Buzz, Your Girlfriend! Woof! (or a Christmas month)

Okay, so I've failed at updating the blog.  Things got busy over the holidays with the boyfriend in town and then Christmas going on, so here's a quick (or not so quick) recap.

Christmas really started for me with the arrival of Scott the weekend before Christmas.  We spent the next 6 days having a little Christmas of our own.  We kicked things off with a nice dinner and off to the square to look at Christmas lights and take pictures.

Above may be the only actual good photo we took.

Sunday we woke up and exchanged Christmas gifts, and then made a gingerbread house.

The side of the house may just have candy shoved on the side of it.  Then we ordered a large cheese pizza to watch Home Alone together.  These are new Christmas traditions that I look forward to doing again.

Another tradition I continued is dressing up my cat Peewee for Christmas. This year he was the angriest  reindeer of all:

For early Christmas, my grandmother decided to do something new this year.....We each received the same sock monkey pjs.  I've never laughed so much seeing my family all dressed up in the same clothes:

The entire Cathey Clan

These aren't so flattering, but I love seeing my cousins and my brother.

My brother got my mom, dad, and I all a forever lazy.  Apparently figure flattering gifts were on my list this year.....

It really was a great Christmas.  My parents got me the red kitchen aid mixer I've been wanting since college.  It's a lot of fun to get together with everyone.  As I get older, I really do realized how much I love my family.  I hope you had a Merry Christmas too!  I can't believe 2012 is almost here!

Baseball Winter Meetings

Since Sunday, I've been in Dallas for Baseball Winter Meetings.  It's one of my favorite parts about my job honestly.   I get to do what I do best, meet and interact with my clients.

This year was my second one to attend.  It's 2.5 long days on my feet, but it can be a lot of fun.  MiLB workers are a lot of fun when they get together.  My favorite part of the trade show is wondering around grabbing food from all the vendors.  The dip n dots are by far one of my favorite booth.  It was also pretty cool seeing the sets of Sports Center and MLB Network filming while I was there.

This year was extra fun because my boyfriend was there.  I actually met him in September of last year at my very first trade show ever.  I was nervous and had no clue what I was doing.   If you ask him, he attempted to talk to me, and I ignored him.  Any by ignore him, I mean he thought I was a terrible bitch.  In December at my first Winter Meetings, I had a lot fun getting to meet my clients face to face, but I was still shy.  At the Gala I spent a lot of time sitting at a table with my manager and his friends.  24 year old me with a group of 55+ older guys.  Scott luckily decided to come say Hi to me.  We bumped into each other again later that night and ended up talking for 5 hours in a hotel lobby.  After we had many conversation of him informing me that he "wasn't hitting on me" and I may have drunkenly informed him that I was getting new boobs in January, I had to leave.  Me being hard headed, declined his offer of walking me to my car, but I did think "it's too bad he wasn't hitting on me"  We very much clicked, and 9 months of thousands of text messages and facebook messages later....we saw each other again.  You never really know how things are going to work out, so it was very fun being together a year later.

This year's Gala took place at the Texas Rangers stadium.  It was my first time to ever go into a MLB ball park.  It was really cool to check out the locker rooms and actually get to walk on the field.  Despite not really going to many baseball games, I really enjoying working with baseball teams.

Scott and I on Ranger's Field 

Ranger locker room.  It also included a poker table.  I also learned about taking the bat to the bone.  Which I may have picked up several times, and gotten several looks at from the Rangers Staff that said "PUT THAT DOWN" 

Rangers Field.  I really do need to make it to an actual game.