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!

Awkward and Awesome Thursday

Awkward

1. my blog is ridiculous looking!  I have been trying so hard to get everything to line up and I am lost, hence the unbalanced picture.   Please please assist me if you know how.
2. Having my creeper neighbor sprint over to my car as I am tring to avoid eye contact and carrry in a million bags of groceries, to ask me if he can mow my lawn and if I can pay him up front so he can get gas... and then say "got enough stuff?" ... Really?  Really  Tarzan!!!!!!!!  Go back to being a creeper on your front porch, I am done with you
3. I am slowly killing the weird spiky plant that was on my desk when I started working here... its really sad... so I hid it on top of my filing cabinet... mental note  buy plastic plants, no one will know
4. My 96 chevy is slowly dying a little more everyday... and I have no desire to do tons of research on what to buy...  I need to check out sugardaddy.com  maybe someone will want to buy me a rocking car for just being cute...
5. Doing Jillian Micheals 30 day sweat with my co-worker during our lunch break... and me ripping not one but two toots....  I swear I had a twin brother in the womb and I somehow absorbed him and his manly habits
6. Crickets have invaded my house!  I hear chirping all the time, and there is one stuff in my wall in my room that wakes me up every morning at 5am sharp... so I now sleep with cotton balls on my side table so I can shove them in my ears to avoid ripping out the wall

Awesome

1. Myrtle Beach is this weekend! I will be there for a week...  oh dear heavenly bliss I am so excited.  Pray for me that we will have all sunny days!!!! and that the Jellys and Sharks stay away from me and my peeps
2. The bikinis are looking great!  I have been working really hard for this trip... secretly hoping mr man will pop the question cause he is so worried that someone else will sweep me up with my rocking new bod....   Selfish and egotistical YES... True thoughts... YES
3. Found a new shampoo...  Simply U at Wal-mart   it is sulfate and paraban free.... it ROCKSSSS  my hair was legit Victoria's Secret volumized wonderfulness this weekend.
4. Nick and I eating at a restaurant, I get up to use the restroom.  40 year old black man and his wife and child come over and ask Nick if they can use his chair, Nick says that his girlfriend is sitting there and will be back in just a minute.  I come back (VS hair and new banana republic skirt with some heels on) and the man goes.... "OHHHH shoot man let me shake your hand... whew..."  then sits behind me and proceeds to give nick thumbs up and the high eye brow look.    It was a VERY good day... I attribute it to the new shampoo and the skirt
5. Crafting and Taquitos tonight with Debbie!

Summer Lovin...

Nick and I love to go to the pool, one of my favorites is his sister in law's parents house.

Nick's brother Corey (on the right) dared Nick to jump through a kids tube... Nick never backs down from a dare...

Nick and I at The Quarter in Roanoke. Its a really cute New Orleans style restaurant

We love the atmosphere, and the food

Me downing a coke zero after eating Indian food

Nick and I watching the Indian Festival

Bhel and some weird fried spinach thing... the bhel was really good but had some kick to it

Nick threatened me if I posted this picture of him... only time will tell. I dont think he even knows the link to this blog haha But for kicks I will do a disclaimer

*Nick does no look like this in real life, its a mix of 90 degree weather, hot food, and his despising of taking pictures of him eating*

Dancing!!! It was so much fun to watch, I just loved the culture. There were some old people tearing it up out there

We love to try and vary up our dates so Nick found and Indian festival in downtown Roanoke... We had never been to anything like it. We had a great time!

Please excuse the 100% humidity hair happening in all of these pictures...

Have you guys gone to any festivals lately?

Tried Indian food?

Downed an entire can of pop because your mouth is burning off when you know the person you are "sharing" it with is prob having their tongue burnt off as well? :)

What I'm loving!

1) I was able to see ma familia last week, sadly it was for a funeral but it was really great to see them all again

2) Nick and I go to Myrlte Beach on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not contain my excitement

3) My little pink rose bush my co-workers got me while I was gone, I love it

4) Jilliam Micheals ripped in 30 DVD.... No I am not trading it in for Spinning or Body Attack but this DVD is AWESOME! My co-worker and I do it on our lunch break and you really sweat in those 24 minutes

5) I am getting a pedicure with this new polish called Shellac! Apparently it stays on for 3 weeks... omg SO. EXCITED.

6) I found out Sprint is getting the iPhone!!!!!!!!! halleluiah I am getting that little booger in November

Solo Sunday

So I have been wanting to make a bib necklace for some time now. So I made a trip to walmart and grabbed these pretty little beads

Some felt

and just started rolling some beads around until I found an arrangement I could stand and then I just started glueing

The finished product!... Now I just need to get some ribbon to tie it on

Nick had to work until 10pm on a Sunday so I was left home alone without internet or TV soooo naturally it turns into a photo shoot with my cat.... (Sad Sad life I lead)

Practicing my camera skillz

and again

Here is my cheesy smile.... it happens a lot

So welcome to my world of Sunday afternoons without a BF... thank goodness he wont be doing that again... I cant take it