wow, I have been the crappiest blogger known to man lately!! I have been so so busy that I haven’t had time to update anything! Makes me sad, I used to be so good at blogging!

Since my last blog I have been busy working, hanging with family and friends, and just having fun! My beautiful niece Kendall turned a year old!! I also went out for Halloween as a peacock, probably my best costume yet, I’ll post some pictures soon!! I went to Vegas at the beginning of this month to work the SEMA show, basically the biggest car show in the world, and it was awesome! I’ll probably have to post a blog about that all on it’s own!

I’ve got some photo shoots in the works, which I’ll hopefully get done soon! I’m also thinking about dying my hair dark, but haven’t totally convinced myself yet… what do you all think I should do???

Tomorrow is thanksgiving and I’m looking forward to some yummy food and quality family time! I hope everyone else has an awesome day to look forward too!!!

I promise to update on a regular basis!! I’ll post again asap!!

xoxo
- Carley

I’ve been back from vacation for exactly a week now, and I’m already missing the beach! It was so nice to relax and not worry about anything!! We went to Kure Beach, North Carolina! It was a small strip of semi-private beach, and since it was their off season we basically had the whole thing to ourselves!! It was my niece Kendall’s first vacation so this was super exciting for all of us! Thankfully she loved the beach and the ocean and had such a good time!

The vacation consisted of my Mom, sister Jessica, her boyfriend Andy, my niece Kendall, mom’s friend Denise, and two of my best friends Rachel and Nina! We got there Saturday and Nina wasn’t able to join us until Tuesday night but we still had a blast and did lots of fun things, especially Rachel and I who I believe drank all day everyday for 7 days… haha no judgment please!

We spent a lot of time at the beach and in the pool, checked out a really sweet aquarium near where we were staying, we also went to downtown Wilmington a few times… which is actually where they film one of my favorite shows One Tree Hill which was awesome!!!

This is probably going to be a long post, cause I have a ton of pictures to check out below, just figured I’d share! Enjoy!!

First here is the video of my precious little niece unpacking her own suitcase!!

Me on the beach!

My sister and I

My fabulous niece and I

Kure Beach, NC… seriously beautiful!

Kendall at the aquarium taking care of this feisty gator! LOL

Pretty picture at the aquarium!

Rachel and I out at the bar!

Kendall and her mo hawk!  I love her face in this pic!

Kendall’s first vacation!!

Andy, Kendall, and Jess at the pier!

Girls at the pier, checking out the ocean!

Girls out at the club! Me, Jess, Nina, & Rachel!

Wii, at the club!  I LOVE IT!

Rachel and I in the pool!

Fireworks at the beach!

ONE TREE HILL river court!!!

ONE TREE HILL Clothes over Bros!!

Nina, Rachel, and I… and some fabulous margaritas!!!

Yum Yum Yum!

NOW THE BEST PICTURES!!  SCENERY SHOTS!!!!

IF you made it this far, I love you!! hahaha

xoxo
Carley

Last Saturday I decided I wanted to do do something fun outside! I have kayaked lots and lots of times before, while camping, but have lived in Pittsburgh for 23 and a half years and have never done it on the river so close to home! So we went down to the North Shore to check out Kayak Pittsburgh so we could rent some kayaks and hit the river!

It was definitely a lot of fun, going up the river was pretty hard to do against the current, but on our way back we were definitely floating!! hahaha. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking to do something fun out doors before the nice weather comes to an end!!

Check out Kayak Pittsburgh’s website to see rates and times of their two different locations (North Shore and North Park)

xoxo
Carley

I got this in an email, and I found some of them so funny I thought I’d share!

• Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!

• I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”

• More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

• A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

• I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?

• The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.

• Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the “people you may know” feature on facebook people that I do know, but i deliberately choose not to be friends with?

• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or faq’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

• There is a great need for sarcasm font.

• I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.

• The other night I hit a new low at an open bar. I had already hopped on highway blackout when, inevitably I had to find a bathroom. Eventually I decided it was probably on the other side of the bar so I tried to walk over there, but ran into a guy coming the other way. We played that, Both go left, Both go right game to no avail, so I finally put out my hand to guide myself past and that is when I realized, yup, that’s a mirror I just tried to walk through. And the guy on the other side is me. Even cats can recognize their own image.

• How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

• I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

• I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

• The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

• Was learning cursive really necessary?

• Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say

• I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

• My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us”. Classy, bro.

• Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

• How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

• I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

• Everytime I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”

• What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

• While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

• I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

• Eating dessert, skipping class, and having sex all have one thing in common. Once the idea crosses your mind it’s almost impossible not to do it, and if someone else says it out loud, it’s 100% going to happen.

• Bad decisions make good stories.

• If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

• Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

• Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

• On a family vacation one summer, we crossed Wyoming and noted several historical points of interest that we knew of because of “Oregon Trail” We stopped at the famous South Pass to look at the wagon tracks still visible in the dirt. looking out over the landscape, my sister nodded and said grimly, “This is where my oxen always die.”

• There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

• I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

• “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

• While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA. No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don’t win, they are executed.

• I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

• When I meet a new girl, I’m terrified of mentioning something she hasn’t already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking. not that I’ve done it

• I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my itunes.

• Why is a school zone 15 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles…

• As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

• Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

• It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

• I think that if, years down the road when I’m trying to have a kid, I find out that I’m sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.

• Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.

• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There’s nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time…

• My 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day “Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?” How the hell do I respond to that?

• It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

Hey everyone!

A few weeks ago I had an audition… NGK Spark Plugs is starting a new interactive game online, featuring the NKG hotties!!  There is a contest online and one girl will be choosen!!  I would greatly appreciate everyones help in this!!
Just go to this page and vote for me!  Look for the picture posted above!!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE!

Voting ends July 24th, and every vote counts!!

THANK YOU ALL!!