Toile Butterfly

Ten Things

2006-06-19T20:54:00.000-04:00

Sorry I've been such a slacker...

Requested by Valerie

10 Things I love:

1. Nic
2. Sadie
3. Swimming
4. Ice Cream
5. Crab Cakes
6. All things Irish (especially Irish Dancing)
7. Orchids
8. My ipod
9. Playing the flute
10.Moulin Rouge soundtrack

10 Things I'm fascinated by:

1. The intricacy of the human body, how so many important things happen in such tiny little cells
2. How people can just make up recipes out of nothing and it tastes good
3. Pregnancy
4. How music is composed
5. People who have never eaten fast food
6. The differences between men and women and how they compliment each other so well
7. How puppies grow so fast
8. People who are good at decorating
9. People who can accessorize
10.How every DVD has at least one moment when it pauses for about 1 second

Pictures of Sadie

2006-04-27T07:32:00.000-04:00

Here are some pics from the day we brought Sadie home. Then she was probably about 3-4 pounds. Now she is about 6 pounds or so. We have yet to get a GOOD picture of her because she is always on the go and moving it hard to keep her still.

Sadie, Sadie, Pretty Lady

2006-04-14T07:34:00.000-04:00

My new puppy is the cutest thing ever! She is so much fun to have around. For those of you who didn't know we got a puppy, check out A Creehan Family for more info. Anyway, I thought I'd leave this post to telling a cute story about her. Every day I come home at lunch time to let her out and let her play for a few minutes. We have been trying to train her on a leash. Well she is not too fond of the leash and prefers to play with it instead. So I decided to sit down on our patio step while she proceeded to bite the leash, pull on it, and run away with it in her mouth (it is one of those retractable one's). I figured she was doing this as her way of saying "Mom I hate this thing, I want to take it off. " So I uncliped it from her collar. She didn't realize this because she was still biting on it. She then proceeded to continue to run away with it, this time when she let go it came quickly back to me. She thought this was a fun game so she would run back to me, grab it, run away, and let go again. Anyway, this may be a long post just to tell this story, but it was really cute and fun to see her figure out the game.

Kiss me I'm Irish

2006-03-17T14:15:00.000-05:00

Happy St. Patty's Day to all!! This is a fun holiday for Nic and our family since we love to cling to our Irish roots. Last year I decided I wanted to start a tradition of always having sheppard's pie on St. Patty's Day. Last year I acutally made it with the traditional lamb, however, I didn't really care for it. So this year my plan was to make it with ground beef. However, I currently don't have any of the ingredients so I'd have to go to the store and buy them. Well, since we actually have a life this year and we are planning to go out, I have decided not to make it. So much for a tradition :) Maybe I'll start the tradition next year?

Apologies

2006-03-07T17:13:00.000-05:00

I'm Sorry!! I'm becoming one of "those" people. You know who I'm talking about...the people who only update their blogs every month. I truly am sorry I really haven't been on the internet too much lately. I am even behind on reading other people's blogs.
So what have I been doing? Well there's a few thing:

1.) Last week I was sick and feeling crummy
2.) I've been somewhat studying for a test I hope to take in September
3.) I am now involved in the Worship Ensemble at my church (this requires my practicing my flute regularly so that I don't sound awful)
4.) Nic's parents came over to see our house and have dinner this past weekend
5.) I finished reading The Two Towers and have moved on to The Return of the King which has been very good. This is probably the biggest reason why I haven't blogged b/c at night when I have time to get on the internet, I'd rather read the book.
6.) I've also being doing a bible study called Believing God by Beth Moore which is awesome and requires my time in the evenings as well.
7.) Lastly I have been just hanging out spending some Quality Time with my hubby :)

So there you have it these are the reasons I have slacked in my updating you on the goings on of Kate. And if any of you are intersted, Nic has now made a blog for the goings on of "a new Creehan family" (that's us) which just gives some updates on what we are up to.

Two Tube Toothpaste

2006-02-16T19:50:00.000-05:00

We are down to the bottom of a tube of toothpaste that we bought recently. It's one of those kinds with the dual action stuff. So there is really two tubes of different kinds of paste within the one tube. Or maybe ther is 4 tubes inside the one tube because they come out of 4 different holes. Anyways....The blue color is supposed to be fore cleaning while the white is for whitening. Well now that it is down to the bottom of the tube, it is hard to get the right proportion (if any proportion at all...sometimes only one kind will come out) to come out of the tube. Nic expressed this dislike of these kinds of toothpaste as soon as we opened this one. But I just said, Oh it's no big deal! But now I totally see where he's coming from, how can you get good clean teeth if only the whitening paste comes out!!! So to all of you I recommend not getting the dual tube toothpaste in you brushing futures!!

Olympics

2006-02-14T17:44:00.000-05:00

Is anyone watching the olympics? I've watched it a few times. My favorites are the pairs skating, luge, and speed skating. I haven't seen the skeleton but that seems really neat. Do you have any favorites?

The Revolution

2006-02-04T16:15:00.000-05:00

Last weekend Nic and I went to Game Stop and took in his broken xbox and some games that he had for it to see what kind of money we could get back for it. With his earnings he bought me a headset and karaoke revolution. He has seen me at a few parties over the past few years thouroughly enjoy playing this game along with some of my friends. The only version available at that time was #2. I had never played this one before so it was cool to get some new song choices. So I've played it a few times an its pretty fun!! It's definitly much more fun to get to play it with a bunch of friends. However many of my friends that I've mentioned it to don't seem too excited to come and play with me. I know that there are a few out there though that will join me. Nic even has tried it out in the comforts of our own home. He would never do it in front of anyone but me, but it makes it much more fun to know that he will play with me some too! So sometime in the near future I am hoping to have a girls night where we can maybe drink some wine, have some yummy treats, and play karaoke revolution until our hearts content!

Four Things

2006-01-30T20:23:00.000-05:00

Valeree tagged me for this so here you go...enjoy :)

Four jobs I’ve had

1. Dietitian
2. Peer Advisor at library in VT
3. Waitress and Assistant Manager of Joes Diner
4. Lifeguard

Four movies I can watch over and over

1. MoulinRouge
2. Miss Congeneality
3. My Fair Lady
4. One Fine Day

Four places I’ve lived

1. Hanover Avenue, Richmond, VA
2. Columbia, MD
3. Janie Lane, Blacksburg, VA
4. Powhatan, VA

Four TV shows I love

1. Extreme Makover Home Edition
2. CSI (the original)
3. Charmed
4. American Idol

Four places I’ve vacationed

1. Nassau, Bahamas
2. Nags Head, NC
3. Hawaii
4. Grand Canyon

Four of my favorite dishes

1. Pizza (especially the kind I make at home)
2. Taquitos at any Mexican Restaurant (not like the frozen ones you buy)
3. Homemade Mac and Cheese (my mom's recipe)
4. Crabcakes

Four sites I visit daily

1. CNN
2. Weather
3. The Shallow End
4. Made in Richmond

Four places I would rather be right now

1. Resort in the Carribean
2. On a date with my husband
3. Blacksburg, VA
4. Ireland

There you have it!

Happy Birthday Wolfie

2006-01-30T20:09:00.000-05:00

Nic got us some tickets to go see the Richmond Symphony at the science museum on Sunday. It was the kicked back classics celebrating the 250th birthday of Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I learned all kinds of interesting info about this
genius composer during our evening of entertainment. Such as he composed his first symphony when he was just 8 years old and that when he was 12 he composed his first well known symphony. Also the song "Rock me Amadeus" is about this famous Austrian composer. Anyways, it was lots of fun, it was very relaxed and there was even free birthday cake :)

Here we go...Steelers...

2006-01-30T20:04:00.000-05:00

Here we go...Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl!! I just want to give a shout for the Steelers and how excited I am that they are going to the Super Bowl. I cannot remmeber the last time that there was a team that I actually cared about in this monumental game. It should be a fun and exciting game since it will be Bettis's last and in his hometown!! You can bet on Sunday I will have on my black and white and spinning my terrible towel!

DOG SHOW!!

2006-01-23T20:35:00.000-05:00

Now before you get too excited, this is not about the great SNL skit you may think it's about. No really I wanted to tell about how my husband is awesome because last weekend we were sitting around trying to find something good to watch on tv. As he scrolled through the listings I said "oh I found something that looks good". It was the 2006 AKC Dog Show. I really enjoy watching dog shows and although Nic is not too fond of them he turned on the show and proceeded to watch it with me for the next 3 hours!! He is so great! It was slightly disappointing however because even after those 3 hours the show still wasn't over. It continued on to the next night for another 3 hours. I did not make him watch it again the next night, although since he knew my favorite dog group (the terrier group) was on that night he set up the little tv we have in the living room so that I could watch it while I did my workout! Sadly even after all that I did not get to see the finale when the chose the best dog of 2006. I'm somwhat glad about that though because they really tend to choose some ugly dogs for the winners! This year the winnder actually was cute, He was an Alaskan Malamute named Costello here he is....

So there you have it...I'm a geek who can sit for 3 hours and watch dog prance around a blue carpet while old ladies check them out to see if they are just right and I have the greatest husband in the world who loves me and supports my dorkiness no matter what!

Hard to Decide

2006-01-12T20:26:00.000-05:00

I have spent too much time tonight trying to decide what picture I wanted for my profile. As you see I chose the picture of the Toile Butterfly for which my dear blog gets it's name. Maybe sometime I'll change it up. Hope you enjoy :)

My Personal Trainer

2006-01-09T20:21:00.000-05:00

I have probably already told you about my new workout video game that I got for Christmas, but in case I haven't, let me enlighten you. It is called Yourself Fitness and its AWESOME! It's like I have my own personal trainer. I have a profile that I virtually have to do a fitness test for when you begin so that she can get an idea of what level you are at. When I say "she", I mean Maya, she's my personal trainer. She recommends the appropriate workout for me based on my fitness test and how long and how often I should workout. As motivation you unlock different scenery that she works out in as well as different music when you exercise on the appropriate days for so many days in a row. Each day she may recommends a different focus for you and every 10 workouts you have to do the fitness test again to update your progress.
Yesterday she recommended I do lower body and today I want to hurt her :) My legs and rear end are killing me! It hurts to sit down. My workout schedule is 30 minutes 5 times a week and my focus is Cardio. You can put in if you have any of the following equipment also: hand weights, stability ball, or step and she will incorporate them into the exercises. The program also has menus and meal planning that you can do, but I don't really use this part since that's my job and I can do it myself. Anyway, I really enjoy my Christmas present from my hubs, it was my favorite gift and I thought I'd just share a little bit of it with you all.

The Cutest

2006-01-05T21:54:00.000-05:00

Today I went over to Pat and Megans (my brother in law and his wife) to celebreate Josh's very first birthday! It was so fun! Josh got to have his dinner and cake before everone else. We sang to him, which he seemed to think was very strange by the look on his face, then he got to try and blow his candle out, however he seemed to think that grabbing the flame looked like a better idea. Luckily Uncle Nic was there to save the day by blowing it out before he got to it! Megan got his very own special cupcake from Ukrops which he devoured like a champ! At one point while he was eating it he looked over at Megan with a look as to say "Mommy, I can't believe you're letting me eat this...Yummy!" Sadly I was in a slight hurry to get there this evening and forgot to grab my camera so I don't have any good pics of him from it, but here is one from around Thanksgiving. (his dog friend is Micki)

Isn't he so precious!! I cannot believe it's already been a year since he was born...how time flies! I am so excited to continue to watch him grow over the years into a little Creehan boy! And I know I state the obvious, but I must say...I have the cutest nephew ever! Happy Birthday Josh!!

Hokie Football

2006-01-02T19:01:00.000-05:00

Today was the Gator Bowl and the Hokies had a happy ending to their season. I have to say that I love Hokie Football and I am sad to see the season end. Each year I look forward to when college football begins becuase it means orange and maroon fun for four straight months! This year we were sadly unable to visit good 'ole Blacksburg for a home game, however we did travel to NC State to see the Hokies beat the Wolfpack early on. For the rest of the games we were able to spend lots of time cheering / booing in the comforts of our friends and families homes. Usually by the time the bowl games come around, I am about done with football. This is because once the NFL starts, there games on from Thursday through Monday almost every week. Of course I don't watch all of these but I do see my fair share. However, this year I must admit I am slightly sad that the Hokies are finished. It really has been a fun year for football since we have moved to Richmond and tons of other Hokies to enjoy the games with.
So now I think about what fun comes after football season, well there's hockey my husband enjoys this, so I watch it with him every now and then. I'm not much of a basketball person, so I don't really care about that. But mostly when I think of the off season I think of spring and summer!! I can't wait till it gets warm and I can spend time hanging out outside doing fun stuff.
So way to go Tech, it was a great season....GO HOKIES!!!!

Work on Saturday...blah!

2005-12-31T19:39:00.000-05:00

So today I had to work. Yes, that's right, I have to work Saturdays even now that I have a "real job". And I thought for many reasons that it would be no big deal. First of all I went back to work from a whole week off on Thursday. Second, it's New Years Eve, how many people will really come to the hospital on the holiday? Well my Saturday just about kicked my butt. I saw 14 patients, which I know to most of you that doesn't mean anything, and for those of you who do know what that means it may not really seem like that much. But needless to say I was moving all day long and I sat down for about 30 minutes to eat my lunch and have a brief conversation with my hubby. So now it's new years and I'm exhausted and cranky, luckily I got to take a brief nap before heading out to party, hopefully I will make it to see the ball drop.

Toile Butterfly???

2005-12-30T15:54:00.000-05:00

So recently I've become very interested in the whole blogger world. By VERY interested I mean I just read a few that my friends have each day. But as I started thinking about it, I thought it just
might be fun to let others in on some of the random thoughts I have throughout the day as well as just whatever I feel like I might want to share. I was concerned that no one would care to read what little I might have to say, but my dear friend Valeree Lynn convinced me that it was ok to just write about nothing. So at least I know she will read it :)
So blogger world here I am...I am Kate.
I know you may be asking yourself why Toile Butterfly??
Well, it's a simple name that I have used in the past for other random things that I've had to come up with silly names for. It comes from a small little jewelery box that my husband gave to me for our six month dating anniversary nearly 5 years ago. It is a metal box in the shape of a butterfly, the top is porcelin with blue and white toile design on it. Maybe one day I'll get a picture of it on here :) But anyway, I adore this little box that sits on my dresser with a few
bobby pins, straight pins, and safety pins (I no longer use it for jewelry becauseI have since gotten a much bigger cherry wood jewelry box from Nic) and it has a lot of meaing to me so I thought I would continue with using this name and share it with the world.
Well I think that will be it for my very first blog...Hope you will enjoy!!