Monday is...

Tequila shots with your best friend ....

Lilly vs. Lizard

The lizard won.

25 Things you may not know about me

I have slightly bowed legs, which I gained from my dad who has more than slightly bowed legs.

I think solid milk chocolate tastes like feet.

I always wanted to be a homicide detective. This explains the books I read and the shows I watch.

My self consciousness stems from ESMS. (Evil-Step-Mother-Syndrome)

I have only had a room-mate twice in my life. Both times failed, but not because of me.

I don't have any talents. I am just me.

I hate thong underwear and refuse to wear it.

I am the oldest cousin, but the shortest.

I am an only child.

I wish I had been a cheerleader in High School so I have watched Bring It On about 20 times.

I hurt my knee in gymnastics and now it tends to hurt before it rains.

I am from a small town but I love the city.

I have been to 8 Jimmy Buffett Concerts. I was 7 years old at my first one.

If you burn me {stab me in the back, etc), I will never forgive you.

I had Hepatitis (the kind from meat or water) in first grade and missed a month of school.

I am beginning to feel very materialistic from living in the city...

I have no sense of direction, but I can follow directions well.

I cheated on my ex to be with Lee.

I hate hard rock more than anything.

I wish I was a good gardener.

I was depressed my junior year and ate nothing but chocolate chip cookies (most of the time).

I don't want children, but Lee and I figure we will have one in about 5 years... we'll see.

I taught myself how to cook.

I just started drinking coffee a year ago. (real coffee)

I am a child of divorce and that made me grow up really fast. Too fast.

I have never water skiied but always wanted to.

Spring Cleaning

Today was a busy busy day.
I got up at 8 with Lee and worked from home for about an hour and 1/2. I am actually off today but there were a few things I needed to handle. Then I started cleaning.
Between 10 and 11 I did all the following things:

• Washed pots that were in the sink
• Loaded/ran both dishwasher drawers
• Used my dish sponge to wipe down all the counters and the table, and my butcher block
• Swept the floors
• Threw away old magazines in the living room
• Dusted the entire living room
• Swept the floors
• Wiped down the bathroom
• Swept the floor
• Sprayed the shower down
• Squirted the blue stuff in the toilet
• Dusted my desk in the Study
• Threw away erroneous papers

Then I took a shower and headed out with Jimmy to go shopping. First I had to drive clear across town to sign something at the bank since we have a new checking account (long story). Then we ate lunch and went to Target. The idea was to shop for baby gifts for our boss's shower on Monday. Jimmy was printing the list and I went to the restroom when who do we run into?? Our boss! It was funny trying to fill up our basket with stuff and she was right there with us! But we had a good time.
While I was there I fell in love...
With this....The Dyson All Floors DC-24. There is a DC-25 out now so that made this one $100 less.
So I get home and put it to use and nearly filled the canister! The little hose part is really cool and I was able to go over the loveseat that Lilly lays on all day, as well as get around the cat box and in other tough spots. I had already swept the majority of the house so seeing that much dirt made me realize how badly I needed a vacuum!
I also cleaned out my closet and moved my "winter" stuff to the other room. I had to resist the urge to pull the dyson back out and go over the floor in the closet!!!
All I have left is a pile of laundry to fold, sheets to put on the bed, and then I will have a clean house.

What. A. Day!

Finally!

Today I had a walkthrough one of my projects at work. I have been pretty excited about this project because it is really fun and I had 99% creative control over it. My boss and I collaborated on the layout of the space and then I took over on the finishes (carpet, paint, built-ins).
Now - this red is the signature color of the company - so please don't hate me if you hate the color!
First I want to say - this desk is not done. This was already there from the previous tenant (as well as those wood floors... bad color!). It will soon have stainless steel where the white is, black granite on the top, and the red color will be painted where you see that little strip of white. Also, they will incorporate their logo on the front too. It will be cool.
It was my idea to bring the red down those reveals in the walls. They were already there so I thought why not use it? We mimic'd the stripes on the opposite wall.This is a buffet type area towards the back of the office, for when food is catered in. When I walked up to the pendants, the bottom came to my forehead. Now, I am a shorty, so I looked at the contractor and said "these are a little low, eh?" So they will be higher. Don't worry, this is the only other place in the whole office with the red wall :).
And this is the Break Room. Yellow is another color they typically bring into the palette at other offices in the US. They also like grey, so I brought that in through the cabinetry. Only the back wall (next to the microwaves) was supossed to be yellow, but I really don't mind it!
This is not a finished office. More will be done over the next 2 days and we have what we call the Final Punch on Monday. Hopefully by then the signage is up (logo's on the wall and glass doors around the office) and I believe most of the desk will be complete. The stainless steel isn't in until Tuesday so I will have to run back over there maybe Friday next week and get one last photo. This company also always has thier offices photographed so I will try and get those as well. Also, all the furniture will be in. There are many many more rooms, but they were still full of box's and contractors...

This is my first completed project that I have been really proud of. I do alot of dr's offices and they are just so boring sometimes. I have a few other projects in the works that I will have to get photographs of, but they seem really far away.... And you know, the one I posted about a long time ago... none of the people had the courtesy to send me photos!

Lee is snoring on the sofa, I better go get him to bed. We are both off work tomorrow and I plan on attacking this house and getting it really clean. I will probably have a black trash bag with me and get some spring cleaning done.

Ladies, start your ovens!

Today, I started a new blog for just recipes and various food topics. I am going to attempt to post meals and recipes each day, based on what I prepared the night before for dinner... or if we go out I will try and snap a photo of our dinner (thank goodness for blackberry camera...) etc. This blog is devoted to my daily life, schnauzer activities, etc. I wanted one that was only food!!

Enjoy!

http://stickstoyourribs.blogspot.com/

Ordinary beginnings....

The other day, via facebook and in person, Tiffanie challenged me to start a cooking blog. When I say challenged, that is because I kept telling her no, and she told me enough times that I felt challenged.
At first I thought I should just post on this blog, and tag the entries for cooking... but the more I think about it, this blog is more about the Nash adventures, and I wouldn't want to only do recipe things on here.

So I ask, friends, random passerby's, what should I name the new blog?

I ask that it have a tropical / Buffett theme to help tie the 2 together.

I figure I will post each night after I cook dinner and devote this blog to being a "You - to - can cook dinner each night after work..." and hopefully inspire someone in someway.

Put down the frozen pizza. Back away slowly.