Special Monday

This picture? Cheese? Yes.

But that's not all that is special.  What is special is having a co-worker ask you if your shirt is supposed to be inside-out. Uh yeah... of course? At least I totally played it off that way and decided just to keep my shirt inside out for the rest of the day.

Thanks co-worker.

The Good Wife

 

I'm such a good wife. I make cookies for dinner. 

Special Monday

We have all heard of a bad hair day but what about a bad face day?  I have these more often then bad hair days.  On these days I wish that sporting a ski mask was an acceptable fashion accessory to wear to the office.

Bronx-a-gram numero dos!

How can you not love that face?

Did you see my blog title? Yep- check me out learning some espanol for my upcoming little vaca to Espana! Only 7.5 weeks away! WHOOT-WHOOT!

Life

If I could describe my life in one word- at the moment that word would be conflicted. Conflicted about this blog, about my career, about love, family, myself, about... everything really.  But at the same time I feel happy.  Contradictory, no?

Happy because at the end of the day- no matter what happens or which direction my life goes in, I know that I will be okay. What is meant to be is meant to be, I am an absolute believer in that things happen for a reason and I am more then okay with that. It makes me feel at peace and happy- even with all those "conflicted" feelings going on.

I will be okay. More then okay.

Special Monday

Can I just say that I count my lucky stars just about every day that my generation barely missed the tech age.  If youtube had existed there is no doubt that this would have been me.

No doubt at all.

Bronx-a-gram

My little Bostie, Bronx, is by far my favorite subject to take pictures of.  He use to smile for me, but now he just looks at me with this expression that says, "really mom? another one?"

I've jumped on the bandwagon and have added Instagram to my list of obsessions. Right next to Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and blogging. I think I may need help. I am seriously considering going to back to my classic brick phone (insert: images of old school Nokia phone here) you know which one am talking about... you know you all miss the snake game.

Having a smart phone makes it way too convenient to "connect".

its's FRIDAY!!!

 

GO DO SOMETHING FUN!

#fail

Bad pictures will put a good outfit to shame.  Now I know why people say do not take pictures at noon- it's not the most flattering of light.

Then add in the wind and you have a world of trouble- like your new tripod falling over and you screaming your head off as your new camera crashes down to the ground.

The last set of pictures are from the camera falling . . .

And to top off the day, my boss and I wore matching outfits. Amusing for others, not so much for us.

this one makes me giggle

 

Special Monday

As we age many of us get into the habit of knocking off a few years when asked that dreaded question, "how old are you?"

I on the other hand like to add about five or so years to my actually age, this comes particularly in handy since half the time I have to pull out a calculator and do some quick calculations just to figure out how old I am anyway.  So making up an age is a lot easier to remember.

The logic behind saying I am older then I am is that I am more likely to get that wonderful comment, "wow you look so much younger!" which lets just be honest is way better then telling someone your real age and getting no comment at all, and a nod of the head.

California

Is my home away from home. The moment my toes touched the west coast sand at the tender age of 4 I knew that southern Cali was where I was meant to be. It was then, that I decided I would find a way to move there, and move there I did when I was 18.  My time in L.A was short lived as I only spent two years living in the splendid sun while I attended school.

See- at the time I had just met my husband-to-be right before I left the Salt Lake valley and while I was slaving away at school he stayed back- and we tried out the long distance thing- it was successful. 

Life has a funny way of working out and I was brought back to the Salt Lake area where I have stayed, and although it has grown on me, my love for my job is the only thing that has kept me here.  

This past week I was reminded of my deep yearning to be in southern California as I was lucky enough to travel for work to Santa Barbara where we shot our upcoming summer catalog and filmed our next Stylewatch video. This was my first trip going this far north of L.A. and I have simply fallen even more in love.

One day... I will make my way back for good. Coming home to a blizzard only affirms that thought.