Bet You Thought I Forgot...

Nope, I haven't been falling behind on my challenge. I wasn't able to post as its been a busy week! Check it out!
February 11

This is my "Scorpion Roll" from Tiger Sushi. Its official, I am hooked on sushi.
This roll is shrimp tempura and soft shell crab with a spicy garlic mayo. Seriously, heaven.

February 10

This is the chandelier at Om Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis. Heather, Anna, Lisa and I went to a food and wine sample event there. Its Indian food, which I also have never had. From what I sampled it was really delicious.

February 9

These are the icicles on my house. I'm paranoid that they will melt and fall on my puppy. So I have been knocking them down. But they multiply like rabbits!

February 8

This is our backyard. Look closely, you can see the snow is higher than our fence. Our lot is bordered by an alley so we have to shovel the snow into our yard. David is going to have quite the challenge next winter if we put in a privacy fence like I hope to this spring!

February 7

These are the books on my nightstand. I'm reading Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. I'm also into world religions so I'm learning about Paganism.

February 6

This is my sister Lisa and I at 7 Sushi Ultra Lounge. We went out for a belated birthday dinner. The sushi was seriously amazing. Service was fantastic. Wine was delicious. Hanging out with my sis is always a good time!

February 5

This is my favorite guitarist in the band Hairball. We went to their 10th Anniversary show at the Sheraton Hotel. 10 years of rockin the 80s tunes! FUN!

Action Shots and Close Ups

Another 365 Update....
February 4

Sookie Action Shot! Sookie had a great time running around in the snow tonight in the backyard. She normally doesn't like the snow, so this was especially amusing!

February 3

David...being a dork. He's actually eating a can of pears as I was taking this photo.

February 2

Sookie loves her belly rubs! When David walks in the room, she will roll over onto her back. In this photo she crawled up onto him, and flipped over for a belly rub. What a spoiled pup!

Almost Failed...Already!

Yesterday and today I almost failed the challenge! Today I forgot my camera. So when I got home from work, I took this photo. Its a birthday bouquet of flowers that I got at Bachman's Floral.

February 1

January 31

I was soooo tired from celebrating my birthday the night before, that I completely spaced out on taking a photo. At 11:30pm, I remembered so I took a photo of the first thing I saw. These giant mugs from Gastof's. I don't have to say how they ended up in our purses! :p

January 30

This is me and my girls at Gastof's celebrating my 29th birthday. From the left, Anna, Heather, Me, Melinda and Kelly.

January 29

I throw myself a themed birthday party every year. This year was "Let Them Eat Cake...And Celebrate!" I created a giant dessert buffet. These cookies were the first "project". I worked all day Friday and Saturday to get all the goodies made. Check out my Cake Blog for details on my buffet!

January 28

These are birthday gifts from my boss Bob. He gave me a Lolita wine glass! Its theme is "Shop Till You Drop". Hilarious! He also brought me that amazing chocolate cake, and a box of Godiva dark chocolate truffles. YUM!

January 27

This was my first sushi experience. My co-worker Linda took me out to the restaurant Crave for a birthday lunch. I've been wanting to try sushi and I figured with Linda...I'm safe. She's Asian (lol!) and her husband is a sushi chef! I tried the Sushi Bento Box, so I got an assortment of maki sushi. It was amazing! I'm in love! I cant wait to try new and more daring types of sushi!

Another 365 Update!

January 26

This is David doing the dishes. He never does the dishes. I was so shocked, I had to photograph it. It might be the last time he ever does the dishes!

January 25

This is my annual birthday tarot reading. I'm still working on the interpretation, but it looks like its going to be an interesting year!

January 24

This is how anal I am about party planning. I'm having a dessert themed birthday party for myself this weekend. These are my sketches for the cookies I'm baking and the dessert buffet table I'm constructing. Hopefully everything turns out. I've got a lot of baking and decorating ahead of me!

Photo Time!

Here's another post for my 365 Day Photo Challenge!

January 23

This is my Sookie. I love hanging with her. She is such a cuddle bug. She likes to snuggle with me, no matter what I'm doing. In fact at this very moment, she is on my lap, resting her head on my laptop.

January 22

These are the ingredients for a drink I tried to recreate. Its been years since I've bought liquor. I'm not much of a hard liquor drinker. Last month on vacation, I ordered a drink called "Raspberry Rain". It was delicious, so I tried to recreate it for my birthday party next week. I couldn't find all of the ingredients, so I had to improvise with Welch's Passionfruit Juice. It turned out delicious!

January 21

A snapshot of my commute home. Sometimes I really hate the drive home.

January 20

Enjoying Angels & Demons on our giant movie screen in the basement.

Almost 10 days in and I'm loving it still!

365 Photo Challenge Part 2

This is my second post in the 365 photo challenge. So far....so good!

January 19

These are my coworkers Linda and Todd. Todd is leaving us this week, so Linda and I presented him with an excellence award. He is not only one of our mechanics, but also our Safety Representative. We wanted to acknowledge his contributions as our "Safety Guy".

January 18

"Me and my giant box". This one is special, for my coworker and friend, Mike. We have a running inside joke about boxes. Earlier in the day we were joking about it, so I thought this would be a great way to laugh about it some more.

I am loving this challenge. I'm excited too because my friend Jamie joined in the challenge too!

More to come!

365 Photo Challenge

I've decided to take on a new challenge. The 365 Photo Challenge. I've committed to taking 1 photo every single day. I'll be posting these photos on here, with explanation of each. At first it sounded like an easy challenge, but I'm starting to realize how this might actually be tough. I'm three days in and really digging the idea so far. I'm pretty excited to get to the end of the year and see what I documented this whole time. I wonder how different my life will look one year from now. I'm excited to have a photo documentary of the progressive change!
Thanks to Jackie for getting me into this idea! She's doing the challenge too, so check out what she is up to.
What to join? Check out the details here. If you do join, leave me a comment so I can follow your journey too! So, lets get started....

January 17

This is my messy kitchen. I'm making Royal Icing for decorating sugar cookies.

January 16

This is my lovely fleece electric blanket. Its folded up in the corner because I have to return it. I've had it a few weeks, and fell in love with it. Then, it malfunctioned. I spent 40 minutes on hold waiting for someone from the manufacturer to help me. No one ever picked up the line, so now I'm returning it to Overstock.com. I am so sad to part with it.

January 15

Just came home from the grocery store with all my Special K. I am going to try the 2 week challenge. Day one, photo challenge and Special K challenge. We shall see!

I hope some of you join in this photo challenge!