spring has sprung

Ahhhh, Spring is finally here! Although, you know, it's still pretty chilly around here. I'm still wearing a scarf and gloves, but at least we can put away our goose down jackets! Woo hoo! I was walking to the train station yesterday and came across this pretty bunch of crocus. Just love how the petals are striped. Nature never ceases to amaze me. Now if she can just be true to the forecast of 60 degrees this weekend ... keepin' our fingers crossed!

t minus two weeks and counting ...

So it's official. I've put in my two weeks notice at my big corporate job. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Getting flooded with emails now. Definitely going to be a drink fest next Friday night!

lists

Are you a list type of person? I am. I have to make a list when I go grocery shopping, otherwise I'll forget to get something. I have to list out what dishes I'm making for dinner each week. I have little squares of paper that are my "to do" lists. I have scrapbook layout "to do" lists with a sketch of something I want to put together. I make lists for our Christmas cards each year. And yes, I already have a list of people to invite to our wedding that will hopefully happen within the next hundred years.

I digress. It's Thursday.

So this morning I opened an email with the subject line of "lists" and it was a reply from my boyfriend's brother from something I sent to him back in June of 2005. Yes, like nine months ago! LOL Anyway, thought it would be fun to post it here.

Twelve Movies (not in any order)

1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Pride and Prejudice (yes, the really long 2-disc version!)
3. I, Robot
4. Mad Hot Ballroom
5. Ever After
6. Roman Holiday
7. Sixth Sense (it still gives me chills!)
8. Notting Hill
9. Love Actually
10. Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh version)
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. The Wedding Singer (I can never really get tired of that for some reason)

Eleven Good Bands/Artists (not in any order)

1. The Cardigans
2. Weezer
3. Kelly Clarkson
4. Kurt Elling
5. Sting
6. The Push Stars
7. The Corrs
8. Jackson 5
9. 311
10. Marcy Playground

Ten Things About You (delete after the ... part and fill in with your answer)

1. I'm ... 4'-7.5"
2. My favorite color ... has always been some shade of green.
3. When I was little I wanted to be ... the smartest person in my class.
4. I miss ... being with my nephews.
5. I am a ... big [but shorter] sister.
6. I'm definitely ... not a morning person.
7. I like to ... clean my ears out with Q-tips even though I know you're not supposed to and I tend to dig in there too deep to the point that I gave myself an ear infection and the doctor told me to lay off the Q-tips. LOL
8. I'm ... creative.
9. I eat ... just about everything!
10. I love ... romantic surprises!

Nine Good Friends (not in any order)

1. Tony
2. Linda
3. Shannon
4. Jeff
5. Brian
6. Debi
7. Renee
8. Sara
9. Karen

Eight Favorite Foods/Drinks

1. sushi
2. Korean BBQ
3. a frozen mango margarita with salt from Fajitas 'n Ritas
4. potato pizza at Cambridge, 1
5. the little egg custard desserts that you get at dim sum (and any Chinese bakery)
6. smoked salmon bagels
7. a vanilla milkshake from Mel's Drive-In in San Francisco, CA (but you have to have a burger with it, of course ...)

Seven Things You Wear Daily

1. under garments
2. a watch
3. a necklace
4. some type of clothing (it's not good to go to work naked)
5. shoes
6. my security badge for work
7. now that it's still frigid outside, long johns

Six Things You Hate

1. when people are excessively late (but geeze, hate is such a strong word ...)
2. tourists in Boston during the summertime
3. tourists in Boston during the winter, spring, and fall ...
4. racists
5. mosquitoes (and mosquito bites)
6. cleaning (my sister got that gene ... hee hee)

Five Things You Do Daily

1. check my email
2. drink at least one whole bottle of water at work
3. get a caffeine fix
4. go to the bathroom about a gazillion times a day (see items #2 and #3 of this list)
5. read at least one person's blog

Four Shows You Watch

1. CSI
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Desperate Housewives
4. King of Queens

Three Places You've Lived Before

1. Hayward, California
2. Aurora, Colorado
3. Lynn, Massachusetts

Two Things You Want

1. To win the lottery big time ... I mean BIG time ... so that my boyfriend and I can just do the things we love most in life and not have to worry about paying for life's luxuries.
2. To always be happy in life.

One Person You Want To See Right Now

1. My sister


Okay, so I'm going to tag three people to do this on their blog ... Debi, Karen, and Jodi!

Happy Thursday all. If you wore green today, you're horny.

what donut are you?

You Are a Glazed Donut

Okay, you know that you're plain - and you're cool with that. You prefer not to let anything distract from your sweetness. Your appeal is understated yet universal. Everyone digs you. And in a pinch, you'll probably get eaten.

What Donut Are You?

lately

Well I'm not sure if I'm really cut out for this blogging thing because I find that I don't have many interesting things to say, or when I do, I forget to write. Anyway, just some random things going on lately ...

I'm participating in a swap that my friend Karen is hostessing. We went to CKU-A Stamford together back in October and during that time we all created a "Favorites" album. We had eight instructors that rotated to each class and they provided the materials to do one 8"x8" page about a particular favorite item ... so we did things like our favorite places to shop, favorite books, etc. Anyway, Renee and Karen had a great idea to help fill up the pages in our little albums (since they have more than eight pages in them) and started this swap for more topics. I picked "my favorite music" and was really pleased with what I came up with (self-kudos there). I attached four vellum pockets where people could scan the covers of their favorite albums and insert them in each pocket. And then there's a side pocket where you can list your current top ten favorite albums/artists.


Okay, so more about scrapbooking. I enrolled in an online class offered by Big Picture Scrapbooking called "Random Me: A to Z" which is going to kind of be based around this book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal called "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life". You don't HAVE to read the book to take the class, but they said that it was an amusing book so I picked it up. And they were right - it's pretty funny to read someone else's perspective on random things and sometimes say out loud, "Oh my gosh, I do that too!". So leading up to this class (which starts April 6th), I've been jotting notes in the book of topics I'd like to cover too. Can't wait to start this project!

Speaking of projects, I decided to do an album/journal dedicated to the photos I've taken or received via my cell phone camera. I know, I'm strange. But it's quite interesting to go back and look at the photos and then think, "Why did I take this photo?" or "Where was I when I took this?". It'll make an unusual coffee table book for sure.

What's coming up for the weekend ... well let's see ... I'm getting four teeth taken out on Saturday morning. Whoop dee doo. So I think it's going to be a weekend of painkillers and a DVD marathon for me.

I thought I'd post part of a little survey thing that Karen emailed to me today. Take a look at this check list and see how many things you've done in your life! (Of course, my side comments are in teal ... LOL)

Part 1: Place an X in front of all those that you have done or experienced ...

(X) Smoked a cigarette (I took like one puff and coughed my gall bladder out)
( ) Drank so much you threw up (Knock on wood -- hasn't happened yet ...)
( ) Crashed a friend's car (Lucky for my friends, no, but my own car ... different story!)
( ) Stolen a car
(X) Been in love (Still am!)
(X) Been dumped
(X) Shoplifted (Hope my parents aren't reading this ...)
( ) Been laid off/fired
(X) Quit your job
(X) Been in a fist fight (Does sibling rivalry count?)
(X) Snuck out of your parent's house (See, I think there's karma in being honest online too. Crap.)
(x) Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) Been arrested
( ) Gone on a blind date
(X) Lied to a friend
(X) Skipped school
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Been on a plane
(X) Been lost
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country (Are you kidding me?? Back and forth all the time. I should own stock in JetBlue.)
(x) Gone to Washington, DC
(x) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
( ) Sang karaoke (No way, Jose!)
(X) Paid for a drink with only coins (Soda counts, right?)
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X) Made prank phone calls (HA! To a bowling alley: What size are your balls?)
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose (Sadly, yes ...)
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Danced in the rain
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) Watched the sun rise with someone you care about
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Made a bonfire on the beach
( ) Crashed a party
(X) Gone roller-skating
(X) Ice-skating
( ) Ridden horses on the beach
(X) Cried at a sad movie
(X) Broken a bone (I'm so accident prone ... this is why I stopped skiing.)
(X) Been mad enough at a friend, you stopped being friends (Sadly, yes.)

Okay and now I see I have been tagged by the great Karen, so here's some more stuff to help make your day go by faster ... :)

Four jobs you have had in your life: (not in any particular order)
1. Starbucks Barista
2. Quality Analyst
3. Spa Package Coordinator & Hostess
4. Creativity Consultant

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Pride & Prejudice
2. Sense & Sensibility
3. Love Actually
4. Ever After

Four places you have lived:
1. Aurora, CO
2. Hayward, CA
3. Lynn, MA
4. Somerville, MA

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Desperate Housewives
3. CSI
4. 30 Minute Meals

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Las Vegas, NV
2. San Diego, CA
3. Sarasota, FL
4. Mt. Rushmore, SD

Four websites I visit often:
1. various blogs!
2. www.scrapsupply.com
3. www.sparkcrafts.com
4. www.myspace.com

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Sushi (spicy tuna rolls)
2. Rack of lamb
3. Korean beef BBQ
4. Fried clams

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. With my honey at home snuggled up in bed
2. Working on scrapbook projects
3. Watching the ocean waves in Carmel, CA
4. Playing with my nephews :)

You're supposed to tag four other people, but I don't know that many people with blogs! So if you read this, consider yourself tagged!

Have a great weekend everyone!