I know, I know

I'm terrible at this blog thing. It seems ridiculous to me because my friend Dana posts all the time and its not that she really posts anything crazy. If anything, she posts about very everyday things, but she makes them so interesting and funny! I feel like nothing that interesting happens in my life yet I twitter and facebook all the time!

I guess my big news is that Chris and I will probably be ending our 3 1/2 year relationship tomorrow. Both Marquette and Georgetown somehow made it to the Big East Semi-finals and are playing each other at 7pm. So there you go. College basketball will be the demise of us. We surprisingly have made it through me getting an iPhone. But we had pretty much planned on everything ending when Mythbusters starts back up again on March 24th. So no big loss. Sorry for those who planned on getting drinks at the open bar at our wedding. :-)

Just joking! Things are good in Indy. Chris and I have been very focused on remodeling our living room. I'll post pictures when it's all done, but we are getting new everything. Chris and I put together our new coffee table and end table tonight. We plan on buying the TV this weekend and hopefully soon a new couch. Thus we finally got renter's insurance. Ha ha. That's what we get for living in the ghetto.

I'm looking forward to this spring for all the race activities. We are really hoping to do some good camping this season. We got a lot of camping gear now so Dana and Howard...be ready!! The guest bedroom is always available so let us know if you want to come visit!

Dana's Contest

Dana is running a contest! Check it out!

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Halloween 09

For Halloween this year, Dana and Howard drove up from Kentucky to go to the 49ers/Colts game. They were fortunate enough to find seats in the same section as us, only three rows away. They arrived on Saturday evening just in time for dinner and pumpkin carving. Chris made his mom's delicious sloppy joe recipe. We had a couple more friends stop by to join us. Here are the pumpkins everyone carved. Pretty good!!

On Sunday we got up early and had bagels from Einstein. Dana has been complaining for months about how there are no bagel shops in Paducah. Her mom even froze bagels and mailed them to her! So I spent one day asking tons of questions about her frozen bagel experience so that I could find out her's and Howard's favorite bagels. I can't believe she really thought I was that interested in her bagel experiences!! HAHA!

We got to the parking lot and tailgated for a little bit. We wanted to get over to the stadium so that I could show them my brick and show them around the stadium. Alas, we didn't get there with enough time so we saw the brick and quickly went to our seats. I wanted to make sure I was there for the pageantry!

It was a real nail biter. The Colts were not looking like the Colts. I have to admit that I was kind of nervous and probably avoided looking over in Dana and Howard's area for the majority of the first half. During halftime, Howard informed me that he had taken all my Colts stuff in the guest bedroom and turned it upside down or backwards. This was, of course, after the conversation he and I had about how superstitious we are when it comes to football. Unfortunately, his plan was foiled and the Colts won! Yea me! Sorry to Howard who drove 6 hours to watch his team lose. I hope he had fun anyway.

We drove home, exhausted and hungry. We were ready to eat and just relax while watching more football. I opened the door to the apartment and got attacked by a dog! I was in shock! Where did this dog come from?? Well, apparently, Hank got out of his crate and had been enjoying himself for who knows how long. We looked around surveyed the damage. He had destroyed an aluminum can, but didn't look like he ate of it. A deck of cards was definitely ruined. He pooped on the carpet. And the worst....

Fortunately, it is very easy to get tickets replaced when you're a season ticket holder. I spent the whole night thinking that I didn't latch his crate properly. Until Monday....he did the same thing. Now we know that our Hankdini can open his crate. I have now attached a 3lb padlock to the door. We'll see if he can get that open! I knew I shouldn't have read Marley and Me!!!! Ha ha!

Best Boyfriend Ever!

So this morning I'm sitting at work, just doing my thing when Joe from the warehouse comes over to my desk and hands me a package. I didn't order anything so I was clueless. Then I saw on the box it said from NFL.com. Well, I used to order stuff from there all the time and then forget that I did. So I thought, gee did I order something and completely forget about it? Then I saw below my name was Chris' phone number. I said, oh that's my boyfriend's phone number. I opened it up and inside was a customized Melvin Bullitt Colts jersey. He is my new favorite defensive player as of last year and was hoping to get his jersey for Christmas.

I thought he had got this for me for our anniversary next week, but he told me no, we don't do gifts for our anniversary. This was just because he knew I wanted one really bad. What a sweet guy!! And then on his lunch break he cleaned out the fridge for me and took out the trash so that I can relax tonight and watch my trashy shows. What a great guy!!

Hank

On Saturday, Chris and I officially became dog owners. Woo hoo! We would like to present Hammerin Hank Aaron Smith. Or just Hank. I'm not hung ho on using Chris' last name, but alas, he is the male.

The first day we had him, he was great. We thought he was the most well behaved puppy ever. He had some accidents when it came to going to the bathroom, but he's a puppy! We expected that. Well, as it turns out, he was just being polite on his first day here. Now that he knows this is his home, he's been peeing everywhere, biting things, trying eating the carpet, etc. Ha ha. We're working hard on training him, but he thinks we're playing with him.

I'll update more next week. My camera broke during my last move and I just haven't gotten it repaired. My mom is coming to visit next weekend and is bringing me a camera. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures. He looks really cute wearing his Colts bandana, but you can tell he hates having something around his neck. :-)

PS On Friday it will have been two months since my last cigarette. My mom still doesn't know we quit. We're surprising her on Friday night!

Scavenger Hunt

Wow, I had one of the best weekends ever. We went to our first Colts game so that we could check out the seats. I'm proud to say that we bought the first Miller Lite on the upper level. Go us! I was just excited to find Miller Lite! So we are pleased with the seats, the food stands around us, and the beer selection. However, I hated being at a preseason game. I have ever attended Redskins preseason games b/c I would get the ticket for free and I could careless who won the game. This was very frustrating trying not to care about who won the game while being at the game. I hate seeing my ponies lose! We left at halftime to go home and get a good nights rest.

On Saturday, I participated in a scavenger hunt for the Indiana Geographic Information Council. They are trying to raise money and also teach people how to orienteer. So my company, Cannon IV, sponsored a couple of us to participate. We all wore our brand new Cannon IV t-shirts advertising our website. Although our purpose was to try and generate more business for our company, LBH, we wanted to win the treasure chest!

We were given a packet with 59 questions on it and a map with 59 sites. We had to find each site using the map and a compass. Then we had to answer each question.

So we had about an hour and a half to get all the questions. The organizer said he didn't think it was possible to get all of them in the alloted time. This immediately became our goal. So we ran around downtown. It was so neat. A lot of the questions required inspecting one of the many momuments dowtown. I don't know if you know, but Indianapolis is only second to DC in the number of monuments. Then a lot were looking at old buildings and counting details of some of the architecture. We learned a lot and got tons of exercise.

I don't know if you guys also knew that there was a Gen Con Convention downtown this weekend. This is a convention for all the gamers (ie Dungeon and Dragons). People love to get dressed up and go to this. We passed by this person during our hunt

Ha ha, not sure what they were, but it was hilarious. Well, to make a long story short, we ended up winning the whole thing. Not only did we get the most sites completed (56 out of 59), but we ended up finding the key as well and got to open the treasure chest. It was full of terrible dumpy toys that we just let the kids have. However, we each got a really cool book to take home.

So much fun! Chris and I also went by the state fair on Saturday night to try chocolate covered bacon (yuck) and find Heather a date for my wedding, whenever it is (success!!). Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Almost Non-Smoker

So, I've been waiting forever to tell you guys....that after two weeks, I think I can officially call myself an almost non smoker! I don't want to jinx myself, but I've been doing really good. Chris and I both had set a date and told no one that we were going to be quitting. We did not want the pressure of people reminding us of the date or the idea. We just wanted to lay low and do it. So on July 31st, we hit the liquor store and the local CVS. We each got to drink our favorite drink that night and smoke as many cigarettes as we wanted. Saturday morning, when we woke up, we were no longer smokers.

It was pretty easy for me. In fact, I remember calling my dad about 4 days into wondering if there was something wrong with me. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely times that I want a cigarette real bad, but it seems that I am able to push the idea out of my mind and focus on other things. It has helped that I am super busy at work. The busiest I have ever been and I have a couple huge projects that I have been working on. I'm also back taking some classes this fall which should be interesting. I kind of fell off the wagon a little with the amount of guests we had visiting us and trips that we had ourselves, weddings, moving, etc.

So I know there are a bunch of us that have or are trying to quit smoking and I think it's great. I have already noticed some changes in my breathing and my fingertips. I also have noticed that I want to eat better, I feel like actually exercising, and I'm hanging out with people who don't smoke therefore don't really drink as much either.

PS My first Colts game is tomorrow!!!! I'll blog about that later!