Better late than never

My trip to the Chicago office.

The cool roof top lounge

We came, we saw, we got BIT!

Twi-Hards (and this wasn't even half of us)

The theater full of 13 year olds

The scars

Seeing this in exactly 3 hours!

And I'm pretty excited. Admit it...most of you are doing the same tonight.

Does any one else wish they had the Gossip Girl wardrobe??

Perhaps I haven't changed at all since my freshman year of high school (see 10 years ago post). If I could fit into it, maybe my favorite outfit would still be the prep school plaid pleated skirt and blazer.

Even cute outfits for Danny!

What can I say? I'm a preppie at heart. And yes, I pop my collar.

Tagged

8 TV Shows I enjoy watching:
1. The Office
2. Chuck
3. Pushing Daisies
4. Samatha Who
5. Heros
6. Almost anything on HGTV
7. What not to wear
8. Top Design

8 things that happened yesterday:
1. Wore a dress to work for the first time ever
2. Got one of the daily specials for lunch for the first time and it was delicious
3. Spent 4 hours in meetings
4. Was sad because I really wanted some chocolate from the candy drawer but it was empty
5. Decorated bins for a toy drive with my "little sister"
6. Acted like a reindeer
7. Was the third wheel at dinner with Danny and Tony
8. Worked on my talk for church

8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. The Office tonight
2. Seeing the new James Bond on Friday!
3. Using my 30% off at Banana Republic on Saturday
4. Getting my church talk over with
5. Twilight
6. My family coming next week
7. Going to the Cabin
8. Good food

8 things I love about FALL:
1. Leaves changing colors and fog rolling in over the hills
2. Smell of rain
3. Jackets
4. Halloween costumes
5. Pumpkin flavored stuff
6. Soup
7. Hot chocolate
8. My wedding anniversary!

8 things on my wish list:
1. A HOUSE!!!
2. New clothes for work
3. New jeans
4. Dressy black boots for work
5. A new TV
6. Media center and rug
7. A new dinning room light fixture
8. A gym pass

8 people I tag:
1. Michele
2. Michelle
3. Jessie
4. Katie
5. Ryan Gardner
6. Christina
7. Amy
8. Maloree

Tour de Liz & Tour de San Fran

So this last weekend was our 2 Year Anniversary! Yippee! We made it! Danny and I didn't really plan anything but we had some ideas for fun stuff to do on Saturday. Unfortunately it rained which didn't work well with any of our ideas. So we decided to drive to San Ramon for a Tour de Liz (tour of my life..since that is where I grew up till I was 16). I love San Ramon in the rain so it turned out well. I'm pretty sure Danny thought the whole thing was so boring but he was going to get the tour sooner or later.

First we visited the old casa. I think she still looks pretty good. Although I am very upset the new owners took my playhouse down.

Next we drove around visiting my elementary school (go bulldogs!) and my high school (Go Grizzlies!) and even discovered that the Golden Skate is still there. Site to my first taste of rejection. Out of the 50 (this is an estimate) D.A.R.E skate nights I went to I never got asked to skate a couples skate..Sad times. I wanted Danny to couple skate with me but he refused.

Then we visited the mall, Blackhawk, and finally went to dinner here...

You may recognize it from here...

I've always wanted to go and the food is pretty good too.

Danny liked his!

The next day we went to visit Ryan, who is in town for this...

We went to dinner in North Beach...

Drove down Lombard street.



And got delicious ice cream sundaes

All in all it was a pretty darn good weekend!

First week of work went something like this...

J/k. But this is entirely what I was expecting. I was more nervous for my first day than I was for the interview.

So I thought about posting this last week because I was feeling pretty good about my new job but then I decided I better wait another day just in case it happened to be a fluke but alas…today has been pretty good as well. So far so good. Meet the new me…

Liz is a Consultant in Inforte’s Customer Management practice. Prior to software consulting, Liz has spent the majority of her career bringing organization, efficiency and accuracy to streamline processes. She has a B.S. in Business Management with emphasis in Corporate Finance from Brigham Young University. Liz is a Certified Salesforce.com Administrator and has advanced skills in MS excel. Her previous work experience has spanned all aspects of business including Sales, Operations, Marketing, Customer Service, Product Design, and Purchasing. She has worked in a number of industries including Software Development, Electronics Manufacturing, and Home Building.

What do you think? I think it sounds pretty good. AND… it’s all true. This is part of my profile for our corporate website. Basically when a project comes up they go through the profiles and decide who is going to be staffed on what projects. So you want your profile to be good so you will be staffed on lots of projects and true so you don't make a fool of yourself. Lucky for me I was hired for a specific project so hopefully I won’t have to worry about this for a long while. :0)

I think my job is pretty cool. I just wish I had more to do.

Here's to working for the man!