"Feeling Good"

Last Saturday, I was sitting around all day, being SUPER bored.

Then, at 6:30, I get a call from my friend Rachel. "What are you doing? Want to go to the Michael Bublè concert tonight? We need to leave between 7:15 & 7:30." I was so flustered, I wasn't sure what to say. I probably wasted a good 5 minutes just debating with Rachel whether or not I could get ready in time.

I didn't have anything else going on, and had just whined about the fact that Jill got to see his concert in Wichita & Julie was going in Columbus. So ... YES! I hurried to get ready and then went to meet up with Rachel and her sister & brother-in-law.

We had AWESOME seats! I've never been to the Sprint Center for a concert, only for the Big 12 tournament, but I was still surprised how awesome it was!

I have a great video of his song, "Feeling Good" from the encore, but stoopid Blogger took a year to upload it & then it wasn't actually in my post :( I've been singing in all day, every day, since I got home from the concert.

I had a WONDERFUL time and I'm an even bigger Michael Bublè fan than I was before the concert. Thanks for the invite, Rachel!

More pics to share

Since January 1st, when Jill & I started our photo-a-day blog, The View Across Town ...
I feel like I can't post on this one without a great picture to match! I take pictures every day, and I feel that I've really made progress on my photography skills (which was my New Year's Resolution and the reason for the other blog). There are a lot of photos that I want to share, but not very many of them get seen by you all.

Here are a few of my second favorites from the last few weeks:










Enjoy!

Xtreme Team Research???

For those of you that read the blog regularly, you know that I've become quite obsessed with our local trivia nights! We started playing about a year ago, and since then, our team has won and lost, we've added members and lost members, we've tried new bars and gone back to the original ... and all along ... it's been a blast!

Most of us are teachers and trivia allows us to leave work behind for the night (even though the night normally consists of several school stories) and have a blast even though it means staying up late on a school night. Sometimes during a really busy week, I know that trivia night is the one fun thing I get to do that week with friend.

Lately, it hasn't been so much fun. We normally compete for 1st place with other other die-hard team, My Favorite Team. They've been playing at Tanner's longer than we have. They also have a consistent team and tons of useless knowledge like we do. The new top teams are other teams there that do nothing but cheat (with iPhones and voice-recognition devices), and have been winning and beating most of the other teams lately. Now, don't get me wrong, we have been known to cheat in the past with a phone call here and there and a few times we've had teammates with the internet on their phone. However, we also have a very well-rounded team and we all have our strengths that make for a good answers!

Anyhoo ... I was reading my daily blogs the other day and I read this! Xtreme Team Trivia: Change in use of Electronic Devices. The original rules stated that "cheating is encouraged" in the first 10 weeks ... but once you get into the regionals and then eventually the all-metro championships, cheating was prohibited! For The Finer Things Club, this was great news! We knew that meant that the teams that cheated all along would be sifted out and the really good teams would rise to the top!

The new rules allow electronic devices at every stage of the tournament! Amy said it best when she said, "That's not trivia ... that's research!" Who really wants to bring their laptops to a bar and sit around and look up things? I can do that at home! That also takes away the conversation and challenge. Boo!

So, the last few days some of us have been talking about giving up with trivia. Maybe we need to come up with another Wednesday night activity: bowling, dinner, movies, etc. There are 2 more weeks in this "season", so maybe after that we will make a decision about what we are going to do. In the meantime, we want it to be known to the "powers that be" that we think this new rule is stoopid and we think it takes away all the fun of our fun trivia nights!

Now, now. Don't drink too much!

Here's a fun pic of Kristin and me on our Summer Wedding Circuit ... with our "shot glasses" of wine!

We had a blast at last weekend's wedding for two of our friends from high school. It was fun because we got to hang out with lots of old friends that I haven't seen in a really long time. We also went out to the Power & Light district afterward. I haven't been down there too much, so it was fun to see the summer crowd.

Thanks, KK! I had a blast hanging out with you ... 2 wedding weekends in a row!

Ladies Night on the Town ... Fixed!

I mentioned earlier that a few weekends ago was Amy's Bachelorette Party. I'm finally finding time to upload pictures for a post ... and fix the original post I made. Stupid blogger! :)

The evening started with a yummy dinner and opening of presents at a friend's house. From there, we wanted to find a place to go dancing. We ended up at Manhattan's (135th & State Line) which was actually pretty cool!


I kept thinking that this place would be even more fun if people actually knew about the club. It had nice, comfy furniture, a big dance floor, an oval bar in the middle of the place, the NICEST bathrooms I've ever been in (complete with a chaise, beauty supplies and kick-ass sinks), attentive wait staff and a DJ or band most nights. The manager (that stopped by with shots) assured us that most nights it is packed. So much so that the night before there were so many people that he ordered more chairs the next day!

Anyhoo ... this is where we ended up, and even though we made up about 90% of the clientele, we had a blast!

Here's the bride with some fancy drinks! Doesn't the green martini look HUGE? It is actually normal size and the one on the left is a tiny shot glass. I love how the colors turned out in this picture.



Here are the girls living it up on the dance floor! Can you tell that we were basically the only ones on the dance floor?! :)




All of Amy's girls ... from all different areas of her life (family, high school, work, friends through TJ)!

Congrats, Amy! The wedding countdown clock has officially started! :)