monday madness

Hey guys!
I'm making ENCHILADA CASSEROLE for dinner tonight! YUM!

Monica and I are also hosting a happy hour for seattle-area design professionals and the people who love them. Network away, kids! It's going to be next Tuesday so if you know me, hit me up and I'll pass on the flyer. It's pretty rockin, I made it myself.

I had a super fantastic weekend, I kicked it with some rockin' girls on Friday and randomly met up with a zillion other peeps at Nectar. Saturday was low key, Asuka and I washed our cars and then my dad took us and Jenni out to dinner and a movie! and ice cream! how cute is that? Sunday I spent all day shopping and sewing with Monica - it was absolutely perfect. I need more great weekends like that.

Tomorrow I'm wearing some new brown pants I shouldn't have purchased at Target. BUT they make my ass look soooooo good and they were only 25 bones. yee-HAW!

love,
McNabbs

p.s. boys are dumb.

busy!

Hey guys.

Life is good. I'm still broke, but still awesome. There's not much to report - working on the usual million craft projects and staying busy at work.

This is Administrative Professionals Appreciation Week! Take some time to thank your local administrative professional. They probably work just as hard as you do.

So I went to the zoo with my mom this weekend so she could feed the birds. She loooooooves birds. She actually squealed with delight when I told her they had that interactive exhibit at the zoo. Pretty adorable.

I'm hungry. What's the deal?

love, mcnabbs

wow

Hey guys!
Sorry it's been so long. I've been busy. I'd like to announce that I got TWO sets of drawings off to the printer yesterday that were ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. This has happened only once before on this project, and we send out a heck of a lot of sets. This is the first one that I've owned and I am so awesome that it was 100% correct. DANG!

Here is a very nice picture of me, hammered:

And here is a very nice picture of Karol, also hammered, peeing in a very public bush. Note sombrero and cigarette. All class, all the time.

I'm working on some quilt projects that I'm pretty excited about. I'll post pics of those once I actually make some stuff, but it's going to be good. So there.

Love,

McNabbs.

blah

Well, I'm broke and stressed out again. Great.


Enjoy this, courtesy of Justyn: www.myspace.com/imperatorofpop I'll admit, I'm rocking out to it.


There is a very European sounding siren down on the street. Interesting. I'm on the 24th floor at work but we can still hear everything that happens on the street. I like being connected like that.


I am no longer loving the project I'm working on. They changed the staffing and the fellows I'm working with now are both ignoring and impeding my attempts to keep this totally effed up project marginally organized. I don't know what I'm going to do. I hope I get a sweet raise... in six months. Fudge.


This is me, 95% sober, on St. Patty's. hot.

i've got nothing here

this weekend was pretty good, monica and i got up really early both mornings to run and did really well on the st. patty's day dash! i ran almost the entire way! i was really proud of myself. woo!

yep

just pluggin' along, guys. don't want to leave you hanging or anything but it's not really an exciting week. i'm training for the st. patty's day dash on sunday, trying to keep my endurance above half an hour (it's super hard when you're a lazy bum like me!). working overtime to help out my team, had an encouraging conversation with my boss about my career development and opportunities (while he told me i might be asked to take on a FOURTH project - but hey, i'm still hourly and i need the bucks). a very dear friend of mine asked me to be his sponsor for confirmation, and i'm flattered. still losing weight (in a good way - and don't worry, i'll stop soon) and feeling fit. skied all day friday, did awesome.

buy some bags on etsy. the link is over there <---- you have no excuse now.

love,
mcnabbs

uuughhh

so i get to have a root canal tomorrow. yippee. i went in to have the dentist fix a broken tooth and they ignored it and zeroed in on one on the other side, poked and prodded and decided i need major work done. awesome.

yesterday was french club, which was really fun. made me miss folpmer. folps, if you're reading this, call me and speak french to me, then let's run away and get married. yes?

hey, as long as i'm dreaming, i might as well dream big, right?

then monica and i went for a bit of retail therapy - i got a black hoodie at old navy which i proceeded to stamp with this cool floral curlicue thingy i have and now i've got an awesome lazing-around non-university-affiliated comfy hoodie. what what!

i'm trying to not be totally incapacitated by the fear of the dentist... and get five days' worth of work done in two. at least now i can use up my sick time. le sigh.

i totally rock

Hey guys!
This morning I woke up 45 minutes BEFORE my alarm (weird dream) and decided that I would feel better if I went to the pool instead of going back to sleep. So I did. I swam my usual 30 minutes, got home, baked cherry-pecan scones, and made it to work before 9 am with good hair AND warm scones. I totally rock the house today. boo-yakasha!

mmmm.

love, mcnabbs

friday deadline

Hey guys.
I'm writing this on my lunch break - it's been go, go, go all morning. We have a package due on Friday and so we're rushing to get everything coordinated from half a dozen different consultants and us, and the hard part is making sure everything matches and is correct. Good times!

This weekend was pretty good, I got some quilting done. Here's the one I'm hand quilting right now, I'm a little more than 20% done. The colors are a tiny bit off but not too bad. The orange is not qute as bright in person, I think. It takes a long time to hand quilt these puppies! I don't know how people have the patience - and I'm just doing straight lines about 4" apart. It's going to be really beautiful when I'm done though. I'll put it up for sale but if no one buys it I will be happy to keep it!

Saturday morning I went on a hike with Chris up at Rattlesnake Ledge. The weather was perfect - about 60 degrees and a slight breeze, and sunny - and while it was a relatively easy hike, I'm pretty out of shape. The view from the top was worth limping around all day Sunday.


Saturday night we surprised Andrew with tickets to the Presidents of the USA at the Showbox. There were two openers and PUSA didn't get on till 1130 or so, which was pretty late, especially since I was tired from the hike, but it was awesome to see them. I love those guys.

Someone was handing out large sheets of foil to everyone on the floor...

that was pretty fun.

Sunday I spent all day limping around my house, and Monday I finished some projects and watched movies and stuff. I got to talk to Folpmer for a bit on the phone, so that was nice too.

Good weekend. Three days makes it better.

Love,

Mcnabbs

what what!

Hey kids!

Yesterday was awesome. I left work a bit early and went for a run with Monica. It was short but felt so good, and I'm getting really excited about this fitness thing. After the run I was going to go home and shower and go out with Chris and the boys, but Monica's parents invited me to stay for dinner and I couldn't resist - flank steak, baked potatoes, and a glorious salad - so I went straight from their house to meet the boys in a sports bra and running shoes. So hot. But that's the cool thing about boys, they were just glad I showed up. Chris' brother just got engaged yesterday, so he and his new fiancee were there and there was a bit of a celebration going on. Congratulations Adam and Nicole!

Today I'm going to go for a run with Monica again, and tomorrow I'm going on a hike with Chris out past North Bend - it sounds like a really nice hike and the weather is supposed to be good too. It's been a long time since I've been on a hike and it will be great to be outdoors. This winter seems to have been pretty mild, with a few weeks of crazy snowstorms thrown in for kicks, but I still can't wait for spring (mostly for the al fresco boozin'). I feel like I'm going to spend a LOT of time outside this summer.

The rest of this weekend, which is three days thanks to some dead presidents, will be devoted to quilting and watching cable at my brother's house. I'm pretty excited about that.

I hope you all have a great weekend too - catch you on the flip side!
Love,
mcnabbs