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.

Life Update

Work:
Today was some major blah and emotional. One of my co-workers in my department passed away on Friday very unexpectedly. So, we're all trying to cope while still gearing up for season to officially start in 3 weeks. There is a lot going on. Our new intern starts on Monday which means more training in my future.

Personal/Home Life:
Pretty good. JD had an upset tummy from a bone that he loves a few days ago. He was very sad to see me take it away from him. I finally found time to really clean my house. All that it took was strangers to be coming to my house to interview me. Lots and lots of fun things in-store this week. Round Rock Express game tomorrow night with C's family, Wicked on Wednesday with my mom, C's mom's b-day on Thursday, and C's softball tournament on Saturday. Very busy. Full review of Wicked coming! Next week I have to travel to the oh-so-wonderful town of Bryan, TX to testify in a drunk driving accident. I was so stressed about this and I still am. I know I didn't do anything wrong, but it's still nerve wracking. Gahh...

Wedding:
I got a lot done this weekend. Trying to get my mind off of the events going on at work I focused on wedding planning.
1. Picked out rentals
2. Picked out linens (got talked out of buying them by my mother, who has been on a saving kick money except on this..weird I know)
3. Got two floral quotes
4. Ordered my garter (etsy you rock!)
5. Designed and ordered save the dates
6. Picked out the ties for the boys.
7. Went shopping and ordered the bridesmaids dresses
8. Picked out where we are going for the bachlorette party and then second guessed it...Another post topic
9. Picked out the suits for the guys
10. Saving the best for last... I ordered my beautiful dress!!!! {Jumping around and squealing inserted here} 6 months till this amazing dress is in my possession.

Wedding Vendors = Blah

Shopping on the other hand = AMAZING!

I think this statement is a given to most girls. Lately though I feel like I'm trudging through a marsh of mud. I have absolutely no want to plan the wedding, though I have meetings set up left and right. I'm nearing the end of the vendors I need to get, but all I want to do is be a lazy bum...and shop! Shop for shoes, buying my BEAUTIFUL dress {prancing around inserted here}, and all the accessories needed for this ensemble. Not to mention all the other outfits needed for upcoming wedding events.

All of my BMs are getting together on Sunday to go dress shopping. Mimosas and brunch to come before and then watching them twirl around and play dress up for a few hours. I'm excited and their excited. I guess this excitement is rubbing off, since C and his guys are getting together to go look at suits on Sunday too. Who knows what they will come up with. I have a feeling that there might end up being canes and Best Man patches coming my way. While, I think the Best Man patch would be funny and cute, our mothers might have a conniption.

I hope you all have a fabulous week, I know mine has already started off fan-freakin-tastic. I signed the paperwork today to be on salary pay at work! {insert more prancing} (I work for a retail company that has a teeny weeny number full-time office staff and tons of seasonal and part timers, so it's a big deal to land one of the spots)

So off to do more prancing and shopping!

Denver

Whoa...what a whirlwind two weeks. I'm glad to be home, but it is just craziness at work right now. We have our operator conference this weekend. Yucky! Working Friday night and all of Saturday..double Yucky!! But some great news to come soon, hopefully, fingers crossed! I'm hoping to get the open full-time salary position at work and they will be letting us know soon.

So the trip to Denver...

During the Dress Hunt of '09 C suggested making the search into a vacation, so I did. I called a salon in Denver and they had the dress I was searching for! I made the arrangements and this past weekend we trekked to the nice cool mountains. Man were they beautiful and the weather was amazing! A nice alternative to the 100+ degree heat here in Texas. After a late night flight and some issues with bags we settled in for a good nights sleep. Too bad I was too excited to sleep very well. We woke up that morning to an absolutely beautiful day! Mom and I went shopping while C went exploring.

When we went into the salon THE dress just hanging there. I was so excited! (It was really there. I was super scared that I was going to be flying all that way to find that the dress really isn't there.) I decided to try on some other dresses as well. I tried on a very form fitted gown. No way! A very pretty big puffy gown...No Thanks! Then the last gown with it...

I couldn't be happier. It was exactly what I wanted...

Situating the dress.The BackAdmiring the beauty.Some detail.

I was absolutely giddy the rest of the day! We were then off to lunch and then to Golden for the Coors Brewery Tour. Some celebratory and free beers later we were off to dinner with local family that we hadn't seen in years.

Sunday was lots of fun..

Sleeping in, then touristy shopping and exploring of downtown and lunch. More beer at lunch. Strawberry Ale yummy. Then we went to the Natural Science Museum. Lots of fun looking at fossils. Then it was time to come home, but Denver had other plans. Our flight was delayed for 45 minutes coming into Denver. We were then delayed nearly an additional 45 minutes due to weather. On top of all of these delays we had to take a longer route home because of storms. So we didn't land in Austin until 11:30pm. It was nearly 1:00am when we finally made it home.

Hmmm...

Coming up with something to blog about lately beyond a weekend recap has been a little rough.
Nothing too interesting going on in my life has sparked a blog worthy topic. So hmm...

What to talk about?

Questions? Anything you want to know about me?

A little life recap:
Work has been picking up a little. It's nice to have things to do other than starring at my computer screen. We had an intern start this week, so I've been training her.
C has been working a lot lately. He's off on a gig tonight into tomorrow morning. boo :(
Wedding News - not a whole lot. I spent my day off last week making major vendor meeting arrangements and booked our get away car. Cadillac convertible! Woo Hoo! We had our first cake tasting on Monday. It was tons of fun, we got along great with the baker, and her cakes were so yummy! I have my first florist meeting with Glass Fountain tomorrow. I'm excited. I'm a little leery of costs though. It seems that everything I choose, though at the bottom of totem pole, has been more than what I think it should be. This is not helping the budget trimming that I want to do.
Vacation for 5 days at the end of this week!! Denver dress shopping in 2 weeks! This may be why the week has been dragging on and on...Hmm...