Last day of work!!!

Whoooooooohoooooooooooo!! Last official day of work. I love my job, but it is time.
Although, I don't think I will ever have an office with a view this great again.

Minus the storage facility, staring out at the mountains all day and watching people paraglide down the mountain has been pretty awesome.

Off to more packing and then leaving Boulder on Monday!

Moving time!

4 more days left at the job....
Roughly 9 more days left in Boulder....

It's bitter sweet I am so excited, but starting to get really sad as well. Everything is the last this and the last that, but the worst part is I have so much to do I'm not event fully enjoying it. Lots o' packing, lots o' craigslisiting to sell things, which has been such a horrible process. And finally lots o' planning needing to be done.

My sister is out here and we're going to take a week to drive back across the US and hit up these beautiful places:

Telluride, CO

Crested Butte, CO

A small detour to the Grand Canyon

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Alburquerque, New Mexico (Home to the largest hot air balloon festival, which I wish was going on right now. How awesome would that be??)

A whole lot of nothing in the mid west...... then...

Memphis, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Then good ole NORTH CAROLINA!
Then it's this for one month! (Combinado con mucho estudio de espanol)

Then off to CHILE!!!!!!!!!!

Bambi

I looked out of our window the other day and saw this little fella....

Ahh I love Boulder. Deer just crusin' through the yard snacking.

Happy Friday!

Hair

I love big hair. It is a known fact to everyone who knows me well that the bigger the better for me. I should have been born in the 60's or the 80's where the hair was always huge.
Any of these would be a dream if I could every get my hair to look this way.

In my quest to get the perfect volumized hair I am always trying new products (and spending like 30 minutes on the hair care isles) so here are some of my new faves.

Pssst Dry Shampoo... it's totally weird looking, but it is by far the best dry shampoo out there. I have used hair powder forever, but that sometimes gets a little cakey feeling. So I started to search for dry shampoo and I read about this one in a magazine some where.

Dry shampoo seems to be the new cool thing and there are now tons of brands out there. I have tried a good amount of them, but this one is the best, I swear! It's cheap ($6) but it leaves your hair fresh, volumized and feeling like you just showered. It is seriously my new go to. I even use it when I just finished drying my hair (read the beauty department to see why).

Not to bash another brand, but Treseme is pushing their dry shampoo like crazy on TV ads. Don't buy it. It is not that great, it works like to 75% and hen just leaves your hair feeling oily and sticky.

LOreal Elnett Hairspray

I wear hairspray everyday so this is a big one for me. I read about this hairspray again in lots of magazines recently because it just became available in the US. It's amazing. A little pricey for hairspray, but if you use it everyday like me. It's great. It holds anything. It doesn't get crunchy and it brushes right out if you need it to. LOVE.

Clip-in hair extensions.

LOVEEEEEEEE. I finally got some of these a few months ago after seeing my friend Liz's hair (fine, thin hair like mine) grow in to gorgeous full curly hair. So did some research and went out to get some. The brand I got is Euronext Remy Clip-ins. They are real human hair so you can curl, straighten, wash, etc. They are so easy to put in and so far they have been amazing. Adding volume, they curl and stay curled and they just are great! I also wore them in a wedding recently and my updo was so much better!

Oompa Loompa Land

Tonight I was getting ready for bed when I remembered I had bought a bottle of Neutrogena sunless tanning micro mist back in the pale, pale months of winter after reading in a magazine that some cool hip California girl swore by it.

Well the pale, pale months have been continuing on my skin and I am going to a pool party this weekend so I thought what the heck why not try it out (I was bored and exhausted at that moment).

I read the back, see that it says to test a spot first.
So I test a tiny spot on my ankle and then decide what the heck and GO TO TOWN. This stuff is apparently addictive it's like crack it's so easy.

Next thing I know I am spraying my whole body and then trying to highlight my abs with spray tanner because I read that is what Kim Kardashian does.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!!! I do not have real abs much less fake ones.

Tomorrow may be a fearful day with random lines of tan because I know that was not even. And who knows what my stomach may look like.

I'm pretty sure my whole bathroom is going to have a tan too because that stuff goes everywhere. I don't know where they expect you to do this in your home.

Stay tuned....

Tomorrow I will either look like this:

(minus the white eyebrows. Don't worry there was no eyebrow bleaching this evening)

Or this:

But with hope maybe a nice little bit of color will magically transform me in to this:

I'm going with doubtful... but here's to dreaming! Goodnight!

Beautiful Things

It's finally summer in Boulder.

Flowers quite similar to these are everywhere.

Even growing next to our back door where we keep the trash cans are these beauties...

This also means....

Lots of bike rides to come. And hopefully not just to and from happy hour which is what I had been using my bike for so far.

This past weekend I did a local ride with my friend Lauren in Denver.
It was gorgeous. 25 miles along the river on a beautiful sunny day.

Golden Rule

The other day while driving home from a very long day at work. I passed 2 little girls on the side of the road with big signs saying "LEMONADE".

I instantly smiled. I love lemonade stands. LOVE. And I love little kids who sell lemonade like it is the greatest thing anyone could ever buy.

New rule in life: Always stop at a lemonade stand.

How badly do you want some lemonade now? I am dying for some right about now... ahhh summertime!

Home Sweet Home

I am going home!!!! I have not seen my parents or been home in SIX months. I am beyond excited.
AND I get to see all of my friends as well because I am going home to celebrate the marriage of two of the nicest people in the whole world....

Liz & Ian

Liz and I were born 11 days apart and were glued at the hip as kids and she is by far one of the greatest friends I have ever had.

Liz & I

Bonus... neither likes cake so they are having a Trolley Stop cart and a Trolley stop hot dog cake in addition to the regular cake. How great is that!

Leaving tomorrow for 2 days of this....

Cuddling with the best pups in the whole world...

And then lots and lots of wedding things!! 6 wedding events in 4 days! I will be tired, but happy to be home!!

See you next week!

Ramdom

I found my next halloween costume. Of course I will not buy this one, but make an even more awesome homemade one. YES! I am pumped.

Jealous.

Obsessed with her... and her hair.... and her clothes.
Obsessed with him....forever.

If this is true... I am loving it!!!

I love her even more since she was quoted saying this:

“When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to The Lion King soundtrack,” she revealed. “It’s really odd, but it’s true.”

I definitely think we would be friends....

NC BOUND!

First we'll have a little bit of this....

Beautiful NC mountains.

Add some of this...

A live band, obviously playing SHOUT


Then some of this....

NC BBQ... yum!

All combined to celebrate these two...

I CANNOT WAIT!!!! SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!

American Girls for Life

This is hilarious... you all know you had one. See what it says about you today.

I had Molly... Here is what that supposedly means about me:

Molly McIntire:
If you had Molly, you probably wanted Samantha instead, but contented yourself with Molly because you too wore glasses, liked books, were bad at math, and would concoct various schemes to get attention. (Oh, Molly.) If you were a Molly, and had a Molly (as opposed to being a Molly and aspirationally owning a Felicity), you were imbued, then and now, with an immutable sense of self. At least Molly could tap dance, which is frankly more talent than any of the other girls exhibited.

As an adult, you’ve developed a carefully honed aptitude for sarcasm. You've gotten contacts, and a slightly edgy haircut. You still sort of want attention, but you deny it. You’ve thought back on your American Girl Doll, and tried not to be too resentful towards the person who gave her to you, who so obviously associated you with the descriptor “mousy.”

I'm thinking it's a pretty good fit actually! I loved Molly and I still do. Her books were hilarious.

What doll did you have? Visit this site, The Hairpin, to see what it says about you.

Weddings Galore

I saw this yesterday and thought it was hilar...

I am still obsessed with them and the wedding and often look at pictures I've already seen again and again.

I am also obsessed that she is like riding the cart at a local grocery store after being married and watched by like 4 billion people. I really do like her. And her hair - def extensions in there, but I love it.

Continuing with my wedding theme... I CANNOT WAIT to see BRIDESMAIDS. How hilarious does this look? I have literally watched all trailers and clips I can find online. This has also led to a new obsession of Rose Bryne.

How gorgeous is she? I just think she is so classically pretty and supposedly super funny in this movie.

Last Wedding obsession...
1 week until Jessie's wedding!!! I cannot wait to be back in NC having an amazing time with everyone it's going to make it so hard to focus all next week.

Happy Friday!!

Career Change...

I have recently had a small career change.
I am now moonlighting as a professional celebrity spotter. Specifically celebrities that Christine is OBSESSED with. Which makes it all the more hilarious.

Here are a few recent spottings:

JACK BAUER.... yep that's right. Keifer Sutherland himself. At the stage door of a play he was doing in New York. I ran across the street like a nut to get these precious gems. Yep literally 3 feet from Jack. I wanted to say.. "Will you say "Mr. President, this is Jack Bauer" but I didn't....

This is how close I was... Btack I know you are freaking out

MR. BIG... oh yeah. He came out of the stage door from the same play with JACK BAUER about 5 minutes later in NYC. I didn't get a photo, but I did see his smiling face. All I thought was where is Carrie?

ROBERT PLANT.... and no I did not figure this one out on my own. I overheard the security guys at the airport saying it was him, but yes I was in the security line at DIA with him, on the tram. For those of you who don't know who he is... Robert Plant was one of the main guys in Led Zepplin

ED... as in ED & JILLIAN from the Bachelorette. This spotting was at a bar in Chicago a few weeks ago. He was tanned, in a hoodie and spikin' some hair with that gel. Not the coolest dude. With a big posse of guys who all thought they were amazing. However, he was about 2 feet from me as I was dancing with my friends (bachelorette weekend) and some girls were chatting him up.

SIDE NOTE: Christine is OBSESSED with 24 aka Jack Bauer, loves music so Robert Plant is a given - she said " you were in the presence of a legend", and was OBSESSED with Jillian and Ed.

I honestly thought my chances of seeing Oprah in Chicago were pretty high mostly because that would be Christine's #1 and well I was kind of checking off her list...