Life is more than the Cubicle

It's going to freakin' rain


Man..


That's what I get for tempting fate and not taking an umbrella with me to work. Definitely had no idea that I'd get soaked in the ~50 feet from my office's front door to my car


In other news!

Yay! It's officially summer vacation! The grades are slowly rolling in and I'm anxiously watching as my GPA drops just a little bit each time. I have 2 out of 3 so far so I'm praying that the last one is good. I don't start class again until July 6th so I get a little time off to myself. My summer class is going to be brutal so I will probably have to shut myself off in a cave and study.

Anyway! Summer plans!  So far, all I've really accomplished is attempting to clean, cooking a little and working on some crafts.

Like this one:






So that was our nature adventure. This weekend, we're going to Monterey, mostly to eat at a restaurant named Nepenthe's which is supposed to have the best view of the Monterey bay and ocean ever. They have a patio with amphitheater seating where you can have lunch and look over the water, enjoy a nice glass of wine and the beautiful California sunshine. Can't wait! It'll be really nice to get out of town.

I guess in other news, one of my contracts coworkers keeps instigating one of our engineers. All of us really want to put the engineer in her place because all I hear from her conversations is, "Blah blah blah, I'm more important than you, blah blah" and "Please inform so and so that I am the TECHNICAL MANAGER, and it is disrespectful to address as anything else" to which I reply, "But you're not a manager..."

Anyway, all day today, they kept emailing each other back and forth arguing over what her "official" title should be in our reports to our customer. She kept insisting she was the manager. My contracts coworker, he kept insisting that our actual manager should be the....manager

This went on....

All day...

Finally, he pulls ME into the fray stating, "I just wanted to pull you under the bus with the rest of the contracts team"

My only response: "Maybe under the bus is the best place to be in this situation, it'll be my new happy place"



And then I put my gigantic headphones back on and proceeded to ignore the world of crazies. I really need to utilize my "Caution, Keep Out" neon yellow construction sign more often, or convince my manager to let me put a door up in front of my cubicle

Hey there world! It's been an incredibly incredibly long time since I've posted. After New Orleans, I had about a week and a half to scramble some school work in and then I jetted off to New York to see my lovely cousins and celebrate my cousin Christina's engagement to the love of her life, Gus. It was a fantastic weekend filled with family (that I haven't seen in more than 7 years...7 YEARS! ay caramba). We did some dress shopping (which I can't share the pictures of), ate a lot of really good food and had some nice family time over Memorial Day Weekend.

My mom and I landed in Newark on Friday and were treated to wine and a lobster dinner with my cousins, my uncle and Gus. We had some giant giant lobsters with butter and some roasted duck and stir fry.









Such a fun night and great weekend! Took me a few days to recover from that one. Haha.

After I got home, it was crunch time since it was the last week of school and I had about 7 papers to finish before the quarter was over. It's not very interesting so I won't share, but I basically felt like death at the end. I've finally recovered after sleeping 18 hours, cleaning my house and having a celebratory drink with Matt last night at Wine Affairs.

So now, I have about a month before summer classes start and I hope to enjoy the outside, when it gets warm enough to go outside...It's grey and gloomy and cold right now

Along with that I'm working on a few knitting and crocheting projects for the new baby Nilsson (YAY!) and just got a copy of Gourmet Today in the mail (about a month ago but who's counting) so I'm ready to cook, clean and use up all my yarn.

Summer!!