My birthday post

It was my birthday yesterday and I took the day off. I love taking a vacation day in the middle of the week, it feels like it's your own private holiday. I didn't do anything too crazy, just lazed around and didn't have to worry about checking emails all day, got a pedi with Lindsay...

Followed by a rum and diet on the porch... (Morgan, I love all the cards you send me and the one with Mr. Morris smoking is still one of my favorites ever and wanted you to see I have it prominently displayed in my kitchen)

This was followed up by dinner at an awesome steakhouse that looks like a tiki bar on the outside... Bastien's where all of our steaks were go good!

And finally, a picture of Chris and me after dinner... (ladies, I was fully preparing to wear a cute summer dress but it was raining and like 50 degrees so that didn't really fly. Next time, I promise)

My weekend...

Hi! I'm back. We'll just see how long I can do this but will try to give it another shot...

Chris and I had an awesome weekend - and we really didn't do anything. We just hung out with the boys (Homer and Pickles that is), read out on the patio, hit the local bar for cocktails and went to the Rockies game yesterday. We had the $4 tickets so here's the view from the bleacher seats...

It was good times and hopefully a good introduction to my birthday week! Will keep you updated on that, I promise...

Well, I thought I could do this...

and by that, I mean, keep up the blog! I've had a really shitty past week and just couldn't post anything. Maybe I'm not meant to be a "blogger"... However, I will keep it up when I can so for those of you who check it every once in a while...keep checking! Hope everyone has a good week and talk to y'all later!

Cats in hats!

I needed to put a smile on my face this morning so what did I turn to? One of my favorite subjects: cats in hats!

I thought this was fitting since the new Harry Potter comes out this week...

My favorite:

Of course I tried to get a hat on Mr. M but was unsuccessful so I attempted to make Lady Chloe into a bumblebee...

But I can't leave Mr. Morris off this blog so here's his latest picture.

I like you so very much...

Gr-r-r. The fuse for my radio has been blown out for the past week and a half = NO radio while I'm driving (I can't even use my CD player). I bought replacement fuses but whenver I drive over a big bump, poof! the fuse blows out again. I'm hoping I have time tomorrow to get this looked at. Just for shits and giggles, try driving around with only other people's conversations at red lights and your own crazy thoughts to keep you company.

So, it's always the last thing I heard that gets stuck in my head for the duration of my drive. This morning, it was that commercial (Bassett Furniture) and it goes: I" like you so very much, so very much I want to wake you up. you'll make biscuits and I'll make tea and and this is Christy going cra-a-zy." Agh! Make it go away!

PS - I realize I might not have the words to the jingle right. I debated with myself for a good portion of Colorado Blvd if it was bisuits - or coffee...

My view this morning...twice

Okay - here we go! I'm going to attempt to make this a "real" blog like Les's, Morgan's, Collins, etc...
Here was my view this morning... twice.


That's right - and I wasn't even going anywhere. My wonderful, but schedule-challenged boyfriend had me drive him to the airport (I did offer so it's really my fault) at 6:30 this morning so he could go to Boston for a conference... Only the conference isn't until NEXT Wednesday, which he found out after trying to check in at the kiosk and cussing out the poor United agent. So, I had to go back to DIA and pick him back up. He did buy me breakfast at Mickey D's.
He'll be driving his own car to the airport next week though...

the 4th...

Hi guys! This will be quick but for the 4th Chris and I went to Crested Butte for a REAL bar-b-q - complete with a pig and everything (and not just throwing hotdogs on a grill). It was good times and we met some super cool people. The town is B-E-A-utiful! I think the population is about 1800 in town and 800 on the mountain. Chris has some buddies there and it's definitely a place I wish I had known about 10 years ago!

Also, I'm going to start tailoring my blog after Morgan's (http://helpyouhelpme-mjs.blogspot.com/). Updating it at least a few times a week with a quick snipit of what's going on, what I've found interesting on the web, etc... I think I felt the need to write a chapter when I first started the blog but hell, you don't want to read a chapter and I don't want to write one so maybe this will work better. I'm going to get right on it, starting tomorrow :)