Friday: 5 Reasons IT. ROCKED.

Usually, Fridays come and go and serve up the excitement of 1] the work week ending, 2] Friday office lunches and sometimes 3] early releases that give the weekend a jumpstart.

TODAY however, Friday churned up five reasons to call it a slam dunk day. We'll go in chronological order, since all of them are pretty awesome!

1] JENNIE'S BIRTHDAY!

she's gorgeous!!! hbd, jennie!

Haaaaaaaaappy BIRTHDAY JD! This lovely lady celebrates another year young today! We agreed that now that I'm back in Ohio and am slowly migrating my way closer and closer to Columbus, I'll make it a point to get up there soon and we'll do some belated celebrating. I hope your day was amazing! ♥

2] SAMSUNG OR APPLE? HOW ABOUT ONE OF EACH?!

So, the bad news is.. that someone in Norwood managed to comandeer my work phone over the weekend. Since I don't typically tote it everywhere I go, we ascertained that someone either swiped it off my desk or I dropped it in the 40 feet between our door and my car. Either way, it didn't dull the anxiety of having to tell the bosses that I lost their phone. What softened the blow is realizing that my bosses are two of the most understanding individuals around, and advised me that it wasn't a big deal. Things happen. < Somehow, that made me feel even worse? Haha. Anyway, my now-kidnapped Samsung was officially replaced today with an iPhone. I'm a loyal Droid user without the faintest clue of how to operate an iAnything, so this.. should.. be interesting. Either way, that weight is off my shoulders and now I'm back on connected x2 status!

personal + work

P.S. - Don't worry, Droid... I'm not going anywhere ;)

3] JASON ALDEAN + MIRANDA LAMBERT + FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE + TYLER FAR??

.......... Yes, pleaaaase! I like all those names. I found out a few weeks back that Jason Aldean's Burn It Down tour was scheduled to come to Cincinnati in July, and that tickets went on sale today. Luckily, I realized the gravity of that statement, because in Cincinnati, tickets like this have a shelf life of abouuuuut 1 hour, if that. I wasn't wrong. I managed to snag 2 on-field seats for Rob & me at 10:04 AM, and saw that the entire show had sold out by about 10:40 AM. It's gonna be a beautiful, beautiful mayhem.

to say i'm excited is an uuuuunderstatement.

4] FAMILY. REUNION.

Let me repeat that: FAMILY.... REUNION. No, it's not my actual family, but I can explain. A week or so back, Ali and I orchestrated plans for her, Tim and Damanji to make the trek from IL to our new place here in Cincinnati to hang for the weekend. TODAY, I had a conversation with Marianne today that very quickly turned into the realization that she is ALSO free that weekend, and thus will be driving in from VA to join us.

omg. ooooooh....my.... gaahhhhhhhshhhhh..

The reason this is so phenomenal is because these four individuals are some of the best, hilarious friends I found in Illinois, and to have us all back together at the same time seems just too good to actually be happening. Among the other debachles I'm sure we'll find, there will absoLUTELY be an updated take of the awkward family photo. Not sure what that is? Well... here's the last one:

this.. just... this.

Is it MARCH yet?! I need to see these faces. There will be some shenanigans ensuing, without a doubt, but I... can't.... WAIT.

5] DOUBLE DINNER DATES! 

I'm not entirely sure what I did for the first half of this month, let alone the whole month of January. Whatever it was, it didn't include nearly enough facetime with Catie, so we decided last week that we'd get together tonight for dinner. It happened. It... happened.

how. i. love. her.

Rob & I met Catie & Andy at The Hitching Post, which was our first choice. When we realized they were closed [sorta?], we switched gears and landed at Allyn's. Goooood call (: It's actually the first real double dinner date Rob & I have done since he moved here, so it was undoubtedly a great time all the way around.

man oh man.. i love him.

And the food wasn't anything to shame, either!

sugar snap peas & salmon? sold.

If this is any indication on how the rest of the weekend is going to go, then we're in for a fun couple of days!

Tomorrow = Pinterest hack/tutorial [hopefully] on some wall art I planned today as an early Valentines Day gift to Rob and our little home. I'm pretty excited, and crossing my fingers that I don't botch it too bad.

See ya then!

xo | cmd