Happy Happy Birthday!!!

I prolly should have written this earlier today but I've been trying to get my life in order so I can hang out in Texas a little longer...

Today is the birthday of hands down one of the most fabulous people in my life! The one and only bthompchomp aka Britt Thompson!

I got the most fantastic phone call from her last night after her celebration. She reminded me multiple times that she is in fact 27 and I will be following in that path in a few short months. I am so glad she was able to get out and celebrate cuz let me tell you if anyone in the world deserves a good celebration right now...its her!

We have been friends since the days of Perry Township and her little green geo and I don't see it ending anytime soon. The pic above was taken at my going away party before California and now even living in Texas we are still talking, tweeting, texting, you know the usual :) She makes me laugh all the live long day, is one of the smartest and wittiest people I know, and is going to change so many lives with her future...I have no doubt!

Happy Birthday B! I hope 2011 will take a turn for the better and give you the 27th year you deserve!!

St Patty's Day Austin Style!

Well kids my fave holiday has come and gone yet again and let me tell you...Austin did not disappoint! It was a very successful day and let me just tell you that I got about 70 people to wear my shamrock mask...including the police chief of Austin!!

Here are some of my fave pics...







Annnnd here are some of my fave shamrock pics!


The greatest cab driver in all of Austin! Joe!!


Police Chief of Austin!! This was my best one to date!


My sister Holly's personal fave...


This guy had a shamrock mask too!! Him and his wife were fun times at the bar!


Bagpipe player!


Platypus??


Lovin the green mustache!

There are tons more that you can check out here if you want!

Thank goodness Austin didn't disappoint when it came to my favorite day of the year! I guess I could get used to this city!

T-Minus 1 Day

One more day...including one more night of work stands between me and St Patricks Day 2K11...Austin Style!

I am loaded up with my accessories, green mani/pedi, energy drinks (since I work Wed night) and some awesome travel nurses to celebrate with!

Let's just say I'm beyond excited and counting down the hours!

I also realized I really need to start writing here more...I'm sure all of you are dying to know about plans for my next travel nursing adventure!

It's Almost Hereeeee!!!!

Anyone who knows me knows my obsession with St. Patrick's Day...and if you don't know me just take a looksie back at this post and you will soon realize how amazing I think this day is! Why St. Patrick's Day is Fabulous!

This year will be quite different as I will be spending the best day of the year in lovely Austin Texas. It's also the weekend of South by Southwest, a HUGE music festival downtown. I won't be with my favorite people ever...the people that don't judge me when I make everyone in the bar wear this...



Or when I want to start my day when the sun comes up...or when I bring along everything green that I own and end up a bit like this...



My fabulous Columbus people understand all that about me and join in most of the time! Will Austin do the same??? Will I find fabulous people to hang out with??? Will they be as amazing as these people...






I HOPE SO!!!

Valentine's Day!

Well my friends Happy Valentine's day to ya! Not one of my favorite holidays, but I'm also not one of those huge haters. I like stars more then hearts and green beer more then heart shaped pizza but nonetheless an excuse to eat some chocolate is fine with me!

I am coming of 4 straight nights work so my Valentines day will be spent with the roomie, some pizza, diet coke, dvr, and a piece of red velvet cake......and that my friends is totally fine with me!!

Hope yours is fabulous tooooo!! :)

Pope Came to Texas!

I got a week break from work just in time for the snowpocalypse....annnnnnd Stephanie's visit to Texas! It was a surprise she even made it considering her flight got canceled because of the THREAT of snow in Houston. That's right folks...she was leaving from Cleveland, connecting in Chicago and landing in Houston. Cleveland and Chicago were fine with their real snow and Houston said NO because of their impending threat of an inch of snow...bananas!

Anyhow she made it...we hung out...fabulous time had by all! I miss that friend when shes not here I tell ya!

When they arrived in Austin we went to check out the capitol building downtown. Super big. Super pretty. Steph really liked the huge pic of G.W. Bush and Riz liked Davy Crockett...I just liked the cannon outside...







On Sunday before the Super Bowl we went to the biggest outlet mall I have ever seen in. my. life. Seriously. Huge.



Just a glimpse...this is a Prime outlet and Tanger outlet connected and it is pure heaven.

I went back to Houston with the girls and hung out for a couple days and relaxed since I didn't have to work.

Tomorrow starts a 4 day in a row stretch and I will be work the next 6 out of 7 days...awesome...here I go to prepare...

Texas Snowpocalypse!

Well friends you should all be happy to know that I have survived the snowpocalypse 2011 in Texas!

It was a close one but I managed to get through it!

The people up north would have just laughed at the news just like I did with these crazy Texans and their fear of any kind of white precipitation or temps below freezing! The news had called for the possibility of a half to one inch of snow and two days before the "big storm" was suppossed to hit they were already closing schools and panicking! They even activated the cities emergency preparedness plan! And this is pretty much all they got...



I mean seriously the news was giving lots of winter weather driving tips. Since they don't have much salt they were telling us all about the "deicing" mixture they were creating with sand and gravel. Car batteries were flying off the shelves to enable people to winterize their cars.

Straight bananas. Especially considering the fact that by noon the day of the snow it was already above freezing and the little bit of white on the ground was melting away!

So glad the there were no major casualties and the southerns didn't turn into popsicles!