12on12 June- late.

Only a few days late...

7:33 am- leaving my lifting class. Had a great lift!

8:31 am- I'm showered and checking the bruises from my accident on the 10th. That was a horrible day. (this is the most scandalous picture I've ever posted on my blog)

11:56 am- walking to lunch.

12:53 pm - I had lunch with Jaime and Tiffany at the UC, and then I made them pose for a picture.

1:42 pm - AFR told me to use aloe on my face bruise, I think it helped.

2:06 pm - I ended up going home from work with a headache and neck pain. I decided sleeping was my best plan.

2:17 pm - my nap was interrupted because my nephew called me on my sisters phone. Caleb and I attempted FaceTime about 3 times before he gave up, we almost got it to work.

5:22 pm - I watched a TedTalk about not saving the crap you don't use, so I started cleaning out all my boxes, this is me determining if things are an office supply or something I want to donate to the resource room.

6:16 pm - I'm testing my pens to determine if they need to be thrown away or not. I gave the pens that still worked to the front desk.

6:54 pm - when I stopped by the desk to give Zach all the pens, I forced him to watch the TedTalks that inspired me.

8:42 pm - Jason came to visit to have dinner with me! Virginia Beach neighbors almost both living in Colorado now!

8:59 pm - I was checking Facebook and found a map of the current wild fire in Colorado, it's breaking my heart so much.

12 on 12- May Edition

Today was a day for family! And apparently food and ice cream- as they appear to be themes in my pictures today, weird.

My dad drove in from Kansas last night and then today my sister arrived from Virginia (spoiler on some of the photos...) My dad was very excited about getting to be featured in my blog, so I made sure to take a couple of pictures from him.

7:52 a.m.-- My dad and I had some breakfast. He was enjoying his typical oatmeal breakfast (which I'm pretty sure he has had for breakfast ever since I was a child), I had a smoothie and then we shared some strawberries (they were on sale this week, yay!)

8:12 a.m.-- Dad was headed to the Greeley Freight Station Museum for the day to get certified to run trains on the layout (he's very excited about it), so I decided to go for a ride.

9:23 a.m.-- I rode for 53 minutes, 12 miles, not a bad pace at all. The first few miles were a bit rough, it was SO COLD (aka something like 40 degrees out) and I forgot to bring gloves- that was foolish.

9:34 a.m.-- I have been waiting to send this set of Mother's Day cards for several days, all because Rachel was failing at responding to my text messages asking for her address. Turns out- group text to several people with Rachel included will get her to respond, although Emma and Hannah beat her to the answer.

11:06 a.m.-- this was my "oh crap" moment of the day, as I'm about to walk out of my bedroom to head to my car, my phone started ringing and I went "oh crap, it's going to be Natalie" I looked at my phone and of course, it was Natalie. Her flight was scheduled to land at 11:49 a.m., so I should have been able to  leave and pick her up as soon as she landed. Thankfully, James and Ariel went to grab her and I raced to Denver to meet them for lunch.

12:49 p.m.-- reunited! They had already consumed 2 baskets of chips, so I think they were grateful I had joined them so they could order.

1:31 p.m.-- I am very excited about this moment of my day. We went to Sweet Action Ice Cream because when you have a dairy intolerance it's exciting to get to eat vegan ice cream! My options were Red Velvet and Cinnamon... I tried both and went with the Red Velvet.

6:09 p.m.-- after we got back to Greeley, Natalie and I took naps and then we did some more eating. Dad took us out to Chili's, which Natalie doesn't get to have very often because Blacksburg doesn't have a store there.

7:31 p.m.-- I had a bridal shower to attend tonight, so Dad and Natalie got some quality time with each other and I got to spend some time with my friends.

8:28 p.m.-- the party is winding down so Jamie was showing me her bid, the content of it is not published yet so I took a picture of the name tag (sans my name) that I had turned into a bracelet.

8:38 p.m.-- meanwhile in my apartment... I had sent Danny to hang out with Daddy Sherbak and Natalie. They were all enjoying a glass of wine when I snuck in to put some coconut milk ice cream in the freezer.

8:59 p.m.-- I made Katie pose for the picture. It's a future roommate photo. Dance parties will happen.

12 (+1) on 12... 5 days late!

Not on my blogging game this year, clearly. Sorry!

At least being 5 days late I accidentally took 13 pictures instead of 12, so that's good news.

8:46 a.m.-- getting ready for work, this picture is of the status of my pink. I'm going to need to re-dye it soon. It's fading fast.

9:44 a.m.-- Ally and I went upstairs during her 1:1, so I made sure to get a photo of her April bulletin board; my RAs plotted to make me happy birthday bulletin boards, they were pretty fantastic.

9:47 a.m.-- I also wanted to make sure to get a photo of the board with confetti on it, unfortunately I didn't get this picture until after someone ripped part of my "Z"

1:04 p.m.-- this is my wonderful friend Jaime, she was worried she had missed being in my blog, but we took a special feature just for this blog!

2:03 p.m.-- this motley crew stopped into my office to say hello. I believe that this is Alex's third time being featured in my blog, he's making a good run at it!

2:05 p.m.-- Seth had been at Academic Excellence Week and came to show me his poster presentation because I had meetings when he was presenting at the UC. He's pretty smart and going to do big things, watch for his name!

2:35 pm.-- I stopped by the front desk to check-in with one of my DAs, I was also a little bit watching the cameras, nothing was happening that was interesting though.

4:44 p.m.-- oh that was an accident, but I love it when the time is all the same number. Still hanging at the desk... I was trying to make sure that I drank lots and lots of water, I was doing pretty well.

5:48 p.m.-- my CC and I went to Walmart to spend some money from our budget and get us some much needed supplies for the desk. My staff and students were very excited when we returned!

6:07 p.m.-- I considered deleting this photo, except my dinner is so delicious looking! 1- I love beets. 2- the saffron rice was fantastic. 3- the fruit was so yummy. 4- I was dining with my future roommate!

7:05 p.m.-- I got to be on the RHA radio show again! I started a twitter hashtag- #RHAradio, there weren't many people tweeting with it, bummer. Maybe next time.

7:42 p.m.-- we're still on the radio show! I was running the play list off my laptop and then I had a piece of paper with songs I wanted to to play... I might need to see if the student radio will let me have my show even though I'm not a student... hmm..

9:14 p.m.-- this part of my day got the twitter hashtag- #thursdayswithsuz Anna, Amy, Maggie and I went bowling, I didn't bowl as great as I did last time we went, but we had a great time!

I'm going to try to get my blog written on-time next month.

12 Days of December: the 4th

My posts are soon to get less interesting with my vacation coming to an end... I included timezones on these pictures, as tomorrow they will be important...

10:00 am pdt-- woke up and then started working on the puzzle (later in the day I will be called the "puzzle master")

10:34 am pdt-- it's vacation, you can drink before noon on vacation...

12:48 pm pdt-- my friend Casey (from Virginia Tech) and my friend Katie (from the University of Denver) both live in CA and have finally met! And we're going sailing!!

3:24 pm pdt-- someone thought it was smart to let me drive. I actually did pretty awesome until there was a test called "keep the boat still while we pull down the sail" and another called "tie a knot" (that's not related to my driving but it is sailing related)

12 on the 12th of August- student staff training edition

Student staff training is in full swing and as a result provided some great photos for the 12th of August...

5:13 a.m.- really, 5:13 a.m... there was a lost dog on campus yesterday and while we waited for someone to claim him MG provided him a nice home and bed. Everyone (MG, the RAs and myself) all wanted to keep this dog for all of time (there will be a picture of him later); he was the sweetest, cutest dog- of all time. Anyway, 5;13 a.m., up to go to the bathroom (and he peed just a few short minutes before we opened the door to outside, oops!)

6:12 a.m. - driving to campus to get ready for the day, I couldn't complain about the beautiful sunrise as I headed east.
8:44 a.m.- sitting in our first round-table presentation with the UNC Counseling Center, they developed really (emphasis on the "really") great training sessions for our student staff.
9:16 a.m. - walking through Wiebking and I found this awesome door decoration!
11:48 a.m.- headed to lunch. I was hoping for a Beatles style cross-walk photo... instead I got Alex and Lauren to pose :)
3:20 p.m.- we're about halfway through Behind Closed Doors- Mental Health scenarios training in Wiebking, I happened upon this great welcome sign. I am loving the creativity!
5:19 p.m.- I took a couple of RAs with me as I zipped across town to pick up Horace (or Franklin, Carl, Bert, Buzz, Copper... all depending on who you ask) because his owner has called to tell me she wants him back. I'm hoping and wishing that this won't actually be her dog... He will end up being hers, and he'll end up being called Dopey (stupid, I know).
6:57 p.m. - Dopey is getting some love (and helping staff de-stress) at our staff BBQ in the park. Great, great way to end a long day of mental health scenarios and conversations.
7:34 p.m. - sunset after the BBQ. Quite lovely if you ask me.
9:25 p.m. - I've just woken up from an accidental nap and put on my cute-green-shoes to head to MG's gig at Crabtree Brewery

10:40 p.m. - MG's about to go on stage, I'm lurking in the back. I happened upon this awesome sign...

11:19 p.m. - MG is still on stage and the crowd is loving him. Lots of dancing and excitement.

And thus concludes a very long day on August 12!