The Question Has Been Popped!!!

Today was a very good day... I got to drive for 2 1/2 hours to Wisconsin for a meeting, my boss let me work from home this afternoon, oh yeah and Steve PROPOSED to me tonight!!!

Here's how it all happened... Like the good little employee that I am I was busy working (and talking to Steve on the phone) around 6:50 when Steve told me that he had to go and do something at work. So, we said goodbye and hung up. 30 seconds later, I hear the apartment door opening. From the computer room I yell "Why are you here???" He comes in and takes me into the bedroom where he got down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him. Of course I said yes (with a few tears in my eyes)! I guess that he just couldn't wait to pop the question.

Yeah!!! :)

BUGS!!!

I think the pictures speak for themselves... YUCK! And the sad thing is there's still more coming out of the ground!!!!!

Camping

Steve and I just got back from a nice weekend getaway. On Friday afternoon we drove down to Lake Shelbyville (about 2 1/2 hours south of Chicago) with the pop-up camper in-tow for a relaxing weekend of camping. We had absolutely BEAUTIFUL weather while we were down there and enjoyed spending some quality time together.

I didn't take very many pictures- we have a new video camera that I used quite a bit and forgot about the old digital camera, but above is a picture of Steve relaxing by the fire while our burgers for lunch cooked and the next picture is of the first of two fish that I caught.

Yes, my fish is that little thing dangling below Steve's hand... BUT, for the record I caught more fish than he did- he only caught one about the same size. So, no fish for dinner, maybe next time!

Other than fishing, we did some hiking in the woods with all of the ticks- we're pretty sure that both of us are tick free at this point! And on the way home we stopped at a Tourist Attraction in Gays, IL (yes that's really the town's name). They have a two-story outhouse that is a fairly well-known landmark.

Now, it's back to work and instead of worrying about ticks I have to fend off the CICADA'S that are taking over our neighborhood!!!

Surprises

I love surprisng people... On Saturday 5/5 (yes, I know this post is a little late, but this has been a busy week at work and I finally have time to catch up this morning), we surprised my sister with a bike for her birthday. She knew all a long that she was going to get a bike, she just thought that everyone was going to give her money and she and I were going to go shopping for one. Well, we decided to surprise her because she and I had signed up to do a ride on Sunday morning with the Joliet Bicycle Club. Here are some pictures:

Kristen and her new Gary Fisher Wingra

Kristen drinking a Margarita on her new bike!

Part of the ride that we went on gave us the opportunity to take a lap on Chicagoland Speedway- HOW COOL IS THAT? I'm really not a big Nascar fan, but I have been to a few races and it was really awesome to get to ride around the track- you wouldn't believe how much the track is banked even on the straight parts not to mention the turns. Here's a picture of me from the ride!

Exploding Soup

Just had to share my lunchtime experience from Wednesday this week... I heated up a can of Tomato Garden soup (one of my favorites) just like I have a thousand times in the microwave here at work. As I was walking back to my desk I noticed that the lid was caving in, but thought nothing of it until BOOM! Yes, soup went flying everywhere... the wall, the copier, the ceiling, and all over me (even in my hair) YUCK!!! It was disgusting... once I wiped up some of the mess and found our janitor to vaccum up the remains of my soup, I borrowed a shirt that I was offered and headed home.

I'm not quite sure how, but I didn't get burned... just ended up with one ruined light yellow t-shirt and a little embarassment. FYI- I haven't eaten soup again for lunch yet... maybe next week I'll give it another try!

Better than normal...

Well, to my surprise I've actually had enough work for the day to last me until now (usually I'm looking for things to do shortly before lunchtime which REALLY annoys me). I do still have a few things to do, but the website that I need to use is having some issues this afternoon, so I guess they'll just have to wait until tomorrow.

So... I've decided to start a blog (thanks Meg for the suggestion)... I've already promised myself that I won't spend too much time at work on it, but so far I'm 2 for 2 on my posts being from work :)

My Blog name... I was listening to the radio yesterday and I heard the song by Sara Evans titled "I Could Not Ask For More" and thought to myself that that pretty well describes how I feel these days (except for at work- I definitely could ask for more stuff to do). So why not use it for my blog name.

I wish that I had known 6 weeks ago when I scheduled my hair appointment for tonight that Grey's Anatomy was going to be on for TWO WHOLE HOURS!!! Thank goodness for VCR's...

My First Blog...

Hello everyone out there!!

Just thought that I would post a quick hello before I leave work to go to the gym. Tonight I get to swim 1500yds and then go to spin class for an hour- gotta love training for Triathlons!