Nailed it.

I finally sucked it up and got the gel manicure when I was in Colorado, and holy hell if that stuff isn't amazing. It has been almost two weeks and not even a chip! Kind of wondering if this stuff ever comes off, or if I just have to wait for my nails to grow and it grows off. Eeks. Good thing I like the color... #firstworldproblems

California here we come

Have a weeklong trip to California coming up for work. Headed to San Francisco, LA and San Diego and I'm really hitting the high points while I'm there:

• Day trip to wine country (Napa and Sonoma)
• Dinner at Sur (shout-out, Vanderpump Rules!)
• Sunset train down the coast from LA to San Diego
• Possible visit to the San Diego Zoo

No surfing this trip, which saddens me, but I'll do my best to make up for it.

I don't want to live in a world where Duke is the national champion.

I can't watch Sportscenter. I can't listen to Mike and Mike while walking the dog. I can't read the news online. I have to scroll past the status updates of friends who went to Duke/are Duke fans. It's hard when evil wins over good, but I will wear my Puke shirt with pride and hope UNC rocks it in 2016.

And clearly I'm not the only one:

WWJD?

I hope the following post doesn't offend any church-going Christians, but...my mom and I did NOT go to church on Easter Sunday. We actually thought about it, but in the end decided that watching six hours of The Bible mini-series on TV counted for something. We also happened upon a strangely abandoned Easter egg hunt in a garden near my apartment, which we felt was some sort of message from above. (And yes, we put the eggs back. Message received.)

Happy Easter everybunny!

Holy deja vu

Put an offer on another house on Wednesday; contract signed last night. I know I've done this before (and very recently, in fact), so I can't get too excited, but I CAN'T HELP IT. It is so cute and the closet is so big and the kitchen is so Carolina blue omg omg omg annnnnd breathe.

Closing date is April 24 so fingers and toes crossed everything goes okay...


#eeks

Now THIS is good direct mail marketing.

Seeing this in the mail still doesn't make me want to open it, but I did get a good chuckle. So it's a mini-win...

#humpday

It's like a veritable who's who of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Lots of people like to name their kids after someone in their family. Honor a grandparent, a mother's maiden name, what have you. My family line includes the following not-so-typical names:

Socrates
Ulysses
Agamemnon

Dead serious. There was a Socrates Stockton. (And not too far back on the family tree, either - I'm not talking about ancient Greece.)

I think I will have to pass on passing these on, should I have kids. Although we did have a giggle at naming a baby girl "Ulyssa."