100,000

My car hit a huge milestone this morning on the way to work:

It may not be the fanciest car. It doesn't have XM radio or built in navigation or bun-warmers but it is the only car I've ever had. It is the car that I learned how to drive. I plan to drive it until the wheels fall off. Happy 100,000 "Bliz".

My 3 Tiny Little Reindeer

For many years now, I have had a tradition of humiliating my cats by dressing them up in festive headgear.  The tradition started in 2008, when I found a pair of pet antlers and thought my then 17-year old cat, Katy, would look adorable in them. Since she was the most easy-going cat in history, she played along:

Katy Sue Wigglesworth. 2008.

The following year, Willie and Kimmie got the antler treatment.  Kimmie was still way too tiny for the antlers:

Kimmie at 9 weeks old.

In 2010, we took a break from the antlers and instead dressed up like the big man himself- Santa Paws:

Willie as Santa Paws.

This year, I had a challenge with the antler pictures. Goog was out of town, so I had to set up my camera on a timer, place the antlers on the cats, and position ourselves in the chair all within a 10 second time frame.  It worked with Kimmie, but when the pipsqueaks both wiggled out of their antlers, I had to go with my trusty iPhone.

Reindeer Kimmie.

Reindeer Mitzi.

Reindeer Pippa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even though you couldn't see my whole outfit in any of these, I was completely antlered out head to toe.  Antlers, reindeer shirt, and big-nosed reindeer pants:

Reindeer Sarah.

I'm Antlering Up! With Taming Insanity!

Testing the Blogger+ App

Hi.

Long time, no see! Guess what I've had running around my house the last 2 months- new kittens! They are about 5 months old and just had their bits removed. Mitzi is in the first picture; Pippa is in the second picture.

This random post is to make sure this Blogger+ App doesn't crash on me the way the BlogPress one did!

Wordless Wednesday: Goodbye, My Sweet Boy

My sweet baby boy, Willie, past away a week ago. He was just 2 years old. I'm heartbroken. Rest in peace, little buddy.

WDW (Nearly Wordless) Wednesday, Part 2

Guess where I'll be approximately 2 weeks from today:

Disney Cruisin'

You just can't beat a 2-week Florida extravaganza!

WDW (Nearly Wordless) Wednesday, Part 1

Guess where I will be in approximately 2 weeks:

2 weeks from now, less approximately 1 pair of wedding ears.

Squee!! I've got a major case of Disney on the brain!!

I better get to packing!

I Was a (Future Corporate Accounting) Senior Hottie!

 I had a strange request this past week. My Sis needed me to scan a couple of her senior photos, and it was URGENT. I soon found out it was part of a link-up with  a Belle, a Bean, and a Chicago Dog where everyone was digging out old high school photos. So, I "dug up" my class of 2001 out of the depths of my external hard drive.

First up, the classic senior portrait, including gold leaf name and date in the corner.  The most tragic thing about this picture is that I still look exactly the same 10 years later.  Not the worse thing in the world, except when people think I'm a certain co-worker's daughter.

Starting my corporate accounting look early in life.

The most memorial thing about my senior year was my future husband and I started dating about 6 weeks before graduation.  We started dating just in time to go to senior prom:

Fun fact: I wore these same shoes on my wedding day.

We also got to spend our senior spring break together in exotic Cincinnati, OH (before I moved here for college):

Old married couple?

Finally, graduation! We were forced to chose a career path in 8th grade, so that big pink ribbon I'm wearing meant I was going to be in the medical field and the Goog's yellow ribbon meant he planning on being in the liberal arts (as a radio broadcaster).  Neither of those career choices lasted much longer after this picture was taken (I'm now an accountant, and he is a physics teacher!)

I promise I own more clothing than light blue shirts & dresses!!

Go join in on the fun!

Friday Fun Facts

FACT. God drives a Ford Explorer. I had the honor of following God out of downtown Cincinnati last night:

FACT. Finding 10 Q's is harder than it sounds:

FACT. Today begins 1 of 3 times of the year when I'm not super swamped and crazy busy at work. Squee!! It's going to be a very happy Friday!

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.

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!

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!

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!!

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!!

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.

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!!!

Happy Halloween

Have a Happy Halloween and don't eat too much of the candy you are planning on giving out to the little kids!

Snapshots of Life: 5 P.M.

I'm a total sucker for documenting my life.  I love scrapbooking.  I take an obsessive number of pictures of my cats...nightly.  I am constantly taking cell phone pictures when I'm out-and-about. 

So when I saw this new feature on Eighteen25, I knew this would be another great way to document!! How it works is every Wednesday night, the site will post a time for everyone to take a picture the next day.  So then you have to take a picture at that very moment of whatever you are doing.  Today's time was 5 P.M.  Here's my picture:

I was really hoping that this 5:00 P.M. shot would be of me actually shutting down my computer for the night, but alas, I had to work past 5 again tonight! (One more week, one more week. I can do it!) So instead, here is what I was doing at 5 tonight- finalizing workpapers for the quarter. Good times. 

And Another Quarter Begins...

Today starts another busy time of year for me, work wise. I'm already feeling like this:

Yep, I'm feeling like a crazy-haired monkey and if I have another person ask me if we are done yet, I might just start sucking my thumb!

I need happy thoughts and prayers today that I'll be "allowed" to leave work at a decent hour or at least "allowed" to eat dinner tonight. 

Caturday Presents: Faucet Fun

Willie and Kimmie have recently discovered faucets. Apparently when you are a cat, fresh water out of a bowl just doesn't cut it. Nope, you have to have water straight from the source. I've almost been late for work just about every day this week because they are most amused with the water first thing in the morning...and their amusement amuses me.

Her head was soaked after this. I tried to give her a little Mohawk, but she was having none of that.




I thought cats were supposed to be adverse to water!

What is your favorite part? How Kimmie sticks her whole head under the faucet? How she gets water up her nose? How she gets a soaking paw then flings it all over everything How Willie acts like he is too cool for the faucet, when he actually loves it?

The Hunt for Reds October...Merch

While most of the world has moved on to fall sports, our house is still in baseball season.  The Goog is a die-hard Cincinnati Reds fan, or at least the biggest Reds fan I know, and this happens to be is first year since we've started dating (10 seasons!) that they have actually been good.  Personally, I think they were good this year since I attended Opening Day.  I'm just sayin'.

Play-by-play of the Goog's reaction to the Red's walk-off home run

Tuesday night, the Reds were able to clinch the National League Central division and are going to the playoffs for the first time since 1995.  If you heard an extremely loud "WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" on Tuesday night, that was the Goog. I'm pretty sure my friends over in England could have heard his excitement. 

Ain't no party like a shopping party 'cause a shopping party don't stop

Of course nothing says "NL Central Champion party" like fine champagna...cigars...an all-night shopping spree. I'm sure there were plenty of people who went to the game and stayed out until 4 AM partying and HAD to have a Championship lapel pin RIGHT THEN.  For real, the top story on the 7 A.M. news Wednesday morning was about the Reds Merchandise Shop being open for a continuous 36 hours to celebrate the Red's NL Championship. They had the JV newscaster at the store saying that the store was completely out of lady's shirts and the lines were 6-people deep. AT 7 A.M.   

NL Central Champs MERCH

Because I'm a good wife, I decided once I got downtown, I should probably go over to the Reds store sooner rather than later because I'd much rather stand in a 6-person-deep line at 9 AM instead of a 12-person-deep line at lunchtime.  I recruited my co-worker, JessMel, to walk over with me so that she could reign my spending in, in case I went on a crazy 24-hour shopping spree.  Maybe we went at a good time, or maybe the newscaster is a BIG FAT LIAR, but the store wasn't that crowded.  I was able to grab all the merch I was after - Tshirt, hat, pennant, baseball -  and had my choice between 2 no-wait lines.  The cashier tried to get me to buy said Championship lapel pin because it was "cute", but JessMel reminded me that I already looked at the pin and already decided I didn't need it...no matter how cute it was.

As we were leaving the store, one of the employees told us to "enjoy the game." It must have been a long night...

At lunch, JessMel and I went on yet another walk; this time to find a Cincinnati Reds special edition newspaper.  We walked all over downtown Cincinnati trying to find a copy of the Enquirer. One would think this wouldn't be that hard since nobody reads the newspaper anymore.  Of course, by "all over downtown" I mean the news stand 2 blocks from my building and the convenience store in the lobby of my building.  We finally found a copy from an admin that works with us. I also had my dad check at the grocery store near my parent's condo, and he found the extra-extra special edition!

Showing off his new shirt

The Goog claimed this was his cool guy pose...because cool kids wear baggy shirts and their pants pulled down below their waists. Obvs.


Would you go on a late-night shopping spree? Are lapel pins cute? Do you read the newspaper? Am I a good wife or am I a great wife for getting all this merch?? Gooooooo Reds!!!!