Ja, yes, si, oiu, sea, ken, sim.

If I could say it in every language, I would.  YES, YES, YES!!  

11/16/13 - The beau asked me to marry him.  We were in Amsterdam, watching local people ice skate, laughing our asses off and just enjoying eachother, the locals, the culture, the cold weather, everything.

It is amazing how excited and happy our family and friends are for us.  We are so loved, it's an incredible feeling.  The love we have for eachother is intense.  The love our family and friends have for us is an amazing feeling, and one I hope to never forget and always appreciate.

Oh, I'm such a sap.  I've written this post in my head a few times, but now it just sounds like hearts and love and mush.  Although, I wouldn't have it any other way. 

I'll do an Amsterdam recap later on this week.  Enjoy your Tuesday!

Another year, another Halloween

I love Halloween!  I really love any holiday where I get to decorate the house, but Halloween is fun because I love seeing kids dressed up in their super cute costumes.  The LO is currently obsessed with Star Wars.  And when I say obsessed, I mean it's all he talks about type of obsessed.  So this year he wanted to dress up as an X Wing Fighter Pilot (Luke.)  But that's not all.  He wanted us all to dress up like a Star Wars character.  Seeing as how I've only recently slept through watched the Star Wars movies, I was a little nervous to pull of a Princess Leia costume.  Especially because I decided to make the costume.  Oh, did I mention I'm not even close to a seamstress?  I had my work cut out for me.  BUT the LO was way too excited for us not to pull this off.  The beau made his vest for his Han Solo costume, found some great pants, and I got his shirt from Goodwill. I made a dress and belt for Leia, and we ordered the LO's costume off Party City.  Then, we got dressed up and took a picture in the backyard.  After we took the picture, I was telling the beau how I'd love for it to be photoshopped with the Star Wars background behind us.  Considering he's pretty much a computer genius, he made it happen.  And this is why I love the man.  Because he's awesome and will do anything to make the LO & I happy and smile.  Did you have a happy Halloween?  What's your favorite part?

The roof was on fire.

Well, it wasn't actually the roof, it was a room on the 3rd floor of my hotel but it was still pretty surreal.  Most hotels have those little maps on the back of your room door illustrating where all of the exits are in case of emergency.  I never really pay attention but last night I had to.  I am staying in Ohio for a tradeshow and around midnight I was woken from my slumber by a fire alarm.  The weirdo part of my brain tried to rationalize this, and thought maybe it was some creepy person trying to get the single women to all come out of their rooms and maybe there really wasn't a fire (see, I have such weirdo thoughts sometimes) but then the alarm started blaring in my actual room so it was time to get the eff out.  I opened the door and the hotel manager is yelling for everyone to evacuate...and don't take the elevators.  I grabbed my purse, laptop, and wool coat.  Not even a pair of shoes.  Running down the stairs with no shoes & a cold floor really woke me the hell up.  The closer I got to the 3rd floor, the more smoke I could smell. Homegirl was sitting in the lobby barefoot, with pj shorts & a Star Wars shirt.  I bring the class, let me tell you.  The firefighters ran upstairs & put out whatever fire there was, and we were told about 40 minutes later we could go back to our rooms.  I've had some pretty strange things happen while traveling, but never an actual fire in a hotel.  Has this ever happened to you?  What would you grab if there was a fire in your hotel?  One things for sure, I am going to need a big cup of coffee today to get me through the show!