Giant sigh and.....

Heavens! I am SO glad it is Friday. I am pretty happy in general when it is Friday but today I am extra happy...if I have to sit at my desk one minute after 3:30 I might explode and word vomit all over everyone here! FOR REAL...ok I feel better now.

So I am excited about my Friday evening plans:

Shopping for super awesome Halloween costume accessories (yes I know it's tomorrow, I am late, but at least I am attempting to dress up this year.)

Running by Kroger, praying creepy stalker guy is not there, and picking up a few items I left off my list on Tuesday...ooops!

Cooking dinner and baking the evening away!

Menu: Sauteed shrimp and sausage w/onions and angel hair pasta
Broiled Asparagus
Garlic Spinach

After dinner baking activities include: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dipped Pretzel Rods
Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Turnovers: trial run!

Looking forward to the weekend! Hopefully going to see "This Is It"...don't judge..., have a fabulous Halloween/Birthday party to attend and BRONCOS FOOTBALL on Sunday....my boys are gonna play hard...I am looking for 7-0. Put your game faces on Denver! Saddle up!

Until next time!

B

On a lighter note:

I like Wednesdays...they are smashed right in the middle of the week....if the beginning was not so great it's ok, b/c it is Wednesday and there are two days left to make up for it...it's just a nice day in general.

I cleaned the kitchen at the office today...I found some coffee and a bottle of wine, yes wine, I find that odd also...from 2006....EW! I don't think that kitchen has been properly cleaned and organized since the company moved into this building. It is clean now though, friends, yes it is! I can now breathe a sigh of relief, that kitchen was making me crazy! Now it's clean and makes the new refrigerator look lovely!

Now I am just counting down the hours to Pilates! Yet another reason why I am particularly fond of Wednesdays! If you have never tried Pilates you should! It is the BEST ab workout you have ever had...and it only sometimes feels like you are working harder than you ever have in your life...now the next day...I make no promises...I usually feel it then...ANYWAY...Pilates is great and I love it, I feel so good when I leave!

I am having Adventures in Cooking on Friday so get ready for some pics!

B

Been on my mind...

So last night I was cleaning the house and cooking dinner and enjoying some girl time while my wonderful husband was off doing some work. While listening to my iPod, a wonderful playlist I made that is perfect for singing my heart out, I got to thinking about some conversations I have had with friends over the past few years. I have made a lot of wonderful friends, all of whom I love and respect, since we have moved back here and we have gotten to that place in friendship where we talk about more serious things.

One of those things is God and what we believe about Him and who He is. I have heard many different opinions and even talked to friends who don't believe in God at all. The thing I got to thinking about though was all of the people I know who believe in A god, an omniscient being who is undefined and escapes explanation. I also know people who want to make God fit their life and what they want to believe about him. People who dis-merit the Bible by saying because man wrote it it's not necessarily the true Word of God...and I guess that's what gets me...how are we going to say God created the Earth and made us in his image and answers prayers...but then say that He couldn't have inspired the words that went into the Bible...it just seems like that is putting a GIANT limit in God. He keeps the stars in place, He controls the weather, He heals people that by all our understanding could never be healed...oh but He didn't really give people the words he wanted them to write in the Bible... Just something to think on. I know there is so much about the Bible and what is in it and what was left out of it that I don't know but we have a lot of nerve to limit God's ability and to try to make what he desires fit how we want to live. Guess what...we don't get to design God to fit our lives...

Think on it.

Monday, Monday...

Hello!!!! It is Monday and that means the weekend is over...and I am rather sad about that today! The weekend was wonderful as usual and included a lot of shenanigans! I feel the need to recap:

Friday: True Blue Tiger 5k with the one and only Former First Lady of the United States Beka Johnson (beka42.blogspot.com). We kicked that races tail! Well, considering we jogged/speed walked the whole thing...we kicked its tail, 38 minutes!!! We have officially set a goal that we are going to get down to 30 minutes...Whew, am I going to have to get to training for that! Anywho, Fabulous Friday!

Saturday: Brunch with some lovely ladies and shopping at Hobby Lobby! I am OBSESSED with Hobby Lobby. They have deals on everything in the store...seriously I am pretty sure I have decorated the majority of my house with their pretty things and only spent $150....get on the band wagon people! Then Saturday night came with Birthday party fun for our friend Jonathan! He has lived to be 28, yea Jonathan! The evening was so fun and even included a Nicaraguan Baby Swing surprise! That, however, is a story that will need it's own entry!

Sunday: NFL FOOTBALL...that is all I have to say!

And NOW it's Monday...I am forcing myself to paste a smile on and not judge these crazies I work with...and counting down to Los Pilares...mmmm....Mexican...I LOVE IT!!!

Girl's Night

So last night my husband had to go to some vendor event for work and I got to have a girl night! I love girl night...me, the pup, and the kitty sat in bed all evening and caught up on some tv! Before I get into the joy that was my TV watching however I would like to state one thing....

I HATE BASEBALL....I HATE IT...everything about it...even more now when it takes over a channel that I watch at least four shows on...and now I don't get any shows until NOVEMBER...I know it's like two weeks...but that is a long time especially when I have become obsessed with GLEE! Yes that is right...Glee is gone until November...FOX I have to seriously question your judgment...I mean really...baseball over Glee and Bones and House...I think not. OK I am done with that, moving on!

I had grand plans last night of broiling vegetable kabobs and making myself a fabulous dinner to enjoy with my TV watching. It was one of those nights, however, where I had grand plans and I just settled for left over spaghetti and meatballs (which don't get me wrong, I made them from scratch, they rocked) and sat on my bed with the critters and went into my TV coma.

Glee is my favorite currently, I have never watched a show, well maybe 30 Rock, that touched on any and all hot topics and just made fun of them. If they can include it they will and I love it! Especially Sue Sylvester, I am not sure if they could have made her any more evil but she trips me out!

"You have to remember something -- we're dealing with children. They NEED to be terrified. It's like mother's milk to them. Without it, their bones won't grow properly" ~Sue Sylvester

Well, off to see what I can make of this day! "Running" a 5k tonight...that should make for interesting blogging tomorrow! Happy Friday to all!

.....Didn't even make it 2 hours...

So....the smoke alarm went off at the office in the middle of the night...apparently...thus prompting my boss to go to Schnucks this morning and purchase the following...10 NASTY Renuzit air fresheners, 4 bottles of hand sanitizer, and Lysol spray. He proceeds to tell us that EVERYTHING in the building is a fire hazard and that the fire department said to take somethings away...like our space heaters which are the only things that keep us from getting frost bite while we sit and stare into oblivion all day...

This is so classic...my boss waits until something is so messed up it's next to beyond repair and THEN he decides to do something about it....really??? One of the said things he refuses to deal with is that fact that one of our office mates looks at porn ALL DAY...where EVERYONE can see it...I don't want to see that...I shouldn't have to...but does he handle the situation...no. I get to walk passed girls laying in all kinds of awful positions showing WAY to much skin...I am a girl...that's as much girl body as I want to see! While I am complaining...he also stays checked out and uninvolved in everyday office life yet somehow he manages to come to me and tell me all the things we should be doing...90% of which...guess what...I already do!!!! I mean really...ok...back at it...hopefully there will be no more shenanigans today!

Redo

So I have tried writing this blog very inconsistently for years...and guess what? I am taking a stab at it again...so here it goes: Redo.

Back in April I got a membership to the YMCA, I was going to work out and eat better and all that good jazz....it lasted a month. Well, it lasted consistently for a month, I had still been going to the Y off and on for some classes. Really though, I just kinda quit. Why I do that I will never know. I mean a would lay in bed at night and think to myself, "why on earth aren't you working out? Have you SEEN your thighs?!?!?" SO...I am on day 4 of my "Redo." I know, day 4 is no accomplishment for some, they are on like day 600, but for me 4 days is looking pretty awesome! I have a new rewards system for going to the gym, this is great, just like kindergarten...I put a gold star on my calendar the day following my last work out....I have 3 gold stars...It will be four in the morning but I can't put it on there until I have COMPLETED my workout...otherwise I would cheat! So I am going to drag you along my journey...I warn you there will be whining and dreaming of Starbucks Caramel Machiatos....but it might be kinda funny! Plus I am sure, since I sit at the world's most boring job all day, that I will have some other tantrums in there....I could write for days about the ridiculousness that is this office and the crazies that dwell in it...maybe I will start this afternoon...for now...it's Facebook time!