By the day:

Saturday: we had a delicous dinner w/Jen, Alex, Josee, Matt, and Tammi at Casa Carbone. This was the same restaurant where we had our Rehearsal Dinner and it was delicious!

Sunday: the usual grocery shopping, gym, etc, but I didn't clean the house like I normally do. I cleaned the 3rd floor and 1st, but didn't get to the main floor. I am not sure what got in my way of that, but I'm guessing it was TV and the internet.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: the usual work, gym, Idol (so glad that guy went home!!), Grey's Anatomy, plus a bit of preparation for a day of vacation today. Also got an invite to a baby shower up in Richmond in a couple of weeks - should be fun!

Friday: I'd planned a vacation day for Friday since I'll be scrapbooking all day tomorrow, this way I could still spend a day with Eric. We went to see the puppy (SO CUTE!!), got some lunch, and have been hanging out all day. I just finished getting my scrapbooking stuff all packed up for tomorrow's scrapbooking all day and all night.

Mary is...

too many things to Twitter all at once, so i'm going to post them here:

...waiting patiently to get her rings back from cleaning, replating and repair at Jareds (picking them up tomorrow afternoon!)

...enjoyed Twilight the movie. Couldn't wait til the viewing with the girls on 4/5, but am defintely up for watching it again then!!!

...excited from some friends of ours!

...looking forward to dinner tonight

...thrilled that Jen scheduled another Spades night!

...thinking about trying to see how many days I could go w/out spending any money (don't laugh!!)

...gonna download some songs for Rockband

...still trying to figure out if I should Twitter and Facebook, or just do Facebook and read Twitter

...EXCITED about seeing Aggie the puppy, hopefully this coming Friday!

...excited about having a vacation day this coming Friday!!

...so thankful I've met the greatest group of girls to scrapbook and hang out with!

good things come in 3s

Copy the note, delete my answers and type in your answers. Then tag a few friends and family INCLUDING the person who sent it to you.

THREE NAMES I GO BY
1. Mary
2. .......
3. I really don't have any nicknames!

THREE JOBS I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE
1. Team Manager
2. Project Manager
3. Banking Center Manager

THREE PLACES I HAVE LIVED
1. Raleigh, NC
2. all around the DFW area (FW side)
3. College Station, TX

THREE TV SHOWS THAT I WATCH
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Brothers & Sisters
3. American Idol

THREE PLACES I HAVE BEEN
1. Charleston, SC
2. Portland, OR
3. Toronto, Canada

THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO
1. London
2. Hawaii (been there once many moons ago)
3. Ireland (ditto, but not many moons ago!)

THREE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
1. sushi (cooked rolls only)
2. chips & dip
3. potatoes in almost any form!

THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO
1. puppy arrival
2. spring
3. a pedicure

THREE CATS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED
1. Lightning
2. Hail
3. Tiki

THREE WHO WILL REPLY
1. Jill
2. Jen
3. Kristen

THREE FAVORITE BANDS/ ARTISTS
1. Bowling for Soup
2. pretty much anything 80s
3. ???

THREE FAVORITE BOOKS TO READ
1.The Outsiders
2. The Day the World Came to Town
3. the Twilight series

THREE FAVORITE DRINKS
1. diet coke
2. coffee (with tons of cream & sugar)
3. Mudslide

We're having a .... puppy!!!

We will be welcoming Aggie, a female brindle boston terrier, home in 6 weeks or so - hooray! We went to meet the puppies on Saturday and we're really pleased to meet the owners, the mom, and the other puppies. We put a deposit down, and will bring her home around the first of May. We are starting to collect puppy supplies - bought two puppy gates online, and Eric's parents gave us their smaller crate. We have another month plus to get the other things we need (collar, leash, food bowls, bed). Although it will be a lot of work, I'm excited about having a dog. Should be quite an adventure! Pictures are on Facebook.

That's the big news from the last week. Work is going fine, scrapbook class was a lot of fun, GH night at Shelley's was tons of fun, dinner at Ed and Kristen's was tons of fun too!! Last night we had folks over (since Grant was in town) for Rockband night - tons of fun! Pictures to come....

Today I'm headed to a doc appt (routine annual stuff), then work, then the gym. My crazy two weeks of schedule madness are about over, so it will be good to get back into a routine!!

new laptop!

I'm blogging from my new laptop that arrived on Tuesday, and whoo hoo is it nice! I really like it. My old one was an ultra-portable, so it had a relatively small display. It wasn't as small as the netbooks out nowadays (it was 3 years old), but it didn't even have an internal CD drive; that's how small it was. Anywho, this new baby has a 16 inch monitor that is widescreen - whoo hoo! Plus it's faster and swankier and newer! And, it has a numeric keypad, which is kinda cool...

Not much else has been up here. Eric's been sick for a few days but I think he's on the mind. First it was migraine, then a stomach bug. The one good thing is he was home to sign for my laptop when it was delivered and got it all set up for me! I did the iTunes and My documents part but he got it running and on the network, and will be installing Office soon. One of my old coworkers was in town for work - great to see her!

I just got in a little while ago from meeting the girls for sushi and had a GREAT time! It's been really neat to develop a group of friends here and I'm so thankful I've found them!

Tomorrow's jeans day at work, then we're going to Ed & Kristen's for dinner (YAY!). Saturday we're going to meet the new puppies, and that night we're going over to Shelley's for Guitar Hero night. Sunday Eric's going to work and I'm going to clean the house. That didn't get done last Sunday like I'd planned. Monday I'm taking a class at Jen's house, and then Tuesday we're having Rockband night here in honor of Grant being in town.
I swear I had something really to post about, but I can't remember what it was. I'm sure I'll figure that out as soon as I hit 'publish'....

A first!

I went ice skating (or as Josee & Matt call it, "skating") yesterday for the first time ever. I grew up in Texas and we don't have much ice skating there..."skating" is roller skating, which I've done my share of. Anywho, I fell down once, but was able to make it around the rink more than once! It was actually pretty fun and I would do that again. Easier than I thought it would be to stay vertical on those skinny blades, but I kept getting hung up on that thing on the front end of my skate...maybe next time I need the style that doesn't have that. Jill took pictures; can't wait to see them!

After that, we went over to Josee & Matt's (beautiful) home for dinner and Rockband. We had a great time all around!!

Other than that, the week was a busy one. We went over to Adam & Amy's for Noah's b-day on Monday, I had Junior League on Tuesday, and then work was busy all week long. I was really ready for Friday.

My laptop shipped last Thursday. I thought it might be here quickly, but then I looked at the tracking site and realized it's coming from China. I've been tracking it's journey and it went from some random city in China, to Shanghai, to Anchorage, and just left Anchorage. So hopefully it will be here soon....

And now it's Sunday.....was up super-early due to the time change, and am just vegging while watching the news. Will get moving in a bit - laundry and such before heading to the gym around 10. Then I'm going to clean the house and make a Michaels' run -- they have Cricut cartridges on sale - hooray! I got two gift cards for my b-day that I am dying to use, so I will be heading over there later today. Then I'm headed to Jen's house for Craft Club and cropping; should be fun!

over the last week or so...

Here's what's been going on:

- We are on a puppy hunt. Been toying with the idea for a while, and we think we're ready. The cats? not so much. But it will be fine. :) We want a female Boston Terrier and I've been looking at want-ads and such. No luck at the SPCA, they seemed to have all medium-to-large dogs or puppies that grow to be that size. Anywho, we have 3 prospects - (1) set of puppies that should be born this week, are the closest, and the lady is good to work with; just have to wait til they get here to know if they have any girls, (2) 3 girl puppies about 3 hours away that can be weaned in a couple of weeks, (3) Boston Terrier/Min Pin mix puppies that favor the Boston Terrier, 4 girls, past Wake Forest. So...we will see how this turns out! Stay tuned, hopefully for lots of puppy pix!!

- it snowed AGAIN here in Raleigh today. This morning they'd said we got 2.6 inches, and I'd just like to say this is not the weather I signed up for!! The roads weren't bad this morning on the way into work, nor on the way home, but tomorrow could be different since it's supposed to get down to 15 tonight. I miss the days I worked in Implementation and could have worked from home on snow days. However, weather should warm up by mid-week, and then it'll in the 70s this weekend!

- We orderd a new laptop for me last week. Found a great deal thru our employee purchase program and it should be here next week -yay!

- we celebrated Noah's 10th bday today. Great to see the rest of the Haywoods, plus Amy's family!

- We had two of Eric's coworkers over for Rockband the other night. Our original microphone died (that was quick!) so I went over to Gamestop (in the rain and cold, ick!) and picked up a new one plus a mic stand.

- Work is going well - busy, but good. We got a little surpise the morning I had to go to the doctor, and that's been keeping us busy over the last week or so. That plus market activity are keeping us hopping!

- Met up with some girls from work for girls night out last Saturday. We'll keep the details hush hush (girls night pact) but I am looking forward to doing it again soon!

- and that's about all that I can think of for now. Here are some snow pix to bring this to an end...