12 on the 12th of April

Happy April! It's my favorite and least favorite month... that's a different story I suppose...

10:00 a.m.- realized it was the 12th after being awake for almost 3.5 hours... hanging out in North watching Erin sort some Room Inventories

12:10 p.m.- Headed to lunch, going towards Olive Garden

12:21 p.m.- Ended up at Carinos

12:32 p.m.- Garlic, olive oil and pepper... Yum!

2:32 p.m.- In my office, prepping for closing things...

4:50 p.m.- SYE focus group time

5:52 p.m.- and then N=1... sad day. Not actually sad, cause it was Maitri and she's fun.

7:10 p.m.- Totally mad! My green key won't get me into the outside door by my apartment.

7:52 p.m.- Got home and rested on my bed for about 40 minutes.

8:25 p.m.- Ready for the desk meeting...

9:04 p.m.- Staff meeting... we're practicing how to check out a room...

9:51 p.m.- Lined up for desk schedule. In Wiebking we like to be efficient.

Studies Show...

I'm in love with this email signature today...

4 years later...

I was pretty excited last night when I went to go pick up my newly framed bachelor's degree!

I had been out shopping with a co-worker on March 4th and we saw that Michael's was having a 60% off custom framing sale, the sale ended on the 5th and I told myself that I just needed to get it taken care of.

My bachelor's degree wasn't actually in my possession until June 2010. After graduation, I left it at my mom's house; We weren't actually sure we knew where it was for about 2 years. Once we found it, I wanted to wait to move it from Virginia to Colorado until it could drive out or until I framed it at home and shipped it framed.. I was really worried about it getting bent or creased.

The staff I worked with at Michael's did a great job of making sure we were laying everything out in a way that I wanted. We spent a bunch of time making sure that I was getting just what I wanted. I never thought picking my mats and my background paper would be much work, but it probably took me at least 20 minutes to decide on them; picking a frame took about that much time too! The photo below is while we were working on layout, I like getting photos during the process. :)

12 on the 12th- March Edition

March Edition and #TPE11 Edition! How exciting!? Enjoy...

7:04 am- good morning Philadelphia!

8:49 am- breakfast around a table at placement... Only the coffee is mine

10:24 am- I assigned myself the task of organizing notes

11:48 am- found Deak! Watching her write an email

4:09 pm- left the placement floor to write notes

4:20 pm- still writing notes, different hallway

7:02 pm- Ciani came to see me!!!

7:54 pm- seated at Sole Food, about to order, and we're in the first skyscraper in Philly!

8:52 pm- free glass of wine because my dinner is took a very long time; but my trout came after they brought it to me. I'll take it!

9:54 pm- saying goodbye to Ciani

10:11 pm- Katie is suggesting that I am robbing the cradle with a current crush, haha

10:29 pm- Craig, basically my conference-friend, stopped by hotel to say hello before I go to sleep... Since I have an early flight... sadly, this picture is ridiculously blurry!

The Incredible Edible Egg!

Apparently there is research to back my "if you've been drinking you should eat breakfast before you go to bed" theory.

From Twitter: @WomensHealthMag
Cure a hangover: Amino acids in poached eggs can help erase next-day hurtin.'

Singing and Dancing

Lately (by which I mean the last 1.5 years or so), I have found myself to be much more spiritual than religious. I still believe similar things to what members of the Christian church believe but there are some areas that I struggle with.

Most interestingly on my spiritual journey has been the use of oracle cards. This amazing women I knew in Denver lead a group called Women & Wisdom, where we got together monthly and talked about our spiritual journeys. And sometimes we'd do dinner with a few women and we'd pull out the oracle cards to ask the angels for guidance on things in our lives.

About 2 months ago I bought myself my own set of cards, to by honest, I've only used them about 5 times (that's probably even a lie, and really closer to 3 times).

Last month, I asked a question and when I pulled a card it said: singing and dancing. I decided it didn't make sense to my question and put my cards away.

Last night, and this get's a bit more tricky:
asked a question. shuffled 7 times. pulled card: singing and dancing
asked a new question. shuffled 7 times. pulled card: singing and dancing
asked another new question. shuffled 7 times. pulled card: singing and dancing.

All the questions were similar in nature and one was the same question from a month ago.

Dear Universe,
Message received. Sorry I didn't listen the first time.
Love, Suz

12 on the 12th -- February Edition

10:24 a.m.- I realize my pupils are two different sizes; Jenny acted like nothing was wrong. I let her know where my medical cards were and then I realized I had used eye drops in one eye and not the other.

10:43 a.m.- picking up Noodles lunch for the No Frills conference... lots of boxes!

11:49 a.m.- Brittany was volunteering too, we got a bit excited to see each other!!!

11:57 a.m.- Rachel sent me a photo of Jameson, he's in Virginia, but a great addition to 12 on 12 for February, he's so stinkin' cute!!

12:49 p.m.- Headed across the Driscoll bridge to watch Sam in the boardroom. I miss this view.

1:56 p.m. - IACURH No Frills boardroom, if you look really hard you can see the UNC delegation

3:41 p.m.- Hannah sent me a photo of Elijah, also in Virginia, also a great addition to 12 on 12.

5:46 p.m.- All dressed up with no where to go... we've just been informed that the boardroom isn't going to be out for another 30 minutes... the smell of Chinese food has been flirting with my nose for over an hour, talk about temptation!!

5:54 p.m. - I ran out to grab my phone charger and stole the opportunity to get a photo of the sunset from the roof... so worth it...

6:25 p.m.- Photo with the IACURH Director-elect, yay!!!

7:29 p.m.- Fortune Cookie

8:31 p.m.- My best friend, Jameson!!! (not to be confused with my nephew) He's actually smiling, he's so excited to see me :)