Even More Surprises.

After Blake's surprise for my birthday, I knew I had to get him back. So did his father! He emailed me after he saw the video and proposed to buy me a ticket to to 'get Blake back'. How could I resist?

The Oregon vs. Arizona football game was coming up and all of the Blake's brothers would be together along with his mother, it was the perfect setup. Ryan and I flew out late Thursday night, and let me tell you, Ryan and I have been racking up the air miles together. He is a way better travel buddy then Nelson. Nelson won't let anything touch him and he always makes me sit in the middle. Even when it is a 12am flight out of Alaska and the other person next to me may or may not be pregnant and is the size of Humpty Dumpty.

So Blake had to work on Friday morning and I was nervous the whole week leading up to the surprise. I was afraid that we weren't gong to be able to get his reaction on tape, which was one of the most important aspects of the trip. I was even having nightmares that the surprise would fail or he would say things like "why are you even here..?" It was terrible.

After trying to come up with the best way to surprise him, we were hustling trying to beat him home. He lives in a new place now so I had to quickly run into his house with his mother who pseudo introduces me to his new roommates while I run to hideout in his room. Ryan, the cameraman, was with me and right before Blake busted down the door Ryan was fooling around, so he almost missed the big moment!

But it worked perfectly:

Of course, he had a way better reaction than my stupid one, but in all fairness he did scare me.


It was a great weekend. We got to spend a lot of time with his family
and went to the game.







His dad's younger brother and his family live near Portland so we spent most of the weekend with them. His grandparents are also OSU alum and they were there for the game.

We got to see his youngest brother rush Blake's fraternity. That was quite the event. They call it 'Jump' and the new pledges run out from the Union and literrally jump into the arms of their new fraternity.
Its a nice tradition. Also this Blue guy was running around all night. And you could see his tobacco can through his jumpsuit. He was just keeping things classy all around.

I don't know if I will be going up to Oregon again while Blake is in  school so it was kind of a bittersweet weekend. The town is beautiful (minus the constant drizzle) and the campus is amazing.

It was a perfect weekend and I have Blake's father to thank.

Boom. Posted.

Playing Grown Up.

I feel like a grown up these days...

I am finally at a point in my life where I can sleep with the closet door completely open and not stare at it for hours waiting for eyes to appear. I consider that quite an accomplishment considering how terrified I am of just life in general.

I have been establishing a professional wardrobe. I only very rarely leave my house looking like a slob. Just rarely.

I am not completely grown up though because if I can iron out a few wrinkles with my hair straightener than I still do. I feel as though I will never become a full adult until I can iron solely with an... iron.

I also have a credit card now. My first one. With.... a $500 a month spending limit, woo! I'm trying to build up some credit, you know, for the future, when I no longer live with my awesome roommate and have to pay bills... in five years.

I am becoming more and more involved at work (not completely, hence the time to write this post). I am close to obtaining a license to... sell, so that is pretty grown up, eh? And I am wearing professional clothes on a daily basis, boom... fashionista.

I recently discovered (well was informed by a friend who washed my car down at the clubhouse) that I had a nail in my front tire. Instead of freaking out completely, I figured out where to take it only to find that Discount Tires will patch and plug your tire... fo free! Also do a courtesy rotation, even if you didn't buy your tires from them. Life savers. While they were fixing everything up, I walked to a pizza place next door I had been wanting to try and ate lunch... by myself! I never like to do things by myself. And the pizza was delicious.

I have friends who are getting engaged and married and planing pregnancies.

I am starting to learn my way a little better around the city. Not completely though because I almost ended up in Mexcio when I was trying to go to my nail lady (whom I have been too over a dozen times). And I still have to turn the radio off the minute I realize I am lost. Concentration time. I need a GPS.

I am at job that is prominent in the community and am trusted to go to charity events with the university. Although, I did challenge one of the basketball players to a pull-up contest. I got to 6.... he got to like 36.

But I still can't eat vegetables.

Boom. Posted.