05/14/10 Friday!

Today after work I got my hair done. Just trimmed the layers and got it a little darker. I love it. Then I went to Karen's to help set up for the engagement party. We made her chandelier into a purple Alice in Wonderland like show piece! Curtis came over later and helped too.

05/13/2010 Reminiscing...

Today was pretty good. I got a lot done! I got a dress for our engagement party and I helped Curtis and our friend Dean out with a project that needed a photo of pom poms as reference. So, I dragged my old cheerleading stuff out. It was fun to remember my high school days. Go Saxons! Or, as Curtis pointed out "They're Iron Man colors!" So... GO IRON MAN! :)

Spicing things Up!

Today we got free samples of spices at work! That was a nice surprise! It was a better day all around. Work wasn't too bad and I had a better night as well. Things are looking up again!

Tuesday Blues 05-11-10

Today was icky. I woke up with a sore throat. I was 10 minutes late to work and work sucked. It just sucked. All day. From 8:10 am until 6 pm. Even my 45 minute lunch (to make up for being late I took a shorter lunch) was kind of crappy. So, yeah, not a great day. I didn't get to work out, I didn't get a nice walk with Frankie. It was just a no good, very bad day. Bleah. My photo is of my office building since that's where I spend all my time now.

May 10th. AKA 50 Cent Day?

I was told today is 50 Cent day. I thought that was clever. :) Today was alright. I may just be adapting to this whole working for a living thing. I woke up early, worked out and then went to work and then came home, rested a bit and then walked Frankie. Then it was dinner time, a little tv and now I am actually all caught up on my blogs too! Hooray! But now I have to go because it's bed time! ALl in all today was alright. Not great, not awful. This is me saying it was "so-so". ;-)

Mother's Day

Today was Mother's Day. We went to my sister in law's house to celebrate. We had a really good day. We ate good food, talked, laughed and Frankie, me and my nieces bounced on the big trampoline a lot! After things died down Curtis, me and my sis in law went to Target. I love Target. Then we called it a day. I think all the mom's had a great day!

Oh! We also made shrinky dinks with my nieces! That was fun! I love to color those little plastic pictures and then watch them shrink up in the oven! Who doesn't?






Afterward Curtis and I went to see Iron Man 2. It was good! I liked it. I think I liked Iron Man 1 better over all but I really like Scarlett Johanson so that was nice in this one.

All in all a great day!

More Catching Up!

Okay, I am getting caught up on these daily posts!

Sunday 05/02
Sunday I cleaned all day. REALLY cleaned. I was a spring cleaning machine. Later we went to Target. We ran errands. We worried about Curtis's Uncle who had to have emergency surgery. He's doing okay though. Thank goodness. By the end of the day I was exhausted and the only thing I could think of to take a photo of was the tag from my "bride bag" that my friend Julie bought me.





Monday 05/03


I did laundry. I made the bed. I worked. This week is off to a rip roaring start! :)


Tuesday 05/04
I worked, I ran errands. One of the errands involved Mother's Market so I got a giant salad for me and Curtis while I was there. It was good. Really good.




Wednesday 05/05
I read tonight after work. I am really loving my Sookie Stackhouse. :) It was a quiet night. Work is killing me. I am constantly exhausted from these early mornings. ;-)



Thursday 05/06
I uh, forgot to take a photo this day. Sorry. My bad. I was in a bad mood. I was supposed to go to the Midnight double feature showing of Iron Man 1 and 2 with Curtis and our friend Dean. Instead, after work I went home and pretty much collapsed. I've been coughing and again. Looks like the cough is back. Great. I blame my job and working in an office.

Friday 05/07
Tonight Curtis and I took Frankie for a family walk before heading out to dinner. We tried a place called "Fire &Ice" which is an "Americanized Mongolian BBQ Experience". What we didn't knw was that they also had a salad bar and the whole place is all you can eat. Suffice it to say we stuffed ourselves silly. It was a fun place. There's a big grill and they cook everyone's food on it. The chef's are all supposd to be entertaining and for the most part they were. I wish I had not been so tired and I wish I had felt better and I wish that I had known it was an all you can eat place. As it was I felt unprepared for that experience, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. I think it would be fun to go back with a group of people. It's a very social place. The pic of the day is of The grill and of Curtis and the grill. :)




Saturday 05/08
Today me and my friend Karen made bouquets for mother's day. It was fun! We went and got a whole bunch of flowers and then mixed and matched them to make different bouquets. My photo is of my mom's bouquet. I added some flowers from my garden too.

After that we went to dinner with Curtis's parents and his sister, brother in law and nephews. It was a combo Mother's Day/Birthday Party for Shane. It was really fun. We all had a really good time. :)

Finding the Balance....

Sorry! Adjusting to this new schedule is really hard! Trying to find balance between work and home and relationships means that I have had very limited time on the computer and now I am 10 days behind! Yikes! So, to catch up let's start with:

Saturday 04/24



This is my niece. She went to a birthday party that day. I worked that day for Curtis at the Acting school. Ironically I felt more like an angry tiger by the end of the day. After completing my first workweek I was not really thrilled about working at the school over the weekend. But we are planning a wedding so the extra money will be nice. Curtis was also hosting a stage at the LA Times Festival of Books that day so he needed someone to cover for him. I was bummed I couldn't go to the Festival, but it was all for the best. Until I went to leave for the school a couple hours after Curtis left and realized that my car keys were in his car. In LA. After several franctic phone calls I ended up borrowing my dad's car. This car is old. And tricky. And so after wrangling toddlers and children all day I went out to get the hell out of there and the car wouldn't start. There's a trick to this. It didn't need a jump. Nope. It needed THE STICK. The stick is in the trunk of the car. You have to lift the hood of the car up and bang some silver cylinder with the stick. A lot. Sometimes more than once. By the time I got the car started I wanted to collapse in a pile of exhaustion. That was pretty much my day. See? Angry tiger.

So then.... on to Sunday 4/25/10
I had to teach again. But before I got to the school I had to spend 5 hours at my new office doing weekend overtime. It wasn't that bad. But combining the two jobs that day meant that I was at work from 8:30-almost 6 pm. Which meant that I had no weekend. Bleah. After 7 straight days of working laundry was piling up, the house was getting dirty and I was absolutely exhausted. So after class I met up with Curtis and we headed out to dinner with some friends for our friend Angel's birthday party. We had a cool private room at a restaurant in Downtown Disney. It was a Mexican food place. As you can tell by this photo of the Birthday girl and her boyfriend. :)


Monday 4/26

I don't know what I did this day. I worked. I may have walked the dog. All I know is that in the end of the day, Curtis brought me one of his sister's delicious cookies. How cute is that? It was a little artist's cookie! She's starting a cookie company. they're delicious.





Tuesday 4/27

Another day of: wake up, work out, go to work, come home, walk he dog, eat dinner, shower and go to bed. This photo, taken by Curtis, was right before bed in a vain effort to try and catch up with on line stuff.






Wednesday 4/28
We went to The Disneyland Hotel tonight after work to visit with some friends we hadn't seen in a long time. They had spent the day at Disneyland and we used to spend time with them at Disneyland in the middle of the week and have a grand time running around with them. But now with my day job I don't get to go take off in the middle of the week for fun times and adventure. I know, it's sad. :( But I need to make a living. Right? Anyway, we had fun meeting up with them at night for cocktails and chatting! As it turns out, we are getting married on the same day our friends did last year! Crazy! We had no idea. Weird little coincidence. :) It was fun to catch up with them. I wish we could see them more often.





Thursday 4/29
I think that this day i was just plain exhausted. It wasn't a good day. I remember that much. That's why I looked like this at the end of the day. It was a stressful week overall I think.




Friday 04/30
Today on my lunch break I enjoyed the lovely roses in the little outdoor patio/garden in front of my building. It's actually quite lovely. Taking my lunch out there is always a nice break to being cooped up inside in an office all day. While I was there I read a bit of my latest Sookie Stackhouse novel. I don't know why I love these romance/vampire/mystery novels but I do. They're my newest guilty pleasure. :)



Sat 05/01
We went to our friend Scott's birthday party. It was bunny themed. His wife made bunny cupcakes, and we played a game called "Killer Bunnies" and drank wine and talked. It was fun and relaxing. A nice way to cap off a busy week. My photo is of my bunny card and my wine.