Ta Da!

A few months ago I became the proud owner of a queen size bed frame. For months I schemed on how I wanted to "fix it" because let's be honest that's what I do. I decided that since the frame was free I should do something funky and wild with the paint...so I decided on this chartruesy, pea soupy, sagey, limey green...and I love it!!

The original...

Step 1: Prime

Step 2: GREEN!!!

Step 3: Final Product

I should do this full time.

It's Finally Friday

Every Friday throughout the day, my favorite country station KISS Country has this song they play. For some reason ever since I was in high school I have been obsessed with hearing it at some point during my favorite day of the week. My Friday just doesn't feel complete unless I hear it. The good news is I heard it on my way to work this morning so I feel pretty good. SO needless to say,

"it's finally Friday, free again, got my motor running for a wild weekend, it's finally friday out of control, forget the working blues and let the good times rollll."

Only 7 hours, 30 minutes until I get to leave my very messy desk. Wish me luck. And yes, I know those lyrics by heart.

A Duck You Say?

I think I want to be a duck... an Oregon Duck that is. There are still plans to be worked out but I think it's meant to be. Do you know how much they recycle in Oregon?! These are my people!

Oh yeah and they seem to have a pretty awesome Museum Studies program, which I think is really cool. I know, nerdy, but we got to be real, I'm kind of a nerd.

Cheezy Goodness

So the fat kid in me is actually going to write an entire blog regarding my love for Cheez-Its. Basically, I love them day or night, breakfast or dinner, snack or meal they're my favorite. I have to actually ration how often I eat them otherwise I would eat like a box every 3 days. Last night at Target I put a box in my cart and I can't stop thinking about snacking on them all the way to Fort Irwin tonight. It's only 9:45am, I don't know if I can make it till 5 without sneaking a few. Thanks for still being my friend, even though clearly I have a problem.

Typical Monday

I will make this short and sweet. Last night I did a class at the gym called butts and guts. It targets exactly what you would think. Oh and I forgot to mention that Wendy Gennuso was next to me cracking up the entire time. Oh and the class was taught by a man who was wearing the tightest and shortest spandex shorts I have ever seen on anyone, man or woman. Thanks GB3 for making my night.

Gingerbread

Last year Louie bought me a gingerbread house kit as a gift. Last night after a night of Christmas shopping and eating fish tacos we decided it was time to bust it out! For everyone out there curious about gingerbread houses...they are really hard to build, and letting one sit in a box for a year makes the candy hard as a rock!! Oh and also we put these circle candies on the sides but they slid down to look like tires. We actually ended up with a gingerbread mobile home. Awesome!

Sweet rims...

He makes me laugh...

The Rain In Spain Stays Only on the Plain

A LIE by the way!! All of the intense rain we had today brought back some really awesome memories of my travels abroad. For those who don't know I studied in London for a semester in college and during one very cold weekend in January my flatmates and I took a trip to Barcelona, Spain. That weekend all it did was rain, and manage to keep my feet very wet. Looking back now, I can laugh about the trip, however, when we arrived, we were seriously contemplating whether or not we would get out of this country alive. Let's just say it rained...a lot, I saw a flutist perform on some kind of electric flute (pictured below) all this happening in the middle of a 'night club', spent a great amount of time inside a huge indoor market (avoiding the weather outside), and got caught in a wind storm with my new umbrella on a deserted beach (also pictured below), oh and Melissa tried to turn herself in for smuggling bananas into the country (sadly, not pictured below)!!!

Spain's Version of Ron Burgundy

People thought I was really weird for taking pictures of all the food, but it's so awesome looking!

I can feel Jess' sinus infection coming on....

Wind Storm = Broken Umbrella

I've Still Got It...

To keep you updated on a previous post, I am still able to remember the Army alphabet. I just tested myself, and I got 100%! Mini wave in celebration of me! And yes Monica, that was a Friends quote.

Foggy Day Schedule

I miss foggy day schedule. Even though I maybe got to live the benefits of it 5 or 6 times when I was in school, those days sure were amazing. It was almost as amazing as when we got out of school for a week and a half because of mold. Who knew bacteria could have made me oh so happy! Anyway, the point of this whole thing is that this past week there has been some pretty crazy fog, making it near impossible for me to get out of bed or arrive at work on time. I wish there was foggy day schedule in the professional world, wouldn't that be amazing to see your company's name scroll across the bottom of the morning news. Think about it..."MWD on 2 hour delay, Fresno Fire on 2 hour delay, Barrows 3.5 hour delay, the Tut. Club on 2 hour delay, Army on 1 year delay..." Oh how sweet it would be!

Is that you?

Gob?

Revision: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...

Actually this is my Army expert. Thank you for all of your wisdom Buster.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie...

One night I was talking to my Army expert (Louis) and we somehow started talking about the Army alphabet. Well, after many stupid guesses on my part I listened to him rattle off the Army alphabet. I was impressed to say the least. So yesterday at work I tried to recall all the words like I was back in high school practicing for a vocab test. Well, needless to say I rock and have the whole thing memorized, so please let me enlighten you:

alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, india, juliet, kilo, lima, mike, november, oscar, papa, quebec, romeo, sierra, tango, uniform, victor, whiskey, x-ray, yankee, and zulu.

Don't be surprised if Louie and I only talk in code from now on.

SF & The Misty Rain

Last weekend a few of my favorite gals (Katie, Mess and Rhonda the Honda) got up early, consumed a lot of banana chocolate chip bread (well I did most of the consuming), listened to the same cd repeat 5x, had a few heated political discussions, and best of all drove to Alameda to see our favorite birthday girl Ms. Whitty Jay. We had lots of fun, consumed a tasteful amount of 'treats,' and best of all got to spend time with the Bakers! I just wanted to say thanks for opening up Jessica's old couch and your camping mats to a few old pals. I have also decided that life feels that much sweeter when old friends can pick up just where we left off.

Me, Whit, Mess and KT braving the misty city rain

Bret, Whit, KT's eyes, Me and Mess (thanks Bret for driving us around in your Mazda-Nissan)

Places To See...

Just a quick follow up on why I love iGoogle... Every time I see my homepage I get distracted and start daydreaming about places to go exploring or to have new adventures. My list of places to see is quickly growing and ironically that is what the 'gadget' or 'application' is called. My work day passes a lot faster when I get to look at places like these:

Change is Coming...

Whether you are about to agree with me or not all I ask is that you VOTE!!

Obama pretty much rocks my world