this is why i don't live in a suburb.

or at least one of the many reasons.  :)

this is my street looking north.

and looking south.

i just adore fall.

although, kyle and i woke up the other morning to a an entire yard full of leaves.  luckily, we don't have any grass, so nothing to worry about it killing.  so, in other words, we are aren't going to bother raking them up.  and the dogs are L-O-V-I-N-G it.  i'll have to upload some video of that...too cute for words.

well TECHNICALLY...

it's friday!  so i'm doing my random friday a little early.  :)


i went and did my shopping today.  you all know how much i love target.  and coupons.  i was told (this is not the first time) that i was a "coupon lady" and that i was "awesome at shopping."  i like to hear that.  i kind of view couponing as a competition to see how much money i can save myself each week.  i saved almost 75% off my entire cart!  considering i got a cute sweater for almost full price.  (don't tell kyle that one...)


dillons and walgreens on the other hand...not so great to coupon at.  i ALWAYS have troubles there!  i think it's just the ones i shop at, because kyle's mom always does well at walgreens.  maybe i shouldn't go to the one i go to anymore.  plus, my dillon's kind of scares me, there are some interesting characters there!   there is a dillon's marketplace up at central and rock that i LOVE to go into.  it's like walmart only clean and has a way better organic section.

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know what else i'm loving?  not getting up on the roof.  (i just had to add that in there.)

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i really need to clean my house.  or maybe it should just clean itself.  i'm just saying.

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i just painted my toenails a lovely shade of dark plum.  yummy, they look good enough to eat!

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has anyone seen the proposal?  i really want to see it.  i adore ryan reynolds.  i also really want to see the new george clooney movie!  i can't remember the name right now, but it looks freaking hilarious.  who knew such a gorgeous man would be such a comedic genius?  kyle and i are huge fans of o brother where art thou.  he got me hooked on it.

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finally...i leave you when another hint to my halloween costume!

random friday...once again!

sorry for the lack of posts this week...i've been super busy with IIDA, a professional organization i'm in.


the wichita city center, which i'm a committee member of, had a large fundraising event last night!  i'm pretty sure that it went well, but i'm SOOOOO exhausted!  it was a masquerade/trivia night/dance/gala thing.  anyway.  i have some great pictures, but i'm too lazy to upload them right now.  so, i guess you'll just have to wait!  :)

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we finally hung some pictures up in the house!  it's starting to look like home, instead of just some place we sleep every night.  the boxes are slowly being unpacked...mostly because we haven't been able to get up on the roof.


this unfortunately will be changed because we'll be getting back up on the roof tomorrow morning.  boo.


that's probably a good thing though, the sooner it gets done, the sooner i don't have to get up on there any longer.

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we've narrowed down our halloween costume!  and no, i'm not going to tell you what it is...but i will give you a clue!


i bought a skirt very similar to this one today at old navy (holla, $4.50!!  it's 50% extra off of all women's clearance and i had a 10% the entire sale coupon from the website.)  it's part of my costume.  

let the guessing begin!

ksu v. isu

the boyfriend and i tagged along with my parents to the k-state/iowa state showdown this past weekend.  it was held at the kc chief's stadium and it was a BLAST!  we tailgated with my (not so) little brother and his 7 roommates (yes...you read that right, 8 boys, one house, can you imagine?  yuck.) and most of their families.  needless to say we had a LOT of food.  and it was delish.  mom's corn dip = heaven.  (and i don't even like corn!)

and the game was even pretty good, too!  granted, it looked like a couple of high school teams out there...neither is so hot this year.  fumble after fumble after interception and we even threw out a few new plays that didn't even have a quarterback in them...because he's THAT BAD.  so sad.  but the 'cats pulled through and won with a blocked extra point in the last minute of the game!  it was SO exciting and just reminded me how much i LOVE football!

* EVERY MAN A WILDCAT *

here's a few pictures from the game.  we ran into an old friend of kyle's from manhattan and hung out with him for most of the second half.  he lives in iowa now and came to the game with some isu fans, he apparently got sick of being with them and decided to come hang out with the cool kids.

k and i at the game.  he even wore purple!

the view from our seats.  isu and ksu will play two years in a row at arrowhead stadium.  iowa state was home this year, k-state will be home next year, but still in kc.

 mom and dad partaking in some fun activities.  aren't they cute with their little headsets?  i think mom got tired of dad not talking to her during the games (they have season tickets to both football and basketball), so she got her own set to match him.  :)

 

some blackhawk's from fort riley (near manhattan, ks) buzzed us.  kyle said it was the coolest part of the game.  i beg to differ, the blocked field goal was.

k's buddy zach.  they used to work at cat together.  zach now works at john deere in waterloo, iowa and spent most of the game making fun of kyle's hat.  apparently it's not cool to wear cat stuff when you don't work there anymore.  i guess i need to invest in some agco gear for him!

blessings in disguise

do you ever just have things that make you uber happy for no explainable reason? they just happen and you don't even know you are grinning like a maniac?

for example, i know a lot of women love chocolate. i'm not one of them. WAIT!! hear me out! i LIKE chocolate, but i don't love it. i, personally, am not willing to give up calories on it. i'd rather have chinese food. or french fries...mMmMmMmmmm...french fries....

but i digress.

the point of my post is this; here are five random things that have made me totally and completely happy for no apparent reason whatsoever in the last couple of weeks.

5. k waking me up in the morning. i am NOT a morning person, but at least i have someone to wake me up now. nelson wasn't so great at it. he is kind of lazy, like his momma. :)
4. fall. anything and everything about it. totally my favorite season.
3. ksu football season. even if we suck, i still love it. ksu people really know how to throw a tailgate. and this, obviously, goes hand in hand with fall!
2. playing with my dogs. they love me unconditionally and are always there to cheer me up.
1. fitting into an old pair of pants that didn't fit three weeks ago, even though i haven't changed my diet at all. if anything it's been worse! roofing must be making me buff.

what makes YOU happy?

ps - main reason i don't LOVE chocolate: it gives me migraines when i have too much of it.

wow...sorry, it's been a super long time since i've posted! i really don't have much to update, i've been studying like crazy and felt the need to update you all on the fact that nothing exciting is happening right now. getting ready to take the LEED test for the second time. let's see...what else? oh, kyle and i went on vacation, i'll do a post on that soon, for now just see my pictures on facebook! :) we also went to the KU K-State game this weekend, but that's a bit of a sore subject....

happy first day of time change!

TGIF. period.

it's finally friday!

i'm still at work and i'm fairly certain that the past hour or so have been the longest in my entire life. EVER! i don't have anything to do right now and to be honest, it makes me feel awful to do much of anything while i'm at work. i mean, come on, getting paid to facebook SOUNDS great, but you know you aren't supposed to be doing it. probably the same thing applies to blogging, but i have less than 30 minutes left here and plan on doing some serious garage/estate sale shopping as soon as this blessed work week gets over. note: one thing i can't stand about wichita is that all the good sales start on thursday. at like 9 am. i'm at work, people. i guess all you supermoms get to come and steal all my good stuff away from me! [that or the little old ladies. i bet that would be an interesting fight to watch!]

on the other hand, i did spend the entire morning chatting with kyle on gmail chat and planning our fall trip. it will actually be the first "real" vacation that we've gone on together without any one else tagging along! we'll be going to the cuchara valley in colorado. his grandparents have a cabin there that they let the entire family use for free, so we don't even have to pay for lodging or anything. we'll be hiking an inactive volcano, taking a dome car train ride and visiting the great dunes national forest.

i can't wait!