Friday, April 29, 2011

One Year Later

One year ago today, my mom had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer a few weeks before hand. By her request, we kept pretty quiet about her breast cancer- she's a strong woman and not the type that wants a lot of sympathy.

Seems like yesterday that I was sitting in the waiting room during her surgery. Goog kindly suggesting that maybe I should have been the one getting a strong done of chill pills before the surgery.  My dad drifiting off to sleep because he apparently wasn't that interest in my People magazines or what crazy antics Britney Spears was upto.

It has been a long road, but a year later, Mom's doing great. The surgery, the chemo, the radiation- that is all SO 2010. She's even rockin' a cute little short hairdo.

My momma- Easter 2011
For my friends out there going through this battle right now- stay strong and stay positive. You'll have ups and downs, but just remember it gets better.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ten on Tuesday

 10 fun facts for the day:

1.) My nephew, Luke, was born last November. It is hard for me to believe that he is already 3 months old. It makes me a little sad that I have to watch him grow up from afar. Isn't he just the cutest?

Luke says: How dare you not mention me until now.

2.) It is a FACT that he was the cutest thing born last year, even though he had some stiff competition:

Baby Animal Pictures from Zooborns.com

3.) My new cube mate keeps telling me that I sigh too loudly. Maybe that is because I constantly have to listen to her financial phone calls; or maybe it is because I have to listen to a certain WDM call everyone on the planet his "buddy" and his "pal." Or maybe it is just because I'm so busy I forget to breathe.

4.) We were talking about maniac drivers today at lunch. For the life of me, couldn't come up with a specific example. Then on my drive home, I had not ONE but TWO maniacs pull out right in front of me then come to a complete stop.

5.) My annual "financial thing" is over and done with for another year.   This is the representation of what the Goog thinks I do when I talk about 10-Ks...he thinks I just go around taking random pictures of K's for 2 solid months.



6.) I drove home from work before the sun set 4 days last week. That hasn't happened since early January. It. Felt. AWESOME.

7.) I have become slightly obsessed with documenting my every day life....more on that later.

8.) To reward myself for 2 months of hard work, I bought some new, exciting scrapbooking tools, like this Crop-a-dile , a Tiny Attacher, and a Rub-On Roller Stylus.

9.) Willie has gotten into the unfortunate habit of meowing bloody cat murder every morning around 4:30 A.M.

10.) My 15 coworkers and I will be taking a 47-seat charter bus to Knoxville on Thursday. We'll be spending approximately 8 hours round-trip on the bus and approximately 5 hours actually in Knoxville. Probably not the best use of time or resources, but it gets us out of the office for a day!

Friday, January 28, 2011

Hello?

Hello?

Is anybody still out there?

No I haven't completely abandoned my blog. It has just been a crazy busy couple of months.

I spent half of December in Florida. Most of that time was visiting my new little nephew, with a couple days for a business trip thrown in.

Then came Christmas and the Goog's birthday then my birthday. I had all intentions of starting back blogging over New Years...

...then I came down with the flu on New Years day. A really BAD case of the flu with a 104 degree fever and a trip to the ER.

Then my grandma passed away.

Right now I'm in the middle of the busiest time of year at work.

I just wanted to thank anyone out there still reading this for sticking with me. I have a new blogger app on my iPad and not 1, but 2 brand new cameras so hopefully I will get back into the swing of things!



Friday, November 26, 2010

Snapshots of Life: 4 P.M.

Snapshot of Life: Thanksgiving Edition!!  We had our Thanksgiving dinner at 2 yesterday, so by 4 P.M., we were all ready for a nice, long turkey-coma nap!!

  
Truff and I in our pre-turkey coma.



Sister and B-i-L right before a nap.
The Goog already in his turkey coma.
 The Goog had was in such a good turkey-coma nap that I was able to sneak in, take a nap, and then sneak out without him even realizing I had taken my own turkey-coma nap.  He asked me where I napped and I told him "right beside you" and he didn't even realize it!!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Snapshots of Life: 9 P.M.

Finally! A Snapshot of Life when I'm NOT at work! This week's picture is from 9 P.M. on Thursday night, when I was in full force multi-tasking mode:

   
9 P.M.
I was watching the Office, scrapbooking, Facebooking, and hanging out with the cats (Willie is in his leopard dream bed in the upper righthand corner, while Kimmie is multi-tasking with her 10 different toys on the bed).

Next Thursday...I'll be in FLORIDA, BABY! Hopefully cuddling a baby!!


Friday, November 12, 2010

Snapshots of Life: 8 & 10 A.M.

I'm a little behind on my I Have No Life Snapshots of Life. Last week, November 4th, I took the picture, just didn't post it, mainly because I was so exhausted from the day that I was asleep by 9:45 that night- a solid 2 hours before I'm normally asleep. Here is my 8 A.M. picture:

8 A.M.
Normally, I'm not at work at 8 A.M., but the 4th just happened to be the one day out of the quarter when I have to be at work by 7 in the morning.  It was a busy, busy morning and taking this picture was the one 5 second break I took between 7 and 10. No bathroom breaks, no time for breakfast, just a straight up 3 hours of work. This picture was taken right before everyone else got to work, so it was still peacefully quiet.  Do you like the HGTV notepad in the background? It is because HGTV is awesome! *plug*

Yesterday's assignment was for 10 A.M.  Between 10 A.M. and 10:30 A.M., my cohorts and I usually take a water break.  This is a picture from the breakroom, a.k.a. the "Fun Room."  Do you like the Food Network mug? It is because Food Network is ALSO awesome!

10 A.M.

It would appear after 3 weeks of my Snapshots of Life that I'm a work-a-holic. Maybe I should start taking my pictures on Saturday or Sunday, when I'm at least at home doing something a little more exciting, like napping with my cats or watching TV in my pj's.



Monday, November 1, 2010

Mascot Battle: World Series Edition

It has been well documented that I chose who I root for in all sports teams by who has the best mascot. I base my entire basketball bracket on the awesomeness of a mascot. 

So let's take a minute to analyze the San Francisco Giants vs the Texas Rangers to see if the best team (and mascot) won:

Luigi Francisco Seal 

This guy, born July of 1996, gives great interviews and has his own twitter account.  Plus, who doesn't love seals?
Isn't he cute? Thanks, Google Images!

VS.

Rangers Captain


He is a horse, dressed in a Rangers costume.

Kinda lame-o. Thanks again, Google Images!

Here are some fun facts about him (thanks to MLB.com):

Height: 6'6"
Weight: 300
Bats: Both
Throws: Smoke
Resides: In The Ballpark's tunnel right behind home plate
Favorites: Foods: Hot Dogs, Peanuts, Nachos, BBQ, and Chili
TV Show: Rangers Highlights
Songs: Take Me Out To The Ballgame and Cotton Eyed Joe
Colors: Red, White, & Blue
Vacation Spot: Surprise, Arizona

Sorry to all you Rangers fans, but a seal beats a horse in my book any day.

Clearly, the best mascot won the World Series. Congrats to Lou Seal!!!