Merry Christmas.....

Well I know you all are anxiously waiting to see if I made it home for Christmas (I mean way more important news then say one of our closest friends getting engaged=)...Love you Aubri! hey and where are some pictures of the ring, remember I want all different angles!!!! Ok so back to the topic at hand) I unfortunately did not make it home....it was just to sketchy for us to drive up there late at night on Christmas Eve. My sister called my mom half way up there and told her that I should not attempt it that she would just be too worried about us not making it up there with the roads the way they were from Portland to Olympia. So I of course freaked out and cried on the phone to my parents, who were so great about everything and did their best to calm me down. Like I mentioned earlier I just was not ready for this to be my first christmas in 24 years not to be with my parents or grandma! So after I calmed myself down we went over to Rion's grandma's house and had a slumber party with his parents, brother, uncle, Gma and Gpa. Very festive and fun Christmas eve, but unlike ours at home since my family is loud and crazy, but in a good way=). Christmas morning was quiet, but very relaxing. Everyone went around the circle opening one gift at a time, something I was very unfamiliar with. My nephews are 19, 11, and 9 and they rip through their presents with no hesitation or pause, yelling and screaming at one another with what they got.......might sound caotic, but it's music to my ears! After the present opening we all went over to Aunt Letha's house, which is beautiful! It's this 1940's house in a historic part of east Portland that has been completely redone, but still has it's original character. Everytime we go over there I tell Rion I want a house just like hers! We opened more presents and then had a big crab feed, which was delicious. Although Rion's family is completely wonderful and I've been around them all long enough to feel comfortable it's still nothing like being around your own family. I know there are sacrifices to be made when you are sharing a life with someone, but man is it hard to try and juggle the families around the holidays, you definitely have to be creative to fit everyone in=). Well I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and got to spend it with their loved ones! 

PS. Rion and I got Rock Band 2!!!! So I might not be on here for awhile since I will be working on my drumming and guitar skills!!!!!!

Here we are in the snow at Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas Eve=). 

No More SNOW!!!

Ok so the snow was fun for the first few days, but I am super tired of it now! We have a foot and half of snow on the ground and the roads are completely covered, I haven't seen the pavement since Saturday! I tried to drive in it yesterday in Rion's four wheel drive....not a good idea! Without chains I was slipping and sliding all over the place so I didn't get far. Now we're not sure if we're going to make it to FW for Christmas, which would be super upsetting since i've never spent a Christmas away from my parents and I just don't think i'm ready to make that break yet=(. Today we made to Les Schwab down the street to see if they even had chains. Well they had some, but they were $100, which is a bit tough to shell out during the holiday season. So we're going to think about it tonight and then go back in the morning if we are desperate, which at this point i'm pretty darn desperate to get out of the house and not fear for my life when we're out on the road! Well I hope everyone else is being safe in their traveling this holiday season.

Aubri- i'd like to get an update on how digging your car out of the snow with a bed pan worked out =). I was laughing so hard when I read that on facebook, I know you probably did not think it was funny, but I just had this image in my head that was hilarious!

SNOW!!

So it snowed here Sunday and it never snows at our elevation so I was pretty darn excited. Except mid way threw the day I started to not be too excited about the snow situation because I was stuck inside.......and two days later i'm still stuck inside!!!! I don't have chains or

 studded tires so I haven't been able to go into work for the last two days with all the ice on the road....but lucky me I have a laptop so I get to wo

rk from home=( when I'd rather just take a snow day and relax. Will since I'm done with school for the term I really didn't have anything to do, so I baked.....we now have five different kinds of cookies and three batches of chex mix. I started baking last Saturday with Marcus's (Rion's brother) girlfriend Emmie and it seemed to carry over to Sunday and Monday

 since there were so many kinds and they each took so darn long. Saturday night we also went to zoo lights which was fantastic!! I just LOVE

 Christmas, I can't get enough and i'm sad that it's coming up so quickly. Just seems like

 I can't keep up with it and all I want to do before the big festive day. Well hope everyone has a great rest of the week and stays nice and warm!

Playing in the snow!

So we attempted to drive on Sunday....it was slooooow going

Here's a picture from the nature trail

Here I am WFH and very cold because I refuse to turn on our heat so we have to bundle=) Don't I look super excited to be working.....

Engaged....

No i'm not talking about me=) Jake and Mary!!!! I'm sure most of you have heard me mention Jake and Mary in the past, but if not I'll give you a recap. Jake is Rion's childhood best friend and for a long time our relationship third wheel=). He came with us on many a dates while he was single, well during this time I decided that I had had enough. So I decided that it was my duty to find him a woman to hang around instead of Rion and I. Well the most logical to me was my very good friend Mary. So I acted as the match maker and two years later they are engaged!!!! Jake told Rion and I a week ago that his plan was to ask Mary to marry him the weekend after Thanksgiving in Gold Beach at a place called Pyrimid Rock (very pretty). Well then I was supposed to keep it a secret for a whole week......craziest thing i've ever done especially when we were to hang out with them a couple times during the weekend. Well I did it and on Friday I got a picture text of Mary's hand with a very beautiful diamond! 

So now the planning is on, Mary called me today and gave me a list of things to look at, including the bridesmaids dresses. The tenative date is Sept 12th so we have a little bit a time, but Mary is on top of it. She even mentioned having a meeting with the bridesmaids soon to brainstorm wedding planning ideas, so if any of you married ladies have some advice for the planning please let me know so I can pass the word on=). 

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week so far!!!

 

New Orleans!

This last week I spent my time in New Orleans at a stock plan conference. I left Tuesday morning at 6AM and got back into Portland Friday night at around 8PM. For only a four day trip I got to experience a lot of what the city had to offer and I can say that I would love to go back to see even more. Here's my adventure broken out=)

Tuesday:

Well Tuesday started out extremely stressful! Rion said there was no way I needed to be there two hours before my flight (mainly because that would have meant we had to leave the apartment at 3:30AM and I knew he didn't want to do that) so I got there at around 4:50AM. Would normally be fine except for the fact that they stop checking bags 45 mins before the flight which meant I had 15 mins to get through the longest check in line I had ever seen!!!! Well don't worry I made it with a few minutes to spare, but from now on I'm getting to the airport early=). Got into New Orleans at 3PM and went straight to the hotel. Our first conference event was at 5:30PM and wasn't sure what to expect. Well went downstairs to the main hall and wow was I surprised. There were wall to wall booths of different financial vendors and companies set up just waiting to tell you about their services and what they could offer your company. Not only that but there was massive amounts of food and alcoholic beverages set up around the room all for our enjoyment. Well this was all very overwelming so I retreated to my room after about an hour and ordered some room service since I really wanted a cheesburger with fries. With my order came the cutest little ketchup and mustard containers. 

Wednesday:

Most of the day was spent in hour long sessions learning about the different accounting changes and methods of stock planning, something most people would not find enjoyable. Well at around noon we got to break for lunch in which I had still not found the other Intel people that were at the conference (I had never met them face to face so it was difficult looking through the crowd to try and find people I had never met). Well as luck would have it I just happened to accidentally bump into them by randomly sitting at the same lunch table=). I continued the day with sessions and then returned to my room around 5PM to get ready for a lavish event put on by one of our vendors that would involve New Orleans Jazz and a nice dinner. While I was getting ready Marlina (Coworker from Intel) called me to tell me they had gotten me a ticket to the event put on by Merrill Lynch which involved a Jewel concert! Well I thought this was way better so I met up with them in the lobby and off we went. We arrived at the contemporary arts museum where we had traditional New Orleans food and all the drinks our hearts desired. Half way through the appitizer/social hour I realized that the concert was actually a private performance for the 150 people that were in attendance! We were escorted into a small room set up like a comedy club with dim lighting and champagne awaiting at the many little tables. Our table just happened to be 15 feet from where Jewel was going to be standing!!!! She came out and sang for about an hour and it was absolutely amazing, she has a beautiful voice and a great personality!!!

Here's the table we sat at. 

After the concert a group of us decided to go look for some local Jazz music. We were semi successful in finding a couple interesting bars with live music. We finally wondered our way down to the famous "Bourbon" street where the real action takes place=). I've honestly never seen anything like it. It was a street full of bars, clubs and strip clubs.....I thought vegas was crazy, vegas is nothing compared to Bourbon street!

At around 1:30AM we found ourselves at a casino rolling some crap dice=). I won $30 and called it quites, but Furnando (Intel EE) made me hang around to roll the dice for him. I won the table a few rolls and then eventually rolled a 7 meaning the whole table loses including $120 of Furnando's money......but I warned him=).

Thursday:

More sessions......but finally had a bit of time to go shopping to get some fun New Orleans suvenirs. Then met up with the Intel folks and a whole bunch of other people at around 6:30 to go on a haunted walking tour of New Orleans! I was really worried that I was going to be scared to death, but it really wasn't that bad, very very interesting.

Here's where we started the tour.....creepy

Here is one of the many creepy places we learned about....

After the tour we then went to the oldest restaurant in New Orleans. A group of us were seated in the "REX" room. The room had teal walls with locked cabinets surrounding the room filled with jewels, crowns and gowns. In between the locked cabinets were black and white profile photos of different men with dates listed below. Eventually we found out that all these men were the crowned kings of Mardi Gras in which they are all named REX for the festivities. We had a wonderfully lavish dinner with all sorts of crazy appitizers, our choice of entree and a wonderful chocolate mousse for dessert. After dinner we hit up bourbon street again in which we were all treated to Hurrican drinks and more live music.

Friday:

More sessions and then headed to the airport at 12 and boarded my flight at 3PM getting home at 8PM....doesn't seem too long except that theres a time change in there making it even longer!!!!

All in all New Orleans is a very friendly fun place to visit. However, I have learned from this experience that I really don't like flying!! Airports are just so chaotic and confusing, I really don't want to fly anywhere anytime soon!

Long days

Lately my days have been extremely long, the hours go by fast there's just more of them where i'm awake then asleep=). Rion's been in Corvallis the last few days which has been kinda nice since I had peace a quiet to read and do my much needed studying and homework. I love having him around don't get me wrong, but he has a tendancy to be rather distracting. On another note has anyone been following the stock market or economic situation? I'm required to follow and read the wall street journal for class and have now found it extremely addicting!!! There is so much drama in that thing, it's actually becoming more exciting then celebrity gossip=). Rion and I have been watching a lot of CNN even though sometimes they are a little mistaken and misleading on what is really going on. I just think it's halarious that I read the wall street journal every morning and evening.....never though that would be anything I would ever find interesting. However, I must say if you have the time to check it out sometimes there is some interesting financial information and they are a great source of accurate information=). 

Went to the Beaver game against WSU last weekend......I think we kinda won=)

Folding issue solved

So the video below it the answer to all of Rion's prayers....this is a true engineer for you. Let me give you some background. I do NOT fold any of Rion's shirts, not because I am not willing but because I do not do it right. I refuse to take a lot of time out of my schedule foldeing clothes to make sure they are perfect. I do a quick half then quarter fold and throw them on my shelves. Well Rion is rediculously anal about making sure his clothes do not have wrinkles....even though there is a such a thing as an iron. So he spends hours at a time folding and refolding clothes to make sure they are just perfect, but I still seem to love him. Anywho this morning he was on the computer and started yelling my name to come look at the most amazing thing he had ever seen, the answer to all his folding issues.

Oh by the way the video is called "How an engineer folds a T-shirt".........that's right I live with a nerd=)

Hey there!

I'm sorry i've been neglecting my blogging duties=). Things are in full swing at work and now with school. Just a brief update Rion and I both started classes this week (Tuesdays and Thursdays we both go from 7AM to 9PM) so it has been a long one already and I cannot wait for the weekend. Also some good news, Rion got a job in the Fred Meyer electronic department so we'll actually have a bit more income coming in which is always good, but on a down side not sure how much I'll see him since he schedule will probably not be 8-5....

On a random note, I found some great running and biking trails in a nature preserve by our apartment this last weekend. I drive past the entrance every morning, but really didn't know what was behind all the trees. So this last Saturday I walked over there and followed a path inside the wooded area....wow I was completely amazed once I started exploring all the trails. It totally feels like you are out in the middle of no where! Some paths are paved and others are just dirt hiking trails. I took Rion there on Sunday and we ended up hiking 3 new trails that I hadn't the day before and surprisingly there are still more to explore. I'm just so excited to that there's something so cool close by...now if the weather would stay nice a little longer I could actually enjoy it more=).

P.S. Just in case any of you missed it OSU beat number 1 ranked USC last week!!!! Just wanted to make sure you all knew, hopefully you were all smart enough to watch it =).

Last Softball Game

Yep that's right i've been playing on a softball league for the last month. Who would have thought I would actually enjoy it and i'm really not that terrible (My last up at bat the other team all yelled out to each other to watch out that I have "wheels"....thought that was pretty darn funny since I never really thought I ran that fast, I just really really like getting to the next base=)). Rion's cousin Karla asked me a couple months ago if I would play on an all girls team every Tuesday night through the fall. I agreed on one condition, that there was no skill requirement since at that point I had never played a game of softball in my life and didn't know the rules =). Well since i'm starting school next Tuesday tonight was my last night with the team. It was a pretty good night, I played catcher for a couple innings and RF the rest of the night. I scored once and even got someone out at home plate! I'm a little sad that I probably will not get to play again anytime soon since school will rule my life for the next two years, but hopefully in the future I can try it out again.

Rion and I after the game

16 Month Wait

Today was a great day! It's been 16 long months since i've seen my nephew Tyler who is now 19 years old. It's been 16 months of worrying for his safety and his well being. 16 months of convincing my sister that her little boy would be fine and would make it home in one piece. Well this last week that 16 month wait ended!!! Tyler came home on Wednesday and I was finally able to go see him today. He's a lot taller then I remember, but he looks healthy and absolutely happy. It's just so crazy, I kept thinking that this would never happen and now it has and it's completely wonderful. Next weekend my parents will get to see him and I know my mom is completely ecstatic. Unfortunately his going away was done by his own bad choices, but I'm hoping he has learned from those mistakes and can now be a productive member in society. But for the meantime it's fabulous to have my family all in a semi central location=)!!!!

Beaver Football

This last weekend was the first beaver home game and it was awesome!!! I could have done with a little less sun, since I forgot the sunscreen, but all in all it was a successful tailgate and game.

The Fam















Yay game day!!!


On another note, today there was this really strange hazziness in the sky.....it was just so bizarre it wasn't smoggy but just really hazzy. Well Rion being the fire expert that he thinks he is kept telling me there must be a fire near by causing the discoloration. Well I searched and searched online for something and there was nothing on any fire near by. So we turned on the news and sure enough it was caused by a fire, but not near by.....the fire is all the way down in southern Oregon almost near the California border!!! Talk about crazy, I never knew the wind could blow the smoke so far, well not only did it make the sky hazzy but it's also turned the moon and Orange color. Belows a picture, but it looks way cooler in person.

Last two weeks

Ok well I couldn't limit it to one subject to write about so get ready for random two weeks=). Well over labor day weekend Rion and I went down to Gold beach, which was one of the best weekends i've had all summer. We went Khakiing the first day and we all jumped off this incredibly large rock. In the evenings we played hand and foot, which is one of the best card games ever and on our last full day we went blackberry picking in which I got to wear some awesome cowboy boots=). 

Here's Rion being a nerd!

Here's Emmie (Rion's younger brothers GF) and I before I jumped off the large rock!

Me jumping off the rock, it's higher then it looks in this picture....I promise=)

Awesome Cowboy boots!!!

So after that fun three day weekend I had to work....I know crazy, but we've been slowly getting settled in to the new apartment and finally got done cleaning the old apartment, which took forever!!!! I'll post some pictures of the new apartment once we've finished some of the pending details=). Well after a four day work week I was looking forward to the weekend, especially because I had read that there was a huge Oktoberfestival going on at one of the local breweries!!! I really never realized until I moved up to Portland, but microbreweries and beer tasting is huge to Oregonians!!! They love thier specialty beers and events like the one this weekend are

 extremely common. Addmission was free which was awesome and it was only $10 for a Oktoberfest mug that came with two free 16oz beers. And this is not just any beer this is Widmer beer with is extremely tasty. Not only was the beer decent price we (Mary and I) got free drinks from some very nice older men that worked for Widmer in California and were extremely pleased to meet Orgonians and learn more about life in Portland. All in all it was a very good night and we had a ton a fun. 

Yeah for Oktoberfest!!!!!

Cheers=)

And if that wasn't exciting enough today we went out on the boat to go wakeboarding! The water was a bit cold but it was so hot out that it ended up being really fun. I had three runs, which equals three very hard falls so I was done pretty quick, but it was still a really fun atmosphere=)......now off to work tomorrow, but the beaver first beaver home game is less then a week away=)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fashion No No #2

Now in the past i've written about the awful and never should be done black socks with khaki shorts, well today I saw another never should be worn together item. Of course it was an engineer.....shocking I know, but since i'm surrounded by engineers and accountants day in and day out that is unfortunately the only people I notice breaking the very important fashion rules. Well this particular rule breaker just happened to be on my flight back to San Jose and unfortunately I noticed his very loud and annoying voice before I noticed is awful attire, but soon enough he sat across from me and I spotted it....black clogs with high white socks and khaki cargo shorts!!!!Now maybe you're thinking to yourself that isn't that bad, but I promise you it is and was that bad. Clogs should only be worn with long pants or even the casual capri, but never ever ever should they be worn with light colored cargo shorts and high white socks!!!! Not only was the bottom half not ok, but this individual thought it would be ok to wear a size too small t-shirt sporting a peach fuzz mustache.......sick I tell you!

Moving & Old memories

Well I think this evening we might actually be done moving even though we started Saturday......I don't think we realized how much stuff I was able to fit into that tiny apartment. We didn't rent a truck to move everything all at once since we're only moving 5 miles away. Instead we did multiple trips with my car, Rion's SUV, Jake's truck and Aaron's car........you think we'd be done by now with all those cars, but no. Moving aside, the new aparment is beautiful and so much bigger. My good friend Mary came over Saturday night and stayed till Sunday helping me paint (Rion and I hate white walls so we went and got four different colors to paint various rooms) and even with her help I still have more to do, even though I am sooooo sick of painting. I wish I could just snap my fingers and it would all be done.....anyone have some free time in the next couple weeks?=)

On another note, as I was unpacking I found some old photo albums and pictures from Junior high and High school. Wow how things have flown by, I know i've said this before, but in my head it seems like just yesterday. I have soooo many wonderful memories of "the gang" and the good times we shared. Looking through these pictures I wish I could take a step back and just for a day relive some of those moments....visiting Stevie in the scrap booking store, watching Kayleen and Sarah perform on drill, surprising Jessie for her birthday and of course cheering with Aubri, in which there was never a dull moment=)! I'm very glad I was able to find such a great group of friends who I've been able to stay in contact with and continue to build memories with=). I'll have to scan some of the funny photos I came across and post them...they just crack me up! Love you guys!!!

Packing....

Well it's official we're moving this Saturday into a new apartment. After the awful searching we found an apartment that fits all our requirements. It's a two bedroom, so no one has an excuse not to come visit because we will have a room waiting=). The appliances are newer and the kitchen is much much bigger so i'm extremely excited about the decision, just no so excited to pack everything up (Kayleen I know you sympathize since you will be doing the same). However, we gave ourselves a two week cushion so that we wouldn't have to rush in, we could just gradually move and unpack as we go.

On another note...what is up with all this rain? I feel like it's fall already, but I love fall so I guess it's not too bad. Football season is right around the corner, GO BEAVS!!! Is anyone going to any football games this upcoming season?

Birthday Planning

Well this next weekend is Kevin's (Rion's dad) 50th birthday. Now since this is a big one the family (mainly Grandma) is throwing a big birthday bash this Saturday with 18 holes of golf during day and a fun filled evening with drinks and BBQ. Several months ago Rion and I gladly volunteered to be on the "bar committee" so this evening we went over to Grandma's to plan out what we needed and schedule a practice run of how the bar will work Friday night...one thing you should know since this sounds a bit extreme is that Grandma likes to plan everything out to the T. So we made a list down to what silverwear would be needed as well as a plan for set up. Another important fact is that the bar is actually in a tiki house (well it's actually an oriental tea house, that we are converting to a tiki house for this special occasion) since the theme of the party is a hawaiian luao. What's expecially cool is that Rion designed and built the house by hand over the last several weeks. I saw it for the first time tonight and I have to say I was pretty darn surprised he was able to pull it off. I mean I know he has skill but this is absolutely beautiful and to see the beginning drawings and now the finished product is absolutely amazing to me. There is so much detail and hand work that went into this structure it's absolutely a work of art!

On another note I'm finally getting a new camera! For those of you who don't know I sat on mine during my 22nd birthday celebration and broke the LCD screen=(. So I've been patiently waiting until I could get a new one and it finally happened. It will arrive tomorrow so I will be posting way more pictures in the next coming weeks as I test it out.

Apartment Hunting

Does anyone enjoy apartment hunting? I personally HATE it!!!! I know exactly what i'm looking for and the price range I want to stay in, now the hardest task is finding it. I know there's an apartment or house out there for me, but geeze they sure aren't calling out my name making it easy for me. Rion was diving this weekend so I decided i'd make good use of my time and apartment shop. So Saturday I drove around the area I want to be in and soon discovered the apartments were way too old and way over my budget.....I guess that's what you get the closer to downtown you get. So Sunday I tried again this time closer to where I live now and with a list of apartments that I thought might have potential. Well I struck gold on the fourth apartment I looked at. Way way way over my budget, but absolutely beautiful. These apartments are brand new with beautiful new appliances and great views, but again waaaaaayyyyy out of my price range. So of course I decide I should run it by someone sensible, who doesn't jump into decisions.......Rion. Well it took about 20 seconds and a mention of the price for Rion to knock down my hopes and dreams of living in this luxury apartment.....so now i'm back at square one and the clock is ticking.

Time Flys!

Have you ever looked back and realized how time flys by? This last week I tried to think back over the last month and I really have no idea where the time has gone. The days just seem to run together. Work has been super busy, which I really enjoy because I'm not sitting there counting the hours in the cube =). Then when I come home I have someone wonderful to spend my evenings with and there always seems to be something fun for us to do together . Most of the time we spend the evening watching movies and going on walks around the neighborhood just enjoying the evening air and the conversation.





Last Sunday I returned from a nine day camping excursion starting off the adventure with Rion and his family up at Battleground lake. After that two day trip I went off to meet up with my family on the deschutes river for seven days. Definitely a needed vacation, however, not sure that I will be jumping into another vacation with the family anytime soon=). I love my family however that's a long time to be together with nothing to do but sit around and "enjoy" each other's company. All in all, there was really not a whole lot of drama, it's just during a vacation I would prefer no drama at all. Rion joined us for the last few days and was pretty much attacked by my nephews the whole time he was there. They just can't get enough of uncle Rion which is pretty cute, but can get a little annoying when they just follow you around the whole time when you're trying to relax. Below is a picture of the boys and myself as we were fishing on the river at dusk. I'm not sure what Kyle is doing (he's the one on the right), he's the goofy one=).

Grad School Here I Come

Well it's official, I will be starting my masters end of September!!!! I received my letter of admission for Portland State's Masters of financial analysis on Saturday and mailed in my acceptance letter today=). So now all that's really left to do is mentally prepare myself for the two years of hell that I will endure. I'll still work my 45+ hours a week to survive and then go to class twice a week downtown. I only live 10 miles from campus, which really isn't such a bad commute, but Rion and I have discussed moving closer just to make it a little easier. I know it's going to be rough at times and I will definitely not be able to see friends and family as often, but hopefully after the two years I can look back and say it was all worth it.

Eventful Weekend

Well this weekend flew by!

Friday after I got off work I headed over to Rion's grandma's to meet up with him and his mom. Then we headed over to Ikea to get a fullfilling dinner of 50 cent hotdogs and dollar ice cream cones=). Once we'd done all the walking and looking we could do we headed back to grandma's for some nice conversation, cheese and WINE!!!! Finally at about 12AM we headed home and off to bed.

Saturday was HOT!!! We woke up early because there was no way we could sleep past 8AM...our second story apartment was baking. All week the weather guy had been saying Saturday was going to break records so we planned ahead. Grandma Marianne has an awesome yard with most importantly a pool, so once we got done getting ready in the morning we were off to Grandmas. We had our friends Jake and Mary meet us over there and from 12-7PM we lounged by the pool soaking up the sun and drinking cocktails=). By 7PM we were definitely drained and burned....50 SPF just wasn't enough for how hot it was. But I will say it was an absolutely fabulous day!!!

Today was another hot day. I went to a bride/groom shower at around 1PM for my friend Nikki. Then straight from there Mary and I met up with the guys to go wakeboarding on uncle Craigs boat. Now i've only done this once in the last three years, but today I was determined to try it again and maybe not fall as much as I did in the past. Well below is my second try and well it didn't go so smooth, but I promise I did eventually get up and stay up! Next time we go out i'll have to get video of uncle Craig....he can do tricks and stuff.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend!!!

Rock Band!!!

Really the title is enough said. Rock band is the most amazing creation. For those of you who are not familiar it's a video game in which you're able to drum, sing and play guitar to real songs. I LOVE to drum, I could drum for hours and hours. I really think I missed my calling. I should be on tour right now druming my little heart out.

Bad Trend

What is it with men wearing black socks past the ankles with khaki shorts? NOT OK!!!! I've seen this trend in various fashions through out the last couple days at work. Given I work for a company that employs mostly engineers, but still this is never a trend that should be passed along. Has anyone ever told these men it is just not a good look.....those colors completely clash and it just looks tacky!!! So I'm doing my part to save the world now, if you have a boyfriend, husband, male friend or father please do not let them continue this look in the next summer months. I beg of you=)!

Welcome!

Welcome to my first blogging experience. I never thought I would be interested in writting about my day and goings on for everyone to read, but if it means keeping up with friends then i'll do it =).

Well here's the update so I can start fresh and hopefully everyone is on the same page. I've been living with rion now for about two weeks and it's been interesting....When you live on your own for a long time doing what you want to do and doing things on your schedule it's a little difficult to have someone move into your space that you actually have to start thinking about. So right now i'm focused on compromise.....and anyone who knows me knows this is really not my strong suit. Other then that it's great to come home to somone and actually have some fun in the evenings.

Like this evening we went on a mission to find beer. Now you might think this is an easy task, but you are very very wrong. We were not looking for just any beer we were looking for premium beer something that Oregon is known for. Eventually we were able to find just what we were looking for and I am now happily enjoying my organic Hefe-weizen.

As for work, it's quarter close, which in the corporate accounting world means sleepless nights and over caffinated days for the next two weeks. Saddest part about the whole thing is that it's my favorite time at work. It's challenging, long and stressful, but it's the only time that the office is really buzzing with life. Only bad thing about it is that i'll have journal entries and cash flow statements floating in my head at night, but that's just the great life of an accountant!