Author: Aub

Hi Dad!!

~ Aub ~ 2 Comments

So one interesting little factoid that I learned this week is that apparently most of my family reads my blog 😮

At first it kind of threw me off because, yes, as my dad pointed out “thats why people write blogs so that others can read it” which is true and I have never been overly shy about letting people know I have a blog. However, for me it has always been more of just something to do during the day, a filler. Also a bit of a creative release. I am not an extremely creative person (if you haven’t noticed!) but I have found writing these posts to be a great way for me to hold onto a bit of the past. I don’t keep a diary and have been trying to get better at not hoarding things (keepsakes or what is more commonly referred to as “dust collectors”) so this blog has been a great source of nostalgia for me, a walk down memory lane; the time frames in the last year or so that I wasn’t blogging were times that I don’t really want to remember! The absence of posts is reminder enough =)  So at first when I came to the realization that not only friends but also family members (which is a bit more daunting. Why? I have no idea! I suppose I value their opinion the most and find that maybe I worry what they will think…which is odd because they are very non judgemental people anyways! Ahh my thinking is so off kilter huh?) were reading my blog I was a little freaked out but now I am totally comfortable with it. Soooo without further ado —

Hi Mom
Hi Dad
Hi Mattie
Hi Cull
Hi Laur’nen
And Hi Jack (feel obligated to say hola to #3 even though I am quite certain he has no interest in this blog)

One more thing before I skidaddle and hop on the 5:00 boat. YES, I am taking a boat home today!! woohoo I am happily headed to the bf’s house for the night, whom decided to take the day off and instead messed around getting a root canal or something of that sort, then jetted off to the store to get stuff to make pizza tonight. YUM.

So my dad noticed that he is barely mentioned in any of my posts soooo I hereby dedicate this post to you daddio =)  Plus, ya know we keep looking for a special song and although this can’t compete with Matties song or Liv’s bumpin Beyonce song, you and I have talked a few times about how much we love this particular Van Morrisson song…so how bout we just make it ours?! 🙂

You can take all the tea in china

Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
She�s an angel of the first degree
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


You can�t stop us on the road to freedom
You can�t keep us �cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
She�s an angel of the first degree
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee


You can�t stop us on the road to freedom
You can�t stop us �cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
She�s an angel of the first degree
She�s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

What do ya think? 🙂

Hope everyones having a great day!

~ Aub ~ 2 Comments

Things that were brought to my attention this week:

There are no words for this site, you just have to see it to believe it…

This is what left me in awe today,

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

      This is where my daydreaming has taken me, http://www.costaricatreehouse.com/house_treeHouse.html
And this is what got a chuckle out of me today,
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

Funky Friday.

~ Aub ~ 4 Comments

I have been in a funk people! I don’t know what it is. The last couple days I have just been a bit down in the dumps and I really have no reason to feel this way; worst of it is, I can actually feel myself looking to pick fights! haha How horrible is that?  Anyways, it is Friday afternoon and that I am grateful for. Hopefully I will be able to hike this mood out of me during a trip to Mt. Monadnock tommorrow. I have a nice night planned with friends and the bf – dinner and comedy act!

Something that did brighten up my day was being tagged by Sarah over at http://allthewittynamesaretaken.blogspot.com/ ! She sent this little gift my way,

Five questions, Five answers, and five people to pass it on to!
1. Where were you five years ago?
          1. Five years ago…wow I was a freshman in college.
          2. Ending things with my first boyfriend (the first guy who I count as a bf anyways…!).
          3. Hmm I believe it was right around this time my grandfather passed away. Sad but a sense of relief, he had been suffering for a long time. Also, he “mentall and emotionally” died long before he physically passed.
         4. I was getting ready for a summer full of ice cream scooping and bar hopping in central WOSTAAA. Classy. “Do you love it?” that phrase pretty much sums up the summer.
         5. Is it bad I can’t think of a 5th thing?
2. Where would you like to be 5 years from now?
        1. I would like to be completely and totally happy. Fulfilled. I am almost there, I feel like I am just on the brink! There are so many aspects of my life that make me happy but unfortunately the one that I spend the most time with is my job, which does not make me happy! haha This too shall pass…
        2. I hope that 5 years from now I will have found new people to spend time with, I have some great freinds now but I also hope to find new ones. People who find drama petty and are open minded.
        3. I would like to be married 🙂  You all saw that one coming right?? hahaha
        4. I would also like to have traveled to Alaska and Europe again by that point. I know the latter of the two will happen and I’m crossing my fingers for Alaska!!!
        5. Hot air balloon ride.
        6. 5 years… hmm I’ll be nearly 29 years old at that point. Well I have always thought I’d have a child by the time I’m 30….woah. hahah!! So I suppose I’d like to be preggo at that point (earmuffs sweets if you are reading this!!).
3. What is on your to-do list today?
       1. Call the auto shop about paying my bill, which at this point is almost 2 months overdue!! Ahh I swear its not that I don’t want to pay them, and its not that I think they don’t deserve it buttt I just KEEP forgetting. ops :-/
       2. Figure out our mini trip to Maine. The travel agent I am working with is the biggest pain in the ass (pardon my french), how difficult is it to book a room for two night?! Granted, I would do it myself but its a free trip I received sooo I have to go thru these peeps.
       3. Talk to lawyer about my new studio. Thats right, I have a lawyer – am I cool or what? Ha ha ha. Not at cool as it sounds…as leah was sure to point out to me 🙂
       4. Figure out the next best time to go to Zumba. Went to it last night and at one point I was literally in the middle of the room, surrounded by a good 10 to 15 women and as they sashayed, shook their bootayyy and tapped around me I just stood their. It was so bad! Poor Leah must have been kicking herself in the bum for inviting me to go :-p I just have no coordination. When everyone goes right, thats when I decide to go left. However, practice makes perfect and it was a great workout!
       5. Figure out plans for tonight. Its nearly 5, and I still haven’t done that. Ops.
4. What five snacks do you enjoy?
       1. Chocolate.
       2. Ice cream.
       3. Cookies.
       4. Chocolate.
       5. Ice cream. 
       That was easy!
5. What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
       1. Buy new toothbrushes far more often than I do. That sounds kind of gross, but its only because I love the feel of a new toothbrush!
       2. Hire a fulltime landscaper/cook for my mom. However this may backfire, I don’t know how long I could go without my mama’s cookin!
       3. Take the whole family to Jamaica.
       4. Buy more properties.
       5. Donate to the vatican.
                 HA gotcha!  No but I would donate a lot of it to different charities, particularly African oriented ones.
Ok folks that does it for now!!
Ohhhh I know some of you are looking for a good pic of the bf and unfortunately I still don’t have one of his face! hahah But I do have these, kind of better than the last one, right?! hahah He’s got to work on his zoolander posing… 😉
      

Enlightenment.

~ Aub ~ 3 Comments
“The Secret inside the IPAD. Someone broke into the iPad first… who wouldve think it?!.”
http://www.bored.com/image

Haha I love it. I am not very tech savvy but I really am not quite sure I understand the whole Ipad rage…its just a larger sized Iphone and or a smaller sized laptop – right? Someone enlighten me because I feel as though I am off in another world on this topic.

Back tommorow with more!
New boss lady is totally interrupting my little blogging hobby – how rude.

In a little bit.

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“In a little bit.” This is my 3 yr old sisters response to everything lately and I have been getting such a kick out of it. So much so that I decided I needed to incorporate it into my post today! So here we go:

In a little bit

I will be hearing whether or not my offer was accepted on the studio I am hoping to BUY.

I will be heading into traffic.

I will be eating yummy leftover pasta.

I will be working my bum off trying to workoff the pasta (hello mr. bike)
I will be watching greys with my sis!!!
I will be munching on this (my boss is trying to make me fat!)

I will be hanging out with this little diva

Unfortunately, its going to be a little more than just “a little bit” before I get to hang out with this cool dude,

                                                                (awful pic but you get it)

Not only does he get on the floor and play with the “diva” but he also sends me saweet pics of me and our unborn children…

He’s a keeper, right?
SBD.

Whirlwind

~ Aub ~ 5 Comments

Pictorial review of my life lately.

Giggles, shopping, drizzle, reading, and Liv time (she’s in two of these pics, can you find her in both?).

Life is really good right now (minus a minor sap moment I had yesterday), I sometimes forget to keep looking forward and not get bogged down in the past. I have amazing people in my life and am so grateful for all of them. To help me come back to earth and put things into perspective I usually take a minute to either read, play with Liv, or chat with my mom.

What do you guys do? Have anymore tips to stay focused on the good?

PS. Laurel over at Beyond Function has a great idea that I think I may do sometime this week!! Doesn’t have to be “lurve” as she pointed out, it can be in regards to friends, work, life in general – whatever you want =)

Bizarre.

~ Aub ~ 7 Comments
So in the last 5 months, or so, I have received four different texts, from four different unknown numbers from four weirdos!
Ex #1 “I’m trying to get rid of an 80, and some tens so let me know.”
                        I’m no druggie or drug specialist butttt I have a feeling this statement may be pertaining to something illegal. Just a hunch.
Ex #2 “Who is this?”  me – “haha um Aubrey, whos this?”  “Nick Boots?” me – “how did you get my number?! lol” 
                       And that was it, no repsonse. Weirdo right? I mean “Nick Boots?” that just seems made up to me.
Ex #3 “Go home right after, we need to talk and come alone.”
                       Scary!!!!

Ex #4 “And i did to, i want you to F&*^ me now so bad Ahh where are you”

                       Wow. Received this one last night (2 am on St. Patties day, go figure).
Sorry for lack of posts, family friend passed away this week sooo my mind has been in la la land. Having a hard time focusing on anything but I was finally able to crack down today, get some work done and concentrate long enough to blab on about my random little text messages. Oh anddd while I am here I can’t help but mention the crazyness going on in politics right now. It just seems insane! This bill is over 2,700 pages long and no one seems to truly understand it. I get tid bits here and there but dems and repubs have ill feelings towards it. Now theres talk of it being accepted and legalized without an actual vote on it? From what I understand congress would vote on different parts of it but not vote on the bill as a whole, “Deem and Pass” is the name of this sort of process. To cap it off Obama was recently quoted saying,

“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate.”

Ah what?! Does it make sense that our President is saying this?! Then he goes onto say this,
“And the reason I’m confident that it’s going to pass is because it’s the right thing to do.”
According to who?!?! I wish I had longer to go on and on about this because I have a lot to say about it but the clock is a tickin’ and 5 o’clock is quickly approaching!! However I will post this link, I mean not to toot my own horn or anything but I think I was kinda right — check it out! 

http://aubdawg.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-have-new-president.html

Happy belated St. Patties day!
 

Poo.

~ Aub ~ 3 Comments

Not feeling so great today, think it may be from a compilation of these things:

– Two tickets this week. One parking ticket, the other for ACCIDENTALLY driving thru a fastpass lane.
– Not knowing the difference between bananas and plantains.
– Watching the Bachelor Wedding (gag).
– Eating far too many sweet things, can’t stop munching this week! Means I may be a bit of a grump next week 😉
– Dealing with a total jackass this morning. Small man = huge ego!
– Rainy weather today and apparently it will only get worse as the week goes on.
– Not exercising as much as I normall do during the week. Serious lack of motivation the past few days!
– Spending way too much time playing UNBLOCK on my Iphone. I think I am addicted.

These are a few reasons for why I may not be doing my best today but mostly I think its just because theres a cold going around the office and it has finally decided to grace me with its presence. Gonna try to work it out of my system tonight on the bike!

However, amidst all my sickness, I actually do have many reasons to be smiling today. Heres the HAPPY list:

– Finally catching up with one of my besties tonight! It has been too long since I have had a good chat with this lady :-p
– Had a fantastic dessert last night, oreos are a perfect substitution for bananas =)
– Skiing with friends next weekend :o)
– Mum and Daddy-o both come home this weekend 🙂
– Bikini waxes are fun to dream about…errr um well, I got a good chuckle out of it at least.
– I had time to paint my nails TWICE this week! woot woot A relaxing pastime of mine 😎

Hmm I think thats about it…oh and one more thing,

Bond is now officially the BF =)

Kk, thats it for now! Be back tomm with the deets =)

Lastly, totally forgot to pass on this award to 4 other bloggers, so here it is. The Gorgeous Blogger Award goes to:

1. Laurel at http://style-laurel.blogspot.com/
2. Ari at http://epluribusunum21.blogspot.com/
3. Queenbee at http://queenbeeswain.blogspot.com/
4. Lindsey at http://learningtobeawife.blogspot.com/

All of these bloggers are fun and bring something different to the table. Go check ’em out folks!

Mixing it Up!

~ Aub ~ 3 Comments

Friday!

Need I say more? I am a happy camper and am so looking forward to the weekend. Heading out with friends tonight (may have done a little lunch time shopping for this…H&M, I heart you), tomm I have some volunteer work for that campaign I have mentioned in previous posts and then another date! Hiking, dinner and cozying (word? eh I’m just gonna roll with it) up on the couch with a good flick. Actually, does anyone have any good movie reccommendations? It can be tricky finding a good movie to pop in, there are so many options and I often find myself just so impatient about the whole process that I allow the boy to choose which more often than not is a big mistake! :0) SOOO please, ladies help me out with this one!

Ok so I know that these past few weeks Fridays have been devoted to quotes BUT I was given an award this morning, first by Nelly, such a sweet, honest and motivational blog. I absolutely love how she is so open about something that I find hard to talk to even my closest of friends about — weight, dieting, yada yada. It is truly inspiring to read her blog and see that she realizes how important health is but at the same time we only live once, so if you are craving the brownie, just have the brownie! Haha I have really enjoyed getting to know this blogger better =)

And secondly, I recieved the same award from newbie blogger, Laurel. Laurel is actually my only “real life” friend in the blogging world (as of yet anyways) and her blog is fantastic. It is very different from the many blogs I read, mostly dedicated to random rambles and daily observations (which I happen to thoroughly enjoy!), hers is more in depth and geared towards making sense and understanding both the triumphs and the tribulations that life presents us all with.

Both these blogs are definitely worth taking a looksey – you won’t be dissappointed!
Ok now onto the acutal award.

The laws of the land with this award is to introduce to the blogging world 6 things about yourself that you haven’t already shared or that people may not know about you. So here goes nothing…
1. I am a registered Independant. I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
2. Ok that was kinda boring right? Hmm well here we go, lets try this one – I once met Michael Jordon and asked him what his feelings on “doggy style” were. Its amazing what whiskey can do to ya huh?! Well if anyone is interested his response was, “I’m a fan”. Oh ladies, what a freaking nice smile this man has!! Not to mention he was extremely polite and nice.
3. I wish my boobs were smaller.
4. When I am in my car alone, I often think I have a great voice. I have even thought to myself, “wow I am American Idol material”, voice of an angel right here – this is what I think while driving alone anyways. When I am with someone else I am forced to deal with the fact that my voice isn’t good at all and that me thinking it is may have something to do with the volume being up so high that I can’t actually hear my own voice. Oh it is a sad life I lead…no A.I future for me 😦
5. I prefer stapling to taping.

6. Last but not least: I was named after a song. Check it out; its totally hippie inspired and took me years to actually enjoy it but I am now a true fan of it. Its called “Aubrey” (duh) and its by the band Bread.
THANK YOU for the award ladies!!
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend; see you all on Monday!

I Ate his Heart.

~ Aub ~ 2 Comments
Oh goodness.
Mid-week dates can be awful. I, for one, am usually in my PJs by 7:30, plopped on the couch counting down till bedtime on these “school” nights. I wasn’t sure how well I was going to function during our school night date and was mentally preparing myself all day for it :o) 
Ok ok, I am not typically THIS lame but it has been a pretty busy week (actually more like, couple of weeks) and I was nervous I was going to have no energy left for this poor boy. Well, as I walked out the office I purposely gave myself a good kick in the butt, sucked in the fresh air and headed to the closest cabbie thinking, “I am a big girl, this will be fun – stop thinking about the hour long car ride home you have after this date!” and with that I was ready to go =)  Actually, I was more than just “ready to go” Bond had told me earlier in the day he had gotten tickets for some sort of small local theater production in the South End but refused to tell me exactly what show it was so I was excited to not only be going but to also be going to something that I didn’t have to plan. In past relationships that has typically been my role – something I truly don’t mind doing but also its nice to be surprised every once in awhile too – it was a breath of fresh air.
Back to the school night date.
We had decided to meet up at this small Thai restaurant that he had been to before, at 6 o’clock. Despite being in heels in the windstorm of ’10 I made it on time which was a triumph for me (I have been having some troubles with punctuality as of late ops.), linked arms with Bond and headed in. Well it wasn’t the quaint, little hole in the wall joint I was expecting it to be BUT it was absolutely delicious. Hands down the best Pad Thai Chicken I have ever had. Plus an added perk was that it is right next to a favorite pizza place of mine: Little Steves. A girlfriend and I use to be V.I.P here…Oh Batista those were the days!!!
Anyways, so there we were eating our dinners, chatting in between noodle sucking (not the easiest thing to eat elegantly while on a date but oh well) and sipping on tea. About half way thru I started focusing mostly on the chicken for I haven’t exactly mastered those dang chopsticks yet and they were getting in the way of our very important convo regarding Japanese motorcycles and the sauna like temps the room had started to feel like. So as I said, I started unearthing and digging up the small pieces of chicken that required no cutting (hard to cut chicken with chopsticks…) when Bond abruptly places a piece of chicken on my plate. I zoomed in, examined the golden piece of heaven, realized it was a piece requiring no “cutting”, smiled at Bond and gobbled it right up.
Bond just kind of stared at me while I was off in la la land enjoying my munching and finally said,
“Do you know why I gave that piece of chicken to you?”
I smirked and gave him a “duh” kind of look replying with,
“Yea, because you saw I was only eating the small pieces of chicken.”

Bond laughed in awe and countered with,

“Why would I give you a piece of my chicken when you have plenty of your own?! I gave it to you because it was SHAPED IN A HEART.”
Ha ha ha so this is what happens when cute boys try to do cute things for me.
I eat them up.

However, I must say it really was a delightful bite 🙂

Kind of out of the blue but I was listening to NPR this morning and they were talking about vending machines in Japan which are designed to clean your pets for you. After some googling about, I came to realize there are actually many many weird vending machines out there.
Heres what I found, ENJOY!