It has begun!

I've officially started shopping for Christmas! I went shopping with Stacy and Tara for a bit today and then stopped by a mall on my way home. I had a catalog for a certain store, so I already had a few things in mind. I'm trying my best to get a list of things I want to buy ready for Black Friday this year. Most Black Fridays I just wander aimlessly to wherever the people I'm with want to go, but I thought that this year I should be more organized. I'm hoping that will result in some deals. We'll see how it goes. Happy shopping, everyone! :) Oh, and I'm throwing this photo up here because I like that Robert Pattinson's bib says "Time to Get Cracking" (he's eating lobster in another photo). Funny stuff.

Today = Wednesday

Anybody who hears me talk about work knows that Wednesdays are the worst day of the week. I think that's when agents all decide to gang up on me. Unfortunately, this week Wednesday came early! You ever get that feeling that no matter how hard you've been working you didn't really get anything done? That about sums it up. But I still love my job so I know I'll just start over tomorrow and hope for a better day of the week. Think tomorrow could be Friday instead of Wednesday?

I wish...

...we had a Robert Pattinson look-alike in our office to be Edward in our Twilight character theme last week. We don't have anyone even close....oh well. Enjoy the new Vanity Fair outtake anyway!

Halloween Fun!

Today was a ton of fun at work (and if anyone other than the DF is wondering, yes, we did work most of the day...) and I have some great photos to share! We ended up being the only team in the costume contest, so we won this year - woohoo! I think we would have won even with competition, though, because everyone loved Roy's costume. Our vampire teeth were pretty impressive, though mine were really just longer versions of my own canines. I don't know if I mentioned it, but Stacy and I were actually vampire characters from Twilight. I'm Bella and she's Alice. Bella basically wears skinny jeans, sneakers, hoodies, and headbands so my costume was pretty simple. Stacy likes to dye her hair brown in the winter, which worked well for our costumes because Alice has short, flippy hair. Our shirts actually say who we are, and Roy's says that he's the slayer. Technically the Twilight vampires don't have the classic vampire canines, but we couldn't resist the excuse to wear them. And also we'd look like ourselves if we didn't do something for a costume.

Susan also guessed how many pieces of candy were in a cute pumpkin jar (I think it was 440 and she was off by 12) so she won it as well. That works well for me because she doesn't really like that candy, so she's sharing with us! Our team didn't win the crockpot cook-off but people must have really liked it because almost the whole crockpot was gone after lunch! We all played pumpkin bowling as well, which was pretty entertaining. Overall, it was a pretty successful day, and it was really nice getting to joke around with all of the other employees. Everyone enjoy the photos and have a Happy Halloween!!

Big Day Tomorrow!

Tomorrow's the big Halloween party at work, and I'm pretty excited about it. I've been busy getting stuff ready for it (I'm on the planning committee) while trying to stay caught up on my real work. We're doing a complicated team scavenger hunt using clues written on bones hidden throughout the office, pumpkin bowling, and having a crockpot cook off. My team made our Cajun Corn Stew today because we figure stew always tastes better the next day, right? It will be good fun trying everyone's recipes if nothing else. I'll post pictures right away of our costumes! I hope some of you have Halloween plans at work too!! :-)

New Glasses

The DF went to Lenscrafters yesterday for an eye exam, and he decided to go ahead and get some new glasses as well. His are a few years old, and while they had been holding up pretty well, he managed to lose a lens one day while coming to meet me for lunch. It was pretty amusing seeing him standing there with only one lens! Thankfully I keep extra contacts in my purse, so he wore those home. Otherwise, he's as blind as a bat (like me!). He looked pretty good in most pairs he tried on, but he decided to get a pair of Oakleys that are green on the sides. Green is his favorite color and the color helps make them a little unique. I think they look pretty good! What do you think?

Friday Update

There's nothing too terribly exciting going on right now. The DF and I are just happily moving along. Although, we had some excitement up here yesterday that you might have seen on the news - namely a tanker truck explosion. It blew out a pillar under an interstate and the fireball could be seen from downtown, yikes! Traffic patterns have been affected quite a bit, but fortunately my commute today was fine. I'm glad that my employer isn't AmeriGas' insurance company, though...

Anyway, next week will be a little more exciting because I get to dress up at work on Friday. Stacy, Susan, and I are dressing up as vampires and Roy (Frankenstein's monster last year) is going as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, lol!! He's got a wig and skirt and everything. It should be great! Don't worry, I'll have plenty of photos. I might have already mentioned this, but I'm pretty excited.

For now, just enjoy the semi-warm weather, the weekend, and a new Robert Pattinson pic!