Wine Season

I can not wait for summer....and wine season!!! I am totally going to spend at LEAST 3 weekends on the back roads of Oklahoma...winding down Route 66 with Ryan and/or my girlfriends, stopping at all of my favorite spots. It's one of my all-time favorite things in the world.

One of my favorite bloggers (I follow total strangers' blogs, it keeps me entertained) posted this recently and I thought it was funny:


“Red, red wine, Stay close to me”
February 10, 2009

Here are five things to remember when you go on a wine tasting tour with your girlfriends (or guy friends, it does not matter)

1) Pack snacks. Everyone knows that food and wine were made for each other and nothing starts a day of early alcohol consumption better than a delicious pic-nick lunch

2) Have a designated driver! No matter how many of those snacks you consume and how stingy the pours may be, no one who has gone through 6 flights of wine should be behind the steering wheel of anything bigger than a Tonka truck. Actually, I take that back…you should avoid Tonka trucks as well. You never know.

3) Do not try anything that starts with the following introduction: “don’t think of this as a wine, think of it as a drink”. Why? Because wine should taste like wine, like dried cherries or Hungarian oak, like steel barrels or apricots, but it should never, ever, under any circumstances taste like Hawaiian tropic tanning oil. Blah. (to both actually)

4) It is hard to determine exactly when you should stop visiting wineries or stop tasting wine. I suggest stopping when you can no longer tell the difference from a pinot gris and a pinot noir or when you think “leather on the nose” is hilarious.

5) When you find a bottle of petite sirah that you love and happens to be offered at a discount, don’t buy all that you can carry. Buy more. You will figure out a way to get it home. Or,your sober driver will figure out a way to get it home. I love sober drivers.

Mark your calendars, girlies!!!

Mick Cornett Should Hire Me

I'm being so good this week! I already worked out 3 days.....Saturday I ran 4 miles, Monday I ran 3 and this morning I did the elliptical for 30 minutes and some weights. Yesssss.

Actually, I only went this morning because Ryan's mom called last night and told me she was coming to drag me out of bed at 5:30am to go to the gym with her. I begged and pleaded...I'm not a morning person!! But she wouldn't take no for an answer. I actually don't feel that bad. I'm a little tired, but that's pretty normal considering Ryan wakes me up every morning at 3:30am when his alarm goes off and he starts getting ready to go to the hospital. I usually can't sleep much after that happens, which is why we go to bed at 9 every night. I HATE IT.

I was so so sooooooo excited this week because I do national public relations for the mayor when he travels. Well, this week he's going to NYC and I've been talking to the usual....David Letterman, Rachel Ray, The Today Show.....only this time I was super successful!!!!!! I have booked Mayor Cornett on: Bloomberg Thursday morning between 7-7:30, Scoreboard with David Asman (Fox Business News Show) Thursday night at 7pm, and GOOD MORNING AMERICA JUST CALLED! Woo hoo! That's big time. Mayor Cornett should have a national Andrea Kurys day for all I do for him. He's going to be talking about the economy, because I pitched an angle that the media is loving right now: Oklahoma City is the #1 most recession proof city in America! Yay us.

Jazz It Up

I am still so in love with Will Stucky. Hahaha!!! Went to see him and Luke play last night at UCO Jazz Lab and they were dreamy. Sigh.

Are Those....Tornado Sirens?

Tornadoes yesterday were exciting....I didn't do any work all afternoon, we just watched the news online and listened to the radio as we ran back and forth from windows back to chair. I love the rush when the sirens go off and like to feel kind of scared.

I have had two VERY close calls with tornadoes in the past two years- once when I was driving home to Ardmore from Denison and the sky turned black. It started to rain so hard I couldn't see out of my window and so I pulled over in Gainesville. All of a sudden I could hear the tornado sirens going off and my car started rocking from the wind. With no visibility, I suddenly became terrified and called my mom screaming and crying because I was preparing to have my car picked up by the tornado with me inside.....eventually it passed, but I gave my mom a heart attack. The next day, I found out the tornado had touched down less than a mile from my car, on the other side of the interstate!!!!!

Then last summer I was at my office up near Quail Springs and the weather guys kept saying all day that the chance of tornadoes were likely. Well, sure enough, around 4pm the storms picked up and the sirens started going off. We turned on the TV, only to hear the storm chaser say that a tornado had touched down at Wiley Post Airport...a few miles down the street from my office. We all ran to our cars and started driving to the mall, but I could see the sky swirling over my car and I was praying for my life as I ran from my parking spot to the front doors, where I was immediately directed to the basement of Macy's. Scary.

Anyways, when I heard that a "large, violent" tornado had touched down yesterday right outside of Ardmore...I texted Meredith (the reporter who replaced me at KTEN) and told her to run! She was hiding in a cellar. Then later I heard that 3 people had died in Lone Grove, which is pretty much Ardmore. This morning they said the death total could be more like 15. Whoah. I wish I could skip work today and go help Meredith with coverage, I used to live for stuff like this. To be out there with all of the national TV reporters, doing stand-ups and being the top story in every newscast- I feel it calling to me.

Social Media Addicts Anonymous

I can't stop twittering, blogging and facebooking at work!! I am addicted. Is there a job I could be doing that would actually benefit from this obsession? New media guru? I'll have to look into that....

But seriously, I find myself checking my twitter account every 20 minutes and I think about things to "tweet" in the car, in the shower, when I'm watching TV. What is it about the micro-blogging that draws people in? I get very excited when somebody new chooses to "follow" me. Sick.

I am dying to watch Gossip Girl and The Bachelor. I made myself go to the gym last night and I ran 2.5 miles! I was DYING. Like red-in-the-face and in danger of passing out. I have 4 major events this month that are motivating me to drop some poundage: Valentine's Day this weekend (obviously too late to see any results, but maybe it will help my self-esteem) The weekend after that is Rhiannon's engagement party in Tulsa and I will be meeting the other fellow bridesmaids I've been in contact with over the past few weeks. Kinda nervous about meeting other girls, I always have been. Then the weekend after THAT is the medical school masked ball and Margaret's bachelorette party in Dallas.

A Trip Across the State Line

I am back from Dallas and I had a great time, as expected....and the weekend disappeared way too fast, also as expected!

Jenny and I had a great time, and now we're both broke, haha. When I got there on Friday I was ready to pass out...so that's what I did. Then we woke up early on Saturday and Jenny and I went to the grocery store to buy stuff for breakfast. We got back to the apartment and Tim cooked up Belgian waffles, we made eggs and bacon and coffee...yum! Then we headed over to the mall and did a little shopping. I took back some clothes to Express and re-purchased them so I could get the Friends and Family discount, heh. I also finally bought some Oscar Blandi dry shampoo from Sephora that I have been dying to get for like a year. It smells like lemons.

We went to see Slumdog Millionaire after that and it was EXCELLENT. I found myself trying not to cry at random times during the movie.

I found out on Saturday morning from the girl who can't keep a secret that the old reporter that took my place in Ardmore is preggo!!! She doesn't even have a real boyfriend, she had been sleeping around with all the cops. Yikes!!!!!

Saturday night we picked up Tim from the apartment and went across the city to a really awesome Mexican restuarant. We had margaritas, mexican beer, fajitas...good times.

Sunday was really short and all we did was eat at Schlotzsky's with Alicia and then read magazines at Barnes and Noble for a few hours and then I had to head home. Or rather, Jenny and Alicia graded papers while I read magazines, haha!

When I got home, Ryan mentioned that he and his mom had talked about me all weekend.

Me: "Huh? About what?"
Ryan: "About us getting married and when it's going to happen."
Me: "Oh reallly."
Ryan: "Yep. I told her I could never find a better girl....."

SO RANDOM. And now I find myself freaking out. Is it going to happen soon???

I'm close to the end...of blogging. I just don't enjoy it like I used to. I think I'm a bit too connected with social media. I update all the time on twitter and facebook, so I feel like I'm repeating things.

Heading to Dallas after work today, I'm excited to see Jenny and get out of town for awhile. The only negative is that the weekend always flies by when I do that. We're going to a wine-tasting and to see a movie, two of my favorite things.

I bought new Spring clothes at Express yesterday, even though I REALLY need to be saving up in case I get laid off. I'm horrible. But it put me in a great mood because I haven't found clothes that I like and that fit me in a long time and I need some.

Ryan and I had another fight about his computer game on Tuesday night and it blew up. We are the worst fighters...we both are so stubborn and bring up every little thing we can think of...we didn't even resolve it, I just told him we needed to go to bed bc it was pointless to keep arguing and in the morning we both said sorry before he left for work. I think we need to see a counselor.