Happy Birthday Tweaker!

This is a birthday shout-out to one my besties, Shannon. Happy 31st Beautiful lady! I have known Shannon for 22 years now! So here are a few of my favorite Beaner and Tweaker moments:

Spillin' the wax and driving on the wrong side of the road

Crashin' into the snowbank

The stalking route...

The "Jasper" day. JASPER NO! "I retrieved these for you."

Babysitting, Dave Doe and the Marjoram spices

Osakis Road Trip!

The Works Bombs at Cindy's Cabin

Dracula!!! AH HA HA HA!

Celebratin' over Oysters

Last night, I met with Kelly to celebrate her final days as a teacher. She writes about the experience here, and says it way better than i could. I am very proud of her, I know that even though teaching wasn't her thing, it is a very tough thing to walk away from a career. It is so easy to get stuck in a rut and just stay in a career you hate, but are too afraid to move on. A big round of applause for Kelly's perseverance and her chutzpah to step out and take a chance! Bravo!
So to celebrate we met at Stella's Fish Cafe in Uptown. We enjoyed 2 for 1, delish apps and Oysters. Kelly is one of the few people i know who enjoys seafood as much as i do, and not just the basics like shrimp. But good things like, Mussels and Oysters. The oysters there were fresh and salty sweet... mmmm.

Survey Says...

First and Middle Name: Sabrina Marie
Nicknames: B, Brina, Brie, Brie-Brie, Breanie, Bean, Beena, Beaner, Sabs, Sabby, Sabro, Sabideau, Tina
Hometown: Watertown, MN
Have you ever gone skinny dipping? Yes, At summer camp
Have you ever been convicted of a crime?: crimes of passion
One pillow or two?: One
Pets: Cat named Marius
Favorite Type of Music: Yodeling
Favorite Book: We the Living by Ayn Rand and Les Miserables by Hugo
Favorite Movie: It's a Wonderful Life
Dream Car: Jeep Grand Waggoner with Wood Side Panelling
Type of Car you drive now: Subaru Legacy
Words or Phrases you overuse: Your mom
Toothpaste: Whatever is on sale
Favorite Food: Pad Thai
Crush: Chuck Bass
Piercing or tattoos?: No tats, just my ear's pierced
Most romantic thing that ever happened to you: It's a secret.
Do you get along with your parents: love them!
Favorite town to chill in: Paris
Best Trip Ever Taken: Trinidad & Tobago
Favorite Ice Cream: Pink Peppermint
Favorite Soft Drink: I don't drink soda
What's your bed time: 9:30pm weeknights, 1:00/2:00am weekends
Favorite Perfume/Cologne: Spring Fever by Origins and boys ALWAYS smell good wearing Cool Water (im old school)
Favorite Song at the moment: If It Kills Me, by Jason Mraz
Favorite Website: Blogs, it's all about the blogs
Least Favorite Subject in School: MATH!
Favorite Sport to Watch: Baseball
Most Embarrassing Moment: Sending a mean email accidentally to the person i was saying mean things about!
Loudest person you know: Myself
Craziest person you know (or silliest): Liz
Favorite Holiday: Christmas
What do you look for in the opposite sex?: if they are breathing
Favorite number: 17
Favorite color: Pink
Greatest experience in your lifetime: traveling around Europe
Why are you here on earth?: i think my mom and dad must've had intercourse
Who means the most to you?: your mom
Favorite Quote: Should=Shame=Puke

Ped Egg Scares Me

Have you seen the commercial for the Ped Egg? That little device that you hold in the palm of your hand that scrapes away the dead skin on your feet? I'm sorry but that thing gives me the he-be je-bees. I'm not sure if its the thought of scraping skin off, which reminds me of grating cheese or the commercials where the lady dumps about a cup of dead skin into her garbage can. I think i just threw up in my mouth.

And yet I am mildly intrigued and I might just have to try it sometime. Conundrum.

The Four Factor

There is something about a group of 4 girls that just seem to work.

In elementary school I was part of a group of 4 girls, and we were called the Jean Jacket Girls. We ALWAYS wore our stone washed jean jackets. Always! In 5th\6th grade we ruled the school and we were the coolest girls around. I'm not even joking, we were cool (probably the only time in my life). We had sleepovers, wore the same clothes, we all were in gymnastics and we all made up dance routines to Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. Did I also mention that we all had perms, bad ones, and we wore pink frosted lip gloss everyday.

Me, Rachel, April and Nissa... Something right out of a Judy Blume novel. Are you There God, It's me Margaret could have been us!

The same with Little Women; Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg, that was the 1865 version of us. And then I guess the modern day version would be the ladies of Sex and The City.

I have lost touch with all but one of the Jean Jacket Girls, and now i have a new four-some group; Me, Shannon, Jaime and Cindy. We are pretty cool, minus the bad perms and frosted pink lip stick.

Basically, there are always 4 types of personalities in a group of 4 girls:

The Goody-Goody: She is the girl, who is proper, would never do anything bad, has a sweet good natured personality, optimistic. Will always look out for your best interest, always considers your feelings, remembers your birthday, tells you that you are beautiful on your ugliest day and will always be there for you no matter what.

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The A-Type: Works very hard to get what they want, often the athletic one, intellectual, takes life seriously, often a bit cynical, no-nonsense. Will tell you strait up when you have messed up, but will hold your hand when you are crying, and she might even cry with you. might.

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The Rebel: Constantly pushing her limits, going against the grain, big into peer pressure, likes to do things just to get a rise out of people, lots of boyfriends. Adventurous, can be potty mouth and crude at times. Will always have your back in a bar fight. Always.

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The Star: Quirky and often random. Passionate about life and little on the daring side, not afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Boys love her but has a hard time settling with one. All around great girl, friends with everyone and cares about everyone in return. Holds everything together, peace maker and well loved.

Obsession #1

I am a lip gloss junkie. I just counted over 20 different lip glosses in my purse. I do not know why i am so crazy for the gloss but i am and i cant stop the addiction. One is never enough. It doesnt even matter the brand, I wear lip gloss from Chanel but I also wear lip gloss from Wet n' Wild too, there is no bias.

But do you want to know what is really strange? If i were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring one cosmetic item you know what it would be?

You are thinking... lip gloss?

Sorry charlie, it would be Mascara.

A Very Good Weekend

I was excited to finally get to the weekend. The past week had been long with it being the last week of school and packing up the library, i was ready to have a whole weekend for fun.

I am happy with the way my weekend went, busy, fun, productive and relaxing. Friday night Jaime, Cindy and Shannon came over to see the house and have a girl's night. Cindy had been in Europe the past few weeks, so we were all very happy to have her back. She even brought us Belgium chocolates and a beautiful flower basket for my house. We kicked back in the backyard, listening to Mraz, drinking margaritas and playing "Bad" Badminton. Even Marius crashed girl's night and wanted to be a part of the action.

Nothing changes with the 4 of us, we always laugh and we always start up right where we left off. We crashed early because we are now old and got up early because we are dorks.

Saturday i spent the day weeding (Kelly i need you!) and planting some annual seeds. I ended up planting, Sunflowers, Zinnias, Cosmos, Pinks and Morning Glories. It was so wonderful to be outside in my very own backyard, planting my garden. I love dirt.

Saturday night was a flurry of fun and silliness. My co-worker Janine invited me to her bachelorette party. We started at her house, made our way to Chino Latino for dinner. Then we went downtown for Lemon Drop Martinis at the Palomino, then Dueling Piano's and lots of singing at the Shout House. Then dancing at Drink. There we met some very funny Englishmen. They insisted that i wiggle my nose (must be the combination of Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage witch?) I was also proposed to by one of the Brits, when I declared Churchill a brilliant man. I think what i was told was, "Sabrina you are lovely, I'm in love, will you marry me?"

Hmmm.... Too bad it took me this long to find out all i needed to do to get proposed to was wiggle my nose and talk Churchill. Ha.

Sunday my parents came over to hang out on their 34th wedding anniversary. I made them shrimp and steak kabobs on the grill and chocolate cake (not made on the grill)

We played some more "Bad" Badminton and had a great ol' time. I call it "bad" badminton because I lost all the shuttle cocks\birdies so I play it with a wiffle ball. It works. kind of.

Later sweet Ellen came over for visit. She brought me my favorite Joseph Friedrich Riesling. Nice girl. We chatted and enjoyed the outside weather and then i made brats on the grill for us.

Now i am winding down. Getting ready for another week... With the tedious task of textbook barcoding. help.