Sorry!!!

OMG!  I can't believe it has been almost 2 weeks since I have blogged! Sorry to anyone that actually reads this blog on a regular basis (I know there has to be a few of you!)  A lot of things have happened in the last 2 weeks so I promise I will get you all up to speed in the next few days before I leave to go on vacation for 2 weeks, I cannot promise to blog during that time either....SORRY! but please don't stop following :)

I have to go get ready now so check back later for some more interesting stuff!

A M A Z I N G

Amazing! The only word to describe my new iPad 2. I knew the iPad 2 would be pretty awesome but I totally under estimated how amazing it actually is, and I have only had it for 3 days. Right now I am trying to even blog from it, we will see how it well it goes.

Here are some apps I download and think are pretty awesome:

Pocket Pond is only entertaining for about 5 minutes but it is still pretty cool. You can make ripples in the water and the fish swim away when you touch the water.

Flipboard takes YOUR Facebook, instagram, blogs you follow and puts them in a magazine format. So you can flip through the pages and see all the info you are looking for....this is one of my favorite apps!!!

Hitpad keeps me up to date on all the latest info. I haven't explored this app too much yet but from what I have seen it seems pretty sweet.

Well there are just 3 of the apps I have downloaded....I did forget to mention that I am using BloggerPlus to write this blog. I have a lot to learn about the iPad 2 yet but so far nothing has disappointed me.

I do have to thank the Man for this awesome birthday present!

It's My Birthday!!!! The start of being closer to 30 than 20!

Today is my birthday! The day I look forward to the most every year. 

2 years old

Before we look at what 26 has to offer, lets see what happened at 25! 

Highlights of being 25:

• Started a new job (that I love)
• Took 2 trips back to Wisconsin
• Had visits from Megan, Josiah's Parents, my Mom & Bill, Nicki, and Chad & Carrie
• Went to see the Badgers play in Vegas, where I saw more friends from WI
• Went to see the Badgers play in the Rose Bowl, also met up with Kyle and his family
• Took another trip to Vegas to see Carrie
• Took a trip to San Francisco with the Man
• Met some awesome friends!
• Celebrated being married for a year (it went by really fast!) 

Overall 25 was a pretty good year for me. It defiantly had its downs but judging from the list above there were ALOT of highlights!

This years birthday cupcake

The start of 26

This years birthday was pretty good.  I brought cupcakes to the people I work with on almost a daily basis....they were AMAZING!!  I received tons of birthday wishes on facebook and in text messages, thanks again to everyone that wished me a Happy Birthday, and I even got a few phone calls :)  I ended the night with a birthday dinner at La Fiesta with two friends, Coleta & Kat.  

Lets hope the rest of 26 goes as well as today, if not better!  

I probably should have just made this two posts but oh well!

The "itch" to move...

We have lived in our apartment for almost 18 months now and I have the itch to move.  This is something I am going to blame my parents for, since we moved a lot.  The Man on the other hand is perfectly content with staying where we are at....which doesn't surprise me since his family never moved while he was growing up.

There are a lot of reasons to move and a lot not too....

To Move

• Could use a bigger place (3 bedroom instead of 2)  this way Nicki will have her own room when she lives with me
• The area we currently live in isn't the best neighborhood in town
• A place that included laundry or had laundry hook-ups in the apartment

To Stay

• Cheap rent = saving money
• We don't HAVE to have a 3 bedroom....2 currently works fine for us
• Everything is already in this apartment and has its place (In my eyes this is a lame reason but I know the Man would say this is a reason to stay)

Those are a few of the reasons to move and stay that I can come up with, stay tuned to see what gets added to the list when the Man gets home and what our end decision will be.  

technology overkill

Guess what just came in the mail?!?!?!?!

The Man's birthday present!!!

Let me give you a little bit of info first: 

A couple weeks before he left his computer blew up, in case you do not know the man very well that is a BIG deal! His computer blowing up would be very similar to someone's pet dieing, not saying a computer or a pet are even close to the same thing but in his eyes they are probably very close. If you haven't figured out he is a little bit of a geekster and I love it....most of the time! He has been without a computer for over a month now.  So I decided to get him a super early birthday present since he won't be around to celebrate his actual birthday.

Here is the Man's new computer!

This computer will now be the 4th laptop in our house....OMG! thats a lot of freakin computers for 2 people and that is not counting his old one that doesn't work!! 

Ok now that the shock of 4 laptops has worn off I will explain it so it doesn't sound so bad....

• I have 1 Dell laptop that I use every day.  
• I also have a HP laptop that work provided for me, which is super slow and I only use for work things.  
• My old Dell laptop was turned into a server, so I have the ability to print wirelessly, not sure if thats a word or not, to either one of our 2 printers.  
• Yes, we also have 2 printers....1 Canon that we bought and 1 HP that work provided me. 
• So now we have our 4th laptop because the Man just got a new Asus for his birthday....he picked it out so its not a big surprise to him.

Top Left: My Dell computer, Bottom Left: My HP work computer, Right: the Man's new Asus computer

I think this is what happens when you marry a geekster.....technology overload!!!  and to think I also have an iPhone and might be getting an iPad 2 for my birthday.....we might need to rethink that!!

Happy Happy Birthday Nadine!

Today is the friend I have had the longest birthday!  Nadine was the 2nd person I met when I moved into town and we were instant friends.  We have had many ups and downs and made a lot of good, bad and crazy memories.  Going from living 3 houses away to 2,269 miles away might have put a damper on how often we hang out but every time we talk (sometimes days, weeks, or months apart) it's like the distance isn't there.

Happy Birthday Nadine!

 Both pictures above were from my Bachelorette Party

St. Patty's Day 2008

Boredom = Window Shopping

I have realized that when the Man is gone and I am bored, I window shop....mostly online.  Once in awhile I end up actually getting a few things. Here is one of my latest purchases that arrived today in the mail!

Glitter with Glamour Clutch from ModCloth

I love this purchase!  It will be a perfect accessory for a couple dresses I have

the start of MY birthday month!

June has to be the best month of the year....school is getting over with, the start of summer, & it's my birthday month (my personal favorite reason)  To kick off the month on a good note I went to the Goo Goo Dolls concert with my friend Coleta.  The concert was good, not great but good.  There were a few songs I could have done without but overall I am glad I went. Plus the saxophone solo during Broadway was AMAZING!

Nightmares and Dreams

This may be my new favorite song by the Goo Goo Dolls

this is the only video I could find of the song, I think the performed it way better at the concert I was at

Some pictures I took at the concert

Sorry for the not so great quality, taken on the iPhone from a distance

Pre-concert meal at Eureka!Burger

Corndog Lollipops....so yummy!!