Sea of Gold, here I come!

Picture this: Clear skies, the mildly perfect Laramie sun beating down on you, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" melodically playing in the background, the smell of the concessions, the lovely view from the 30 yard line (better than the 50...seriously), and the most beautiful sea of Wyoming gold everywhere you look! Ahh..sounds pefect huh? The Wyoming Cowboys kickoff the 2008 football season this Saturday at War Memorial Stadium and I'm gonna be there with every ounce of brown and gold blood pumping through my veins! I can't promise the winningest season, but by golly.....it will be fabulous!!

The Lone Witness

I had one of the greatest days ever today! No Witness Wednesday! It was slightly impossible to have any sort of staff lunch meeting today......AS I WAS THE ONLY STAFF MEMBER!!! We are in a transitional phase right now. Our bookkeeper quit at the end of July, as I mentioned before....and who had to take over the books? ME! So, I became the bookkeeper along with the main legal assistant. It's too much! Well, the interviewing process began...and right smack in the middle of it all......we lost another full time staff member..HOLY crap! How much can one girl endure? She actually decided to go to school full time and the firm is allowing her to work part time as long as the work is there. BUT yes, that left me, handling the books, billing, and taking care of 7 attorneys all by myself!! I seriously feel a little crazy lately! I've got great news though....ready? We've hired a bookkeeper and he (yes I said he) starts on the 2nd! He seems really nice and his resume is extremely impressive. I'm sooo relieved! I thought I wiped my plate clean of bookkeeping when I transitioned over to full time legal assistant almost 3 years ago! More great news...we hired another legal assistant, she starts on the 8th! My life is going to be blissfully stress free at work very very soon! I suppose after all this is said and done...more Witness Wednesdays are bound to happen. I've gotta enjoy the small breaks when I can! :)

Ok...here's my 2nd "Witness Wednesday"

Something I’ve witnessed in the past: Janine and I installing XM radio in her car (ok..I helped her do it JUST tonight......still the past!)

Something I’ve witnessed today: My beloved 9th Street overrun by the dang students!! I sat through 2 red lights at Harney and 9th this morning! Ugh! I love Laramie traffic in the summer!

Something I want to witness in the future: me in bed before Midnight! It's bound to happen one of these days!

*great and now technically...it's Thursday!*

The Broncos Don't Stink

The other day, I was flipping through the channels with Tyler. Being the huge football fan that he is, we HAD to stop on some program showcasing the Dallas Cowboys spring training and a practice with the Denver Broncos. I continued folding laundry, stopping to catch a couple glances at Tyler, who sat intently watching random plays by his true devotion…the Broncos!!! After a few minutes, he said “Kristi, Matt that went to Kris’….” I looked up at him and he continued “he said that the Broncos stink!” I quickly had one of those moments where 18 things pass through your mind in a matter of 1 second! Oh the human brain! So there I am quickly racking my brain, “hmm..how do I tell him that people just have different opinions on different teams… and it’s good that we don’t all cheer for the same team because then some teams wouldn’t have anyone to cheer for them…hmm..oh forget it, I’m telling him to slap the next kid that says something so cruel and mean!” haha! Just kidding, I don’t promote violence! Tyler really didn’t give me a chance to respond, in a very matter of fact tone said “but they don’t…do they..? they ALWAYS have to shower!” Ohh little kids…they keep me young!

Prison Break Pause

For all those out there wondering if I lived through my dentist appointment.....I DID!!! Wahoo! And guess what? I'm going back on the 2nd! I know, I must be crazy!

So why the delay in posting something new, you ask? Well....I was on a Prison Break pause! The 3rd season came out on DVD this past month and a lot of my free time has been spent drooling over Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows. Actually, I love the show, I don't just watch it for the boys. If you haven't watched it.....JUST DO IT! Ok, that sounded somewhat like a Nike commercial or a line from Starsky and Hutch. "DO IT!" Funny movie, I recommend that one as well, if you haven't already seen it! Anyway, back to Prison Break, if you love shows like 24 or Dexter, you will LOVE Prison Break! Trust me! I don't just pass out bad recommendations, I got a rep to protect.

Season 4 premieres on Labor Day...so that means you all have 4 1/2 days to watch seasons 1-3. "Do it!"

Dentophobia happens!

In case you didn’t figure it out, Dentophobia means fear of dentists. I guess it’s better than some phobias. I’m pretty sure I don’t suffer from Dipsophobia – the fear of drinking, or Geliophobia – the fear of laughing. There are some interesting phobias out there, if you are curious, you can read them here; http://phobialist.com/
Back to my Dentophobia, I have a dentist appointment today at 3!! Eeek…if I post something tomorrow or anytime in the future, the answer is….I LIVED!!!

Witness Wednesday

Every Wednesday, much to my dread, we have a staff lunch meeting. Mostly it entails lunch of course and a discussion about sharks, movies, or some other random subject. We do find about 5 minutes to discuss something office related which somehow makes certain people in the meeting bring up even more random topics like; one staff member’s husband taking a spill in the shower…ick! Like I want to think about that! Anyway, long story short, we have this meeting every Wednesday and somehow a legal word was added in my joking back and forth with Janine and it became known as “Witness Wednesday”. Well, on my way to work today, I “witnessed” the typical annoying bike rider cut across all lanes of traffic with no hand signals…nothing! It makes me crazy! I thought “I’m gonna tell Janine, I came across another one of those stupid bike riders on my way to work”, but instead I came up with this great idea. I decided, every “Witness Wednesday”, I will post something I’ve witnessed in the past, something I witnessed today, and something I want to witness in the future.

So here it is…the first weekly “Witness Wednesday”

Something I’ve witnessed in the past: The joy of my first nephew!

Something I’ve witnessed today: The bike rider!

Something I want to witness in the future: Myself buying a house!

Goodbye weekend….see you in a few days!

Ohh how sad it is when the weekend has come…….and gone. I spent a better portion of this past weekend with Tyler. Oh big surprise there, huh? He greeted me with his cute little arms wrapping around me. Ohhhhh …does it get any better than this? Oh wait, it really does! Not only did I get random hugs, but he referred to me as “cute Kristi” the entire weekend. We went on a walk/bike ride, we washed my car, and we played this game of light side/dark side that he made up. We played a couple games and with my honest effort to win, he beat me! He rode his bike down the alley looking for his basketball and found every mud puddle, so we washed his bike. ( I know…the picture looks kinda funny…so of course I had to share!!) We went for a ride in my dad’s new truck and Tyler decided he'd make funny faces, unfortunately the “scared” look was the only one that didn’t turn out blurry. (dang camera phones) I read more of the Twilight series, I’m on the third book. We did have quite the rain storm Thursday night and it pretty much rained straight through till Saturday morning. I attached a picture from the Centennial Webcam...check out that lightning!! All in all….it was a great weekend and I miss it already! See ya soon weekend!

Keeping up with the Joneses…..or rather Tradition!

We made our annual Bear Lake trip this past weekend! Boy, do I love that lake! This year we planned our trip during “Raspberry Days”, fun times…except it was CRAZY town! I’ve never seen so many people in such a small town! Janine and I frantically spent an afternoon back in July trying to reserve a spot at a campground…any campground! I don’t know how many times I heard, “Sorry…we’re full!” “Sorry, no spots available” Ugh!! It was so frustrating, but finally Janine found us a spot at the “Traveland RV Park”, which was quite nice. We were pleasantly surprised…nice showers, flushing clean toilets, clean area, nicely located just off the main drag in Garden City. We loved it!! It put us close to Fish Haven, to the Lake, to Garden City, and to the South side. It was perfect! What a fabulous weekend! We played in the lake, we had bear lake pizza, we talked around the camp fire, we had smores, of course, we laughed, and we lived through the craziest rainstorm Saturday night! Seriously, scared the pants off me. Our tent was moving back and forth in the wind, the rain poured down non stop for what seemed like 5 hours! We woke up the next morning to find several tents draped over people’s cars with them sleeping soundly inside. Our tent was up on this hill and it was one of those two room tents….ya know..the more I think about it..our tent was the King!! We had fun…err..I had fun! I hope everyone else had fun...although..I think William didn’t fully appreciate my style of camping. Oh well…I tried to help everyone have fun, but I’m not a miracle worker! BUT…don’t you worry your little heads.…I did snap a lovely montage of “white girls and gang signs” pictures. OH, and I don't like slide shows...so...Enjoy!

This is how I feel....

I'm not much of a blogger lately... I apologize. Our bookkeeper quit and I'm now carrying her load along with my already busy load! Blah!!! I wanna cry!