"A 6-Die Farkle is a Bad, Bad Day...."

It's almost Friiiiiday! 

Today was a good one. I've been buried up to my eyeballs in work for the past couple weeks, but after a refreshing break to grab dinner with Becky & Mike last night, and after the good news today that we'll be adding a new girl to our staffing team to absorb the other half of what I'm currently doing, well... it's all been a blur, but it just made today really... interesting. In a good way, I think.

I left work per the usual schedule to get Sydni; for over half the trip, I trailed a car that kept asking me the question of the ages [or at least of the past few weeks, seemingly so whenever I look up for a split second..]

i mean........ 

^ It's a valid question, and I know I'm not the only one who feels like I'm asking my own brain this and expecting some third party answer half the time. Like, I busted into Milford today with no idea what my name was after following that guy, who also probably thought I was stalking him after I snapped this picture at the red light. Meh. 

Sydni told me all about her school's Valentine's Day party as we cruised back home, until Nana called and we got to coordinating plans for the clan to come down and visit [aka help us clean the current digs once we pack it up next month and head to the new place!]

It was a short U-turn at home, where we squeezed in homework, a snack, a potty break and costume change from work to street clothes before rushing right back out the door for small group. Tonight was especially hilarious, as we took a 1-week break from our usual studies to indulge in a time of fellowship of games and snacks. I am beyond grateful for this crew, for the fellowship, and above all, for the fact that a game of Farkle has never before been so much daggone FUN! 

farkle! 

I think as I finish this week and head into next week, I'm not going to be able to unhear Jen's exclamation, "A 6-die Farkle is just a Bad, Bad Day!" How a cup, 6 die and a group of awesome people can lighten up an evening and get those happy little endorphins movin' :). 

Yeahhhhh... 

Seriously, this week's been a blur. Last week, too. Tomorrow's Friday, and I'm pretty certain it's going to be the perfect start to a weekend of fun :). We've got a celebratory work dinner planned with Chris & Deb as a reward for winning the quarterly sales contest, followed by the weekend I'll spend in Cleveland with these two [+Q&E!] - 

heading to cleveland on saturday with this lovely fam! 

Happy, happy, HAPPY almost Friday, blogbots! 

xo | cmd

Birthday. Bowling. Backdated... ;)

Rob left early for work today, before I was fully coherent, so when I finally woke up, it was to these two...

gahhhh... love these meatballs to pieces! | #stellapittie & #sashapittie

^ How could you possibly be mad about that?
... well, when Sasha is on the bed, in your face, eating your hair... haha ;)
..... but seriously, I love it.. and I miss these two.

Oh, and some shameless selfies... experimenting with BW vs. Color qualities from my phone .. because I had that much time to myself this morning & because my cousin just hooked it up on Sephora gear that I still have no idea how to use... haha. 

#shamelessselfies | #sephoranewbie | #workinprogress

I spent the morning tidying up a bit, and started putting some final touches on the little art projets I'm doing. No pictures for you blogbots just yet; a couple of these are surprises for a few people and I'd hate to give spoilers! ;) I'll show & tell once all's said and done.

Anywhoooo... Rob got off work and came back to the house.. we spent the better part of the early afternoon just relaxing, which we both welcomed after long weeks.. him especially after working a busy Saturday morning. Good thing, too, because after that we were off to Kyle's for Dalten's 7th birthday party [HBD, Dalten!!]

Rob & I of course made it a point to act our age and then some, too...

reasons i ♥ him, continued....

Once the birthday festivities were over, it was back to the house to spend some time with the dogs and sneak in a nap, because let's face it.. it's Saturday.. and well, we can. (: No shame there! Again, probably the best thing we did with the early evening, because by 9:00, we were out with some of Rob's friends for bowling in Fairview & what turned out to be a driveway lounge until about 3ish? in the morning. The boys were boys, for sure, while Taryn, Paris & I decided we're way too old to be awake at that hour, and all but fell asleep before we all headed our separate ways. It was definitely a late night, but super low key and most definitely not one that I minded. I of course managed to meet some great new faces tonight, which made for great company and fun conversation.

No complaints here (:
Tomorrow = boating... & ??
G'Nite!

xo | cmd