12 photos from the 12th of May!

5:46 a.m.-- no kidding, 5:46 a.m.... I woke up unreasonably early to the sound of rain outside my window. (please excuse the lines from the screen)
7:01 a.m.-- my phone and coffee pot are disagreeing about the time in this photo. I am not a regular morning coffee drinker. I have a theory about caffeine and my stomach so I typically drink decaf; this morning after my early wake up I decided that caffeine was in order.

10:07 a.m.-- walking into North to help Marianne with pre-conference checks; really I was going to learn how to do them.

11:11 a.m.-- aside from being one of my favorite times of day, this was after I brought some boxes to put into my new office.

11:22 a.m.-- Jamie and I are headed to Wiebking to then go to TK with our closing paperwork. The weather outside was delightful, I love rain.

12:00 p.m.-- in the UC for lunch; you can tell it's summer because there is no one here!

1:30 p.m.-- Jamie and I are leaving Best Buy after an unsuccessful trip to pick up a screen protector for my future iPad (it's been ordered, still waiting for it to arrive). Jamie is modeling her new hat which was purchased at the bookstore; Barnes and Noble is going out of business on campus so many items are 50% off!

2:33 p.m.-- my glamorous life of entering the paint audit into excel; actually, I love excel (nerd alert)

4:04 p.m.-- The picture says I'm on the phone with Erin, but really I'm on the phone with Jamie; we're conference calling about the Training Schedule (so excited!) and soon I'll start sharing my screen via Wimba so she can see how I'm editing it.

6:04 p.m.-- I am quite pleased that I managed to take a photo exactly 2 hours after the last picture. MPG and I decided on soup & rolls for dinner; this is while we're trying to make out final selection, we left with chicken and vegetables (basically chicken noodle with better noodles).

7:18 p.m.-- after dinner coffee at Starbucks; where questions like "what does your favorite color smell like?" were posed and answered.

8:26 p.m.-- after we realized we had missed all the movie times, we stopped by Red Box to rent Due Date. Super, super funny; highly recommend.

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