Girl Dates

**Please note: This post was written on Monday, March 15th, but was never published due to the crashing of my laptop. Cute.

I love girl dates, and lucky me gets to have many this week. Let me make you a little jealous...

First of all, my friend, Leah, and I are gym buddies. To the gym together, we go.

It. Is. Awesome.

Biking...is bomb.

On Tuesday, I get to go to Olive Garden with Hannah, Mia, Rachel, and Brenna...girls I have been friends with since elementary, junior high, or high school.

I love me some soup, salad, and breadsticks from el Gardino de Olivino.

Oh yeah, and some catching up with mis amigas.

On Thursday....I will treat my toesies to a pedicure at my dear Darling Nails with my dear friend Jannae. I love pedicures....Like really. They're one of my top three favorite things.

Dear Darling, I love you.

Also on Thursday, I will be going to Sprinkles with Leah and Katy.

It will be DELICIOUS.

Red Velvet, watch out, because I'm coming for YOU.

P.S. If you ever are fortunate enough to go to Sprinkles, do not eat the cute little thing in the middle of the cupcake. Sick to the nast.

Girl Dates...are wonderful. If you want to go on one, let me know. Because I will go with you.

The end.

One Week and Counting

In a week from today, I will be at the airport seeing Michael Rudd off.

I think that will be a sad day. But a happy one as well.

I am so grateful for him and the example he is to me.

He is seriously the greatest guy ever...Everyone thinks so.

I am one lucky girl.

And the people in the South Dakota Rapid City are some lucky folk.

And now I'm going to stop before the tears start.

The end.

P.S. Michael Rudd's farewell is this Sunday at 8:30am at the building on Harris north of Brown. Yeah, I know it's way too early to be at church, but he's worth it :)

P.S.S. I have gotten comments, texts, and VOICEMAILS about how I could only think of 19 reasons why I love Michael Rudd. FYI I stopped at 19 was because it was his 19th birthday. As Spencer would say, that's uh-lair-ee-us.

Ode to Michael Rudd

The following is a list of 19 reasons why I love Michael Rudd for his 19th birthday.

1. He always always opens my door.
2. He follows me home to make sure I get there safely.
3. He doesn't take the gospel lightly.
4. He doesn't stoop to lower levels to get revenge, etc.
5. He sees the positive in EVERYTHING.
6. He has the desire to serve a mission.
7. He is always encouraging.
8. He is always the first to offer to help out.
9. He has a strong testimony.
10.He is more patient than anyone I know.
11. He has high standards.
12. He is always up for any crazy ideas I come up with.
13. He is my personal chauffer.
14. He has a great sense of humor.
15. He works hard at whatever he does.
16. He updates my iPod with the newest music & lets me use his when he breaks mine.
17. He pushes me to be a better person through his example and high expectations of me.
18. He makes delicious delicious food.
19. He treats me like a queen no matter what.

This post was supposed to go up yesterday...oops!! But anyway. Happy birthday, Michael Rudd. Thank you for all that you do for me. You are the GREATEST.

Green Thumb {Not}

This...is what happens when my mom tries to plant a garden.

She mutates the strawberries.

The end.

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Movie Junkie

Anyone who knows me knows I rarely go to the movies.

They know this because I never know what movies certain quotes come from and what not.

Well.

In the past two weeks, I have seen three movies!!

In a movie theater!!

I think that's some kind of record.

Anywho.

Last night, Michael Rudd and I went and saw When In Rome.

I have been dying to see this since I saw the previews for it when we went and saw Sherlock Holmes {this is my shout out to Whitney and Kirk}.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0J6GC4Pbo

It was HUH-LAIR-E-US.

And super cute.

LOVED it.

Ugh so good.

It met all my expectations and I would go see it again if anyone asked me to.

Or by myself.

Please please go see it.

To Linton-Milano Music {aka Milano's}

I love my job.

I love the girls I work with.

I love the extremely difficult customers.

I love repricing music.

I love the layers of dust on the filing cabinets.

I love getting the Sweetcakes craving every day.

I love taking lessons payments.

I love calling "not it" when our "favorite" customers come in.

I love mailing music.

I love the jam-packed & intimidating composers section.

I love how we can go from angrily ranting about whatever to answering the phone angelicly in a split second.

I love unpacking music.

I love getting new EZ Play issues & having to move everything.

I love the Saturdays that drag on and on and on. And on.

I love the one kid who is an amazing pianist that doesn't have a piano at home, so he comes & plays in one of our studios for hours.

I love finding projects in the office so I can hear amazing pianist boy play.

I love that I get to see all the new music that comes out.

I love watching/spying on people downstairs.

I love closing.

I love singing obnoxiously when you think that only employees are in the store, only to turn around & see that you have an audience of 1 or 2 customers.

I love finding books in my section that are 10 years older than I am.

I love retrieving the water bottles that get stuck in the dang vending machine.

I love leaving work & seeing people getting pictures taken by our music wall outside.

I love the extravagant decor in the hallway.

I love the students & parents that I've become friends with.

I love the little green golf cart men that have given me a dozen parking citations.

I love the way all of us LMM girls talk the same & use the same phrases & such.

I love the understock drawers that refuse to stay closed.

I love the aspiring musicians who grace everyone with their marvelous talents by obnoxiously blowing horns & saxophones & blaring amps. Bless their hearts.

I love the aspiring musicians who grace everyone with the marvelous talents & who actually know what they're doing.

I love the customers that sing while they look at songbooks.

I love knowing exactly what music people are looking for when they don't even know themselves.

I love the inside jokes that we LMM girls have.

I love the army of gnats or fruit flies or whatever the heck they are that have chosen to abode in our lovely working place.

I love running things across the street to the piano store.

I love the teachers & all their coolness.

Yes, I love my job.