My senior year of college at CSU I got a job working at the bakery on campus. It was such a fun job! Most college students would have hated it because I had to be at work at 5am. Yes, I was a senior in college and woke up Monday through Friday at 4:00am… yet I loved it. My dad always told me that the morning was the best part of the day. I thought he was full of it my whole life, that is, until I starting working at the bakery. Turns out, I am very much a morning person! [Read more…]

Two things I am loving right now: cucumber in my water (enough said) and my new Fitbit.

Donny won earned quite a bit of money in Blackhawk this last weekend! He has been on a roll playing Blackjack. I’m diggin’ it…. I don’t gamble but I am great support emotionally and comedically (is that even a word?!?!). 

Last week he came up to me and said “want to know when it’s time to get new tennis shoes?” Of course I did…. he said “when they do this….” and showed me one of his tennis shoes that had a 4 inch hole across the side of it. Yeah, I’d say it’s time for a new pair of shoes! I like buying shoes too much to let myself go that long without buying a new pair. He bought that pair probably two years ago and wears them a lot so probably time to retire them. By retire, I mean throw in the trash. Those cannot even be donated. Just trash them. [Read more…]

Prepare for me to go through withdrawals over the next few days. Withdrawals of what? Television. I know, right?! Who am I?!? I went three whole years without cable or television and now I am addicted to Orange is the New Black… well, Netflix in general. I finished Season 1 the last time Donny was gone and then he had to catch up. Well one week later and we are now done with all 13 episodes of Season 2. Yikes. [Read more…]