Numero 100 - and 1???

So today while reading my subsctiptions I happened to glance up at my blog stats and noticed that it said I had 100 posts. Wtf? I could've sworn my last post was number 99 - so I'm a bit bummed that my 100th post was a Not Me Monday post and not some groundbreaking , earthshattering peice of bloggy goodness that would make the blog world bow at my red laquered toesies .

Then I realized that even a well planned, super thought out post probably isn't going to completely rock anyones world (::waves hi to 12 followers::). Besides I miss blogging- I've waited over a week in hopes of coming to some grand Carrie Bradshaw-esque life conclusions and sorry guys, no dice. So here I am - numero 100 ( and maybe 1 who the heck knows anymore).

This past week (and a day) has been just lovely. I spent most of it dealing with a serious burn on the upper right hand quadrant of my right boob caused, strangely enough by the sun - a burn, just one (the rest of me was not burned at all) the size of a quarter. Rightie and I are now healing quite nicely and I have to admit that it still didn't keep me out of the sun this weekend. Nope, I dropped $30 or more on antibiotic ointment, spf 30, and clear waterproof bandages and hit the pool. I may be addicted. But hey, it is paying off Check out those tan lines ( in the battle between tan lines and no tan lines- I choose tan lines- what can I say; I think they're sexy):



(Megan, Me, and Emily at Rock Bottom Brewery Saturday Night - Don't Mind My Super Humidified Fuzzy Hair)

So yes- this past week I also spent two days lounging in the sun and spending time with friends and Benny Boo ( I'll post the rest of the pics when I'm not at work) .

I finally received my long awaited work bonus this week - and it was taxed to hell and back - I love how you get a bonus for all your hard work and then the gov takes almost half of it. Fantastic.

Although I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth- I love me some money and it has provided me (so far) with 5 new dresses, 1 pair new shoes, 1 new purse, Wedding DJ retainer, and new phone- its also about to provide me with shimmery, root-free blonde hair, a reception dress, and perhaps a shiny trinket to wear around my neck from a little place by the name of Tiffany. So in all- I guess I can't complain too terribly much.

This current work week my assistant is on vacation so I am here by my lonely and determined not to become overwhelmed (you can tell by my ability to blog first thing in the morning that I'm completely swamped amirite?).

A teeny smidgen of (petty) drama ensued at the work place yesterday.
In short - I work in a hen house and I'm sick of catty bitches .

In my world a panty line is a mistake not a fashion statement so yesterday when apparantly mine was clearly visible I would have appreciated someone telling ME not MY BOSS who of course recognized that I'm not a skank who would deliberately show my thong at work and simply brought it to my attention- at which time I immediately fled down the road to Vicky C's and bought a seamless, nude, thong - I was humiliated and hurt that no one just came to me and said,

"Hey Amber are you aware we can see your panties".

Le sigh.

That's the problem with my position I'm the youngest department head which unfortunately seperates me from the front line team (assistant excepted) even though I'm closer in age to most of them thatn the other department heads. It mayhaps creates a little bit of jealousy and resentment- (ie: you are my age- why should I listen to you) which I hate- I have a problem called: I want everyone to like me, I should look into getting over that.

I'm off on Friday this week and am Manager on Duty this weekend ( bleh) however I am considering taking a small vacation in the middle of July so hopefully that will get me through until then.

Well I better actually start my day and act like a real, adult, professional (riiiight) I am still going to have a give-a-way- but it may still be a little ways off.

Have a good day everyone!

Miss Amber Lane

Today I'm Feeling: Hopeful, Tired, Content

Not Me Monday

It's that time again, the time where we can write about all the things we "didn't" do this week and certainly "don't feel guilty for. After you get an eye-full of mine, don't forget to swing over to McMamma's to read what the rest of the blog world has to say!

This week I did not completely blow off Not Me Monday just because it was Memorial Day and I didn't feel like posting anything exceptionally clever.

I also did not spend all of last week counting down the hours/minutes/seconds until the weekend and I am almost completely positive that I won't be doing that again this week either.

I know that it wasn't me who upon hearing about her fabulous bonus has been dreaming up of all kinds of fantastic self indulgent ways to spend the extra cash instead of putting it towards her wedding. I would never do such a thing.

It most definitely wasn't me floating around my sister's pool all day on Saturday with no sunscreen- or me who peeled an old sunburnned spot raw- AND THEN proceeded to float around another pool all day Sunday without sunscreen again- thus reburning said spot. Nope wasn't me as I am always so careful about how I treat my skin and could so be the poster child for risk free from skin cancer.

It wasn't me who sacrficed a clean home in leiu of lounging at these pools all weekend. Its not my home that is habitat to piles of unwashed laundry, unmopped floors, and an overall unkempt appearance.

It's not me who is super excited for the launch of The Sims 3 tomorrow ,or me who will be playing all night tomorrow night, and even requiring dinner be ordered in so that I don't even have to cook. That would not be me!

None of these things even sound a little bit like me ... do they?

My next post will be my 100th... I want to make sure that it will be memorable so forgive me if I take a brief hiatus to get all of my ducks in a row. I'll be back in a day or two to regale you all with a magnificent post and I've decided, a give away to boot!

For Now...

Love & Kisses

Miss Amber Lane

So Far This Weekend Has Been...

So good!

Friday I got home from work at 6pm on the dot and Boo was waiting for me eagerly because I agreed  earlier that we could go to Verizon to switch our plan from Sprint and get new phones. 

Boo's contract is up this month and we agreed that eventually one of us would have to buy out of our Sprint if we ever wanted to get on a family plan with another company so yay... that gets to be me! But really there is no love lost - my new phone is, in a word- Sweet.

It took me about 15 minutes in the store to decide between the Curve and the Storm but I chose and I'm so glad I did : I went with the Storm and it is FABULOUS!

Mine of course has the pink hard case around it a: because I like pink and b: because Boo got the same phone and we need to be able to tell them apart of course! 

Afterwards we frollicked over to TGI Fridays and got yummy green bean fries (and dinner) then went home and played with our new toys- and they are toys- fabulously, functional, high tech toys. 

Saturday: I rose early and bathingsuitified and headed over to my sisters where I lounged on a raft and floated about in her wonerful pool. I even had lunch while dangling from the edge. It was great. Around 5:30 we all went to my other sister's house for dinner and family game night. 

I stomped them all in Dominos by over 100 points and then pretty much cleaned everyones clock in Shout About Movies too - what can I say when it comes to family game nights- I bring it. 

Today the plan so far is to head out with Jen to her brother's pool (I'm a summer pool hopper what can I say) and lounge there for a few hours- I'm just waiting on her to call. In the meantime I may run out and clean my car out- there is still much debris from our trip to Cumberland last weekend. 

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend! 

See You Soon!

P.S. I'm coming up on my 100th post and I know the "tradition" is to have a give-away:  I'm looking into it- I'm just a bit disenchanted with them right now- I won a giveaway several months ago and the owner of the blog failed to deliver- although to her credit she recently sent an email claiming she hadn't forgotten she just was busy. I don't want to do that to ya'll so I want to  be super sure I can follow through and that there are AT LEAST a handful of people who would enter to actually make it a contest and not just me sending a gift to Shawdee my only irl friend who reads. Anyway I digress, stay tuned is all I'm trying to say! 

Just a Thought....

"It's not that I'm not happy with the way my life is turning out, the direction that its moving- I'm ecstatic- it's just that sometimes I have to take the time to be sad and mourn for the things that I am not - the path that came to a dead end when the journey was so difficult and the loves in my life that I've lost"

All The Fishes In The Sea, They Could Not Be Happier Than Me

Know Why?

You're gonna laugh. 

Or cringe.

I just heard on the radio today that Creed is getting back together

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judge me if you want to but Scott Stapp makes me swoon.  

You either love them or hate them ....

Miss Amber Lane + Creed = swoon

Otherwise the rest of today was nice. I was at my middle of the week perkiest for absolutely no reason - everyone remarked on how peppy I was today. Perhaps it was because I wore tennis shoes and wearing tennis shoes always revives my inner cheerleader. (Note: I NEVER wear tennis shoes unless a busy day of walking occurs so today was an anomile) 

Boo and I watched the season premiere of Wipeout (summer addiction- so funny) and also the series premiere of The Goode Family which I admit was entertaining and struck a note with us but we aren't sure its going to last- as we are sure that prime time network TV is ready for a politically left, animated, sattire. 

Tomorrow is another day and one more closer to another weekend. Hopefully this weekend will be nice and I can spend it lounging pool side and sipping iced teas. But if this week has been any sort of preview of the week to come- its safe to say- its gonna rain. 

Anyhow- bedtime is getting closer and closer and I'm going to need to hop in the shower.

So night, night blog land and big kisses!

Miss Amber Lane

Tonight I'm Feeling: Peppy, sleepy, relaxed

Jon and Kate Make Me Sad

So as I mentioned; last night I watched the season premiere of Jon and Kate Plus 8.

It was horrible.

I tuned in hoping that all of the media stories were just hype to generate more interest in the show and that Jon and Kate would once again be side by side on their couch bickering over the everyday happenings of their not so normal lives.

No luck. Bennyboo and I sat side by side on our couch - in the same places we were sitting this time last year when we first began to catch up on- and fall in love with the TLC hit - while essentially both Jon and Kate admitted that their marriage had crumbled and that they were in fact, in a very bad place.

It was so sad to watch... and so awkward. Of course I don't know the whole story (only Jon and Kate do ) but I couldn't help but get kind of mad. I was thinking: look what you two are doing- you're throwing it all away- for what? Money? Fame? If I were Kate I would have gotten up off that couch at the end and said, "Thanks for the ride America but my marriage and my family are so much more important to me than this." and then the screen would have cut to black- the end. But no, the show continued - making it painfully obvious that this season is going on seperated or not, happy or not, with Jon or without.

And those poor kids. Can you imagine...if this is really the end- their parents divorce will be documented and shown to all of America- and the little ones do realize what's happening on some level- one of them even told Jon that she didn't want him to go away anymore on camera- how sad is that?

I have to admit- it also scares me. It scares me becuase I have compared myself to Kate Gosselin- organized, particular, anal ... how easy would it be for me to nit pick Boo into misery- will I be a mother so worried and up tight that I drive everyone nuts?

I am beginning to realize as my engagement progresses towards marriage- that relationships are fragile and any tip in the scale could throw your harmony off balance. The divorce rate is so high- I look at my sisters who have been married for many, many years already and think that they are lucky and surely will never get divorced and will I be so lucky? How can I ensure that I never lose sight of who I am, who we are as a couple, and that we always remeber the way that we feel right now- so happy, so in love- can we ever be sure that we won't crumble when there are sure to be so many road blocks on our path?

Its scary- not because I'm scared that Ben isn't the right man for me - I know that he is- have known from the start- I'm scared of all the things that may hurt someday- money problems, infidelity, problems with children, death of our loved ones and one another- its all terrifying. How do we avoid the heartache and just stay crazy in love?

How do you not end up like Jon and Kate ( I mean barring of course the public lives, 8 children, and millions of dollars they are now sure to have) and truly live happily ever after?

I don't know- but I'm sure going to work for the rest of my life to find out.

Its Too Darn Hot

Have I ever mentioned that we don't have central air?

Damn these old townhouses.

Right now we only have one window unit in our bedroom and if we don't shut our bedroom door the bedroom doesn't cool enough for us to sleep well.

We at least have ceiling fans in every room but when its hot and muggy like it has been all day today- there's nothing we can do but sprawl out and dress scantily.

It may be time to move.

Or at the very least buy another window unit or two.

Anyhow I'm off to watch the start of the new season of Jon and Kate + 8 before bed .... scandal be damned... I love them!

Nighty, night!

Amber Lane