Catch up

I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas/Holiday!  This year feels like it just flew by, and it's hard to believe that the holidays are over!  It's been a while since I posted.  Last time, I told you guys about the fun little bachelorette trip we took to Austin.  Here are a few snip bits of my life since then.



Went to my friends wedding and had a great time. I'm so very happy for her.  She made a gorgeous bride - and I told her so.  And she comes back with, "Ya, as if you're going to tell a bride she looks bad on her big day."  And of course I came back with, "I was talking about the clothes, not the face."  But in all honesty - as I know she won't be reading this - she looked gorgeous, top to bottom.   The wedding itself was very small and intimate and exactly what she wanted.  She has lot of friends, she does.  But she just wanted it to be her very close friends and family.  It was at this really gorgeous country club.  I do admit to ditching the wedding halfway through to go explore the area.  I also got to meet some of her friends from across the world - she was skyping them while eating dinner.  It was very funny actually.  Picture this:  New husband sitting on your right eating his little heart away, photographer taking pics of you and your husband and scolding you for not paying attention.  A group of friends standing around the table trying to take selfies with you, and you sit there skyping with people.


BY THE WAY.  I helped with decorations.  I'm not completely useless.  This was for the Dholki - dance partay.  We did go a bit crazy.  None of us are actually good at dancing, but we dominated the dance floor.  And none of us are really good at singing, but we sang out hearts out. fun times.





 







While I wasn't at the events or generally being lazy.  I was trying to meet up as many friends as I could during the Holiday season. Got to finally meet up some of my old High School friends.  We try to do a reunion every now and then.  I remember once saying we should do a hang out once a month - for all the people still in town, some friends have actually moved out to different parts of the world - and i remember everyone saying how they were always busy.  I get that everyone is busy - believe me, I do.  But we hang out with our other friends regularly - friends we've made in college and university and at work, we could take a day out of that and meet our old friends.  I like doing that and being in touch with them.  I don't want it to be one of those things, were we see each other in the future and just smile at each other and turn away because it becomes awkward.   But we did meet up - and had a great time just catching up with each other.  PLUS, JUST LOOK AT THE FOOD.  YUM!

















I was sick for a few days, and stayed at home to rest.  But my dear friends couldn't survive that long without bothering me and just showed up at my place.  It was very cool though, we stayed in and watched movies.  I also had a baking day and made some cinnamon almond cake, Mexican wedding cookies, and peppermint hot chocolate.




 Altogether, my holidays were perfect.  I had some time for just myself, time for my friends, and some for my family.  How were your holidays?  Let us know what you did!

Bachelorette Partay

 Well, it wasn't really a party.  More of a one day trip.  Me and my friends drove down to Austin, TX for a friends Bachelorette.  It was just four of us, but I think that's what made it so much fun.  The drive to Austin was just loads of singing and dancing and yelling at 6 in the morning.

The first place we went to see was THE CAPITAL.  We parked out front on meter parking for an hour and ran to the building.  We took loads of pictures.  And even climbed the gates - we got in trouble for that one.  But hey -  we got the picture! It really was very beautiful! We got a bit carried away in the building and kind of forgot that my car sat outside the capital, in front of a police station. We freaked a bit when we noticed that it had been well over and hour, and ran back to my car.  Thank anything and everything that my car was there and no tickets!

Our next stop was Mount Bonnell.  This is one of my favorite places in Austin.  You can hike up to the top and the view is gorgeous.  I love climbing up and through the trees.  I have some pictures below, but trust me when I say, the camera does the view no justice.  We sat up there and played charades for a long time. And then we hiked back down to the car.  One of my friends, of course refused to go down the trail and she came down the stairs - they have stairs there for those who don't want to hike up. The drive it self around that area is beautiful. 

We had a quick bite to eat - all of us wolfing down our food and no one really talked for those 30 minutes. I had a chicken shwarma wrap (YUM!). We went down a mile or two and just hung out at a Starbucks for the rest of the time.  Had a nice chat and just talked of random things.

It was honestly a great day.  We sang and danced back home all the way.  Actually - we ended up at one of my friends houses and hung out there for a while. 

It wasn't a typical bachelorette party, but I had a lot of fun!  Let me know some fun adventures you've been on lately.  Or share some bachelorette party stories for us here. 

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

 

Holiday Lunch

'tis the season to be JOLLY *FA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA LA LA*

Where am I being this Jolly?  At my work Holiday Lunch.  Okay - that is a lie.  I am not all that Jolly, but it was still fun. We had our Holiday Lunch on Tuesday for a couple of hours during lunch time and then we were free to go home and enjoy.

My Company went ahead and kept it at a beautiful ballroom of a nearby hotel.  Once we got in, we received a raffle ticket for one of the bigger prizes. *Naturally, I did not win*. After getting some punch, we were seated in the nicely decorated ballroom.  Had an introduction speech and were told to dig in by our beloved CEO.  We all dug in and enjoyed a three course meal.  We had some bread and butter, very delicious pumpkin soup with breading on top and iced tea, a lovely mozzarella stuffed tortilla with rice or steak for the main meal (depending on what you want) and lastly dessert with coffee.  And with that came conversation with the people we were sitting around.  In these events, they like for us to mingle and get to know new people.  So there I sat, me and my anti-social self, sitting next to some random people.  I sent a quick prayer up to God to save me and smiled politely at everyone at the table.   Thankfully, I was spotted by a girl who sits in the cubicle next to me in the office and she joined me at the table.  I let her do most of the talking smiling and nodding here and there.  I added some input on some things.  Mostly, I ate my food.

Once we finished our grand meal (It all looked very grand).  Came the entertainment and the prizes.  We had the directors of two parts of the company come and host the event.  They were really good.  They were making puns and and jokes left and right.  I quite enjoyed their hosting.  We were then greeted by the holiday committee, that put time and effort in getting the entertainment together for the lunch.  They performed a riveting recital of 'twas the night before Christmas (Actually to be honest, it was really funny and very exaggerated, kudos to the performers!  They did a great job in adding a humorous twist to it!).  Once they completed that, the hosts came back up to give away a few prizes *Didn't win any of these either*.

Once again the performers came up and performed a dance to show diversity in our company by performing a few different styles, genres, and language songs.  It was nicely done and seemed like they put a lot of effort into it.   After that, the hosts were back up with other prizes *nope - no winnings for me*

The entertainers were back up with a dance group (I'm sorry, I forgot what the dance group name was)  They were were good, dancing and signing and getting everyone in the holiday spirit! The hosts were back up with more prizes *once again - i didn't win*  They also did a quick trivia game, that was to be done with the table mates *didn't win that either*

And we were then dismissed to go home and enjoy the rest of the day.

It was a very nice holiday lunch.  I really enjoyed myself.  The entertainment was good, the food was good, and the whole atmosphere itself was great.

Thank you for reading.  Please share you Holiday Party stories or please leave a link below to your blog.  I would love to check it out.  Thank you!


PS. I have no idea, why I only took the below pics.  And not of the actual food.  I think once the food came I was just too interested in eating to take pics.  I'm sorry about that. 

my view

ignore my work phone

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hmm

Spurrin' like a Pro

Holla dear blog readers,

In a few radical spur of the moment decisions, I did a few things. (Is spurring a word? - I just googled, apparently it is).  I took a few days off of work after Thanksgiving, so I had a whole week off (bless everything).  I decided that I was going to do something spontaneous or something out of my comfort zone each and every day.  And 'lo and behold, I actually did it!

Thursday was Thanksgiving day! Yummy food and killer deals. And after all the moaning and groaning, I joined my mom for Black Friday shopping. I bought my self some really nice combat boots, and the rest bought things for the house.  Please see my Black Friday post, for more details on that horrifying experience.

Friday, I COLORED MY HAIR.  To some, that may seem like a normal thing, for me it was not.  I have never colored my hair.  This was a first for me.  I always wanted to get red tips - because that is the coolest thing in the world.  But I decided for my first time, I should calm down and do something that will still be new for me, but nothing too crazy.  So I went and got my hair colored a very light brown/blondish.  I'm working it - i think.

Saturday, I ventured out to the GALLERIA MALL.  For a very-in-my-head person, that was a very scary thing to do.  Go out to the Galleria on one of it's most busiest days.  But I powered through and even purchased a few things from HM.

Sunday, I decided to drive out to Dallas. My sister lives in Dallas, she's usually the one who comes down to visit.  I just felt like getting out - so just picked up my bag and left for a few days.

Monday, I splurged at Kate Spade.  I'm not one to mindlessly spend on bags, but I was there, and their was a sale and so I bought things.

Tuesday, I went to Walmart and ate Chinese food (does this count ? - by the way, this thing keeps telling me I misspelled Walmart - but HOW can one do that.  I'm sure I know how to spell this word!)

Wednesday, I drove back home.  And hit traffic.  and then more traffic. the traffic never ended.  Finally made it home.  AND GUESS WHAT ARRIVED IN THE MAIL.  Cards Against Humanities - oh yes, I made that purchase too.

Here are a few pictures of my week - Oh and somewhere in between all this, I stopped at in&out burger, contemplated getting a job there as they pay $10.50 an hour and give paid vacays and FREE IN&OUT WHENEVER YOU WANT, saw Tyler Oakley in a magazine, bought 15 loaves of bread and fed it to ducks and birds in the park.

Kate Spade 1

Tyler Oakley livin' the dream

'tis the season

anyone need a job?

no words.

Kate Spade 2

Got bread?