My experience at David's Bridal tonight gave me a great idea.  TLC should add a new show to its Friday night "girls night in" line up: "i'm Only Saying Yes to Keep the Bride Happy," a show that describes the indignity and the torrents of being a bridesmaid.

EPISODE #1: It's spelled M-O-N-T-A...

Our bridesmaid, Kimmie, enters David's Bridal - ( Read more... )

I LOVE THE NEW KELLY CLARKSON CD!  IT IS FULL OF MUSICAL GEMS LIKE THIS ONE ( Read more... )

THE STATS:

Full Name: 
Kimberly Jane Tribou

Age: 
26 years, 9 1/2 months

City: 
Germantown

State: 
MD

In six words or less, tell us your occupation:
Internal Auditor for the Federal Government

Rarely is someone living in D.C. actually from D.C.  So how long have you been here?
16 months

Where are you from originally?
Albuquerque, NM

If you are only in DC for a ( Read more... )

(Written 24 December 2008 during my flight from BWI to DFW)

Oh.
My.
God.

I firmly believe that some activities are best left in the hands of skilled professionals, including driving in the snow and ice.  My shuttle driver to the airport may have been professional, but to call him "skilled" was to give him far more credit than he deserved.

5:30 a.m. (T ( Read more... )

I know you don't mean to be mean to me
'Cause when you want to, you can make me feel like we belong
We belong
Lately you make me feel all I am is a back up plan
I say I'm done and then you smile at me and I forget
Everything I said
I buy into those eyes and into your lies.

You say you'll call, but I know you.
You say you're coming home, but I know you.
You ( Read more... )

How to make a Kimmie
Ingredients:

5 parts intelligence

1 part crazyiness

3 parts leadership
Method:
Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Top it off with a sprinkle of lovability and enjoy!

Get Your Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

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In honor of my upcoming one year anniversary of moving to the Washington, DC metropolitan area, I thought I would post some of my major accomplishments.  Over the past year, I have:

• Learned when to refer to a road as a number and when to refer to a road by a name, even when it's the same road in reference;
• "Ran" four distance running events;
• Wrecked a ( Read more... )

Dear Neighbors in Apartment #33 ( Read more... )

When I walked into the gym today, I was expecting a personal training session.  Instead, my trainer and I did a follow-up to the fitness assessment I did when I first joined the gym a year ago.  Since then ( Read more... )

1.  When you're looking for a perfect outfit to wear to a summer baseball game, you'll be disappointed to find that all the stores have brought out the fall line.
2. If you love it, they probably don't carry it in your size.
3. If they carry it in your size, you'll probably hate it.
4. Never ever trust the sizing of anything on the clearance rack, particularly if ( Read more... )