Friday, September 16, 2011
Growing up
I started a new job this week!!! It was pretty lucky and awesome how I got this job. I was working at Chili's and saw a family acquaintance and was talking to her about how I have been looking for a job. She told me to look at her husband's company website and then contact her. I obviously did so and basically I emailed her husband my resume, went in for an interview on Friday, and started work on Monday! The company is a small business consulting company called Guidon Performance Solutions.
What do I do? I am sure that is the question you are asking. For now I am planning their annual Christmas party. It is amazing! They go all out for their party. They want a four or five star hotel for everyone to stay in and then have a party in one of their ballrooms with a cocktail hour, plated dinner, live band and everything!!! It couldn't be more fun for me to plan and the best part is that I am getting paid to plan it!!! All week I have been contacting resorts to get pricing and information and tomorrow I start going to the resorts to get a tour of their rooms and ballrooms. I am extremely excited about the whole thing.
After I am done planning the Christmas party I am not sure exactly what I am going to be doing. When I did my interview they said I would be doing a lot of random things that they need help with, but they didn't exactly specify what those things will be. I am okay with that though because in my everyday life I like doing random things. I find it more fun and it doesn't get boring and mundane if it is constantly different.
Also another big surprise for everyone, Liza and I just signed a lease on an apartment!!! Isn't that crazy? If that doesn't make me grown up I don't know what does. I think it is about time for me to become an adult and move out on my own and stop completely relying on my parents. Don't get me wrong I will always rely on my parents for a lot but I have to eventually grow up right?
That is all the surprises for now. I think that is a enough growing up for awhile.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Maps
Following my last post I thought it would be cool to show you these maps. I also wanted to do them to keep track of where I have been. Some of the states I have been to I don't really remember because I was so much younger when I visited, but hey I was there so it still counts.
visited 21 states (42%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or website vertaling duits?
visited 18 states (8%)
Create your own visited map of The World
I hope that one day the world map would be much more red. There are so many places to explore I just wish I had all the time and money in the world to go everywhere.
What do your maps look like?
Thursday, August 25, 2011
My Bucket List
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Work and Looking for Work
When the lady said $1 each I was shocked and snatched them right up. The next time we went we brought the boys with us so that they could see the items and decide right there if they wanted it or not. Apparently they are good luck, because the first place we went was not even 1 minute from their apartment and we found a nice table with four chairs for $40! We then proceeded to find a sectional couch for $50!! Meaning they got all of their furniture for under $100. I'd say that is impressive. I have to pat Liza and myself on the backs for that one. If it wasn't for us they would have a $600 couch and a cheap walmart card table. That same time I found a high end wine aerator never been used for $1!!!!
It was the same one Mr. Armentor used at our wine tasting. At the same place I got these two awesome hot air balloon plates for 10 cents a piece. I am currently obsessed with hot air balloons so I figured why not they are 10 cents I can figure out something to do with them. I ended up giving them to Chrissy because she is doing a plate collage wall decoration thing. At least I know they are being put to good use.
While we were out garage saling we stopped off at the Antiques Showroom in downtown Mesa. Holy motherload did they have a lot of stuff. We spent probably 2+ hours in there, to Ryan's chagrin. I was in love!!! Every booth I was enthralled in all of the amazing vintage goodness. At some of them I was even saying "hey my grandma has that!" I ended up buying three vintage books: a political cookbook for Chrissy, a 50s housewife how to book basically, and a perfect hostess book.
This is a picture in the how to book. I thought it was hilarious. It is showing you how to have proper posture. I have a feeling I am going to learn a lot of extremely useful stuff from this book :)
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Vegas Baby!
Haha Ryan won $6 and immediately cashed out. He was extremely excited!
There he is with his winnings!
As we were walking around we went past Madame Tussaud's and they had a few wax sculptures outside. Liza saw Harrison Ford's statue and she of course had to get a picture with it. He is her old man crush haha.
The L and the E were backwards but you get the idea.
Doing this made me realize that all of the boys' names start with R. It was funny when I told them to go and stand in front of the R, Ryan looked at me funny thinking it was for all of them to support him and then he realized they were all R names.
This was our view when laying by the pool.
Liza won $8 I think. She was very excited, as anyone would be.
Looking up in Luxor was really cool looking. I love that the floors are tiered up like that. Although not accurate to the real pyramids, I like this way better.
Our last night there we went to Fremont St to see the light show. It was pretty cool, but my favorite part was playing the actual coin slots! I was definitely disappointed when gambling on the strip because I didn't know that slots weren't coin slots anymore. That eliminates all of the fun of gambling so when I found out that Fremont St. had the old school slots I decided we had to try them. I am SO glad we did. There is something about hearing the coins cling cling cling that really makes it fun. Plus playing with nickels makes it go much slower and last longer! What made me like it even more is that I won $17 off of just $1!!! Woohoo. That put me at breaking even for the trip since I had lost basically that much on the strip.
Here is me with my winnings!!!
After Fremont St. we went to the Stratosphere and saw the beautiful 360 view of the city lights. It was definitely breathtaking. The best part was someone gave me a free ticket to ride one of the rides on top of the Stratosphere!!! I was like a child when I got the ticket, I was so excited! While we were waiting in line I had told everyone that I wished I had bought a ticket for the ride and then my wish was granted for free! I did the rollercoaster like one that shoots you down and over the edge of the building. I thought it would be scarier than it actually was, but it was still fun!
Overall Vegas was a ton of fun. I think next time, if there is one, Liza and I are going to go with a group of girls so that we can go out dancing more.
Strawberry Picking in Rochester
The empty patch that was ripe for the picking.
Don't they look delicious!!! We picked about double this amount. We had lots of jam to be made so we had to pick a ton.
They were so delicious some of us couldn't help but eat as we picked. I caught Terrisa stealing a taste. That's what you are supposed to do when you are picking isn't it?
Take note that Hannah is wearing capris and jacket....and this was in the end of June! How ridiculous is that? I wasn't complaining though I much prefer having to wear a jacket and be able to go out and pick strawberries than to be at home in AZ with triple digits and having to stay indoors or in the pool.
Mom and Aunt Gail hard at work. Aunt Gail is definitely more experienced than the rest of us. She picked way faster than us AZ peeps.
I'm not sure why I decided to put them on my head. It made it easier to carry I guess.
Some of the strawberries were really juicy and they stained our fingers. It was tasty trying to get the stain out.
They had the coolest scale to weigh and charge us for the strawberries. I heart vintage stuff.
Aunt Gail and Paisley watched while we worked. That was until we needed Aunt Gail to show us what to do next.
Couldn't you just drink that right up? I was really tempted to. We did have extra and saved it to put in out lemonade at my Grandma Warren's house. It was so delicious. Heather even added fresh basil for her and George. (They had tried it at some restaurant in CA and fell in love with it.) I was too scared to try it. I love both strawberries and basil, but I will keep them separate for now.
It was intense waiting for it to come to a rolling boil. We didn't want to mess it up. Hannah was patiently waiting for her cue to pour in the sugar and take over stirring.
After the jam was all mixed and ready to go we had to can it. This part was intense, we had to make sure everything was perfect so the jars would seal.
There is the final product (upside). We left it upside down for awhile then flipped it to get it to seal. If I remember correctly all of our jam sealed properly. We ended up doing about 30 jars of jam! If you are on my good side you may get one as a gift.