last night we went to a punk show. it was so fun! I haven't been to a punk show in so long. it was hilarious watching sam in the mosh pit. I was leaning against a beam and got my head smashed a few times, but it was a punk show! sam left with a busted nose and a charlie horse. all in all successful evening.

this morning I woke up early to go to a meeting for work at 9am. when I got home at 11, I could smell pineapple. yesterday sam and I had gone to costco and got a fresh pineapple that he cut while I was at the meeting, as well as did the dishes. he's a good one.

we went over to sinsheimer park to the baseball field with a frisbee. we had so much fun throwing that thing back and forth. we laughed so hard, talked and ran, made up words and nicknames for each other. such a great morning with the man I love.

now I'm going up to my parents house to take a walk with my mom and her friend in garden farms. lovely weekend. and still another day left! I am SO excited for thanksgiving. one of my very favorite holidays.

I have a lot to be grateful for

all week sam and I have been looking forward to this monday because we finally had the day off together. all week we'd mention it or text something about how we can't wait until monday. I knew I had to go in for about an hour to do payroll, but then I was free. this morning we were making breakfast, hanging out, enjoying the morning together. I began to get ready for the day when I got a call from my boss.

just checking up on things. did you do this. did you do that. what do you think about this. how about that.

"what hours are you working this week?... what if you work today and just work until 5 this week?"

I didn't say anything for a minute.

"well... it's just that... I haven't seen sam for awhile and we were going to spend the day together today......"

she told me that she understood that sometimes we don't feel like working but reminded me of the tight crunch we're in and everything we need to get done and this person's leaving and these people need to get trained and we need a third person to hire and ....

I got off the phone and put my eyes in my towel so my tears wouldn't smear my makeup. I kept telling myself that sometimes I don't always get to do what I want at the moment in order to fulfill my responsibilities. I felt so dumb. I didn't want sam to know I was crying. he walked in a little bit later and asked what was wrong and I lost it.

"I'm just under so much stress and I wanted to spend the day with you and I have to go in to work and I have all these things to do and.... "

the floodgates had opened.

he just held me and let me cry and vent about my frustrations.

he comforted me and told me that we'd have a 3 day weekend next weekend.

I got a grip, put some eye drops in, and continued getting ready. In my frenzy, I flung my blush which went flying, shattering on the bottom of the bathtub.

"nooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no no no no no no no no no! that stuff's expensive!"

sam walked in and said "we can pick up the pieces."

I was furious. "it's too fragile! It'll just crumble when you try to pick it up!"

he gently picked up each piece and put it back in the case and gave me a hug and a kiss as he left the bathroom.

I couldn't help but to notice the metaphor.

today has been such a delightful saturday. I naturally woke up bright and early, cleaned up my house a little. I went grocery shopping to stock my fridge since my brother's coming to town today for my dad's birthday.

today is my dad's 60th birthday! I was in charge of cake. I got him this amazing, enormous carrot cake from the cakery. I'm so excited about it. It looks so great! I also made a white cake with chocolate frosting for the babies and the non carrot cake lovers. I just finished frosting it.

this may not look impressive to you, but even though I'm a decent cook, I generally cannot bake to save my life. it always turns out slightly (or terribly) wrong and tastes bad.. this one turned out okay! granted, I did use a mix... but STILL, I didn't do anything dumb like burn it or try frosting it before it was done cooling, etc etc. anyway, it was fun. I just don't know how I'm going to get it to santa margarita.

picture update:

I used to have brown hair

I took this minutes before leaving my house to get my hair done blonde. it kind of makes me sad that my brown hair is gone... but after probably close to 20 hours total of excruciating pain to all who helped in the blonding process...

I am blonde. this was taken the night that I went blonde. it's been through a lot since then.. turning yellow, breaking (thankfully, no one can tell besides the broken little hairs all over my clothes), bleaching, conditioning, and the list goes on.

one of our estheticians at work.. we look less than thrilled because we took about 5 pictures that were awful before this one haha

is this not the cutest little button you've ever seen?????

oh halloween..

karie and marissa had a halloween party. the 2 on the left are bartenders at frog and peach that marissa did their makeup (rocky horror trannys), karie is lady gaga and todd (her boyfriend) is hunter thompson

marissa was an awkward robot

baby shaved his beard.. we're kind of under cover these days.

now, clean myself up a little and up to my parents I go for birthday celebrations!