Friday Night

Most Friday nights I'm all for a good time with friends.

Tonight is a different story...I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie, wrapped up in my down comforter, and I'm in absolute heaven!

I've had offers to go out and probably should but this is exactly what I want to do tonight.

Have a great weekend!

Hook 'em Horns!

Stress

We all endure its pain at some point. Some have more than others. It can come from many things; that laundry list of things to do around the house, bills, major deadlines at work, wedding planning, or you have absolutely no clue.
I seem to be falling into this last category lately. I have no clue what is causing the stress, but I know it’s there. I think this stresses me out even more. I feel great about work, granted we moved to longer hours last week and it was a little difficult to transition, but nothing horrible. Wedding planning is moving right along. We booked our baker and florist in the past two weeks and we’re starting on hotel blocks and registries. Bills are under control. House work is a little bit of a pain in the rear, but when is it not. We are in the midst of a few house projects but fun and exciting things. We’re adding more storage and organization to the garage and painting and redecorating our office/guestroom. It’s time to move out of the college/bachelor pad look.
There are also physical manifestations that stress tends to take on. For the lucky ones it is in the form of weight loss, a want for more food, a lack of energy, or an headache. For me it is an eye twitch. This darn eye twitch has been going on for the past 5 days. Just a random friggin’ eye twitch that comes and goes. My boss swears that it is due to the wedding planning or a lack of potassium. He’s not quite sure which the culprit is. He had one that came while he was planning his wedding and then disappeared after. I hope that this is the case, but I don’t think that I can put up with this for the next 8 months.

Hope you all had a great weekend and were able to let go of some stress!

Birthdays!

I'm so sorry bloggy world for neglecting you. I've had lots of post worthy events going on, just the lack of motivation and memory to get around to making it happen...

C just had his birthday on the 29th so we celebrated by having a little shin dig at the house. I cleaned my little heart out before hand. I was one motivated girl to attempt to get my home into tip-top shape for the event. Until my steam mop died on me. Boo... It was a sad ending, but thanks to the BBB's wonderful return policy I now have the newest Shark steam mop.

Back to the point of this post...

A great time was had by all. There were presents, guacamole, fajitas, salsa, queso, jello shots, and Hey Cupcake! Everyone was excited about the cupcakes. I was totally into the birthday party mood I even decorated the house with streamers and balloons. C was happy about his new game for the Wii, so much so that he got it a week before his birthday. I was going to make him hold on to it until the actual date, but I wanted to play it too.

The other guy in my life also had his birthday. To be exact the day after C's.

So a trip to Pets Mart to was in store (also a week early, I fail at keeping gifts until the actual day to give them). We went straight to the toy aisle. "What should we get him this year?" running through our minds. Last year he got a doggie edible cake from a local bakery. That was good and all, but a little pricey for him to spend a whole 0.00002 seconds appreciating before scarfing it down. We contemplated over the usual Monkey Squeak toy that he loves. (I don't know if "love" is the best word here, since he now has a pile of amputated or decapitated monkeys in his toy box. He plays a little rough.) Monkey just wasn't going to fit the bill this year and I'm tired of sewing monkey bits and pieces back together. Then I remembered reading about Jill and her new puppy Kylie and the purchase of a Kong. And then I saw one in the store. They had a little mini Kong for JD's size. It was so cute sitting there all small and tini next to the XL Kong for the big dogs. Then we saw the breath freshener Kong gunk (as C likes to refer to it as). We knew instantly that this was THE birthday present for our little dude. (JD has some bad breath. I don't know where it comes from. All he eats is Kibbles and little peanut butter flavor treats.)

Sure enough after filling it with bits of his favorite peanut butter treats and the Kong gunk our dog disappeared for the evening. It has now become his favorite toy ever! We have to hide it around bedtime or all he will do is play with it.