Best Work Day Ever!

Today could quite possibly be my favorite day of work so far! We had an office potluck and then chinese gift exchange. All of the older people are back in the office so we had a total of 30 people which I love because the office is always busy and there is never a dull moment.

The potluck was AMAZING! It reminded me a little bit of first grade when all the mom's have a christmas party for the kids, except if was in my office and we are old enough to cook for ourselves. Today I ate as much as I did during Thanksgiving and it was glorious.

Then, the best part of the afternoon was the chinese gift exchange. The limit was $20, so some people bought nice gifts and some people bought some really random gifts. Since I work with all sales people, everyone had a comment about every gift and when people didn't love what they got, they tried to sell other people on why they should steal it from them. It got a little intense.

Originally this was the gift I picked:

I figured that nobody would steal this from me but I was pleasantly surprised when the 25th person to pick did! I was SO excited to get rid of the robot and ended up with 4 dvds...best gift by far!

Here are some of my favorite gifts from today:

a leopard comforter

Rock Em Sock Em

$20 worth of toilet paper

To end out the day we all went around to everybody's cubes and played with the games we got...and I was rock em sock em champ when i played :) I love my job!

I usually never do these things...

My cable isn't working and I got tagged three times so I figured I would answer the questions. I can only answer with one word so here ya go!

1. Where is your cell phone? charging
2. Your significant other? tbd
3. Your hair? short
4. Your mother? sweet
5. Your father? fun
6. Your favorite thing? people
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? coke
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. The room you're in? bedroom
11. Your fear? alone
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? dallas
13. Where were you last night? conference
14. What you're not? confrontational
15. Muffins/donuts? muffin
16. One of your wish list items? gps
17. Where you grew up? texas!
18. The last thing you did? eat
19. What are you wearing? slippers
20. Your TV? office
21. Your pet? maggie
22. Your computer? lifeline
23. Your life? fabulous
24. Your mood? exhausted
25. Missing someone? definitely
26. Favorite pastime? talking
27. Something you're not wearing? coat
28. Favorite Store? banana
29. Your summer? beach
30. Your favorite color? pink
31. When is the last time you laughed? tonight
32. Last time you cried? can't remember
33. Who will re-post this? alice
34. Four places I go over and over? work, church, home, mcalisters.
35.Four people who e-mail me? boss, mom, ash, potterybarn
36. Four of my favorite foods? cheesecake, manicotti, dark chocolate, sandwiches
37. Four places I would like to be right now? texas, australia, london, boston
38. Four people I tag? ash, al, besco, jpatt

Slacker

So I realize that I haven't posted on my blog in quite some time so I wanted to give a quick update.

Here are some things that have happended since the last post:
-Ash got married!
-Al came to visit Jax
-I went home to Texas
-I went to Seattle, WA
-I got hugged by a creepy eye doctor

I promise I will post more about the above events very soon but I thought I was well overdue for a blog post.

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day!

Highlights

I decided that I would share the highlights of this past week and a half.

1. Banana republic had a huge sale last Wednesday. Almost everything in the store was 30% off and if you brought in an old sweater for their sweater drive you got an additional 30% off. I got a really cute black sweater and a pair of brown pants for such a deal!

2. The zoo had a spooktacular event this weekend that we went. I really love zoos and was excited to get to see the Jacksonville one. It was PACKED with tons of kids in costumes, but I was loving every minute of it.

3. Cole Haan had a grand opening party last Thursday that half of my office went to. It was such a production...they had paparazzi people, hors d'oeuvres, and my manager won a free $500 purse...the whole store was so excited for her!

4. Chipotle is opening on Friday and last night was free burrito day so we all went to have free dinner!

5. Finally Al comes on Friday and I cannot wait!

Runway!

I am sad to say that one of my favorite shows is over and never coming back to bravo...however I did hear rumors that project runway is moving to lifetime so hopefully it will be back next season. As I promised, here are my thoughts on the season.

Kenley:

I used to like her at the beginning of the season, but then she turned extremely rude. Her collection reminded me a lot of the 80s, however I did really love her wedding dress and the other outfit below. Overall the collection was my least favorite, but the two outfits below were my favorite individual outfits of the season.

Korto:

I originally wanted Leanne to win but towards then end I really wanted Korto to win b/c I feel that she would benefit most from the win. I loved her collection...especially all of the colors that she included. My favorite dress was definitely the finale dress (the green one below)...I just thought it was so creative!

Leanne:

Throughout the season I thought that Leanna was the most consistent and I liked her designs the most. I thought her collection was very unique and really liked the wave inspiration. I only wished that she would have used a tiny bit more color but I am really glad that she won! I loved her wedding dress and really loved that it had pockets!

I loved this season (just like I loved all the other project runway seasons) and cannot wait for the next one...assuming that it does move to lifetime. And if you want, let me know your thoughts on the collections too!

I love today!

Today at work was so much fun! First, we had two people come to our office from Canada. They are really fun and it is nice to have new people in the office, especially since most of the old people are out in different territories. And because they started in the US today, they gave us all an hour to hang out with the Canadians and eat a big breakfast (however I was a little disappointed b/c usually when we get breakfast they give us panera but today we just got aramark...def not nearly as good)

Also at work all of our managers were gone so we spent a good majority of the day roaming from cube to cube just chatting...I love to be non productive some days!

Finally, tonight is PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE! I am extremely excited about this! Look forward to a post with my opinion on the collections :).

The fam came to visit!

This past weekend my family (minus mikey) came to visit. It was soo good to see them. I hadn't seen them in in over 3 months which is the longest we have ever been apart. We did a lot of stuff in 3 days but I loved every minute of it.

Here are some of the highlights:
-Al and I went Parasailing! For me this was a pretty big deal but I was so glad I did it. We did it on the Atlantic Ocean, so there were a lot of waves. On ride out there it was so bumpy that there was a time when I thought that it was possible the I could have fallen out of the boat (that part of the trip was not quite as fun). But once we got out deep enough to go into the air I loved it! (i also got a new camera so i will post pics soon)
-We went to my 2 favorite italian restaurants and some other great seafood restaurants, which as most of you know makes me very excited b/c I love food!
-Dad and Al played on the beach while me and mom went into the cute shops. I love beach shops...they have such cute stuff!
-We went to St. Augustine (which I have been there once before when Ash came and it was pretty sketchy) but this time we found the nice area and went to aeven more cute shops. This weekend was filled with a lot of shopping.

It was great weekend! I love hanging out with the fam!