Weekend Pics, etc...

So, it's obvious I'm trying to (1) find a new name for my blog and (2) a new layout. I've also been experimenting with photoshop to make a new banner and realized I have NO idea what I'm doing. (Advice appreciated on how to do it, where to find background patterns, etc). So, yeah...just hang with me here.. haha.. I'm DETERMINED to re-take my bloggidy so to speak. I think I just need some spring cleaning! I was gonna start a brand spankin new one, right? yeah. Well.. I might not. I might just continue blogging here...and if someone out there is reading and gets offended or whatever by something I say, then maybe they should re-evaluate reading...Hmph! I don't mean that snotty... I guess we've all likely had times where we start editing, not for who IS reading, but for who MIGHT be. Eh? Yeah. Soooo.. whatevs. I'm just gonna roll with it for now. *shrugs*

That said, I'm also trying to figure out how to get control of my personal email accts (including fbook, etc) while still being active on blogger. You see, I can't get personal email accts at work. Right now, I have 1277 emails in gmail...and yes, I'm serious. Some of them are read and some aren't (at least half aren't). With comment notifications, facebook notifications (how the hell do you turn those things OFF?!), spam from random stores, and actual person-to-person emails, it just gets whoa! And when I can't really check it til after work...when I've been on the computer all day... I'm noticing I just.don't.check.it.period. sometimes... *le sigh* If I'm not crazy slammed at work, I'm pretty good at checking personal email on my phone throughout the day and responding to things if I need to.. but if I get even a couple days behind, I'm so overwhelmed I just put it off... (lazy? yes.). Anyway, I notice I tend to just avoid the home computer on days/weeks when I know I'm behind on my personal emails and stuff....and that makes me avoid blogger, too. Am I alone in this? Do you get overwhelmed by all the random fbook notifications, etc out there sometimes?! (I'm totally overdramatizing this, aren't I?)

Welp, now that you've wasted a few minutes of your life reading my rants... As I watch SYTYCD (I'm so glad it's BACK!), I decided to stop searching for the perfect header/name/layout, and just post some darn pics from the weekend! :)

Friday, Eric and I had Indian food (yum!) and then headed to the Riverwalk for some live music, a festive beverage, and to meet Lauren! She was in town from the Chi this last weekend. :) It was SO crowded yet we managed to find a table immediately outside... fate? I think so.

Saturday, Eric and I headed to a pool shindig at his friends' new neighborhood pool. :)
Our skin hasn't seen this much sun since um... last September....
The rest of Saturday, I took a nap from too many poolside cocktails was pretty low key. ;) Side note: I also semi walked into a bush (unrelated to the cocktails I'm sure) and have an awesome and LARGE yellow/green/blue bruise with a scratch in the center. Things that are reliable: my clumsiness.

Sunday, hung with Lauren and ended up at Cosmos for some chillax dinner time :)

And then there was Monday. Eric and I started the day with a patio brunch. We parked his truck at the meter out front. Why does this matter? Oooooh b/c we heard a crash and saw his truck shake...b/c someone hit it. Thank GOSH we weren't getting in it, etc b/c I guarantee you Eric would have been hit. The guy was really apologetic and was moving so had a bunch of stuff in the car and likely just wasn't paying attn. Anyway, they're waiting on the estimate, but initial thoughts from some experts are that it's totaled. (Crazy, huh?!)

Eric was pretty cool about the whole thing; I mean sh*t happens. *shrugs* But, after towing the car, getting a rental, etc, it had been quite a few hours... soooo that was most of Monday. Finished with some super productive yard work which was followed immediately by nachos at a bar/grill. (Hello, it was a holiday.. nachos have no calories on holidays).

Pre side-swipe photo=all smiles....
Yesterday, I had a blah day at work. I don't know how else to explain it. I kinda had to play mediator about something relatively unimportant and had to deal with someone really.freaking.stubborn about communications. Then, I had a random, but emergent thing that kept me on the phone with IT until about 6something. I was just so freaking annoyed... And I hadn't left my desk all day (don't you hate those days?!), so I think I was just extra cranky. On that note, it's so weird how people don't really just chat with each other at my new office.. I mean.. I guess they do...but it's not in depth if that makes any sense. Neither here nor there, but yesterday, I was just over anything that started with "w" and ended in "ork." I called Eric and aside from listening to my rants, he offered to make dinner! Soooooo I grabbed some vino and headed his way for some yummy, Eric-prepared cuisine (he really can cook.. likely better than me, but don't let him know I said that).

At the rate I'm going, who knows when I'll get my happy little blogging self on here again, so ignore my random and lengthy diatribe from this post. Hope you're all having a great short week!