READY for another weekend :)

Well Helloooooo blog! It's been another week...what can I say, I'm getting used to this whole "journal about life" thing. BUT, Kyle suggested that I take pictures of projects that I've done so far, and that's what I kinda started this blog for. Nothing too exciting to report yet, but I DO have a few to take pictures of. I don't have pictures of all of them, but that's because most (ok all) of them were gifts, so I'm gonna have to go track down their recipients and pin them down long enough to take pictures of them. :)

1)  This is a lavender lapghan (like an afghan, but smaller. For your lap. I'm sure you got that.) I started this one about a year and a half ago, and I'm JUST getting around to finishing it now. It's gonna go to my amazing cousin Alex, who's currently in Washington, with AmeriCorps.

2) This is the FIRST hat I ever knit the right way (i.e. on circular needles, for anyone who knows what that is). I made it back in October, and it went to Kyle. Since then, he's also gotten some Celtic fingerless mittens and another beanie, with earflaps. You can see his rendition of said hat here. I'll try to get an actual picture of it soon. :)

3) THIS handsome fellow is Bugsy. He's a Boston Bull Terrier, and damnit his lil ears get chilly sometimes when he's hanging out with all us peeps in the garage. So, his mama asked me to knit him a beanie, and it think he looks pretty spiffy. He didn't even seem to mind wearing it that much! You can't see it, but the chinstrap fastens on the other side with this awesome black-and-white polka dot button. SO cute.

Anyways, I hope you like these projects; there's much more to come, as soon as I can get pics. Three more hats, gloves, blankets, ahhhh! Apparently I've been a busy crafter, and I didn't even realize that. Haha.

On another note, I'm so ready for this weekend! Sat, Sun, and Mon off...pure bliss. Mom's outta town with the bf for the weekend. I got Tangled on Blue-Ray (Kyle doesn't know it yet but he will be watching it with me. Shhh...oh wait. What's that? He follows this blog? Damnit...foiled again!). Who knows what else I'll do?! I'll keep you posted!

Gabs

St. Paddy's/Wedding/Weekend Recap

Sooooo...
Last Thursday was St. Patrick's Day, and I got to spend the evening...at work. It was REALLY busy, though towards the end of my shift, one of the E.R. doctors was starting a dialysis catheter and was nice enough to explain what he was doing (I think he saw the crazy in my eyes...I get that way with medicine; I think it's SO cool) and let me help him out a bit. Really neat. After that, I headed over to the apartments to see Kyle and hang out with people, but it turns out most of them had already left for the bar, and the ones who hadn't were headed to bed. Seeing as I had to be back at work at 0430 on Friday, I was a big fat ball of fun, and went home to bed as well, hahaha.

I got to wear my favorite green sweater...yay!

...AND my green Vans. Everyone was laughing at how green I was that day.

My DELICIOUS Irish dinner. Forgive the cabbage, I know it's not a true Irish thing...I just love cabbage. The Corned beef from the cafeteria...amazing.

Friday night, Kyle and I went to the Mission Tiki drive in, and saw Paul and The Adjustment Bureau (awful). Paul was...funny. Not as good as I'd hoped it would be - the main guys are the same ones from Shaun of the Dead, which was much better, in my opinion. It was still fun though, we went in our jammies and got some McDonalds on the way for dinner.

Saturday, we had a small birthday dinner for Aunty Audrey...me, mom, sisters, Cameron (sister's boyfriend), Chris and Pas (cousin and girlfriend), grandma, great aunt, and Kyle came over for dessert and...CRANIUM! Greatest game ever. So much fun. Everybody went home, and Kyle and I did nerdy computer things 'til about 1 am, hahaha.

Sunday morning, mom, A.A. and I went and met Dan (mom's boyfriend) at Corner Bakery for coffee/breakfast. Yummy. Did some random last minute shopping for pantyhose and cards and stuff before we got ready to go to the wedding. Oh yeah, the wedding...

Was cold.
About 40 degress with the wind chill factor.
So it was dresses, heels, and...snow jackets? Yup. Mom and aunt were in their snow/ski jackets and I LUCKILY had Kyle's pea coat. I looked really cute, to say the least. Hahahaha....About halfway through the evening, it started dumping rain on us...Thank goodness Kyle was able to pick me up earlier; we left at about 8:05 pm, and I was SO ready to put on my jammies.

We spent the night in Dana Point...FUN! And in the morning we drove up PCH to...

Kyle wasn't feeling very photogenic. Still cute though. :)

SUGAR SHACK! Kyle's been talking about this place for forever, and I wanted to finally try it; let me tell you, it was delicious. OMG good. There was rain everywhere, but luckily we got a seat inside, and I had some great eggs and Hollandaise sauce. Yummy yummy! Plus, Kyle hadn't been there in a really long time, but one of the waiters still recognized him. Fun. He took me home after, and I had to get ready to go back to work :(. All in all though, it was a fantastic weekend.  I don't get to get away very often, and I enjoyed every second of it. Now, I'm on day 2 of my 6 day stretch at work, and it's not been too awful so far. I'm hoping it stays this way. Thanks for listening to my epic weekend stories (not really, but hey) all, I'll be back soon.

Off to the gym!

Getting Ready for the Weekend...Eek!

My cousin Angela is getting married this weekend, and we all know Gabi loves any excuse to buy new shoes. I ordered my dress this past Sunday, and it came in the mail yesterday afternoon. I was looking for a pair of emerald-green shoes originally (yay green!), but alas, nobody seems to have the same taste in crazy colors as me. BUT, I did find these adorable Jessica Simpsons online and Nordstrom....happy...

(pardon the quality...phone picture. Oh, and pardon the AccuChek machine, computer, and desk...I'm still at work. Shhh.) I had to order them in a 9 1/2 online and pick them up in Riverside this morning. Then I visited my mama at work in Ontario to have lunch with her before coming to work myself. Pretty productive day, all in all. Hahaha.

I'm super mega excited for this weekend...my Aunty Audrey (yes, I still call her that) is coming into town on Friday for the wedding this weekend. Kyle and I are going to the drive-in in Montclair Friday night (we may or may have gone on Monday as well) to see Paul and The Adjustment Bureau...we bring our own snacks and food and nerdyness. Plus, $7 per person for TWO movies?! Even if they're bad, you can't beat that. Plus, you get to watch from the comfort/security of your own car. Amazing.

Saturday night, we're having a belated birthday dinner for A.A.'s birthday, which was Feb. 8 (but she lives in CO, so it's the best we could do). Sunday is the wedding (fun!) in San Juan Capistrano, and then Kyle and I are staying in Dana Point that night, and hanging out at the beach on Monday, since that's my regular day off during the week. I tell ya, I haven't had a fun weekend like this planned in a long time. I'm excited! Pictures to follow, of course.

Welp, I think my shift is officially over...I'd best be scooting my butt on home, I wanna try these babies on with my dress! And it's been a reallu busy shift...I may or may not be finishing this evening off with a bottle glass of red wine. Mmm...

I'm Here!

So, I got told by a certain someone the other day that I should start a blog...So, here I am. At first, the idea didn't really appeal to me; I've never been one to keep a journal (even though my mama always said I should...it just always seemed a little useless to me). However, I've realized that there's a lot going on in my life right now that I'm thoroughly enjoying, and I will want to remember how I'm feeling about things right NOW, as they're happening.

My life may not be extraordinary, but it's happening. And I want to remember it.

To start, maybe you should get to know a little bit about me, eh? Well, either way, you're gonna get a little bit of history here, so, enjoy the ride. :)

This past year has been exhausting, emotionally and physically and mentally. March of last year, I was still REALLY trying to go to school, I had just started working full time, and I was really trying to make a certain "relationship," if you can call it that, work. I put it in quotations, because of course it was a relationship; everyone that's in your life for an extended period of time has a relationship with you, but I'm referring to a romantic relationship here, and in that sense, it was at best a pseudo-relationship. I wanted it so, SO badly, and I liked to pretend that it was a real relationship sometimes, but it wasn't. I did backbends for this person, and I realize now that that's now how either party in a healthy relationship should have to act. April 2010, I cut it off. It was unbelievably hard...probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. May, June, July...they were excruciating, I won't lie. But you know what? It got a LOT easier in August, when this person began coming around again, begging for my attention right as I started to show interest in someone else.

That same someone who told me to start this blog. :)

This is not meant as a pity party; believe me when I say I am MUCH happier now. I'm still not perfect, but that whole experience last year really opened my eyes, and while I know that there is compromise in any relationship, it can never be one-sided. I won't do that again.

This blog is a way to communicate my erratic, inane, emotional thoughts, with no pretense of being about anything but me. If you know me, you know that I'm constantly thinking about other people. I worry more than probably any person should, and I think it could be very nice to be able to vent here (I type way faster than I write). There will definitely be pictures of my projects (let's be honest, between those and my dog, there's probably no more room in my phone for pictures), maybe a few random poems or two (yes, I've been known to write). I invite you to stop by any time you please, and let me know what you think!