When blogging falls short...

Obvs I'm referring to when blogging falls short

in comparison to my Instagram obsession...

whew...girlfriend needs a 12 step program!! Yikes!

I haven't even read any blogs, much less attempted to write 

a post in atleast 2 weeks, maybe 3. The last time I sat down to write a post

was the day of the SandyHook massacre. I just sat

there reading posts that people had so eloquently written

and I just couldn't put any words together.

I've always said the blogs I most enjoy and admire are

the blogs that are written with gut-wrenching and

no-holds-barred honesty...but turns out that

reading those blogs and writing one of those blogs are two

totally different things.  For 1 in takes much more thought and 

blatant talent but for 2, you have to consider the fact that

any Yahoo you work with might read your blog and all your

blogging business....not cool.

But anyways, the holidays are over, 

(THANK YOU GOD-I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER)

and I'm ready to get on with the new year.

I was already feeling scrooge-tastic heading into the holiday

season and then Christmas turned into a nightmare.

(oh yes....second year in a row) 

So while I grumble under my breath looking at everyone's

posts with their idyllic Christmas trees and family

festivities I try to remind myself not to compare my

behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reels...

Words to live by....

I saw that on Instagram, go figure.

So here's my uber lame attempt at catching up...

I'm going to go the route of posting random pictures with 

brief explanations below them.

Bonfires at mom and dad's

Playing with goats at Kelly's

Halloween!

I really don't care much about Halloween, but I 

do love to dress up and I'm down for any opportunity to

wear a wig!!!

Annual Halloween Wig-out at work

Such a great turn-out!!

I attended a co-workers baby shower where we

donned moustaches of course!!!

These make me laugh so hard...

Alicia...your moustache is falling off...

Charlie Chapman??

Welcome James Jr.!!

Thanksgiving was at my sisters house this year....

Roy and I went to his cousins house initially but then I left

and headed to my sisters to spend the rest of the day with 

my mom & dad.  It was just the four of us which seemed

strange, but we made the best of it and managed to

get some family pictures.

Note to future self: do not wear billowy blouse to family photos...

 My favorite shot of the day

I ate pizza with friends....

I've been watching a lot of The Walking Dead lately, and

Alicia frighteningly resembles one of the zombies in this picture...

 Post-work breakfast at McDonalds with Rach

Roy turned 31...

pardon me while I freak out cause I still can't get 

over the fact that he's 31 and I'm 28!!!

I went to first fridays where I found a helpful little

kitten who kindly held my coffee for me...

Roy even said I could keep him,

but alas he was $5 so he got left behind...

sorry kitty!

I celebrated with Alicia for her 30th birthday....

we failed to get a decent picture...Rachael you're reminding

me of a turtle pulling into his shell in this picture...

we sampled the whipped cream off of fancy martinis

I don't even know what was happening here...

but I love it!!!

Alicia the rat

I swear we weren't trashed, don't let the bloodshot 

eyes fool you!

Christmas Shopping at the legends with mom & Kelly

And the few pictures I took at Christmas were from
Christmas Eve at my  Uncles House. I had to work Christmas Eve
so I was dressed in my AMAZING ugly sweater...

what you can't tell from this picture is the fact that it had bells

all over it that jingled when I walked---perfect!!

Kelly & I

Cousins!!

Sarah, Brianna, myself and Kelly

So that was my lame catch-up post.

I'm going to try to do a post revisiting my New Years resolutions from 

last year, however after some examination I'll probably

realize that I fell short of most of my goals...Eeek!

Oh well, theres always 2013!!

I'm Lame....

If my blog were a dog it would be sad, mangey, 

pathetic starving little creature,

no doubt covered in fleas....

like this guy...

Neglected.

How can I feel too busy to blog?

What the heck do I even do all the time?

I don't even have a freakin' kid and I can't

seem to get it together!! Sheesh!!

Well wait no more!! 

A blog post has arrived!

Unfortunately I am devoid of creativity and

my motivation to write this will no doubt run out

in about 5 minutes, so I better get to it...

bullet point style...

Here's a few things I've been up to as of late.

And PS, I'm seemingly uncapable of getting these pictures

to format and lay out the way I want them too-so excuse the

wonky arrangements!!

• POOL TIME...not nearly as much as I'd like, but hey, any pool time is good time so I'll take what I can get!! I didn't take any photos of my pool time with Alicia, although it was lovely and there was interesting people watching ;)     I did however get a few pics of myself and preggers...she's keepin the belly under wraps at the pool, although I personally think she should set the belly free and catch some sun!!!

• City Market.  One of my favorite summer activities is to visit the farmers market downtown. Usually I only make it once, but I've already been twice this year! Yahoo!! Rach and I went one Saturday morning after working (a nice bonus to working a Friday, I might add..) My purchases included some green beans, cherries, strawberries, peaches and some zucchini. I'd never made fresh green beans before, but after doing some recipe research I steamed and stir-fried them-YUM-O! Don't think I'll ever be able to eat canned green beans again!!

• Becca's baby shower.....well it wouldn't be right if I wasn't going to a baby shower atleast once a month!! Working with 250 women has it's perks and one of those perks is celebrating lots of new babies!! Our friend Becca is expecting a baby boy just a  few weeks after Rachael. A couple of us got together at Megan's and had a popcorn/ice cream social/carnival themed shower! Umm HELL-O-I'm officially conviced that I need one of these popcorn machines in our basement!!  

• Fathers Day.  We celebrated 27 years of my pops being a daddy. And what an amazing father he is!! We met for dinner at one of our favorite go-to restaurants, Macaroni Grill. It never disappoints. Kelly and I were pretty lame in the gift department...we got him white undershirts and a blue polo shirt. I also found this little book about dads that you could personalize, so I hope that gave our gifts a bit more of a sentimental touch..I'm all about making my parents cry with sappy gifts and cards!!

Love you daddy!!

(I've abandoned all hope of trying to arrange my pictures 

side by side or in squares...I'm reverting back to the good ol'

straight down the middle line up....)

• Deanna Rose Farmstead. My sister is the Animal Care Manager at DRCF, so I try to go out there a few times each summer and fall to see the animals and hang out with her.  She always talks about how she could never be a nurse and deal with all the blood and bodily fluids...but holy cow, she has no problem hand feeding dead rats to bobcats and eagles!?!! WTF?? No thanks, I'll take baby poop over rat brains any day sistah....

Cleo the Siamese kitten....

If you dont immediately start singing

 "We are siamese if you please.." from Lady and The Tramp,

then we're probably not gonna get along :)

Most hilarious sequence of photos ever...

Rachel the Donkey (BAHAHAHA)

was showing me her lovely gingivitis and then

sneezed and shot snot out of her right nostril!!

I was dying...

Human Rachael is less than thrilled that she shares

a name with an overweight donkey...

RIP Mr. Ratty

I took these rabbit photos for Roy, he's got 

some sort of affinity for rabbits...which is wierd to me

cause he's not really an 'animal' person.

Bah....My motivation expired about 15 minutes ago,

but I still had two more things I wanted to post about...

I guess this post is To Be Continued..