I'm forgetful

Carly was so good to point out to me a couple days ago that I double posted about my last New York trip. Please see THIS post that I wrote a few days ago, and THIS post that I wrote in February for more information. Oops!

I have tons of stuff to post about but am having issues posting at home. Work really is a good place to post. But, when I want to post a picture it only works if I have them online. I suppose I could bring my camera/cord to work, but do I really want to have a bunch of pictures on my work computer? It's already slow enough.

On a really sad note, I dropped my computer yesterday and it's having issues. Not bad issues, just little issues. Like funny noises. But I think that's because of the workout DVD stuck in the disc drive that I'm kind of embarrassed about... (I don't really want anyone to see that I have Shape Magazine's Bikini Body workout in there--I wish it was something cooler like... hm... I don't know, something cool though.) I need to take it to a Mac Doctor. Maybe I'll call and get an appointment today...

PS- My parents are picking Jess up in two weeks. TWO WEEKS! That's 14 days! And when she finally gets back to Oregon, I'll be flying in a couple days later. I.cannot.wait!

At last

Since my family is currently on the train, on their way back to DC from NYC (where they ditched me to hang out with Carly and see shows while I went to work), I realized I never posted pictures from the last trip I took to NYC which was in January over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day three day weekend. Here are a few highlights of the trip:

On our way to brunch. Carly, me, Andrea and Erin, Liz took the picture. (If you recall, last time I was in NYC we stayed at Andrea and Erin's place.) We had a sleep over at the night I got in.


After brunch--which we ate at a delicious place somewhere and the title of the restaurant had the word "Good" in it (and it lived up to that) but I can only really remember the good part-- we went to see Next to Normal. A musical about a dysfunctional family. We enjoyed it. But we may have cried too.


Ah, Levain Bakery. The bane of my existence. If I live near it I'd be two things, 1.) fat as a whale, and 2.) broke because those puppies are expensive. But I love them. Best cookies ever. I dream about the Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip one. Perhaps I should never move to the Upper West Side...


And lastly we hit up Shake Shack before going to a movie. Yep, we went to a musical and a movie in one night. We saw The Lovely Bones and I think we were all a little scarred. Another highlight of the trip, was meeting the fella in the picture who I knew I'd meet someday...


I really do love New York. When I go visit I think, "Man I could definitely live here." But then I come home to DC and it feels like home too. And who wouldn't want to come home when they have what was in that box in their room? (Post coming soon. Promise!)

Jumping Pictures

(Emma)

We have a family Smugmug account. And I was looking through pictures of my family.
(1. Because I love them and may be a little obsessed. and 2. Because I'm bored and am procrastinating.)
Anyway, I found these fun pictures that were taken last summer when I had already moved out east.

Jumping pictures may be all the rage, but only Rach can do the leaping ones. And I'm jealous.

(Yes my mom used to be a cheerleader.
And yes Ellie (the dog) must be wondering what has overcome my dad, he usually doesn't do stuff like that.
Must have been a lot of coaxing.)


(Rach)

(Also, photo credits go to Emma. Except the one of her of course, that was probably my mom.)

Family

(Mom, Rach, me and Dad. Photo taken last summer in Montreal.)

This week my parents and little sister Rachel are here for Spring Break. (Though they will be spending three of those days up in NYC, my favorite playground.) But, they just called and have arrived in DC and are taking their naps in the hotel before meeting me for lunch and a half day at work. Lovely.

And as I looked for a picture to put up I found these funny/stupid ones we took while sitting bored in the car on that same Canada trip.

I can't wait for all my sisters to be home and in the country! And I'll get to see two of those away sisters one month from tomorrow in Oregon!
(Emma will be coming back from BYU Jerusalem and Jess will have been back a few days from her Singapore/Malaysian Mission.)

I'm bored and this is random

Today is fantastically warm. I'm not wearing tights. If I was a cute trendy blogger I would have taken a picture of my feet, (Example 1. Example 2. Example 3.), I did not.

I wore really cute earrings today. They must have nickel in them because my ears are itchy and it's sad. I think I'll coat them in clear nail polish. Hopefully that'll work.

Work was SUUUUPER slow today. I'm leaving a little early. I feel a little guilty about that. But, I'm really just sitting here doing nothing. Here is what I've done:

• Organized my desk.
• Small talked with the people who are actually here.
• Fixed my hair. Twice.
• Gone to the bathroom. Thrice.
• Filled up my water bottle. Thrice.
• Went with Amy and Lisa to pick up their Half-Marathon Packets.
• Fitted my new "yurbuds" to my headphones. (Bought them when we picked up the packets)
• Ate lunch
• Surfed the web
• Read the Overheard @ BYU page on Facebook
• Ran a memo downstairs.
• Emptied out my google reader a handful of times.

Seriously unproductive.

But I'm really bored. And the bored-er I get the less and less I want to be productive and the less and less I want to go to the gym.

Oh! Speaking of the gym, I was on the elliptical last night watching all the people milling around the bar downstairs when I saw my friend Rachel from Eugene (by way of Boston) walking up the path with her friend (the friend is in my ward). I jumped off the elliptical and went running out the door, stopping to yell her name from the stairway and then proceeding to give her an awkward hug (because I was sweaty, not because it was awkward). But, it's so fun to see her. She looked really cute and pretty and her hair made me jealous.

That's all. I'm leaving work early today so I can be motivated again to hit up the gym and then clean my room so it's nice and clean when my family flies in on Monday. Yay!

Also, I'm going to the Mat Kearney/Ingrid Michaelson Concert tomorrow. I'm really excited.

Someday I'll post pictures of my special package I got. I just really need to clean my room before you can see it.

(PS- Not my picture. I just needed something to make the blog look prettier. I got it HERE via google image search.)

Metro Mayhem

Yesterday when I got to the metro I couldn't find my wallet and subsequent metro card. So, I dug around for my wallet in my bag amidst all my stuff. And that's a lot. Here's what was in it:

• my umbrella;
  
• my lip bag (yep the little change-purse-like bag that has a handful of lip balms, lip tints, and chapstick in it, along with a roller perfume--or two-- and a little cash for emergency's);
  
• my hair bag (bag with bobby pins and ponytail holders that are essential since I tend to forget to have some when I go to the gym after work if my hair has been worn down that day);
  
• my work badge;
  
• my lunch;
• iPod;
  
• and two folding reusable grocery shopping bags.
  

What I really needed to do was find something to rest the bag on and then rummage around with it steady and not hanging off my arm in the air.

But, I didn't have time to do that. This is what happened:

1. I saw my train pull up to the platform.
2. I started hurrying because the next train is going to be much later.
3. I rummaged around.
4. My friend asked if I need help.
5. I handed her the shopping bags and my lunch.
6. My wallet fell out of the shopping bag (it got lost in one of the folds).
7. I quickly bent over to pick it up. (The train is boarding.)
8. And, everything fell out of my purse.

Did I mention that I was directly in front of the pay turnstiles?

9. So now really rushing, I threw everything in my bag.
10. I scaned my card, which was in my wallet.
11. It wouldn't scan.
12. I tried again.
13. And again.
14. And again.
15. I flipped the wallet over and repeat.
16. Still wouldn't scan and has the pesky, "See attendant" message.
17. The doors closed to the train.
18. I walked to the metro attendant defeated and have her fix my card.

The story wasn't that funny at the moment and I was really pretty late for work. Though my boss thought it was hilarious.

He's a loud laugher. It made me feel really funny.

(If you didn't think it was that funny just picture me trying to pick up all my stuff right in the middle of the walkway during rush hour. I wish I could have witnessed it, not experienced it.)

Pinch Me

I forgot to wear green today
even after I was reminded multiple times
at the gym this morning.
Oops!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day anyway!