happy st. patrick's day

this weekend has been both fun and traumatically draining. so i'm sitting here enjoying left over st pattys day dinner from yesterday in for form now of corned beef hash  finally feeling back to my normal self.

homemade hash - put left over corned beef, cabbage, onion, potatoes, and carrots in a food processor. chop. fry. enjoy

friday boyfriend and i went out with some friends and coworkers to send off a coworker to a new job. had an absolute blast as expected. saturday morning we decided we were going to go geocaching and got ready to go, put the dog in the harness and stepped outside. well she got out of her harness in two seconds and bolted into traffic and across one of the most high traffic streets in my town and kept going, boyfriend chasing after her of course. i was absolutely horrified that i would be finding all 11 lbs of her turned into a minpin pancake. thankfully she darted into a cemetery and became distracted by a pile of snow so boyfriend was able to snatch her up. i have never felt more relieved in my life. needless to say, boyfriend shredded her old harness and neither of us wants to walk her. in fact, i want to move her into the suburbs with a nice fenced in yard. shes a clueless barely 4 year old pup.

i took shelbie, my miracle of a minpin, to my mothers afterwards where of course my niece who is obsessed with her is there declaring her love for "shelldie" and hugging her nonstop which of course sparked some waterworks. go figure. i'm just eternally relieved that she is ok.


thursday was the day i found more issues wrong with the car i am going to finally pay off next month. isnt that always the way? i'm super bummed because i was hoping to get to florida for my friends baby shower. i have a feeling that might not happen at this point. i'll probably be able to make it down for her birthday two weeks after which is more financially realistic for me. i feel like i am consistently a victim of murphy's law. i'll never get used to it but i'm still smiling.

my boyfriend and i did make it to see coheed and cambria at the house of blues in boston, which was an excellent show. he's not a huge fan of them but still went with me. they are a band i have wanted to see for a while not but timing, funds, and company never really lined up. (for some reason i just can not seem to go to concerts by myself) the show was everything i had expected and i was glad i got a chance to go. i did feel bummed for the friends i bought the tickets off of last minute but i think i had enough fun for the three of us.

anyways. i can not wait for spring. warm weather and more geocaching, bike riding, beach bumming, and ice cream. i just can not wait to pay off this car however. my auto loan has become an unbelievable financial burden on top of my other debts. i just can not wait to be able to put that money towards something else. i am bummed that it's increasingly difficulty to fix my car as its a suzuki and with suzuki pulling out of the US auto industry i'm just going to assume it's going to be more difficult to fix this car. i'm not ready to trade it in yet. but when it is time, i'm probably going to be at a toyota or ford dealership. oh lordy.

hope everyone has a nice week. take care.