Concert and a Throw Back

love the guy with his arms in the air. This depicts so many of the country fans. love 'em!

This past Saturday Wolfgang and I went to a Kenny Chesney concert {Although shown above is Eric Church} because I scored some free tickets at work!  You can never pass up a country concert.

It is also a rule that you cannot attend a country concert, without getting your country on.  So that is exactly what I did.

"Is that a belt buckle on your waist?!"  Why yes, yes it is.  And it is legit.

Once upon a time I went to college for my first two years in Idaho; I loved it and learned a lot.

One of those things I learned was how to bring out my inner cowgirl.  I took some pretty amazing classes while I was attending college, some of which where field biology classes, and on our lab day we got to ride horses and collect plants n' things. It was definitely one of the best semesters of my college career.

Anyway, during the time I was taking those classes, I went to a country store and coveted an expensive belt buckle.  I wanted to play along and become "one of them" {those crazy ones who legit-ly wear a belt buckle} during my lab classes.  I went home and found the buckle on ebay for a fraction of the price, and bought that sucker.

The name of the belt buckle is "First Love," which if you can't tell from the picture, it is a girl kissing a horse.
awwwwww.

Every buckle has to have a story, right?  Well to me this represented my horse, "Grace" that I was assigned to during that field biology course.  I've mentioned her before on my blog. {kinda in sad circumstances, sorry. Also that is when my pics were deleted}

Here are some 'throw back' pictures/memories of me with my belt buckle and Grace for my your enjoyment.
{These were taking back in '07, btw.}

Bad A****

Cool kids 

Never mind that we are pointing at each other inappropriately.  We were comparing buckles, OK?!?

"My Pleasure..."

Working for a Ritz Carlton for the last few months have been an *interesting* experience in many ways.

One of those ways is in the level of precision, professionalism and excellent that I have been learning to work at, and that is expected of you.

One way that the company measures each hotel/resort's compliance (?  If you will) of the brand's exceptionally high standards, is in the form of a "BSA audit;" think of it as a glorified, EXTREME version of a mystery shopper.

When a hotel narrows down the time frame of when the up-coming audit will be, all hell breaks loose everyone tries to find clues as to who it is, when it will happen, etc.

Long story short, after almost a month of stressing over it, our auditor finally arrived two days ago.  Luckily my intuitive co-worker picked up on it that she, the auditor might be "the one," and therefore my co-worker warned me and I was prepared for it.

Needless to say I was the unlucky lucky one who had to interact with her during her spa experience, and therefore was critiqued in every way on the execution of the experience and in my professionalism.

The hotel received the results back yesterday, and we did awesome!! Not to mention in the spa we got a near perfect score, which is unheard of.  What made me post proud of myself too, is that after the auditor "revealed" herself to the managers, she stated that I (ME!) was one of three employees in the whole hotel who stood out to her as doing the best job in my customer service and professionalism  :D  !! (I've used the word "professionalism in this post too many times, sorry...)

I have to say, I am pretty proud of myself.  I still have a long way to go, but this gave me the boost that I really needed.  It'll probably wear off soon, haha ;)

Dear "The Office,"

My Dearest show, "The Office,"

It's hard to believe that you are officially over.  The last 9 years just whirled on by!  Although I haven't watched you religiously for the last few seasons, you will always have a special place in my heart.

I have very fond memories of rushing home from classes in college to watch it with roommates, neighbors, and secret crushes,

Quoting one liners with friends,

Having the theme song as my ringtone,

Successfully using clips of episodes in several class presentations in my Anthropology classes (yep!),

Drooling over Jim,

Laughing hysterically and wincing during beautifully crafted and severely awkward scenes,

and even shedding some tears.

Last night's season finale reminded me of how much I love the show, and I feel like I now need to become a hermit and watch all the seasons over again starting from episode 1, season 1.

And I may or may not have teared up a little too watching the finale.  Don't judge.

With much fondness and love,

Me.

Tacos. Mm tacos.

Wow, it has been exactly one month since I blogged last. Weird!  That kind of is a long time for me.  But there really hasn't been anything really happening that I wanted to blog about.

Now don't get too excited, this isn't going to be the Bradley Cooper of blog posts.  Ok, so maybe that didn't make sense, but I'm currently more obsessed with B-Coop {made that up, I should copyright that nickname for him} than usual, because I watched "Silver Linings Playbook" this weekend, which was a gem, and also he was on SNL.

Ok, back to what I was getting at. We really like American not really authentic Mexican food.  So, we are all for celebrating pseudo holidays like Cinco de Mayo, extreme conservative-boring-anti-social-couple style. This means, we celebrated early a few days by eating Tofu (gasp!) tacos.

And it was deeeelicious.

Not going to lie, we are pretty dang good at making homemade tacos.  The tortillas aren't from scratch, but that doesn't bother me one bit.

We've really come to like tofu, but that will be for another day, another post.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

But Miracle whip is much better.