bad news // good news

bad news: kansas state is not the big 12 champs.
good news: at least we beat KU!  :)

source

bad news: our faucet finally broke all the way {it's been hanging on by a thread} last night after kyle's shower
good news: he fixed it today!

{um...yeah...we've been forced to use a screwdriver to turn the hot water on for about the last, OH, 2 months or so.}

bad news: we went to kyle's grandmother's funeral thursday.
good news: we got to see his family on thursday and friday.

hey LOOK! it's walsh!

bad news: i lost the key to kyle's car.
good news: yeah, there really isn't any good news...i tore apart the cars and the house to try to find them...

whoops.

apologize in advance...

this is only to get my signature to show up on blogs now...just a little housecleaning.  :)

gleek!

Glee - Fat Bottomed Girls
- Watch more Entertainment Videos at Vodpod.

yes, i realize this is a bit old.  sorry.  did anyone else love this as much as i did?

love me some Queen.  and some Puck.

WHAT!?!?!  don't look at me like that.

mark salling may play a high schooler, but he's actually OLDER than i am.  he was born in 1982.  i was born in 1983.

and he's not afraid to wear a little pink.  or NKOTB

throwback thursday: week 3

no idea on date

in celebration of the weather getting a little bit warmer...we're going further back than before.  before i even existed.  this is my dad, water skiing at Lake of the Ozarks.  his family had a lake house there growing up and i would imagine that is what stemmed our family vacations to The Lake (yes, capitalized) every summer.  it was great.  i can't WAIT for summer!

update: i received this email from my dad after i posted this.

That picture you posted on your blog is from about high school maybe 1970.

Dad

it's march!

i feel like that should actually say...'IT'S FINALLY FREAKING MARCH!"

because, YAY!!!! it's finally freaking March!

March is the start of all things holy and great in this household.  it is honestly one of my all time favorite months.  ever.

1. Spring - a two edged sword for anyone with allergies, yes, but i happen to live in a wonderful state that has (say it with me, guys) FOUR. FULL. SEASONS.  if i lived where there was no seasons, i'd go postal.  wait, i don't think it's called going postal if it's a depression about the seasons.  i actually learned this in college, i'm pretty sure...i think it's called Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.)  well, lookie there!  i was right!  and you all thought that a B.S. in Interior Design was really a just a B.S. in Bull Shitting.  it ain't.  i learned me some right good stuff in that thar place.

what was i saying?

oh, yeah.  i don't really like Spring, other than it's almost Summer.  which means it's almost tomato season, waterski season, and it doesn't get dark at 5 pm.  but i do get to start planting things outside soon.  i guess what i'm saying is, with the exception of my allergies, Spring isn't really all that bad.  she's just a little temptress that is the greatness of Summer, but let's be honest, they pale in comparison to Fall.

2. St. Patty's Day - i might not be full-blooded Irish, but i've got a bit 'o the luck in me.  i'd say my brother and i are about 1/6th Irish if my calculations are correct (you shouldn't trust those...i'm horrible at math.) so i fully enjoy St. Patty's Day. 

in a former life {ahem, college} i used to enjoy Fake Patty's Day, a wonderful and glorious Kansas State Aggieville tradition.  i partook in this awesome holiday a few times, but alas, i have decided that 27 is far too old to partake in the drinking of green beer at 6 in the mornin'.  my liver just can't take it anymore.

and i'd rather have bacon.

side note: how sad is it that the only "source" i could find for Fake Patty's Day is from urbandictionary.com?  get with it Aggieville.

be that as it may, i fully plan on enjoying a good lager and wearing green on one of my favorite holidays.

3. Kyle's birthday! - he's turning 29 this year...the women of our normal "crew" are hoping to get some parties together for their 30th birthday, as all the husbands turn 30 in the same year.  so this just might be the year to have a nice stay-in party of two birthday.  we'll see what the birthday boy thinks!

4. March Madness - love me some college basketball.  especially when Kansas State is on a winning streak.

eat it, Texas.

i saw this awesome quote on Twitter earlier..."VarneysKSU There used to be a street named after Frank Martin, but it was changed because nobody crosses Frank Martin and lives. #FrankMartin"

 oh, Frankie....

would YOU cross THAT!?!?!

what's YOUR favorite month?

i {heart} my nerd.

this is edited some, to protect the not-so-innocent.

but, you get the point.

me: i just got an email from our PM on the project i'm working on about how to write emails regarding the project.

Kyle: you think they told you to write the email a certain way?

me: no, they DO tell you how to write it. i just got a form on how to write it.

Kyle: oh

Kyle: that's awesome.

i wish we had that.

me: god, you are such an engineer

nerd.  :)

honeymoon road trip: day 8-11

i am sad to report that day 7 was our last day "alone" on our honeymoon.

but that's cool, because we love our friends!  and any day spent with friends is a great day in our book.

anyway.....so, yeah, we went on a road trip honeymoon down to Scotsdale, Arizona for a wedding.  an AWESOME wedding!  we had a ton of fun the entire weekend!

schedule breakdown went a bit like this:

day 8: rehearsal and rehearsal dinner and then drinking well into the night with the bride's father.  who was awesome.  we loved dan.

 this is actually where the reception was, but there was another wedding there that night.

 awww...friends forever.

day 9: Kyle and the boys left for the wedding around noon and the wives/girlfriends/fiances fended for themselves for the afternoon.  moi?  i chose to get my nails redone.  i had the same Shellac manicure on from the day of my wedding and it was looking a little haggard.  called around and found a salon right down the street from our hotel and was properly manicured by an awesome guy whose name escapes me, but he was awesome.  i'll try to remember it in case any of you are in Scottsdale sometime and need a manicure.  i mean, who doesn't?!?  we took a car to the wedding (FANCY!!) and proceeded to witness a beautiful ceremony in a gorgeous venue.  and then we got stupid drunk.

some evidence:

 oh crap, am i supposed to be praying?  i just noticed this was during prayer.  sorry, guys!

 don't ask what that hand gesture means...

 how many boys can fit in the phone booth?!

 we're trapped!

 uh.  no....no...that's not the groom at all.  silly.

 going to that bar was a poor decision.

there were a lot more embarrassing pictures i could have put up there, but i choose to leave them out.  i'd like my marriage to last longer than 6 months, thankyouverymuch.

did you hear that Kyle!?!  i chose YOU over the BLOG!  remember that later.  mmmk?

day 10: hungover but alive, we all went out for breakfast.  yummo.  then the Shaffer's packed up for the long haul home....a LOOOOOONG haul.  on day 10, we drove from Scottsdale, AZ to Tucumcari, NM.

that's a long drive.  10 hours to be exact.  but, we made it.  we stayed in a LOVELY trucker hotel right off the highway.  but it was 1 in the morning and i didn't care where i slept as long as i slept.

day 11: Tucumcari, NM to Wichita, KS.  another long haul.  alas, we made it!

and thus ends the Great American Road Trip Honeymoon.

whew, it's been a long ride ladies and gents.  hope you enjoyed a few of the thousands of pictures i took and my random ramblings.

deuces!

catie