Jewelry

If you know me, you know I'm not a huge jewelry-wearing kinda girl. But I was invited by a friend of Kristin's to a jewelry party tonight. Hey, it was advertised in the Evite as a jewelry and dessert party, so how could I resist? Anyway, it was cool, and I did find a ring to buy. Someone made the most fabulous lemon bars I think I've ever had. I'll have to figure out who and get the recipe. The highlight of the night was Kristin's concoction of champagne and pomegranate juice. Yummy! And the cherry on top of the sundae was that it started snowing on my way home! I love snow. Remember we got some snow on Christmas, but I'm still waiting for a nice, real blanket of it. A snow day from work would be nice, too. :)

Winter Party Recap

Good food? Check.
Nice music? Check.
Fun with friends? Check.
Catching up with coworkers who I rarely see? Check.
Marc entertained at a Hold 'Em table most of the night? Check.
Not wearing shoes a majority of the time because they hurt? Check.

From what I remember, we had a good time at the party last night. We didn't end up going out afterwards, but that was probably for the better...

Preparing for the Party

I was wide awake at 6:30 this morning and told myself, "F that!" and went back to sleep until 8:30. I took a shower. I went down the street to get a pedicure. Amazingly, even though I haven't been there in a couple of months, they greeted me by name when I walked through the door. I may have said this before, but I think it would be fun to learn Vietnamese so that I could understand what those ladies say about people. Every time someone came in, they would all gab with each other for a minute or two. It reeks of "we're talking about you"--I'm just dying of curiosity about what they actually say.

Now I'm home for a few minutes before I head off to my 3+ hour long hair appointment. Cut, color, curls. I LOVE getting my hair done. Then, I'll come back home, get dressed, do my makeup, maybe do some pre-funking, and we'll head out. Some people are already planning on hitting some bars or clubs afterward; we may just tag along. I'm excited!!

I promise to post some pictures of the madness tomorrow.

Army of Ducks

This is flippin' hilarious.

Army Of Ducks

Love it.

I'm pooped. I'm exhausted. I just got back from my monthly volunteering at the Oregon Food Bank, where we processed over 10,000 pounds of food, and I'm dreading how much my back and shoulders are going to ache tomorrow. I don't know how to choose which of three pairs of shoes to wear this weekend. I also don't know what color eyeshadow I'm supposed to wear with a red dress. I'm hopeless.

Does anyone know what language this is and what it means? Please don't tell me it's an insult. "A demain, mon petit chou."

Eyebrows waxed

My eyebrow wax was quick and nearly painless--at least compared to the waxing experiences I've had in the past. I really like how they look, too!

That's all I've got. Nothing else is going on. Another day in the life...

Shopping for high heels

As I've mentioned, my company winter party is this Saturday. I went shopping for shoes this afternoon after work. I hate shoe shopping (unless I'm shopping for Danskos...). I especially hate shopping for shoes to wear with a dress when I don't have the dress with me to see how the shoes look with it. I found a pair that I liked enough to buy, but I'm going to continue looking just in case... tomorrow I'll stop at Nordstrom Rack.

I also made an appointment to get my eyebrows waxed tomorrow. I've never done anything to my eyebrows, so this is a bit scary. As Marc commented, "Just don't have it so they look like they're drawn on with a pencil." Heh.

It's only a matter of time

Oh, the world we live in. It's only a matter of time until EVERYthing in our lives is somehow connected to a computer or network of some sort. It doesn't seem like that long ago, I was amazed at the Walkman-ish portable AM/FM radio and headphones that my mom got for free after sending in some proofs of purchase from cereal boxes. Of course, I was 5 years old and promptly left it out in the backyard during a rain storm, after which the cheap-o thing never worked again.

Anyway.

I logged on to Blockbuster.com to update my queue today, and I got a pop-up message that blew my mind--even though it's really not that big of a deal. The Web site is now smart enough to know what we rented in the store and point out when those items are also in my queue. Flippin' awesome! Now I don't have to remember every time we rent something in the store to come back to my queue and take it out.

That rocks.

Marginal success

I think all the vitamins along with mass amounts of liquids I've been consuming over the past few days actually helped prevent me from getting all-out sick. Knock on wood. I'm not getting any worse... but then I'm not feeling a whole lot better either.

Next Saturday is our work "winter party"--since, for whatever reason, we don't have a holiday party in December. Last year I bought three dresses to choose from for the party. One ended up being too small. This year it fits, but I'm still not going to wear it. Maybe next year. I just need to find a new pair of shoes... and get a pedicure... I do have an appointment scheduled at my salon that day to get my hair cut, colored, and styled. Hey--I don't get many opportunities to get all gussied up! I have to take advantage of them when they come along! Marc suggested that I get some fake eyelashes to wear. Uh... no, I don't think that'll be happening any time in the near future. Everyone always tells me that my eyelashes are already really long, so I don't know what the big deal is. I just need some mascara. Marc likes eye makeup though. On ME, not himself. I'll see what I can cook up.

ODing on Vitamin C

It's been a long time since I was sick. I remember being sick around exactly this time of year for the past 3 years, but since last January, I don't think I've come down with anything nasty. Maybe in the spring there was a sore throat kind of thing, but that was a still a long time ago. Today I woke up with bad sinus pain and a reasonably snotty nose. Boooo. So I've been drinking orange juice and vitamin water, eating vitamin-fortified foods, and popping vitamins most of the day in hopes of nipping this in the bud. The last thing I need right now is something to distract me from the hundreds of call notes I have to read every day at work this month--not to mention the planning I still need to do for the statistical analysis of those call notes. Blah.

Happy New Year!

I already like 2008 better than 2007--mostly because I prefer even numbers to odd ones. Actually, if all the numbers are odd (like 1997, though 1991 is even better because it's a palindrome), that's okay, too. I'm very tuned in to numbers. Don't know why. Enough of that.

We went to a Hawaiian-themed party last night at Steve and Andrea's. Andrea cooked lots of awesome food (which I ate way too much of), and Steve made some interesting drinks (Kahlua-colada, anyone?). It was an evening of great conversations and lots of laughs... and Dance Dance Revolution. Yes, that's right. I have now experienced DDR first-hand. I think Marc's the only one who didn't play. In the fog of my memory from last night, I think Marc mentioned having video of me doing DDR. That's scary. We also played Wii games for awhile, and Marc managed not to injure any more fingers while playing tennis.

ETA: Video of me and Steve playing DDR...


On to my resolution for the year. It's a simple one. I'm going to ask more questions. Not the nosy ones, but the "I'm interested in you" ones. I can't tell you how many times I engage in conversations with other people that start with them asking me a question (about my day, the weekend, a hobby--whatever) and later end or move on to other subjects without me asking them about something. I *always* realize this when it's too late. The other way this occurs is that I feel like I'm invading someone's privacy when I ask questions, but I need to realize that I'm not. Let's see how I do over the next year.