One Word

USING ONLY ONE WORD!
It's not as easy as you might think! Copy, paste in your notes It's really hard to only use one word answers. Be sure to tag the person you received it from!
1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your significant other? gaming
3. Your hair? brown
4. Your mother? home
5. Your father? home
6. Your favorite thing? iPhone
7. Your dream last night? odd
8. Your favorite drink? dietcoke
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. What room are you in? livingroom
11. Your hobby? scrapbooking
12. Your fear? unknown
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
14. Where were you last night? home
15. Favorite smell? citrus
16. Muffins? yum
17. Wish list item? mac laptop
18. Where you grew up? DFW
19. Last thing you did? napped
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? reruns
22. Your pets? cats
23. Friends? awesome
24. Your life? blessed
25. Your mood? content
26. Missing someone? no
27. Car? honda
28. Something you're not wearing? shoes
29. Your favorite store? target?
30. Your favorite color? red
31. Favorite vacation? any
32. Music? 80s
33. When is the last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? don't remember
35. Right or Left handed? right

photo post

that's the Ed, Kristen, and Eric band (Guitar Hero)

ice cream cake #2 of the day...didn't get pix of ice cream cake #1 or cake #3

the flowers my parents sent for my birthday...didn't get a snot of the pix that Ed & Kristen brought but they were beautiful too!!

Erick rockin' out with his brother and SIL Amy at their house

Birthday 2009: Awesome!!

Had the funnest birthday this year!!!

Thursday: We went over to Amy and Adam's for dinner and birthday cake. Amy made yummy taco salad and we had dinner and cake with them and the kids. They got me a Michael's gift card and a cute monogrammed notepad and matching luggage tag. We brought our Rockband stuff over and played that for a while with everyone. Fun stuff!!!

Friday: At work, my team brought in munchies and an ice cream cake - yum!! I left work early (yay!) and came home to clean the house before everyone came over. My parents sent me a beautiful flower bouquet and I talked to them on the phone. Eric's parents and Ed & Kristen got here around 6:30 and we ate Pei Wei, had ice cream cake, and played Rockband. More fun stuff!!

Saturday: slept a ton, got up and did some stuff, took a nap, and then we did a couple of errands. We met up with 5 other couples for dinner : Jill & Dan, Amanda & Rob, Josee & Matt, Jen & Alex, and Tammi & Scott. This was our monthly dinner club and we had Thai/Vietnamese at Lotus Leaf - YUM!!!! Jen casually mentioned that their house was just a few minutes away, why don't we all go back there for some Rockband (see, we're not the only ones!!) so we agreed. Once we got there, we headed downstairs to their basement, where the new giant TV and all the gaming stuff lives. Next thing I know, Jen and Tammi are coming down the stairs with a cake with candles!!! Surprise!!! I had no idea but apprently they had been conspiring with Eric on what kind of cake I like. And man, this was GOOD CAKE. YUMMO!! And such a surprise! So, we rocked out for a while, and then somehow the subject of cards came up and next thing you know the girls are in the other room playing spades while the guys are rockin' out. Too bad we had to call it a night early since Eric had to work today; it was a really fun nigh!!

some photos...

Lunch Friday - decided to make a run to Moe's!


I forget where I got these - some sort of work promotion - and I only kept a few of the word magnets - the ones for words I really liked:


My long-awaited Cricut Expression - happy valentines day and birthday from my sweetie!

and Happy Valentines to my sweetie! Got him (us, really) this plus some gaming stuff he wanted.

and he grilled yummy steaks for Valentine's Day dinner. I wanted to stay home for dinner since going out on Valentines can be more of a pain than it's worth.

Not much else is up in my world. Had to work on Presidents day for the first time since 1994!! This year I support a client that has an agreement in place that we will work Presidents Day but be off on Thanksgiving. Works out fine for me. We had jeans day, and brought in pizza for lunch. I ordered 24 pizzas from Papa John's for us and they even threw in a free one for us! I got to scoot out a little early, and came home ot hang out with Eric who had the day off. We played a little Rockband and I scrapbooked some too.

Tues and Weds were rather normal days - work, gym, dinner, AI. I'm starting to get excited though...my birthday is Friday so I've finagled my way into leaving early, and we're having people over for dinner and (what else) Rockband. Should be fun!!

And then, Saturday nigth is Dinner Club with 5 other couples - should be really fun!! I have a Junior League thing on Sumday.

And, I scheduled a random vacation day for Friday 3/6. I'm not sure what all I'll do during the day, but that night I'm croppingat Jen's house. Since I haven't been to a crop in a while, I figured I'm due!! So I'll be right at her door when 6pm strikes, lol!

happy hump-day y'all!

weekly post

I seem to only update y'all weekly, huh? Better than nothing I suppose! 

Let's see...what's been going on since we last met? 

Sunday was consumed by The Search for Rockband 2 for the Wii. After our totally fun night at the Burnap's last weekend I thought Rockband would be a great Valentines' Day present to Eric (and me!). Also thought it would be easy to find - boy was I wrong there! Ended up unsuccessful after checking 2 Best Buys, a Gamestop, 2 Wal Marts, 2 Targets and Circuit City. So, upon the suggestion of my friend Jen I went online and found it at BarnesandNoble.com and used a gift card (which basically paid for expedited shipping). It arrived yesterday, we opened it today, and have rocked out a bit already! Also went to my first month of Craft Club at Jen's house which was very fun! 

The work-week was as usual, with a few fun things (tours, audits, and other fun like that) thrown in to keep me busier. 

Had Junior League on Tuesday night and rode with Mary Elizabeth. It was nice to get caught up with her too!

Last night Eric went to a friend's house to game, and I met some friends to see "Shopaholic" over at Brier Creek. Cute movie - not cinematic genius, but not bad. Afterwards we headed over to Trali for drinks and some man at the bar bought us our first round - for all 8 of us! We had a great time chatting and I got home around 11:30ish. Oh, and, Trali is 1.1 miles from our house - cool, huh??!

Today we got up and Eric told me I could finally play with my Cricut (HOORAY!!!). I let him open his presents. He was happy about Rockband and his other gifts so yay for that... we got Rockband all set up and played a little.  Although I still can't sing, it's really fun. I impressed him with my knowledge of ALL the words to "La Bamba". Hee hee - that was printed in the Fort Worth paper many moons ago (no clue why) and it stuck in my head. And I remembered that my favorite magazine as a teen was that one that had all the words to songs in it (so prehistoric now with the internet...) - I think it was called Song Hits? 

We went out to Best Buy today to get Eric a doohickey that makes the internet go thru power outlets. We have a 3-story townhouse, and the internet comes into the first floor scrapbooking room...by the 3rd floor the signal is pretty poopy, and that's where his desktop computer is, so this will help him a lot!  Ate lunch, got some groceries, and then we came home and I scrapbooked while he gamed, then he cooked me a DELICOUS dinner - shrimp and steak. I made his grandmother's broccoli cheese casserole, too. 

And that's whats up here! I've got some pictures to upload but will do that tomorrow! 

High School revisted

1. Did you date someone from your school? no
2. Did you marry someone from your high school? no
3. Did you car pool to school? no - mom drove, or a friend from band drove, or I drove
4. What kind of car did you have? 1985 Isuzu IMark
5. What kind of car do you have now? 2007 Honda Civic 
6. Its Friday night 1985 ... I'm probably at a football game
7. It is Friday night 2009 ... going to the gym after work then chillin with my hubby
8. What kind of job did you have in high school? taco bell
9. What kind of job do you do now? i know more about pensions and 401(k) plans that any person really should
10. Were you a party animal? No, not at all
11. Were you considered a flirt? No, not at all
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? 3 years of marching band
13. Were you a nerd? Yes!
14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No!!
15. Can you sing the fight song? yep!
16. Who were your favorite teacher(s)? Llewellyn, Cager, the Calculus teacher, the gov't teacher 
17. Where did you sit during lunch? Cafeteria for 2 years, then one of any of the fast food restaurants near the school for the 2nd 2 years
18. What was your school's full name? Southwest High School.
19. When did you graduate? 1989
20. What was your school mascot? Rebels
21 . If you could go back and do it again, would you? maybe
22. Did you have fun at Prom? I know I went....but don't recall the event itself
23. Would you talk to the person you went to Prom with? yep
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? yep
25. Do you still talk to people from school? yep!

Rockband photos, sock photos, and catching up....

We went over to the Burnaps' house last night and hung out with  a ton of work friends. We played Rockband (TOTALLY FUN!!) and had a great time. I was even coerced into singing (after much refusal) and check out my results:

this is Eric singing:
and Melinda, Chris, and Kim rockin out!!

Earlier in the day we met up with Ed and Kristen and Nick and Kristen and Aidan and went to the New Car Show in downtown Raleigh. It was so much fun - and I now want a Mazda 3 hatchback. We saw one there that has *everything* I want!! It was fun to get to sit in all the new cars - Toyotas, Mazdas, and Volvos were my faves! 

We also went to the gym yesterday and did a few different machines from what we normally do. I am sore today after all of that, but still plan to head to the gym for some cardio today. 

Friday was an uneventful day at work. We had a layoff on Tuesday that was pretty significant - we lost several managers in NC and between NC and TX, I lost count after hearing about 30 people I know were impacted. Its so sad, and the rest of the week was spent recovering from that. The only good thing is the company has a good severance package, and I have ways to keep in touch with a ton of the folks that are now gone (thanks to Facebook!!).

Eric bought my birthday/valentines day present on Thursday - a Cricut Expression. I am SO EXCITED about it - the girls in my scrapbooking group convinced me that I need one, and AC Moore had a great deal this past week. The hitch is he won't let me play with it until either my b-day or v-day (he is still deciding). 

And he made me yummy jalepeno cheese bread on Friday!!

Here's my photo of the day for Friday - fun socks!!

catch up post!

Promise to get back to regular, boring blogging soon, but for now it's catching up on pictures...

what I look at when driving....

got my nails manicured - Lincoln Park after Dark by OPI!

yesterday was our monthly celebration of manager b-days...so we get to celebrate my bday all month!

my early birthday/valentines day present that Eric bought and won't let me open...

yummy cookies I bought at Wal-Mart the other day (you can't even taste the raisins!)

me at Jill's house for Super Bowl party....we came home wanting a Boston Terrier!