donut love

Wow...just stumbled upon my old blog while going through some old emails...it's crazy to think of all that has happened in the past 4.5 years.  Here's the cliff notes edition to catch you up:

• Left Wells Fargo (Thank God), well actually - it closed down the part of the company I was working for
• Started working for a marketing company; started as a Marketing Consultant, then was promoted to Assistant Program Manager and I've been the Program Manager for the last 2.5 years
• Moved from my one bedroom apartment into 126 W Reservoir Ave with the lovely Sekadlo sisters where I lived until I left Milwaukee
• Got engaged to Mike on the 4th of July, 2012
• We went through the crazy Match process during his last year of dental school, so many internships, applications and interviews...SO glad that's over
• We ended up matching to Iowa City!  We were totally shocked when it happened, but were excited to be moving right in between our two families, and over the last year and a half we've learned that everything really does happen for a reason
• Bought a townhouse in Iowa City 10 minutes away from the hospital - first big purchase!
• Got married! May 25, 2013 - what a great day!
• Got a puppy! Jelasco "Jelly" Nick the black goldendoodle joined our family in July and we've never been the same.  But seriously he's one of the most insane dogs but it comes from love...at least that's what we tell ourselves :)
• Bought a car! We were really on a roll with the big commitments...little did we know what was up next.
• Got Pregnant! Wow talk about surprises! We found out a little over a year ago that we'd be welcoming the newest Nick to our family in September of 2014.  Shock, awe, and shock soon gave way to excitement and love as we awaited our little bundle of joy.
• Leah Christine Nick was welcomed 5 days early on September 15, 2014.  She's the cutest little thing ever and we fall more and more in love every day.
• I had maternity leave until December 8 (a terrible terrible date that has been forever etched into my memory).  Now I'm back at work, Leah's at Daycare and Mike's doing a rotation through pediatric surgery. 

So in case anyone gets worried...just want to let you all know that my hours have been switched for the week to 10:30am-8:00 pm.  It totally sucks, because even though every day I think I'll wake up early and work out with that extra time, I never do and end up just sleeping in, making my days much shorter.

Also, to make it a really great day, Stephanie quit.  For those of you who know, Steph was the only other person in my office (aside from Curt, my boss).  Nick quit in April.  So now it's just me and Curt.  Working the night away together.  Ordering Cousin's Subs and splitting 24 oz. bottles of Diet Mt. Dew.  High-fiveing whenever I sell a mortgage.

HELP

Brendan (right) is one of the toughest dudes I know...and when I found this picture I realised he's always been this way. As if you needed any more convincing please notice the small hoop in his left ear. Case closed.

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I am obsessed with the Steig Larsson books, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl Who Played With Fire.


A friend recommended them to me and I read the first one in a week, and bought the second book on my flight home yesterday, and so far it's just as good.  They're about a bad a$$ girl who helps solve these mysteries.

I've actually started dictating my life to seem a lot more mysterious in my head, and thought about if I went missing, all the details that detectives would have to piece together.  It just makes me want to solve a mystery in real life!  I even googled unsolved mysteries the other day to see if there were any I could work on solving, but after a while I realised that its much more solvable if you're somehow involved in the mystery.

So basically what I'm saying is that if anyone has any mysteries that need solving, or people that need to be investigated....you now know a freelance Detective who is seeking work.

1. Some sort of bodily harm could come to me, allowing me to take advantage of my short term disability benefit
2. Get called into jury duty, the longer the trail the better
3. Be "let go" = unemployment $$ and bliss
4. Get a new job elsewhere
5. Win the lottery
6. Marry a rich man and become a trophy wife
7. Reject society and live off my grandma's land in Iowa
8. Become a hippie
9. Go to beauty school with Ash
10. Get arrested and taken taken to prison
11. _______________________________________
12. _______________________________________
13. _______________________________________
14. _______________________________________
15. _______________________________________

Anyone else got any??  I'm willing to consider all options!

Yesterday when I got back from lunch my boss was apparently hitting his afternoon lull.  He was exclaiming how he was so tired he had to think about what he was thinking.  So being the opportunist that I am, I suggested that he run to the gas station to get a 5 hour energy.  We were the only 2 in the office yesterday, so I saw this opportunity to have a brief moment with the office to myself, so I could just relax, and not worry about my boss criticising something that I'm doing.  To my surprise/delight he decides to go get a 5 hour and asks if I want to come with, "No, I'm good!  Don't fall asleep in your car though!"
Curt: "NO! You're coming with me!  Come on, we'll only be 15 min!"

So, not sure what to do, I accompanied him to the gas station which consisted of riding in his car, walking into the gas station, and pretending to look interested at the donut stand while Curt chose the flavor he wanted.  Then after he paid, I walked back out and rode back to the office with him.  My going served absolutely NO PURPOSE. 

Is this odd or normal?  I think it's odd, and I still don't know why he insisted that I go with!