Worky work work

Hi ladies! Oh, how I miss you!
It is so funny how with every passing year I see our family evolving, and I feel more and more strongly about near the two of you. It really is weird that because the three of us are naturally made up of the same stuff (physically) that we are just so similar (psychologically). I just always feel so in tune with you guys on all subjects, even when we are so far away from each other. Anyways, that being said, I am SO excited for Thanksgiving to come! Hiking, Cooking, Getting mom drunk, Maybe some pottery painting, Gossiping, WOO HOO!! Maybe we should think about organizing another secret santa or something for this year?

So not that much is new with me... I am at work now, but when I get home I will load some pictures of my new friends, roomies, and the bare but quaint house! Earlier this week I was invited with Ali to our friend Dane's house to do a steam bath! His dad built his house, and built them a sweat lodge, and so it was AMAZING to do... We all got nakie and brought in a gallon of water each, and pretty much meditated for three different times of 15 minutes. It was such a great experience, and I felt so clean and happy after, but it was definitely an intense thing! So nice..

Work is fine, and I enjoy being relaxed while there, but it is just really tolling! I know I work about 40 hours just like everyone else, but retail is so different because not only are you on your feet and having to be social the WHOLE time, but it is also 7 days a week, not 5... its a killer I tell ya. ugh! So Im pretty tired often, but when I am not there I am either at the yoga studio, or am having some wine with the roomies and our little group of friends that we have made family. I take Coop on walks and hikes as much as I can, but I feel so bad for him on days when I work doubles, and am gone from 10 am to 10 pm!! Luckily my roommates are there to keep him company, but I know he is upset with me for never being there for him! I think it is time for the two of us to go on a HUGE full day hike just the two of us on my next day off... Ill let ya know and post pictures when we do!

Other than the daily grind I am really getting in to Halloween this year! I think I told you, but I am going to be betty boop! No plans yet, but we are all excited to go out and meet some people ( and then wake up for work at 7am the next morning)! What are you all being? I hope you are going out or having parties or something : )

Lastly, Brie, Set up your facebook page young lady!!! hehe, I want you to be able to see ALL of the pictures that we all have up, and it makes it easier to show you two about weekly flings, and friends that I am talking about! (Plus I want to be able to stalk your live like I can lexi's)! hehe Love you both

Mia

Random

Just found these and thought I would throw them up.  

One year down, many to go!

So Tim and I celebrated our one year anniversary. We decided we weren't doing presents. Anniversaries shouldn't be about what object you give each other they should be about remembering back to all the reasons you love each other and the things you have been through together. 

So, we had dinner at the Heritage for free (one year anniversary dinner) and we talked about the wedding and how it feels like yesterday but at the same time feels like it was forever ago.  We talked about the DJ, the cake, the photographer and of course the awesome time we had getting the family together. We have decided we liked it so much we want to do it again!

Anyhow, before the dinner and the remembering, was the surprise. Tim and I had just returned form the White Mountains the night before. Tim always takes the next day off to unpack the car and try to clean up from the weekend. Apparently he had more in mind then just cleaning up and picking up Kida. I came home to the picture above. They look familiar don't they?

So, you may or may not know that Tim and I did not get the top layer of our cake back from the venue following the wedding. We are not sure what happened although there is a possibility that they accidently (or stupidly) served it during the wedding. No big deal though, although it is tradition, we were not too sad that we wouldn't get to eat year old, thawed, frozen for a year wedding cake. We moved on, or so I thought. 

Tim apparently started thinking about this two or so weeks ago. He called the lady who did our wedding cake, explained what happened and asked if it was possible to remake the top layer. Well as you can see, she had no problem fulfilling this wish!  How cute is he? He spent all day Tuesday getting out to the cake lady picking up the cake and setting up the table to surprise me with the top layer of our wedding cake. 

I have to say it was pretty damn cool to come home to that. I really did find a good one....actually, I think I'm lucky he found me. 

uuum yeah I'm slacking!

Holy Moly!! It has been a loooooong time since I posted. Sorry ya'all I have been soooo super busy.  Let me see if I can give you guys a run down of everything going on without being boring. Here goes:

1. School i kicking my booty!!! Things are not much better at school they just keep getting more and more crazy but I just don't have the patience to type about it all so I will give you guys an update on the whole thing when you come here in a few weeks. I get all aggravated even typing about it.

2. Classes are going well they are a lot of work but they are going well overall and I am pretty much enjoying them. The reading interventions course I am taking is not quite my style content wise but I like the professor and I am supplementing by doing a different project so all is good. 

3. We went on our annual camping trip to the White mountains.  I was so sad that we didn't get to go last year. It was just too close to the wedding to make any sense for us to go away. I loved getting back up there this year. We didn't bring a camera so we used our friend Will's camera all weekend but I haven't gotten them from him yet. I think they are up on Facebook but I will post them when I get a chance. The photos above were taken on my phone. 

I'm gonna put in some separate posts one for our anniversary and then I'll add some other Thanksgiving stuff as we get closer but I have also added some pictures of us at the Pickin Patch with little Nate who isn't so little anymore!!  He calls me Auntie Leki (no not a misspell) and Uncle Tim and he says "I love you" and gives kisses and squeezes (hugs) he is just soooo cute!!

Adventures in Solo marketing....

Ok, Mia, where are ya when i need ya? So, I may be able to induce labor, help with sinus infections, or help your hurt leg (or elbow, or butt, or ego--just kidding about that last one), but I have no idea how to let people know that i am out there, waiting to do these things. For money.

SO, this week i put together a presentation folder of info about acupuncture and PMS, acupuncture and fertility, etc....all kinds of OB/GYN stuff, and a letter about acupuncture from a scientific and asian exsplanation, how it can help their patients, and how having their patients come see me can help take a load of the doctor, etc, blah blah blah....

Today, i went to 3 different Gyny offices to drop said folders off to docs there, and on eof the offices was at the hospital, in the medical offices branch. So, i am on my way down from the office, which was on the second floor, and these two guys, neither one small, but the one guy was HUGE, like 6-5 maybe, and like well over 200 lbs, go to get in the elevator ahead of me. As they walk into it, they collide side by side, and get stuck between the doors. There is a brief and subtle moment of pushing and shoving as they figure out how to get thru, as if this was a totally normal way to enter an elevator, at which point i walk in quietly behind them and start to giggle discreetly while pretending to look at my phone. The smaller guy goes "and he's the smaller of my two brothers!", and we all laugh a bit. So, we land, and i turn to them as i am about to get out and say "good luck with this one guys" , and then i get out, and lo-and-behold, there stand the tallest latino i have ever met so far, also waying in well over 200, and the guys goes, "that's him!" and i tell him, "sh-t, now you are really in trouble!.....it was so comical....

So we must have burnt peas......and how about broccoli just blanched, simple, like lorraine makes it. And maybe we can have something interesting for potatoes, like with roasted garlic or wasabi or chipotle? And we could do cranberry salsa as well as sweet regular cranberry? And corn bread ? Any more ideas?

New Home for a New Year

It is official!! Last night Ali and I moved in all of our boxes in to the house last night, and have been painting our rooms for what seems like years. It is so hard to do! I am going for a whole peacock theme, and painted the ceiling and two walls a bright blue/periwinkle, and then the other two walls a shiny white called "frosting". Im hoping to get some really amazing peacock feathers or peacock bed linens or even a duvet cover or something eventually, but Im sure it will take forever to get fully furnished and all. Let me know if you creative ladies have any good ideas for me, okay? I have some pictures that I will post when i get home, however im at work right now so I don't have them on this computer. Thats one of the best parts about the additional retail job I am at... it is such a small boutique that I can basically be online all day, or read, in between when customers come in.

It's been a little bit of a rough week... i'm working 49 hours between the two jobs! That's kind of a nice little jump start so that I can stock the house with all of the necessary move in things like cleaning supplies and all those basic cooking needs that can be so annoying. The bad side of it is that I've gotten a KILLER cold! I will say though, that since learning about the netti pot, and about not having sugar or dairy when sick, and some other little tricks like that, that for the first time in forever my cold is not turning in to a sinus infection wooo hooo!! Okay, on to more interesting things...

Ally Will is coming back to the area from college for a little weekend visit, so maybe ill get to see her this weekend, but mostly I will be spending my day off sat moving more stuff in and painting and having fun with the new roomies!! My other roomate's name is Kate and she is from the bay area and is arriving Sunday! Ill add photos of us all as they come!

Love you and can not wait to hear what is new with you both. You havent blogged in awhile Jeje... youre turn!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. everyone start posting some good new recipes for turkey day!