Couple Friends

B and I are going through a weird stage in our relationship. We are celebrating our one year anniversary on the 1st of January so we have been together for quite some time now. We are about to end out "everything is about us" stage in our relationship where we don't want to spend time with anyone but ourselves and we are getting ready to enter the "couple friends" stage in our relationship.

The problem is that we don't know any other couples that a) live close by, b) are normal, c)like to have fun and hang out.

Most of the couples we know are either so messed up and on some sort of drug most of the time, they are completely boring, or they just way to fucked up otherwise. So now we have to make new friends.

We are thinking about making a list of single friends we know and hooking them up so we have people to hang out with.

Is that strange? If you are in a relationship, did you go through this stage? How did you deal with it?

Happy New Years

Happy New Years!

Wishing you the best for the coming year!

Work

I don't talk about work to much but I just feel the need to mention this and I figured some of you may find this funny.

I came back to the office today and I found an email from my vp telling everyone at the office that he is to busy to be in the holiday spirit but he is making an effort. So he has made a cash donation in our names to a non-profit organization.

Does anyone else find that funny or is it just me? Do you guys think he actually made a donation or do you think he printed the certificates at home?

I guess I find it funny because B and I were trying to figure out what to get my coworkers and he made the same suggestion but that I should just print them off at home.

Sick

I have been sick for 3 days now. It all started on Christmas day but yesterday was the worse day.

I had fever most of the day and these horrible chills. I was suppose to go back to work today but I couldn't do it. I woke up to get ready and I still wasn't feeling well. As the day progressed I felt better but not by much. I have to go to work tomorrow so I hope I will be all better tomorrow.

Stay warm and keep fighting those nasty viruses.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Wishing you the best this holiday season and in the New Year!

Blogaversary

My blogaversary was two days ago.

I can't believe i have been writting for 4 years now. I stil haven't writte 500 post yet though.

That will happen in the next couple of months. Keep posted.

Bored

I am soooo bored at work today. There is absolutely nobody in the office and there isn't much to do.

There are only so many website I can visit a day and so much celebrity gossip I can tolerate.

What do you do when you are bored at work?

What websites do you check?

Holiday Parties

I love the holidays because everyone has holiday parties and it's a great time to catch up with people you haven't seen in awhile.

Most of the time, there is way to may people at these holiday parties so I feel like I really didn't get to spend any quality time with anyone. Last night, I went to a holiday party at a friends house and he just invited some close friends. There was a total of 6 people which was great.

I got to meet two new people and I caught up with the ones I already knew. It was great.

Everyone should have little gatherings like that.

Christmas Music Part 2

Maybe I should have mentioned that I went out last night and had a bit to much to drink. I was out until 1:30 last night and I could really use some piece and quiet right now.

So please, keep your voices down.

Christmas Music

I know some people love Christmas music, my boyfriend is one of those people. But come on people! Christmas music all the time? What is wrong with you?

I am in the office today and apparently everyone here wants to listen to Christmas music so my co-worker has his speakers up and they are all singing along.

I am not a fan of the music and it has actually put me in a bad mood. Isn't that the opposite of what Christmas music suppose to do?

I would tell them to turn it off but it's 4 against 1. While he is out to lunch I will be over there messing with his speakers.

Another Crazy Deam

I am not sure why I have been having such strange dreams lately. I need to check with a dream dictionary to see what they mean.

Last nights dream involved dragons and dinosaurs. Here is a quick re-cap.

I lived in a dying continent and we were trying to get to a new one but we had to cross waters full of dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters.

I ended up in an orphanage (although I didn't know it until much later) where I was given a magical stone by a someone I was sharing a bed with.

We moved to the new continent and there was a lot of fighting. Everyone was trying to kill me because the stone gave me special powers but I didn't know I had them. I ended up killing a lot of people and I went into hiding.

I then went to the house of the person who gave me the stone and we were talking in bed. By this time the person in bed with me was my boyfriend. Six people broke into the room and were trying to capture me, one of them was his mother (in my dream...not his real one). When they capture me, I was able to become invisible and I took my boyfriend with me we started flying. I was finally able to discover my secret powers.

I kind of know what the last part is all about but I am not sure what the rest is about.

My dream from last night

I had a dream that I had to drive out to a town about 2 hours away to have dinner with some guy who was going to give me money. (Not sure if he owed me money or what)

I decided to invite my boyfriend and my friend and KB with me because I didn't want to go alone so we are off...or so I thought.

It took KB 30 minutes to get ready and my boyfriend was fooling around with his car to get it ready for the trip. We finally get on the road about an hour later. After an hour I hadn't called the guy to tell him that I am going to be late. I want to call him but for some reason I can't.

KB and my boyfriend then turn into my co-workers Richard and Patricia. We are driving and we have to stop because the roads are blocked. We take some side roads and we end up in a village that looks deserted and there are a lot of coyotes/wolves all over the place. One of them is dead and others are climbing down trees or just running around the village. It looks like one of those little European villages. Very cute expect for the wolves.

Richard then gets out of the car and starts to wrestle with two of the wolves (both multi-colored) ties one up. He is trying to tie its snout but I keep telling him that we have to go. We finally leave.

We then end up back somewhere close to home and we still haven't made it to see the guy. Richards becomes my boyfriend again and KB is still Patricia. We are driving a convertible and Patricia jumps out of the car and starts chasing a float because she wants to meet the singers/dancers on the float. I threaten to leave her....and you and I drive off. We somehow end up back at home and I run up the concrete stairs in the front yard. (we had a beautiful home...old but cute). We go inside and I am still not able to talk to the guy. By then it has been several hours since we were suppose to be there.

My sister and her daughters come over. They live down the street from us so they see the car parked in the driveway and just pop over. My niece keeps asking me questions and I am extremely frustrated because we haven't made it and I am going to loose the money so I start screaming and run out of the house towards the street. But now the stairs that lead to the house have duplicated and the street seems much further away.

Once I get closer to the street I just sit down on the stairs and start crying.

Crazy dream.

What do you think it means?

Same Old Dilema

Every year I have a hard time finding something to give my co-workers for Christmas and this year is no exception.

Ideas? Suggestions?

Lunch with the in-laws

We met B's parents in a small town about an hour-and-a-half away from where we live. I thought "Lunch, not a big deal. I can do lunch." But boy was I wrong. His dad is nice but his mom is just not a pleasant person. Throughout the whole lunch she probably said about a hand full of words to me even though I tried to engage her in conversation. I even went as far as complimenting her new hair cut which looks horrible on her. HORRIBLE! I should have told her how horrible it looks, maybe then she would have said something to me.

Lunch was just very uncomfortable.

I am suppose to go with B back home for Christmas and I honestly don't know that I want to do that. I am obviously not welcomed and we are all going to be uncomfortable for 3 days so it might be better to skip the whole thing. B and I talked about it but we really didn't come to any conclusions.

My friend Robert and I were talking about it and I have decided to stop trying to be nice to the women. I even plotted a few evil things I could do to her to piss her off even more. I figured it would kill her if I bought gifts for her husband and her daughter but not for her. Wouldn't that be pure evil? But she deserves it.

I also thought about having the "Listen here you bitch! I am your son's boyfriend and I am not planning on going anywhere so I suggest we start getting along" talk.

Out of the two, I figured I would do the talk first. I would remove the bitch part and the attitude.

It's very frustrating.

Oh Christmast Tree, Oh

The condo is finally fixed and everything is back where it belongs so we decided to go get a Christmas tree. It's a 6-7' real tree from Home Depo. Neither of us has a truck so we went Home Depo and picked it up in B's car and drove with a tree on the roof of the car for about 3 miles. It ghetto-fabulous. And I do have pictures.

We decorated the tree on Sunday and it's starting to look good. We need more ornaments which we will probably just pick up as we go along. We went to Garden Ridge last night and it was so picked over that we only got 4 new ornaments. I am going to try Target during a work "break" and I am going to swing by Pier 1 after work. Once the tree looks good I will post some pictures.

We are also having problems finding a tree topper. All the angels we have seen look cheap and all the stars we have seen are to sparkly. What do you use? Angels or stars?

Good News!

I finally found a new gym. After almost 2 years of over paying at my current gym I decided to leave. Over the last few weeks I have been going to new gyms in my area and checking them. After visiting and working out in 5 other gyms I decided to go with one close to work. It's a small boutique gym but it has everything I need and everyone is really friendly.

I also have a new trainer. He use to be a profesional football player. I am excited. :)

Work

Anyone else working today?

Thanksgiving and Movies

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Are you stuffed? I am. I ate way to much but the food was so good that I couldn't resist.

I spent it with my family. B went to see his family.

What did you do?

I watched two movies last week, American Gangster and Beowulf. You definetly have to go see American Gangster, the movie is a little long and there isn't as much action as one would expect with a gangster movie but story is very interesting. They take the time to build the characters so you actually feel connected and end up hoping the gangsters don't get caught. Go see it.

Beowulf on the other hand was a complete dissapointment. It's a animated, 3-D movie with a great story line that didn't translate on the screen. Perhaps it was the animation, perhaps it was the laughter in the movie theater, perhaps I was tired but I totally regret seeing this movie. It's definetly a rental...or you can watch it on
Online Cinema for free. I love this site and if you haven't heard of it before you need to check it out.

The site allows you to view movies that are playing on the big screen in the comfort of your own home without having to pay $10 per ticket. Check it out and let me know what you think.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I am currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. He is the same person that wrote Kite Runner.

The book is amazing so far, it's just as good...if not better than Kite Runner. I am in El Paso so I have had a lot of down time to read and I am almost done with it.

Click on the link above for a description of the book and then go to your local book store or library and pick it up.

The Love is Over

I haven't written about this becuase the pain is still very fresh in my heart. Every time I think about it I get mad, sad, and I feel like I want to throw up a little.

It feels like the day I walked into the condo and found her there...laying on the floor with her legs up in the air wagging her tail. The bitch!

I walked in and found Lucy, B's dog, on the floor chewing on my pair of Prada sunglasses and wagging her tail. I was pissed and had to walk out of as B was disiplining her.

A week later, we go out for a jog and we are gone for no more than 30 minutes and I come home to my brand new, brand new, Ferragamo wallet on the floor half eaten.

I was pissed and this time took care of the dissipling myself. How could she? She went out of her way to get my stuff out of the side table by the couch and chew on it. Why not B's stuff? Why just mine? I have decided she hates me and is a cold calculted chewer.

Since that day, she has been banished to the kitchen while we are gone. She use to be able to roam the house while we are at work but not she is confined to the kitchen and she hates it.

My question is, why would she only chew on my stuff? She gets plenty of attention and we play with her all of the time.

Wii

I am hooked!

 

We went to my friends house last night and played Wii. I am not much for video games but the Wii is awesome. We played tennis, baseball and boxing and I was sweating. I can see how it could be a good work out.

 

Have you tried the Wii?

Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone!

 

Did you dress up for Halloween? What are your plans for tonight?

 

We are going to my friends house and hanging out with her family. Our plans are to drink, pass out candy and watch movies.

 

We went to a Halloween party on Friday night. We weren't planning on dressing up but we ended up throwing something together at the last minute. We were the cowboys from Brokeback Mountain. It wasn't really much of a costume really, everything we wore was right out of our closets. We even had accessories. We had the bandannas and Snowflake the horse.

 

We had one of those horse on a stick and B named him Snowflake. He was a big hit.

 

Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures.

Business Trips

I have been stressing over an audit that takes place next week. I will be in El Paso all week for this audit and I am not looking forward to it. Mostly because I really just need to be there a half a day on Tuesday and a half a day on Wednesday. But I am going to suck it up and I am going to go without complaining.

 

Luckily we spoke with the auditor yesterday and she thinks it is going to be relatively painless.

 

Have I talked about El Paso before? I have been going there a lot this year. I think this is my 5th or 6th trip there this year and there is absolutely nothing to do there. There is only so many times a person can go to the mall. We are not allowed to cross the border and go into Mexico by ourselves and since I always travel by myself I never end up going unless one of my co-workers that lives there takes pity on me. I have only been once.

 

This trip, I am going with my two bosses so it should be a lot better. I will actually have someone to eat dinner with.

Birthday!

I had a birthday this month. I turned the big 3-0. I didn't really want to celebrate and I actually don't feel any worse than I did at the young age of 29.

 

It was one of the best birthdays I have had in years though. B got me tickets to go see Ricky Martin in concert and it was amazing. Of course I took plenty of pictures...and a video. Of Ricky. Practically naked. I watch it every night before I go to sleep in the hopes that I will have dreams of Ricky Martin.

 

B also arranged a surprise birthday dinner with a few of my friends. I was completely shocked. We went to one of our favorite new restaurants and when I walked in 5 of my friends were sitting there. The food was delicious and the the company was even more so.

 

After dinner B, my friend Juan and I went to a hookah bar were we continued drinking and smoked hookah.

 

It was a nice quiet birthday, just the way I wanted it to be.

 

 

Oh, one thing about being 30. I have noticed that I cringe when I am doing cardio at the gym and I have to enter myage. I just don't feel 30.

Leak

I have another leak. Yeap. This is the fourth leak in my condo, the first three were caused by my neighbor in the second floor but this one was caused by the neighbor in the third floor.

It hasn't been fun but I have been dealing with it. Their insurance won't pay for it so now my insurance will have to cover it. Oh well.

How is life treating everyone out there? What's new?

Expensive Lesson

I learned an expensive lesson.

 

I have been having electrical issues at home over the last few months and I figured it was time to have a professional come out and take a look at my issue before my place burned down.

 

All three lights in my dinning room flicker when I turn them on. Two of them stopped working completely. I figured it was an electrical short an called the electrician for an estimate for that and a few other things that I have never bothered with.

 

When the guys doing the work show up, they look at my lights, at the light switch, at me and said "The reason your lights flicker is because you can't use those energy efficient light bulbs with dimmer switches."

 

I paid to have someone come out and tell me that. Can you believe that? Learn from my mistake, if you have a dimmer DO NOT INSTALL THE ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHT BULBS!

 

While they were they did fix some other stuff though. So I guess it was worth it.

Birthday Post 2

Okay. He didn't forget. We went to a play last night and before the play started he said he wanted to tell me what he got me for my birthday because he was concerned I wouldn't' like it.

 

After two guesses I figured out what it was:

 

My guesses

1. Iphone - No

2. Trip - No

3. A dog - YES! YES! YES!

 

He was going to get me a chocolate lab but he had to get it by today because it was the last one. After the play, we talked about it and decided to wait until after we get a house.

 

He said he had other things lined up already...so now it's just a matter of getting my Nancy Drew instincts on.

Birthday!

My birthday is coming up on October 7. I don't think my boyfriend remembers and I don't want to say anything about it.

 

If he does remember, i don't think he is planning anything. Which he better after what I did for his birthday! He is really busy with work this coming week but if nothing is planned by the next two weeks I will just have to take matters into my own hands and plan something myself. Maybe a small party? Maybe a small dinner? Maybe a little vacation?

 

I like the last option but we will see.

 

What do you like to do for your birthday?

 

Has anyone ever forgotten your birthday?

 

My family once forgot my sisters birthday. This happened about 3 years ago. She is our oldest sister and she has always remembered our birthdays, even when we didn't live in the same state she would always send us a birthday card and call us. We felt so bad about forgetting and she felt even worse that we all forgot. We made up for it the following week and had a little party for her. The following year we all pitched in and threw her a big party. She deserved it!

 

 

September

This is going to be a very busy month for us. There are so many things going on that we have to attend. We were looking at our calendars last night and we have an event every day for the next two weeks.

 

The rest of the year doesn't look much better.

 

 

Los Angeles

My trip to Los Angeles was a lot of fun and I cam back with a nice tan.

 

It was extremely hot while I was there. One day, the temperature was 111 degrees farenheit. It was horrible. My parents live in the valley so we would leave the valley during the day and go to the beach and hang out. The temperature was about 85 degrees and the water was freezing cold, it was probably in the 60's.

 

I was there for my neices Quinceñera, which is like a sweet sixteen, and the party was a lot of fun.

 

I met up with a blogger while I was there. Robert, previously of Mrhappysad.com. He doesn't blog anymore but he should. Robert took me shopping and out to dinner. Thanks Robert!

 

 

Random News

Los Angeles:
I will be in L.A. from the 29th through the 2nd. I can't wait. Is anyone else going to be there for the Labor Day Holiday?

Home:
I am looking into leasing or selling my place. I am at the beggining stages so I may not do it. Not sure yet.

Work:
I have been doing some traveling for work and I don't like it. I have been very busy and I do like that.

Thats all I have. My life is pretty boring these days.

Interesting

I just read an email from my old boss. I left my old job because of him.

I was actually glad to read his email.

I am also watching/listening to Jewell on KERA. I like her voice I wish she did more.

Today was Ben's b-day. We went out for drinks...I came home and he went out for drinks with his friends...more about that later.

Back to the old boss thing. I use to love working for him but the last year or two he became intolerable. It seems he is back to his old self and I am a bit hesitant to answer. I am going to sleep on it and decide if I want to answer.

"Who will save your soul. When it comes to the memories...who will save your soul after all those lies you told...boy....who will save your soul if you won't save your own..."

Birthday

Today is B's birthday. He is now a year younger than I am. I

It has been a fun week. I decided to celebrate his birthday week by giving him a small birthday gift every day of the week until today. I don't know what I was thinking...I am horrible at picking out gifts for people. Horrible! I have mentioned I normally just give gift cards. But I think I pulled it off. He has liked all of the things I got him. The first 4 were just small gifts and today he got his big gift.

Last night we went to dinner with his friends. We took him to a local restaurant that was packed. Luckily we know the owner so we were able to make reservations and get seated without a wait. I picked up a velvet cake from a local bakery and it was delicious.

I am not a fan of one of his friends, and unfortunately he was invited. He loves attention and does everything he can to have the spot light. Other than that it was a great evening.

Tomorrow, he and I, are going out to dinner. He has been wanting to do a murder mystery so I found one for us to go to. It should be fun, hopefully neither of us will get killed.

Weekend Update

I don't post as much as I should. I was thinking about that last night as I was doing my laundry and watching a movie at home.

B and I went to NYC this past weekend and we had a great time. We said we weren't going to do any of the touristy stuff and we were just going to take it easy but we ended up doing way to much.

We got there on Thursday and we went to the Brooklyn Philharmonic. That was really nice. After we just walked around the city.

Friday we went out to dinner at a really nice restaurant and after we took a yacht tour around the NY harbor. It was really nice. The view of the city at night was amazing. The yacht was kind of empty, there were about 20 people there, and we had whole side of the yacht to ourselves. It was nice and romantic. B loves Champaign so I picked up a bottle of Champaign on our way down there.

Saturday we saw Les Miserables. It was really good. B had never walked around Central Park so on our back from Harlem we walked through Central park for a couple of hours.

We also got some shopping in, we at Sylvia's Soul Food Restaurant (where Bill Clinton eats), walked the Brooklyn Bridge, walked around Brooklyn Heights, went to the NBC Today Show concert in the Square where we heard KT Tunstall, went out to a couple of bars and did some other stuff.

Somewhere along the way B picked up an accent. It's this Italian/New Yorker sleazy guy voice that he does and every time he does it I get chills all over my body. Not the good kind, the bad kind…so he has been doing it a lot. It's kind of funny.

That is it. I am back at home trying to get back into the swing of things. Next stop….Los Angeles. We are going for my nieces Quinceñera in September. That should be tons of fun.

Random

I have so much to share.

Did I mention I met the boyfriends family? Yeap. It's pretty serious.

I have been out of town for the last 4 weeks in a row.

I am going to NYC in July.

I gained 7 lbs.

My boyfriends dog hates me and peed in my bed (okay, she doesn't hate me, it was an accident but it makes it sound more exciting) (P.S. She has only done it once in 7 months).

I am starting an LLC.

My patio looks great, I now have lots of plants, furniture, a chandelier, bug repellant, and a fountain. I need to work on the back patio.

I have made two good friends in the last couple of months.

I have been out of the office more than I have been in the office this month and I love it. Makes me wish I was a house husband.

I have a great tan. I have been using the pool a lot and we went to Austin and went to Barton Springs.

I don't know how to swim but my boyfriend use to be a swimming coach. Guess who is learning how to swim? He is also giving one of my friends daughters lessons at the same time I get my lessons. She is 2 years old.

He also use to be a tennis coach. We have only played tennis once. I suck!

I eventually want to write about all of this but I haven't had time. Normally I get up and go to work. It's hard to leave my bed because my boyfriend gets to sleep in. He doesn't go in until much later…but he gets out of work at the same time. (lucky). After work I go to the gym (but I have gained weight). Then we meet up at my place and cook dinner. Normally we are in the kitchen together but one of us cooks and the other one helps. Then we watch t.v. or read and go to bed. It's not very exciting is it? But I like it. We made a decision that we were not going to be going out so much anymore. So now instead of going out 7 days a week we go out like once or twice a week.

That is it. I am still reading everyone's blogs.

Confession

I use earphones at work to listen to music while I work. I found that it also helps to keep people away and I can pretend not to hear people when they scream for me from three or four offices/cubes down.

My earphones have not been working since last week but I still put them on when I am sitting at my desk. It's a great way to keep people away.

Weekend O' Fun

Well, I am way to lazy to write a post about what a wonderful weekend I had visiting my friend KB in Minesota this past weekend. So instead I am going to link you to her page and you can read my LONG comment about some of the stuff she didn't mention.

It was the best trip I have had in a very long time. And it wasn't as relaxing as I wanted it to be because we were always doing something but it was definetly a lot better than I expected.

Read KB's summary of our trip HERE and my comments HERE.

Hello?? Is anyone out there?

It's been a while. How are you world? Are you still out there?

I have been busy with…not sure actually. I just haven't been writing. I have been reading for pleasure. And watching a lot of t.v. with my boyfriend. We have also been working on my patio. He planted flowers, we purchased patio furniture and one of my patios now looks great.

I was out of town earlier in the week for work and when I came back he had installed a chandelier in my patio. We have to go buy candles for it. He also installed a dimmer for the porch lights, fixed the fountain, and fixed two electrical plugs that were not working. It's nice having him around, he is very handy.

I am heading to spend the weekend with KB (see sidebar) up north. We are going to be doing lots of shopping, eating (and hopefully drinking). But I am most excited about the shopping. We use to be shopping buddies when we lived in the same city. Those days are long gone…but we will enjoy this shopping trip just the same. We are both a little…how should I say this…structured. Yes, structured is a good word. So we have an agenda for our trip. It sounds quite fun on paper. It includes riding horses, going out to dinner, visiting the farm, shopping, and just hanging out.

Here are some other updates since I may not write for a few more months (just kidding). Over the next two months the boyfriend and I have a several trips planned. We are going to be going to Houston, NYC, and a third location that can't be disclosed. It's top secret. Alright, fine…we haven't decided where we are going yet.

I may also be going to California next month for a few days to visit my parents. I am trying to work that in somewhere.

That's all for now.

Update

My good friend KB pointed out that it has been over a month since I wrote. So here it goes.

I actually don't have much to say these days. My life has been pretty uneventful. I am trying to get in shape…again. I gained 10 lbs over the last 4 months. But before that I lost 25, so I am still ahead. I have been hitting the gym hard lately so I hope to loose 10 lbs by the end of the month.

I am still dating B. And things are going GREAT!

I graduated. Thanks for all of the good wishes, emails, etc. You guys are the best.

That's it! What's going on with you all?

Overheard Around Town

Scene: Private party at a hip and trendy bar in town. Hundreds of drunk people shuffle between the patio and the inside of the club. A lady in a wheel chair tries to make her way through the crowd.

Lady: Excuse me.
Guy: (Scoots back to allow her to pass) You are lucky, at least you have a permanent seat


Scene: Chinese Take-out restaurant. Two guys pick up their order and one ask:

Guy: What's the red sauce you use in Sweet and Sour Chicken.
Attendant: (Looks at guy with a smirk on her face that read "idiot") Sweet and Sour Sauce?

Gossip

Do you all like to gossip?

Just wondering.

Sleep Dialing

I think I have mentioned how B tells me I talk in my sleep.

I don't remember if I wrote about waking up in the middle of the night and seeing B with a pillow over his head. Apparently I also snore.

Last night I made phone calls...while I slept. Where you one of the lucky ones? B woke up this morning and asked

B: Where you making calls in the middle of the night or was I dreaming.
Me: You were dreaming. Who would I be calling?
B: I don't know, I thought I woke up and heard you whispering on the phone.
Me: No, you were dreaming.
Silence - - checking phone records
B: You didn't!? Who did you call?

Apparently I was feeling a little chatty last night and made a couple of random calls. I am trying to find out what I said. Hopefully it was completely unintelligible and i didn't say anything I wasn't suppose to.

We use my phone as our alarm in the morning. B is going to be in charge of the alarm now, but now we run the risk of not waking up until the middle of the day. He has a tendency of turning off the alarm and going back to sleep. Especially when we are suppose to be jogging.

Update

I have been busy.

I hurt my sholder so I haven't worked out in two weeks. I went back to the gym on Friday and I have been working out every day since then. I feel a lot better now...not as flabby.

Tuesday - Went out drinking with a friend from NY and some local people.
Wednesday - Went out drinking with a friend from NY and some local people.
Thursday - Went out drinking - was almost drunk.
Friday - Went out drinking -
Saturday - Went out drinking
Sunday - Went out drinking
Monday - Had 1 drink
Tuesday - Had 2 drinks
Today - NOT Drinking.

As you can see, I have been drinking a lot and I am going to stop.

B and I are still together. He is great and makes me laugh uncontrollably. He is very nice and down to earth. Some of his friends on the other hand are not...he has commented on how my friends are all nice and down to earth and his are not. There are two in particular, his best friends, that I don't really care for. They are pretentious, drunk bitches! But I can fake it...

I turned in my final project for graduation on Sunday. I am officially DONE! I graduate on April 20th. :)

I am alive

I have been neglecting my blog. It has been completely unintentional but it happened.

Here are the updates:

School
I have been busy with school. I am working on a five year strategic plan for a local pet company. Two weeks ago I thought I lost all the work I had done in the past two months, luckily my flash drive was found. Graduation is still set for April 20th. I don't know what I want to do to celebrate? Any ideas? Maybe rent a party bus with 16 of my friends and hit all of the local bars?

Work
Work is work, going well. No new developments.

Boyfriend
He is still as amazing as the first day we started dating. He knows how stress I have been with school and last week or the week before he shows up at my door with a basket full of goodies. He does sweet things like that...and I like him A LOT!

We are still spending a lot of time together but now we are incorporating the world around us. Soon we will be getting back in touch with the world.

Valentines: Was great. We went to dinner and then to a movie.

In other news:
I have been keeping up with everyones blogs. I don't always comment but I do read.

Weekend and Chris Evans

I don't have anything exciting to report about the weekend. I was suppose to spend at least 6 hours doing homework but instead I spent all weekend with my boyfriend. Did I mention that I graduate in April? I am so forgetful sometimes and to lazy to look at old post.

Friday we decided to stay in and just watch movies. We ordered food and fell asleep on the couch. We were tired.

Saturday I was woken up with an emergency phone call so I had to jump out of bed and go meet one of my friends. Things turned out okay. I didn't do much the rest of the day. Saturday we did this thing that was way to much work...and we meet up with one of his friends that was in from out of town. We went out to the bars and had a good time.

Sunday we spent all day in bed. We got up to go meet his friend for lunch, he went home for about 2 hours, came back took a nap, went to a meeting, came back and slept until around 9 p.m. He didn't sleep over last night because he was off today and wanted to sleep in. I had to be at work at 6:30 so he would have woken up at that time.

Exciting news: I get to meet Chris Evans on Thursday. I will try to take a picture with him and upload it here next week. Who is jealous?

Valentines Update

Valentines Day was even more amazing than I thought it would be.

I decided to get him the ipod and load it with music we both like but then I decided to hold off on opening it just in case he didn't like it. He loved it of course.

Dinner was great, I am still full this morning.

He is such an amazing guy, we could have gone to McDonald's and I would have been happy just because I was with him. I know it sound cheesy but it is so true.

Valentines, Auction and other Happenings

I still don’t know what to get B for Valentines. I thought about getting him an ipod and loading it songs. We may not be great singers but in the comfort of our homes and our cars we sing at the top of our lungs. We are both horrible singers.

I also thought about getting season tickets to the theater; or
Cuff links; or
Booking a hotel for a weekend get away.

Still not sure what I will end up doing.

B was being auctioned off in a Bachelor Auction last night. He agreed to do this last year when he was still single so I was okay with him doing it. He asked me to go along and I went for a couple of drinks but I left before the bidding began. A few of my friends were out there and one of them called me

Friend: Uhhh, one of them just went for $600 and he had to strip down to his underwear. Are you sure you want your man out here in his skivvies?
Me: He doesn’t wear underwear; he won’t remove more than his shirt. I am okay with that.
Friend: These men are wild; you better come back up here. Click.

20 minutes later.

Friend: B is on. Do you want to listen?
Me: (uninterested) sure.
Friend: He just took off his shirt. Now they are asking him to take off his pants. Uhhh, he just undid his belt.
Me: What? He is not wearing underwear. He better not take those off!
Friend: He just undid his button.
Me: He ain’t coming home tonight.

He didn’t take off the pants because he wasn’t wearing underwear. The money was for a good cause so I was totally okay with it. After the auctioned one of B’s good friends and our neighbor stopped by my place to tell me he had “won him” and that he was bidding on B because he didn’t want anyone else besides me going to dinner with B. Isn’t that nice?

Valentines & Flowers

I got home yesterday after work and I had flowers sitting by my front door. They were in a beautiful vase and the card read “Thank you for being a wonderful person. xoxoxo”

Isn’t he sweet? He has been sick with the flu and I have been taking care of him, bringing him soup, getting him medicine, etc. Have I mentioned I like him a lot? And yes, we are officially boyfriends.

I have a dilemma. Valentines is coming up and I don’t know what to get him. He paid for the restaurant we are having dinner and it was a bit pricy. I have offered to pay but he won’t take my money.

The dilemma is that I don’t know what to get him for Valentines. I was thinking of getting him cuff links but that isn’t enough. Do you have any ideas?

Valentines

When I opened the door he handed me this chocolate heart. It's a Save the Date to remind me of our date on Valentines Day. Isn't that the sweetest thing ever?

I like him a lot. He makes me smile and he makes me blush. My run from commitment issues seem to be gone with him especially when I look into his eyes or when I kiss those beautiful lips or when I see that "I Like You" smile he gives me after we kissed.

I haven't had a date on Valentines day in a very long time, I am very glad my date will be with him.

What are your Valentines plans?

Weekend Review

It was a cold, wet weekend.

On Friday I had the opportunity to meet up with Will from DC who was in town for work. We went to a restaurant he found close to his hotel and I had heard about a long time ago but never been to.

We chatted about our lives and got to know each other better. Will is a great guy and has a lot going for him so it was great to meet up with him and finally put a face to the blog.

After meeting up with Will I headed over to my brothers house for his birthday party. I wasn't there very long because I had a hot man waiting for me back at home. The plan was for me to meet up with my Jogging Buddy at a bar he was going to be at with his friends but on my way back we decided he would leave the bar and meet back up with me at my place and watch a movie.

We didn't get to bed until 5:30 so we slept in until he had to get up and go to a meeting. We meet back up a few hours later and joined two of my friends for lunch. None of our friends know we are dating so it's weird being around people and not be able to openly flirt with each other. Although more people are starting to notice we are spending a lot of time together. My friend called me later on that day and asked what was going on between us.

Later I went with him to a party. I got to meet his best friends which seem a little crazy but fun. After we went to a magazine VIP party where I got to meet more of his friends. By this time we had been caught holding hands, kissing, and making eyes at each other so everyone knew we were "getting to know each other".

We went home somewhat early but didn't get to bed late that night. There was some drama with his roommates and people loosing dogs, people falling over drunk, and driving down the wrong side of the road. He has interesting friends.

Sunday we did it all over again. Slept in until we had to get up for me to go to class then met back up in the afternoon.

We spend a lot of time together. I knew he was cute and nice the first time I saw him but I didn't know what a sweat caring person he is.

He was telling me last night he was flirting with me the first time he met me back in August and that he has had a crush on me ever since. When he started dating someone he would avoid being around me because he didn't want to make it look obvious that he liked me. I use to do the same thing.

Long post, I know. Sorry. I hope your weekend was as great as mine.

The Nearness of You

I met someone and we have been faux dating since January 1st of this year. We get together go to dinner, ice cream, movies, jogging, etc.

People are starting to talk.

While we were out in a hip-and-trendy ice cream shop we ran into two people we know who then invited us to go have dinner to celebrate one of their birthday's. We turned them down because we already had other plans. Out of this little encounter, rumors started flying, "Are they?", "Are they not". And we both started getting emails and calls from people we haven't heard from in months fishing for information. The official response is "We are just friends."

We have our first real date on Saturday. I am nervous and excited at the same time. I have had a crush on him for such a long time and from what I learned last night he has had a crush on me for a while too.

I cooked dinner for him last night. I screwed it up but I called an ex and he helped me recover my food disaster and it turned out to be a great dinner. After dinner we just sat on the couch and talked for hours. I love the newness of a relationship. When you are still getting to know the person and everything they say is interesting and everything they say is worth holding on to.

What's your Seduction Style?

I took this from ça va pas la tête over at Me Talk Pretty Everyday

Blogs

I read to many blogs....and you guys write way to much. But I enjoy all of your stories so keep writting.

Did I mention I can't read blogs at work anymore because of where I sit? So now I have to catch up with peoples lives on the weekends.

Complicated Affection

This is a long post. Don't read it. :)

I don't normally get to personal on my blog. I tend to keep my feelings to myself and most people I know are use to that (one of the promises with myself was to be more open with my feelings this year).

I have mentioned the writter I was dating. He is a great guy but unfortunately things didn't work out between us. We gave it a good try...and even broke up 3 to 5 times in a short two month period.

Although it has been over for about a month we had to have another break up conversation at the begining of the week wich was very hard for both of us. I am not really sure why I am writting about this...maybe just to have a record to look back on later...maybe it's just to help me feel better about the whole thing...not sure.

I received an email from him today with a wonderful story about his life. He is a great writter and I know he will one day write a book that will be on Oprah's Reading Club and in all the top selling list. He is a great writter and I am privy to the story ideas he has in his head. We use to lay in bed or sit around and he would tell me about the books he was working on and the characters he had planned out.

When I first met him he had stopped writting because of life and the problems that comes with it. I tend to push people a little harder than they push themselves...sometimes it's a blessing and sometimes its a curse. I also tend to date guys who have great potential but haven't realized it themselves and I usually push them...not in a nagging way but I plant ideas in their heads that makes them want to push themselves harder. I kind of did that with the writter.

I am not in any way trying to take credit for all of the work on his novels. I guess what I am tring to say is that this year I will work on myself and let the guys I date be who they want to be. I will also only be dating one guy at a time.

New Habits

It's early in the morning and I just got back from a jog. One of my neighbors and I decided to start jogging today, not because we want to be healthy or because it's the new year but as a way of spending time together with the added bonus of being healthy.

My neighbor (and I say neighbor he actually just lives in my neighborhood about a block away) and I went out on our first date on the 1st of January and we have a second date tonight. He seems like a really nice guy and he keeps me laughing for hours so we will see if it works out. If nothing, I am sure we will be good friends.

Off to a Good Start

The year is off to a good start so far. On my way home from the New Years Party my "Check Engine" light came on. I took it to get serviced today and it cost me a little over $1,000 to get fixed. Yeap, that's a lot of money.

New Year New Me

New Years
I rang in the New Years at a friends house party. It was a lot of fun and I was surrounded by people I care about.

Today I slept most of the day. I did have a date tonight with a guy I have known for about 4 or 5 months. Nice guy, lives down the street from me and he is really cute. We have another date on Wednesday. Keep your fingers crossed, I am ready to fall in love and live happily ever after.

Resolutions
I did say i didn't make New Years resolutions but today I decided I was going to promise myself that I was going to allow others to "love" me and get close to me. So the next relationships I get into I will be more open.

I will also write more often on my blog. I promise.

Songs of 2006
The radio station in my city said the top song of 2006 was a song by Panic! At the Disco, I write Sins not Tragedies. Although I like this song I would like to make the following suggestions for the top songs of 2006 (in no particular order):

Paulina Rubio: Ananda (This is actually my favorite song of 2006)
Amerie: Take Control & Why don't we fall in love
Justin Timberlake : My love and What Goes around
India Arie: There's Hope
Nelly Furtado: The whole CD is awesome but I LOVE the song Say it Right
Ricky Martin: Tu Recuerdo ft LaMari (The song that plays when you go to his web page
Shakira: La Tortura and Hips Don't Lie
Brandy: Afrodisiac

So those are my selections. What were your favorite songs from 2006?