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I’m copying my twitter buddy Sara, that I’m meeting in like 8 hours!, and making an 8 themed post. Here’s a peek into my favs:

8 TV Shows I Like To Watch:
1- Survivor
2- LOST
3- The Pacific
4- Real World/Road Rules Challenges
5- The Amazing Race
6- Private Practice
7- Oprah
8- 24

8 Favorite Places to Eat/Drink:
1- Lynnwood Grill
2- Chickfila
3- Bonefish
4- 518 W
5- The Isles
6- Brixx
7- Carolina Ale House
8- Mura

8 Things I’m Looking Forward to:
1- Meeting lots of online friends today!
2- Meeting & having The Pioneer Woman sign her cookbook
3- See & hanging out with “Annie” tonight!
4- Being able to spend a little time with my grandparents while in CLT
5- Lots of weekends at OIB this summer.
6- Us continuing our journey of TTC (& make a post about all that soon)
7- Seeing a coworkers brand new baby
8- Having a weekend home with Jason next weekend

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:
1- Had a busy day at work
2- Ate PB&J for lunch & it was yummy!
3- Enjoyed our book club discussion & seeing baby Margo
4- Return switch that we bought for updated bathroom but it didn’t fit
5- Watched Survivor & The Pacific
6- Ate leftovers for dinner
7- Did laundry & packed for trip
8- Forgot to feed my cat dinner (oops!!)

8 Things I like About Winter:
1- Christmas & being with family
2- Spending time with family over the holidays
3- My birthday
4- Decorating for holidays
5- Snow (especially if it means a lil time off work)
6- Apple Cider
7- Holiday food that you don’t get any other time all year like pumpkin pie, sweet potato casserole, Christmas cookies
8- Annual day after Christmas shopping with Mom & Nana

8 Things I’m Passionate About:
1- Husband
2- Family
3- Recycling
4- Trying to be more green in general
5- Being Christian
6- Pets
7- Reading
8- can shopping & clothes be a passion?!

8 Phrases I Use Often:
1- a lot
2- contractions like don’t, can’t, etc.
3- y’all
4- “Underwriting this is Suzanne” all day long at work
5- husband
6- that’s fine or you’re fine
7- will you bring me a diet coke/beer?
8- have we fed the cat?

8 Things I Have Learned from the Past:
1- You won’t remember what grade you got on a specific test, you’ll remember how much fun you had with friends.
2- Don’t dwell on the past
3- Hide shoes with laces & shut closet doors so cat doesn’t eat your stuff!
4- Tuck in your sheets & comforters so he doesn’t eat those too
5- Friends & family are there for you
6- Wear sunscreen
7- Don’t use tanning beds; they cause pre-cancerous moles.
8- Don’t drink rum & coke; it make you gag at the smell.

8 Places I would Like to See/Visit:
1- After last nights book club, I’d love to go see Anne Frank’s house
2- Italy
3- Bermuda
4- St Lucia
5- Any Sandals resort
6- Napa Valley
7- Spend more time in San Fran (only drove through it)
8- Maine

8 Things I Currently Want/Need:
1- To get our “office”/catch all room cleaned & organized
2- To get things done at work (but blogging can be more fun!)
3- After more shopping trip two weekends ago, I think I’m set for spring/summer 🙂
4- More quality time with hubby
5- A tan! I can’t wait to have long weekend at the beach soon!
6- To have more time with my mom’s mom who’s not doing well
7- For husband to get his first paycheck from new job
8- For us to pay off credit cards!

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Chi O Quilt

This past weekend, I gave my friend B the Chi O T-shirt quilt my Nana finished for her in April. She loved it as you can see here with her own blog post about it. I realized seeing that post that I’d never made one about mine or the one Nana made for Kelly.

Mine came first after I got the idea from my good friend & sorority big sister Melissa who’s super crafty & made her own. I found some sample ones online. Nana is super crafty & was able to create a pattern for it. We decided 4 shirts across & 5 shirts down. Next the hard part was deciding which 20 shirts!! I found NCSU fabric at Walmart for in between the shirts & a cute red & white dots fabric for the back & sides. I decided to have my shirts in order of event date even though that meant a few slashing colors are close by. Nana calls mine the “rough draft”, but I say its anything but!

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MIA

Sorry I’ve been MIA; I know y’all have been sitting on the edge of your seats wondering what I’ve been up to. No? Anyone?! 😛

I had a work trip to Greensboro Sun-Tues last week. I had a great time with my work girls. There’s four of us so it worked perfect for riding together & being roommates. The conference was for the agency force & underwriters are invited more for fun. I enjoyed meeting the people I email & talk on the phone with all day at work. A few of them surprised me, but I’d used our photo search function at work so I was able to spot most of them. I do have to say that I work with a lot of wild people! I was pretty tame & was still up until 230-3 both Sunday & Monday nights! Needless to say, the rest of last week I was playing catch up on sleep.

Friday my in laws came to visit from GA. It’s a 6+ hour trip so we don’t get to see them as much as we’d both like. It was actually the first time they’d been up here in a few years (we usually meet at the beach). They live in a small town without malls or restaurants, so we tried to make up for that!! We let them decide food & restaurants, so in three days we hit up Outback, Cheesecake Factory & Lonestar. We also went to Nordstrom at Southpoint & by Jason’s works. I also went to my friend Holly’s little girl’s 1st birthday party. She was too cute & loving her birthday cake & icing!!

You might be able to hear my sniffles & coughing all the way at your computer! Somehow the little tickle in my throat on Friday/Saturday turned into full blown chest cold by Sunday afternoon. I spent most of yesterday going from the bed to the couch! Sadly, I gave it to Jason too. Needless to say, I’ve been to Food Dog (not quite the quality of a Lion but gotta love the prices) three times in as many days to get G2, OJ & Mucinex. I think it’s working because although I look like a faucet, I am feeling better. Hope the spring forward sickness didn’t get anyone else!

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voted

I voted early tonight! The parking lot was packed and the line was way out the door, but it was worth standing out in the cold for 15 minutes. Since I’ll be getting back into town late Monday night, voting tonight will make next Tuesday a little less hectic. But while I was waiting and then as I was filling in the little ovals I was thinking how cool it was that one we live in a country where we can vote and two that we live in a country where voting is so low key and normal (I know there are countries where people are killed/harassed etc while trying to vote). It really wasn’t that long ago that women weren’t allowed the right to vote and I hope that we as Americans (especially women) remember not to take that for granted.

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10 Things That Make Me Happy

Althea P posted a list on her blog & I thought it was a great way to appreciate all the little things & blessings I have & enjoy.
1~ cuddling at night & waking up cuddling with Jason in the mornings
2~ Moe jumping on the loveseat to hang out with me.
3~ Noone yelling or cussing at me on the phone at work today.
4~ Discovering a new great lunch spot that had an AWESOME grilled chicken wrap.
5~ nesting at night
6~ breakfast for dinner & leftover waffles for breakfast
7~ reality TV (BigBrother9, Real World, Survivor, The Hills, American Idol, John & Kate+8, etc)
8~ pedicures (done myself or at a salon)
9~ open-toed shoes
10~ new Lilly Pulitzer top (found at TJ Maxx~thanks Brooke for the find!)