New Nails

This is a coat of OPI's Fresh Frog of Bel Air in between 2 coats of OPI's Cuckoo For This Color.  So festive!

Robyn's Birthday Bowling Celebration

To celebrate Robyn's birthday, she had people (Pat, Jules, Rob, Meg, and myself) come over for dinner (brats and broccoli salad) and then we went bowling.  I bowled 92 the first game and then 88 the second game.  Not too bad since bowling is not really my strong suit!

Being Social

Robyn sent a text on Friday night saying that her coworker was having a birthday get-together for her boyfriend and encouraged her to bring friends. She asked if Meg and I were interested in going. Meg's family was in town for the weekend, so she had to decline. I didn't have any plans, so I decided to tag along. The party was at the Science Club and I met some of her coworkers who were very nice. Robyn said that the coworker that did the inviting looked like Anne Hathaway, and she was right! Most of the time there was spent chatting with another coworker about recent television/movies/books, and the differences between gay and straight weddings (this coworker had been with his boyfriend for 8 years and he didn't mind the slew of questions we asked).

At one point the bartenders took away the birthday guy's present, which was a thing of alcohol.  I was like WTH?!  I told "Anne Hathaway" and she said that she knew they did that because they have a policy against alcohol being consumed that wasn't purchased at the club.  Ok, understood.  I thought they were stealing his present, and that would have been totally uncool!

Hairdo Friday

I saw this milkmaid/Grecian hairdo on YouTube recently (EmJustLikeYou and Samantha Schuerman) and I wanted to recreate it on myself.  I sat in front of the mirror last night, attempting to do it, but I don't think I got it right because my hair's too short.  Fortunately, Julie has longer hair and of course being the little sister that she is, I volunteered her to be my hair model tonight.  I was able to do a better job on her, but I still struggle with tucking in the ends.  She was complaining that I was tugging too tightly, so I had to stop and use a clip to hold everything in place.

At least I can still do a good French braid. :)

Office Order Update

I was so busy with work today.  The whole morning was spent fidgeting with updating a website and the graphics were just not up to par and I couldn't figure out why.  I was determined to figure it out on my own, but then decided it was easier to call the website guy to help me.  Then it was sending out a flurry of emails.  With the 2 focus groups, an in-person meeting, and a program review all happening before Christmas, there is plenty to do and there's only so much that I can do on my end.  Hurry up and wait is the name of the game.

My Human Resources department decided on the balloon birthday card and this anniversary card for their next card order.  The one change they had was to make the background color brighter, instead of brown.  Ok, that's totally do-able.  After shutting down my work computer and feeling frustrated (I still haven't found my hoop earrings...I'm starting to accept that I'll have to find a replacement), I went up to my craft room and cranked out the 25 birthday cards that were requested.  The deadline they gave me was November 22.  I'll definitely be able to turn this order in early.

Good News and Bad News

Bad News: I can't find my hoop earrings.  I've searched everywhere in the house that would be a potential hiding spot and I came up with nothing.  They must be in the house somewhere because I took a picture with them when I got my free t-shirt.  UGH, this is going to bug me until I find them.  Fortunately, they aren't expensive, so they'd be easy to replace with a trip to Target or Macy's.

Good News: I was looking at Twitter last night and I saw this posting about a sticker drive, specifically Stick It To Diabetes.  I collected stickers when I was younger, but the collection has been sitting in a box in my closet.  I figured giving them away to kids that could appreciate them more than I could at the moment would be a good thing to do.

Another good thing from today was that I met up with Morgan, a former co-worker, for lunch to catch up.  I also delivered some oatmeal raisin cookies to Reggie at the office.  Despite the misplaced earrings, it's been a pretty good day.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Rejected Cards

One of the administrative assistants at work has been really helpful during this teleworking arrangement, like checking my mailbox and keeping an eye on the fax machine for W9s that were coming for me.  To show my appreciation, I made some oatmeal raisin cookies using this oatmeal raisin recipe that I found online.  Oatmeal raisin cookies are not my go-to cookie, but I knew that they were his.  I usually prefer something that has chocolate.  However, these turned out really yummy and I made sure to save some for myself. 

Here are some of the cards that I made last night for the office order.  I didn't like them enough to turn them in as my samples (these are the samples I ended up with), but I know that I'll be modifying them with embellishments so that I can use them in the future.