another january birthday!

happy birthday to my future s.i.l.!!!!

here she is with the new sweater we got her for xmas!

birthday shout out

happy birthday to my dear friend steven!

what a night!

so for the past couple of nights, i have had a bit of trouble going to bed. last night hb told me that after the run (yay for 2 more miles completed!), that i for sure would be able to fall asleep. so i watched a bit of the game (SEC is obviously the best conference!), and then got into bed at about 930pm. sure enough, i feel asleep quickly and looked forward to staying that way UNTIL i wake up with this loud banging! i turn to hb and say what is that?! i was a little scared until i heard "oh god, oh god". i was woken up by my upstairs neighbor doin' it!!! they continued on for 10 more minutes with the gal continuously saying "oh god, oh god" and "just f* me god dangit!". needless to say, that was not something i really wanted to hear at 1230am. still, it led hb & i to question - if we can hear them, can they hear us??!!!!

rave

hey y'all!
so yesterday i made it through 2 miles...in 34 minutes! i definitely have to get my time down, so that i don't get picked up by the paddywagon, but i am very proud that i got through it. also, my goal for this month is to run my miles without stopping. hb and i ran the 2 miles by running for 2 minutes and the walking for 1 minute. at this point, i'm sure that if i keep up with the training i will get to my goal. i'm certainly motivated to attain them, and it only gets easier from here right??!!!

work rant

ugh! today was a pretty good morning, but this afternoon has me with a bit of anger inside. i need to "keep it medium" as jim zorn would say. so i'm posting a bit of a rant - first let me preface by saying that at work three of us sit in a lab that has banks of computers, and that work is kind of a hurry up and wait thing so when we do have assignments, we need to hop to it. well coworker x decided it was kindergarten today because x took a nap!!! at work! in the middle of the day! and was snoring! ugh, that annoyed me beyond belief, but i tried to keep cool. thing is we got an assignment and coworker y and i started on it and really tried to get a lot done today. coworker x acted like an assignment was never sent out and did zippy work! that really chaps my hide!!! i HATE that he doesn't appreciate his job when there are so many people in the unemployment lines. jeez! so with that being said, i'm off on an anger fueled run - 2 miles! wish me luck!

resolutions

hola peeps!
i wasn't very good at keeping my resolutions from last year, but perhaps i will be able to do it this year. i decided to write them down here, so i can be accountable to them!

• eat less pizza, cookies, ice cream, etc - less of the bad stuff in general :)
• eat more green veggies
• eat at home more often
• look up healthy recipes, and cook more so that hb can take a break from cooking!!!!
• put my face on (southern for put make up on) every day with the bare esentuals stuff i have at home
• follow my 10 miler training everyday - NO EXCUSES!!
• save more money
• do 100 pushups by the end of the year

what are you resolutions??

christmas & nye

hey y'all! hope y'all had a great new years and xmas! hb & i had a great time. my brother flew in on xmas day, and i made some spicy shrimp that i marinated in chili garlic paste (i even got to use the new martha stewart grill pan that we bought at macy's! thanks sarah!!!) as apps. i also made some salmon cakes courtesy of barefoot contessa recipe, some lemon basil potatoes (giada), and some brownies as our dessert. it was definitely not a traditional xmas dinner, but it was good!! the next day we went to taco mac for pint night, and after dinner hb & my brother went to the pink pony (the forecast called for scattered panties that night). we had a pretty chill time, and once my brother left on sunday, jess and her husband pili came in to pick up their things from storage. we decided to take them out to taco mac (jess LOVED the death wings and hickory burger there, so we decided to go for old times sake!)

here i am with my bro at taco mac


with jess & pili at taco mac

nye was awesome this year! hb & i went to the chick fil a bowl game here at the georgia dome. we could not have asked for better seats - although we were NOT on tv, we were very thankful to have been there to see the tigers beat georgia tech. bless their hearts, i think they thought they could actually beat us ;) the final score was 38-3. i love it when we win, and i am truly hoping that we do a lot better next year now that we know that jordan jefferson will be our qb.

here i am ready for the game! thanks b for the tattoos!!!


here is how close we were (gotta thank the LSU Atlanta Alumni Association for these!)

after the game we went over to a party to ring in the new year! all in all a great time and a great way to start off 2009.