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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Til Death (or December) Do Us Part
Enough with the wedding posts, right?
Actually this has nothing to do with the impending nuptials of anyone I know; however, it does have to do with a big commitment I’m making. That’s right, for all of you blog nerds out there (hi! how’s it goin?) November is NaBloPoMo! and I’m going to do it. I missed out on it last year because – well, I was lazy. This year I’m still lazy, but I also figure that I started this blog to write, right? (ha ha — write, right?– see what I did there? I’m just oozing with this kind of repressed wit that only a silly Blog-Posting challenge can relieve!)
So this is me committing right here, right now that I will post everyday for the month of November. Every Day. Yup, one post a day. That’s right. Hang on a sec. What? Shit! Every SINGLE day? Really? What if I forget? What if my day is boring? I can’t seem to catch my breath — hang on while I grab. a. paper. bag….
Oh My God.
So yeah, I’m a little freaked out, and sort of feel like I’m making a lifetime commitment right now. Since I’m used to posting a few times a month MAX, posting every day is going to be quite a change, but we’ll see how it goes. I figure I’ll just start oversharing until y’all tell me to stop. (Y’ALL????? no idea where that came from.) It’ll be great — I’ll tell you about my favorite deoderant, why I think the caged bird sings, and all the riveting things I do when I’m not working like purchasing nacho cheese and counting the hairs on my arms. Stuff like that. It’ll rock!
You excited?
These Are My Confession – Volume One
1. My favorite hangover breakfast is a McDonald’s McGriddle with Sausage, a hashbrown, and a Large Diet Coke.
2. I own at least one cd by all the following artists: Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Yanni, and Wilson Phillips.
3. Sometimes when I clean my house, I do run throughs of my old dance routines from when I was like 9 (yes! I can still remember some. Especially the one to “Chantilly Lace.”) Wow…that sentence was kind of a punctuation mindf*ck, that I am too lazy to correct.
4. In the bathroom at work yesterday I noticed a hole in the forearm of my sweater (boo!). So I promptly went back to my desk and STAPLED it closed.
5. I have, on more than one occasion, eaten canned frosting for dinner
6. I know the words to more than 5 Too $hort songs
7. I’m secretly planning a new iPod playlist that is comprised completely of songs by ex-boy-band stars pursuing a solo career. I’m doing this solely so I can download Jordan Knight’s “Give it to You.”
8. I worked at Peet’s Coffee for more than 6 years preaching quality and snobbery, yet I drank a Starbucks latte yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that.
9. This morning I sang along while the radio blared Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”. Right as I was rolling in to the parking garage, they played “You Give Love a Bad Name” and for a moment, I felt like all the planets were aligned
10. I want the new Britney Spears album
Girls Gone Wild: The PG-13 version
Heading up to South Lake this afternoon for Lisa’s bachelorette party which I was totally looking forward to until I just heard on the news that it is 28 degrees up there! Um, its like almost 11am…really? Only 28 degrees? I’m thinking I’m going to have to pick out a new outfit for this evening and maybe bring a coat. Actually the thought of busting out a cute coat is kind of exciting, but then if you are out and about you always have to think about checking it and remembering it at the end of the night.
It’s funny, when I was picking out something to wear tonight I realized that although I have a ton of cute clothes in my closet, my go-to “going out” outfits have really changed since, you know, acquiring a boyfriend and all. Not that I ever harnessed my inner skank that regularly or anything, but my night out wardrobe has definitely evolved. As a matter of fact, one of the initial outfit options that I was excited about wearing for tonight’s festivities involved pearls. Seriously, PEARLS! (I promise it was still incredibly cute, but c’mon, pearls?) Count how many girls you see in Mikuni wearing pearls the next time you are there on a Friday night. Ha! Actually, scratch that, because then you would one the type of person who goes to Mikuni on a Friday night, and please, tell me you’re not? Pretty Please?
I’m coming to realize that I definitely don’t miss the days of hitting up the bars with friends gussied up and on the prowl. (Yes, I did just say gussied up. OK and On the Prowl, but you know what I meant!) Maybe it’s because I am in a relationship, maybe its because I’m about to turn 29, but it surely doesn’t mean I have forgotten how to have a good time. I’m definitely relieved that tonight there will not be strippers involved…I always hate that awkward grossness that goes along with these types of events when they involve strippers. You know, when you have look the other way and cross your fingers you are blending in with the wall, just so some oily stranger doesn’t demand to lick whipped cream off some part of your body while a room full of screaming drunk people watch? ICK! So it’s awesome that tonight will just officially be a Girls’ Night Out with some ladies I dig. It’s been a while, and I am thoroughly looking forward to it.
Cheers!
Things I’ve done besides blogging over the last 3 months
*Received a promotion
*Began new job which is slightly more labor intensive
*Taught a 16 week class (5 days a week) to folks who are new to insurance
*Became an expert on Facilitating Webinars
*Got in a car accident which totalled my car conveniently on the day I was supposed to leave on a road trip (not my fault, for the record!)
*Drank a lot of wine
*Hung out with 19 members of my family in a 2 bedroom/1.5 bathroom cabin for 3 days (by far the highlight of my summer!)
*Drank some more wine
*Watched Tania and Sean (finally) get married! So cute.
*Spent 4 days in a beach house at Pajaro Dunes with fun friends
*Helped build a Habitat for Humanity house
*Ditched my Company Picnic
*Attended Garrett’s (how’s that fair?)
*Celebrated my cute cousin Jim’s 30th birthday with 75 of his closest friends and family, a margarita machine, and a taco truck parked in the driveway
*Toasted my darling cousin Kelly’s 30th birthday on Labor Day over some ridiculously delicious Lemon Raspberry cake that was, frankly, unforgetable
*Realized that I am the next cousin to turn 30.
*Cringed
*Watched the ENTIRE last season of Grey’s Anatomy in under 2 weeks because I’m a loser
*Started a bookclub
*Helped plan the PR for my first Junior League Event
*Let Garrett move in since his house is undergoing an Extreme Home Makeover
*Realized just how small my apartment is
*Realized just how NOT on schedule home renovations usually go
*Slept a bit
This weekend has me attending Lisa’s Bachelorette Party in South Lake Tahoe and next weekend is the actual wedding — conveniently scheduled on the day before my 29th birthday (haha). I still have not purchased a new car, though I’m looking, and I still haven’t fully exhaled. I’m thinking I will spend my birthday napping, because after recapping the last 3 months I feel EXHAUSTED — but grateful that my life is so abundant!
