Ten Ways I Pass the Time Until Friday

In honor of your visit, I will be blogging every day this week with my Top Tens related to your visit. Here's the first one:
10. Straightening the comforter on the guest room, and picking lint out of the carpet, and in general fussing over every aspect of your room.
9. Planning Friday's schedule down to the minute, including the precise second I will turn on my car to head to the airport.
8. Blogging my Top Ten daily, but you knew that, so probably playing Farm Frenzy a few times just to pass the time.
7. Working out hardcore to burn the extra calories I will undoubtedly be consuming this weekend.
6. Planning out my frigid weather running ensemble.
5. Practicing my hug tackle on Stephen and Mojo.
4. Stocking up on snacks, beer, and bloody mary components for this weekend.
3. Working - oh yeah, there is that.
2. Making sure the house looks perfect - not because you require that, but because I want it to look perfect the first time you see it!
1. Playing every hypothetical wonderful moment we will spend over and over in my head, as if it were running on loop (because basically it is).
Love you!

The Big Blue Nation

Wildcat fans, they're moving everywhere. Thank God. :)

On Thursday night I got home from an extremely long day of work, 12 hours to be exact, but that is not the focus of today's blog. The first thing I often do when I get home is give in to the magnetic pull of the laptop and my e-mail. I mean, you never know what could be in there: an e-mail from Katie, a job update, funny pictures compliments of Teresa, or perhaps a Facebook comment. Thursday night's e-mail goldmine, however far exceeded many of the wonderul things I have come to find waiting for me.

Okay what do we have here I thought as I saw the short list of unread items: Cooking.com - junk; Facebook event invitation from Joe Sonka of the deomcratic party - junk; UK Alumni Association - juh. Wait. UK Twin Cities Alumni Association - what is this morsel? Click. Gamewatch Party invitation in Minneapolis? WHAT?! OH MY GOD, there is a TWINCITIES UK alumni club? JACKPOT, BABY! Other people who love the Wildcats, went to UK, and knows as much as I do about Lexington. Truly, these are my people. I am signing up.

So Thursday I became a member of the UK Twin Cities Alumni Club and perhaps on Tuesday I will be going to my first event! :D Happiness!

<3 u

I miss you too. A lot. Is everything okay? I thought about you all night last night but didn't want to disturb your time with Stephen. I love you. Call me anytime.

Ugh...

I miss you. :(

Stress Relief

Time to go to my place of Zen. Breath Katie. Well it is clear that the bossman is inflicting stress on everyone in this office. Yesterday he told Claire that she was going to have to write her own grant. If she doesn't, her contract will not be renewed in July. And oh yeah... she is pregnant and due in June. No pressure. None. I feel so bad for her! And while I write this, I am breaking out into hives for the second time today. This time on my lower back. Ridiculous.

So in light of my newfound disfunction, I have decided to come up with a list of things to do to relieve my stress this evening.

- I could light candles all over my house and sit in the lotus position while chanting "Om" on the counter top in my living room. The problem with this is that the countertop is cold and hard and frankly, I prepare food on that. I don't think I could ever make something from scratch again without thinking, My ass has been on that.

- I could go to the store and buy copious amounts of chocolate and gorge myself while watching lifetime television. There is something about the random dysfunctions of Tiffany Amber Thiessan and Tory Spelling to make a girl feel better, even if they are fictional. At least I can say that my Dad's best friend who is my twin's former lover is not trying to murder me because he thinks I am her. I can also say, at least my Dad's best friend was never my twin sister's former lover. (No offense intended). But in the end, the milk in the chocolate plus the stress would cause me a righteous case of GI distress and the dysfunction situations of my own past would surface and I would be stuck on the toilet with a trash can between my legs expelling all my lactose and historical demons.

- I could turn on loud music and dance around the house, but inevitably I would stub my toe on one of the various pieces of kitchen furniture scattered around my house and likely manage to inexplicably break another pipe. I would end up cold, wet, and in pain and when I think it could get no worse - Dave Matthews Band would be the next song to blare from the radio.

Clearly, I need to be careful on how I relieve my stress tonight. I am thinking that polishing off the rest of the chinese food in my fridge while watching some Grade A crap TV and finishing the evening with 'One and the Same' is my best bet for the evening. I would like to watch the Cats but between the late start time and my luck as of late, it is probably best that I call it an early night. Hope you have a great one!

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Happy Monday Morning, Twinkie!


What better way (other than sex) to start out a Monday morning, than a blog from your Bethie! And what is the topic of this blog, oh how about a weekend update?

This weekend was fantastic; it was one of those weekend where you have low expectations and they are blown out of the water. Let's start with Friday. On Friday, we had our all day sales meeting which was about as boring as you would expect. However, it was during that meeting that I realized how accepted I am as part of the group. Linda, one of the other outside sales reps, and I sat together and lamented on the obnoxious little girls (er, middle aged white men, easily confused with all the whining they were doing). Dave, my fabulous trainer (lol), started texting me during the meeting (he was also running the meeting) with joking texts. It was so cool, because I don't feel like an outsider with this group. The feeling continued as the meeting wrapped up and Stephen and I headed to Heidi's house for the "pre-Christmas party" party.

The party was comprised of many of my favorite BLI peeps as well as several of the vendors who come for the tradeshow, which took place on Saturday. This phenomenon of vendors coming to the party was a total surprise to me, but I soon realized why they were invited. These people come year after year and are like part of the family. There are two brothers who look and act like twins, even though they are not. They always have the biggest smiles and are laughing and having fun. It gave me visions of Garrity twins selling lighting far and wide as a tag team, lol. :D Ah, the novelty factor, hehehehe. Another notable person - Kelli. She is the HR person for budget and is about to turn 30. I had made small talk with her at the office, but at the party we totally hit it off. I have high hopes about her being a "girl" friend.

So we got home around 10pm on Friday, loved on the doggies and hit the hay in anticipation of a long Saturday. Saturday comprised of a tradeshow from 11 to 3:15 followed by the awards ceremony/dinner at 6pm. Okay, the cool part is that they pay for your room if you go to the tradeshow. Stephen and I were looking forward to getting spiffed up and hanging out with everyone, but the tradeshow? Yawn. Awards ceremony? Yawn. Wrong!

The tradeshow, while a little dry, was very helpful. I learned a lot about the products I can offer to customers, which is helpful. We wrapped up at 3:15, checked into our room and then headed to, where else? the bar. :P There we hung with several vendors and BLI peeps (the vendors stay for the party, too.) and watched the Bengals play. Fast forward to the party, we had a total blast. Lots of dancing to 90s hits, i.e. "Shoop", alcohol flowing, and nothing but good times. I hit the hay at midnight and Stephen has no clue when he came to bed, lol.

Yesterday, we took it easy. Watched football and ate Chinese food. :D This was a pretty boring blog, but a a boring blog beats no blog any day of the week! I love you soooo much and can not wait to Skype tonight!