life's rough. :D
Friday, June 11, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
even on a hot night like this
my living room still feels like autumn. hand-painting the folders for the invites.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Fabulous Friday
What a week! So much awesome (and so little quilting...not so awesome) crammed in! Let's a four-letter word week, just for fun:
1. Utah! I'm going to Utah! Two of my bridesmaids live in Salt Lake, so I'm going out to visit them over Labor Day weekend for my bachelorette party and some fun. I cannot express how completely and utterly excited I am to get to go back to SLC. I went to college at the U (no BYU hate mail, please!) and can say without hesitation that if anyplace in the world is "home" to me, it's Salt Lake. My best friends and best memories are there. There are still certain bands/songs/moods that make my heart ache for the Rockies. I want to scream right now, I'm so excited to see that U on the mountain as the plane's landing.
2. Kini. She's so silly and so absurd, but we've reached a point in our puppy/momma relationship where she will actually calm down for me, and snuggle on the couch. She still gets riled up with MOTU, but he doesn't really stop her (in fact, he starts it half the time). I keep thinking of next year when she'll be my constant companion while MOTU is away at OCS. She'll be a good one. :-)
3. USMC. They're taking their sweet time processing MOTU's medical records, which means in all likelihood he won't be leaving for OCS until January. Oh darn, I am so disappointed. Really. Ok, maybe not at all. I get Christmas AND Thanksgiving with him, which means we get to stay home and be us since it'll be our first as a married couple and that's our prerogative.
4. Work. Now there's a 4-letter word. Work's been good though. LOTS of meetings. I'm finally getting more information, so I can start planning the summer and getting stuff done. It's been sort of a culture shock trying to realign my expectations with their actions, but I am LOVING how much responsibility they've given me. It's going to be a lot of work, but they're grateful to have me on board (not always the attitude tech writers get, believe me) and are happily handing off loads of work to me...can you say "job security"? :-)
5. July. Yesterday I scheduled times to taste wines for the wedding, consult with our photographer and get engagement pictures taken, and do a trial run of my hair/makeup, all in the same day! Oof! I'm so excited to do the engagement pictures...hopefully Helen will be back up and running, so we can take her and Kini up and involve them in the pictures. The kitties would be involved if they were at all portable, but, well, they're kitties. I know MOTU isn't at all excited to get his picture taken, but I am. We need good pictures of us while we're still young and pretty. :-)
What the heck, it's been such a good week I'll add a #6:
6. Pain. That's right, pain. Today, the majority of it is in my upper quad, but yesterday I was barely walking straight. I ran 8.06 miles in 1:04 on Tuesday (longest run ever, per Nike+), 2.06 miles in 15:07(?) on Wednesday (fastest mile per Nike+), 25 minutes (about 3 miles) yesterday (plus 100 walking lunges with weights, and some other weight machine stuff), and today I'm hoping to go rock climbing after work. I've got a lot of pictures to take this summer, and I'll be damned if I'm going to get them taken at my highest weight ever. (I also met mileage, speed, and calorie goals according to Nike+ this week as well...like I said, good week!)
What goals have you reached this week?
1. Utah! I'm going to Utah! Two of my bridesmaids live in Salt Lake, so I'm going out to visit them over Labor Day weekend for my bachelorette party and some fun. I cannot express how completely and utterly excited I am to get to go back to SLC. I went to college at the U (no BYU hate mail, please!) and can say without hesitation that if anyplace in the world is "home" to me, it's Salt Lake. My best friends and best memories are there. There are still certain bands/songs/moods that make my heart ache for the Rockies. I want to scream right now, I'm so excited to see that U on the mountain as the plane's landing.
2. Kini. She's so silly and so absurd, but we've reached a point in our puppy/momma relationship where she will actually calm down for me, and snuggle on the couch. She still gets riled up with MOTU, but he doesn't really stop her (in fact, he starts it half the time). I keep thinking of next year when she'll be my constant companion while MOTU is away at OCS. She'll be a good one. :-)
3. USMC. They're taking their sweet time processing MOTU's medical records, which means in all likelihood he won't be leaving for OCS until January. Oh darn, I am so disappointed. Really. Ok, maybe not at all. I get Christmas AND Thanksgiving with him, which means we get to stay home and be us since it'll be our first as a married couple and that's our prerogative.
4. Work. Now there's a 4-letter word. Work's been good though. LOTS of meetings. I'm finally getting more information, so I can start planning the summer and getting stuff done. It's been sort of a culture shock trying to realign my expectations with their actions, but I am LOVING how much responsibility they've given me. It's going to be a lot of work, but they're grateful to have me on board (not always the attitude tech writers get, believe me) and are happily handing off loads of work to me...can you say "job security"? :-)
5. July. Yesterday I scheduled times to taste wines for the wedding, consult with our photographer and get engagement pictures taken, and do a trial run of my hair/makeup, all in the same day! Oof! I'm so excited to do the engagement pictures...hopefully Helen will be back up and running, so we can take her and Kini up and involve them in the pictures. The kitties would be involved if they were at all portable, but, well, they're kitties. I know MOTU isn't at all excited to get his picture taken, but I am. We need good pictures of us while we're still young and pretty. :-)
What the heck, it's been such a good week I'll add a #6:
6. Pain. That's right, pain. Today, the majority of it is in my upper quad, but yesterday I was barely walking straight. I ran 8.06 miles in 1:04 on Tuesday (longest run ever, per Nike+), 2.06 miles in 15:07(?) on Wednesday (fastest mile per Nike+), 25 minutes (about 3 miles) yesterday (plus 100 walking lunges with weights, and some other weight machine stuff), and today I'm hoping to go rock climbing after work. I've got a lot of pictures to take this summer, and I'll be damned if I'm going to get them taken at my highest weight ever. (I also met mileage, speed, and calorie goals according to Nike+ this week as well...like I said, good week!)
What goals have you reached this week?
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Cricket Cricket
My sewing machine has been collecting dust (well, cat hair) and not in the fun way lately...it's been a busy week, as usual, but at least I have a few fun pics to show for it:
First, my anti-kitty protection system. Yes, she even tries to sleep on the ironing board. She doesn't like the fan, which goes all night, so she doesn't sleep on the bed anymore.
Usually she sleeps in one of MOTU's backpacks, which is spread out on the floor. After a little spring cleaning, she couldn't find the backpack and in the morning we couldn't find her. Dig the the deepest, darkest corner of the closet and you'll see a little head:
Yep, she sleeps just like that. Doesn't want to risk getting zipped in, so her head is always out.
Last night, Kini was feeling fashionable:
No really, she loved wearing MOTU's shirt:
Ok, maybe she wasn't all *that* excited about it...
Aside from critter craziness (Grisgris is still making his rounds as household bully, too, if you're curious) it's been a productive week. The house is clean, we had a bbq on Monday, and I've run 10 miles so far this week...Tuesday I ran 8 and yesterday I ran 2 - I got my personal bests for longest run and fastest mile, respectively, per my Nike+ thingy. I'm hurtin' just a bit today.
Anyways, as usual, it's off to meetings and meetings and meetings for me. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to post soon!!
First, my anti-kitty protection system. Yes, she even tries to sleep on the ironing board. She doesn't like the fan, which goes all night, so she doesn't sleep on the bed anymore.
Last night, Kini was feeling fashionable:
Anyways, as usual, it's off to meetings and meetings and meetings for me. Hopefully I'll have something interesting to post soon!!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Friday Fave Five - The Allergy Edition
No explanations this week, I'll just jump right in:
1. Sweet sweet irony. Did anyone ever see "The Happening" by M. Knight Shamalayan? I know I probably butchered that name, but bear with me. First of all, I'm going to spoil it for you. It was the trees. They somehow rapidly evolve so that, when humans are grouped together (in decreasing numbers until the end, when Marky Mark displays how very little he actually reads before signing a contract for a movie), they emit a chemical that causes spontaneous, and often so over the top it's comical, suicide. Seriously, one guy throws himself in front of his lawn mower. A hand mower. Just silly.
Well, the irony here is, given how much we mocked that movie when we saw it, both MOTU and I are suffering in ways that could only be described as "the trees are trying to kill us". Our cars are yellow. Our clothes are yellow. I literally can't swallow today because my throat is so swollen. And all I can do is shake a fist (thereby stirring up the pollen even more) at the trees. Stupid trees.
2. Vantage points. (And as I typed that, FFF #3 occured...remind me.) There's one corner in our house where two baby gates meet, to keep Shelby "safe" in her room (see FFF#3 for why that's in quotes), Grisgris safe in his space, and Kini from eating everything in half the house. It's been happening more and more frequently that the three critters meet at this junction...what's great is that I'm the only one tall enough to see that all three are present...usually Kini and Grisgris are fussing at each other while Shelby just sorta howls at anybody blocking her from getting outside.
3. A living house. I lived by myself for a long time...3 or 4 years I think, all said and done. It got to the point where I would go out just to avoid coming home to an empty, silent house. I didn't want roommates, but it really gets lonely being, well, alone all the time. I'm not alone anymore. Now, even if MOTU isn't around, the house is ALIVE. Just this morning, during a meeting I called in to from home, I had to put the call on mute and sprint across the house to grab Grisgris as he was leaping over the baby gate that protects Shelby from his big, fat presence. Stupid cat. He literally just went in to drink her water. Kini will poke her nose in to eat Shelby's food, given the chance. It's pure chaos, I tell ya, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love our little zoo and how much it makes our house feel like our home.
4. Good, long runs. Tuesday was the season finale of The Biggest Loser. I ran for 1:15 of the show, covering just shy of 8 miles. Seriously, if I'd known I was that close to 8 miles I would've just stayed on the extra minute. But. That's the furthest intentional, consecutive distance I've covered since high school, maybe ever. Best part is, I'm not even sore from it! Though I will say, the best way to sabotage a long run is by wearing short shorts...yikes.
5. Flexible work geographies. Yesterday, I had meetings pretty much straight from 8:30 am to 3 or so pm. I called in from home to the first one and ended up just working from home the whole day. Over the course of the day, all three critters came to visit me:
Grisgris just purred away next to me on the couch when Kini was in her kennel:
Shelby tried to remind me that the dining room/kitchen/laundry area table isn't mine, it's hers:
And eventually, Kini settled down enough to take Grisgris' place on the couch:
At some point, MOTU came home and took over. I love my life. I love OUR life. :-)
1. Sweet sweet irony. Did anyone ever see "The Happening" by M. Knight Shamalayan? I know I probably butchered that name, but bear with me. First of all, I'm going to spoil it for you. It was the trees. They somehow rapidly evolve so that, when humans are grouped together (in decreasing numbers until the end, when Marky Mark displays how very little he actually reads before signing a contract for a movie), they emit a chemical that causes spontaneous, and often so over the top it's comical, suicide. Seriously, one guy throws himself in front of his lawn mower. A hand mower. Just silly.
Well, the irony here is, given how much we mocked that movie when we saw it, both MOTU and I are suffering in ways that could only be described as "the trees are trying to kill us". Our cars are yellow. Our clothes are yellow. I literally can't swallow today because my throat is so swollen. And all I can do is shake a fist (thereby stirring up the pollen even more) at the trees. Stupid trees.
2. Vantage points. (And as I typed that, FFF #3 occured...remind me.) There's one corner in our house where two baby gates meet, to keep Shelby "safe" in her room (see FFF#3 for why that's in quotes), Grisgris safe in his space, and Kini from eating everything in half the house. It's been happening more and more frequently that the three critters meet at this junction...what's great is that I'm the only one tall enough to see that all three are present...usually Kini and Grisgris are fussing at each other while Shelby just sorta howls at anybody blocking her from getting outside.
3. A living house. I lived by myself for a long time...3 or 4 years I think, all said and done. It got to the point where I would go out just to avoid coming home to an empty, silent house. I didn't want roommates, but it really gets lonely being, well, alone all the time. I'm not alone anymore. Now, even if MOTU isn't around, the house is ALIVE. Just this morning, during a meeting I called in to from home, I had to put the call on mute and sprint across the house to grab Grisgris as he was leaping over the baby gate that protects Shelby from his big, fat presence. Stupid cat. He literally just went in to drink her water. Kini will poke her nose in to eat Shelby's food, given the chance. It's pure chaos, I tell ya, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love our little zoo and how much it makes our house feel like our home.
4. Good, long runs. Tuesday was the season finale of The Biggest Loser. I ran for 1:15 of the show, covering just shy of 8 miles. Seriously, if I'd known I was that close to 8 miles I would've just stayed on the extra minute. But. That's the furthest intentional, consecutive distance I've covered since high school, maybe ever. Best part is, I'm not even sore from it! Though I will say, the best way to sabotage a long run is by wearing short shorts...yikes.
5. Flexible work geographies. Yesterday, I had meetings pretty much straight from 8:30 am to 3 or so pm. I called in from home to the first one and ended up just working from home the whole day. Over the course of the day, all three critters came to visit me:
Grisgris just purred away next to me on the couch when Kini was in her kennel:
have i ever mentioned...
...how much I LOATHE nick's oven? hate. it. the damn thing runs 50 degrees off, but not consistently in one direction...it depends entirely on how it feels that day. today it felt hot. I'm looking forward to replacing this the most.
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