On the way to work...

I've always been an early riser, since I was a kid.  Don't know why, but that's just who I am.  I also like to dawdle in the morning, I like to be able to do something exciting or useful before I actually have to be somewhere - I guess it psychs me up for work...or whatever. 

Anyhoo, here's some shots of my pre-work life, taken over a couple of days...

Here's me in my car...I actually think this is a good photo of me if I don't look at it for too long...

 Oh Starbucks!  How do I love thee...spinach feta egg white wrap and tall bold blend w/2% milk (if I ever put milk in anything it has to be as whole as possible...otherwise why bother?)

My digital photo frame, a gift from my hermano last x-mas, I put loads of pictures of pretty flowers, castles, and tea parties on it - because that's what I like to look at...no shame!

 My caffeine mug from ThinkGeek.com, I love it so much, and also the Tazo Zen tea inside of it...

 I am almost always wearing my kickass noise-cancelling headphones while working...I have a very chatty coworker and if I didn't have these I'd go crazy...(if you look behind my head in this pic you can see a leftover balloon from my cube-mate's luncheon)

 Took these this morning, the pictures do not do today's sunrise justice.  I was in my car, and the guy in front of me must have thought I was insane while taking these...

Brekky!

Well that's pretty much what I do before work: drive around looking at the sunrise, caffeinating, and acquiring delicious foodstuffs...

shall post again soon!  now back to the netflix...  ~cas

A Bridal Shower...

Yesterday our company held a bridal luncheon for my cube-mate, Lindsey.  She's getting married next month to a wonderful guy, and I'm very happy for her.

Here are some of the decorations, her wedding color was purple...

 Here she is writing the answers to one of the games "How well do you know the Bride?"...a lot of people thought her favorite color was purple, even me!...it's pink

 But I won anyway!  These kitchen towels, oddly enough, go perfectly with my paint scheme in my kitchen (will post pics of the kitchen in a later post)...

 The cake was actually quite good, which is a rarity for me...

 Here's Lindsey afterwards, with her giant rock of a ring*, reading the heartfelt wishes of those she works with...

 

I wouldn't be a good cube-mate if I didn't actually know that she's a massive Phillies fan.  Here's my wedding gift to her...

Here's her engagement story:

They were watching a Phillies game when Vinny (the groom) asked her to come downstairs to pick a bottle of wine to drink during the game.  She was annoyed at first because the game was really exciting, but she went anyway.  As they started down the stairs to the wine cellar she saw that there were candles lining the way to the room, and that's where he went down on one knee and proposed.  They missed the rest of the game, the Phillies lost that night, but Lindsey and Vinny won the next step in their lives together.

*full disclosure: I made her pose her hand that way so you could see the ring.  She's really quite modest.

full night's sleep

Since I was a kid I've had terrible insomnia - it's difficult for me to stay asleep, which means sometimes I'm up at an absurd hour of the morning.

I'm starting a new rule for myself though - no matter what, I have to stay in bed until my alarm goes off.  This will allow me to go back to sleep if I can.

What do you do to get a good night's rest?