couldn't be happier....

one of my best amigas for life, nicole - got married this past weekend in chile.

i just looked at the pictures online and i literally felt like i was there...i even started crying. i can't believe it. i've never been happier for anyone in my life and no one deserves it more than those two amazing people. the most congratulations to both of you. i love you!

why i love cooking with dan.

he's good at what he does.

he doesn't complain when i don't help, and he gets out of my way when i am in the mood to cook.

he understands the importance of wine as a vital cooking component.

he likes to listen to the same cooking music i do.

he likes the same foods i do at the same time i do and he's always willing to try new things...i introduced him to brie tonight and he loves it just as much as i do!

he knows how to cook chicken well.

he always lets me snack while we're cooking.

i'm in a friday state of mind

what is it about fridays? they make me feel so lazy :) i think it's usually the knowledge that the next day, i will be able to sleep in all i like. but this weekend, that's not even the case. tomorrow, i have to get up for an 8:30am haircut! (although i am really excited about that because i haven't had it cut since march and i am beginning to feel like a sheep dog). on sunday, danno, and his cousin want to go "footin'" (barefoot waterskiing) at approximately 6am. i am tempted to stay in bed and sleep through it, but i have been waiting allllllllllllll summer to watch him ski. he wants me to try too. it's not that i'm a huge wuss or anything, i honestly just don't want to have to deal with the consequences if i do get hurt. although, i'll probably just suck it up and try it, particularly if i go through all the effort of getting up so early anyway.

but right now. i feel like doing so many things that don't involve PR :).

i feel like reading a book i've read a zillion times. i feel like going on a picnic. i feel like baking cookies. i feel like playing the piano. i feel like playing bags and drinking beer. i feel like watching step up (again - or really any terribly awesome movie that i own :) ). i feel like embarking on an entirely new book i've never even read! i feel like watching episode after episode of gilmore girls. i feel like buying new clothes (or shoes). i feel like getting a tattoo. i feel like cooking spare ribs. i feel like starting to write a book. i feel like scrapbooking. i feel like walking around and taking pictures of random things. i feel like making ice cream. i feel like doing yoga. i feel like lifting weights. i feel like painting my room. i feel like sketching. i feel like watching all of the harry potter movies in order (including the ones that haven't even been made/released yet). i feel like going to play with puppies. i feel like horseback riding. i feel like decorating my apartment. i feel like drinking a milkshake. i feel like going to see "no reservations" again. i feel like just lying around with dan. i feel like learning how to skateboard. i want to go to a library or a book store and read the first ten pages of eight million different books. i want to go to arby's and get a beef and cheddar. i want to watch the wonder years. i want to go to a beach or a pool.

wow :) now i REALLY don't want to be at work!

Who's scared to go outside?

So my office is having a company party outside tonight, but reading the newspaper has made me afraid to go outside ever again!!!

WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LEAVE US ALONE?!??!

Don't you ever wonder...

where those people go? the ones you lost track of ... the ones you don't speak to. even if you were or are done with them. doesn't curiousity ever get the best of you? do these people continue to have lives after they have finished affecting yours? and if you're wondering about it, which means they are continuing to affect you, what does that mean?

i think these social networking sites go against nature. people are supposed to come into your life and then leave and then you're supposed to be done with them. you're not supposed to get updates on your news feed about them. you're not supposed to forge fake relationships with them just because you can or just because it will boost your popularity on facebook. it is harder to forget about people you want to because they are in your daily techno life and you are continuously confronted with updates on their lives ... if it's with twitter - you get updates every four minutes.

although i guess i can't really complain and it's not all bad .... i reconnected with someone i rather enjoy having in my life through facebook. it's so strange to think about and i probably wouldn't have, if someone hadn't brought it directly to my attention the other day, but i would honestly be in a very different place right now with my life and who i surround myself with if it were not for facebook and some very pointed and directed friend sprees i went on during bouts of dissatisfaction with my social life a little earlier this year. i sometimes go back and read the messages and wall posts from this time and it's so odd how i have complete documentation of the process and i can clearly get an emotional memory of how i felt when i saw that first wall post or what i was thinking when i responded.

i guess facebook, etc are kind of changing the way we evolve, relationship wise. it'll take some getting used to, but i suppose that for the time being, i don't think that it's all that bad ;)

I have started a new Blog

I have launched yet another blog. This one is completely dedicated to PR and musings about the industry and my experience. Please check it out at: http://prtalk.blogspot.com/

Absolutely Unreal

..... people's lives becoming creepily intertwined with their second lives...

Second Life takes Over

this would make anyone happy

seriously. i've watched this video approximately nine times and i'm still giggling at it. i LOVE it!


Look how happy he is!

Dealing with stress

i need to work on this. seriously. i don't even know how stressed out i am until i'm taking it out on other people and letting it affect the way i work and the way i evaluate life and make decisions. which is not good. i wish i could install some sort of apparatus in my body that would help me determine that i am stressed out and then i could take some time out to do something about it. like look at happy pictures :) or read a good book. i still haven't read my book that i allow myself to read once a year without feeling guilty. in fact, i still haven't finished harry potter. there's too much to do and i make too many plans. so i need to stop trying to fill every second of life with something to do. it's a bad habit i've had since i was little, but it's burning me out and making me not enjoy the activities that plan as much. quality, not quantity. i'm always so afraid that i'm going to miss out on something, but then i participate in so many things that i am missing out on things that i want to do for myself. it's my new day's resolution to work on that. and to take the time to put into motion some of these life projects that i've really been gunning to work on instead of just thinking and talking about them. because that would make me feel better and more productive and i would also get to enjoy the results. these projects often take a back seat to more time sensitive, "pressing" obligations. but i need to not let that happen. i need to make room in my life for a few more interests and inspirations but do it without spreading myself too thin. that's who i am - a jack of all trades or something like that. and previous employers of mine may have disapproved of that, but it's something about myself that i just don't want to change. and i won't :)

can they DO that?

i really don't think this is possible, but it's kind of interesting, particularly since i've always found that word to be especially offensive and harsh...

Freedom of Speech?

could this dog BE any cuter?!

ok i know that i just shouldn't get a puppy right this second. but i want one SO badly. when dan and i went to PET COOOOOOOOOO and saw all the puppies playing, i seriously considered just stealing one. i know it's wrong, but he'd be so much happier with me. i would probably quit my job just to play with it all the time. i know all the negatives behind my having a dog right now, but if i keep looking at these pictures every day, i will probably just break down and buy one despite all the logic that tells me not to!

moment of zen

i just want to take this moment to document how happy i am. blissfully, soul shakingly happy. just let me know who to thank and i'll do it.

Monday Motivation

i find it so difficult to make myself move on mondays these days. maybe it's because i am overwhelmed by the week ahead, in combination with the overwhelming volume of clients i have to take care of and the overwhelming goals i set for myself which i don't take the time to write down so i just feel even more overwhelmed by the concept of lofty goals with multiple clients!


i think that on mondays, i am going to start writing down REASONABLE goals for myself for the week. not just work stuff either. other projects and now that i have my apartment, apartment related stuff. we need so many things still and there is so much for me to do before it can really feel like home (even aside from just moving the numerous boxes that are so obnoxiously blocking the doorway to my room!)

i am, however, extremely excited about this apartment, because it feels more "real" to me than the other places i have resided. st. louis would have been real, but it didn't last very long.

i'm hoping to catch a huge wave of inspiration as far as decorating goes and create something amazing that i will want to wake up to every day and spend time staring at. if any of you creative minds have any ideas, let me know!!!! :)

Moving this weekend! :)

first of all - i am SO excited to be moving this weekend. it'll be sad to not be around my parents all the time, but definitely good for me, my social life and perhaps my sanity :) (sorry, mom). there's just so many things that i've been wanting to do that i just haven't been able to up until now because of so many obstacles that came along with living at home (long commute to work, having to take my parents into consideration when making plans, uncertain timing issues) but now! i plan on doing so many things and i just hope that i have the time and motivation to do them.

i want to write SO much. i want to take classes. i want to cook more. i want to work on my scrapbook and take more pictures and give in to all the inspiration i have been been allowing to build up without too much of an outlet.

i'm also just excited to have a space that is my own again. i miss being able to decorate and i haven't felt like a "real person" while living with my parents. i just bought my own car and now i'm ready to drive away into the real world. :) wish me luck!