Happy Birthday DAD

You are OLD, but we still love you. Thanks for getting older so we would have a reason to [eat fake Thanksgiving, have the girls visit and eat a GIANT piece of chocolate cake].

On a more serious note, thanks for being such a great father. I have enjoyed spending more time with you and building a friendship. Heres to another 51 happy years!

Love you,

♥ Single Girl

...

i HATE my j(O)b.

I am a (HUMAN) Lab Rat

Why pay for animal testing when you can test on your employees for next to free? I imagine this was the thought that went through all the heads of the big bosses where I work. I mean animal testing is associated with so much [bad press/hatred/crazy activists] and for a gift card we can get out employees to slather all sorts of things on their faces, and for movie tickets we can rub creams on them and see if they get irritated, scratch and react.

So I am being a lot sarcastic. But we do get the opportunity to participate in new product testing. Which is actually a lot of fun! I have been trying to get into the scratch testing, but the competition is steep, and you have to be invited to join. So when I got the email asking if I wanted to try a new anti aging moisturizer, I was all about it.

I went to my initial meeting where we were given the products, told how to apply them and given our initial survey. I went home washed my face and put on the products. It was a half face test, so one moisturizer on the right side, one on the left. When I started I looked so happy and excited

A week later, I should have REMEBERED how sensitive my skin is.

Some people go on tropical vacations and come back with clear beautiful skin- ME break out. Any time I make a slight change to my skin care regiment I look like a 12 year old boy in mid puberty. Hence this look:

Well when I go fill up my gas tank and buy a diet coke for free it will all be worth it. For now I will file away my completion as an occupational hazard.

♥ Single Girl

PS Maybe the sensative skin is a good thing, I was invited to participate in a study over the weekend, AND the Scratch/sting tests next week! LOVE IT.

Blogger Love: Why Mormon Girls Stay Single

I found this little guy today. When i stumbled upon it, I thought it would be some good fodder for the blog. Then I started reading and started LAUGHING! Its pretty funny. Most of the mistakes are pretty common, and comical. Some you will see yourself guilty of, some you will see your [best friends/roommates/sisters/ex Girlfriends/co-workers] being guilty of.


Check it out! its pretty funny. Single, married, LDS or not, this blog will provide you with some laughs.


READ now, thank ME later.



♥ Single Girl

s(O)me Days are Just like this:

Today was one of those days. It just seem to: drag/last forever/bore you to death.

I am in a funk to say the least. A funk most likely produced by one of the following:

1. Extreme sleep deprivation.
2. Over stimulation in the work environment previously.
3. Work induced Anxiety over pending/potential promotion.
4. Lack of actual social interaction with co-workers (IM chatting does not count).
5. An almost empty in box, no voice mails to return, the slow time of the month before the rush.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better (it must or I will simply die in my cube).

♥ Single Girl

Work Night (O)UT!

Yesterday was a GREAT day at work. I had forgotten that it was Club Excellence (Our equivalent of Employee of the Month) Lunch! When I got the reminder for the appointment I was PLEASANTLY surprised. Even better, we went to one of my favorite places SP^RK. Which made it all the better. We [tried every appetizer/drank funny drinks/ate/played games/laughed/made fun of each other/had a good time].

It got even better. I was sitting at my desk toggling back and froth between some personal work(google reader/blogger/facebook/gmail) and some work related business, when my bosses, boss came over to my desk.

BossM: You a Jazz fan?
Me: Yeah of course
BossM: Hands me a ticket to the Corporate Suite, walks away.
Me: (STUNNED) Is this a real ticket?
BossM: Don't be late

Turns out that my bosses, bosses, boss got the suite for the night and they were sharing! How nice is that? So some work friendies/real friendies and I carpooled up to the game. Which was even better since we got a free parking pass. The SUITE was great.

[PERFECT view/plenty of space/nice seats/private bathroom/free dinner & Snacks/game gift waiting for you/ and so on].

It was a lot of fun to hang out, chit chat and watch the game. I have never been so comfortable while at a professional sporting event. So thanks to my bosses and the Skinny for a great day of (un)work.

♥ Single Girl

PS: Bree and Victor are now in love because of a little meddling and this event. Good times.

the EX-Request

This is a pending Friend request from an Ex boyfriend. I hate the term boyfriend, I think that is where he got the impression that we were in fact "friends".




I mean HONESTLY, we weren't friends before we dated. We weren't friends after we dated. Then we REdated, that was a Big Mess. Its been a few years since we talked, I mean I have seen him on several occasions, and have: blown him off big time/ignored him/ran the other direction/smiled/waved/hoped he didn't see me/was glad when he ignored me. I'm not the kind of girl who wants to stay friends.


I mean isn't that a load of crap? I am not in the market for more guy friends, I have plenty in my real life. Why would I want to grant him an all access pass to my life, when I honestly could care less if I ever see/talk to/hear from him again?

I don't want to. So I didn't. I ignored the REQUEST, he re-requested. So this time I did send a nice message saying thanks for thinking of me, hope you are well, but we aren't Friends so I'm not adding you.



In TRUE DB Triz fashion he wrote back all sad and manipulative. I laughed, because that was confirmation enough that we could NEVER be friends.

Would you grant that annoying EX an all access pass to your life? EVEN if you knew he would totally lurke you page?

♥ Single Girl

*I deleted his name to prevent you from promptly facebook stalking him... I should have left it so you could!

NYC run down

I know that this is not entertaining to anyone but myself, and maybe Lindsey. SOOOO in honor of that I will try to keep it short, and simple OR Click Mark as Read and the pics for more detail. Maybe even a little bit funny (heavens my BRAIN is too fried for that. SORRY)

It started with cheap tickets. Red eye. New book I told myself I would read. Getting in to JFK about an hour early. I had schedule a SUPER SHUTTLE PICK UP. I called, and was told 20 minutes. I called back 40 minutes later...no dice. I called again, another ten. Finally I got in a cab and took a $60 ride to my new home. Slept, got ready and headed out. We walked the Brooklyn Bridge, contemplated jumping, headed to time square, Met up with Jessica and ate a BRGR- YUM! watched Mamma Mia- there was this AMAZING usher who's job it was to yell at people who attempted to take pictures. He would be dancing and singing and then run and flash someone in the eyes with a flashlight to stop them. GOOD times. By the time we were on the train back home, I was completely spent and READY for my great air mattress.

Day Two we headed down town to China Town/Canal Street. We saw Ms. Kitty, the AMAZING psychic who looked into our futures and told us what was to come. She NAILED it. The readings were boarder line creepy, not like bad feeling but just erie how spot on they were. I can not wait to see the great event that will happen on September 16th or 17th, get rid of ex boyfriends who keep popping up and discus with the tall skinny man if he in facts loves me. That should be an interested conversation =)

We ate at Cosi, amazing flat bread. Shopped for Fabric at MOOD! Saw the Project Runway style boards, saw spandex world, a GIANT BYU flag, ordered Thai take away, watched Cool Hand Luke, and baby sat while Erin and Nate went out. It was our little thank you for letting us crash.

VALENTINES DAY: Was PERFECT! I mean what a better way to celebrate being single then in the city? NONE, that I can think of. Lindsey and I had purchased tickets to a little off Broadway called My First Time. It was well about just that. Can you think of a funnier way to spend love day then hearing CRAZY/sad/amazing/funny and Awkward ways that people became un-virgins? I can't. So we took the advice of Mormon in Manhattan and ate cheese steaks at Shorty's. AMAZING! Then we got pinkberry, walked around, played some games, ate a cupcake, went to the Lifetime Movie Network Building and saw our amazing little play! It was a great night. I didn't want to vomit, get annoyed or even think about being single. It was a lot of fun! If only we knew there was a lounge to sit in all that time...

SUNDAY started out to be a leleisurely day, until we got the email... BILL BLONSKI was going to sell us tickets to Guys & Dolls for super cheap! Lindsey was soooo excited since she loves LOVES LOVES L♥ves LOVES Lauren Graham, and she is staring it in. So we got ready, headed down to meeting. I thought for SURE it was a Scam...until it wasn't. The show was GREAT, we got to meet the cast after, get autographs and YES that is a picture of Lindsey with her Celebrity CRUSH in the background. We met Jessica to see her GIANT apartment, ate at chipotle and got a call that Nicole had extra room for us to join them at Serendipity. Which was sooo fun! They entertained us, made us laugh and encouraged us to SAY yes to the people on Canal offering Louis Vitton.

Monday- the last REAL day of the CITY. It was a sad day filled with tears and laughter. Our bagel mill guys knew us, they simply held up the usual when we walked it. We hit the MOMA for some incredible fun- I mean some of this shouldn't even be ART! LOTS OF MIDGETS. I got to see some of my favorite piece again, and some new favorites. We went to the park, met up with Jessica and Erin. Ate NYC Pizza, shopped canal street, entered the BACK room- PURSE MECCA, and bought knock offs! all and all a great last day! We rounded it out with a late night Slurpee diet coke run and HOURS of Lindsey trying to decide if she wanted to cancel her flight back.

It was a great few days. I loved EVERY minute of it!

♥ Single Girl

NYC: FAV(O)RITES/Not Favorites

So the TRIP was amazing, truly a great time. Lindsey and her sister Erin made up this list while they were in Italy of their Favorites and Not Favorite things. We thought it would be Fun to do the same. That way in a glance we can remember all the great things we experienced, and laugh at the not favorites. The rules are you need more Favorites then Not Favorites. We wrote diligently, and lost the book. So here is what I could remember and a few I added along the way. Won't make sense to most of you!

Favorites
Getting a cheap ticket to NYC
The flight not being full
Kristen and Scott driving me to the airport
Not having to pay for parking
Sleeping on the plane
Erin and Nate letting us CRASH at their appartment
Getting in to JFK early
Yummy Bagel Mill
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge
Buying a one week metro card
Seeing all sorts of crazy people on the bridge
Talking about the logistics of jumping
Finding the Needle meets the Button
Seeing Parsons
Running into a man walking his dog, ops!
Seeing Jessica for the first time.
Eating at BRGR, YUM
Seeing Mam ma Mia!
The Crazy Camera Nazi in the theater
The couple we watched because they were fighting
Dancing and singing along at the end of the show
Going to See Ms. Kitty the Psychic
Leaning about what the future holds
To Me: “Who is the man you are sleeping with”
To Lindsey: “Who is Michael”
The old man getting his nails painted
Cosi Flat bread samples
The $3 jewelry store
Having an elevator operator
MOOD Fabric
The postman knowing we were looking for Mood
Circle Purses
Yummy Thai Delivery
Watching Cool Hand Luke #6
Looking up Chakra’s on the Internet
Learning how to season tarot cards
The Italians who flirt to get you to eat at their restaurant
Nate’s Magical warmth
Finding a giant BYU flag in the middle of the City
Duane Reade
My first time
My card being read in the play
The man at the Lifetime Movie Network Building
Shorty’s
Playing “Nanny or Mom” and “Local or Tourist”
Sleeping in
Shorty’s french-fries
PINKBERRY!
A street of Sex shops
Hearing people say you are in the bad part of town
Magnolias bakery
Seeing Mormons at the Bakery
Learning how to get home with out transferring in time square to union station!
GIANT subway rat
BILL BLONSKI
Guys and Dolls
The play having to restart
Hearing form the director
Getting Autographs
LAUREN Graham
Getting a sweet picture of Lindsey
The little boy with glasses who handed my play bill up to get signed
The boy in the subway that slipped in puke
Meeting Jess @ chipotle
Seeing Jessica’s MASSIVE NYC apartment
Finding a real mailbox (there are lots of fakes)
Serendipity with Nicole and Rachel! Soooo fun
Frozen hot chocolate
Getting my purse for the cheapest!
Carrot cake!
Hearing LDS singles dating stories
Learning about the All Faiths Sanctuary
The man singing on the subway car
BACK ROOMS on Canal Street, the mecca of good purses
Bagel guys knowing our order when we walked in
Taking a Taxi
The MOMA
Crazy MOMA picture taking
Walking 5th Avenue wishing I could shop there!
H&M
The Pizza café
Jessica buying crazy sun glasses
Hanging out in Erin and Nates Apartment
Being able to get Smart Water everywhere
People Watching
Rachael staring at people on the subway
Second dinner
7-11 Slurpee/diet coke run
Lindsey contemplating staying
Our Magical Subway map
Super Shuttle ACTUALLY coming to get us
Meeting a blogger in real life
The movies being free on the ride home
Starting a new book
Getting picked up by friends
FINDING MY BOOK! In a spare purse
Sleeping in my own bed

NOT FAV(O)RITES
Being alone on my flight
Not having ear phone on the first flight
Waiting for over an hour for the shuttle
Yelling at the shuttle company
having to take a $50 Taxi
Filing Charge backs
being ohh so sleepy
Standing on the Wrong Platform
The COST of a psychic Reading
FAKE mail boxes, they are funny
Thinking we couldn't’t see Lauren Graham
Bartering for goods
Taking the Subway down town
Seeing lots of Midgets
The Lazy Thai delivery guy
Ending up in time square
Random smell of urine/VOMIT/crap
Walking the wrong direction all the time
Not knowing there was a lounge to wait in all night!
Chapped legs
the extra long 40 block walk to Shorty’s
not buying more at MOOD
Button world being fake?
Not knowing about the PWC deals til later
missing the Sex and the City Tour
being paranoid because I had recently seen taken
over packing
missing the temple
Erin not meeting Lauren Graham
spotty cell service
bailing in general
time square with no purpose
forgetting a scarf/gloves on any given day
Metro card not working
Erin's apartment eating my book
Not taking more pictures
always having to pee but no bathrooms in sight
not going into SPANDEX world
Having to Leave
Not seeing Jessica Enough!
Losing the Favorites/Not Favorites list

♥ Single Girl

Here's to wishing I blogged through the trip!

I just got back from New York City! It was AMAZING. I loved every minute of it. So instead of over loading you with all of it RIGHT now, I will avoid it all for now.


So here you go. Junior High called, they want their prank back. Our apartment was TPed before I left. It made me laugh. It made me happy to live somewhere fun. It made me wonder, WHO DOES THAT?













♥ Single Girl

Here are a list of things to come RE the trip

• Favorites/Not Favorites
• Walking the Brooklyn Bridge/Train/being a fake local
• Seeing Jessica
• Guys and Dolls, My First Time, Mamma Mia
• Canal Street
• Good Eats/treats
• The psychic

F(A)vorites

I can Thank Caitlyn for this recent favorite, Kookaburra Licorice. It is so Delicious, and I am not even a big licorice fan. My favorite is the classic red though I also like raspberry and mango. Caitlyn started bringing it into work and we would devour a bag in a day. Its an amazing little treat. Thank goodness this Australian classic has a home here in the US.

♥ Single Girl

I took some with me to NYC, I needed plane food!

The Drive him CR(A)ZY Kiss:

NO one knows the value of a great kiss like someone who isn't getting it.



I'm Sinlge, and not lip slutty anymore. SUE ME.



Anyways... I was click around and found this little beauty:



"I read about this kissing trick years ago and, whenever I've done it with guys, they go absolutely crazy. Here it is...
Lie down next to (or straddle) your boyfriend. Face each other and put your mouths very very close, so your lips are touching. Open your mouths, but don't kiss each other. Instead, breath in and out at opposite times, so you're "trading" breaths -- so you're breathing out when he's breathing in, and you're breathing in when he's breathing out. Do it for about a minute--or as long as you can without ripping each other's clothes off!


I swear, it sounds really simple, but it's AMAZINGLY on-fire-burning hot. You almost start to feel like you're the same person and you just want to crawl inside their mouth."


It's gotten rave reviews.



♥ Single Girl

Blogger Love: Le Love

A Little Eye Candy While I am gone! Happy Valentines Day

Le Love-
For the hopeless romantic or the cynical, this blog is for you. Le Love tries to caputre love in all its many forms through images. Some will make you laugh, some cry, some swoon, some will make you jealous and all will make you want to fall in love. Check it out.

♥ Single Girl

Dear Life,

I will not miss you one bit while I am gone. We need a break, BAD. So while I am away I will be checking out completely. Don’t be too sad, I will be back on Tuesday I promise..

♥ Single Girl

I'm LATE. I'm late. for a very (UN)important DATE

OK...so it wasn't completely unimportant, but you know...So I moved. To a new place. With new roommates, and a new neighborhood and new new new.

So my roommate left me a sticky note asking me if I wanted to go out with a guy in our ward on Friday (I was working crazy hours last week and didn't see much of the roomies in person). So I thought...why not? I mean being fake set up is like one of the top ten MOST annoying things of all times. USUALLY they are the most awkward 3.5-4 hours of your life. SOMETIMES you fake an emergency to get out of them (THANK you cell phones), sometimes you text the entire way through setting up other plans for later (I have been guilty of this with set ups, real dates and BF's) or in my case (I would rather be out with friends, I get easily bored, and I'm ballsy) SOMETIMES you flat out ask to be taken home.

I mean what is not to love about having people you have never really talked to suggest that you meet someone? I mean having your close personal friends set you up NEVER works out, maybe its better to take the advise of strangers..who knows!

So yeah, I went. It was fun. He was really nice. It was a big group of people. He was polite enough to personally introduce me to almost all of them. He opened doors, got my coat for me, kept the convo going. It was a good times. We had a lot to talk about, a lot in common and had fun analysing the other couples there. We laughed, played sardines, and fell in love. NO, NO we didn't.

My roommates thought that when one of them caught me sneaking in late. I had to put the smack down on that before everyone I have EVER met thought we were out until almost 2am.

Roommate: So did you and Neighbor Boy* hit if off last night?
Me: I had a fun time, he is really nice. I really enjoyed myself.
Roommate: I figured when I saw you com in so late, were you watching a movie at his place?
Me: Nooooooooo. I went out after that. I mean he was great and all, but I don't want you thinking I was there all night.
Roommate: Ohhh we all figured when you weren't home you guys must have been in love.

Don't want him thinking I'm some stalker chick! I mean I have to randomly run into him at least once a week for the next 8 months, we can't have my reputation ruined JUST yet...

So maybe there is something to meeting up with strangers and putting yourself out there. Defiantly not a love connection, but still a really great night. (I mean unless he is in love with me, and then I'm sure I could convince myself to like him. =) hee hee, ohhh being a girl)

♥ Single Girl


*Name withheld to protect the innocent

Things that are Different from Last Week

1. I moved- To millrace, so far soooo good
2. I go to the gym at 6 instead of 7am- I know I know, but I like and the cardio cinema is empty, it is nice. You can get on any machine.
3. my commute is 3 minutes instead of 20- Straight down freedom
4. I have roommates that are home
5. My ward is really fun- Date, church, dinner at the neighbors, fireside, random people stop by to talk. Its foreign, but I like it.
6. I am meeting new people- Date, Church, dinner at the neighbors, fireside, random people stop by to talk. Its foreign but I like it.
7. I don't have to work 2 jobs all week long!!!
8. I leave for New York- OH YEAH!
9. I have blackish hair
10. I know WAYYYYY too much about Nate, Dareth, Jess and Ruben
11. I will dress up all week for work- my jeans are all packed for NYC

♥ Single Girl

Jewlery Man?

Have you ever been looking at an attractive man and he moves his head and you see some bling around his neck? Or he shakes someones hand and you see a bracelet peeping out from his long sleeved shirt?



If you have ever gotten queasy in these situations read this post. It will make you laugh.











♥ Single Girl

#19 (gr)Atitude

So I decided that I need to be more GREATFUL. I have a lot to be thankful for. Sometimes I get bogged down by the things that are lacking/not perfect/totally effed up, in my life. I mean those things are there- They exist, but they are not my existance. So I am going to write down the things I am greatful for. That way when I get bogged down in the future I can look back at all the things that brightened my day, made me laugh and that I am greatful for. If you ever want to stop by you can check it out here. Ohh these are the NEWLY finished Thank You Cards! Oh I am so Greatful, at least I try.

♥ Single Girl