you look so fine to me

top of the list of things you shouldn't say to boys: "i want to hold babies."

but i do! need a little bit of baby holding every once in a while. luckily, becca, nirav and maya will be here soon enough. very excited.

boyfriend ESP

was driving home tonight, changing around radio stations, switched to 93.3 thinking 'i never listen to this station because i don't like any of the songs they play except gomez because boyfriend and i went to a concert together when we were first dating. i hope they play a gomez song.' and literally three seconds later, what came on?


and thennn, i had to be on a conference call 20 seconds after the song ended, but i really wanted to call boyfriend to tell him about what just happened, but i was on hold waiting for the conference call to start, and the only way to talk to him is if he called me and i could swap calls. 3 seconds later i look down, and he was calling me! so i took his call quickly and told him what happened before jumping back on the call.

isn't that crazy? all in the same 6 minutes.

there are several times when we've called each other at the exact same time during the day so we both get sent to voicemail because we're calling each other.

story of the week

minky has always made our birthdays special. grandparents usually do well, but they live far away so they don't always know what your style is or what would be perfect, unless you ask for specific things. but minky always knows.

this year, she bought me lots of pretty things from j crew's fall collection. a purple down-filled vest, purple suede flats, a scarf. and a sweater. a beautiful, navy with white polka dots sweater. it fit so well. it was perfect. except! it was wool. and dry clean only.

i've shrunken three beautiful wool sweaters in my lifetime, and you would think i could learn not to. but i haven't. i've learned that i'm not ready for dry clean only yet. so i went to j crew on sunday when i had an hour of free time (in the pouring rain with no umbrella because i loaned it to a volunteer).

anyway before i left the house, i was looking at the receipt she had given me, and i noticed there were two sweaters on it. same size, same print. so i call her to ask if she bought herself one. nope. it was just a mistake.

so of course i went thinking i would let them know, but they wouldn't do anything.

i walk in the door and immediately, this woman alice greets me and asks how i'm doing. i say fine, but i'm exchanging some things and i wanted to let you know about this mistake, i'm sure there's nothing you can do, but it's just a shame to have spent money on nothing. but then alice says hmm let me see if there's anything i can do.. and she comes back and says she was the one who rung minky up that day, so she'll just fix it somehow.

i was so excited!

so then i went on a shopping spree, and like a dream, every time i went to the register to check out, i hadn't met my total yet.

i ended up exchanging one real sweater and one invisible sweater, and i left with two long sleeve soft shirts (one red, one blue), a white tank top for layering,  a navy sweater, a camel colored pullover sweater and a coral top.

was thrilled, to say the least. now i just need fall to come a bit quicker so i can wear my fall clothes! it's been beautiful during the day in the mid 80s, but not quite sweater weather.

sunrise, sunset

one of my favorite things we do to stay in touch while we're far away is sending pictures of sunsets (and sometimes sunrises. only one.). new mexico sunsets usually beat austin sunsets. mountains make everything prettier. 

34 minutes until my birthday!