Ten Things I Learned This Weekend

1.) I'm so glad I'm not single.
2.) I am soooooo lucky to have the husband I have.
3.) Marriage will not be successful unless both people commit to working hard to make it work.
4.) Having a tire blow out at 85 mph is SCARY.
5.) Southern Comfort and Lime Juice = YUMMY SHOTS (I was shocked, because it sounds really disgusting!).
6.) Always ask if the room has air conditioning before throwing down your cc for a night's stay at a cute bed and breakfast.
7.) I need a camera and a laptop.
8.) Having a best friend that accepts your 1 am drunk dials is priceless.
9.) Moving to Northern California was one of the most difficult, but best decisions I have ever made and I will never ever regret doing it.
10.) It's important to have friends with varying interests and views, but it's also important to surround yourself with people who have values that you admire.

Girlfriends and Cocktails

Those are two of my favorite things.
I'm so thankful to be surrounded by so many smart, beautiful, hilarious, wine and martini loving ladies! I'd be lost (and severely depressed) without you!

Summer

Our summer has been filled with weekend trips! It's been really nice to get away a lot, but I feel like I've missed out on so many things at home! I've missed my friends, my lounge chair by the pool, cleaning my house (can you believe I actually MISS cleaning my house???)... all of the little things that people do on weekends! I just took a look at my calendar to make sure my count was correct - in eight weekends, we have only been home two! And one of those weekends I was SICK! Yuck!
We have had a lot of fun though! We took Reggie on his first camping trip and he experienced his first canoe ride! He had way more fun that I did in that canoe! We have spent tons of time in Tahoe with family and friends and we did another camping trip last weekend to Lake Don Pedro (if you're considering going there call me first... seriously). I'm heading out to San Luis Obispo this weekend, then back up to Tahoe the following weekend for Labor Day.
My goodness! It makes sense that I'm exhausted, right???? I think I'm ready for fall!

Worst Blogger Ever Award...

... goes to me!!!!!!!!!!!! I received a friendly reminder that I have a blog and have not updated it in MONTHS. I will do my best to write something worth reading today :)

Another Dog

I want another dog, but the idea of having four more paws running around the house scares me a little bit. Reggie seems so much happier when he has a pal to goof around with and I've heard that having two isn't much more difficult (if at all) than having one.... we don't have any vacations planned anytime soon. I wonder if now would be a good time to start trying to convince Matt that it's a good idea. Hmmmmm..... I don't know if he'll go for it.

Wicked :)

Matt surprised me at Christmas with tickets to see Wicked. I was soooo excited!!!!!!! I had taken them off of my Christmas list because I really didn't think I'd get them and didn't want to be disappointed... little did I know he had already planned on taking me. What a champ!
The tickets were for the performance on February 27, which at the time seemed like a million years away... I didn't think it would ever come and then "POOF!", it's already past. It still scares me how quickly time flies.

Here's my review of the evening:
We went to First Crush for dinner. We were thirty minutes late for dinner, but luckily they were able to get us in and out of there in time when we told them we had Wicked tickets. The service was really good there and the wine flights... o.m.g. SO good! I had the Zin flight and loved, loved, loved all of them except one. Matt had the bold reds flight. Yum. Unfortunately, the great service and yummy wine didn't make up for the lack of taste and creativity of the food. Kind of a bummer. We had heard really good things about the place, so maybe this was just an off night for them. :(

We wrapped up with dinner and rushed to the show! We made it in time to find our seats, sit down, look at the program for a moment and then it was lights out.

We went to see Phantom with a group of friends recently and I realized then (although I really already KNEW, but it really sunk in that night) that Matt is not at all a good sport about theater productions/musicals. He slept through parts of Phantom. It bums me out because I find myself being completely distracted by the fact that he isn't enjoying himself that it takes away from ME enjoying the evening!! I had kind of teased him and told him that I have been waiting and waiting to see Wicked and I really wanted him to put his game face on through the performance, even if he doesn't like it so I could enjoy it.

He's a total trooper. He sat through the whole thing w/o a single complaint. He waited until we left the theater to tell me that it was his last time going. HA!!! I'm OK w/ that though and I totally appreciate the fact that he tried TWICE to enjoy something that I enjoy for the sake of making me happy. From now on, it's GIRLS NIGHT when I want to see a play, musical, etc.!

So... what did I think of Wicked???? I absolutely LOVED it!!!!!!! I was expecting it to be fabulous and I was not disappointed!! I laughed and I cried; it is a beautiful story of friendship and love, politics, injustice, etc. I highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking about going!

FINALLY!

I am finally feeling like my good old self again. I was sick on and off for a few weeks and was starting to get depressed because all I had the energy to do was drain myself at work, then come home and crash out. I hadn't seen friends, I felt totally disconnected from everyone and my house was an absolute pig sty!!!!! This weekend I was able to relax with Matt, go to an amazing baby shower, clean my house, spend time with friends and even excersize!!
I'm feeling refreshed and energized! I'm excited!