Belated Birthday Post

It was my birthday this weekend! Actually it was yesterday, we celebrated on Saturday with all our friends. Have I mentioned lately how much I love my friends? Cause I do, I really, really do. 

The plan was to have everyone meet at our house and then we walked over to the nearest bar and kind of took it over, cause that's what we do. Apparently. 

Here are a couple of pictures from the night of shenanigans:

 

The biggest surprise of the night was this cake! My mom coordinated with C to get me and Josh a Care Bear birthday cake. It's delicious.

 

The mister and the girls, Amy, C and, me.

This picture cracks me up every time! You know the Dos Equis commercials with The Most Interesting Man in the World? C is doing her impression, and obviously Steph isn't buying it. 

 Me and J, this girl is amazing.

 The birthday kids!

So now I'm 28. And how do I feel about that?

Pretty damn good. 

This year is going to be a good one.

Let's play catch...up.

Hey peeps! I know it's been a long time since I've posted and I'm sorry. One of my resolutions this year is to be a better blogger. Thanks to C I got a little help, she got me the Blog Love e-course from Elsie at A Beautiful Mess for my b-day/Christmas gift. Hooray! I'm so excited to get started. 

So let's do a quick recap of all that has happened since my last substantial post which I think was in November (eeeek!):

November: 
 Mom came for Thanksgiving. We had 8 people here and it was a full house. Dinner was amazing and it was so nice to have my friends and family here at the house. 

December:
Most. Stressful. Month. EVER! We started with finals week, and after surviving that (and getting a B- in Biology! WHOOOO!) we went right into Christmas Madness! I say we because the mister is now a full time student with me, no more work for us. I'm still trying to not freak out about this recent turn of events. It's a daily process. 
After hosting Thanksgiving dinner I was primed for a big Christmas dinner as well. Good thing because the whole family came. Misters parents and his twin brother came for dinner along with some family friends. It was beautiful and the food was freakin' amazing!

We had a great time with the family. Lots of new memories! And we took care of our friends dog while she was in Florida. We almost kept him, almost. 

January:
First off I can't believe it's already the middle of the month! We've started school and I am frantically searching for an internship. I have to get 144 hours done before the end of term or I get an incomplete for my class. Ugh. I also have to apply for the big kids school this month, and don't get me started on scholarships!
I've been adjusting to the mister being home more. It's been really fun to go to school together, even if he is done and home before I get out of my first class. And I'm really proud of how good he's doing. 
We have birthdays coming up at the end of the month! His is the 28th and mine is the 30th. I have no clue how we'll celebrate. I don't want the hassle of a party but C said she would host one if we that's what we want to do. So much to think about. 


So now you're caught up. 


Now I need to get out of this sitting position, I think it's time to bake.

Happy DECEMBER!

Already? Seriously?

Sorry I have been so absent. I have pictures from Thanksgiving and I will post them tomorrow (you know one week anniversary and all). I'm in the middle of my last week of school and have rarely been seen without a book in my hand, pencil between the teeth, pen in the mess of hair plopped on my head and many many wrinkles on my face. But not tonight! I took my last quiz, turned in my last big assignments and gave my brain the rest of the night off. So I'm going to C's for Survivor and girl time in a bit. 

But I had to share these...

Aren't they so cool! They're my new rain boots! I love them! I love them even more when I remember that they're $90 boots I got for $25 on HauteLook. Oh, and they're fleece lined! They're fabulous....except....

MY ENORMOUSLY MUSCULAR CALVES ARE 1/2 INCH BIGGER THAN THE BANDED OPENING!!!! (Yeah, I measured)

Holy Soft Cheeses Batman. 
ARE you freakin' kidding me?!?! 

Let me explain, I've lived in the land of neverending rain for four years now. Winter here is like the sky is constantly exploding with rain. It's wet. All. The. Time. I have searched for four years for rain boots and when I finally find ones that I want they're 1/2 inch to small?!?! This is my life.


Tomorrow I'm calling a few shoe people in town to see if there's anything that can be done. I'm also looking up calf slimming exercises. That's the plan. If it doesn't work I'm going to cry. 

Have a good night ya'll!
 

The weekend...

I can't believe it's already Sunday, and that it's already 5:00 pm. Blerg.

We were so busy this weekend, and we even got an extra day! The mister took Friday off work and we ran so many errands it was just madness. 

Friday morning he went to school with me to talk to his counselor while I was in class. Of course this took a lot longer than he thought it would and after talking him out of leaving or taking out an entire line of students we sat down and waited another hour and half for him to have a 10 minute conversation with his adviser. Welcome to Lane, mister. 

After all that at the school we went to breakfast, ran into his boss at the hardware store, hit up the liquor store, grocery store and butchers before FINALLY making it back home. After that I went to watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta then proceeded to take a 3 hour nap. Sometimes that happens.

It was the mister's friend James' birthday Friday, he came over so we could feed him and watch the Yankees come back to beat the Rangers. It wasn't....great. But the burgers were good!

Saturday the mister was recovering from all the whiskey he drank with James while I got ready for the BBQ at C's house. Let's just say I got a little stressed. Just a little. 

The BBQ, in honor of our friend Ira whose birthday was while C and her mister were in Hawaii, was great! C and I drank margarita's my mom's recipe. We walked to the store with them in to-go cups, got two leaner's and ringer in horseshoes, lost at beer pong and were out for the count by 10:00. That's what happens when you start drinking at three in the afternoon I guess. 

Today I'm suffering from my night of fun last night. The mister has been awesome, of course. He got me a greasy bacon breakfast burrito from the Mexican place down the street, some chocolate milk and let me be. Hey I have done some laundry today, cleaned up the bathroom and taken a nap...a long one. Now it's time for game 2 of the NLCS. GO GIANTS!

Goodnight lovelies!

Back to the future...

Now I know you've been on the edge of your seat all weekend waiting for the pictures from 80's movie night. So here you go:

First I went to pick up C and met her out of town company dressed like this:

Needless to say by the time I arrived at my cross town destination I had forgotten how I was dressed until I suddenly felt the need to explain my outfit. 

Then C and I headed over to J's. But first we had to stop and get supplies. 

Again I forgot how we were dressed and kept wondering why people were staring, or why that guy let me in front of him at the store. 

I mean between my dress and C's bitchin' denim jacket, well it could have been a hot tub time machine. 

Did I mention C was in rare form? I'm pretty sure she was hoping someone was crusin' for a bruisin'.

Finally we get to J's where C and I vicariously live through her single girl (though, newly dating) stories. 

 J-in the middle of single girl story

Eventually we started St. Elmo's Fire. We didn't really watch it, because we're girls and we were feeling chatty. Imagine!

Respectfully we waited to take pictures until the end of the evening. Here are the ones that could safely be published:

  These are my friends. 

In all our attempts to get a picture of all three of us, these next two were probably the best we got. Unfortunately one of is moving because we didn't know when the timer would actually go off.

And that concludes the movie night portion of the evening.

C and I went to the bar, still in our 80's wear to meet up with her boyfriend and some friends. 

By that time I was having a horrible allergy attack from J's cat and my eyeballs felt like they were about to pop out of my head. But I'm a trooper and stuck it out. 

When the mister got home yesterday we discovered that he was waking up and getting ready to go the airport at the same time I was walking to my car to go home. 

Time differences are crazy.

Now I know how Macauly Culkin felt in Home Alone...

except Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern haven't stopped by for a visit yet. 

Here's what I've done today:

• Slept in for as long as the dog-child would let me.
• Enjoyed some coffee and Kahlua with my raspberry danish
• Watched the first half of the second season of Veronica Mars
• Did a load of laundry. So I wasn't completely useless.
• Stopped at the grocery store for spaghetti ingredients
• Had some gym therapy with C
• Planned 80's movie night with J
• Realized I took the meat out of the freezer too late
• Made a mimosa
• Put on Veronica Mars
• Thought that the loaf of Parmesan bread I bought at the store looks great for dinner, if only I had some cheese.

And that brings me to where I am now. Watching Veronica Mars with Gypsy deciding whether or I should make spaghetti which involves chopping, and assembling. Or, eating a loaf of bread for dinner. The loaf of bread is winning.

It's probably a good thing I only have one more day of this.