Two Thousand Nine

Imagine my surprise when a new follower tweets me up with news that they have just been the 2009 visitor to my blog! Honestly the counter is at the bottom and I hadn't glanced at it in a while, so not only was I surprised but a little taken aback. While I love my readers, I never really think about how many people visit and get a peek into me. With so much help from twitter my blog has been shared with many.
As I contemplated the tweet, I thought instead of writing about myself...why not write about my reader. I sent a small off-the-cuff questionnaire to @kenop and this is what I discovered.

I thought to start him off easy and ask some easy questions, but when I sat down to right nothing but real questions made it to the list. If I was going to be able to write about someone, I need the real part of them to make the post so I went with it.

In love for over seven years, in a reality that is wonderful and terrifying all in the same moment. A strong business drive at heart, just aching to find that perfect platform. Will do what needs to be done, for the better of everything. Leans towards the spicy, aromatic and bold...when hungry that is. Enjoys the one-way stalking that twitter provides. Both admires and sees his father with a cape. By far my favorite set, was not so much a well explained answer but more of the unedited thoughtful answer.

- Sum up the last five years in five words.

Whirlwind. Wonderful. Responsibilities. Growth. Honesty.

In knowing that a large population of my readers are great, I'd like to introduce you all to another great person. Thank you for visiting, reading, commenting, it makes writing exciting again for me.

-n

One Mans Spoils are Another Womans Gains

I've gotten many questions as to why I have an attraction to the Spy Master game, which is a little surprising. To me it's a no-brainer, while real life spies are apart of my daily life; the whole secretive and killing side to it has been romanticized so well by Hollywood what's not to love?! Really it is kind of a turn on! Think, Mr and Mrs Smith...that was a hot movie.

Drum Roll Please...

Thanks for all the helpful comments!
Going with the Light Silver, which works out perfectly since it's partially the theme of the party.
Next decisions include, what shoes, hairstyle, and jewelry....but each of those are hardly worth their own entries so you'll just have to catch pics on twitter as I put it all together. Having the dress makes it officially birthday season, so I'm excited. Oh and nail color, have to pic that out too.

Thanks again for playing along, I'll post birthday pics and of course I'll be tweeting the night away!

The Great Debate

We start the birthday season off with a rather important decision.
What dress to wear?
It's the dress, the one that will be in all the pics, the on that everyone will comment on, the one that once I pick it out - all of my girlfriends will base their choices off...for this year at least. Sound crazy? It is. Woman are crazy yes, but we are a separate breed of runs-on-coffee-eastcoast-stressed-crazy. What may be even scarier is that we wear it proudly.

About three months in advance people start asking what I'm planning for my party, while I don't celebrate anything much during the year my birthday is IT. The big event, requires serious planning, serious self preparation, serious drinking and above all serious dancing is a must!
The rough-draft plan this year?
Small group of my best girls out on a boat all day for a little sun bathing and tubing action. While the guys check us into the hotel, and get our bags moved ::yes, we're spoiled:: We're dropped off from the boat right next to our hotel. Change and meet up with a slightly larger group of my besties for a casual dinner. We all move to a small lounge I've picked, this year the expected guests list will fill a large portion of the lounge. Which I love, every where you turn you know someone, that is fun to me.
Bringing me to the next component of the night...a dress.
Past years it has been easy to pick my dress, this year it's gotten a little harder. I've already tried on more than a few dresses and have narrowed it down to two. With a side note that I have one more store I need to visit. My girlfriends are split down the middle which is really strange, but none of them will go shopping until I pick a dress. I know, I know ...we're crazy.
There are all kinds of other things I could go on about, but I'll get to the point of this post.
Help me decide! Vote at the poll or send pics of another dress you think would be worthy!
-n