Suz & E!!!

I think this pictures says it all, Kimba and Suz got to hang out last weekend and it was fabulous, about as fabulous as she is!

And if my day could have gotten any better, I met E for a yummy dinner and drinks. 
AND then the three of us together at last!!!

Thanks for hanging Suz, next time I need to get you down to the Cape! 

PHENWAY

Music Guy and I are heading to Fenway tonight to see Phish! If you follow me on Twitter you're probably sick of hearing about how excited we are!!!

Besides fishing, Phish is MG's other love, when ever he play's them I pretty much know I shouldn't speak for the duration of the song! (In a good way of course!) Who else would write their college thesis on one of their closing songs?

Preppy Blogging meet up vol. 8349379

I know I know, I may not even have any readers left as I took a little break and didn't give you a heads up. BUT I'M BACK!

A few weeks ago I met up with the freaking wonderful Sarah and TSINH (the sister i never had) E, we had a great dinner and of course even better cocktails! Every time we all get together we say "why don't we do this more often", it is always such a blast!

I went home last weekend and have some fun pictures to share. All is well at chez Kimba, just working a lot and getting ready for summer!

Random Thoughts...

While having drinks at Fave A's house last night it came to me I started dating my now husband when I was 22. Gesh, why was I exclusive so young. 

You all know the term "Dress for the job you want not the job you have", i'll take that thought and apply it to this, "Dress for the activity level you want, not the activity you are". So with that I am in gym clothes blogging/twittering. 

Off for a run, and yes my foot is still sore, so if my next update is from the ER, you can all say "i told you so". 

Everyone wave Hi to my new blogging LA buddy Paisley Peunia, she is so super cute! Speaking of blogging BFF, my super super fave Suz, sent be the best email this morning, she wanted to let me know my boyfriend Joe Scarborough was on The Today Show, love it!

I was coming back from getting coffee this morning and a realtor was showing these young gals the one rental on our street and said this place is great if you're drunk and forget your keys as the door is always open, if it's ever locked just buzz the people above and tell them you just got back from the bar and have beer. SO what do I do, look at him give him this look and say "wow", and walked in our house. Yep, I am now old and don't want riff raff on our street. You can slap me now, i deserve it. 

My wonderful friend Kate is running the Kentucky Derby Marathon today, good luck Kateson, you'll be great!!!

Off to enjoy the 80 degree day we have here in Boston!!!

Chalk this post up to "ALL THINGS KIMBA, ATK". 

Jacked Up

If you've been following me on twitter you know i've been running a lot the past few months. Well yesterday I was about to head to the gym and I noticed my left achilles was hurting and ended up taking the day off from running. Well today it's 10 times worse, if anyone has ever had achilles problems they know how freaking painful it is. 

I'm super bummed as it's very nice out and what a perfect day to go for a run outside around the Charles River. My right achilles is the one I've had looked at over and over from different doctors so now that i'm having pain in my left I official have bad achilles. Darn Greeks!

I've blogged about it my darn feet before. No way no how will I be back in any boot, so i've decided to let my heel heal. 

So on this beautiful day I'm inside watching the Celtic's first playoff game and trying to force myself to read Class with the Countess, more on that later.

A few fave ATK Tunes

Alon: Right Now (Na Na Na), Beautiful, Don't Matter

TI: Dead and Gone, Live your Life, Whatever you Like

Ne-Yo: Miss Independent

Flo Rida: Right Round**

I thought you might like to see a few songs I listened to over and over on iTunes (30 seconds each over and over) Feeling pretty sassy getting in touch with my gangsta side!

**Right Round is the only song I own, and did listen to it on repeat for an entire 45 minute run!

Sox = Spring

The Red Sox are on and I am ONE happy girl! 

Another All things Kimba moment:

I got these new shoe inserts that have grip on them as my shoes are a little to big after a few wears. So Monday I put them in my shoes and thought these are different but hey if they work then great. No real issues with them, just felt different, but what do I know, I've never used grips before. But thought the color blue was an odd color to have as the top of the insert, use to tan or black to match the shoe. Well I was cleaning out one of my desk drawers and found the package they came in (it was a 3 pack), for some reason I turned the package over and read the directions....SEEMS the "blue" side goes down. Yep, for three days I've had these fancy new inserts in upside down. 

Tomorrow I will try a new pair the right way, stay tuned.

Take me out to the Ballgame

Tomorrow it starts, it all starts...OPENING DAY!!!! PLAY BALL!!!

I may tear up tomorrow afternoon watching our one and only Knighted Teddy Kennedy throw out the first pitch!

I would love to see the 2009 season bring us another one of the above pictures, Teddy going strong holding the World Championship Trophy.

This makes me think about summer and with summer comes a change in menu's, so if anyone out there has a good potato salad recipes please share! I made potato salad this afternoon and while it is still chilling in the fridge, I can tell it is sub-par.

LET'S GO SOX and cheers to the one sport that screams summer is almost here!!!!!

**Though we may actually see Opening Day on Tuesday, with the steady rain predicted.

World Autism Awareness Day

My very dear blog (but real) friend E is doing a giveaway as today is World Autism Awareness day, her daughter C has autism. I have learned so much about Autism after hearing E's stories and doing some of my own research to be more informed.

I know I have 9 min left until her giveaway is over, but it is never over, get informed and stop on over to every ones fave Picnic, she is the best mom, friend and is one person you would love to always surround yourself with!

Vineyard Vines Faves

**I spent a lot of time on this post and now blogger is not allowing me to upload pix. :(

In light of the fabulous 20% discount VV has offered us (and I do say us because you better bet I will be using it!) I thought it was a perfect time to showcase a few things I don’t think I could live without and have caught my eye!

I always thought if I were a guy I would be the best dressed fellow, luckily MG is pretty easy going and doesn’t mind if I pick a few things out for him, though he had to set a few ground rules.
MEN:

Baseball Tie: I think it is a perfect tie to wear next Monday for opening day!

Bull & Bear Tie: When you’re feeling good about the Dow, this would be a good way to show it off.

Gingham Tie: Screams summer

Golf Tie: I would like to see them revamp their golf ties, maybe I’ll do a mock up and submit, not likely, but a thought! Maybe a golf cart, actually it’s have already been done

Jersey ¼ Zip: Enough said!!!

Lobster Printed Seersucker Club Shorts: These kind of go without saying, but I like the clean look they have.

Rip Stop Cargo Shorts: MG said if I could find Nantucket Red Cargo shorts he would wear them, I have tried to find them for two summers and FINALLY I have found them! They might be a little more “pink” then what I was going for, but I think with a classic white button down they’ll be ideal!

Now of course those are just a few great items I’m a fan of, Spring/Summer could not get here soon enough!
WOMEN:

I own a lot of polo’s and find them to have a great fit, the classic polo’s are the only ones I go for as they’ve never done me wrong. I would love feedback on the other style’s they’ve put out over the last year.

A few goodies:
Polo Dress: I would love to see one in white with the navy whale, but then again, I don’t know if a full white dress is good for anyone who plans to wear it to “knock around”.

I can get behind this whole outfit!!!
Stafford Stripe Rowayton Ruffle Shirt:
Classic Twill Skirt:
Whale Cut Out Buckle Belt:

Seersucker Reina Dress: It looks long enough I could pull it off on a Friday at work with a cute white button up sweater. I am a huge fan of pieces I can work with for the office and for play.



Seaa Life Jackie Capri: I love this color combo!

VV Customer Service is above Par

I've never really had any experience with Vineyard Vines customer service as I've never had anything go wrong, all of my online orders came with no issues and all of the products have been great. I was beyond pleasantly surprised when I received the below comment on my post.

Hi Kimba. My name is Quinn and I work for Vineyard Vines. First of all - thanks for all the support! You certainly have quite a lot of experience with our products and I'm SO sorry to hear that the Fairwinds Fleece has already got a hole.

As I'm sure you know from all your previous experiences with us - we really pride ourselves with providing top notch customer service - so replacing the defective fleece for a new one is a no brainer. Feel free to give us a call at 800-892-4982 or email me directly at quinn@vineyardvines.com and we'll get you sorted out today.

It seems like there are a lot of people who are big fans of V.V. on here - so we'd like to extend a 20% discount for the next week to all of you in thanks for all the feedback. Just enter KIMBA at checkout and your cart will automatically be adjusted. The discount is good for everything but gift cards and licensed products (college, mlb, and nfl products). It's good through Sunday, 4/5/09.

I particularly like Puttin' on the Grits comment that we'd be upset if we had a hole in our boat - we DEFINITELY would!

Have a great week! Look out for our new catalogs in the mail!

Best,
Quinn

I quickly emailed Quinn and was able to get the return info and tomorrow I will pop my fleece in the mail and will be receiving a new one! He was fast, professional and even had a VV sense of humor anyone could appreciate! I can't say enough how impressed I am with their customer service, I was truly blown away!

NOT only am I able to return my fleece with no problems, but there is a little perk in there for you, my fabulous readers!

Now through Sunday (4/5) you can receive 20% for your order, Just enter KIMBA at checkout and your cart will automatically be adjusted. The discount is good for everything but gift cards and licensed products (college, mlb, and nfl products).

Tomorrow I will post a few items I will be adding to my VV collection!

Cheers to Quinn at Vineyard Vines and to the best readers in blogland!

Thumbs Down!

Let me start out by saying, I am the BIGGEST Vineyard Vines supporter this side of the Vineyard but this post will not support that fact.

If you have followed me for some time you'll know of my "pinky" it is my pink VV fleece that I got years ago that I have worn day in and day out and have loved loved loved. SO this last Christmas my MIL asked what I wanted and I said I would like a new "pinky" but in navy and with the logo on the bottom (Fairwinds Fleece). So come Christmas morning I opened it and was thrilled! She actually had to search the Cape high and low to find it!

Well I've been wearing it but not like I did the "pinky" I kind of save it and don't want to wear it out. Even though "pinky" is holding up strong in ALL of it's wears and washes.

Here's my story:

First I noticed it would get very "fuzzy" and "pilly" everything would stick to it as if I washed it with cheap towels, which I did not. And then today.... I found a hole...see below.

So there you have it, three months and not that many wears and I have a freaking HOLE in my $115 fleece. Vineyard Vines can you help me, are you now using cheap material and still charging the same crazy prices.

I spent almost $1000 on ties for my wedding, I have 4 totes, 1 mini tote, 6 pairs of flip flops, a long sleeve T, 10 count them 10 short sleeve polo shirts, 3 belts, 2 long sleeve polo shirts, 2 fleeces (one defective), 2 pairs of lounge pants, 5 koozies, 1 puzzle umbrella, 1 headband, 1 pair of croakies I wear daily, and speaking of daily I use the clutch as my wallet daily, MG has 5 ties, two from other wedding where multiple were purchased (not counted in his 5 or the 1 from his own wedding) KEP Designs wedding was 1 of the 2, 6 pairs of "whale" socks, 2 swimming suits. And the thanks I get is a hole.

I was thinking of returning the fleece after I couldn't get it to "wash" correctly, but there is no way they'll take it back with a hole. Just sayin' VV, I'm one gal who would stick by your side regardless of the amount of your stuff I see in TJ Maxx, but now, I think we might have to take a break.

**My signature gift to give family members is a VV tie that reminds me of them. My dad gets golf ties, my brother has light houses and a ton more. Guess I should rethink that.

OH and I see your fishing boat every summer on the Nantucket sound while we're fishing in the same waters. Really??? Really a hole??? Now that I think of it, your 27 foot Regulator has cut us off heading to the gas dock in Edgartown.

***Sorry tried to put spaces in to make three separate paragraphs, but it wouldn't work.***

'cuse is in the house oh my god oh my god....

In light off all of the bracket chatter I had to share this fablous picture of Fave B and little Fave W sporting their fave Orange!!!

If you haven't already noticed Fave B went to Syracuse and bleeds Orange!!!

I have 'cuse in the final game so i'm pulling for them right along with the fave fam!!!

*I stole this picture off of B's Facebook, hope he doesn't mind!!!

The Timothy Geithner Show

Preface, many financial firms across the country are talking about Timothy Geithner and his effect on the economy, I would like to say today at this firm just for a few minutes and a laugh that was not the case.

My very very sassy colleague Em overheard me joking to another colleague about my "love" for Timothy Geithner in which colleague #2 said "he looks like a weine". So Sassy Em kept to herself and walked to the printer and then came over and put the below pic on my wall! Gosh it made for some great comments from those not in the know. Sassy indeed!

SO not to be out done, I played along and framed my fave Geithner picture and added it to my "framed pic collection" on my desk.

My framed pictures are one of MG and I at the beach on our wedding day, a picture of us at Great Point on Nantucket and the one you see is a gal I work with at our wedding. And of course the new addition, Timmy G!

TV, DVD & ME

Sunday:

Desperate Housewives
Brothers & Sisters

Monday:
24
One Tree Hill

Tuesday:
Biggest Loser
Law & Order SVU

Real Housewives of OC/NYC/Atlanta 

Wednesday:

?, i can't think of anything.

Thursday:

Kath & Kim (only when I think of it)

The Office

30 Rock

Grey's Anatomy

Honorable Mentions:

90210 (new one)

Lipstick Jungle

Private Practice

Samantha Who?

*I was only doing a list of shows currently on this season

DVR'd - a recording is set in case we have time to catch up

30 Minute Meals

Boy Meets Grill

Northeast Angling

On The Water

Divine Design

Keeping Up with the Kardashian's

Gilmore Girls reruns, I teared up when it ended

*Days of Our Lives (this may or may not actually be true, I cannot confirm)

Here are a list of must sees in the Kimba household i.e. most are mine. Pretty normal, I assume after I publish this post I will come back with more. All of these shows are DVR'd and most are watched when we have time. Our DVR recordings normally do not get watched, but it's good to have them. *One recording may or may not ALWAYS get watched, I cannot confirm. The nightly news with Brian Williams is a staple if I'm home in time. Fox 25 or 7 news always is on when we go to sleep. CNN, MSNBC are fillers for any slow nights. Now that Baseball season is upon us, we can scratch the above list and replace it with two simple powerful words, the Red Sox! A shout out to the Celtics and Bruins, a C's game does not go by without watching 95% of it!

Any fun shows are must watches in your house?

Enjoy!

iBlog

Blogging on my phone is not working so well!

It is freezing in Boston, brrrrrrr!

Cheers

My political crushes continue

As some of you may remember I have myself a mad crush on Ex-GOP FL congressman Joe Scarborough. Well you can now add US Treasury Security Tim Geithner, I think its a combo of his good looks and his job that I am attracted to. Being the biggest deal in the financial world just summed it up for me. Please tell me i'm not the only one!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAINEE!

Not only is it my birthday today, but it is also my very very best friend & Maid of Honor Liane's! How can you not be BFF's with someone who was born on the very same day (and year) as you were! I had to share a few of my favorite pictures!

Celebrating our first (19th) birthday together at the Phi Sig house, now why wouldn't a fraternity want to throw us lovely ladies a par-tay?! Why did we feel the need to wear tiaras? *If you hadn't noticed I spent a good part of my freshman year in college tanning and bleaching my hair, ugh! The frat boy in the picture I fell hard hard hard for, and only Liane can tell you how excited I was when he asked me to his formal and now well I can't even remember his last name! HA!
A trip back home to visit Liane at school!

A trip back home visiting Liane at RZ!

Cocktails and girl talk at Liane's!

Liane's first time seeing Fenway!!!

At my Madison wedding shower, with my two MOH's, JJ on the right (MG's sister!) how cute is Liane wearing my wedding colors, that's how she rolls!

Liane has a fear of flying but flew out for my batch party! All of my hot bridesmaids!

One of my favorite pictures!!! Taken at Liane's engagement party!

Music Guy and Liane breaking it down at our wedding!

Gosh we're cute, at my rehearsal dinner!

I tried to find a picture of us from her wedding as I was her MOH and mine as she was my MOH of course, but was unsuccessful. Hummm?!

Love you lots Lainee Beans and miss you terribly all the way out East!!!

Happy 2-7 to me!

Yay for me!!!!

How would you monogram this name?

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland

I'd go by Jack Bauer if I were KWFDGRS. 

Just sayin'