Blaaaaarg...

I'm weight loss blogging again, so I thought I'd give a little attention to THIS blog too.  Not much to report.  Doing the work and school thing still.  I can not WAIT for this semester to be over. 

• Changed my major from Education to Liberal Arts.  This will allow me to continue to work full time.  I was worried about having to quit my job to do student teaching.  If I quit my job, not only do I lose my income and insurance, but I also lose my fabulous 70% tuition discount.  My new plan is to just finish my bachelor degree and then go from there to get a teaching license.
• Moved in with my brother last November.  Now Timmy, Logan and I are all living together.  It's pretty funny to be living with both of my siblings, but I love it.  The atmosphere is a million times friendlier than my parent's house and it's way cheaper than living on my own.  Plus, I like having roommates.
• Work sucks most of the time.  I constantly struggle with my feelings toward my coworker.  I have to pray for God to make me sweet.  :)  Seriously.  Here's the difference between my coworker and myself.  She's here for a paycheck and tuition discount ONLY.  I'm here because I love what I do.  I love our patients.  I'm constantly trying to make the process easier and better, etc, etc... It's hard to sit back and watch someone half-ass their job and not even care. 
• I still watch too much tv.  I'm addicted to Greek right now.  I love Netflix Instant!

That about sums up my life.  SO SAD.  Here are a few things I'm looking forward too:

• Seth Meyers.  I'm going to Arkansas Tech on 4/11/11 to see him LIVE!  He is my very favorite SNL cast member.  I think he's smart and hilarious and oh so sexy.  :)
• Memphis in May.  I've already bought tickets for me and Rach and booked a hotel room.  It's a super expensive trip, but it will be totally worth it.  I'm looking forward to seeing The Flaming Lips, The New Pornographer, Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers and Wilco...among many others. 
• Camping.  I'm taking a week long camping trip the first week of June.  It's mine and Rach's 3rd annual post spring semester camping trip.  The weather is warm enough to swim and cool enough to enjoy being outside.  The camp sites at Degray are super nice and shaded.  I've been building up my camping supplies for the last couple of months.
• Weekly lake trips.  After all of my vacations, I'll be back to work, but... I plan to drive to Lake DeGray every weekend possible for lots of laying in the sun times. 

Okay...that's all that I can think of for now.  Better get back to work!

I'm back!

Okay. I didn't love tumblr. I love the familiarity of blogger.

Absolutely nothing is going on, so it's not like I'll be blogging a ton. It's been a lazy summer so far. Rach and I go to the lake as much as possible. This week I've been housesitting in Sherwood...a welcome vacation away from my house.

My Landon girlies are coming over for a sleepover-swim party this weekend. I am super excited. I will try to take pics, but no guarantees. I've been terrible about not taking pictures lately.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to say, "I'm back. Woo hoo!" :D

Relocating...for now.

I'm blogging here now: www.mytechnicolordreams.tumblr.com.

Memphis Trip

JM's during "Gravity". The guitar solo blew my mind.

Rach and I went to see John Mayer in Memphis this past weekend. Fun times! I stole that pic above from some random twitterer who was at the same show. We were NOT that close. :) Here's a pic from where WE were sitting.

Almost to the very top of Fedex Forum!

Anyhoo, we got to Memphis at 3:00 on Friday afternoon. We checked into the hotel and just chilled until the concert. Rach was so freaking excited. John Mayer is her absolute favorite. We got to the show early and found our seats...so freaking high up. I was sick to my stomach and couldn't look down until all the seats filled up with people. It was crazy high!

Michael Franti & Spearhead played first. I really like their music. It's everyone-love-everyone music with a fun dance beat. :) Unfortunately, we were so high up that we really couldn't hear him. I think it was the bass noise and his super low register. So, kind of a disappointment.

There was an intermission before John came on. A huge net surrounded the stage...

Me: What do you think that net is for?

Rach: I think it's to protect John from malaria. You know...from the mosquitos?

Me: (sarcastically) Haha. Yeah. I get it. :)

Me: So, do you think John gets nervous before concerts?

Rach: Probably. I bet he's looking at himself in the mirror right now saying, "You're awesome. No, YOU'RE awesome."

Me: I bet he's doing push ups right now to make his pecks look bigger.

And so on and so forth. Finally, music started playing and images were projected on the screen that surrounded the stage. It was pretty cool, actually. Rach said, "OMG. My heart is racing!" Then the screens dropped and there he was! LOL. Rach was in HEAVEN. Thankfully, we didn't have the same problem hearing John as we did with Michael Franti. We did have to strain to hear when he was just talking, but the music was crystal clear.

Here's the set list:

Heartbreak Warfare

No Such Thing

Crossroads

Belief

Perfectly Lonely

Assassin

Stop This Train

The Heart of Life

Ain't No Sunshine - Guitar solo was awesome!

Waiting on the World to Change

Vultures

Half of My Heart > Walking in Memphis

Why Georgia

Gravity - He blew my mind with his guitar solo on this song!

Encore:

Who Says

I'm Gonna Find Another You

Needless to say, after this concert Rach was even more in love with John Mayer! :) We went back to the hotel and watched all of his music videos. Haha!

Saturday morning we took advantage of the hotels contentinal breakfast. Then we packed up, checked out and headed to Beale Street. We walked up and down Beale St several times. We went into all of the souvenir shops and ended up buying t-shirts. In one of the shops there was an acoustic guitar signed by John Mayer. I took a pic of Rach touching it. Hehe. Too bad I didn't have 350 extra dollars in my pocket. Otherwise, I might have bought it for her.

We ended the trip by having lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.

I have some pics, but they're on Rach's camera. I'll try to get them from her and post them here later.

One little side note, we were kind of exhausted from only 4 hours of sleep the night before. On the drive home (Rach was driving), I decided to do some Mad Libs (our fave!). The first few were pretty funny. On the last one, I told Rach to be extra dirty (it makes 'em funnier! Don't judge!), so...she did. The result was so freaking hilarious that I went blind from laughing so hard and Rach ran off the road from the hilarity! Not so much that we wrecked, but we hit those loud noise thingys on the side of the interstate. Anyhoo, it was so hilarious. I would share it, but you probably wouldn't think it was funny. I asked Rach, "Does anyone other than us this we're that hilarious?" She said, "Probably not." We laugh so hard when we're together!

Download these songs (if you don't already have them):

Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti and Spearhead

Heartbreak Warfare - John Mayer

A day in the City

View of the River Market from the Junction Bridge

Blue skies from the Junction Bridge

Downtown Little Rock from the Junction Bridge

Then on to the Big Dam Bridge

This is just the ramp that leads to the bridge. Goo!

My first thought when I saw the bridge was, "HELLO! I believe I ordered the large cappuccino!"

The east side of the BDB.

View from the East side of the BDB

The flags in the middle of the BDB.

The West (calmer) side of the BDB.

View from the West. Oh look! Another bridge! :)

My sweet baby was waiting for me when I got home.

Snow Days

I hardly ever look at the forecast. I just check my weather channel iPhone app when I wake up on weekday mornings so I'll know how to dress for work. Well, Monday morning I woke up to a major surprise. It had snowed! My first thought was, "SH*T!" I did not want to miss work. When it had iced the week before, I missed a day and my nazi of a boss wouldn't let me use vacation time to make up lost hours. So, when I woke up Monday morning and saw the snow I knew that I would have to drive in it. NOT FUN. I got to work at 7 am with no troubles. Out of pure defiance I didn't do any work. I did on algebra and played on facebook. TAKE THAT ATTENDANCE NAZIS! After a while I looked out the window and noticed that the snow was POURING down (is that the right verb?).

View from my office

HUGE flakes. It was so pretty, but I couldn't appreciate it because I knew it would only make my drive home worse. Boo snow! Then my coworker, Jamie, came in and asked me to go play outside with her. I put aside my anger at the snow and we ran downstairs.

Right outside my building

We measured the snow. 2 inches at that point.

Then we snapped a pic of us being retarded. Fun times!

We ran back inside only to discover that it was lunch time. We put off work further to go stuff our faces. Woot! Then Jamie discovered a loophole in the inclement weather policy and we all rejoiced that we would soon be able to go home...after we ate, of course. We went got back to the office, we heard that UAMS decided to have mercy on us and said we could leave. TTL! I was so happy! Until I got to my car and the stress began. I made it out of the parking deck only to get stuck on a hill...twice! I thought I'd burn my motor up trying to get up that hill. ANGER! Then there was someone blocking my entrance to the interstate. I had to wait for about 10 minutes before that was cleared up. I don't know what my hurry was... I proceeded to sit on the interstate for 2 1/2 hours! I literally rode in 1st gear almost the entire way home! My blood pressure was so high and my bladder was so full. To top it all off, I had forgotten my ipod, so I only had the radio and Blueprint III cd to keep me company. Misery! I finally made it onto Hwy 67/167 and kicked it into high gear (3rd...ugh) and passed those slow bitches that were about to make me pee on myself. I finally made it home w/o killing myself or peeing on myself. SUCCESS!

By home, I mean the home where I was house sitting/dog sitting. When I got there, I had to trek up a steep hill through about 3-4 inches of snow. Remember earlier when I mentioned that I didn't normally look at the forecasts? Well, that means I didn't know snow was coming and I didn't pack proper snow atire. So, I'm trekking up this hill through the snow in my tennis shoes. My the time I made it up the hill, my pants, shoes and socks were SOAKED. Awesome. And THEN I found out that the snow had made tree branches fall in the back yard. One of the branches took out part of the fence. Great. I have four dogs that need to go out. UGH!!! I HATE WINTER! Thankfully, it was the fence separating my backyard from the neighbor's back yard. The neighbor was super nice and said he didn't mind if the dogs wandered over there. He made sure his gates were closed. Whew! Crisis averted. I changed clothes, let the dogs out and then took a minute to pause and appreciate the pretty, white snow. SIKE! It sure would've been nice if I hadn't been afraid of the UAMS attendance nazis, then I might've stayed home and have been able to appreciate the beauty of the snow. But, no. Because I had wasted the whole day at work, I had missed out on the fun stuff. By this time it was pouring rain and was ruining the pretty snow. UGH! I HATE WINTER!!!!!

View from the front porch

View from the back door (the fence to the right was knocked down)

Sam LOVES the snow. He frolicked around the backyard with the other dogs.

Since his face is squished, when he'd put his face down to lick or sniff, he'd come up with a face full of snow. CUTE!

So, that's my overly dramatic telling of my snow day. Hope you enjoyed. I actually missed work today. My boss took pity on us and allowed us to use a vacation day today. I have no idea what changed her mind, but believe me...I know it pained her to say that. You could tell by the look on her face. Anyhoo...I woke up early and called all my patients to cancel clinic (they weren't coming anyway) and then went back to bed. Yippee! I slept til noon and then cleaned up the house. I packed up our stuff and then we were on the road by 2:00. HOME SWEET HOME!

On a different note...On Friday night, Rach and I saw Dear John. We mainly went because Rach LOVES Channing Tatum. My advice to you: wait for DVD. It's not a bad movie. It's just not a movie you should rush to the theater to see.

Okay. That's all folks.