News

BLECH

Do you ever just get the news that you didn't want to hear at all. My best friend Stephanie, and her family have decided to move to NM. I am not happy. Not even a little bit. Of course, I want what is best for them, but I am going to miss them so much! It is hard to describe the actual sadness

On a brighter note, I did survive the Bridezillas adventure. My friend Kirsten was being filmed for it. And her wedding was insane! It was very disorganized, and there were "way too many chefs in the kitchen." I was so happy to get a moment to actually spend with Kirsten, which is what I made the trip out there for. I have missed hanging out with her. She is always fun and entertaining.

Anyway, I am being bad and writing this during rehearsal, so I should go...

Fertility Day

Hurray Bunny Day!

No major plans today. :)

Brian is out taking his motorcycle classes, so that is pretty cool. Soon, I will be the hot chick on the back of the bike.

I am cooking dinner tonight for the fam. However, the fam is very small this year. It will be Brian, Mom and me. Meghan went into labor this morning, so they are at the hospital, (they weren't going to come up anyway), so Nancy is down at the hospital with them. The boys were supposed to be with Brian Jamieson, but I guess he dropped them off at the hospital as well...not sure what is going on there.

I am still super tired, and I am not sure how I am going to catch up with rehearsals and work. But I had a great time last night. I went on my "first date" with Bonnie. It was the first time we had gone out, just the two of us, without the boys. We had a great time. Went out and had some food and drinks and the we were off to see Greater Tuna, and then...met up with the boys later. :) The play was hysterical! And it was cool, because one of the playwrites came and saw the show. What a great opportunity for Austin and Seth! I took a couple pictures of the eveing on one of those old fashioned cameras, you know those diinosaurs, that use film? So I will post some pictures later.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Today I had an odd stroke of luck. I somehow only had to work until noon today, AND I ended up not having to go to rehearsal. Woo Hoo!

Sadly, I had to run an errand and go get my tire fixed. It had a very slow leak in it. It is never much fun hanging out at the tire store, but they fixed it for free! That made me happy. So after an hour of my life spent in the tire store, I was out of there.

I hurried home after picking up some lunch, and did...nothing. That is right, I have done nothing. I watched some tv, took a short nap, did some sit ups. Nothing. It was wonderful.

I did see the neighbors walking their dog, which looks a lot like young Jordan. Sad. I miss her.

But, soon my Husband will be home, and life will be good!

Young 'uns

What a wonderful couple of days. I am pretty sure that I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Saturday we went to Adam and Meghan's baby shower at Old Chicago's. It was pretty fun. It was a little strange that Brian Jamieson didn't come. (It was a both genders baby shower) He was in a car accident and wasn't supposed to spend too much time in the car. My only question is why did he go to lookout mountain the day before? Anyway, we got Adam and Meghan practical things...diapers, the baby first aid kit, and special q-tips so that they don't poke the baby's brain. Her name is Gracie, and she is due on the 10 of April.

Then we were off to see Stephanie's new addition. John Daniel was born around 11:32ish on March 27th. He was 7lb and 2oz. He is perfect! He is so beautiful. And Addison is being a great big sister so far. I love that whole little family so much! Stephanie is doing well after her c-section, and should have gone home sometime yesterday. I need to call her to make sure that all went well. I can't wait to see Stephanie, Addison, John and Craig again.

Yesterday was just work and mostly boring stuff. Although, I did come home and surprise B with a little outfit I found online. That was fun!

Today, we celebrated Neo and Tayler's birthday. Technically, Talyer's is sometime earlier in the month, but we were busy, and didn't do anything for it. So we got them both done in one shot. It was a lot of fun. Brian was really brave, and brought Tayler into Petsmart, while I held on to Neo. She did awesome. She didn't bite anyone, and even took a treat form one of the employees. Whew! Then we took them to Dairy Queen and got them both a childrens vanilla ice cream cone. That was Tayler's first, and she decided she like them, and was not shy about polishing it off. Neo took a little more time, aware of the power of a brain freeze, but he was really into it too.

Tomorrow, we have our first production meeting for the Fantastiks. And we start rehearsals on Thursday...kind of. It will be a music rehearsal, since we don't have the entire cast. Our first read through will be on Sunday. Sadly, starting the rehearsal on Thursday means that I won't be able to go out with Bonnie and her sister, who is visiting from out of town. Sad, I was looking forward to that. Oh well. C'est la vie!

Didn't I warn you all that I would be bad about this whole blogging thing?

Life has been pretty event filled lately. Or at least, news filled. Two of my friends are getting married. Kirsten, is getting married in Florida, so I will be heading out there in April. What makes this wedding so interesting is that Kirsten is going to be on one of my favorite tv shows. Bridezillas. I watched that show religiously right before I got married, and I still find it highly amusing. So that will be fun to see how that whole thing works. Also, Keely is going to get married. She met the man of her dreams by leaving me here in Colorado, while she hopped off to Seattle. I miss her very much, but I am extremely happy for her. We should be getting the save the date cards soon. It looks like there is going to be a lot of traveling in my future. (Brian's cousin is also getting married, and we are going out to the east coast for that. We are even going to head up to Niagara Falls. Woo Hoo)

I am enjoying the beauty of 1.5 snow days. I say that because I did actually drive down to work yesterday, but they sent me home early. I have been lazy, but Brian has been out shoveling, and riding the trainer, and all that active kind of stuff. Also, I should be starting rehearsal for the show

The Fantasticks, and day now. Last I heard, we were waiting on scripts to come in. Today I just got a text message that we probably won't be starting until April 5. That leaves us a month. To rehearse a musical. Scary.

Now I am watching Cyrus play with some of the toys in his cage, and it is pretty cute. Who knew birds were such awesome pets? He cracks me up.

Quiet days

Well, it has been a quiet couple of days for me. Sort of.

Wednesday, I went to my book club meeting. We finished The Power of One, which is a book that I highly recommend. I really enjoyed it! We met at Pasta Jay's, but I only got the cheese bread, so I could save room for dinner at home. There were only four of us at the meeting, but it was a pretty good discussion. But, in my usual way, I couldn't leave with any sort of grace, and dumped two full glasses of water all over Denise, and her book. *Sigh* Aren't we supposed to grown out of the clutz phase? I think I am getting progressively worse! Poor Denise.

Then I headed up the mountain to have dinner with Brian and Alex. Alex called and said that she had a rough day at work, and was hoping to get together for some good food and booze. She made a very yummy meal that was a vegan quesadilla kind of thing. It was very yummy, and I pretty sure pretty healthy for me.

Today, I managed to cut myself three times at work, and all before 9am. I am just the image of grace. Then it was off to the gym. Funny story...
At barnes and noble, there was a lady that comes in occasionally. She was wearing her work clothes, (24 hour fitness stuff) I asked her if she knew my trainer, she did, so I told her to tell my trainer that I would be calling her soon. And she DID! I talked to my trainer today, and she knew all about it. Very funny. It is embarrassing to talk to your trainer though, when one has fallen off the wagon, as I have. I am very sporadic in my workouts, and then when I do, I do something dumb, like eat half a box of girls scout cookies. Does anyone else see any self sabatoge here?

So, I had a decent workout, but it was interrupted by running into my trainer, Lisa. Also, for the past two days, I have seen Denise there. She just joined, but it is cool to actually see someone there that I know.

This eveing has been pretty laid back. Watched some tv, did some minor cleaning, and now I am off to take my shower. I may be covered in guilt, but I will wash it all away...that IS how it works, right?

Slacker

Sheesh, I have been such a slacker about the blog. And so much has happened!

Friday night was Ari's big 30th birthday. It was a lot of fun. We drove out to central city to meet up with everyone for the karaoke party. Ari chopped off all her hair for locks of love, and it looked great. It was a shocker though, I have never seen her hair that short. I got up the guts to get up and sing, and that was a lot of fun. I sang Before he Cheats by Carrie Underwood. I couldn't really hear anything so I went out of tune, until I put my finger in my ear. Considering I haven't sung in a long time, I think I did a pretty good job. I am proud of myself.

Saturday was relax during the day, and head out in the evening. Bri and I went to see Wade and Rita in Educating Rita. (The name is just a coincidence.) They did such a wonder job! I think it is one of my favorite plays that I have seen there. I even had a little tear, which I usually only reserve for movies. Then we hung out for the party afterwards. It was closing night, and Rita's sister was in town from Ireland. Nils catered the whole thing. He is an excellent cook. The food was pretty fabulous.

Sunday was Stephanie's baby shower. We are all very excited to meet John Daniel, and this party was all about celebrating him. It was good to see Stephanie, I miss her so much! I also got to see the lovely Addison. I could squeeze that girl until she popped. Stephanie cleaned out in the baby clothes department. She also got this awesome stroller! I would like to point out that I won two of the three games that we played. That is how awesome I am at word games and guessing Stephanie's belly size. She is quite small for being due next month. Not scary small, cute small. An extra bonus is that I got my girl scout cookies from Addison. Hurray.

Monday was just work, accompanied by the most awful headache! I had all these great plans to get to the gym and get back on track with all that stuff, but the pain held me back. I was sad. It was a tough one to ride out. And it made it a lot more difficult to smile at the customer. Plus, when I have a headache, the smell of coffee makes me feel queasy. Not fun, when working in cafe that serves coffee.

Today is hang out at home and do laundry day. Oh yeah, and torture the bird day. I had to take Cyrus to the vet for his normal checkup. He freaked me out because he threw up, which is very strange when a bird does it, on the way down. But we got all checked out, and the vet said everything looked good. He lost two grams. He was 27, now he is 25. The vet said that it is nothing to worry about at this point. But a bird losing weight can be a sign of something wrong, so we will be paying close attention at his next visit. Also we was wrapped up in a towel, and had his nails and wings clipped. Cyrus was not a fan!
After the vet visit, we went to visit B at work. Cyrus was really glad to see Brian, and he had fun meeting some of Brian's co-workers. He was still pretty stressed out, but at least he was really well behaved, and didn't poop on anyone.
Now we are all home, safe and sound. Cyrus has been relaxing from all the stress, and I am enjoying the rest of this beautiful day off.