day 15: a day in my life

as i think about my daily routine, i sadly realize that i am quite boring. at any rate, here it goes...

wake up
get ready
head to work

then it's a jumble of:
take photos of the restaurant's daily specials
client meetings
answer emails
site tours
phone calls ("rooftop event spot, this is rachel. how may i help you?")
answer more emails
more phone calls
email out floor plans for client parties
send out contracts (and hopefully receive some!)

head home
play with benny-boy
watch law & order: svu
hit the sack

i try to throw in some reading here and there, and of course quality time with mikey, too. :)

day 14: my happy list

today, on the challenge, i get to boast about what ten things make me the most happy! hopefully, it'll spread some happiness your way, too! :)

1. celebrity gossip in any form.
2. lazy weekends with mike.
3. laughing so hard i cry.
4. the beach.
5. giving people presents.
6. wearing shorts and long sleeve shirts.
7. fishing at my parent's house.
8. amusement parks
9. driving with the windows down and the music up.
10. ryan gosling.

have mercy!

day 13: I truely apologize

today, i need to issue a public apology...

to anyone who had to look at the enormous zit coming up on my right cheek today, i'm sorry...

...if looking at it made you sick.
...if you felt like you couldn't eat lunch because of it.
...if you mistook it for mount rushmore.
...that i am 25 and my body is still apparently working out the kinks of puberty.
...you had to see the poke marks around it (I really tried to leave it alone).
...i tried to cover it up with make up only to make it look like a juiced up wart.
...my watery eye (from messing with it) made you think I was a cry baby.

and finally, i'm sorry for bringing it up now. 

apology accepted? lol.

day 12: what i miss

my favorite picture, and how i remember my dad.
smiling and waving hello at the beach. (taken around 2001)

plain and simple. i miss my dad. a lot. his words of encouragement, wisdom, jokes, sense of humor--everything. he was the goofiest, most fun, happy-go-lucky guy around. he also had the strongest relationship with christ that i've ever seen and he made a constant effort to spread the joy that he found in christ with anyone he knew. he was a surfer, a modern-day hippy, a confidant, a creative spirit, and faithful friend. even with cancer, he never stopped being himself. he never lost hope. he truly lived. he was fearless. 

we're coming up on the 3rd anniversary of his passing away, and it still seems like it just happened yesterday. my life has changed so much in the last three years, and there's so much of it that i wish he could have been a part of. i think that's the hardest part for me. the fact that he wasn't able to celebrate mine and michael's wedding with us, or knowing that my kids will never get to know him makes me sick to my stomach, but it also points out the selfishness in my own heart. i'm selfish because i would rather have him here with me, but in order to do that, he would have to be taken from the eternal peacefulness of heaven. talk about a catch 22. 

i was looking at my dad's facebook page earlier and was very encouraged by a status he posted back in march of 2010. what an incredible call to action that we should all take to heart! bottom line: i miss you, dad. 

day 11: selling myself in 10 words or fewer

today, i'm selling myself in ten words or fewer for the blog-everyday-in-may challenge. here it goes...

i'm a woman--hard-working, always honest, and a realist.

short and sweet for today. happy saturday, lovelies!

day 10: well this is embarrassing...

let me preface this oh, so embarrassing story with the fact that i pretty much embarrass myself on a daily basis with one thing or another. it seems that i am constantly running into something, falling down, putting my foot in my mouth, etc. and always, always in front of a group of people. because of this, it is extremely hard for me to pinpoint just one of those embarrassing moments for today's blog challenge, but here it goes. 

*sigh*

florence + the machine comes to dallas for a show, and me and two of my girlfriends decide to make it a girls' night out. (read more about the incredible force that is florence here.) as with most girls' nights out, some cocktails were involved at the concert, and throughout the night, i texted photos of the concert to my friends and parents. 

i, in my greatness, decide i wanted to buy a glow headband from this guy selling them because it just seems like the best idea ever. (please keep in mind that the headband will now forever be known as the "glow stick.") 

me, with said glow stick after the concert, but before the most embarrassing thing. ever.

as we're leaving the concert, my friend, erica, snaps a photo of me (above). i think it's cute and decide to i send it to my parents (via group text) and michael. 

we get to the car, and i decide to text michael and let him know that we're on our way home. my friend, erica, is driving, and amy is in the back seat. as i mentioned before, i had had a few drinks, and with amy's encouragement, i think it will be funny to send a little risque text to michael. what's the harm, right? WRONG!

in an effort to do a little play-on-words (because i'm soooooo literary), i make a reference to michael's "glow stick," only to realize that i accidentally entered the text into the group message i have with my parents. 

awesome.

as soon as i realize it, i scream what i've done, erica almost wrecks her car, and amy almost pees her pants laughing. i, on the other hand, am mortified. but guess what! you can't "unsend" a text, and i received the following response. thank goodness my parents have a sense of humor!

wondering why mom mom says "we are getting used to it?" don't worry. this, sadly, is not the first time this has happened. 

moral of the story? glow sticks are overrated, and group text messages are of the devil!

day 9: snuggle bug

"is it really time to get up?" -ben

the moment of my day that you get to see today is my sweet little snuggle bug, benny. i snapped this photo maybe a week or two ago, but he makes the same face every morning. he gets all cuddled up in our comforter and gives me a little look out the side of his eye that says, "there's no way i'm getting out of this spot." 

sweet baby. :)