The August 12 on 12

As I sit waiting for the Spice Girls to come on the closing ceremonies of the 30th olympiad (I just said that like I watched more then 30 minutes of all of the competitions total), I am delighted to write my first 12-on-12 from Washington.

Today started pretty boring, but I think ended with some great highlights.

6:59 am-- I spent much of the morning waking up at various times. I've been trying to sleep without earplugs because as my phone reminded me this morning, I am on-duty tomorrow (and I don't like to sleep with earplugs while I'm on-duty)

8:59 am-- Departing my apartment to head to my office for a little bit, I know it's sunday- but I am prepping for (half of) my staff's arrival today. I bought this curtain to match my black/white/red theme in my bedroom, I think it looks really cool.

9:34 am-- doing some work, trying to update the schedule for Early Fall Start move-in.

10:27 am-- Sometimes when I send emails to parents or students on the weekends, I like to delay send in an effort to keep their expectations of my response to business hours of weekdays. I'm tricky.

11:00 am-- I've just checked out 7 keys to an apartment in Steven's Court... there had been a pipe issue resulting in limited pressure in the water in my building (and rumor that it was being turned off), so I needed a back-up plan for my RAs and myself regarding bathrooms/showers. I found out a few minutes later that it was repaired and I was just being over-concerned

 2:07 pm-- headed to the IMA for a workout. I was delighted to find the 4th floor cardio and weight areas. Although, I will still show up in the free weight area on the 1st floor to politely ask people to move all the 45 lb weights from the leg press for me (since I like that less press style better. and yes, I did ask a man to move the 3- 45 lb weights on each side of the machine Friday since I would have failed at lifting all 6 of them). Also, this view from the 4th floor was much more remarkable but I didn't have my phone.

 3:16 pm-- this scale is in the women's locker room, I just think it's so interesting looking.

 3:22 pm-- I didn't have enough time to walk to the gym, so I drove. I am amused that my parking lot tells me that I am OK and uses my full name. (It's the little things).

 3:36 pm-- Pretty sure I consumed all the calories I just burned by eating these Triscuits. I brought them wine tasting yesterday and they were a hit, I recommend buying yourself a box (or 4).

 5:40 pm-- Half of my staff has arrived for Early Fall Start training and we're doing some team builders/ get to know you activities. The list in blue is from when everyone was sharing their favorite restaurant (I shamelessly took notes, and I didn't even ask it during the question game, someone else did).

 7:06 pm-- at this minute my phone started "dinging" ridiculously with messages that finally came through, I'm not sure how it happened... but literally 12 messages came through at the same time (I just counted).

 8:44 pm-- HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!! Great Facetime session with Katie, Patrick, Sean, Michael, Brice (he's in there, I promise), Jaime and Danny (also, some guy I don't know). This is my day ending on a huge highlight! Thank you, friends! :)

Gotta go, Spice Girls are coming on now. Excellent timing!

A very late July 12...

I'm hopeful that I will write another blog to explain why this blog will be dated July 12 but will be posted on July 24th but for now, I will focus on just writing this blog.

857 am-- just getting into the office after 4 days at ACUHO-I so I'm waiting (not actually) patiently for my desktop to turn on.

1009 am -- I'm moving to Seattle (hint: reason this blog is late), my friend has just emailed me with information about Bumbershoot so I can look into tickets. Things that are awesome in this picture: Missy Higgins (I love her) and Gotye

1211 pm-- I'm also confused as to why I'm not at lunch at this minute, I am instead visiting the main office and threatening to give Val a hug every time I am in the office for the rest of my time at UNC (mission: accomplished. I already miss her a ton)

1233 pm-- Coordinating a move in 2 weeks is not the easiest thing I've ever done, it's made only slightly harder by a paving project outside of my building.

129 pm-- hanging at the desk with some of my awesome summer desk staff. Almost all of them are going to or from the gym.

351 pm-- I am updating and admiring my excel document that outlines departmental processes, staff meeting schedules, and programming... I am such an excel nerd.

439 pm-- They came by and gave me a second monitor in my office.. and of course I am leaving. Also, the email that is pulled up is about Campus Beautification Day- which I was very excited that it happened before I am leaving. I am amused (to myself) because Deb wrote "Junly" and when I saved these photos onto my computer I saved them into a "June2012" folder, so clearly I was confused on which month this was.

617 pm-- Walking back from dinner from Nicole, I noticed this lovely advertisement for the UNC bear bikes... all the women's basketball players in summer school have rented them for the summer.

647 pm-- I'm headed to meet Anna (spoiler on the next photo) for a snack, we won't get to have many more #ThursdaysWithSuz

714 pm-- spending some quality time with Anna at Aspen Leaf

743 pm-- We walked back towards our buildings the long way, and went through several sprinkler obstacles (very successfully)

810 pm-- what you can't see in this picture is Todd Schuster running... we sat down and watched the stoplight for awhile, I will miss our thursday adventures!

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.