Beer Fest

My very first beer fest experience was a great success! I was completely overwhelmed by the ridiculous amount of choices to choose from. There were so many different kinds to choose from, my short list of beers tried, in case you were wondering...

** Steigl Lemon Radler = AMAZING! I first discovered Radlers about this time last year in Germany. It's basically Bud Light and sprite mixed together... go ahead try it. It's good.
** North Coast Brewing Co. Scrimshaw Pilsner Beer
** Angry Orchard Traditional Dry (my favorite of the two Angry Orchards)
** Angry Orchard Apple Ginger
** Leinenkugel Lemon Berry Shandy.. it was eh.
** Seadog Rasberry
** New Belgium Fat Tire
** Crispin Fox Barrel Blackberry
** Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale
** Shipyard Pumpkinhead--Best bottle label award
** Magic Hat #9
** Lindemans Peche.... delish!
** Crispen Fox Barrel Blackberry



While I wouldn't have minded if the weather had been a little cooler it was an absolute blast and an amazing night to sit outside and listen to the Young Dubliners play. Bruegala raised over $40k dollars for local charities and whoever thought of this as a fund raiser should get two gold stars. If you didn't make it out this year, I highly recommend marking your calendars for next year!

The glass is now empty. The end.

I am on a Quest

It's a fashion quest and I blame Pinterest. I want chocolate tall boots that don't cost $400 and I want cute boot socks to wear with them. Damn you Pinterest!! Seriously no reason boots should cost that much. Fashion quest #2 is the holy grail of quests... finding a pair of jeans that fit. Old navy came close yesterday, I purchased but we aren't quite there. Bring on sweater weather!

Seriously Where in the H does 24 hours go?!

As I sit here trying to get through my normal internet searching schedule, I happened to glance at the time... already 10:19 serious?! This is getting a bit old, this will be night 3 or 4 where I don't feel like I have gotten my daily amount of slacking done. Now that may sound counter productive but lets think about this.... an average person should get about 8 hours (give or take) of sleep, a normal work day is 7 hours 45 mins, lets call it 8. That is already minus 16 hours out of 24. Take into account the rounded 2 hours in travel time daily and bam that leaves a measly 6 hours of slack time. I feel like this isn't enough time, I have blogs to check, gossip sites to catch up on and squeeze in some good pinning in there too, oh and dinner, and I'm trying to get my walks in which is minus another 50 mins or so... yowza.

Tonight I bought a wireless printer, did I need one? No not really. But it's super awesome! No more messy cords and I can print emails etc from my iPhone too, fantastic! If you're in the market for a new printer, Target has the one I got on sale for $50 (down from 80) and you get a $10 Target gift card to boot! Side rant: Target really is the land of let me enter the doors and see what I don't really need but will buy anyway. Tonight's victim was my mom, she saw a package of six colors of socks on clearance and couldn't pass it up, did she need them, nope, Target strikes again! Also I didn't realize that tricking you with a gift card had become Targets new "thing" whoever came up with that idea needs to get a big fat raise. In your mind you minus the $10 against competitors, but really you are just encouraged to come back and spend more than the $10 they gave you... well played Target, well played.

One of my summer goals was to take a class, well the community college didn't have a whole lot to offer in the summer but the fall schedule is out and now I'm overwhelmed with options. I'm thinking about the sewing classes, I know how to sew but I'm not terribly good at patterns. Or there is the knitting and crocheting class. I know I sound like an old woman and please feminists don't hate me, but stuff like that for my generation is kind of a lost art. I might add that I have glamorous dreams of becoming a wonderful artsy fartsy crafty person and will make millions with my Etsy shop. Maybe the Page Turner will let me have a corner of her hippy/All natural store. PT is whipping up batches of all natural body scrubs and shaving cream and all kind of stuff. She's kind of becoming a voo-doo hippy/witch doctor. It's the farm, it makes everyone go crazy lol jk PT, jk.

The time is now 11:10 and I feel I have so many other wasteful internet browsing to do (the intermittent surfing/blogging/surfing/surfing wasn't enough), but alas, I shall call it a night. I'm finally getting most of my things put back after the ambitious effort of rearranging my office/TV room. I have big plans for a digital organization fest in the coming months, deleting old files on my computers and maybe a winter project can be printing off my pictures and making my year scrap books a dream come true. Who knows, don't forget the world is ending in December so maybe it's best to not be quite so ambitious.. ya know, just in case.

Can you feel it?

The crisp cool air, teasing us with the touches of fall. If you know me at all you know fall is my favorite time of year, I love everything about it. I've loved being able to have the windows open at night, the best kind of sleeping weather.  The cool weather has also inspired me to get out and start walking. I walked a total of 8 miles last week, not much but I'm stepping up my game, I've got to get ready for the screaming pumpkin 10k coming up. I even had the energy to completely rearrange my tv room, man is that work.

I keep noticing that there is not enough time in the day. I want to read, watch tv, surf the net and get a walk in... too many options. AND new shows will be starting soon too, what's a girl to do?! But I have been making time to watch the drama fest they call Bachelor Pad, and wow... how these girls think they will find love on a show like this is beyond me.

Oh and not to forget but I am also taking care of a wild kitten who occupys a good portion of my time...

... although it's hard to tell it from these pictures. 



Cell Phone Pictures

I was just charging my iPhone and noticed that I have 5.5 GB of pictures/video on my phone. That is 1,146 photos and 40 videos. What are they of? Well too many pictures of my super adorable kitten, don't judge. They are only cute and little for so long before they grow into adulthood. Other pictures are vacation pictures, some are stupid and pointless. Some of them are Instagram'd pictures, concerts and storm clouds. Why do I take pictures when I never do anything with them, I can't just delete them. I just like to take pictures. So now I sit and ponder what to do with them all. I can't remember the last time I printed any pictures anyway, I really need to do that. If my computer ever crashes bye bye pictures :'( That statement actually makes me really nervous. I need to back them up. I have a friend who uploads all her pictures to Walgreens then prints a whole bunch when they have their 10cent sale, I should do that and keep photo albums of all the pictures I take in a year, they don't have to all be fancy and grouped by only a vacation here and a vacation there, I should just be like here this was 2012 and all the pictures I took this year... enjoy future generations. I'll have to remember to write on the back and date them, that's always appreciated by the future folk.

What do you do with your cell phone pictures?