weekend recap...on wednesday.

Apologies for the lag, my friends.  I started my new job and am currently getting my routine down.  I had big plans to post on Friday, but I forgot that I would be leaving out that day for a girls trip to Broken Bow, Oklahoma. 
Oooh, yes. Girls Trip!
My awesome friends from the old job back home invited me out for a weekend in an amazing cabin.  *sigh*  Just what I needed.

What a view, right!?

 

I seriously love me some cabin living.  I'm ready to go back now.  I'm thinking the next trip will be with the mister though.  It's about time that we took a little trip and got away.

But!  Back to the trip. :)

It was awesome to reunite with my hometown friends again...and go back to being "Rowdy".  I miss being "Rowdy".  I love my nickname...it's just me. 

Well, we definitely had too much fun.  We even managed to get out and hit up The Blue Rooster's 2nd Annual Crawfish Boil while we were there.  Yeehaw!!

 



I made a new friend...

 Good grub and large metal chickens?  I'm down.  Plus, I'm always down to contribute my artwork to a butcher paper tablecloth.



Rowdy Row in true comic book fashion.  BAM!

 During our photo shoot outside of The Blue Rooster, we were photo bombed by Uncle Phil's look-alike.  A little unnerving when he didn't smile.  The product looks like what would have been our last photo before being kidnapped by his mountain man self.

Tell me I'm right....
Luckily, we lived to tell the tale.  We also lived to make it back to the cabin and prepare a huge spread for our "Last Supper." 

Can I just say that I huge fan of weekends full of shenanigans?  Because that was this weekend.  I'm ready for the next reunion.  I miss my friends already.

How was your weekend?  Hopefully just as amazing as mine...  Let me know!

Anyone ever been to Broken Bow?

 

 

merry friendsmas.

This week, I celebrated my First Annual Friendsmas with my new crew here in my new town.  (#34 on my 35 Before 35 - done!)  To those of you that are new here, I recently discussed the difficulty of making new friends for the thirty-somethings.  Thankfully, I have been able to make some friends through work.  They are affectionately deemed K-Hop, MoJack & J-Wil.  
Friendsmas became a thing for me years and years ago.  Now that I'm in a new place, (and I've actually managed to make some friends) I felt it was time to implement the First Annual Friendsmas here.
J-Wil wasn't able to come since she's off in Cancun or someplace with her hubby.  Whatev.
But, K-Hop and MoJack were in!  We met up at Bayou Jack's and exchanged gifts. 

K-Hop, me & MoJack.

You have to appreciate friends who understand your geekish ways.  K-Hop surprised me with a new addition to my tree.  I was just talking about my Christmas tree and how much I needed more geeky ornaments and she has blessed my tree with this awesomeness...

 

Perfect timing!  And you know that when he's not gracing the Christmas tree, that he'll be on desk at work.  I love him!

The thing that did go on my desk immediately, is MoJack's sweet gift -- a Funko POP Darth Vader Vinyl.  

Now, we all know that I have an unhealthy obsession with Funko POP Vinyls.  This has spurred an even greater want. Ugh.  All the Funkos are belong to me!

 MoJack is a HUGE Potterhead, so one of her gifts included a wand.  I have seriously never seen anyone so excited about such a small gift.  I'm 100% certain that she brought it to work.  No lie. Of course, I've never read or seen any of the Harry Potter business.  I know how excited I got when I saw Funko POP Darth.  There was literally a squee heard throughout Bayou Jack's.

 We ended the night by going to see Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.  Too much fun.  I'm thinking that we'll need to start planning a GNO once a month now. 

I'm pretty excited about my new friends.

Do you do anything special for the holidays with your group of friends?  What kinds of things do you do?  I might need some ideas!