We suck at keeping in touch. . .

Which is why we ("we" being Kelly, Mike will find out when he gets home from work) have decided to start ourselves a blog! No promises about how often we'll get a chance to post, but something is better than nothing, eh?

These last couple of weeks have been absolutely nutty. Starting with my birthday, I feel like we've been spinning out of control. Since I know I would burn myself out on this whole blogging thing right from the start if I went into a lot of details, here are the overviews:

-- I had FOUR great birthday celebrations (birthdays are a huge deal for only children). First, we had a family celebration at Rock Bottom, then on the actual day we went to the Rio with a bunch of friends, Friday I had a co-celebration with my mom at Cheesecake Factory (which was not busy at all even though it was a Friday night. I couldn't believe it! I think it's because it was right before the DNC and people were afraid of downtown), and on Saturday night we rented a condo in the mountains with 8 other people. It was so fun to enjoy the mountains with my closest friends, especially because they were all still adjusting to the altitude :)

-- Six friends of mine were in town for the DNC, which was awesome. I love hanging out with those friends from college that I miss so much, though it almost makes me miss them more when they leave. We basically did something together every night, and I was working, which left me feeling very full on my extrovert meter. Luckily Mike got to stay home a few of the nights to re-charge his introvert meter :)

-- On Thursday afternoon, I was walking down 17th street and Hillary Clinton pulled up! She got out of the car and stood about 5 feet from us and talked for a minute. It was REALLY cool! I'm not much of a Hillary fan, but it's still cool to run into a celeb like that! Also on Thursday I ended up with passes to see Barack's speech. I even got to sit club level! What a huge treat! Barack is so inspiring to me. I especially liked the way he was kind and supportive of McCain and talked about how much he knows McCain loves our country. I thought his behavior was a lot more respectable than some of the meanness that is coming out of some Republican mouths lately.

-- On Friday, I interviewed for a job that coworker had randomly called to offer me. It is a job in the marketing department of an international environmental engineering company. I have decided to accept the job. It will be great experience in all aspects of marketing, I'll be travelling some, I'll be doing some event planning, and there is talk that they want to make me senior level next year. So, overall it's a great opportunity for us to pay off my debts and for us to save up some money for a couple of years. I am not looking forward to getting back into the 9-5 grind again, though!

-- Sunday was the CU-CSU game. We grilled up Buff burgers and then sat in the second row on the 30 yard line. Our seats were pretty incredible. Too bad the Rams couldn't pull off a win. Now I'm stuck doing all of Mike's chores for a week. . .

Whew, blogging is hard work! That's all I can handle for now-- We'll try our best to keep you updated as new developments unfold ;) Talk to you soon!