No sweets!

Anyone who knows me knows I like cookies. Especially the really bad ones like Oreo's and EL Fudge and chocolate chip and M&M and oatmeal raisin and.... I'm getting hungry.

Well, until the cruise we made a rule: no cookies, no cake, no dessert, nothing out of a vending machine, no ice cream and no popcorn.

I have found the joy in the little things, like pudding. Pudding is delicious. Sorta.

Oh, who am I kidding. I wanna cookie.

Hairdo

Last night was hair cut/highlight night. Usually this is a relaxing 2 hours but last night was I had a very important appointment to make...Grey's was on at 8pm and I just had to be home to watch it. Don't worry, I made it. Crisis averted.

Today I was giving the guys I work with crap because they didn't notice I got 2 inches cut off. One of the engineers said, "Come on, your hair is at least 20" long, so it's hard to notice when you lose 10% of the length".

We're a bunch of nerds and know it.

Workin' Girl

This is how excited I am to be at work today.

Stinky the "pumkin"

This weekend was a great girls weekend. Friday was movie night were we got to listen to Bayley snore, Saturday was hot yoga and shopping, Sunday was yoga again. I'm going to be very flexible one day. Like a pretzel. But not salty like a pretzel.

Yesterday after church I went to the farmers market and bought me a pumpkin. I pronounce it without the second "p" so it sound more like "pumkin". So last night Greg and I carved us a pumkin who we named Stinky. His name is self explanatory. He's a cute lil' guy, his eyes are a little crooked, his nose isn't in the middle and he has about 6 some-here-some-there teeth.

I put the pumkin seeds in the oven, last year at Syd's we baked them for a hour. So I put them in for 20 minutes and when I pulled them out they were burnt. I guess this means I have to carve another pumkin. The seeds are the best part.

End of EDGE

For the last two years I have been part of the Engineering Development and Growth Experience (EDGE) at work. Basically I switch departments every 8 months for two years. We just finished our last rotation and had our graduation last night. It was great. We had a cocktail hour, dinner and presentations.

Let me tell you about the presentations. I didn't have much time to write mine, much less practice. So when I got up there I think I said every activity was "very special". Seriously, I could not stop myself from saying it. The managers were "very special," the work was "very special," the group was "very special." It was like word vomit I couldn't stop.

Whatever. Maybe next time I'll practice my presentation.

I'm on a budget

Bayley and I went shopping yesterday, which was difficult since "I'm on a budget". I went into the stores and tried to buy everything in sight because "I'm on a budget". Really, I'm not on a budget per say, I am just trying not to spend all my money when we're going to Raleigh next month and a cruise in December.

So if you see me spending money, remind me... "You're on a budget."

Hot Yoga

Saturday I went to hot yoga with Bayley and boy was it hot. I think it got up to 100 degrees and I was sweating from places you don't want to know about. We were lifting weights, stretching, doing crazy crunches and holding poses with weird names.

It was a great work out and I wasn't sore until last night.

Last night I thought I was going to die.

Every time I sneezed my ab(s) felt like they were being pulled apart. I of course am going to hot yoga again tonight. Right after I eat some ice cream.