What I'd like to call a "creative day"

What could be better than a Monday off?

I get Mondays off frequently. (I know, be jealous).

What a great start to the week (thus far).

I hope I will not be found biting my tongue later, but that's usually the case.

I stayed an extra night at Eric's last night. Normally he drops me back home Sunday nights.

But I didn't have work today and he didn't need to be in at 9 so it worked nicely.

We were ready to go to bed at 1 a.m. but fortunately/unfortunately we talked until 3:30am.

We both were not tired and we always find ourself getting into conversations that lasts for hours.

(those are the best nights). I wouldn't have it any other way.

But things weren't so awesome when his alarm clock went off at 7:15 a.m. We were both pretty tired, but I made sure he got a good breakfast in him before a long day & he dropped me back home. I decided to skate...

This was a rather interesting idea. Skating on 3 1/2 hours of sleep?

I only have to devote every fiber of my being while I'm on the ice.

However it was a great time. The usual crowd was there and we were being jokey & enjoying the ice being free from college kids back home and toddlers that never seem to have school.

Talk about slaphappy! It put me (& everyone else) in a great mood so that three hours of sleep turned out to be all I needed for today. Thank goodness I was in a good mood because there are two sides to the "no sleep" coin.

So back to re-capping...

Work was pretty crazy last week, well, more crazy than usual. We got out pretty late each night.

I will look forward to that paycheck. However, I hope this week is not as hectic.

This weekend was a good one. Eric and I went to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. I wanted to go there because I had never been. I enjoyed it. I love pizza and I always find myself acting like a 6 year old because I order it at so many restaurants. So it's nice to go somewhere where pizza is a specialty. There are so many vegetarian options, so that's always nice. We had a nice weekend. We ran small errands here and there, but pretty much laid low.

I'm proud of myself because I made a nice little meal on Saturday :)

I can't wait till we get settled in together because I will get in the habit of cooking and trying new recipes all the time.

Plus we will have all the utensils/cooking items I need and we will be good to go..

So much to look forward to!

I guess we can let music creep into this post...

after all, the Grammy's were yesterday and everyone is all into the music hype.

There are a few bands/artists that I am really into right now;

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's

Animal Collective

Sleepy Rebels

Bloc Party

Adele

Spoon (obviously)

I burn people CD's like crazy. & I feel like I put these artists on the most.

I love the challenge of trying to fit 1.2 hours of music onto a disc and give it to someone and have them really love and enjoy it (the order of songs is crucial, it has to flow just right)

Especially when you don't exactly know what they listen to.

As Cady said "Each CD should be a journey." That's what I try to accomplish.

I love introducing people to new artists and different genres of music.

Music is one of the best things that you can share.

I really like Margot & The Nuclear So & So's because I don't normally listen to acoustic-y kind of music, yet it really captivates me coming from them. I also like how certain songs on the album remind me of Radiohead's Pablo Honey/The Bends days. It's always a perk.

I also REALLY dig Bloc Party, but I'm still in Love with their first album, Silent Alarm, so I give people the old tunes. I'm lucky I came across Sleepy Rebels.

Eric & I shazam'ed one of their songs on our iPhones during a U.S. Cellular commercial and that's how I found out about them. I fell in love with the song "Kaleidoscope" which is the song that plays during that commercial. So yeah, I sputtered a bit about music there, and no, you cannot find any of this music nominated for a Grammy. The closest thing might be MGMT or The Ting Tings. I actually only caught about 50 minutes of the Grammy's from the start. Whatever. I'm kind of glad Taylor Swift won. I have never heard any of her songs, but she seems alright and good for her. Beyonce had a really good performance, same with Pink & The Black Eyed Peas. The Grammy's ended up taking a backseat to Xbox with my dearest and I was fine with that.

I look forward to a good week of work. Valentines day will be hell (busiest day of the year).

Indianapolis this weekend for a super bowl party! I'm really excited for the next few weeks! Good stuff for sure, busy, but that's never a bad thing!

I am exhausted. It's so early (9:39pm), but I'm thinking that my bed time is near.

Goodnight!

-Tessa

caught red handed! (with yummy deliciousness!)

Wow. Already 21 days into January. Hopefully it will conclude nicely. I'm sure it will.

Let me tell you one thing right now. I have to get this out.

I hate the Kardashian family. I REALLY do. However, I am always tuned in to their damn show. I love their stupid drama. However I love Khloe. Once I tune in, I have to finish it.

I am VERY ashamed of this, but whatever, we all have our guilty pleasures.

I'd rather have mine be a show than be something like..mass amounts of apple pie.

So Sunday I was definitely tuned in for the Golden Globes. I LOVE award shows.

Back in High School, my friend Dan and I would dress up & go to Jewel before our GGparty.

We would announce to everyone we encountered that we were headed to the Golden Globes.

It was a hoot. We would all have sheets marked with who we thought would win and would watch the pre-shows on E! Those were the days. Eric even watched it with me this year :)

Thank goodness for TiVo (24 was on) I knew what he was sacrificing.
However we both enjoy a little Ricky Gervais and knew a lot of the nominated roles.

I guess watching award shows is another guilty pleasure.

But I enjoy the Academy Awards a lot more. It goes into each movie more in detail.

However the Globes this year were pretty good and I agree with the winners for the most part.

Of course plenty of shots taken at NBC by all--(always hilarious)

Speaking of NBC the 2010 Winter Olympics are coming up soon! I cannot wait! Sunday was the day when the three Olympic contenders where chosen; Jeremy Abbott, Evan Lysacek, & Johnny Weir are those three. I am so excited. I used to train with Evan back in my skating hey day. We had the same coach for a period of time as well. I am excited he made it but I am especially excited for Johnny Weir. I recently watched a hilarious documentary on him.

Be Good Johnny Weir is the name. It has a great look into the sport of figure skating and the pressures of being competitive on a world scale. Anywho...

The Olympics inspire me like crazy. Competition season (October-March) normally does.

I think it is absolutely remarkable to see so many talented athletes in one arena.

Winter is the best because figure skating gets out there on a large scale--which is exciting.

I just cannot wait to see which American ladies are going!

I'm for Ashley Wagner & Mirai Nagasu. They both have so much potential. Moving on...

This last stretch of the week is a busy one. Work the rest of the week until Sunday. It will be good though. I need the money (Saturdays always rake in more $$--long hours).

My thoughts are always in the midst of changing my entire look. But I adore my long hair, I like it's colour (it's natural color), and I like how easy my hair is to manage. It would look ridiculous short (shoulder length-ish). I've been there. I hated it.

I always say "anyone can have short hair." You really don't hear many people with long hair saying "Oh I wish I had short hair." But you always hear a girl with short hair say;

"I'm growing it out." or "I regret cutting it."

I don't know. I just feel like my look is getting boring.

I used to change it up constantly in high school. I want to get a wig actually.

A wig with black just above the shoulder hair with straight across bangs. That'd be perfect.

So tonight Flaming Hot Cheetos have the best of me. I love this unhealthy snack indulgence. I love it because it brings me back to my youth a.k.a. high school a.k.a. 4 years ago.

But I ate this almost every day freshman year.

You could see me skipping or running down the halls ALWAYS with a bag of flamin' hots

(with red fingers to match) and bottled water. I haven't really had them since freshman year which was 2002.

So flash forward to tonight at work;

(a girl I work with right now is pregnant).

In general without the pregnancy we talk a lot about food. I'm always spurting out my cravings (I have insane cravings and have had them my whole life). So today we were talking about snack foods and I mentioned Flaming Hot Cheetos.

Like always most of the time if a food is mentioned at all in the shoppe, I end up eating it later.

Chipotle, Noodles, Panera, Subway, Pizza...etc etc. I mean how can you resist??

Plus I always try to get something healthy (with tons of veggies!)

But tonight this was not the case AT ALL. I declared I was stopping on the way home to get my beloved long lost snack item. I was worried about eating the whole bag.

Eating the whole bag I have not.

Yet.

See I was worried about this. I shared how I always worry about bags/boxes of chips or snacks. I don't want to eat the whole thing! But I worry I might so I never get snacky foods like that usually. So this girl I work with tells me to just get a small bag.

No one is ever satisfied with that one bag of like 12 cheetos.

So I get the medium bag. I have consumed about half and I'm sure I'll go get more as soon as I finish this entry. The night is young. I have good spirits.

P.S. I will feel like shit later from this, I'm sure. I'll try and stay optimistic.

How cool is it that during Local On The 8's "Eminence Front" is playing?!

Now I will show you a completely random picture that has nothing to do with anything in this post!

(but I will tell you about it.)

This is the Mosta Dome located in Malta. That woman in the picture is JoAnn.

She was in my group when I traveled there. Anywho Malta was a big player in WWII.

So one Sunday during a service the church was struck by a bomb.

It came through the top of the church and fell on the floor.

It didn't go off. A faulty bomb. It was their Miracle.

This church is also the third biggest domed church in Europe.

:)

listening to: Kaleidoscope by Sleepy Rebels.