what do to with power cables: embrace them!

um, i've never even thought of doing something like this. these ideas are so great!!

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images from unplggd.com.

kitty update!

yesterday i visited my gramma and papa [it's been quite a while since i've seen them!] and got to see their three beautiful baby girls growing up!

little brookie


dolly


go with the flo girl




bekah and brooke

due to some unforeseen circumstances, flo was returned home to be with her sisters after a month vacation. the three of them are crazy and getting along like they were never separated! brooke looks SO similar to their mommy, Miss Mew, it's crazy. all the kitties are healthy and happy...they are getting so big!


yesterday i tried sending a picture from my boss's phone to my phone at about 11am during our meeting. iPhones can't "technically" receive picture messages [they can't at all send them], but you get a text message sending you to a website with a user id and weird password [like "vet8lazy"] where you can see the image. nothing happened on my phone, so i sent the picture again after about 10 minutes of waiting.
well, at 4am this morning i received two text messages from my boss with the picture link in it.
weird.

back to work

i'd say i'm recovering pretty well since the extraction on Friday. after returning home i had to sit on the phone with the verizon guy for like 45 minutes trying to work out our stupid internet [at my parents house]. seems to be working ok now. other than that, i laid around and napped most of the day.

saturday morning dad made pancakes for breakfast, i laid around a little then packed up my stuff and went back to the townhouse. i had a bunch of stuff to unpack there, showering to do and more napping. kc and i [oops - i mean, just kc] made lasagna for dinner - it was awesome [thanks to my mum's recipe :)]. my cousin, aunt and sister came over to visit after a 2+ hour photo shoot for my cousin's senior pictures. oh, i must say, they look AWESOME so far. can't wait to see them.

didn't do anything else this weekend but watch some office dvd's [with josh on saturday], more sex & the city [i think it was kc's goal to start and finish the 6 seasons in one week before the cable came], sleep and eat pudding. oh, and kc made pancakes for dinner last night! [if it doesn't involve raw meat, she'll cook it].

i have four volleyball games this week...so close to being done...looking forward to a not-to-crazy weekend though...yikes it's only monday and i'm looking forward to the weekend!

and looking forward to staci coming back to erie!!!!!!!!

oh, and thanks to my lovely parents for taking care of me Friday :) :) and helping put up curtains and a clock yesterday. hahaha!

ahh!

oh and i received an email today saying my laptop is shipping BACK to me, fixed, at no cost. i was told they "replaced the motherboard". too bad i dont really know what that means.

but YAY! i should have it back tomorrow!!!!!!!!

sept 25 is going to be one awesome effin day.

yay!

not really. lappy broke last night. don't know what's going on, but she won't start up. i turn her off and back on and hear noises but nothing comes on the screen. i was able to get the "start in safe mode" but that didn't work either.

ugh...what the heeeeeeeeeeeck


however, good news is i have a 1/2 day tomorrow and friday off because of a volleyball tournament. i'm actually really excited about this: A) because i ordered new shirts for the girls on Saturday B) because it's my girls who have been playing with me for 4 years so they're pretty good and i expect great things from them C) because i get to take 1 1/2 days off yay!!

that's all.

day 5!

this post is going to have a little about iPhones and a lot about worthless crap no one will care about.

• yes, so it's Day 5 with the iPhone. no complaints so far - except some random "restarting" of the iPhone...oddly enough, that doesn't bother me at all. maybe i realize that i bought this THE DAY IT CAME OUT...and it's going to have issues. also, it takes about 15 seconds to restart, so, i just for some reason don't care. i believe the phone is interacting with my speakers at work, and i get some crazy fuzzy...staticy-robotic-like noises every once and a while. now that i've moved it more than 6" away from them, it's not doing it anymore, so, i don't know what that is all about. but, so far, it's fun, and i love it. :)
• Friday is my co-worker Bethany's wedding. i'm very excited for her [also because tomorrow we are having a "send-off" party for her and a "b-day celebration" for a client and our rep from Knoll is coming to visit as well]. so i'm looking forward to a fun day tomorrow. her wedding colors are brown and green/white polka dots...and i'm going to make some cupcakes in that theme i think. don't know how i'm going to have time to do them, but i will!! bethany will be gone for two weeks. i'm not sure what i'm going to do without her here. i'm going to have 10x more work, no one to answer phones for me and no one to chat with for the first 15-45 minutes of every morning.
• my dad wants to see the new batman movie this weekend. i might join.
• today is my blogging friend Jenn's birthday! Happy Birthday Jenn!!!!
• we had a death in the [extended] family last week. Sunday i was able to see my two beautiful cousins and my aunt that i don't get to see much. i miss them so bad. i need to start making it a priority to get down to pittsburgh and see them every few months. we also visited with the kitties...sooo cute...
  

• apartment hunting has slowed down. kristen has some listings we need to check out, but as she is in full force planning Behrend's reunion [only two weeks away!!!], and now i'm getting busier now that we know bethany's on her way to 2 weeks of vacation...
• kristen and i went to the greek fest this weekend. freakin awesome. it also poured. but it was sooooo yummerz.

that's pretty much what's going on with me. yep yep yep.

day 1!

well yes, if you didn't know already, my impulsive self & i DID buy the new iPhone yesterday. my thoughts were to give the store a call towards the end of the day and talk to my customer service helper guy [jon] and see if they had any left. well, he called me at about 1100 telling me they have about seven left, and only the 16GB white ones. so i figured this was a sign - as that is the one i wanted anyway, so i took my lunch at 1130 and drove over to the peach street store to get my new phone!

i was pretty excited on my way over, and jon was saying he was pretty excited to give it to me. he was extremely helpful and i spent about an hour there switching over my plan, getting some accessories, going over crap and trying to activate the phone. he said they had been having problems all day activating through iTunes and that i may have to activate it at home. in the end it didn't activate at the store, so i took it with me and planned on activating it after my next stop.

the new Erie Bank location has had it's open house the last few days. i went in and got some pictures of the furniture...and the amazing [wedding] cake they had on their second floor. mmm soo good. after the bank i ran back to rach & bri's to activate and play with the phone a little before running to my next meeting. below are some pics, more can be found here.

well i spent 30-some minutes at home with no luck. first, my iTunes needed updated. then the computer needed restarting. then it just didn't work. i decided to try r & b's upstairs computer - which also wasn't updated, then needed restarting, then needed a password - which brian called and gave to me 4 minutes after i left the house.

so, needless to say, i was getting pretty irritated and frustrated. i didnt understand how it STILL wasn't working...3+ hours after i had picked up the phone.

after my last meeting i went back to work and was hopeful it would work there. this post is really long so far. it didn't work again. i talked w/ josh and he was having issues uploading the new software. all of the sudden, i received a text saying that my phone was now usable - that the "portal" had switched over...i was confused, cause i didn't know when the activation started...but it worked!!

josh came over for dinner [um...at 845...ish] and we compared phones and applications we had downloaded. mine is a little thinner than his [and i have the white back]. we both downloaded this funny application that makes light saber noises come from the phone. it was pretty funny.

for dinner i made chicken, potatoes & broccoli w/ homemade cheese sauce. i had two pieces of chicken and i pounded them out...somehow stretching them to four fairly large pieces [it was crazy - like they multiplied on my cutting board]. the chicken was dipped in butter, then flour, then egg, then seasoned preztel-crackers [italian seasoning, parm cheese and smashed pretzel crackers]. baked them at 400 or something [oops don't remember] for about 20-25 minutes. i put them in first for 20 min, pulled them out, cut into the middle of the thickest and screamed - it was almost perfect. i was so freaking excited that it was almost 100% cooked in the middle and super juicy. i did some potatoes suggested by Robin, which were pretty darn good. i had some issues with the "smashing" [i had no potato masher so i used a cup...and i think that they should have been cooked more]. i made some homemade cheese sauce with velveeta...mmm very good.

i was very proud of myself. other than the potatoes, i "created" the meal and cooked it per my own directions [with a little help from my culinary-teaching mother...]...and it wasn't a disaster!!!

rach has been wanting some flower updates while she's been away...i'm not quite sure what flowers exactly...but these are from her "backyard"

phew. this was a long post. thanks for pulling through if you did ;)

today's the day!!!

well folks - today is the day! the launch of the new iPhone!! the past few weeks i've been discussing the phone's features with others and reading up on the "reviews"...and i've been leaning towards waiting until September to get the iPhone [when my Verizon contract is up]....however after talking about it w/ my skank's yesterday, i'm reaching the point of really really REALLY not wanting to wait anymore. i hope to pick it up sometime today or tomorrow [i wonder if Erie will "sell out" on the first day...]

yesterday i stopped by Betty's Cookie Korrell in the Village West Plaza in Millcreek [it's about a 2 1/2 minute walk from my office...but i stopped by as in drove...]. they have some awesome cakes and cookies there. i bought a bunch and brought them back for my sweet-tooth-ed "coworkers".

also, the awesome boys of iNSPiRAL played at Sherlock's last night. it was an odd show for kt and i [people showing up we didn't expect...just...odd things, not the ushe...] but it was good. good turn out and they rocked it hard as always!!! kt made some pretty awesome new "business cards" for the boyz. i want to post them, but she could do that i'm sure...or maybe i'll get a pic later.

anyway...having a rockin weekend!

oh, saturday...how i love thee

today is an absolutely GORGEOUS day! i believe the weather channels said it was going to T-storm all day, but, heck what do they know.

i used Josh's iPhone yesterday to show him my hair color at the time of Staci's wedding last year, which means i used the "Facebook for iPhone" application, which means i fell in love with the iPhone some more. yeah, that's right, i like that application. a lot.

so, kt, beware. come september i'll be schrute bucking the crap outta you.

enjoy your weekend!!!