365 Project: Week 6

This week's theme seems to be weather. We had a lot of snow and frigid temperatures this week, so I guess I focused on that.

January 30, 2011: Kirby is a cuddler. I am a sleeper.
(no, I did not take this picture, but it still counts.)

January 31, 2011: Afternoon parking lot.


February 1, 2011: This was at noon. It was cold that day.

February 2, 2011: Pei Wei for lunch with my mom.
Fortune says, "You will attract cultured and artistic people to your home." LIES


February 3, 2011: Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer


February 4, 2011: Two pictures today - science, and weather.




February 5, 2011: Two pictures again. We went to Abrusci's for a carby dinner (mmm pesto artichoke linguini), and then to the Boulder Theater to see Amos Lee (excellent).

365 Project: Week 5

January 23, 2011: He likes froyo almost as much as his momma.


January 24, 2011: Pomegranate power up Jamba: great breakfast, or greatest breakfast? (The answer is greatest. It tastes like a fruit roll up.)


January 25, 2011: Spongebob faces got me through work today.


January 26, 2011: I like the way the car on the right looks all psycho.




January 27, 2011: Found this rock at work. Win.


January 28, 2011: Delicious lunch break cupcake. I couldn't resist biting the frosting before I took a picture, sorry.


January 29, 2011: Dear Chipotle vegetarian burrito, you are my favorite.

365 Project: Week 4

Carrying on...

January 16, 2011: Kirbs cuddling with Chad. We replaced his e-collar with a "soft" collar.


January 17, 2011: REAL LIFE ASBESTOS ON A SLIDE OMGZ

January 18, 2011: Kirby had to lose his luxurious (matted) hair AND got a bath. Stylin'!

January 19, 2011: Scrumptious dinner.
(Lemon pepper chicken, roasted garlic broccoli, and red pepper and onion quinoa)


January 20, 2011: Playing "beware of the CLAW"
(reference: here)


January 21, 2011: Doin' work, son.


January 22, 2011: Kirbs loves the dog park.

365 Project: Week 3

I got yelled at by Mike via twitter last night about not updating this foolery, so here I am. [Not one to disappoint my fans, after all.]

January 9, 2011: Lazy Molly

January 10, 2011: Dashboard Confessional concert (aka one of my Christmas presents to Chad. Backstory: I have gotten him tickets to see them 3 times. Something has come up the first 2 times. IT FINALLY HAPPENED). Excellent live.


January 11, 2011: Senor Kirby came home! He was displeased with his Elizabethan collar. I also started my job!


January 12, 2011: asbestos is neat, despite what TV commercials would have you believe.


January 13, 2011: Totally necessary.


January 14, 2011: My mantra.


January 15, 2011: Favorite picture of Kirby-roo to date.

365 project: Week 2

So, I was supposed to post this last Sunday but I didn't. WHATEVER

January 3, 2011: My view from my Boulder office

January 4, 2011: I found this at the Denver pound

January 5, 2011: delicious!

January 6, 2011: I spent my day staring at this

January 7, 2011: Who cares about Martha Stewart, but seriously, that dog is adorable. Thank you, Petsmart display.

January 8, 2011: My dad decorated the tree in their backyard and it looked pretty with snow on it.

Obviously since I'm behind, there will be another post tomorrow. I suck at blogging regularly.

Happy New Year!

I haven't blogged in a long time. oops.

Anyway, I meant to do the 365 project last year, but I forgot until about March. Then it seemed silly. So I'll do it this year! I'm not going to post a picture every day though, I think I'll condense my weekly photos to one post on the weekends, because nobody wants to be overloaded with posts every day, right?  Right.  I do not guarantee my pictures will be interesting or good. So since it is January 2, here are my 2 photos for this week:

January 1, 2011


My dad rang in the new year by snoring. We are obviously party animals.

January 2, 2011

Today, I am making a list of dinners to cook/groceries to buy for said dinners.  So, I'm pouring through some cookbooks/Cooking Light issues.  Not exciting, but true.

Hopefully, I'll have some more exciting pictures next week since I'll actually get out of the house instead of doing exciting things like laundry and cleaning and listmaking. Wooooo.

Happy New Year, everyone.

and we were blogged!

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i'm a mrs.! or, how we almost died on Maui.

We're back! and I have a husband. Totally weird.

I decided not to blog the 600 pictures we took on the honeymoon because:
a) I put them all (except cheapo underwater cam ones, they're being developed as you read) on facebook anyway. my profile is friends only, so if we're not, let's be :)
b) it would take for-ev-er. to blog all of them, and
c) nobody wants to scroll until their fingers break, right? right.

BONUS: our photographer emailed me and noticed my incessant refreshing of her blog - our wedding will be blogged this evening, so I shall share our lovely photos with you then :) Once we have the pics, I will do a wedding recap post as well. I do have one sneak peek she posted on facebook:

{photo courtesy of real photography}

Okay, so, back to the honeymoon. As you may know, we went to Hawaii. Oahu for 4 days first, then to Maui for 4 days. It was absolutely gorgeous, and we had a ton of fun, except for the very last day which turned into some kind of horrible sitcom plot. More on that later, though. We stayed in Waikiki, which was nice, but super crowded and parts were redonk expensive just because they were near the beach. Our hotel was a couple of blocks from the beach, so we had a mountain/canal view, and saved tons of $$. We enjoyed Oahu and everything we saw, but Maui ended up being much more our style.

While we were in Oahu, we:
- swam in the Pacific Ocean for the first time
- visited the Pearl Harbor memorial, and toured a submarine
- snorkeled with a pod of 40 wild dolphins and their babies (and sea turtles!). This was absolutely incredible and I cannot even describe how amazing it was.
- visited the Dole Pineapple plantation, conquered their Guinness record holding maze, and sampled deliciousness
- visited the famous North Shore and ate fresh shrimp from a truck, Matsumoto's shave ice, and lasted about 2 seconds in the ridiculous waves
- had the best hot dogs of our lives at Puka Dog
- enjoyed tons of delicious local food and mai tais

Then we moved on to Maui. Maui is much smaller than Oahu, and much less crowded. Super laid back and relaxed. Chad was in love with Maui, and I loved both islands, but Maui was definitely great. We stayed on the west coast, where most of the resorts are (Lahaina/Kaanapali). From our awesome, ocean front condo (30 feet from the beach!), we could see the islands of Molokai and Lanai. While on Maui, we:
- went on a sunset dinner/cocktail cruise. It included a free open premium bar (obvs) and amazing food like guava glazed ribs, artichoke dip, fresh fruits, pastas, chicken, and more. This was awesome, and the views were great - we even went right by the area where Jurassic Park was filmed, and Chad was super pumped since he loves those movies.
- went parasailing! This was so cool. Chad had been once before in South Padre, but it was my first time. We did the 800' one, and I loved every minute. Once you got up there, it was just so peaceful and enjoyable, I could have done that all day.
- shopped
- snorkeled! the ocean right outside our hotel had tons of coral reefs that were visible from our balcony, and we saw eels, puffer fish, sea anemones, and all kinds of other cool fish. Can't wait to get those underwater pics back.
- almost died.

On our last day, we went into town around noon because we had time to kill before our 7PM flight to Oahu, and then back to Denver. We did some shopping and had some ice cream, and then sat down on a bench by the beach to eat it. This random hippie hobo came up to us and started talking about random things, then casually mentioned the only highway on the island was closed due to wildfires (it was unusually windy that day). We totally thought he was joking, but I iphone-googled it JUST IN CASE. um, he totally was NOT JOKING. Chad casually asked him how long this kind of thing usually takes (apparently it happens often) and he replied, "oh, at least 12 hours usually." Commence the expletives.

In short, we started freaking out. We purchased trip insurance for like $30 when we booked the trip, but when I called them to see what we should do, they told us that we'd just have to rebook the tickets ourselves whenever we could, submit a claim, and wait like 8 weeks for (hopefully) reimbursement. The problem was that last minute alternate tickets were at least $2000, and the guy also told us that wildfires "probably" were covered, but he couldn't say for sure and they won't authorize claims over the phone. I was not going to spend $2k on the hopes I might get it back. So then we really started freaking. I called my dad and told him what was going on (he was supposed to pick us up in Denver in the morning), and he suggested we find a motel to stay at for cheap. Oh, dad.

At this point, my iphone was all, "hey dudes! I know this is super helpful, but I'm going to die soon." I pretty much hyperventilated. We also only had 7 minutes to make a decision, because that's when the last bus back to the resort area came by. Great. So, we couldn't get to the airport for at least 12 hours and we had no where to stay, and then we would have no tickets home. YAY! Suddenly, it came to me: there was a tiny commuter airport a couple miles north of our resort! I remembered it from a google map I had viewed before we got there (thanks, photo memory!). With 6 minutes til the bus, I started furiously trying to find tickets out of that airport, along with 500 other tourists, because AT&T was (helpfully) slow as molasses. I was midway through yelling at kayak.com to load when the bus pulled up. Chad insisted we get on it (what other option was there, really?), so we did, and after almost declaring war on kayak, I found a number for the only airline out of there and booked us the LAST 2 TICKETS OFF THE ISLAND.

After 2 bus transfers and a short taxi ride, we made it to the one room airport (seriously). When the plane finally pulled up to the "gate," the 2 ticket counter attendants went outside to guide it appropriately. Grrrreat. This plane was tiny. Let me preface the rest of this by saying I hate flying. Yep, my dad works for an airline and I have done it 4000 times, but I hate it and it terrifies me, and I was already at my breaking point for the day. Not to mention that it was so windy, I already knew this was going to be terrible. The takeoff ended up being so awful that the entire plane was filled with shrieks and people sobbing. I spent the entire flight hyperventilating and holding my breath. There was one particular bump I really thought was the end. NOT PLEASANT. Once we finally got to Oahu, we were starving and miserable and we had to wait 2 hours before we could even check in for our flight home. On top of that, I apparently caught a cold in Hawaii. Only me. So I was coughing, sneezing, miserable, basically dead, and about to get on a 6 hour flight where, of course, we were seated in a row in front of the mid-cabin bathroom so our seats were completely straight up and unreclinable.

Then we got to our connection in Phoenix...WHICH WAS DELAYED and extra hour. Where we were seated in an exit row (again, no reclining). Seriously, this day was so terrible it was epic. Thanks, travel gods.

a bunch of wedding stuff

So...I'm getting married this week. Holy crap! My MOH arrives Wednesday evening and then the craziness begins. Most people arrive Thursday afternoon, the bachelorette/bachelor parties are Friday night, Saturday night is the rehearsal, and Sunday is the main event. I feel like we have been engaged approximately 42 years [real talk: 2.5 years], so I still can't believe it is finally here!

I decided to blog some pictures of details for the big day because only 2 or so of our real life guests read this. Both of which are guys...one of which is the officiant, and neither of which I think really care about seeing this stuff. Hooray for you guys! You get the privilege of experiencing my wedding now! [I'm still not posting my dress. figure that out.]

first up...the votives with wreaths which double as place cards. With a tealight in there, it is going to look totally boss. [it is awkwardly turned to the side to protect the identity of my bridesmaid]


that's a bunch of vellum work...about half of them.


next up: favor boxes. you may remember they are filled with light blue, lime green, and silver hershey kisses. I put chocolate brown paper shred stuff in the bottom of each box, filled with kisses, tied with twine (like the invites!) and then stamped, punched out, hole punched, and attached a bazillion tags with our initials. You're welcome, guests who will not care about all this work.


guestbook! this is cool - I saw it in a magazine. You have this blank print up of a tree with bare branches [it is 12x12, we will have it framed after the wedding], then you have your guests ink their thumbs in shades of green to add "leaves" and sign it. looks really cool when it is filled out, and Selina's awesome hubby made this for me and saved me a ton of time and stress. Have I mentioned Selina is also awesome? Because she is. She is saving my reception - more on that later.



centerpieces: my mom made them. she used to do interior decorating and has done visual stuff for lots of big department stores, so I let her do her thing here. We bought a bunch of vintage different vases from antique stores and she went nuts with flowers. Here they are taking over the top of the fireplace in all their glory. They have lime hydrangeas, light blue blooms that I have no idea what to call, and lots of cool rustic twig things.



this is our cool box for our unity ceremony. we are doing the wine and box ceremony (click here).



yet another thing I spent a million hours on but no one will notice: my table numbers with handmade paper flowers. In case you were wondering, hand rolling like 400 paper flowers will give you a thumb blister.



I made a bunch of martha stewart pom pom ball things to hang up. These were kinda fun. They are in a big awkward pile in the basement.




a whole bunch of booze! We all know this is most important.




my shoes:





my accessories (say that like "uh-sess-uh-ries" to get the full effect here.)


sideways earrings and necklace (earrings are the same as the necklace)


hair pins! they are actually our wedding colors and not awkward like they look here.

our rings:




mine is alternating sapphires and diamonds. in case you were wondering, my tiny ass size 4 fingers are totally mock-able, and my ring looks like a really silly child's ring if you just hold it. redonk.



chad's is titanium with a sweet blue hue on the inside. the outside is steely gray with a cool texture.

I'm not going to post our wedding party gifts just because I'm not. I don't want to ruin it. BUT THEY ARE AWESOME.