Way Back Wednesday!

I really want to make one of those little icon things for Way Back Wednesday but was being indecisive on what image I wanted to use for the icon this evening so maybe next week.. haha.. :) So, sometimes I don't jump on Way Back Wed (WBW) b/c I forget, am traveling, am tired, etc etc etc.. but I still like to keep it going when I can b/c I think it's fun to grab old pics and post em with a story! I love that Stacia started this whole thing! :) If you wanna join, would love to see your way back! Leave a comment if you're feeling WBW this week and jump on the bandwagon!

Happy first day of Fall!! Fall makes me think of lots of things.. Halloween, pumpkin patches, leaves, brisk weather, scarves (got my partner in the scarf swap btw!! So excited!), fireplaces, the fair.. oh.. and OKT!BERFEST! So, while I had it on the brain, decided to use it for WBW today! I think (forgive me if I'm wrong) this was O-fest 2006! See Ashley in there?!

Poor Andrew. (Sarah, your husband gets points for being awesome and posing. That is all).

Had SO much fun at O-fest that year. And may have also taken a pics with people with mullets all night. I was going to post a funny one, but then decided against it. It was a bad decision, albeit funny... but yeah.

Speaking of hair, I had mine done today! Hoooooray! I moved my appt so I could attend the football game last weekend and felt like it was long overdo. I had some dark blonde added in and my color looks more fall-blonde than beach-blonde. Love it!

Got to head to a meeting at my regular job today! They had their UW breakfast and it was soooo good to see some of my coworkers I havent seen in a month (can you believe I've been at the UW a month this week?)! I've missed them so much! Tomorrow, I'm helping another loaned exec with his accounts at the fire stations.. haha.. This, my friends, should be interesting. I really just want to wear the hat. Let's not kid ourselves. (Getting up and putting camera in purse right now). On this note, getting campaign packets in one by one.. and have a long long loooooong time before I'm anywhere near my goal, but it feels good to be getting some stuff in.

And finally, when it comes to fall, as I said above I think of everything from pumpkin patches to scarves and Oktoberfest. (I'm really wanting to go a pumpkin patch this year btw.. That whole broken back thing on Halloween last year was a total buzzkill. ;) ). But, what do you think about when you think of fall?

Weekend Recap and Fall Fashion

Thanks for your well wishes! I feel quite a bit better, but am not pushing it. I did that whole sleeping-propped-up thing b/c laying somewhat flat made me unable to breathe. Awesome. Add a tissue box beside me. It was really sexy. Trust me. (ew).

Anyway, here are some pics from the weekend! I 100% lost my voice Friday and upon looking at some of the pics, I look about like my voice sounded.. for reals.. so I edited. haha.. It's my blog. I can.

Friday night was Eric's bday thing at White Owl with some friends! Linda baked a cake!! I have a feeling one of my new years resolutions will be to bake more things. My other resolution had better be to work out more then.. haha..

I have no idea why this is blurry! Blerg! I would have re-taken if I'd known. *sigh*

Ashley came too! And she brought some awesomesauce HOMEMADE puppy cupcakes for Gracie dog.. or pupcakes if you will. Gracie wouldn't pose with one when I gave it to her. Trying to snap a good photo became a cruel game of teasing her, so I just gave up... And we may have taken like 4 photos...of this same pose.. b/c we couldnt seem it get it right... hilarious.
Saturday, bright and early wake up call to head to Norman where we ultimately got slaughtered.. but let's not talk about that. I love going to the games, so it was fun regardless. :) We headed to Eric's dad's friend's tailgate for some yummy food and pregame fun. Can you spot Eric and Timberly? It's tough. ;)
Specks of blue in a sea of crimson...
Timberly and I gave up on the game somewhere around third quarter and started talking about other randomness b/c watching was just too painful..haha..
The most annoying fans of the day. Note everyone sitting around them. Note them standing directly in front of us.. well, directly in front of Timberly actually. It was ridiculous. There really is a soul mate for everyone. And these people found theirs in each other. Likely b/c they were the only two people standing at the football game. Just sayin...
The Golden Hurr!cane didn't have a stellar performance. *sigh* But it really was fun to go! Happy Eric and his dad invited Timberly and me to tag along. :) We had fun... even though we may have taken the TU flag down for the ride home... haha... (PS-Have you seen the new mascot?)
Saturday night, I was so allergy-ed out and Eric had a headache, sooooo we got a pizza, picnicked on the floor and watched tv....til we passed out before 11pm.. haha.. But it was fabulous, people. Fabulous! *Happy sigh*

Then Sunday, I took G money to the puppy park and she made some friends! She actually played in the small doggie area til she was played out! I only had my phone so here's a cute pic of her with one of her doggie friends she met named Miley! haha..

Finished the weekend with chips and salsa and girl time at Los Cabos with Marla! :) Not bad, given my nose blowing every 5 seconds. And in case you can't notice by my weekend activities, I think I was in denial that I wasn't feeling well. But last night, it hit and sleeping was sooooo good... Stupid allergies. :)

On a completely random note, when the hell did JCR#W get cool? I never really liked their stuff a lot, but this season, I am pretty much in love with the store. I was looking for something to wear to an upcoming wedding and wandered in there this weekend. I haven't purchased anything b/c uh.. it's stupid-overpriced. For reals. But.. just b/c I'm obsessed, how.adorable.is.this.stuff?!

I seem to be drawn to anything with ruffles like this, texture, etc..

HELLO.. this is awesome.
Hi, I'm Jackie and I should have this outfit. Please tell my credit card company they should award me a bonus for being awesome. Eh? (and this girl also makes me want to dye my hair brown at my appt tomorrow but that's another story).
AND they have awesome jewelry.. like this! But uh.. this is 150 bucks. Yes. It is. Case in point as to why I wasn't lying when I said it was overpriced stuff.
Okay, enough of the ramblingness. I'll give you your life back now. :) Have a great Tuesday!

Weekend Recap... coming soon.. :)

Dudes.. I am so congested! Like breathing-through-my-mouth-semi-darth-vader congested. So, I MUST get to bed early and am choosing to upload weekend photos tomorrow. Plus, I'm kinda medicated so who knows what I'd blog...:) But, gotsta check on my blog peeps.. and also blog. :)

So.... my weekend was..If I had to pick three adjectives, I'd pick: (1) fabulous, (2) needed and (3) fulfilling. For reals. Those aren't just surface descriptions.

I didn't realize how completely and totally out of it I was last week til I got some sleep, some distance, and some fun chill time. So in the meantime til I upload photos, what are some adjectives that describe your weekend, peeps?

Hope you have a great Monday, everyone! This week kicks off some SERIOUS tv premieres and I'm ridiculously pumped. I'll be on my sofa with my tissues blowing my nose through every dvr'ed moment of House and Grey's Anatomy, that's for sure! :) I love my tv shows!

Random and Out of Order

So I was trying to set up my blog to post later and was quickly adding pics.. and realized in my somewhat distracted state, I uploaded pics out of order. haha.. Whatever. *shrug*

And first...a story you'll laugh at from today... Background: from losing my sh*t (blog post below) to Britney (a late night) to United W@y stuff to my first presentation at 7am tomorrow (nervous!) to allergies to a somewhat health scare (below post), I think I was just plain spent. So, guess what I did. I got home, came upstairs and, feeling like CUUUHRAP, opted to lay down for a bit. Woke up after a couple hours, decided to go to Target and to get some food and realized my rental car's lights were on. (remember I have the rental for while Im at the UW since I do so much driving). I thought "Oh no..." I got closer and realized... the car was RUNNING. I thought "oh no! I locked my keys in the car since I was so out of it!" I got even closer and realized... the doors were not locked. So yeah...the car was running. For hours. With the doors unlocked. Good job, Jax. Goooood job. *shaking head at myself and considering myself EXTREMELY lucky!*

Okay, so... out of order randomness...

After I finished with the Day of C@ring last Friday, I took little G money to the doggie park!! A stupid nice man gave her a treat. I don't advise giving ONE dog a treat in a park full of dogs. My little pup made NO friends, but instead proceeded to growl at every dog who came close to her and her special treat. It got so bad, I picked up the treat and then had about 10 dogs around me....The whole thing was likely funny to watch, I think. I opted to take her home rather than give away her treat b/c I knew she really wanted it (yes, she's spoiled. I know). However, we got in the car.. and notice how interested in the treat she became. Not.at.all. She's such an only child. haha.. wow. Advice: when a dude offers your dog a treat at the dog park, say no. :)

After the pup park, came back and met Sara at Oscar's for a bday happy hr for one of our friends.. Our friend, Tadd, just got a little bulldog and brought him up!! He named him Hef. How adorable is he?! :)

Okay, so during the actual Day of C@ring earlier Friday, I traveled to lots of companies' volunteer projects and snapped photos, thanked them for their help, etc.. One of my companies was assigned to the same place as Eric's group so I got to visit for a bit! They were painting. Obviously.

I have no idea...*laughing*

This was about 6:15 am last Friday morning. We look like we're picketing! (We were told that a couple times, too). It's supposed to say "Give.Advocate.Volunteer. Live Un!ted." It was 6am. Don't blame us for getting the signs out of order. haha... These are some other loaned execs btw!
Kicking off the campaign in the Reynolds Cnter at TU!! :)

They were giving away the sunflower centerpieces so all week I've had some happy sunflowers on my table at home! Love it! I love little casual flowers. Kinda forgot to buy gerber daisies this summer.. I usually pick some up or the house off and on when I see em. :)

Okay, the pics below is from Mon night's Thank You event for Eric's job. It was a party to thank their employees for giving to the UW! :) Eric's involved in his company's campaign so kinda fun that I got to go as his "plus one" but also as a liaison for the UW (hence the black UW polo I was rocking). We're a philanthropic couple.. er..or something.. haha.. ;)

Left there and headed out to my friend, Kristy's, for a Gossip Girl season premiere party...complete with cosmos! Love these girlies! We were all happy to welcome Chuck Bass into our lives.

And in hopes you're still hanging with this completely random blog (sorry!), while I was half awake at Target this evening, lookie what I picked up for UNDER 30 bucks! How cute is this handbag?! I am so in love with my pink coral coach one Eric got me for my bday, but it's officially almost fall and the pink coral isn't going well with some of the fall colors. *sigh* Don't think the pink coral is going away til spring though.. Oh no.. It will come back out with some black attire and add a "pop" with some winter stuff. :) (and I also may have an intention of stopping in the coach outlet when in Dallas in a month and a half..haha..) ;)
Alright, I have my very first presentation on my own tomorrow morning at 7am for about 50 people. I have to introduce a guest speaker, show a video, talk about what we do, answer questions.. agh! Gotta go prep, peeps! Wish me luck-I'm actually quite nervous!

Hope you have a great weekend planned! I also hope your weekend plans involve rooting for your fav football team! We're going down to the TU game in Norman! :)

All Eyes On Me In The Center Of The Ring Just Like A..

....Cirrrrcus!!!!

Okay, first... You guys rock! Thanks for empathizing, offering thoughts/prayers, personal experience, etc from my last post. :) It's posts like that when I kinda say "see..this is definitely why I blog" from ya'll's comments. I sometimes have this mental image of some internet group hug or something with posts like that.. on mine or on others.. and I love it. :)

Second, BRITNEY pics are downloaded!! I went to Sarah's work today and we traded photos so... we were close and even on the floor at one point, but know she also has a reallllly good lens. A friend hooked us up with bracelets to go down to the floor for a bit and lemme tell you.. um.. awesome! I'm so sorry in advance for the ridic amount of pics... I'll keep text limited...

We all met at El Guapo's downtown and made a random man take our photo after dinner... Thank you, random man.

...then we jammed out in the car on the way to Britney!
The shirts we made!
...and we had song titles on the back! Mine? Toxic, baby! haha!
This guitar made its way into a lot of pics.. Timberly and me! Love her!
Me and Sarah, the fab organizer of our shirts and tickets!
Julie got boy shorts.. haha.. love it!
Our seats were AWESOME!!
I think they had the clock running like this to countdown the circus just to hear girls shriek when it got down to 10..9...8... haha..
Perez video kicked it off!
And here's the concert.. in order! She sang a LOT..including an awesome cover of Alanis' You Oughta Know..

Sarah and I had wandered to the floor at this point...

Here she comes! Here she comes!! (Yes, I think I really exclaimed that out loud)

OMG she's RIGHT THERE! (that's what this pic was supposed to be saying...haha)



I.love.this.photo. Thank you, Sarah, for your zoom lens.

I dont know if seeing her sweat was awesome or gross.. I'm going with awesome.
Last song just finished!
Take a bow, Brit. You rocked it!
So tired, peeps! I need to catch up on sleep too b/c I have a presentation early EARLY Friday morning and need to break this midnight habit I've got going on... Sheesh. I get off work a leetle later at the UW so my evening's personal time gets pushed later...and that also seems to adjust my bedtime. *lips pursed to one side in "hmm.." face*

No WBW today b/c of Brit Brit but I'll make it up next week for sure! Hope everyone had a great day! I'm so tired of the rain here, but glad it stayed away last night so we didn't get drenched walking to the concert. :)

Have a fabulous Thursday!

Brit pics coming soon...a PSA til then.

Hi everyone! Britney.was.awesome. All of you who commented and told me how fabutastic she would be were SOOOO right!!!! And I'll explain later, but I ended up getting FLOOR passes!!!!!! Sarah's camera is all high tech and way better so I'm going to steal her pics when I head out to run some errands for the UW in a bit!

This is more of a PSA to all my blogger friends... for reals. I got a call from my OBGYN this morning.. weird, right? Yes. Soo.. she said "I've been trying to reach you...I had the wrong number." I was like "oooh.. sorry.." She said "Look, your results came back.. and there's some precancerous cells on your cervix we're going to need to remove." My smile dropped and I was silent for like 3 seconds til she said "Dont worry. It's mild cervial dysplasia-there's three stages and yours is the lowest. We're just gonna go in and get rid of the problem, biopsy it and let you know." So... I'm going in first part of October. Sheesh. I did some internet research and it looks like mild dysplasia is pretty common...well...more common than some things, that is. My friend I went to lunch with has even had the same thing removed and everything is a-ok with her. So, that helped make me feel better. And I guess mine is the type that can turn into cancer in 10-15 years...or not at all... but they just want to get rid of it b/c the incidence is MUCH higher for cervical cancer when it goes untreated. And if it moves from the mild stage, that's an issue, too.

So, I'm not freaked as much anymore (admittedly still a little freaked)... esp since it seems pretty common. I've just never had anything come back abnormal like that! I guess it's prevalent in women ages 25-35. So...here is my PSA to you. GO get your yearly. I always thought it was silly to have to go every single year when I'm not even trying to get prego or anything like that. With some of my best friends trying to have babies and having some slight issues, I was kinda alerted to how important it really is to pay attention to your female parts. And my phone call today just furthers that in my mind. Had I not gone, I'd have no idea.

Anyway...that's my public service announcement for the day. Take care of yourselves, peeps.

Britney pics later!!!! :)