Ready for the Weekend!

Yay, my weekend starts TONIGHT and I have tons of exciting things planned this weekend. Bullet list? Bullet list.

• My sister is coming into town tomorrow! YAY!
• My boss's birthday party is Saturday. It will be fun to see my engineering coworkers outside of the office... I always wonder if they will still try to talk about technical writing with me...
• I'm down another three pounds... woo! Just 20 lbs until I'm at my goal weight! :o)
• The new Glamour came in my mailbox! I love magazines.
• Fiance has been working some overtime with his new position but he's done after tomorrow... which means that we have the whole weekend ahead of us to enjoy together.

Ready for the weekend... right after this workout. Blah.

October

October. How is it October already?

The days are much, MUCH shorter. The sun sets before 7:30 instead of trickling on to set at 8 or 8:30. The mornings are chilly. The air has a crisp, cool edge to it. It's fall.

I just can't believe the year is almost over. It has been one of my favorite years yet. We got engaged. We started getting healthy. We went to Phoenix, to Vegas, to Albuquerque. I hit my stride at work. I learned how to cook many, many more things (homemade Alfredo sauce, mashed potatoes, Parmesan chicken...). And even though I turn 25 in less than a month, 24 has been really, REALLY fun.

I'm not looking forward to winter in New Mexico (and all the bad weather that goes along with it), but I do like the fashion. I like boots and leggings. I like layers. I like the food. I like pumpkin muffins. I like soup and stew. I just... I just don't like the cold! Brrr!

In just a few weeks, Fiance and I go back to Phoenix for a concert and I'm so, so excited to be there. I can't wait to live in Phoenix.

Black Keys Tonight!

I had no idea what to get Fiance for his birthday in August. He doesn't play as many video games anymore. He just got a bunch of new clothes. He doesn't need shoes or sunglasses or books or anything.

But what he kept talking about was music and his favorite bands. So when I heard that the Black Keys were coming to Las Cruces... I knew it would be the perfect gift.

We saw them last year in Mesa, and it was an AMAZING show.

And tonight, we get to see them again! We are SO EXCITED! Happy (late) birthday, Fiance! :o)

Back to Reality

It's Tuesday after a wonderful, nice, long four day weekend for me and getting back in the swing of things has been a little harder than I thought it would be. But to ease in, I'll do a recap of my weekend.

Friday:

Slept twelve hours. Wake up feeling AWESOME. Fiance and I eat a delicious lunch at Boba Cafe. I have a turkey wrap and a cup of green chile wonton soup. DELICIOUS.

Then we head to the gym so Fiance could teach me interval running. Basically, you spring fifteen seconds and then rest fifteen seconds on the rails on the side of the treadmill. It sounds easy, but it is so hard. I was pouring sweat after ten minutes, when normally on my normal mile runs (which take about ten minutes), I'm only a little sweaty after one mile. Whew.

Saturday:

Slept ten hours. Wake up feeling awesome. We head to the gym so I can take a Zumba class and Fiance does weights. Then we head to the grocery store, to the dog food store, and then to Target to register for our wedding!

Here's the thing. All wedding websites say you should register for three times the number of people invited, so that people have an option. Sure, okay, that works. But then... THEN we went to Target. And we walked around for an hour picking out plates and bathroom stuff and cool kitchen digital scales and stuff. Then we looked at our number of registry items. 46.

We walk around another two hours. We find some sheets and a comforter set we like. We pick out AWESOME suitcases I hope someone gets for us. We look again. 59.

But overall, we have most of the stuff we want and we're really hoping people just give us money, if anything. It would be SO hard to transport lots of big stuff back home after our destination wedding.

Saturday night:

We go to the Southern New Mexico State Fair! YAAAAY! Fiance buys us a turkey leg, fresh lemonade, a funnel cake, and curly fries, all to share. I immediately go, "oh, we'll never finish all this!"

Cut to twenty minutes later and I'm polishing off the fries and Fiance is practically licking the empty funnel cake plate. Um... never mind.

But it was so delicious and so amazing.

Sunday:

FOOTBALL! Roommate orders us pizza and we basically sit on our couch watching football from 11 am to 5 pm. Then we get ready to go have dinner with my good friend Blairre and her husband and two kids (Carson and Kennedy, who are 14 months and 1 month respectively!). It was SO MUCH FUN. They are the cutest kids ever and Carson is getting to be so sassy. I love love love getting to see them.

Then we decided to go see Looper again. Even better the second time!

Monday:

Slept 10 hours. Feeling amazing again. We ate lunch, went to the gym for more interval training, tried to get stamps for our save the dates (remembered it is a holiday... which is why I'm off work... duh... lol). Then we came home and read (me) and played video games (Fiance). Now we're watching Monday night football.

Such a great weekend! October kicks off the holiday season, so a lot of our paid days off are during this season... fine by me!

25 Before 25 Update... One Month Away!

So now we're exactly ONE MONTH away from my 25th birthday... so here's my 25 before 25 update!

1. Buy a nice piece of jewelry for myself

2. Submit my columns to a syndication press system

3. Watch 10 of Boyfriend's Academy Award winners In progress... just three more!

4. Lose 30 lbs

5. Become financially independent

6. Make homemade tortillas

7. Run a 5k

8. Volunteer for something

9. Make THIS chicken :o)

10. Do something different with my hair (dye it, cut it, etc.)

11. Go camping

12. See my grandparents once a month

13. Keep my spider plant alive

14. Donate money to charity

15. Read 10 classic books on the BBC Top 100 Books  Just two more!
16. Learn how to make great mashed potatoes
17. Find a dress that makes me feel like a princess
18. Ride in a helicopter
19. Try a food I can't pronounce
20. See another Cirque Du Soleil show
21. Improve my individual relationships with Boyfriend's family
22. Stay in touch with my sister more often
23. Start an herb garden
24. Write another 25,000 words on my book
25. Be truly surprised :o) 


Not bad, just a few more things! Here's to the last push!

Friday Sunshines/Dark Clouds

It's Friday! And today, I just have Sunshines. Which is a sunshine in itself! Woo!

• It's FRIDAY and, counting today, I'm off for four days. BOOM.
• I watched a documentary on Koko the signing gorilla and now... I want a gorilla. Imagine? Fiance would never let me.
• BUT he does put up with the other nerdy parts of me. Like when I sent him this photo:

With the caption "T-rex says, 'I do'."

I crack myself up.

• Tomorrow, Fiance is taking me to the Southern New Mexico State Fair. YAAAY! I had to bribe him with funnel cakes and turkey legs, but at least we get to go and ride the Ferris Wheel. So excited!
• Our house is nice and clean. I love starting the weekend with a clean house!
• We're going to register tomorrow... registering is SO FUN!

Have a great weekend!

New Clothes!

So. I've lost a lot of weight.

Not a LOT a lot, compared to some people here, but a lot. And I've dropped 4 sizes, which means I need new clothes. Almost everything is too big for me now.

I've been trying to buy a few things here and there without breaking the bank, but I think I'll try to go by something like this clothing guide.

Black tank: CHECK

Crew neck sweater: CHECK

Nice jeans: CHECK!

Long sleeve white shirt:

Khakis:

Black turtleneck

White button down

Black t-shirt: CHECK

Cardigan: CHECK

Short sleeve t-shirt: CHECK

Wool skirt: CHECK

Black suit: CHECK

Oxford

Black dress: CHECK

Silk blouse: CHECK

Gray trousers: CHECK

Fitted jacket

Camisole: CHECK CHECK CHECK

Printed dress: CHECK

Bold top: CHECK

Ruffled top

Cocktail dress: CHECK

Sparkly top: CHECK


I'm not so far off already! Awesome!