Awesome and Awkward

Awkward:

1. Waking up with enough time to get ready, then resetting my alarm so I have 10 minutes.  Throw on clothes grab makeup box and walk out the door with serious bed head  ( big messy bun lop sided and frizzy).  Sit at desk apply makeup and go to the bathroom to add water to the unruly mess of curls)....  3 days in a row
2. Gurgley stomach... I feel really awkward when I am sitting next to someone and it sounds like Bombs are going off in my stomach... and you know the person next to you is like "dont you dare fart while I am next to you... I know what gurgley stomach means.  Well no buddy not pour moi.  I just have a stomach that likes to make its presence known both in sound and in site.
3. Nick getting up and handing me his computer... ten a huge blast of butt funk (aka a fart) hits my nose.  We have company over so I cant call him out/I cant breathe enough to get words out.  He hits the stairs and sees my suffocating face and we both just die in laughter... then the guests smell it HAHAHAHA
4. having my shirt get stuck on my bike seat at spin class... so I attempt to walk past my bike  and the bottom of my shirt gets caught on my seat jerking me back like a foot.  making me look like a toddler learning how to walk for the first time... I impress myself with how graceful I am
5. waking yourself up with a random snore
6. getting offended when your cat prefers to cuddle with your boyfriend and not you

Awesome

1. My spin class is up to 16 students, there are only 18 bikes   woop wooooooop
2. my iPhone should be here today!!
3. my mom bought a new house!!!!  hooray for finally having my own room when i go home for a visit
4. Buying new desk organizing stuff and pink pens ... it has made me much more cheerful at work to have all 8 lip balms in a container instead of rolling around my drawer like animals
5. Changing my closet into my fall wardrobe...  no judge but I have around 50 cardigans...  Small addiction
6. Test driving new cars!!!!!  ahhhh  In just a few short weeks I will not be driving a car from the mid 90s  can i get an AMEN!?
7. Apple cider doughnuts... pictures will come shortly   but lets just say I inhaled almost half a dozen
8. Sushi night with one of my favorite families!  soon to be expanding with a little munchkin in 4 weeks!

Go Heels!

Every season Nick and I make a bucket list of things we want to do.  For fall it usually includes haunted houses, doughnuts, and watching Hocus Pocus.  This year we really wanted to see  a college football game but we weren't really sure how we could with most of our weekends being completely full.  On Friday I was leaving work and Nick calls me.  His dad's co-worker bought 4 UNC tickets but weren't able to go, so she gave him all 4 tickets plus a parking pass.  So Nick and I rushed around to get packed and headed down to North Carolina.  We had to leave his parents house by 8am to get to the game in time. We all piled in the car in Carolina blue T shirts and headed South.

Catching Nick eating a doughnut

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Getting ready for the game

Cheesing it up with shades

No shades...

It was almost like drum line...

Crazy random baton twirler lady

TARHEELS

Midway through the game... 3 greasy chicken strips later

The boys...

Woop WOOP final score

Please excuse my hot mess I got ready in the car



So my first experience at a huge university football game was pretty fun.  I will say I was a little judgy of the girls wearing tiny dresses and heels to go sit on metal bleachers for 3 hours.  Nick even pulled a preppy McPrepperson and wore a button down and a cardigan.   maybe I was a tad envious cause I was looking a little rough but I just figured the reason you buy over priced sports T shirts was to wear them to games so you don't spill ketchup or have beer spilled on important clothes.   Mental note, dress cute for football games, My Bad

Awesome and Awkward

Awkward:

1. Using the restroom and then going up stairs to change, a few seconds later hearing Nick go "wwwhhhewwww, someone stunk it up in here"   yeahhhh  
2. Sitting on chocolate and having no one tell you...  So you walk around strutting your stuff in heel and Joe's Jeans  go to bathroom to check yourself out and LOVELY... choco cracko
3. Waiting 6 and half weeks to trim your pedicure because the white tips are just too beautiful to trim down
4. Getting a call from your "mom" and having your phone tell you that you missed the call, start having a conversation with Nick, give him a smoochero and hear your step dads voice come over the phone saying "uhm hello?  I'm still on the phone" bahaha
5. Girls that I was a camp counselor for are getting married before me...  I cry a little on the inside just thinking about it.  I told Nick for every year I wait the carat in my diamond goes up...  he better get his A to a jeweler cause I hear 4 carats is pretty pricey :) 

Awesome:

1. Getting a free pizza from Dominoes because they put ham on the whole pizza instead of half cheese... SO I will be eating pizza for the next 5 days
2. iphone!!!!  crossing my fingers I can get my hands on that puppy tomorrow.  I am doubting it but i am still hoping.
3. Texting the girl I may be buying a car from about doing a test drive and she said that she will drive the hour to me!  woop woop!  so happy to not have to drive a gazillion miles this weekend and I am hoping she will come down a little on her price and Katie will have a new car in time for her birthday!
4. Mitt Romney during the republican debates, he spanked everyone.  I have never been more proud of a fellow Mo MO than I was of him. And no played the religion card can i get an Amen?
5. The leaves are-a-changin here in Virginia, my drive to work is gorgeous!  I can wait to get some pictures this weekend on the parkway.  I am planning a Sunday picnic to break in our new picnic basket we bought.

Myrtle Beach... delayed :)

We started going to Myrtle Beach the first summer Nick and I started dating so this was our fifth trip.   The trip usually includes me and nick, his parents, his brother and sister-in-law, and is sister her husband and 4 kids.   We all share a condo and soak up the sun.

It is probably one of my favorite places to go and I look forward to it all year.  We especially looked forward to it this year since we had this little accident last year.

We were both in a wedding party the day before we were to leave for the beach.  For the groomsman picture all the boys were suppose to "pretend" push each other down the stairs... well as you can see things did not go well.  Nick was on the ground with a dislocated ankle in the middle of DC... let the good times roll

Here he is in the ER

Poor guy on crutches at the beach

OH it was a beauty

Nick about to fall to his ankle's death

 So here is Myrtle Beach trip 2011!!!!!!!!!  Accident and Injury free apart from Nick getting super sun burnt from Wal-mart brand sunscreen...

 Nick and I hit up the arcade on our last night... we were racking in the tickets on this weird hit the chicken with a ball game

 Hello enough tickets for a teddy bear... hello

 Cheesing it up a Margaritaville

 I got to drive the Chick-fil-A car at the Nascar speedway... too bad that thing was so slow I got passed twice by everyone else

 It was suuuuppper hot hence the perspiration 

 Man candy in his car

 This little kiddo thought it would be hysterical to bring all the couch cushions into Nick's room

 Us heading out to dinner at Senior Frogs

 oh yes... the hats... No worries I rocked those Minnie Mouse ears all through dinner

 ehh  I got nothing for this picture... self explanatory 

 Ahoy!!  We did a little mini golfing on the trip...  Nick won... which meant we both won ice cream from Nicks brother :)

 Tiger pose with a hole in one

 Fountain

 Eating lunch on the pier at Pier 14

 Trying to see our condo from the pier

 Smoochin

Joe's Crab shack= delish

We love going to the dueling piano's when we are at the beach

At margaritaville for our last dinner :(

Some of the kiddo's in front of a bear... 

Lying on a bed of nails... it did pinch a little but other than that you don't really feel a thing

Shaking our groove thang 

Nick flexing his muscles

Nick and I snagged some dinner on our way out of town at a different pier.  It was gorgeous to just look out over the ocean...

Sad to be leaving the beach :(

Awkward and Awesome

Awkward:

1. My old blog
2. My current blog title that has a weird white background I cant get rid of (tips would be appreciated)
3. Taking a vitamin an hour before teaching my Body Attack class, then having to run out of the room to almost barf...  That was a horrendous experience
4. Zit on forehead...
5. Unexplained apres lunch burping... when you share an office...  I am ashamed
6. Having a cheese fest for my brothers birthday, including brie and a million stinky cheeses, baguettes, and hummus...  eating in like 1.2 minutes.  Then sitting in a room of people from the ages of 22-62 who have just stuffed themselves full of cheese  AWKWARD
7. writing about burping and farting... I promise I am not that girl... it just so happens that those things are super awkward and make me super awkward.
8. Buying striped leggings for pajamas from JCrew.  walking out to the living room and having Nick tell me I look like an optical allusion...

Awesome

1. Seeing my familia in Knoxville this past weekend-  cheese fest :)
2. Kickboxing!  ... its pretty rough taking it after teaching a spin class but my buns are going to be clones of Jessica Simpson's in Dukes of Hazard
3. Chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels...  oh my holy goodness 
4. Getting Creme Brule ramikan things .... now I just need to buy one of those flaming guns - I just realized that statement makes me sound like I am unfit to make that dessert, I am very capable- but just in case:  I leave my cat Cher in the care of Nick.  My car can be given to any poor sap who wants it.  
5. hello iPhone!!!!!!!  woop woop  I will finally be joining the rest of the world and have a cool phone.
6. Date night tonight is "salsa under the stars"  We are going to go salsa dancing at a vineyard with nicks co-worker and his girlfriend...  Here's to hoping I don't fall on my face
7. Crafting at work.  We got a huge donation of fabric we cant use for our art therapy program so i took some and put them in frames...   now I don't have to spend a bunch of money at pier one for some art work for my white walled living room
8. Outlet shopping results- Banana republic  $4 shorts, $8 sweater, $12 sweater, and $28 sheath dress.  GREAT day   Nick got a suit for $70 and I picked out my birthday present.  Riding boots... the most beautiful creatures I have ever beheld.  So cross your fingers I get them and then you can see them!

Awesome and Awkward

Awkward:

1. Putting on self tanner and needing to go wash your hands... not knowing if your roommate is home... weigh the options- smear sunless tanner or be seen butt naked by your roommate...  I chose to be seen butt naked ... Fortunately she was not home
2. Eating breakfast at 11am going to work at 1:30 eating lunch at 4 and dinner at 9:30...  thank heavens it is the last day of crazy work schedule for a while.
3. deciding to try to wear my retainers because my wisdom teeth have decided to grace my mouth with their horrendous presence... and then waking up and not finding my retainers in my mouth... 2 nights later finding then in my sheets.... so nast
4. taking cher to the vet and being super proud that the vet says she is perfect... I feel like the weird cat lady down the street
5. Having to pick up cher's prescription and when the pharmacist asks for the name... I try to whisper "Cher"... doesn't hear me so I just have to use a normal tone and not look around at all the old people judging me...Come to find out they wrote her name down as Chv.. causing more of a scene when I have to repeat that this is for my cat and her name is cher...blah blah...   I am still debating which is worse... naming your cat Cher? or buy prescription medicine for a cat?

Awesome:

1. Getting emergency text messages from nick because I wasn't home to watch the modern family premiere... He planned on calling work to get me to come home sooner hahaha
2. Blueberry muffins... they are quickly becoming my drug of choice
3. My size two jeans are not as tight as last year... whoop whoop!!!!!!
4. Having a meeting with my bishop and he says "would you like to serve in the church?" so I say "I guess" he says "we would like to call you to be in the ward choir" I stammer "Have you HEARD me sing?"  he says "did you hear THEM sing!?" hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!  the BEST line I have ever heard come from a bishop
5. Making chocolate chip pancakes and watching 4 episodes in a row of Burn Notice...AWESOME Sunday activity :)
6. Discovering the joy of the post it note app on my lap top...  I am now addicted to making post it lists   Romey and Michelle  thanks for inventing the glue and the idea of making them colored :)
7. I am getting internet at my house on Monday soooo say hello to more blog posts and finally posting some pictures!!

xoxo

Gossip Girl

jk

Awesome and Awkward Thursday (yesterday) :)

Awkward
1) Sharing a bed with nicks mom for a week on vacation
2) Losing my bathing suit bottoms while boogie boarding.... its true  they were down to my ankles, I didn't ask anyone if they saw... don't ask, don't tell
3) Having Nicks nephew walk in on us smooching... I am still red faced hahaha  oh well
4) Having to borrow water shoes from Wonderworks to complete a ropes course .... heaven knows what I caught in those things...  Just don't think about it Katie... don't think about planters warts, athletes foot, other peoples sweat
5) Sleeping with earplugs because the hurricane winds were so bad on our balcony it sounded like a  freight train was running through the condo
6) Forgetting to write this on Awesome and Awkward Thursday... wooopps

Awesome and Awkward!
1)Nick's mom introducing me as her future daughter in law to her random friend in the hot tub at the condo
2) Nick's niece introducing me to her imaginary friend as her aunt

Awesome
1) An entire week at the beach...getting so tan that I go shopping and realize that i forgot to put on make up and then not caring about it
2) BEACH HAIR... nough said
3) Lunch and dinner on the pier.. it was utter bliss!
4) talking with Nick for 5 straight hours on the way back from the beach   from 8pm-2am...
5) Nick made me a "stay awake mix" while I was driving the last leg of the trip... complete with Ricky Martin, Shakira, Taylor Swift and Glee
6) my coworkers and I coming up with stripper names for an hour
Rock-L Wild....  Anastasia Love... Saf-fire Melody...Jazz-myn Allure... Ja'Nayzia Champagne... Rocks-ann Kandy...  hahahaha  it was a great time
7) Having one of my spinners wear a heart rate monitor/calorie counter and finding that my Monday class she burnt over 800 calories and yesterday she burnt 682... yeaaaaaa  AWESOME
8) Debbie brought me Oreo cheesecake yesterday!