Sunshine-y Monday

Today felt like SPRING! Bust out the flip flops people!

Also, I got out of work at 1. That is ALWAYS a good thing. (not thinking right now about working 630 to 630 tomorrow) I went to the Y to workout and was watching Ellen and saw the cutest father and daughter on the show! Seriously, they were to die for. For some reason I can't copy the link of them on the show but here is the You tube video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxIw4uOsvOs

love love love it.

Simple Math.

There is something that is very very precious to every single person that works full-time in an office. That something is called "the lunchbreak." Lunch breaks are rays of sunshine and possibility in the day. 60 whole minutes to be spent how-e-ver one wants in the middle of the work day.




My current dilemma involving this precious lunch break in an equation in my mind of what is better:

OPTION #1: The YMCA (exactly .2 miles from my office). This option is the "smart and responsible" option because it means I can get my workout in and probably have a burst of energy to get me through the day. The downside is that I have to work out hard enough to feel GOOD about it but not TOO hard that I have to take a full-blown shower. Just need to break a little sweat so i can quick change and get back to the office. It also means no frozen coke run and no time to read magazines and do absolutely nothing. This used to be my default option before option #2 opened. (see below)

OPTION #2:

This is the sign to the brand new super awesome cupcake shop....which by the way has over 24 flavors of cupcakes. I happen to LOVE all 4 kinds that I've tried so far. Sadly, option #2 wins more than it should. But really is that a crime? The brand new-ness of this place will wear of and I will hopefully go back to my happy balance of working out and having a double chocolate s'more cupcake...until then, I will have my cake and eat it too!

Goodnight!

S

Weekend Update...and Prayer Requests.

I really am going to try to be better at updating this blog. So here it goes..

This past weekend was super busy and a lot of exciting things happened and also some really heartbreaking things happened. I guess I will start by posting some pictures of the exciting things.

Friday night we went out to dinner at Johnny Carino's with some friends. Ate way too much pasta and saw a woman with a hair do that stood off her head like 8 inches (she literally had hair with more volume than I'ver seen....and I've seen a LOT of volume..)

After dinner, we came home and played some Bananagrams till it was late enough to go to Montes for Drew's Bosses and Coworkers joint birthday party at Montes. We got to Monte's and everyone really wanted Drew to dance (a repeat of his dancing at the work christmas party..) but I guess he was not feeling as brave/had not had enough beers?) It ended up being fun and Drew is lucky to work with an awesome group of people. I snagged a pic with 2 of those awesome people (Caitlin and Kyla):

Saturday I went down to kalamazoo for some spring break shopping with my mom! We get a springbreak still thanks to Amy who is a teacher and is keeping that tradition alive:) Saturday afternoon/evening was my cousin Susan's wedding! Lots of fun and my personal highlight was my Grandma Kool turning into a full-blown dancing machine. A new side of Grandma! We did manage to snag a picture when she was breaking for some water:)
So it was a weekend of celebration but it was also a weekend of sadness due to the fact that a good friend lost his father in a sudden car accident (he actually was stopped to help someone who was stuck in a ditch when he was killed) and another friend's father had a heart attack. It has been hard to process these events and it is so hard to see friends in pain. Please keep these friends of mine in your prayers. A verse that has kept popping up is Isaiah 40: 31. This verse offers so much hope to me.

Love you all,

Staci