At the airport. Have a good work week suckers.

Part Four

Monday Morning Jill and I had brunch with our other friend Sarah who was in town from Sydney, NE. Then headed back to the pool.

Part Three

I love when Sara gets drunk and a little bananas.

Part Two

I was taking a picture of Sara at dinner and got Eric in the background, I couldn't help but zoom in and crop this hilarious picture. After a long day of fun in the sun, cocktails and a delicious dinner, we headed over to the OTT for several cocktails. Now this married guy lectured me all night about calling The Lurker... well The Lurker and my shameful, sinful ways, then drunkenly hit on Jill. Boo married guy, boo.

Aaargh!

Just need to vent for a sec... I came in at 7 this morning to get everything I need done before I leave for a week. It is 10:30 and the people I work with aren't here yet, I can't get much done today without them. Who isn't at work yet by 10:30? How hard is it to get up before noon?

Long Weekend- Part One

Jill and I dog sat for Suzie this weekend, and in between hanging with the dogs and chowing down on hot dogs (the Atlanta Slaw Dog: Chile con Carne, Cheese, Cole Slaw... I want one for breakfast everyday) we managed to head south to kick it with our friend Sara at Fritz's pool. Fritz is a great host, and kept our cocktails and bellies full. He also let me laze about in this raft for hours. Seriously I don't think I got out all day. I got a strange sunburn where I missed the sunscreen, it turned into an itchy pit. Mostly just soaked up some (lots) sun.

I want to tell you guys all about the weekend, but I have too much work to do before I head to NYC (2 days!). Maybe I'll get to it tonight after I do all of my laundry and pack. Or maybe not. I will try to update you guys from the road, but I just may have too much fun to remember that.

Wedding Bells

I'd like to congratulate my dear friend Tanya and her new fiance Nick on their engagement. Best wishes!

Rally

I don't know how she did it, but Sameera got Jill and I off the couch at almost midnight to rally and hit up a new bar. I think we look pretty good considering we had just taken a 4-hour nap. This blonde boy just might be the neediest boy I have ever met. He had known Jill for all of three minuted when he started whining about not getting enough attention from her. Seriously, how cute are we?

I will definitely be back to this bar (even though I can't remember it's name), probably earlier. The patio had these great big couches that were great for lounging and I think would be even greater for lounging in the sunshine. I don't remember this meathead's name but he was cracking me up with his prom poses. He was nice enough, but pouted all night when he found out Sameera was married.

The Reason I Didn't Make it to Yoga on Saturday

Because Jill and I hit it pretty hard on Friday night. We were on our way to meet a guy Jill has been going out with, when we ran into an old boyfriend of hers and got waylaid.

Reprimanded Once Again

Once again Jill has told me off for planing on having a mellow weekend, so I am going to compromise. I really really really really really need to study for the LSAT a ton this weekend, I have been too busy this weekend to really get anything done besides work. I want to go to several yoga classes, I want to take all the dogs on a nice walk, I want to go on a bike ride, I want to eat either ethiopian or indian food, I want to go to happy hour on Friday and get 75c oysters, and I want to meet some boys who find Jill or me so charming that they invite us to a Memorial day cookout and make us food. OK, that's quite the laundry list of things to do for a mellow weekend, but when I agreed to dog-sit my plans to hide out in Golden went right out the window and I decided to settle for just not going out. But now that I have been harangued into going out too, I'll just have to settle for not getting too drunk, wasting all of my money, and the spending all of the daylight hours on Suzie's couch watching HBO. It's a compromise. P.S. If anyone wants to join me for any of the aforementioned activities give me a call.

Mellow Weekend

I am having a mellow weekend. I am not going out all crazy and spending a ton of money. I am long overdue for a haircut and I am spending money on that instead. I am also getting a wax next week. I am terrified. I have been doing my brows myself for ten years, and that doesn't hurt, but I'm a little worried about my bikini area. Ouch.

The other thing I spent a small part of my long awaited tax return on is this guy. I am excited to have something else to listen to at work besides the guy who sits two feet away from me and talks to himself all day. I bought a couple of songs, and then spent most of the night copying cd's I haven't listened to in ages. Yay.

Candlelight

We started at the Candlelight Inn, one of my favorite bars in Wash Park. Jill let me wear her jeans, I am a little in love with them.

Shennanigans

So I really liked Jill's and my hair on Saturday night.

See, good hair.

I am pissed at these guys, if you are married, don't waste my time . We all look so bright and shiny.

Titibasana

Sorry Dudette. I can't believe how busy I am in my new job. Plus I have actually been making the most of my summer, going climbing or to yoga in the evenings, and I am usually too tired when I get home to get down to business, but I will soon, I promise. Think how good it will be after all this anticipation. In yoga related news I got into titibasana today. It wasn't pretty, but it was awesome.

Jeez Buddy....

Sorry I went one day without posting, I was busy and frankly just didn't feel like it. But here's what you can look forward to this week, drum roll please..... I finally got pics from New Years I have some pictures from this weekend New York is in only 9 days so you'll probably get tired of hearing about that Kate might be in town again this weekend So, not too exciting, but what were you expecting.

Little Pieces

Do you guys watch Greys? I still do, and I read Grey Matters each week as well. This week Shonda Rhimes wrote the writer's blog about the season finale. Don't worry I'm not about to spoil it for you, she wrote this line about the Christina story arc this season... "Slowly, over the course of the season, we’ve watched as hard-nosed Yang sliced off little pieces of herself to accommodate Burke." I read this line several times before I was able to move on to the rest of the piece. This is something we all do, or we all have done, and to see "it," the idea or whatever it is right there in words kind of struck me. I don't know if the men I have known also sacrificed little pieces of themselves to accommodate me, but something makes me think not. And I'm not alone in this. My girlfriends do it, apparently the Grey's writers and their girlfriends do it, every one's girlfriends do it. After the demise of each relationship I gather those pieces up, and in time bounce back to my whole self, but I think I'd like to find someone for whom I don't have to slice off those little pieces, someone who likes or at least tolerates all of my pieces, me in my entirety. But maybe it isn't about what someone else likes or tolerates at all. It's a blurry line, between compromise and sacrifice. Something I have been working on mastering for years, and I'm not there yet. I'm not close yet. But I'm still trying.

Crema de Limoncello

I finished making the Crema de Limncello last night, OH MY it's good. I had the best day ever planned, and little by little it fell apart. First my mom cancelled golf, then my friend cancelled climbing, so now all I have today is work. Blech. And I worked extra-long all week so I could take off most of today. Boo.

Work, life is good.

Sorry I don't really have anything interesting for you today. I have been working hard, but I love my new job, nice gig if you like being a professional student. If you guys have ever wondered what it is that I do, you are welcome to check out my 2 new "blogs", which aren't really for entertainment at all, but just a new way I thought I'd try keeping track of my research. You can find them by clicking on my profile. But I warn you that you won't care, metallurgy is not really titillating stuff.

I am a genius!

I got a 4.0 this semester! (O.K. not that big of a deal in grad school, but it still feels great!)

Made My Day

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E-mail?

I set it up for e-mail too.

I just set up this Blog to post messages via cell phone. If you can read this, it worked. This could be a bad idea.

Happy Mother's Day!

I took my mom to lunch today at NoRTH in Cherry Creek, the food was pretty good, but oh my stars the service was bad. I don't know what we did to our server, and maybe she was just hungover, but it sure felt like contempt. NoRTH is a good restaurant, maybe a little too big for it's britches if you ask me. If you ask them; Taking its cue from an Italian trattoria, NoRTH offers a contemporary approach to Modern Italian Cuisine. With sleek interiors, a sexy atmosphere, and a menu offering unique antipasti, wood fired pizzas, inventive pasta dishes and many wood roasted and grilled dishes North is the perfect spot for any dining occasion. When it first opened it was hot, but now the service isn't great, their menu hasn't changed since I was last there (in early 2006? 2005?), and the "sexy atmosphere" needs a good cleaning. But, the walls opened up and it reminded my mom of the last time we ate in Little Italy where the restaurant opened up to the street. The day was beautiful, I had a lovely riesling which started out too acidic, but opened up beautifully when it warmed to room temperature. Mom had the short-rib "osso buco"which I've had before, tough stuff to mess up, tasty. I had an "italian-style" benedict with prosciutto, asparagus and sun-dried tomato hollandaise. It was fine, perfunctory benedict, but can I just say what is up with the sun-dried tomatoes everywhere. It's like 1994 came to Denver and never left. There's a whole world of flavors out there, lets try something else once in a while, OK?

Slow Down There, Ladies

I don't quite know what led to the extreme level of inebriation that possessed Jill, Kate and myself, but it led to what appears to have been quite a wild night, but we can't really remember. Yeah, I have no idea who this guy is. Or his buddy. Or this guy, but for some reason I think his name was Chuy.

Jill doesn't even remember Kate showing up.