Pearls and Pears

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I am aware my blog looks terrible...

I am aware of how odd that my blog looks right now... There is just a LITTLE too much going on! I got into a bit of trouble with the new "template designer"... and now I need to change it, but I don't have time... sigh...

... I promise to change it soon!

OMG... SO CLOSE!!!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Black Butte Ranch

This weekend my squeeze and I went away for the weekend. We went to Black Butte for 2 days and it was quite fabulous. My only complaint was that I NEVER took a single photo... which is annoying, especially now since I am blogging and now have to use internet generated photos to go along with my post. Like this gorgeous little number of Big Meadow Golf Course...

ANYWAY... in a 48 hour period we had 2 romantic dinners, hiked both Black Butte and the Tumalo falls trail (in the same day! I think it added up to 8 miles), Played 9 holes at Big Meadow Golf Course, Toured the Deschutes Brewing Company, went for a long bike ride, shopped, toured bend, and hung out at the Deschutes pub house. It was quite a fun filled couple of days.

We had the BEST time... by the end of the trip my mouth almost hurt from laughing.

One morning we had S'mores for breakfast... his beyond brilliant idea... Love it.

I mean... If this was on the menu for breakfast...

why not? :)

What a moron...

This idiot from Fox TV in Eugene has been trying to sell me commercials for 2 weeks... He managed to get a meeting with me because he called one morning before I had my coffee. I hung up the phone and immediately thought "What the hell did you just do?? Now you are never going to get rid of him".

So today was the meeting and in my Zen of creating new displays and photographing our products for the fall line I remembered he was coming in. UGH! I called him to cancel because I figured if I was trying to sell something and I would rather get a call canceling the meeting rather than waste my time coming to a meeting that was only going to result in a big fat NO!

When I called to tell him that commercials "just weren't our thing"... he responded "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that not making buckets of money and continuing to not reach people in mass quantities was your THING". I hung up on him. Someone needs to work on their people skills...

A word to the wise for all of you who are in sales... you catch more bees with honey...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Mr and Mrs McBride

Last Saturday my friend Ashley married her longtime love Ryan. The whole wedding was just so "her"... she is someone who does everything her way! The catering was gourmet pizza and caesar salad because she had dieted for 8 months and that is ALL she wanted! Instead of a wedding cake she had shortbread cookies and FILLED cupcakes - which were unreal! Instead of a large long table for her and her wedding party it was "seat yourself" and then there was a small table off near the river for just her and ryan lit by candle light. My favorite part of the whole wedding was that after dinner... she went upstairs and changed into her "party" dress. She loves to dance and hated the idea of dancing in a big gown. She is the cutest!!! The wedding was absolutely lovely! Such a wonderful celebration with family and friends... I hope that (in a million years) when I finally tie the knot, I can make my day as special and individual as hers was!

First time anyone has photographed me dancing where I don't look like I have some kind of a physical disability... Probably because I was just bobbing and clapping :)