Kind of random but I guess thats me.

So I read an article today about 1 out of 5 employers web searching potential employees before hiring them. The article then gave multiple ways to safe proof yourself from being that non-hireable person. It first suggested you yahoo! or google yourself to see what employers would see about you. there is nothing out there about me. YAY. i mean i didn't expect there to be but there wasn't even an article about me. nice...i guess. Anyways I stumbled upon what would apparently be "me" if i was a dress....

This is the Kimi White dress and it costs about $135. I think I could totally wear that! Its a bit crazy but with an underlying classy look to it. But then I guess that would be me, crazy but overall classy. Throw in some black peep toe pumps or even go red for some pizazz! Put hair up in a french twist and hand me a martini, cause this lady is going out!! Very chic, id say.

So on a side note... actually on a more Debbie Downer note...I had an "emergency" dental appointment today. I call it "emergency" because I had this OMG kinda pain on my right side where i have 2 fillings and I couldn't tell if the pain was associated with the fillings or if I have been grinding my teeth. BUUUT I had cancelled my appointment last week so I had to go in anyways for a cleaning. I was just convienent in my timing. Confession: i HATE the going to the dentist. Its like a curse, every time i go in I come out with an appointment for some sort of drilling. I am only 25 but I have had 2 crowns, 1 partial crown and then 5 or 6 cavities/fillings. Terrible. But I do get to have some serious mouth bling. If you watch me laugh you can see the gold crowns on my bottom back teeth (molars?). Annnd this appointment was no different. Although I did not come out of the dentist with an appointment, I was informed that if the pain on my right side didn't go away with advil (HAHA like i honestly expect that to happen, the pain has been there for over a year) OR the tooth stops being sensitive to cold (its currently only sensitive to cold) then that means the nerve is dead and they will have to do a root canal! ARE YOU CRAZY!? Homegirl don't do root canals. For those of you who aren't familiar with the process, like me, i googled it and this is what i got...I could not post what I found because there was too much but Sweet LORD!! you totally shoulda seen me sitting here reading this with my hand covering my mouth over what they would have to do. So I just copied the link for your viewing pleasure.

http://knol.google.com/k/-/root-canal-procedure/iuonjocwdehl/21#

Maybe I should just consider having them rip the tooth out. That might work out better for me.

Sleep...where have you gone old friend

Unfortunately I have never been one who has sleep come easy. Im not like Christy, who can sleep anywhere and everywhere, sitting up, laying down, during a movie, in the car, in the middle of the afternoon. Nope not me. I need to be laying down, in the dark. Pitch black preferably. With a fan going or some light music to distract me enough to fall asleep. Confession: I have this knack for picking out repetative noises and then fixating on them until I get driven crazy! Tapping, heavy breathing, even that stupid whistling noise peoples noses do sometimes. Yeah it will drive me crazy and then piss me off. Where was I going with this? OH yeah sleep. So anyways the past few nights have been TERRIBLE for me trying to sleep. Now remember I went from sleeping ALLLLL by myself in a twin bed (limited movement) to sleeping with Alfie who moves like he is fighting someone, he tosses and turns every few minutes. So yeah major thing to get used to. Now to make matters more difficult, add in a heavy down comforter. mmmmhmmm yes you can see where i am going. Take one rampant mover and one heavy comforter and you get one freezing kimi with NO BLANKET! So in order to stay warm, everytime Alfie rolls around, I grab the edge of my side and YANK my side of the comforter out from under him. The funny part is that our bed in a queen size but I like extra blankets so I registered us for a King size down comforter which means there is a lot more room on the sides. Sadly the only thing that gets warm with this extra blanket space is the stupid floor on Alfies side! GRR. So tonite I am going to attempt something new.... I am going to bring my own blanket to bed. Although I fully expect to wake up at 3am with Alfie attempting to use my blanket because he has rolled the comforter to the floor! Just you wait!!! On top of this add in one effing cat. WHAT? i love cats how can a cat be the problem?!?! Weeeelll this isn't my baby Bo. this is the DEVIL cat named NELLY. She meows ALLLLL the time and gets all in your biznazzz. No joke. OH and get this, Alfie loves her so i can't in good conscience leave the front door open in hopes that she "goes for a walk"! Nelly and I had an "incident"one night and Alfie believes that I did physical harm to Nelly....lol i wish haha jk....but no I didn't touch her I just yelled and she flewwww out of the room. but if you ask him, he swears up and down that I did something....pshhh not me!! :P So add all this stuff up, the blanket stealing, the stupid cat, the tossing and turning and you get me...extra extra grumpy!! One would think it would be super easy to get used to sleeping with your spouse. I mean duh isn't that one of the marriage perks?? lol I am just super thankful that my wonderful husband does NOT SNORE. OMG that would be awful. AWFUL!!!

This weekend is going to be JAM PACKED! Friday Alfie and I am going to a Wine Party! Im excited because I enjoy wine and we get to try different kinds! And then saturday I am going to Christys for a small thingy. Anyways, I decided to bring a dish to pass OTHER than my traditional veggie platter (come on nothing beats healthy!). So i am going to attempt a bread bowl!! YUM. Although because I am going to 2 partys I am going to make 2 different kinds and then instead of taking one to one party and the other to the other, I am going to share the wealth and take half of each to both parties, just not in the tradtional scoop out the center of the bread bowl. Ill be more efficient and just put the dips in regular bowls and the bread on a cute platter. Take that Martha Stewart!

On the down side of the weekend, Alfies g-pa died last saturday and the memorial service is this saturday :( I am not a fan of funerals, not that anyone is, but I just always end up crying, regardless of how well i knew them. Plus i think its that time of the month...ladies you know what I mean... Just yesterday I was watching Ellen and she gave 10k to this little girl for when she gets older for college and I started crying....loser, I know. I think i have the gift of empathy, I think I am pretty good at feeling what people should be feeling or are feeling. Either that or I don't like seeing people cry alone. EVERYONE should have someone else cry with them. So yeah Ill prob be crying because I am positive Alfie won't and its always sad to know that someone lost a father, friend or grandparent. So i will probably be crying for them.

Happy weekend ALL!

F-R-I-D-A-Y.....YAY

Well another friday is upon us. Thank the Lord. This has been the LONGEST week ever! Here at Kodak we are going through our ACP (Annual Commitment Plan) which is pretty much how much each area's expenses are going to be for 2009 against what they were in 2008. So each manager and their financial person has to go through an in depth process of figuring out labor $, and the amount they plan to spend on materials to make their products and so on. Then next week they present it at the ACP conference to their managers and other areas around Kodak, and ofcourse us financial folks get to go too. yay - sarcasm. So im sure you can imagine how fun this week has been as we have been scrambling around trying to quantify every itty bitty thing. But thats ok, thats why I get paid the big bucks eh? Anyways, they also added another division for me to be responsible for as the financial analyst, so now I have 2 that I do alone and a third that I share with another person. In total i think the expense budgets I deal with total about $60Million crazy eh?! crazy but fun. I mean where else would a $2000 charge for something be normal.

So tonite, the husband (ooo thats so weird to say) and I are going to watch a Paid in Full concert. Alfies brother plays in it along with a bunch of our friends. Maybe I will offer my ribbon dancing skills to aid crowd participation, but we shall see. Anyways, before the concert, Alfie and I are going to go to Papa Joes in Sodus (the concert is in sodus). MMM i can't wait. I am going to get my usual, fish sandwich with cheddar cheese. No joke it like melts in your mouth! Its awesome.

Last night I got to spend some fun time with mom and christy. We started at Hobby Lobby or Holly Hobby as mom kept calling it, and browsed the over priced crafty home stuff. Then had dinner at Weggys and convinced mom to join us at Christys to use their hot tub! LOVE IT! Confession: I LOVE the water! Pools, hot tubs, oceans, lakes... if its warm enough and clear enough (like if it is not shadey looking) I will most likely want to swim. Even in the hot tub I kept floating all around it. Christy was just sitting in one spot but not me, I was all over that biotch, floating from one side to the next. Only downfall was that it wasn't nearly as hot as Id like it to be. I like my hot tubs to be like my baths or showers, scalding! I haven't had a really gooooood hot shower since living with Alfie because I know that if I turn the water to the heat i like, im totally gonna use up all the hot water and he wont get any. lol yeah i know...im so kind.

Well its time for me to scamper home to get ready for the fun night! Adios!!

She stuck in her thumb, and pulled out a hot swollen mess!

Yeah so it all started with a hangnail. Actually no maybe it wasn't even a hangnail, it was more like a rough piece of skin close to the nail and it was driving me crazy so i pulled at it. Then it became a hangnail. No biggie right? Except instead of just one small pull at this hangnail, i ripped the skin halfway down the side of my thumb nail. So then it bled a little and then started oozing and scabbing as it "healed" then i picked at the "crusty" stuff. That my friends is when I think it became infected. So now its this slightly swollen, crusty, oozy pocket on the side of my left thumb. And it hurts like a mo-fo. I can feel it pulsing, its nasty. The bad thing is that I don't have any antibiotic stuff to put on it at the house cause duh yeah we just moved in, so its just getting more infected. Confession: I just can't stop poking at it. Like to see if it still hurts even though I clearly know it does. I just pushed my thumb against the desk, just to check and make sure and HELLO it still hurt. Plus the reason it got infected in the first place is cause I can't keep my fingers from ripping off the crusty scab. I'm bad, I know.

OOO so I just got my hair highlighted!! I look like a FAB-U-LOUSSSS version of myself now with these snazzy red and dark brown strands in my hair! If I ihad taken a picture of myself I would post one but since I didn't, you'll just have to wait or come see me! The only downfall is that I tend to like to match things and I now have to make the concious effort not to attempt to match my hair to my outfit. Its bad....I kept picking out red to wear to work today! But I am sure I will get used to it!

Very Random, but what the hey its Friday!

Oh hot darn, this is my jammmm... keep me partying til the a.mmmm.! That song is so catchy although it doesn't nearly flow as well with darn in there instead of the real word. But anyways... work is unbelievably quiet today. Everyone is at the division golf tournament. HAHA yeah I know its pouring outside. poor things. I would be SO miserable. I didn't participate because I can not golf, my boobs get in the way and I can't comfortably hold the golf club without looking pornish in a tank top. But maybe in the future I will give it a try. who knows.

So i am taking a fitness class through Webster Parks and Rec., well actually 2 classes: Zumba and Kardio Kickboxing (i know how to spell, THEY spelled Kardio with a K not a C). Nice thing is I am not taking them alone..mom and christy are joining me. Well mom and I are doing both but christy is only doing the kickboxing. I can't wait! Confession: i generally don't enjoy working out. SURPRISE! i know. which doesn't mesh well with my love of food (as we learned in a prior blog). But I LOVE aerobics, and anything with upbeat music. Its like being at a dance class and I heart dancing. I am really really looking forward to it!

OH here is a good confession: I am a facebook stalker! I am that person who you post amazing pictures of yourself for. Ya know so that "people" looking can see how much better you look than in HS or college or that time at target or the mall. Yeah I would be those "people". I do genuainely care about how my classmates from HS are doing and who is getting married or having adorable kids or who moved away or got a new job. So when something new in your life happens, post...post post post! for me. Post pictures, or blogs, add albums, and comments. So that I, who is watching you from afar can accurately get the info correct (ie. she had a girl not a boy, or they moved to CA, not FL...stuff like that). Sure I could just leave a comment and ask but its way more fun not to :)

On the newlywed side... things are going good! Its fun living with Alfie although I often miss being at home or rather my parents house as I have to work hard to call it. For someone who is close with her family and doesn't doo well with change its something to get used to , and thankfully i only shed a tear once, but I was PMSing so it doesn't count! Our living room and kitchen are done with decorations but now I have to work on "The Red Room", "the Purple Room" and the master bedroom and the basement! i have great plans for the basement, since it has a wood stove there so it will be nice to hangout around it during the winter months and watch tv (we will put the old TV down there with our extra furniture and coffee tables). The Purple room is currently our walk in closet/dressing room. I do my hair and makeup in there and have my shoes and alfies clothes in there, we just need to keep it cleaner than it currently is. And then there is the red room. This is our room of crap. Because our basement doesnt have a dehumidifier yet, I refuse to put anything of value down there where the dampness could harm it. So everything I have no place for has taken residence in the Red room. And yes, we do call these rooms by their respective wall colors. No pictures yet, although I have many. I am sure this will change when we get our internet (tonite) and I will be able to use my laptop and upload stuff. Stay tuned, pictures will come!

Happy Monday

So its monday and thankfully the day has flown by and its already 3:30pm! I can't wait to go home and do nothing! well after cleaning which I neglected to do over the weekend because I was camping. Speaking of camping, I know all of you were having a good chuckle at my expense when you looked to the sky on saturday and saw rain clouds. Me + rain = a weekend camping trip. Thankfully this trip had a cabin with running water and tv and kitchen. It was more like rustic living than camping. That, my friends, is my sort of camping. Well that and maybe a beach, a mall, less trees and overall less nature. If it wasn't for the whole nature thing I could TOTALLY be a camper! lol But really it was a nice time hanging out with Josh and Robin and friends and having our first married trip. Confession: We need a LOT of work on time management. Our friends asked us to be there at 4pm We (ofcourse) get there at 5pm. Nice and responsible of us. I attempted to get us out of the house on time but sommmmeeeonee (they shall remain nameless) was not working with me and thinking through all that needed to be done after we left the house but BEFORE we got to the camp site. Oh well I will keep working on that :) So anyways, we just hungout and played an interesting game of "Moose Moose" and some Bride/Groom trivia and then ate, ate and ATE! Breakfast was deliciouso and unless I want to gain back all my weight I need to harness my eating. We had eggs, frittata, bacon, sausage, bagels, homefries and pancakes!!! YUM-O.

Speaking of YUM-O....Step Up 2 has HOTTIE Robert Hoffman who looks quite YUM-O in it. Seriously, rent it and drool. That was a tid bit to help your day turn out better. google him, you won't be sorry. mmm yes :)

Friday. I love you.

I love fridays. Its kinda sad for everyother day of the week, because nobody reallly loves them. Friday gets all the attention. Just so you know...my deoderant smells really good. Its like floral perfume for my armpits. Classy, i know. Now just imagine how classy i look sneaking a sniff...nice mental picture eh? The main reason I am so glad its friday is because I am freezing my arse off here. Picture this... 78 degrees, sunny, nice billowy clouds rolling in the sky then you walk into work and its 40 degrees inside and you have to wear sweaters in the summer and gloves and keep your heater pumping just to stay warm. yes friends that is my work! I look like MJ because I have only one glove on my right hand and its the homeless looking ones, ya know with the fingers cut off.

This part goes out to Tut and our mutual love of one place.... LEAF AND BEAN!! Dave and Cassie and a group of people are heading out to Leaf and Bean for a cd release party, I unfortunately can't go cause of a Simply Tastful party im attending instead. Totally jealous because i havent been to L&B in forever and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE their Blendaritas! Chocolate Peanut Butter Blendarita with Soy please! They are so darn delicious. On top of that the decor is just adorable. Very coffee house-esque. I recommend taking a trip out to CHili (yes waste gas for this) its worth it. And bring me back one too if you go :)

Have a super weekend. I know I will :0)

Out with the old, in with the new!

So yesterday I got rid of something that I have had for about 4ish years...my fake nails :( WHAT?? yeah i know, they were sooo me! But i think its time to put them to rest and bring on the snazzy red short nails I am currently sporting (very LC from the Hills). I was sitting at my desk yesterday debating on getting a fill when I just kept thinking, "i should go short, maybe get rid of these things" then the rest of the afternoon i was itching to bite them off (yes its possible, thats how i removed them last time lol) Anyways, I couldn't bear to go to my usual nail place, Lovely Nails, to get them removed cause I didn't want to be talked back into getting them, so I opted to try Fancy Nail via reference from Lauren and get a manicure while I was there so my nails wouldn't look so snaggle. In short, i love my bright red nails and am looking forward to my next change...dum dum dum.... my hair ! lol no no no nothing drastic, just gotta update my look so I don't have the same style/cut as in HS, which is what I am currently rocking. And no I will not be getting the Rihanna/Victoria Beckham/everyone and their momma hair cut. You know what im talking about, the bob with the wedge cut in the back. Newlywed confession: I'd LOVE to be able to do something drastic! You know like change my hair color totally or get it chopped off into something cute! Unfortunately i don't have the balls to do it, or maybe I have had so many BAD hair cuts that I don't trust anyone to pick something good out that really fits me. So maybe next time you all see me I will have a slammin' (do people still use that word?) style!

Ahh its almost the weekend! Alfie and I have our first "trip" together! We are going camping! Hahaha yeah no thats not a joke, although some may think so after my first attempts at camping. This time we are going for Josh and Robins bachelor/ette thingy. It will be out somewhere (dude i don't know camping places) but thankfully in a cabin with running water and such. So more like rustic living instead of camping - this I can do! Another confession: I don't know if camping is my thing. I am much more of a pool/beach lounger than a nature/hiker/wilderness kinda gal. I don't enjoy dirt nor bugs nor cleaning up after myself. The point of a vacation is to not have to do a lot (like cook or clean or make my bed). Its tough enough for me to plan what I am going to wear for a week vacation without having to plan what I want to eat everyday too and then pack for it. Maybe if I keep going I will learn to enjoy it. Im optimistic.

Yesterday I stopped at the Spirit store in the wegmans plaza to kill sometime and just wandered around trying to figure out what I would like to be for Halloween. This year alfie will be going to a concert with his brothers so I have to weigh my options... there is always church to see the neices and nephews all dressed up, OR out with the girls since it lands on a friday OR over to Ben and Christys to help hand stuff out! That is my top choice, for one reason... to see Harry Potter. More importantly to see CHRISTY as Harry Potter! LOL i know it! hilarious. We were discussing her costume yesterday. She has the robe (ie our graduating gown), dad has a million of those striped ties, she just needs the glasses, a wand, and a wig!! I told her Ben should then be Herminie, she didnt think he'd go for it. Anyways, that begs the question...what should I be?? I can always go the traditional female route and be a skanky something. Or maybe Barbie, a bride and wear my dress again?? lol Hit me with your suggestions!

CAN I GET A YEEEE HAWWWW???

Yess sirreee ya'll. I jest beeaaan to see that their coutnry baynd called Rascal Flatts!! Ok enough of that country talk! Yep my labor day weekend was great! It began with cleaning...a whole lot of cleaning! Alfie and I hadn't officially done all the laundry from the honeymoon, nor cleaned the house up so thats what my saturday morning consisted of. Laundry and vacuuming and tackling the NASTY grit and grime that accummulates in a home when a guy lives there alone. A womans cleanly touch was fo-sho needed! But I made myself a mango mojito to help speed up the enjoyment process (it was yummy)! I felt very productive that day, much unlike monday where we just slept around all day inwardly boo-ing the fact that work began again on tuesday! But thats ok cause saturday night we had purchased a new baby for Alfie. And by baby I mean a 46inch LCD flat screen. It really is pretty sweet and football season may not be that bad this year :)

The high point of the weekend worth noting or rather blogging about was my first Rascal Flatts concert with Tut and Lor!

Now I am not a HUGE RF fan but I do enjoy country music and concerts in general. I mean seriously, anywhere where there are lots of people, loud music and friends is ALWAYS gonna end up being a good time. Throw in some rowdy, drunk, hoochy older women and rowdy, drunk, cowboyed-out old men and you can count on some serious entertainment! Newlywed confession: I totally get a kick out of drunk adults. Especially the older women. They revert to being 21 again and flirting with everyone and grinding on their old men dates and saying whatever the heck they want to HAHAHA i love it, it makes me laugh. Well this concert had all of the above, not to mention it was at the NYS fair so there was food up the wazoo and these UNBELIEVABLY yummy wine slushies (no joke I totally coulda had like 50 of them! Instead I only had one) AND these 2 foot fried dough sticks (de-lic-ous). Anyways, back to the concert, we had pretty good seats off to the left of the stage, but the grrrr moment came when these people 3 rows in front of us started getting upset that they couldn't see because the young girls in front of them (and the people in front of them and so on) were standing up and they were sitting down. Hmmm logic would tell me... STAND THE F UP!! lol right? well no they took the other route and yelled at the girls to sit down. stupid old people who shouldn't be coming to a concert. This was all going on during the Taylor Swift concert (who is adorable by the way, and FYI - im jealous of her hair) so maybe the old people weren't big fans of Taylor. Well no joke this went on for like 20 mins, the girls standing up and the dude and his wife grumbling to the row in front of them that the girls needed to sit. Mind you if the girls sat they wouldn't be able to see. Plus they payed the same amount for their ticket, and they have every right to stand an cheer for her. moral of the story is that you are wayyy too old to be there if you are forcing people to sit at a concert. Go home and go to bed gramps! But overall the concert was fun!! And I have been dreaming of those darn wine slushies since sunday night, I am going to attempt to make them. Maybe tonite??

Wait, Im supposed to like blogging right?

HOLY CRAP!! can i just vent about how non-user friendly this bloggin thing is? I have tried for the past hour (yeah I shoulda been working) to attempt to change my template to something snazzy. Instead as you can see, frusteration has won out and i am settling on this plain, although chic (black is always chic) background. Yeah ok I guess it will do :)Last night Alfie and I had dinner out with our ever-fun-foursome: Josh and Robin and Luke and Heather at Rio Bamba on Alexander street. Josh used to work there so he knew the headchef and wanted to do a tasting. Well we all ended up doing a tasting which was amazing! A tasting (for those like me who didn't know what it is) is like on Top chef where they do a bunch of courses but in mini 1-2 bite portions. So it started out with the appetizer of mozzerella and tomato salad, then came the ahi tuna with miso broth and soba noodles, then shrimp, bean and spinach followed by veal and ending with a strawberry icecream filled pastry puff. Yum-O. We all definitely left there feeling nice and full! Newlywed confession: I totally love food. No joke, you name it, I would probably try it once. The only food i HATE... brussle sprouts. ICK they are so nasty, all looking like baby cabbage heads. gross. Needless to say the guys were impressed by my eating skills (i totalled kicked the guys butts with finishing the courses first or second)

Anyways.... thank the Lord for long weekends! Considering I just got back from a week long honeymoon, I am more than ready for a few days of sleeping in and doing laundry (much needed) and cleaning the house! Not that I am looking forward to them, it will just be nice when those things get done. I hate having a messy house. :) My big surprise for the weekend was letting Alfie get his new flat screen TV. He has been begging/bugging/hinting/whining about getting a new tv but me being the wonderful pennypincher that I can be has been saying no. I figured certain things take priority (like a bed and some furniture...lol)! But anyways, with the wonderfully generous gifts from the wedding I figured we could treat ourselves to something special, something that will last for a looooooong time (it better!), something like a TV.Well I guess its back to work for me now... 1 more hour :)

Has it already been 2 weeks???

Its hard for me to believe it has already been 2 weeks!! 9 months were spent putting every little detail together and then in 1 day its over! But it truly was the BEST day ever! I was so unbelievable relaxed. No nerves, well ok maybe a bit of nerves, but I had a GREAT wedding party who had the task of keeping me laughing and not nervous and they did wonderful.The ceremony went great, not even one tear fell (i was impressed). It just felt so natural and right to be up there with Alfie that I didn't feel overwhelmed, but rather comfortable knowing he was there. I seriously have some of the most musically talented friends and family! Everyone who participated vocally or instumentally did amazing! Im jealous I do not have a set o' pipes like all the ladies who sang. But thats ok cause in my car I pretend I do...holla! Anyways, as you can see above the lovely teaser photo we got from Bethany, our photographer (Rachel)'s assistant. OMG its amazing! Both ladies have such talent and take great photos! I can't wait to see the rest.In keeping with the confession theme for my new blog, here is my first newlywed confession...drumroll please....my wedding hair was not all mine...GASP...."but it looked so real!" you say! Thats because I had a excellent stylist who made my fake hair blend with my too short real hair! We actually both thought it was human hair, but oopies when we attempted to curl it, it melted. Hello synthetic hair! But thats why you have practice runs!

Soooo I love being married and it is fun having alfie always around at home but boy its a lot of work "keeping house"!! Ofcourse I SHOULD have taken the 9 months of pre wedding planning and moved 99.99% of my stuff to our new house and set everything up but nooo thats too easy! Instead I waited until hmm the week of the wedding to really moved my bazillion shirts, dresses, jeans and shoes! AHHHHH! Next confession... I easily have about 50 pairs of shoes! Is that too many? I tend to think noooo you can never have enough but Im starting to think (with the limited space) that thats maybe a tad too many!! My goals for this long weekend are to sort through my clothing (and shoes) and eliminate quite a few that I don't wear!!Well thats all I have for today.... here is another pic for you to enjoy!!