Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

so last night matt and i decided to do a power hour. actually, friday night matt decided we would do a power hour on saturday. yesterday was just the execution stage. so we went out and bought our mike's and smirnoff - and decided that smirnoff is the better choice (but matt says not better than beer) - loaded regan's power hour software DISCLAIMER: THIS PROGRAM IS IN NO WAY SUPPOSED TO BE USED WITH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. EXCESSIVE DRINKING CAN CAUSE SICKNESS OR DEATH. FOR NOVELTY PURPOSES ONLY. ANY REFERENCES TO BEER WAS ACTUALLY NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER AND THE WORD "DRUNK" WAS USED TO DESCRIBE THE PERSON'S LOVE OF LIFE. put in office space and commenced the evening. (and here cati says: it's just the two of you doing a power hour?!?! i hope my marriage is JUST like that!) many drunken pictures/phone calls/emails later, we decided to explore the neighborhood (ok, i just wanted to lay in the middle of the street and then cause some mischief) and i've deci...

what's a girl to do? here are my options: - get a high paying management job here in VA (hopefully) - open a gourmet coffee drivethru in philly with the mellott brothers (which entails being a manager at starbucks for a year first to gain me some skilz) - go to switzerland and be a bohemian for about 6 months while matt does some work on a company project over there (fun!) - get my real estate agent license (probably going to do that no matter what) and then convince julie to invest in me and her brother to move down here and flip houses :) the possibilities are endless! 25 and the world's at my fingertips, not quite in my hands...

or at least, i will be. by september 30th to be exact. goodbye navy, hello life!

monday i woke up dreading work. and then.... at 6:30 i decided to drop paperwork to take weds and thurs off. at 8 am my boss decided to take the rest of the day off. by noon i had let everyone else go. thursday i'm going golfing. and now i only have 1 day of work left this week, and it will probably end at noon. this week is shaping up just fine after all :) and this weekend -- HOME!!! :) to see the newest addition to the fowler clan and the rest of the irish scallywags :) yay yay yay yay yay yay!

and that makes it a good day. even though i still work for the world's worst boss. i take that back - many people trump her (hitler comes to mind), but she's bad enough when you have to suffer through the daily doses. because of the negativity she brings to my life i find i've become a thoroughly selfish person. i only care about making it through another day of mental beatings and irrational outbursts, and then sucking every last bit of happiness out of the other moments. the upside is that the adversity makes all the other minor inconveniences fade to the background. the downside is that i've stopped looking outside my bubble for others that i can help. and when i go to bed at night and say my prayers for freedom, i can't help but take a guilty minute to realize how fantastic i have it. the worst boss is not the worst ever. not by a long shot. and i'm sure that i'm learning valuable lessons that one day will be much more apparent. of course, even...

I was in a bad place when i wrote my last entry, but i'm in a much better one now (home) so i feel the need to overcome the negativity. i love my house. i love my husband. i love my kitties. i love being able to talk on the phone whenever i want :) i love that my friends came down to visit last weekend. here's the executive summary of the "Virginia is for Friends" weekend: The most important part would be, of course, PICTURES :) As you can see, there's quite a few of bayroot because i just love that game. It all began Thursday evening when Ryan and Cathe came in to town and we introduced them to Cranium (a theme throughout the weekend)... Naomi and John arrived sometime Friday afternoon to kick off the bayroot festivities, and Shakes and Kristin made it in way after the drunkenness had set in. (I took lessons from Vegas and didn't even pretend that I would be sober enough to pick them up. We all know I lie when it comes to alcohol and moderation...) ...