more. Just something to think about. However, on that note I leave you with some pictures of my current wants:

It's mani/pedi time, weekend update

2009-11-09T15:14:00.003-07:00

Tell you what, there is nothing better than a make shift spa day! This last Saturday after a night out on the town Friday, W and I decided to gather up a good family friend and meet my aunt at our nail place and man oh man did we ever get our nails did!! They are fabulous! Tammy my nail tech just does me right, haha! Just what I needed after a night of quite possibly too many sweet tea vodka drinks..whoops! Anyway, I got the most fabulous cranberry-red OPI color and I am still swatting myself on the wrist as to why I did not look at the name of it on the bottom of the bottle. All I know is that is was FAB-U-LOUS! After an afternoon of pampering our toes and fingers we bopped right on over to our local pizza place and induldged in waaay too much grease and carbs, but hey it was the weekend, right? :)

After too much fun on Friday and new shiny red nails I decided not to do much of anything yesterday. I relaxed in my PJ's until almost 2 and we finallly decided it was time to go eat and then go grocery shopping. Have any of ya'll ever tried to go grocery shopping when your starving?? Trust me, your wallet will thank you if you have a delicious snack/meal before you go. W and I stocked up on all the yummy fruits and veggies we needed for the week and headed home where I promptly put my sweat pants right back on and plopped myself back into my spot on the couch. All in all a great weekend was had by all, good food, fun people, and a little relaxtion thrown in.

One more thing before I leave ya'll for the day...
I have a Thanksgiving potluck next week and I am supposed to bring a dessert. I want to do something more original than a pie or cookies, any suggestions?? I'm thinking about making a chocolate chip cookie ball and having it with graham crackers, thoughts? Hope everyone has a great Monday night!

P.S. Gooooo Broncos!!!

THANKSgiving

2009-11-06T10:32:00.002-07:00

I realize that I may be slightly behind on this, but I decided for the remainder of the month of November I would include something in my posts about what I am thankful for. In years past W and I have always dreaded Thanksgiving. Dreading is a nice word to describe our extreme hatred towards the holiday. In all of our loathing we have managed to lose sight of what Thanksgiving is supposed be a time to reflect on the past year and what you are truely grateful for. Even though I H.A.T.E baked turkey and despise stuffing I can look past the food and focus on the meaning of the holiday. Also, this year W and I have opted to have Thanksgiving for my family at our humble aboad. That way if my parents are late (which is a given) we will be in control and have everything all ready to go. I kid you not, one year when all of my siblings and I were home from college, my mom said dinner would be ready at 2, well 4 hours later we finally sat down to dinner. By that time we had all had a few too many glasses of wine and could have cared less. We don't want a repeat of that year so we are doing it our way! It is going to be great! Different options for non turkey eaters and yummy desserts. That's my kind of Thanksgiving!! Eating so much that you may need to unbutton your pants after your meal, I see no shame in that. Annnyway, onto what I am thankful for today. This is not something heart felt or too sincere, however, I am sooo incredibly grateful for my company's policy of half day Friday's!! YES!!! I can't wait and quite frankly I am counting down the minutes till 11 when I can bust out of here like a prisoner from Alcatrez! Look out! Are any of you especially thankful for anything this season? Please share!! Have a lovely Friday!!!

LmA

Let the work out begin!

2009-11-05T11:02:00.004-07:00

UH-OH!! I mean a big ol' uh oh! I have been wanting to run a half marathon for quite some time now and I even began training for one last winter only to back out of it (after registering of course,) at the last minute. One of my (early) New Year's resolutions for 2010 is to complete a half marathon. It's going to take a lot, considering I have not even set foot in a gym in over 2 months and lets just say things have gotten pretty ugly since then. So my friend Heather and I have set up a work out regiment for the next 2 weeks to get our little (or not so little) botty's in shape. Tonight is our cardio night and it should be very interesting. Hopefully I don't have a mishap on the treadmill like W did back in nursing school where she was so mortified she could never set foot in the school gym ever again. Condisering I will be using my gym at my apartment building I really hope I don't fall and then have to face all of the other tenants for the duration of my living there. :( No good!! Anyway, if all goes well I am hoping to run the country music half marathon in Nashville with some great friends in March. Everyone keep your fingers crossed I make it through the next 2 weeks and then perhaps I can look more into the furture. So here is to no longer looking like this:

And hopefully looking a little more like this!

By the way, it is supposed to be in the 70's here today and tomorrow. We are finally getting the fall we never had, whooo hoooo!!! Happy almost Friday everyone!

"Are we shoulding all over ourselves?"

2009-11-03T14:44:00.003-07:00

I cannot take credit for the title, I was actually watching and old episode of 'Sex and the City' last night and that was the title of the article she was writing for the week. As I laid in bed I pondered this statement/question. I think with most decisions throughout my life so far, I really have to sit down and think should I do this or should I do that. Sometimes it is really difficult when you know you should do something and you choose to do the exact opposite. The point being why feel guilty about taking the road less traveled and deciding to do it for yourself every once in awhile. As a young twenty something I am faced with this question on a reagular basis, especially financially. I work hard as does W and sometimes you just need a little treat gosh darnet and there should be nothing wrong with that! So why do you feel guilty afterwards?? Becasue you know you should be saving that money? Because you know you should be buying your 12th wedding shower gift of the year with that money? Becuase you know that money could probably be more practically spent? WHATEVER!!! I had somewhat of an epiphany while watching Carrie type those words on her computer. I find it very interesting that many individuals 'should all over themselves' waaay to frequently. It's okay to be selfish (every once in awhile), its okay to give the homeless man with a poor homeless dog a dollar every now and then, it's okay to take the night to yourself and shut your phone off to the world. We shouldn't be guilted into things that we don't want to do. So when your friends call you and ask if they can come over on a Sunday night after a loooong weekend and you know you should say 'come on over' as enthusiatically as possibly, have it your way and just tell them you are too tired and re-schedule. You will thank yourself later!! That is enough of my little rant and rave for now but I thought Carrie Bradshaw had a very interesting point and perhaps we could all take a little something from it. Have a great evening!!

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Halloweenie

2009-10-30T11:14:00.003-06:00

Let me just tell you first off that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the creativity that goes into people's outfits and just the fun that you can have. At my office today we invited all of the people with children to come trick or treat to everyone's office doors. Let me just tell you it was too darn precious. Between the robot who's head was way too heavy for the poor kids neck, to the adorable 4 year old pumpkin waddling from office to office, it was waay too cute. As you know from my previous blog post, Denver has been hit with a rager of a snow storm. I didn't have to work at all yesterday (whooo hooo) and I got a half day on Wednesday. This is all fine and dandy except for the fact that this is going to cause one heck of a slushy Halloween night. It looks like the temperature is going to be a bit warmer than it has the previous two days, but all those little kids are going to have their ski outfits on underneath their costumes. I have been trying to find a picture of my brother and 2 sisters the year we were polar bear ballerinas, and a dancingr hippo. Of course, brother was Batman. It is the funniest picture, I'll have to keep looking. Do any of you have fun picutres of what you were when you were little? Fond trick or treating memories? One of my worst Halloween memories is when my oldest sister and my younger brother and myself all had the chicken pocks!!! All of us expcept for W! My dad and her had to go out with 3 extra bags to collect Halloween candy while we all soaked in oatmeal baths :( So sad! At least those days are behind us!

Tonight I think I am going to lay low and maybe go see Where the Wild Things Are so I can rest up for the big night tomorrow. I will be going as Cindy-Lou-Who from the Grinch That Stole Christmas. I have been her before but it is always such a hit I figure I can repeat it. I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!!

Finally a picture of my whole family. Brother went as a used car sales man, W was a tennis player and H was Alice from Alice and Wonderland...Oh college.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

2009-10-28T16:07:00.002-06:00

Oh my goodness, let it snow!!! I was let out of work at 2 O'Clock this afternoon and have been being a lazy bum the last couple of hours just soaking up the beautiful scenery outside.

Not the highest quality pic but you get the point. It is supposed to snow all night tonight and the rest of the day tomorrow. Everyone keep your fingers crossed this keeps up and I can enjoy another snow day tomororw. I'm not even lying to you when I say that the whole town shut down by 2. My college roommate set out for a little pre-Halloween snow fun. Check this out.
For the remainder of the afternoon I will continue to veg out and just relax while watching the snow come down. What would you all do if you had an unexpected snow day? Enjoy everyone!

Too good to be true!?

2009-10-27T15:46:00.003-06:00

Holy macral ya'll!! Not even kidding you this might be better than Christmas morning! Southwest is having a ridiuclous sale on their airfares! The dates are slightly restricted but one of the times you are allowed to travel is over Martin Luther King Jr. day in January. Since I unexpectedly had to cancel my trip to Vegas I am definitely thinking of planning an absolutely fabulous January getaway to perhaps Tuscon. A little spa weekend with the girls...doesn't that sound so great? Here is what the deals entail. You must purchase within the next 72 hours and you have to travel between Dec. 2-16th or Jan.5-Feb 10. These super low fares range from 25 (that is not a typo) to 100 bucks each way! That is a SERIOUS steal! So go onto their website and check it out, I think it is pretty darn awesome!

On a totally different note, I am struggling to make it through my work day. I thought Monday's were bad but I am really beginning to H.A.T.E Tuesday's even more. Monday's you wake up somewhat refreshed from the weekend and Tuesday you are just run down and tired from the day before, no bueno! It is supposed to snow buckets tonight and tomorrow so I will definitely be busting out the rain boots to wear into work tomorrow and lets hope this poor little guy makes it home in the snow...

Poor Miss Minifred may have a little struggle tomorrow afternoon, bless her heart! Have a good Tuesday and everyone keep your fingers crossed it snows enough for a snow day!!! I'll post some fun photos of the snow tomorrow.

Whoopsie!!

2009-10-26T15:25:00.003-06:00

Holy cow, so sorry for the extended vacation, its been a long haul. As previously stated I had to go in for a little procedure. I had my gall bladder out, and yes it was just about as exciting as it sounds. It was a rough go there for a while but thank goodness for my sis, the nurse. I honestly would be starving and probably passed out on the floor somwhere in my apartment if it weren't for her over the last couple weeks. Phew!! Literally, I had no idea I would be knocked on my booty as much as I was. I thought I was going to be up and mobile in no time flat, not so much. I actually had to shower with my bathroom door open and W had to sit outside of it while I showered to make sure I didn't pass out while showering, S.W.E.E.T! I did end up making it out alive and for the most part relatively unscathed, close call though. That was just the first week. Come Thursday I was feeling pretty crummy and my throat hurt like a biatch so I went to the doctor and sure enough I have strep!!! Not even kidding you, when it rains it frickin' pours. So for the past two weeks I have been laid up on the couch just trying to heal. Anyway, sorry for the extreme lack in posts, it wont' happen again! I'm glad to be back and have my outlet up and running once more. Can't wait for the fun posts ahead and to get this blog up and rolling!! Whooo hoo!! Have a lovely Monday and again excited for a week full of posts!

Its a little cold here so here is some happier times on the beach :)

Brrr it's cold out there...

2009-10-08T16:14:00.009-06:00

So today was Denver's first official snow fall. I woke up this morning to gray skies and a lot of fog, somewhat of a rareity in Colorado. Before I knew it I looked out my office window and sure enough a light dusting was beginning to gather on the tops of the buildings downtown along with a small collection on the grass...whooo hooo, it's winter!! Loveland Ski area opened yesterday, the first in the country. So there goes summer and fall right out the window and hello to warm jackets, uggs, and warm nights in by the fire (even though I don't have a fire, I like to pretend). We really didn't have much of a summer here in the Rockies, not even reaching the double digits 1 time, so its slightly bittersweet, but nonetheless, the first snow is always exciting.

One kind of the large downsides to the first snowfall hitting the Rocky Mountains tonight is that my company flag Football team, Crude Intentions, has one of our last games tonight. Nothing says football season like temperatures in the low 30's. I'll be supplying my team with some nice warm cocoa with some peppermint treats infused to help everyone stay warm. Fortunately for the other team I will be sitting out at tonight's game, playing photographer and cheerleader, something quite frankly I find more appealing, but no fear I'm sure we will come away with a big
ole' win for the team!!! Also in exciting news, the Colorado Rockies starting the playoff series against the Philadelphia Phillies last night as well. So far we lost the game yesterday afternoon and its seems we have pulled through a win for tonight. Rocktober is in full effect!! Lots of exciting things happening in Colorado this week! Hope everyone is as wonderful of a fall/winter day today!!

Let's go ROX!!!

Is this jacket too bright?!?

Snip Snip...

2009-10-07T16:09:00.006-06:00

No joke, I'm going under the knife, YIKES!! Apparently, gall bladder problems run in my family so seeing as my dad has his removed 40 years ago or so, I suppose its now my turn. After some rather excruciating pain throughout most of last week, I finally bit the bullet and trekked over to the doctor's office. They immediately rushed me to get an ultrasound where they announced I have a huge gall stone about 2.5 CM large...awesome. So now not only do I have to go under the knife but its not even for anything cool. It's not like its some rare disease where the doctor only gets to operate on cases like that every 10 years. Nope, this is the second most common surgery in the US. So when people ask me why I am taking all of next week off from work I get to come back with the awesome answer, "oh that, yeah I'm having my gall bladder out. Don't be too jealous." Yes, I am in my twenties and having the surgery a male may have in his 60's but you know, whatever. So I am not only a little bit worried about having my first surgery ever, but then my neighbor just told me his 'horror' story of his gall bladder surgery. He went into the hospital with an innie belly button and something about the lapriscopic blah blah blah, he came out with an outtie belly button! OH.MY.GOODNESS! I can't even make this stuff up if I wanted to. I guess if that is the least of my worries though I will be okay. Here are some jokes at my expense, of course. Happy hump day ya'll!

Street Smarts

2009-10-05T14:19:00.003-06:00

So for many years now I have always said that I am the sister with the streets smarts and W is the one with all of the book smarts. She is a nurse working on little tiny pre-mature babies, and I clack away at an office job 40 hours a week. I know when to change my oil and W can drive for months, probably even years until it breaks down or starts smoking and then realize its time to get the oil changed. Clearly I have been spending too much time with W when I start to spell things wrong and ask stupid questions. For example, W was trying to find my blog the other night while at work and could not figure out why she could not find it. Low and behold, I have left out the 'r' in quaRter life crisis. Awesome. Seriously, who does that? Ha, oh well, at least the blog is still new so I can still re-do it without much of a headache. I just thought ya'll would get as much of a giggle out of that as I did and especially as W did. Let me just tell you how proud she was of herself that she found a spelling mistake before I did...Good for you W!! Hope everyone had a great weekend!! Re-cap will come tomorrow and needless to say it was less than an eventful weekend. Happy Monday!

VeGaS BABY!!!

2009-10-01T13:44:00.004-06:00

Yup, you read that one right. I just booked my flight this morning to head to Sin city in 3 short weeks. Needless to say I am very excited not to mention a little bit nervous for my general health. I have been to Vegas twice before and both times have been relatively calm, (according to W at least), and all I have heard come out of her mouth is 'you better be ready for this, it's going to be crazy'. Yes my sister is consideribly more 'wild' than I am but hey, I can definitely hold my own. Just because I can acutally remember going to Vegas does not mean I did not have a good time! The only problem is there are 8 girls going, and 13 guys, again not a typo, that's THIRTEEN guys. Holy big fat cow!! It's going to be a blast and whenever you throw that many people from all around the country into one hotel there is bound to be some great adventures and awesome memories to come home with. So wish me luck that I can hold my own with all the wild and crazies that are going and still come home with my dignity entacted. (Just kidding...kind of.) Here are some pictures from Vegas memories past. Later Gators.

Dont' judge I L.O.V.E. Celine!!!! It was a sad day I never got to see her in Vegas :(

Me, my cousin, and W in front of the Wynn.

By the way, it's Thursday!! That means one day closer to the weekend!!! Have a great night!!

Taking the Plunge

2009-09-30T09:56:00.001-06:00

Hello everyone!!! I have finally bit the bullet and created my own blog (eeeek). After much thought and entirely too much time on my hands, I have finally decided to share with you all a little bit about my life. After searching the blog world high and low for great blogs to follow, ranging from wedding, photography, babies, etc, I thought 'hey, I could totally do this!' So here I am. I hope you all enjoy my fun filled, sometimes dramatic, but always classy life.

I suppose I will start off by telling you just a smidge about myself. I am currently living in Denver, Colorado just outside of the city. I went to school at Colorado State University (gooo Rammies) and graduated 2.5 years ago. I love to shop for preppy classy clothing, love anything monogrammed, and currently am in the giant fish bowl of dating. I work at an oil company here in town and still a little confused about where my place in the world is. I have a large and ca-ra-zy family who I adore. I live with my sister and I'm sure this blog will contain some of our antics throughout town. I am trying to take things one step at a time and live life to the fullest. Hope to hear from ya'll soon!!! Here a few pics of me throughout some good times for your enjoyment.

Washington, DC just this weekend,

love me some crab legs!

In Hawaii earlier this year. That's me on the right and my sister, W on the left. Booze Cruisin' it up!