Holiday Party '09: Success.

This year was by FAR the best party we've ever thrown for work. And I'm not just saying that because I was on the committee! [Or am I?] The hotel was amazing, the food was PHENOMENAL, and the DJ made even the GM get up on the dance floor.

Beforehand, I had my friend Ashley Sesso do my hair & makeup. She does both of those, but she's also a great photographer. I hired her and another great photographer friend of mine, Lauren Gherardi to do the event's photos, so I'll post lots of those when I get them on Monday. They're both wonderful photographers.

Anyway. This is what Miss Ashley did to my hair:


I felt super fancy. Which is good, because look at the hotel!





This was the gift table before all the door prizes were given out by yours truly & the other officers: [The green paper is a 32" LCD TV... that I didn't win...]


And OMG THE FOOD! This is salad frisee, cranberry French loaf, roasted veggies, and roasted potatoes. The veggies were perfect. Soooooooo good.


Had to go back for the meats... Sirloin topped with onion straws, halibut in caper lemon butter sauce, and what I thought were mashed potatoes, but they ended up being amazing grits. So much better than mashed potatoes!



We danced the night away and I stopped taking pictures at that point since there were 3 photographers there to do that for me, ha.

This morning when I woke up, I was starrrrving, so I made a green monster smoothie. I thought the cup was fitting, no?


And now I'm off to prepare meatballs [raw] for tonight's dinner with Ashley's family. I'm cooking spaghetti & meatballs from scratch for them and I'm going to have to have Ashley do some of it for me because I won't be off work till 5. [And her family eats at like 5:30 & I have a 45 minutes drive home.] Au revoir!

Holiday Party tonight! Woohoo!

The Employee Club officers [myself & 3 others] went shopping yesterday for the door prizes for the Holiday Party tonight. I had a lot of wrapping to do! When we first met up, we were all starving and needed to make a shopping game plan, so we stopped & had lunch at this new place near work called Bento Cafe.

The atmosphere was freakin' phenomenal. Even though it was only for lunch, they still had a nice romantic setting. They had fountains and slow trance music playing with nice vocals. Every table had this:


My food [which was only $8.75, btw!]: I got the sushi lunch combo. It came with 1/2 rolls of California and then 2 of your choice. I picked Rainbow & Unagi. It was AMAZING. Even the seaweed salad was YUM.



After TONS of shopping and even MORE gift wrapping at home, Ash and I picked up the cutest toddler ever.


Well, he looks cute, anyway. He's the spawn of Satan, still, as seen here, previously. We always think babysitting him will be a good idea... and then he starts screaming. Ahhhh! He terrorized Elliott all night. I never knew I'd be so protective over a kitty =] I love the kid but if he hurts my kitty, it's home he goes!

I'll have a picture-filled update soon of the events transpiring tonight. I can't wait! I loveeeee the Holiday Party. We've been planning for it for almost 10 months!

There's a flashback for ya. That would be Natalie and myself right before the 2007 Holiday Party. Woowwweeeeee.



And our lovely party tonight will be taking place at this gorgeous hotel, in the marvelous ballroom:

Word up to Fashion Friday.

Okay, so I "borrowed" this from Shannon over @ The Daily Balance. I got some new jewelry and wanted to post my outfit from work the other day. Please excuse the handicap stall. Don't worry, this was taken before we opened, so I wasn't making some old lady in a wheelchair wait... Or was I?! DUNDUNDUN.


On the way to work with my Honeycrisp in hand.


I had this, too, but it was probably in my cup holder.

I packed a nanner...


And cereal [because I can't actually EAT FOOD until like 8 or 9am!]


Best "tupperware" ever: SNAPWARE. It has saved me from many a spill. It holds milk without leaking!



Yummy aprizzles.


Andddd the protein for my day:


I think this was last Friday, but I forgot to post about it! OH NOEZ! Ash, Toni, Eric, and I went Cosmic Bowling. On the way, though, we stopped to visit Natballs over @ Consistently Inconsistent because I hadn't seen her since her dear little amazing angel Jonah bebe was born. [And that's over 3 months ago now!]

BALLZ!


Sweet shoes.


And a strange picture of Ashley, but an awesome picture of the setting.


And I ate this sometime in the past few days....


It was dang good. Dipped in ketchup.

OHOHOHOHOOHOH@! I got one of those "perfect ice cube" tray thingies!!! FROM ROSS! And it's amazing! LOOK!


Seeeeeeeee?



oooOoOooo lookie!


They make the cutest ice cubes evAr!


I'm going shopping today with the Costco Employee Club committee to go get our door prizes for tomorrow night's Holiday Party. I'm one of the four on the committee. We pretty much organize all the events for the year and this is the last one, other than the Employee Shop Night. Our Holiday party is pretty much like Costco Prom! Sooooo fun, expect lots of pictures after the party. Remember all those 2904824128 pictures of dresses? Yeah, this is what they were all leading up to!

An announcement!

My mother has been borrowing my camera. She gave it back this morning, so I shall return soon, but I just wanted to say:

Happy Birthday Gina!

Stalkers.

I just wanted to point out my top two faves for this past month on my Google Analytics keyword search report. Keep in mind... people actually found my blog by typing these phrases into their Google search:

- "eating salt am i retarded"

and the creepiest of creepy...

- "torri ********* of jacksonville, fl" [That's my mom, btw!]


Why is someone Googling my mother?



EDITED TO ADD: I just noticed this, also.

"jordan joannah ********* facebook"

UM. AND. That person spent 3 minutes and 55 seconds on my blog. Ew... Hi hatercreeper, I see you.