"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
--Homer Simpson
I'm starting to feel worn out from my job, and I had a tremendous rough patch last week. I'm just getting irritated with some of the kids. They have nooo respect for anyone, and it's getting old. I'm hanging in there, but I've jumped into the job hunt with great force, and I no longer think I'll feel guilty when I eventually skedaddle.
I'm doing okay in other aspects of my life. This weekend we finally booked a florist, and I'm happy with the flowers we've chosen. I'd write all about them in detail, but the truth is I have no idea what the names of most of them are. So, in case you are insane with curiosity, I can tell you that miniature roses and hydrangeas are in there somewhere.
For now, though, I'm really looking forward to the end of April. My mom got my sister and I tickets to this scrapbooking retreat (YES, you read that correctly) for Christmas. It's going to kick some major ass. Jen and I are avid scrapbookers and, to be brutally honest, we kinda rock at it. I'm pumped to get started on my Europe scrapbook, but I'm even more excited to spend an entire weekend with just my sister. She's one of my best friends, and she's completely amazing.
Also, we may smuggle in some wine.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Wine Festival
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
--Dave Barry
This past weekend was the Cincinnati Wine Festival at Duke Energy Center, and my fantastic Uncle Bo got tickets for several members of my family at Christmas. I look forward to this thing all year, as my family is more or less a pack of wine junkies.
This year it was my mom and dad, my uncle Bo and his friend Tony, my sister and brother-in-law, my brother and sister-in-law, and me and Kyle.
The event only lasts two and half hours, and we got there about 30 minutes late, so I suppose my first mistake was trying to make up for lost time as soon as we got there. I pretty much frolicked around from booth to booth sipping as many wines as I could, and not bothering with the spit buckets.
I won't go into too many details, but I spent most of the evening with my equally tipsy sister. I talked to a lot of strangers. I broke a wine glass. And I told off the nice people of Graeters for coming up with Banana Cream Pie ice cream, which tasted like baby food.
It was quite the fun-filled evening, even if I was paying for it the next day.
That's about all I have time for right now, as I need to be going off to work, but I'll write again soon (promise).
--Dave Barry
This past weekend was the Cincinnati Wine Festival at Duke Energy Center, and my fantastic Uncle Bo got tickets for several members of my family at Christmas. I look forward to this thing all year, as my family is more or less a pack of wine junkies.
This year it was my mom and dad, my uncle Bo and his friend Tony, my sister and brother-in-law, my brother and sister-in-law, and me and Kyle.
The event only lasts two and half hours, and we got there about 30 minutes late, so I suppose my first mistake was trying to make up for lost time as soon as we got there. I pretty much frolicked around from booth to booth sipping as many wines as I could, and not bothering with the spit buckets.
I won't go into too many details, but I spent most of the evening with my equally tipsy sister. I talked to a lot of strangers. I broke a wine glass. And I told off the nice people of Graeters for coming up with Banana Cream Pie ice cream, which tasted like baby food.
It was quite the fun-filled evening, even if I was paying for it the next day.
That's about all I have time for right now, as I need to be going off to work, but I'll write again soon (promise).
Friday, March 4, 2011
False Alarm
"All the other girls here are stars, you are the Northern Lights
They try to shine in through your curtains, you're too close and too bright
They try and they try but everything that they do
Is the ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you
I'll be the one to drive you back home, Kathleen"
--Josh Ritter, Kathleen
So it turns out I didn't sprain my ankle, which is an ENORMOUS relief. Sorry about my premature panicking, but I swear, it felt exactly the same as when I broke it last fall. I did, however, catch a cold and was bedridden for about a week on account of my asthma is a curse.
But now I'm happy, healthy, and productive (at least when it come to the wedding).
I went shopping last weekend with my mom, grandma, sister and sister-in-law and BOUGHT MY WEDDING DRESS! I'm not going to put any details on my blog, so you're all just going to have to wait until October to actually see a picture of it. I will say that it is absolutely gorgeous and it is THE. ONE.
I've also got an appointment with a florist in a few weeks, and Kyle and I have been discussing our honeymoon. We've decided we absolutely NEED to go to Costa Rica, but we aren't sure we can afford it yet. We're making an appointment with a travel agent soon, and hopefully she'll be able to find us a good deal. But omgoodness, it sounds perfect for us. We're not really "sit by the beach and soak up the sun" people. We'd get bored doing that for five days straight. Costa Rica offers incredible beaches in addition to adventurous things to do, like canopy tours, jungle trails, snorkeling, caving, hot springs and volcanoes. We've gotta go. We've gotta.
I would just love to see a monkey in the wild.
Anyway, things at work are tolerable. Some days are harder than others, and the kids never stop complaining.
"Hey, why don't you color a picture of a flower?"
"UGHGHGH!!! Oh my GODDDD!"
It's like the world ends when we ask them to color pictures or play games. Don't get me started on doing their homework.
Mostly what keeps me going are the kids that run up and hug me whenever they see me. Or kids like Infinity, who is playing a game on the computer next to me right now and keeps trash talking the computer. And trash talking for her is like "Boy, you better watch it! Tsk tsk." She's so freaking cute.
Sorry for the hiatus. Happy weekend!
They try to shine in through your curtains, you're too close and too bright
They try and they try but everything that they do
Is the ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you
I'll be the one to drive you back home, Kathleen"
--Josh Ritter, Kathleen
So it turns out I didn't sprain my ankle, which is an ENORMOUS relief. Sorry about my premature panicking, but I swear, it felt exactly the same as when I broke it last fall. I did, however, catch a cold and was bedridden for about a week on account of my asthma is a curse.
But now I'm happy, healthy, and productive (at least when it come to the wedding).
I went shopping last weekend with my mom, grandma, sister and sister-in-law and BOUGHT MY WEDDING DRESS! I'm not going to put any details on my blog, so you're all just going to have to wait until October to actually see a picture of it. I will say that it is absolutely gorgeous and it is THE. ONE.
I've also got an appointment with a florist in a few weeks, and Kyle and I have been discussing our honeymoon. We've decided we absolutely NEED to go to Costa Rica, but we aren't sure we can afford it yet. We're making an appointment with a travel agent soon, and hopefully she'll be able to find us a good deal. But omgoodness, it sounds perfect for us. We're not really "sit by the beach and soak up the sun" people. We'd get bored doing that for five days straight. Costa Rica offers incredible beaches in addition to adventurous things to do, like canopy tours, jungle trails, snorkeling, caving, hot springs and volcanoes. We've gotta go. We've gotta.
I would just love to see a monkey in the wild.
Anyway, things at work are tolerable. Some days are harder than others, and the kids never stop complaining.
"Hey, why don't you color a picture of a flower?"
"UGHGHGH!!! Oh my GODDDD!"
It's like the world ends when we ask them to color pictures or play games. Don't get me started on doing their homework.
Mostly what keeps me going are the kids that run up and hug me whenever they see me. Or kids like Infinity, who is playing a game on the computer next to me right now and keeps trash talking the computer. And trash talking for her is like "Boy, you better watch it! Tsk tsk." She's so freaking cute.
Sorry for the hiatus. Happy weekend!
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