Silence is….uneventful

I’ve been so quietly lately but mostly because I don’t really have anything to talk about! Shock right?

 

Life has definitely gotten into a routine.

I’ve started a bootcamp class that’s three day a week an hour each day. I’ve been to two classes so far and it’s definitely kicking my butt. I’ve also been very careful about what I’m eating and how much I’m eating because I definitely have a goal that I’m damned determine to achieve.

The pets are doing great. Roxy is growing like a little weed which is totally breaking my heart. There’s such a huge difference between the teeny nine pounds pup and our 30+ pound girl…and she definitely has a lot of personality. I love having her around she is such a blast.

Athena is learning to be friends with Roxy too which is great. They play and chase each other around the house which is pretty hilarious.

Last night Athena spent a good 45 minutes poking Trigger who was just hanging out in his cage…so that was pretty entertaining. Roxy laid next to them and watched the whole spectacle.

Other than that I’ve been doing some crazy hikes. Koko Head was totally insane. I would rather never do it again, rough 1200 steps….and it’s damn steep. But Wes and I will be doing it in the future I’m sure.

I also did Manoa Falls and Pillboxes. Both were fun. The falls were super easy but really pretty. Part of the second Hunger Games was filmed there!

Pillboxes is absolutely beautiful. It’s not super challenging but you can go fairly far with it. This hike is well worth it, I would do it once a week honestly it was that enjoyable. The view is insane.

In other news I have people coming to visit me over the summer so I’m excited about that. I’m also looking into some job opportunities so fingers crossed!

Go Kap Go….? Err sort of. My really important thoughts on the Super Bowl

I’d like to take a moment and say a few words before one of my favorite days of the year has come and gone.

I love the Super bowl. I love watching some superior football action. I love the commercials. I love the camaraderie. Basically the entire thing (minus the halftime show usually).

I so wish I could write something eloquent about my team and how they’ve been amazing all year long and I’m so proud. Yes. But sadly, I can’t do that.

I wanted to write this post so the word “bandwagon” is not uttered anywhere near me or directed to me, so here it goes.

If you ask me, I will tell you 365 days of the year, my team is the Saints. I love me some Drew Brees. And all the Saints – but I am straight up a Saints fan, much to the dismay of my husband, who really does clearly love me unconditionally.

But before I was all grown up, I was a Cowboys fan….I finally got over that.

Never in my life have I been a 9ers or Raiders fan, which no one understands, considering where I grew up…but that is neither here nor there.

I never had a problem with the 9ers, Joe Montana and Steve Young will always be legends and I have the utmost respect for them. Those 9ers were phenomenal. Then Alex Smith came along and my respect began to dwindle.

When we went and saw the Saints in San Fran, I started a serious hate fest of the 49ers.. And it has only continued (I wrote a fairly irate post about 14 months ago, that I believe raised an eye-brow or two for some overly wholesome readers out there but we won’t go there.

The fact is, I do not like the 49ers. There, I said it.

But I also really don’t like the Ravens. I’ve had Anquan Boldin on my fantasy team a lot over the past five years so I’m pretty familiar with Baltimore. I respect the hell out of Ray Lewis but Joe Flacco just annoys me.

Basically I don’t like either team. But I always cheer for someone during the Super Bowl because it just makes things more fun.

Plus I hope for a killer, out of this world game.

This year, however, Colin Kaepernick will be out there, in his first Super Bowl game and that leaves me no choice but to cheer for him to win a ring.

I have said more times than I can count that I hate Nevada. Let me preface this with the fact that there are many things I hated about living in Nevada, specifically Reno.

I thought Reno was ugly. I hate smoke and it seemed like it was everywhere. If you  are major bookworm and not a party person you don’t have nearly as much fun in this particular town, etc. etc.

Ok so in my biased opinion I hated living in Reno. You couldn’t pay me enough to move to Reno, or anywhere in Nevada for that reason.

But, do I hate the University of Nevada, Reno? No, absolutely not. I am unbelievably glad I went there. I am proud to say that’s where I earned my degree, from a phenomenal journalism program. I covered some ridiculously awesome things there, I met one of my best friends there and made a lot of memories there.

I have a lot of pride for Nevada. It helped shape me to who I am today.

I take pride in where I’m from. I may not have always loved Roseville and was definitely not someone who had a whole lot of “school spirit” in either high school or college, but to this day and until I die I will remember that I’m proud to be a Viking and to be part of the Pack.

You can’t change where you come from and I am so thankful for all the experiences and memories I have from Oakmont and Nevada.

Working at the Daily Sparks Tribune allowed me to do a lot of cool things and have opportunities to cover games and events I otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity to cover. This included covering Wolf Pack athletics. I got to cover Kaepernick, attend press conferences and see him grow as a player in college.

I have nothing bad to say about him, in fact he is one good dude.

He has his head on straight. He loves the game of football. And he is focused. I will admit watching him in college, did I ever think he’d be a starting quarterback and playing in the Super Bowl in his Sophomore year? Not a chance. But I’m sure proud that he is.

I really hope he goes out there, takes it to the Ravens and gets a ring. It’ll be amazing for him and awesome to say that a fellow Nevada alum is cool enough to have won a Super Bowl.

So tomorrow I will be rockin’ some Nevada swag because I just can’t make myself wear any red.

I leave you with this, Go Kap! Go Pack! (I really wish you played for a team I actually liked). So yes, I will be cheering for the 9ers, but only because I want Kap to have that glory.

Then the 9ers and the Ravens both can suck it.

Moving in is so crazy

So many things have been going on lately, I don’t even know where to start!

I guess the beginning is a good place, so we’ll go back a little bit.

On January 3^rd, I got an amazing phone call to let me know that our house was ready (4 days early!) So Wes was able to meet me to resign part of our lease, and pick up our keys!

I then had the very fun task of packing up our hotel room, which we hadn’t started yet because we thought we’d have the weekend to do that. So I got us mostly packed up and got some stuff for the house so we could start painting right away.

We had nearly everything moved out of the hotel and into the house by that evening, minus the pets of course.

So the next morning, after 65 long hotel bound days, said goodbye to the Lodge and headed toward our new home!

We had a little bit of time in the house before the movers started bringing in all of our stuff, which turned out to be a very long, long day.

Wes got to be home with me for most of the afternoon which was awesome. Then two awesome friends came over to help me out after all of our stuff was in the house and Wes was off to work.

It was so nice to see my stuff after three months without it! I was awkwardly excited to see my dishes and my cooking supplies and my bed and just these random things we’ve collected that make up our little life.

The first night in the house was great, the movers put our bed together so I dug around and found some sheets, got them washed and got to have a very comfortable night.

Roxy did really well. We got up early to take her out and since then she has slept through the night since we’ve been here which has been a huge blessing!

Work on the house has gone slowly but steadily. The downstairs is all put together and habitable.

Once the movers were done, one of the first things we did was start to paint. That was interesting to say the least because I for the life of me don’t know how to paint. When I was in high school a couple of my friends came over and we painted my bedroom and did a pretty bad job on it…..so 10 years later, I’m still clueless and we’re painting a white wall navy blue. Sounds like a disaster to me.

Luckily Wes is awesomely patient. So we went to work taping, painting, pouting because I’m a terrible painter and then Wes fixed all my screw ups. We’re quite a team. They navy actually turned out really well. Our entry way is very long so the long entry wall is blue. There are only three walls in our living room, one of which is kind of a half wall because of the stairs, so that one is navy blue as a background to the TV.

In the kitchen we took the longest wall, which also has four huge windows, and painted it a light gray, almost silver. And it has some blue hues in it, catch it in the right light and it looks almost lilac. The adjacent wall has the slider to the backyard, we painted that gray too.

A couple days later I realized the gray plus the navy blue are our Nevada colors. I have no idea how that happened, haha.

Our new couch is a sage green with grays and tans in it and there are two accent pillows that have some navy on it so everything sort of ties in.

We have no pictures or decorations hung anywhere in the house yet, so that’s something I definitely want to get to sometime soon.

Other than decorations, I feel like our downstairs is nearly complete. We’re going to sand down the coffee table and stain/paint it black. We also want to buy a black entertainment stand to replace the little cherry wood colored one we have now. We also want to buy some barstools to put on at the island.

Other than our kitchen/living room, the house is basically a wreck.

Our garage has random stuff all over the place so that is something Wes and I will have to tackle one weekend and get together, luckily there isn’t a whole lot of stuff in there. I’d love to park the truck in it, but the truck just barely fits…. Darn big vehicles!

While the downstairs is together, the upstairs is pretty much a nightmare.

Nearly a week after moving in the bedroom furniture we ordered was delivered. We bought a dresser, a mirror and two night stands to match our bed frame. I quickly came to the realization that we need a second dresser, or one of those tall skinny ones, because we have a lot of stuff we don’t hang. There are a lot of random things just lying on the floor in our room right now, plus a lot of things that need to be hung on the walls.

Then there is our guest room and our office. They are such a train wreck, it’s not even funny. The movers opened up boxes and dumped them all over the floor. At one point they dumped out my jewelry box and Wes found earrings everywhere. Super.

So I’ve been spending the last week finding random things in the weirdest places and trying to get them at least into the room they belong to.

My next projects are to tackle the files in our office and get that handled. After that I can get to work on our guest room.

We got an accent wall painted in our office, a crazy dark purple that looks pretty sweet.

We have paint for our bedroom and our bathroom but haven’t made it quite that far yet….maybe someday.

This house and the little pup are definitely keeping me busy!

Pictures to come later….

Moving in is so crazy

So many things have been going on lately, I don’t even know where to start!

I guess the beginning is a good place, so we’ll go back a little bit.

On January 3^rd, I got an amazing phone call to let me know that our house was ready (4 days early!) So Wes was able to meet me to resign part of our lease, and pick up our keys!

I then had the very fun task of packing up our hotel room, which we hadn’t started yet because we thought we’d have the weekend to do that. So I got us mostly packed up and got some stuff for the house so we could start painting right away.

We had nearly everything moved out of the hotel and into the house by that evening, minus the pets of course.

So the next morning, after 65 long hotel bound days, said goodbye to the Lodge and headed toward our new home!

We had a little bit of time in the house before the movers started bringing in all of our stuff, which turned out to be a very long, long day.

Wes got to be home with me for most of the afternoon which was awesome. Then two awesome friends came over to help me out after all of our stuff was in the house and Wes was off to work.

It was so nice to see my stuff after three months without it! I was awkwardly excited to see my dishes and my cooking supplies and my bed and just these random things we’ve collected that make up our little life.

The first night in the house was great, the movers put our bed together so I dug around and found some sheets, got them washed and got to have a very comfortable night.

Roxy did really well. We got up early to take her out and since then she has slept through the night since we’ve been here which has been a huge blessing!

Work on the house has gone slowly but steadily. The downstairs is all put together and habitable.

Once the movers were done, one of the first things we did was start to paint. That was interesting to say the least because I for the life of me don’t know how to paint. When I was in high school a couple of my friends came over and we painted my bedroom and did a pretty bad job on it…..so 10 years later, I’m still clueless and we’re painting a white wall navy blue. Sounds like a disaster to me.

Luckily Wes is awesomely patient. So we went to work taping, painting, pouting because I’m a terrible painter and then Wes fixed all my screw ups. We’re quite a team. They navy actually turned out really well. Our entry way is very long so the long entry wall is blue. There are only three walls in our living room, one of which is kind of a half wall because of the stairs, so that one is navy blue as a background to the TV.

In the kitchen we took the longest wall, which also has four huge windows, and painted it a light gray, almost silver. And it has some blue hues in it, catch it in the right light and it looks almost lilac. The adjacent wall has the slider to the backyard, we painted that gray too.

A couple days later I realized the gray plus the navy blue are our Nevada colors. I have no idea how that happened, haha.

Our new couch is a sage green with grays and tans in it and there are two accent pillows that have some navy on it so everything sort of ties in.

We have no pictures or decorations hung anywhere in the house yet, so that’s something I definitely want to get to sometime soon.

Other than decorations, I feel like our downstairs is nearly complete. We’re going to sand down the coffee table and stain/paint it black. We also want to buy a black entertainment stand to replace the little cherry wood colored one we have now. We also want to buy some barstools to put on at the island.

Other than our kitchen/living room, the house is basically a wreck.

Our garage has random stuff all over the place so that is something Wes and I will have to tackle one weekend and get together, luckily there isn’t a whole lot of stuff in there. I’d love to park the truck in it, but the truck just barely fits…. Darn big vehicles!

While the downstairs is together, the upstairs is pretty much a nightmare.

Nearly a week after moving in the bedroom furniture we ordered was delivered. We bought a dresser, a mirror and two night stands to match our bed frame. I quickly came to the realization that we need a second dresser, or one of those tall skinny ones, because we have a lot of stuff we don’t hang. There are a lot of random things just lying on the floor in our room right now, plus a lot of things that need to be hung on the walls.

Then there is our guest room and our office. They are such a train wreck, it’s not even funny. The movers opened up boxes and dumped them all over the floor. At one point they dumped out my jewelry box and Wes found earrings everywhere. Super.

So I’ve been spending the last week finding random things in the weirdest places and trying to get them at least into the room they belong to.

My next projects are to tackle the files in our office and get that handled. After that I can get to work on our guest room.

We got an accent wall painted in our office, a crazy dark purple that looks pretty sweet.

We have paint for our bedroom and our bathroom but haven’t made it quite that far yet….maybe someday.

This house and the little pup are definitely keeping me busy!

Pictures to come later….

Ahhhh internet, how I have missed you!

Only being able to have limited internet on my wonderful iPhone has been KILLING me for the last 10 days (oh my!). But now I’m all nice and wired….err wireless again!

I have so much to ramble about, football, my psycho puppy and oh yeah, our awesome house.  Legit post coming soon, to an internet source near you.

Holiday recipe fails and successes

So first, let’s get it straight that I live in a hotel.

And in said hotel I have a microwave, a toast, four forks, knives, spoons, bowls and plates. That’s basically it. There are community grills nearby and we have a fridge so we can have cereal, make sandwiches, etc.

So I had an event to go to and needed to bring something with. So I called my mom begging for help and she gave me her lemonade cheesecake recipe and that was a major success. And it was super easy which is awesome. I had to make it twice so I eventually bought a hand mixer, crappy spatula and some bowls to make my life easier.

  So lemonade cheesecake, success!

Then I attempted to make some dishes from Christmas  I decided even though all I had at my disposal was a crockpot, we would still have a nice Christmas. PS all of these I found on Pinterest, of course.

Christmas Eve:

So on Christmas Eve we grilled some chicken and I made crock-pot Mac and Cheese. This actually turned out really well! I was nervous and Mac & Cheese is one of my husband’s favorite dishes ever. His mom makes a great recipe and he can make a really good one as well. I think the only thing I would change would be to add another type of cheese. We bought a 5 cheese Italian blend, I would add sharp cheddar to make it more flavorful. And maybe a pinch of garlic powder. I highly recommend trying this one out! Success!

Christmas Breakfast:

At our hotel they have a free breakfast….the only good thing that have is coffee, everything else pretty much sucks. So I decided I was not going to eat crappy hotel breakfast on Christmas. So I found a recipe for crock-pot French Toast. Seriously? I was so excited I couldn’t stand it! How great will it be to have delicious French toast on Christmas morning. So I set it up around midnight after we finished watching our traditional viewing of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (my favorite!).

This, sadly, was a complete and utter failure. Wes said it was probably the bread, we bought organic cinnamon raisin bread but I think he was just being nice. It sort of turned into a non-tasty bread pudding deal. The ingredients are great, it’s what I would put in a french toast mix if I got to use a stove. But it was awful. If I’m brave and have a ton of extra eggs, maybe I’ll try it with better bread sometime. But I was pretty disappointed and we gave up and had cereal. Fail.

Christmas Dinner:

For Christmas dinner I decided to make a side dish and a main dish. For the side I found a Ranch Potato recipe. Wes really liked them. I was disappointed because even though I cooked them longer than the recipe calls for, they still weren’t soft enough to my liking. I thought they were pretty firm. I needed a little more time before I had to dump the potatoes into a container to start the main dish, I think that would have helped a lot. I will definitely give these another shot. They were very easy and quick to prepare!  Semi-success.

For the main dish I made Creamy Italian Chicken. This was also pretty good. Wes said he loved it. I cooked it a little long and it eventually fell apart in the crockpot. It was soupier than I thought it was going to be I really liked this one also. I think I would add some veggies next time, definitely make pasta along with it and pour some sauce and chicken over the top and that would be absolutely delicious. Success!

So those are my December recipe reviews!

Hello 2013!

Happy New Year to each and every one of you.

2012 was a busy year for us and I just wanted to highlight all the things that made it great for me.

We started off the year in Quantico, having been there for about three months we had settled in and were happy at home in our apartment. We had adopted a kitten (Athena) and she was adjusting beautifully to life with us.

In April I was promoted to a Sales Lead at Bath & Body Works and moved to a new store where I met some wonderful and inspiring women.

Wes graduated training in May, which was amazing because it was not easy on either one of us.

In June we took a trip to Florida where I got to go to visit Harry Potter world for a day as well as hit up DisneyWorld. Then we went on a week long Disney cruises to the Caribbean and had an absolute blast.

In July we had our second wedding anniversary and Wes began the toughest training of all.

Finally in September he graduated and headed off for more training…(story of our lives right there).

Then in October we made the move to Hawaii, with Trigger in tow.

We adopted our little pup, Roxy, in November.

Trigger, Roxy, Wes and I have been living in a hotel room in somewhat harmony since. (Athena will be here in February).

Along with these specifics, we both turned 25 this year.

We made life long friendships with some wonderful people: Kristen & Nelson, Nick & Ashely, Jake & Chaeli.

We were lucky enough to be stationed in Quantico where we got to reunite with Shanna & Cecil.

I am truly blessed to have gotten to spend so much time with each and everyone of them over the last year.

I also met some awesome Alpha Company wives and know that no matter where we are, there will be a kind face when we get there.

After over a year apart I got an incredible visit from Colleen, without whom, I would be lost.

Luckily I had the opportunity to go home over the summer and visit my friends and family who I missed from the moment we left California.

My parents were also able to visit me a few times this year, both in Quantico and in Hawaii.

But on the bright side we got to see a lot more of my awesome mother-in-law and sister-in-law, a major perk of us being on the East coast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have other great memories and friendships made in this but I think my post is long enough, you weren’t left out, you know I love you! 2012 had some wonderful memories with the best people I could hope for, thank you to you all for you love, friendship and support.

To 2013, I hope we are as lucky as we were last year.

While we face our toughest challenges yet to come, I know there are so many who are there for us that we will make it through.

Happy New Years everyone, and may you have the best year yet.

Love always,

Kayla

The Reindeer Joke Fail

I just wanted to post this, because it’s just a measure of how ridiculous Wes and I are, and why we are meant to be weird together.

So Roxy woke me up at 6:30 and I took her outside. When we came back in she wanted up on the bed, Wes was asleep and I was still tired, so I grabbed her and brought her up with us. She wiggled around for awhile but finally settled down and snuggled up by our feet at the end of the bed.

We wake up about two hours later, Roxy came to lick our faces and then settles down again. This is where the strangeness comes in…

Wes: “Yes.

Me: What?

Wes: The reindeer joke.

Me: The what?

Wes: Tell me.

Me: Tell you what?

Wes: Tell me the reindeer joke.

Me: I don’t know the reindeer joke, you must, so you tell me the reindeer joke.

Wes: Huh? Oh, maybe later…

(goes back to sleep)

*two minutes later

Wes: (to Roxy) go snuggle with mommy

Me: Why don’t you tell me the reindeer joke now that you’re awake…

Wes: Oh, well maybe when I remember it, then I will.

(and goes back to sleep again)

Not 10 minutes later does he actually wake up….

Me: Ok, now will you tell me this damn joke?

Wes: What joke?

Me: The reindeer joke.

Wes: What reindeer joke.

Me: Are you kidding me right now? Do you have zero recollection of this?

Wes: Ummm…of what?

*head, desk*

About 15 minutes later….

Me: (trying to get on my laptop) OMG, did you download Diablo on my laptop?!?!?!?

Wes: (sheepish) Nooo…….

Me: (tackle) ahhhh! You owe me a damn joke now!

Wes: Well clearly you’re the one who knows the joke, which is why I was asking you to tell it to me.

Me: You downloaded Diablo on my laptop!

Wes: I did that months ago when I downloaded Warcraft for you. You didn’t mind when I downloaded that and Starcraft.

Me: You downloaded Starcraft too? Are you kidding me right now?

Wes: Oh….um no, I didn’t download Starcraft too….

Me: Well you know what your job is today, you owe me an awesome reindeer joke.

Wes: (grabs iPhone and begins to google….

 

I feel like today is going to be a very long day.

 

What an ugly day….

I really want to write something about what happened today but I feel like no matter what few words I could possibly try and string together, it won’t matter. It won’t make sense of things, I won’t find comfort in it and nor will anyone else. So I’m going to just say something that made me smile because that’s all I can do.

Roxy doesn’t like rain, apparently. After going out to Waikiki for a few hours we rushed in the door to let the poor pup out. Let me preface this by saying it had sort of sprinkled on us over the drive home and as we were coming in the gate to get on base Wes said wow it rained here again….

Wes ran her outside as soon as I got the leash on her and then came back to get me, we planned to take a nice long walk. I changed and threw on some tennis shoes and we were back outside. We hadn’t made it more than about 20 yards when the sky literally just opened up on our heads. Roxy was not having it. Wes and I looked at each other and we decided to head back inside. Roxy took off like a torpedo to get back to the under hang by our room. She was not having it. And she must have shook like 5 times, it was adorable. Then I tried to rub her down with a towel and she attacked it….so cute.

And let me just say this about the place we went to in Waikiki, called Shore Birds. So it’s a bar/restaurant and they do karaoke. Okay, cool, whatever. Very limited menu – no so great. Huge space though and great for a group, there were about 30 people there with our group.

But get this….you cook your own food. No joke. You order, they bring you your food on a plate, uncooked, and then you go grill it yourself.

Why would I pay $30 for a steak that I have to cook myself? That’s just beyond me.

12-12-12 ramblings

I cannot for the life of me believe it’s nearly mid-December! And happy 12-12-12!

I think part of it is the fact that I live in tropical paradise…where it’s sunny and shorts weather pretty much 24/7.

You might think I’m crazy, but I desperately miss boots and sweaters. And every once in a while I’d like to be cold, and get a hot cup of coffee, cuddle up on the couch and read a book while it rains. Or snows. That is definitely something I miss.

When I lived in Sacramento I thought I had it pretty good because we didn’t have a true “winter” but here, there is really only one season. You can say it’s two, if you count the rainy season but I haven’t gotten much of that yet so I’m still on the fence if I believe there is more than one season in this beautiful place.

I’m lucky in the fact that my wonderful parents are here visiting. We grabbed the pup and hoped in our truck yesterday and drove around about half the island. I got to see a bunch of places I hadn’t stopped yet, even though I’d driven by all of them. It was nice to get off base and get to hang out with my family. And I was reminded how lucky I am to live here.

I think I’ve been taking it for granted a little bit, and feeling sorry for myself.

As Wes was leaving for work today, he turned to me and said, “Ok babe, have a good day, I’ll see you later!”

My response? “Oh yeah, I sure will….I have no job, no car and my friends aren’t here.”

And then I look at my little puppy who is always so happy and playful, and she looks sad, pitiful and sleepy. So I think to myself, wow, my bad mood is rubbing off on this sweet little girl.

I’ve had a cold the last few days so I think I’ve just been not feeling good physically, which made me mentally start to pout.

This is not an easy life we lead. In the last two years, we’ve lived in four different states, moving over 8,000 miles.

On the way I met some amazing people who I will never forget. I have made life long friends who I miss dearly every single day.

It’s not easy leaving those behind that “get you.” I don’t know about the rest of you, but there are only a handful of people I could stand to see every single day. Sometimes, you just need a break, right? Well those that I could hang out with every day, work with every day, even live with, I’m thousands of miles away from.

A dear friend of mine is going through a ridiculously rough time and even if I was there, really there is nothing I could do to take away her pain; but at least I could be there for her.

But now I’m reminding myself that you know what, that’s part of the deal. I’m not complaining here, I’m just thinking. And if one single person comments on here that “this is the life we chose,” or “stop complaining you live in Hawaii” I will scream. I’ll applaud your use of freedom of speech and the fact that you are reading this piece of trash blog…and then I’ll scream, and possibly not talk to you for a day or two, just so you know.

But the point is, I’m healthy, I have a roof over my head, I have a wonderful husband who makes me happier than I ever thought possible, we have a wonderful marriage and we have wonderful families. We have three amazing furbabies that I am ridiculously thankful for and I miss Athena every single day and cannot wait until she is here with us in a couple months.

Yes, I am a lucky girl.

I just miss all my favorite people. You know who you are – thank you for being my friend. Be expecting phone calls soon so we can catch up, I’ve been crappy on the phone lately (partly due to this ridiculous time difference).

I love you all.

 

(Yes I did wait a few extra minutes after finishing this post to hit the publish button at 12:12 pm. I suck haha.