Golfing 101

After a weekend of "friendly banter", I had to post these pictures of Ron. His anti-blog campaign was begging to be challenged, so here I am defying "the man". Chris decided to give a little "Golfing 101" in Lake's parking lot. Chris turned out to be a pretty good teacher as his students improved before our eyes. The Star Pupil award went to Melanie for attempting to bounce the ball on her club. I guess it goes without saying that everyone ended up being a good sport.

My memories from Elysa's Grad

This is pretty much my view of the weekend. Just wanted you to feel like you were there!

My New Friend/Protoge

So while in Virginia, we met Lake and Elysa's friends Rich and Kristl. I hope they are okay with the fact that I am posting this. Well, all year, we have been hearing Lake go on and on about their little girl Abby. I'm thinking, A) I'm sure she's cute, but aren't all little girls? and B) Maybe Lake is just so enthralled with her because Elysa is trying to study and shooing him away. Either way, I was not expecting to meet Mini Deya. She was adorable from the start, but she really won me over when she pulled my hot pink crocs off the shoe rack and proceeded to walk around the room like a fashion model. The girl has good taste, as these shoes hold all the essentials for a true princess: They are in fact a shoe, they are pink, they have a princess crown attached, and I picked them out initially. Lake then stuck her in the great, big Panera bag as she proceeded to play The Great Tennis Ball Exchange.

Black and White Gala

Every year at work we hold a black tie fund raiser and the employees attend as help. It was really fun, this isn't a funny post so much as some cool pictures. This is Andrea, she is my Martha Stewart twin.



This is Jillian and I at the end of the night, practicing our pose for America's Next Top Model. Yes, I am sadly addicted to the show.

This is Jenna. She was partly running the whole event, so this was before the stress of the evening set in.






































Here are the three of us with Pat, our work mom. She loves pink as much as I do. :)

Girls Night

I'm sure Ehu will kill me for posting this picture later, but let's see how long it takes her to even find it. Adriana, Ehu and I went out to dinner at the Hard Rock's Kitchen last night, which I must say was muy bueno. Playing card accessories are courtesy the random roaming magician. Have I mentioned how white I am??!!?!?!?

Wet Rat

So, I sorta feel this picture is self-explanatory. This great pic occured during the tragedy known as "Superflea 2007". With no thanks to FEMA, we have recovered from this disaster.

The Blood Chronicles

Ok, so may I please rant a bit about the tragic and dilapidated system that is medical insurance and blood tests? First of all, my insurance will only pay for me to have an arm draw at the nasty, dirty, icky, not-so-sterile blood lab. I have to have an arm draw even though a finger prick would suffice, heaven forbid they update their equipment. I am now a "regular" and they don't even ask me to come to the window anymore. I have "my lady" Maria who is the least masochistic of the phlebotomists. Only Maria in her thick Cuban accent will say, "Dee-ya! blah blah blah...really long story that I cannot understand a word of and never know if I should laugh at the end or not." I go to the lab before work and sit in the waiting room and attempt to put on my makeup in my teenie compact mirror without getting coughed on. My blood levels are starting to level out (yay!) but we had a nice scare last week. We refer to it as the "South Beach Incident". One doctor put me on it and the other one freaked out. For the record, it is never good for one doctor to say of another, "Is she a complete idiot?!?!" So now I am banned from all foods containing Vitamin K (surprisingly it thickens your blood which would counteract my Coumadin and cause a blood clot, which I've heard is kind of a bad thing). Vitamin K is in anything healthy I've decided so I included a picture of me taken this morning on my new diet.