Dum...Dum...dumdum!

Two years ago, about this time of year, those were the thoughts in mine and Derick's head! On Monday will be Derick and my 2nd wedding anniversary! So, traditionally, the second anniversary is cotton, or the "modern translation" in gifts is China.  Interesting. Though, we doubt we will be getting any china since we do not own a piece of the stuff (who really uses it anymore...?) Derick and I did find a pretty neat set when we were registering for our wedding gifts at Bed Bath and Beyond….well, more like I was flipping through the books and books of them that they had there and found “the set” with dragonflies on it. Of  course, Derick said yes, being the smart man that he is. So we registered for the set but did not get any of it for our wedding gifts – which was perfectly alright with both of us. I might see if someday I can get a couple of the serving pieces since they are pretty neat.

Anyway – didn’t mean to tangent off there into the land of china, so I will continue onward!

This weekend, Derick and I are going to travel back down to Lakeville to The Chart House for dinner, and then my mom and dad bought us tickets to a play, called “String,” playing at the Yellow Tree Theater. I am looking forward to a night out. It has been awhile, and it is a special day after all! Technically it is Monday, but we will both be working a later day that day anyway, so we thought, rather than make it more hectic and crazy than it needs to be, we would do it over the weekend.

Sunday I plan on heading over to my Grandma’s house to have her assist me in making my Halloween costume. That’s right MAKING my Halloween costume. I found some inspiration online for what I am going to “be” this Halloween, went fabric shopping with a friend from work and am very excited to put it all together and see how it all comes together! Photos to come, I don’t want to give it away, but believe me, people that do know have said that it is very “me right now.” Whatever that exactly means…

Work news:

So, earlier this week, my boss lowered some bad news onto my coworker and I. After four years with the company, my boss is leaving. She has just had enough and wanted some better change to come her way – which, I am sad to say, is pretty much the state of the majority of the employees here. She is going to another, larger company where she will be working in a bit of a different area. I wonder if she could put in a good word for me… It was a very emotional day. I was sad, mad, happy and envious all at the same time. Mostly sad at first. I lost it right after she told us in the confines of her small office. It is hard because I like and respect her so much. She is truly one of the best bosses that I have ever had. She gave me my first chance here at the job I have now – and about three years ago!  She will be deeply missed and she was/is SO great at what she does. At the end of that day, I came home, ate, and pretty much went to bed. I was spent.  So, she is done at the end of the month, and after that, who knows what will happen. I am nervous and anxious about what is to come of us and how we operate and run things around here. Change is scary enough around here when it is the most normal and routine things, but throw something like this at us…who knows. Duck and cover rings in my head, or stand back and watch the show. Too bad I cannot do the latter because I am one of the ones front and center in this debacle.

So, please send good thoughts my way. The next few weeks are going to be crazy, and then after that, it will be a day, an hour at a time. But, I am here to say I am going to strap in and get ready for the ride!

-L

Crockpot Season

I think that for the months of October and November respectively in the Doberstein household, they could be considered "Crockpot Season."

Derick and I have found that making meals in the Crockpot on the weekends helps TREMENDOUSLY with our "lunch crisis" during the work week. Since we are both working - me at CBK and Derick at a long-term gig through mid-January in New Prague (thank goodness!) we both need lunch food, and tire of PB and J. So began the cadence of making a crock-pot meal intended exclusively for weekday lunches.

This weekend we really cranked on the Crockpots! Yes - Crockpots - as in TWO of them were/are running with yummy food in them! It also doubles as a great home air-freshener!

This morning we took Tucker to the dog park after a long hiatus, and he was LOVING it, as always. I really liked going out there and seeing all of the fall colors. The weather this week and weekend has been gorgeous! Hard to believe that we are in October rather than August or September! Tucker was so tired out from the park that he is currently sleeping close to my feet as I blog - about him.

Such a happy, muddy Tucker-oo at the dog park!

Let's see...what else is new? Work for me has been insane! We booked out our calendar to see all of the projects we are working on and the due dates for them. My next few weeks are going to be madness. And I also decided to jump back on the workout bandwagon. So, once again, Jillian Michaels is kicking my butt with her 30-day shred (that I have already done all the way through twice before). I like the way that the workout is set-up with that one. It is by no means easy though, and if you would have asked me the first day after I did it again after a long hiatus, I could have SWORN to you that my 5lb hand weights were 25 lbs each!  Whew! 

I guess, other than that, things are good! Nothing too new to report, just thought I would jot down a little update! Cheers!

-L