I love being married but...

So marriage is great and I'm getting used to my new name however sometimes I miss my old one. And here is why. Under my old name my animal power was ring tailed lemur now it's vampire bat (I went from cute and furry to scary and dark loving.) Now my 'Numerology' number is 5. which means 'that you are adventurous, mercurial, and sensual. You seek growth through adventure and different life experiences. Although you are a critical thinker, you can sometimes over-ponder an issue.' before my 'Numerology' number was 3 which means that 'you are enthusiastic, creative, optimistic, and fun-loving. You seek self-expression through words or the arts, and enjoy learning through life experiences.' I'm not sure which I prefer in description but I much prefer the number three... The multiples of 5 are so predictable. Also previously there were estimated only about another 177 people in the US with my name now there are nearly 1700! Either way though I'm well envoweled.

I'm sure your curious how I have come up with all this stuff about me. Well I was googling myself and came up with the site: http://www.isthisyour.name/. And it was them that told me all about myself. Now i'm going to go let go of my inner ring-tailed lemur and connect with my inner vampire bat. I decided I needed some pictures to illustrate the change in me...

Here I am as a ring-tailed lemu and 3....
Now here I am as a vampire bat...(okay I'm techinally dressed in a tiger dress(story in an of itself) but it's all the same scary right.)
Now here I'm a five... you can guess which trait I'm illustrating (I'll give you a hint... it's not adventurous and I don't know what mercurial means. This picture was spring break of freshman year.. I had just dyed my hair dark for the first time and was clearly obsessed with looking at my new look so I took A LOT of pictures of myself...)

(This was gonna be a really short quick post and I was going to get back to studying.... With getting pictures off an old computer and photoshoping the big old zit off my face in the middle picture it's taken atleast an hour..... oops!)

Colorado Weekend Numero Uno

This weekend was my brother's engagement party in Colorado. Friday afternoon my parents and sister picked us up and we drove to Rawlins Wyoming. Now I drove through Wyoming once before in my life but I'd forgotten. Wyoming goes on for EVER! Saturday we got to Colorado. Saturday night was their engagement party. It was fun considering I knew no one there. I took my camera, okay well Brett's, with the highest intention of taking a lot of picture but only took two and neither were actually in Colorado. So since we just got our invite to the party I decided to use it to illustrate what I did this weekend. (Of course I couldn't just post it I had to digi-scarp it cuz it wastes way more time. The paper and embellishments were from shabby princess. I was using a different paper at first but photoshop closed on me before I had saved it and then while looking for embellishments I found this paper. I figured it would be perfect because Maddie got an adorable paisley serving bowl at the party. Also I don't know about all screens but I know on my screen the color on the announcement is off... maybe I need a new scanner. Oh and I whited out all their personal info (since it's not my info to share) and that is why there are large white gaps on the announcement.)

Anyway, the party was mostly fun because parties are inherently fun and because of my sister-in-law Kim and her fancy camera. My brother and she have a Nikon D40x which she let me play with. I was determine to master Boken (which I had read about from pioneer woman) using the shot gun shell christmas lights used as decoration. Well the for us the boken was broken and never really worked out. But trying was fun. Although I looked like an idiot standing on the couch with my head against the wall or laying on the floor taking pictures of lights.

Sunday was a long drive back from Colorado and then frantic studying for my two tests today.. that is right two! And on friday I get to do it all over again, the drive that is, for an AIChE conference.

Life is a learning process.

Well I've made my own header for the first time. As you can see I'm a bit excited for spring.... it was a lot more fitting before I realized it was snowing outside. I also made a new background to match by following the directions here. But the background didn't stretch to fit the screen like they said it would and the solid part that the text goes over (they said use 7.5 in.) wasn't wide enough. So i'm sticking with white till I can figure out how to fix it. Any one have a different method for creating your own background??

The day of love.

I've never made a big deal over valentines day. I never felt lonely when I was single and since I haven't been single I haven't made that big of a deal over it. But I figure it's a good excuse to do something nice for my honey.

For valentines day I bought Brett a new computer monitor for our desktop. Before we had a huge monitor from like 9 yrs ago. I never realized how big it was till we got the new flat screen hooked up. I had the best intentions of saying the monitor and giving him it today but it showed up on Wednesday and he was so excited to see what was in the box I let him open it (in exchange for opening it early he is in charge of webelo's for the next two months). Now to be completely honest... I really really really wanted the new monitor too so it's as much for me as him.

Last night he came home with a dozen roses and began looking through recipes. I asked him what he was looking for and he replied that he wanted a lasagna recipe because he knew it's one of my favorites. We ended up making it together and it turned out absolutely fantastic... My mom's lasagna recipe is the best ever... I'll post it on my recipe blog one of these days. Following lasagna we went grocery shopping and then rented a movie of my choice. (I chose sisterhood of the traveling pants 2.)

Today I was suppose to/really needed to go up to campus and get homework done but instead I spent the day with brett doing a lot of nothing. This afternoon I was spending some time learning all sorts of new fun stuff on photoshop when I realized Brett had disappeared. I called out to him and he replied from the bathroom. I didn't think much of it cuz well.. guys are guys. So I started making bread for dinner. I saw Brett doing something in the closet and didn't think anything when he replied 'looking at the board games'. Then he came into the kitchen with a pen behind his ear. I thought to myself 'he took a pen in the bathroom with him? weird.' but when he said he had found it in the couch I let it go.

Finally I went to watch TV and saw a yellow sticky on the TV screen wishing me happy valentines and telling me to go get a pepsi to put in the fridge. In the pepsi was yet another note telling me to look where I would go if I was board. After retrieving a chair to stand on I found a note in the board games saying chili was a great V-day dinner. From the chili in the cupboard I was sent to 'search high and low in the throughn room'. I spent a while searching the bedroom before brett told me he meant throne room. Under the bathroom mat was a reminder I need to clean the bathroom floor (the dirty floor was reminding me, not another note from brett) and a note telling me to put my shoes on and check the mail. I spent a while running around the apartment looking in all my shoes. And when I say all over I mean all over... my shoes are highly susceptible to entropy. Well I decided to skip the shoes and run to the mail box. That is where I found out I was actually suppose to put shoes on because I was next sent to his truck. Disregarding the new snow on the ground I ran out and found August Rush in his truck. (If you missed it Brett was in the bathroom planning the scavenger's hunt, no I don't blog about bathroom use!)

I thought it was really sweet of him. Dinner was interesting to make. I decided to try to make broiled shrimp (brett's favorite at sizzler). Well they turned out decent but the pan I used will buckle in the heat making a horrible popping noise. Just after putting the shrimp in the oven There was the horrible popping noise and a spark of light. I think the light was caused by butter popping and hitting the broiling element. It was a stressful few minutes of hoping I don't break the stove or burn the apartment down.

All in all it was a good, layed back day. And valentines day was the excuse to do nothing. How bout ya'll? Do anything fun?

BioLOGy

So my blog should be called my homework distraction... today from my bioprocessing (thus the post title) studying. But I just had to direct you all to the left side of the screen. Below the about me and above my playlist. See how I switched from listing you all under a simple list but now it's a blog list... thus it includes the title of your latest blog and it even orders you by when you updated last. Mostly I did this because it was be faster than clicking on every blog to see if you've updated. I know this doesn't make sense because this is where I waste time not save it....

But now I have a challenge for you! Be at the top of the list as often as possible. And the prize... I'll visit your blog the most because it means you've updated most recently. (Joannie you are exempt for the competition since your blog is pritave it stays where it is. But it means I will manually be checking your blog constantly so you better update ;))

In honor of a short post.

I promise to keep this short.

Brett and I just spent the last hours searching for cruises and flights for next fall break just for fun. $1200 would covers flights and the cruise for both of us. Sounds tempting... we just have to remember that doesn't include tips, excursions, and the many many souvenirs we'd surely buy. Plus of course the new clothes we (okay actually just me) would need. So although $1200 sounds do able I resisted. We'll just have to keep dreaming.
But in honor of the evening here are some pictures from the cruise I went on with my family in high school. (none of these pictures are the most flattering but they are the only ones I had on my computer.)How cool is my dad who got us a limo to

pick us up from the airport?!?!

We only look exhausted from hiking up Mexican Ruins all day.
It really was an awesome day!

Gotta love the fresh sunburns.

Oh yeah... and the food was AMAZING!