Thursday, March 31, 2011

Happy Thursday!


I thought a cute outfit deserved a little recognition...

Lucky scarf, jCrew shirt and cardigan, random skirt, (Forever 21? Charlotte Russe?), Hue tights, Miz Mooz shoes.

You know when you just feel cute? That was me today. Sweet!

That's it for now. Had a busy day at work and a fun dinner at Nuestra Cocina with friends.

Love,
Katery

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Birthday Weekend: Round 2!

Oh my... ding, ding, ding... Round 2! After having so much fun for Melissa's birthday celebrations Friday night, we put our rally caps on for Erica's fabulous Nautical Pub Crawl Saturday night! Shenanigans ensued at downtown bars Rialto, Club Rouge, (a quick dinner break at Central), The Thirsty Lion, and finally -- The Dixie! Some of these people started at NOON!! (Melissa, P and I arrived around 6, so we had some catching up to do). So fun to see good friends and to celebrate Miss Heartquist's birthday!

A little love from the birthday girl...
Quick stop at Central for crepes and cocktails!
Good to see B!
With Tracy!
Maybe a couple drinks in by now... Trying on E's hat...
More drinks in... :)
Today I'm all about chilling out, doing some cleaning, and visiting with Dad. A busy work week ahead, so here's to enjoying the rest of the weekend!

Love,
Katery

Saturday, March 26, 2011

First Food Blog Entry!

Check out Tabla Mediterranean Bistro at http://gostickaforkinit.blogspot.com/

Love,
Katery

Busy Birthday Weekend: Round 1!

Each year this weekend in March marks celebrations for the birthdays for 2 of my closest friends: Erica and Melissa! This afternoon is a nautical themed pub crawl for Erica, but last night a few of us got together to celebrate Melissa's birthday with drinks in my 'hood at Swift, dinner at Aviary, and dancing at Holocene, (we went to Sassy's, too -- but that's another story).

Anyway, I'm a bit on the hungover side today, so am chilling out, relaxing in bed and wanted to share pictures from a FUN night out!

Birthday girl...
M and M...
Such pretty food at Aviary... you know there'll be a "Go Stick A Fork In It" post about this dinner!
Tasty drink at Swift!
Preston... always such a ladies' man!

So, I'm just getting ready to drag myself out of the condo to go have fun at E's birthday party! Such a rough life... hee hee...

Love,
Katery

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Yay! 50 Followers!

Now, if I could just figure out how to get more comments. I LOVE comments! :)

I'm excited to have reached 50 followers on my blog!! Thanks everyone who follows and reads.

Here's the latest...

This last weekend I took a FUN trip to Ashland with some of my favorite girls: Melissa, Erica, and met up with Squires down there. I also got to see my adorable niece, Shannon. Here are weekend highlights in photos:

The girls and I at Tabu restaurant in Ashland...
Ready to go out, here in our awesome suite at The Palm Motel...
Melissa enjoying dessert at Smithfield's... amazing restaurant in Ashland...
With niece Shannon, a.k.a. "Dollface"...
Meantime, back at work this week I've been super busy. However, last night Mike and I enjoyed a tasty sushi dinner at Bamboo, a sustainable Japanese restaurant in Southeast Portland. I'm starting to realize between Melissa and my in-laws Donald and Julie, I'm becoming a total foodie. More on that later, as I'm working on starting a food blog, too! :)

That's in for tonight.

Love,

Katery

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Mobile Update!

Hello all,

Had some fun pics on the ol' camera phone, so thought I'd share. I don't have a pimp iPhone that allows me to do anything cooler than that... Instead I email to yahoo from my Sidekick, and post things in groups... It's a fun blog update, at least. :)

I've been pretty busy at work this week and am looking very forward to a girls' trip to Ashland this coming weekend to catch up with college peeps. Should be awesome! Hopefully I'll be feeling a little better after having the worst cold kick my ass the last couple of weeks... still feeling tired from it!

In the meantime, here's some other stuff I've been up to...

On Sunday I was out in the Beav, so I picked up Grandma and took her out to dinner. We swung by the mall, and I found this super cute dress on clearance at Macy's. Original price = $215. My price? $12.75. Some people out there are feeling pretty dumb right now! It's so fun! I think I'll wear for our anniversary dinner coming up in a few weeks... 3rd year of marriage!

This is me today at work... I went to the dentist this morning and got a $300 teeth-whitening for free, (thanks to referring family and co-workers to the dentist). Do my teeth look whiter? They're certainly more sensitive, (random, intense shooting pain = awesome). The procedure took 2 1/2 hours. Not highly recommended as far as a good time, but the results are pretty sweet, I suppose...

Speaking of sweet. The only way I celebrated Mardi Gras this year was with some King Cake over at Mel's place. Her parents Fed-Ex'ed her the sweet-croissant-like-glitter-covered cake, a big tradition in New Orleans, apparently. Of course, I'd never heard of it. Stuffed inside each King Cake is a little baby Jesus, so whoever gets the piece with Jesus, has to buy the next cake or host the next party. I was so excited that I got baby Jesus in my piece, (of course Mel told me later she put it in mine on purpose). It was still exciting. I brought a piece home for Mike, and got him all stoked on Jesus, too. Ha!


This is a picture from the drive between San Diego and Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago. It was supposed to be like the worst storm in 5 years... so I upped the ante and rented an SUV for my drive. Yea -- this is what the weather did. Not so much, although it did kinda snow a little in Hollywood!

Another shot from the road... I wanted to text Mike the delicious breakfast I ate. Probably not the safest to be taking pictures while eating while driving and texting. Oh well. I survived! The lox, cream cheese and capers on a toasted bagel did not survive long, however.


I can't remember if I shared this picture already, but it's the pimp ring I bought in Old Town San Diego. Love it!


Finally, the view from the hotel in SD. So lovely! It's been raining for days here.
Oh well, I still love P-town!

Okay, that's it for tonight. Off to beddy-bye!

Love,
Katery