homeward bound

i am coming to utah today. i will only be in town on saturday so i am not sure how many people i will actually see. but call me if you are interested. i get in tonight around 8 utah time. love your guts.

my funny valentine

this shouldn't surprise you but my beau totally surprised me on valentine's day. he told me to get off work early and that is all i got. i had no idea where we were going or what was on the agenda. so he picked me up from work and we drove into the city. we went to an indian restaurant called rasika. it was a four course meal and it was yummy! we had chocolate shrimp (seriously good) and this cripsy salad stuff and some lamb and paneer and curry. the dining experience took a long time and so we were afraid we were going to be late for our next surprise activity. we had one bite of our desserts and hopped on the metro and headed to the george washington university lisner auditorium to the flamenco festival. it was so cool. there was some loud singing and some sweet dancing and and some AMAZING guitar playing. serious talent. i wish you could have seen and heard how fast those fingers were moving on the guitar and how fast those feet were flying on the stage.
mark is a good date and a good planner. he was the best valentine i have had. after the concert, we came home and had a valentine cuddle and then he went home and i went to bed. i was tuckered out from the romantic festivities. also my valentine flowers are still alive and blooming and gorgeous. what a guy.

family

this man and woman are the beginnings of my family. they have been married 39 freaking years. that is a long time. they look like babies. i stole this picture from marnae because that is how i roll but i love it and love that they have been together for so long. also i love the lilac dress and the beautiful backdrop. happy anniversary elv and dave. (feb. 10)

be mine

look what my valentine gave me! aren't they pretty!!! what a sweet guy. i hope you are all having a happy valentine's day!!

help

should i go here this weekend: (the outer banks) ps i know the house is pink.

or should i stay home?? dilemma!!! i need help. please comment.

pre-occupied

this shouldn't surprise you but i have not led a super exciting life as of late. i am having fun but the cold keeps me home (or at mark's) more often than not. so we have been making lots of home cooked meals and playing guitar hero 3 -which ben totally bought because i passed guitar hero 2 on medium. i rock! not really, my friend will plays on expert! but here are a few other things that have occupied my time in the past weeks.

the banff film festival. about 20 of us had tickets for the 5- day festival at the national geographic society. there were some films that totally rocked and some films that totally sucked. anyway, it was a good time and i am glad i got to go. here is the other thing that occupied some of my time:

this is the book that we read for my book club this month. i read another book of his called the reader that i really liked but this one was not as good. however, the more we talked about it at book club last night, the more i understood it and liked it a little more. i still am not sure i would recommend it to read. i am still processing so the jury is still out on that one.

other than that, here is the main occupier of my time. makes me happy.

explaining

this shouldn't surprise you but i have some splaining to do. apparently my last post is making people confused so i will give you the back story. 1 and 2 are true so ignore those but 3 is not so true. a few weeks ago when i asked mark what we were going to do for valentine's day, he said we were going to break up on the 13th and get back together on the 15th. it has been a joke of ours ever since ( i hope). so the other day he told me that since i would be crying all day on valentine's day, maybe i should do it somewhere fun in the district so he told me to get off work early and go downtown. so that is where all the planning and breaking up came in. it was a joke people, a joke but apparently not funny. linnea called me today all worried about my state of well being ( thanks linnea) and maur was confused as well as darin. so there is the back story. sorry people, sorry.

good news and bad news

this shouldn't surprise you but i have some good news and i have some bad news.
1. good news: i am probably going to be in utah for 1-2 days next weekend so i will try to post ideas for seeing lots of people en masse.
2 bad news: my life is boring and therefore, so is my blog.
3. bad news #2; mark and i are breaking up for v-day and i get to cry in the district on the 14. thank you mark-he has it planned out for me. so sweet.

super bowl.

this shouldn't surprise you but i have some funny friends. they are so enjoyable and when there is a chance to have all of them under one roof together and with good food and watching football, i am in and excited, except about the football thing. it is not my cup of tea but i will watch it if my friends are there. so the banker family had a super bowl party and their dad worked for the NFL for years and years and he was there to tell stories and such. also he had his ginourmous super bowl rings with him and so i got to wear them for a minute (when mr. banker was not paying attention). seriously people, those things are huge! and heavy and diamondy and goldy. man alive.

you're first place of the losers

this shouldnt surprise you but some days this is how my life feels. except i wish they had spelled "sike" psych. i think that is correct.

dja's birthday

this shouldn't surprise you but dave had a birthday shout hooray!!! so we had a little party at ri ra irish pub. we all met for dinner and then they have trivia nights at this pub so we did that too and it was lots of fun. the trivia nights are fun. we have been to several. at ri ra they have 6 rounds and most of them are general knowledge but there is usually a picture round and a song round which mix things up a little. our team totally sucked. not too bad but a little. here are the peeps: mark, me ben h., tim, ben s., birthday boy, becky and christopher. this is a close up of the far side of the table: ben h., cubbie, tim and ben s. (that is his happy face)
okay, so i planned this party and i made a yummy coconut pineapple cake (totally mixed 2 recipes) but i forgot candles (some planner i am!) so good thing mark had a yankee candle!! (mei li and milu joined us for cake.)

HAPPY STAR BIRTHDAY DAVE!!!! i am glad we are friends.

gala or gayla?

this shouldn't surprise you but the other day ago (thank you linnea), my work had a winter gala. instead of having a huge christmas party, we have lots of small ones and then we have a winter gala in january so there is always one more party to look forward to. smart eh? well last year, i opted not to attend and all year i caught grief for it. so this year i went and i took a hot date. our gala was held in the westin hotel. my coworker adam and his wife carla got a room in the westin with a sweet view and we met friends up there to pre-party. mark and i had sparkling cider (wasnt that nice of them?). then we all went down to the gala together so we could have a table together.
here are the men folk in the room: back row: josh, rich, mark, simon, paul, adam and adam (kneeling).here are some of the ladies: michaela, kit, jessica, me and tiffany tearing up the dance floor.

my hot date. this is the raw meat that michaela ate.so gross looking. i am glad kit took a picture. the rest of the food was very good.
here is me doing the sprinkler. i am a horrible dancer and i was forced onto the floor against my will and bad things ensued!!! i can do a mean electric lslide thanks to my 8th grade gym teacher mrs. rupper. it was a fun night with great company and free food. way to go employer! (and enrichment committee-go kit and josh!!!)