Post-Birthday Post!!

YAYY two posts in one day! Aren't you lucky?!

SO - here are the results of the friendship bracelet contest!!!!

During the blog party, I was receiving comments saying that people could not comment in the blog because they didn't have an account. LAME. Blogger - change that. I want ALLL your comments. Anyways, so at the last minute I posted a Facebook status update that said if you commented on the status, IT WOULD COUNT. And I ended up getting a lot of responses that way, too.

HERE ARE THE WINNERS!!!!! Congratulate them if you see them!!!

Congratulations JENN
Congratulations KERIANNE
Congratulations JOHANNA
Congratulations MEG
Congratulations GREG
Congratulations MATT

SO THOSE were the first six people to comment between the blog AND the Facebook update!! You guys are fantastic and amazing and THANK YOU for being so enthusiastic about the blog party :-)

What you have to do now is EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS!!!!! Copy and paste: captainjulie225@gmail.com into a new message and send me a cute little email!! (the only exception to this is JENN, because she literally lives across the street from me.) EVERYONE ELSE ON THAT LIST, email me your mailing address.... just in case I don't see you IRL. PLEASE! And if I happen to see you IRL, then great, you get your bracelet hand delivered.

If your name is not on that list, don't worry. There will be more opportunities for you to win friendship bracelets. And maybe more fun prizes. WHO KNOWS?! This is blogging 2.0, remember?!?!

I can't believe the great turn out we had for the blog party!!! I was watching my visitor tracking site in REAL TIME and the number of visitors kept going up! I was pretty much on the edge of my seat the whole time, haha. After it was over it was like, PHEEEEWWWW I can breathe. I was so excited.

AGAIN - Thank you everyone for coming to the party! I really, really appreciate your support and well-wishes and love. ♡


So after the blog party - we all went and danced our little faces off! IT WAS AWESOME. And I have lots of pictures to show you!

OH BUT FIRST!!!!

My friend Katie from work and I decided that one day we needed to have "twin day," because we both have the same super cute, grey sweatshirt jacket item. And we planned out this whole outfit to wear with it BUT DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY! So that when we went into work on Friday, everyone was going crazy with how cute and adorable we were :-)

And we both left at the same time, so we went outside around the building and set my iPhone up on my car and did a SELF-TIMER PHOTO!!!! (because i downloaded this free self timer app, which has actually been super helpful!)




WE'RE SO AWESOME. And cute! We both have brown boots, just different shades. YEPP we rock.


OK! So Friday night we went dancing at Central Wave in Dover, NH. Fun dancing there, as always. OMG IT WAS SO FUN.

Here are the photos from the night! And everyone thank MEG, because most of these are hers that I stole off of FB ;-)




Thought we'd start off with the classic, 'outside the bathroom, duck-face' pose. That's me and Meg! Hotties!




Look out!!!! MORE HOTTIES! That's me and Brittany! I tried to get our eyes to look less-alien, but it didn't really work. It's basically just the hottness coming out of our eyes... obvi.


THEN WE DID BIRTHDAY SHOTS!!!!!!!


That's me and Renee'!




Kara, Brittany, and Brittany!

So, we did birthday cake shots, which were actually DELICIOUS. It was sugar, the shot, and a lemon. You licked the sugar off the glass first, did the shot and then sucked the lemon. BIRTHDAY CAKE! For realz. It was great. And fun.




Danielle, me, Kara, Meg!!!! Making duck-faces and throwing up peace signs all over the place.




That's Kara and her boyfriend, Ian! He came! I was happy about that because he's a cool guy.





Meg and Danielle being hott all over the place.






SISTERS!





Gemma, Brittany and me!!!!! LOVE IT! Gem and Brit are sisters!!!! It was sister dancing night.





HEY - IT'S ANOTHER COOL GUY! It's Matt! Meg's husband! Remember I was in their wedding? Aww!!





Wow, ANOTHER cool guy! I know the coolest people. That's me and Greg, right there. Sexy as always.




Also, I know the hottest Brittanys. It's Brittany!!!! YAY! But whyyy didn't I get a picture with Jeff?!?!? Oh well, we'll just all have to go out again!




Danielle, Meg, me and a photobomb by Kara, haha.





Me and Meg as super hotties. I love this one.




Me and Brittany being super sexilicious. I love this one, too.


OOOHHH I HAVE THE BEST FRIENDS. Like, for real. It was so much fun.

They played TOXIC, they played MORE, they played GAGA. It. Was. Awesome. I think Toxic was the best. OMGILOVETHATSONG.

And! As it would turn out, the owner of Central Wave was having a birthday on the 24th (the night we went out), and she found out through... Britt? that it was my birthday on the 25th, so she surprised me on the dance floor with a BIRTHDAY SHOT! Haha. It was great. Yeahhhh it was the best. Like seriously, so much freaking fun.

Then the party continued! Me, Kara, Greg and Ian went to MCDONALD'S. Yep - 24hr dining room! It was also the best. We got shakes. Or, Kara and I got shakes. They were delicious. So much fun.

Saturday was a relaxing day! My Uncle Bob came up from Boston and we hung out and then went to East for some delicious Chinese food. And then had ice cream sundae pie for dessert! With raspberry chocolate chip ice cream! My fave!

Sunday was also a relaxing day! Pretty much just hanging around. Kara and I ran some quick errands. THE ACADEMY AWARDS HAPPENED. I felt like it was anyone's game. There were no real frontrunners in any categories, I thought. So, I was happy with everyone who won. Although I wanted Moneyball to win in the Best Sound category, but I think it went to Hugo. But, Hugo was great! So, everyone was happy.

Monday! Was fun. Hung out with Greg a bit. Then went to trivia! We lost horribly, as always. But it was a fun time. Danielle came! Also, Mary!!! Who was home from break and it was lovely to see, as is always the case. NEXT WEEK - we'll get 'em.

Tuesday! I had a second interview with a company that I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to work for! And I've wanted to work for them for LIKE TWO YEARS. And it would be SO SO SO AWESOME if I get this job. I'll hear by Friday. AAHHHHH I'M SO NERVOUS. It was up in Biddeford, ME, which I never go to and really didn't have any idea how to get there. But, it was easy enough, I suppose.

Tuesday evening I decided that I wanted to go see My Week With Marilyn, which was playing at The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth. I love seeing movies there. These two ladies sitting behind me had seen a lady they knew sitting a few rows ahead and this was their conversation:

LADY 1: Oh, will you look at that, Marianne came with her new boyfriend...
LADY 2: Is that him?
LADY 1: Well he's nothing special.... He must be rich.

These were older ladies. Maybe in their 50's or 60's. I loved this exchange so much. I ended up just going by myself. I had asked a few people and nobody could come. But, I really wanted to see it. I don't think I had seen a movie alone since Revolutionary Road. It's kind of a sad experience. And My Week With Marilyn was a sad movie. So, I came out of the theater feeling kind of melancholy. Seeing everyone with their friends or boyfriends and girlfriends....

But afterwards I went over to Greg's and hung out and watched TV which was very fun. Actually, I had a great time.

Then today, back to the grind. I worked a whole 2.5 hours. I walked into the store and the first thing they said to me was,

MANAGER: Julie! I meant to call you to tell you not to come in..

There was nobody in the store. It was snowing out. So I got to go home at 5.

And now I'm home. Hoping for a snow day tomorrow!!! I need to get cracking on my friendship bracelets.

OK! I think that might be all!!

OH! I wanted to tell you that I have merged the old blog with the new blog. Entries and everything are ALL HERE. So, if you ever need to refer back to an entry to see what was going on in my life during a certain time period (as I frequently do), you can simply use the SEARCH FEATURE located on the left hand sidebar, and search for it! I like the blog merge feature. I like having it all here.

And I'm excited about the ear-piercing event! I wish there was a way we could do it live.... HHMMMMMM. There's probably no way. Unless I brought a camera crew with me.

Anyone out there work on a camera crew...??? And live in the Seacoast area? And want to come with me to get my ears pierced so we can stream it live on the web? Sounds like fun, right? I can pay you in friendship bracelets! Hmm, I wonder if there is a way.

Ruby Tuesday just jumped into my lap, so I guess it's cuddling time.

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!!! And I hope you're enjoying LEAP DAY! Enjoy it! Take a leap of faith or something.

Uh oh, now that I put that idea into my head, I feel like I have to do something daring now. Or bold. Or brave.

TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH! Why not? There's still a few hours left in the day. All those little extra minutes that have been accumulating over the past four years... All that extra time that people complain they don't have. THIS IS IT! Use it wisely!

Ok, maybe I will, too.

HAVE A GREAT NIGHT! We'll talk again soon!!!


❄ ☕ ❆

first blog event!

HI FRIENDS!!!!


I will update more later!

I just quickly wanted to update you about our FIRST BLOG EVENT! I'm not quite sure how this will work.... but start getting excited.

I woke up yesterday morning and decided, "I want to get my ears pierced." And the more I thought about it, the more excited I got because I realized that I could do some kind of video journal, or photo documentation of the entire process. YOU ARE INVITED!

I know this seems like a big decision. But, I mean, I'm 26 now. I think I'm finally ready. I'm also getting lazier about turning pierced earrings into clip-on earrings. It's time consuming. And they break. A lot. And then I have to re-glue them. Over and over. And over. So - IT'S TIME.

JULIE IS GETTING HER EARS PIERCED.

And, I mean, I've had my cartilage pierced before, so I know that it doesn't really hurt. I mean, babies get their ears pierced. And even though I would never pierce my baby's ears, if they can do it, then I can probably do it.

SO THERE'S THE BIG NEWS!


It's been kind of a weird week. Monday was good. Then Monday night got weird. Then Tuesday was kinda stressful. Then Tuesday night was fun. I feel like there are a lot of thoughts going through my mind all the time. Like, racing.

ANYWAYS - hope you all have a great day. I'll update more later on the status of the FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS.


lovelovelove.

AWAY WE GO!

EVERYBODY!!!!!!


GET READY!!!! HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS! GET COMFY!!!! Are you comfy??? Are you excited?!?!?!


GET EXCITED NOW!!!!!!!!!


You may now join me at MY NEW BLOG for the ribbon cutting ceremony, as well as a special welcome video!!


http://everydirectionpossible.blogspot.com/



lovelovelove.

NEW BLOG RIBBON CUTTING EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!!!

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!! The night we've all been waiting for!

WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME to the new blog!!

I'M SO EXCITED YOU'RE HERE!!!!! I think it's going to be a great new change for me and I'm so happy you came to celebrate!

The welcome video is posted in the entry below... AAHHHH MY FIRST VIDEO BLOG!!!! The first of many, I think. It was actually really fun to make. I encourage you to enjoy the video along with a glass of wine, or other alcoholic beverage. It is a party on a Friday night, after all ;-)


****IF YOU WANT A CHANCE TO WIN ONE OF MY 'HANDMADE WITH LOVE AND AWESOME' FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS - BE ONE OF THE FIRST SIX PEOPLE TO COMMENT IN THIS ENTRY!!!!!!!!!****

VIDEO WELCOME!!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!

"you wanted to leave behind such a legacy... nobody else would find"

WHAT'S THE MOST PERFECT WAY TO SAY GOODBYE TO THE OLD BLOG AND RING IN THE NEW ONE??

With a Crash Kings song, OBVI.

I chose one of my faves, 'Carry On.' I love this damn song. Also, the title is kind of fitting. So, this is when me and Ryan saw them in NYC at Irving Plaza LAST OCTOBER. That's way too long ago, if you ask me. Probably if you ask Ryan, too.

We haven't seen these guys in a while over here, so please enjoy :-)





ALSO, this was another video test, haha. I think I'm gonna go YouTube for the video blog. It's a bigger screen, really. Which is the deal breaker.

OK! I hope this works! I hope you all are getting PSYCHED for the party!!! I am!!!


KBYE!!!!!

dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time

SO! I'm putting the final touches on the new blog!! Getting things ready and steady. Perfecting the font sizes, border margins, header title colors... etc. I love that stuff.

I AM SO EXCITED. THIS IS THE BEST WEEK EVER. Seriously - this might be the best week ever. I am so excited this week.

I'm gonna do a video test! Since I'm doing my FIRST-EVER VIDEO BLOG for the party on Friday, I figured I should maybe post a test video in the blog as to make sure it works and is satisfactory.

So, I took this video of Ruby Tuesday the other night. It's quite a gem, in my opinion. She's quite the stunt-cat.






DID IT WORK?!?!?! PLZ let me know! I'm wondering if it would be easier if I uploaded it through YouTube and then did some embed-magic to get it here??? Any video experts out there...?



Here's a picture of a crepe I ate the other morning. With the same cool guy who took me to the Museum of Fine Arts the week before. UMMM, this was delicious. We went to the Silver Moon Creperie in scenic Dover, NH. This particular crepe was filled with ham, cheddar, egg and tomatoes. DELISH. TO THE MAXX. And it came with grapes! Grapes with crepes. It was a great time. Like, a lot. :-)

OK! I think that's it for now. Just kind of a quick update for the video test. Hope you're having a great day!! It's Tuesday! Make it a Ruby one ;-)


LATERZ!

COME ONE, COME ALL!!!

WELCOME TO THE NEW BLOG!!!!

YOU'RE THE BEST!!

THANKS FOR COMING!!

Pink and Ruby Tuesday!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, FRIENDS!!!!



Look at Ruby Tuesday! We took her picture with a heart shaped cookie cutter!! And I thought I'd post it in the Valentine's entry!!!! (She's the best!)

I hope you all wore Valentine's Day colors today!!! Which, Aliya informs me YOU CAN in fact, wear together all year long. My mistake, folks. This is good info!

Hope you all had a wonderful day, ate lots of chocolate and got lots of love letters from all the secret admirers I know you have :) Oh wait, that just sounds like a normal day!!


ANYWAYS, I love you ALL! Thanks for reading! Hope to see YOU at the New Blog Ribbon Cutting next week!!!


LOVELOVELOVE,
Julie

NEW BLOG RIBBON CUTTING EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!

- New blog extravaganza!
- Join me here! That's right, just come to THIS BLOG, and the address to the new blog will be posted.
- 24 February 2012, 6:30pm


Join me for:
- my second ever online ribbon cutting ceremony!
- first ever video post!


PRIZES!!!!
- the first SIX PEOPLE to leave a comment either on FACEBOOK OR THE NEW BLOG will be mailed a handmade, one-of-a-kind FRIENDSHIP BRACELET!! (made by me!)

Gotta love prizes.


OK!!!! So that's the story on the new blog! I hope all you readers can make it!!


It's been kind of a while since I updated! I bet you think a lot has been going on! Nope! Not really!! Same old, same old.

Well. Some exciting things have been happening. I will recount them here.

THE FIRST THING!

I voted today!!! In a SPECIAL ELECTION!!! Just for Berwick. If you've been following the news out of Berwick, Maine (what's that...you say you haven't been...Fair enough.), then you know that there is major controversy over the three sketchy selectmen/woman who have been trying to pull all kinds of tricks behind the townspeople's back. NOT ANYMORE! Today we voted on whether or not to get them outta there so they can't be reelected. I like voting. I like it a lot.

Ok. Now I have some important photos to show you. I'm just gonna go right down the line here...



Yep. That's Ruby Tuesday, right there. She's sleeping on my bed on the blanket that Maria made for me. I found that blanket a few weeks ago and said, "Oh, Ruby used to love this blanket when she was little, I'll put it on my bed for her." Turns out - she still loves it. I woke up one morning last week and she was sleeping like this. I have no idea how she got herself covered up. But I don't mind - IT'S PRETTY CUTE.



This now, was a separate day. I think it might have been the next morning, or something. Still sleeping on the blanket. I woke up, looked at her and said, "ooo JACKPOT." Then immediately reached over for my phone and snapped this gem. Her little paw is covering her little face!!!! UGHHHHH WHYYY IS SHE SO SWEET?!?!!?!??! We really lucked out with that one. She's the best. No, really, she's the best.




Speaking of the best.... THIS PHOTO WAS A GREAT DAY!!! So, we all know my best friend Maria. She is frequently mentioned in this blog. WELL, Maria has a little sister who is equal in awesome and I love her so much. And there was one particular Saturday that I thought, "Hm, I wonder if Joshie wants to go out for lunch?!" And she did!!! It was a date!!! So I picked her up and we drove over to one of the finest establishments in Dover, NH, Friendly's, and we had a delightful lunch!

At the end of our meal, we both got out our super cool shades to put on, and then naturally decided to put them on our drinks. To make our drinks looks super cool. Yep, that's my Fribble. DELISH. If you don't love a Fribble, then you don't have a heart. And that's Joshie ducking down in the background, haha. She's the best! I had such a fun date with her!


POETRY BREAK!!!!!!!!

I thought you might be getting sick of hearing what I have to say... and maybe you want a little more poetry in your life. Who doesn't want that?

So, remember the Blog Reader Haiku Challenge??? You all write me a haiku and I'll post it in the blog?!?!? YEP! That one! Well, I've gotten TWO MORE haikus to post for you!

KEEP SENDING 'EM!!!! I love it.

Let's enjoy the poetry stylings of...


MATT

eat honey mustard
amazing nectar of Gods
love honey mustard


DK

the world speeds forward

like a never ending stream

flowing icily

GREAT JOB, GUYS!!!!! Me and Matt are huge fans of honey mustard, so I was especially excited when he sent that one in. If you want YOUR haiku posted in THIS BLOG, then write one (3 lines, first line has five syllables, second line has seven syllables, and third line has five again) and email it in! Blog email address posted to your left!!

<<--- GREAT!



Aanndd, now! Some more visual displays that I've done at work!

The Spring 2 floorset called for more flying people, so I was excited for the challenge! After having done it once, I was more confident that I would do a nice job. And this time it was in men's AND women's!

It was definitely harder because there was more layering going on in the clothes... but we did it a different way. Jen had these huge wooden dowels, and I dressed the dowels and then suspended them from the walls and ceiling....

Check out the spring jackets!







I dressed that classy lady sitting on the table in the front, too. I think it came out pretty awesome.

Now, for the men's section, the way the walls were and the way the ceiling tiles were placed, I ended up needing to screw hooks into the wall in order to hold the display up.

I may not look like it, but I'm actually pretty handy.





Came out great, I think. Every time I walk in the store, I look over to make sure both sections are still up. Still makes me nervous. It's hard work making those displays. And being up on the ladder all day is HOT. It's hot up there. But, worth it.


SO!

I made a new friend last week at trivia night at Fury's. And on Thursday night we went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston together! And it was super, super fun and TURNS OUT you are allowed to take pictures of the art!

Here are some of my faves:




This was a large glass case with these vase-like objects in it, and every way you looked at it, it looked like infinity. It was so cool. I think this picture came out pretty rockin'.




Ship captain or postman??? YOU DECIDE!!!!





These above two were NOT done by the same artist! Amazing! Because they look similar. Both beautiful.




This was another fancy effect, where it looked like the spiral went to infinity! Loves it!

We had a great time! After we went over to Chinatown for some delicious tea and then strolled around the Boston Common. Fun times. A lot. :)


So, I don't know if you realized the date of the Blog Extravaganza.... but it's ONE DAY before my birthday!! That's right! I chose that special day so that it will be a TRIPLE THREAT weekend!!!

FEB 24th - blog ribbon cutting
FEB 25th - JULIE'S BIRTHDAY
FEB 26th - Academy Awards!!!

Three of my favorite things in one weekend!! There will be LOTS of celebrating! There's another celebration happening that weekend over at Eddie Bauer where I work, because the FIRST EDDIE BAUER STORE opened on February 25! Haha. I think that's kind of hilarious that it's also my birthday. Meant to be, I guess.

So - get ready for the big triple threat weekend. I can't wait. My birthday is my favorite day of the whole year.


Greg and I went to see The Woman In Black the other night. AAHHHHHH. OMG it was super scary and creepy. It was like one of those movies where you are constantly holding your breath and things make you jump. It was like a jumpy scary movie. Really good, though. Sad, also. Daniel Radcliffe was good. It only took me a few minutes to get into the "not Harry Potter" mindset. The first big conflict and I semi-expected him to yell for Ron and Hermione. But! He didn't. And he pretty much tackled the demons by himself. Good movie. CREEPY movie. Theater was packed.


OK!! I think that's it! Tomorrow is Valentine's Day! DON'T FORGET TO WEAR PINK OR RED!!!! Purple is also accepted AS LONG as it's worn with pink. It's the only day of the year where that color combo is allowed.

Hope everyone has a great day! Talk to you soon!!


lovelovelove,
Julie