At Both Ends
July 2nd, 2009
I can’t believe July is already here and half of 2009 is already gone. For 2 days straight it has poured all day, everyday, which is odd weather for Florida. We usually have sunshine for most of the day, then the monsoon comes in and leaves after an hour tops. I’m partly blaming my weather for the sour mood I’ve been in lately. Just a few days ago, I felt like I was on top of the world and I could do anything and nothing would stop me. Right now, I’m just kind of blah…not exactly in a bad mood, just a stressed, “I’ve got so much shit to do and I’m having a major battle with ADD” mood.
So, what has happened lately? Dave won $700 at the casino. $400 on Sunday and $300 on Monday. All on free play. Hard Rock sent out free play and meal cards to anyone that had a players card there, so we went on the days that they were valid and Dave ended up winning. Almost our entire Vegas trip is paid for on 2 spins of a crazy Monopoly slot machine. I told Dave he must pack both outfits he wore in his suitcase to Vegas. Socks and everything. He’s the luckiest person I’ve ever met so I wouldn’t be surprised if he won a car in Vegas.
I’m planning on redoing my portfolio site, but haven’t gone any further than just thinking about it. By the time I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is willingly mess around with a website that I’m not getting paid for. I’d much rather mess around on the internet and write bad gossip articles for The Mug Show. Lately, there’s been so many things that I want and need to do, but I have absolutely no ability to concentrate. It’s frustrating beyond no end. I can barely even type this without getting distracted.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that, I’ve been a bit burned out lately. Hopefully, this will pass soon.
Hanging out With the Parents
June 29th, 2009
For my Dad’s birthday 2 weeks ago, I bought him tickets to the Rays game that was last night. He’s never been to a game and kept saying how he really wanted to go. I never know what to get him for his birthday, so I thought that tickets to a game would be way cooler than a gift card to Applebee’s.
We all headed to St. Pete (Dave, me, my Mom, and my Dad) early yesterday. Dave and I took my parents to Burrito Boarder (the BEST place for burritos around). They liked the food a lot. My Dad kept commenting on how good the salsa was.
We headed to the stadium and got to our seats just in time for the national anthem. The stadium was PACKED and the game was really exciting. We won, and my winning streak still stands! The Rays haven’t lost a game that I’ve gone to. If I was able to go to every game, they’d be in the world series again for sure.
After the concert there was a free Pat Benitar concert. She sang really well. Even though she’s more from my parents time, I really like her music. She put on a good show!
The gift was a definite success. My parents kept commenting on how much fun they were having the whole night. A few years ago, I probably would’ve though hanging out with my parents on a Saturday night was lame, but now that I’m older I realized ow much fun my parents can be. We all had a great time and wouldn’t mind hanging out with them again on a Saturday night.
Future Venus Williams
June 23rd, 2009
Today, for the second time in my life, I played tennis. I’ve never been much of an athletic person, so I’m sure this was incredibly comical to Dave and the other people at the tennis courts that were actually good at tennis. I managed, to my surprise, to hit the ball over the net quite a few times, but whenever I tried to backhand the ball I’d either wiff or hit it into the other court. This pissed me off quite a bit, but Dave said for only playing twice I actually did pretty well.
I’d like to try tennis again since I’m sure it’s a great workout. Running on the treadmill can get extremely boring and this is something that Dave and I can do together. Hopefully I’ll get my swing down so I’m not a threat to people playing on other courts.
I Won’t Have to Buy Cereal for a Long Time!
June 14th, 2009
I stocked up on cereal
CVS had a great deal on Kellogg’s cereal this week for just $1.88 a box. I had a bunch of $1.00 off coupons that I cut from last weeks paper, making them only $.88! I went and bought 5 boxes for only $4.40. AWESOME!
Sweet Like Candy
June 13th, 2009
Dali got hungry
I came home to find this mess on the rug. I guess Dali got jealous that Dave and I went out for Mexican food and decided to eat some candy out of the bowl on the coffee table. Luckily these weren’t chocolate, but she did manage to polish off an entire ring pop. I would expect this type of behavior from any other dog, but Dali? Never. She can go 10 hours without peeing. Besides, that candy bowl has been on the table for months.
Oh, it is Love
June 12th, 2009
Today is my parents 27th wedding anniversary. After all this time, they haven’t killed each other. I hope I can have a marriage that is a strong as theirs is. Way to go Mom and Dad!
Nothing really post worthy has happened this week. I’ve been doing well on my diet and started keeping a food journal again. I’ve also been swimming a lot since the weather has been nice. I haven’t gotten on a scale though because I don’t want it to discourage me if I haven’t lost any weight. Scales are evil.
This weekend is going to be jam packed with fun events. Tomorrow night Dave, Chrissy, Angelina, and I are heading to St. Pete for a Rays game. After the game there is a free concert…Ludacris! I’m not a huge fan of Ludacris or hip hop in general, but it’s free and if anything it will be fun to see the crowd it draws.
Sunday is my Dad’s birthday and the family is all going to Fuego…a Brazillan restaurant that is so good. I’ll be sure to work out extra that day because I know I’m going to stuff myself.
Pool Party
June 7th, 2009
Yesterday, Julie brought the kids over to go swimming. Instead of writing about the day, I’m going to show it with some photos that Julie took.
The No Doubt Concert Catastrophe
June 5th, 2009
My sister got tickets to the No doubt reunion tour that happened Tuesday night. I was super excited to go since I’ve loved No Doubt since I was in 7th grade. I seriously used to blast Tragic Kingdom all the time. Gwen Stefani was, and still is, one of the coolest chicks ever. Paramore was opening for them, which is one of the few newer bands around that I actually like, so I was excited to see them as well. It was going to be a night to remember…and it sure was that.
We left for the concert Tuesday night as soon as I got off work at 6:00. Basically, the entire ride is interstate-I-75 to I-4, first exit off I-4 and you’re there. BAM! Straight shot. A car ride that should have taken 30 minutes tops ended up taking us 2 1/2 hours. I seriously have no idea what the hell was going on that night, but the traffic was freakin’ ridiculous. When we hit traffic on 75 close to the I-4 exit, I figured there was just an accident. But once we FINALLY made it to I-4, there was nothing, and I realized then that everyone was just going to the concert. My sister was freaking out. “WTF is taking so long!!! OMG, this sucks!!! OMG I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF!!!” Her friend Angelina was with us and was trying to calm her down, which was making her more pissed off. She didn’t get gas before she drove there because she figured a 1/4 tank would be enough to get there (which would have been under normal circumstances) and while we were stuck in traffic on the interstate her fuel level warning light came on. “OMFG, we’re gonna run out of gas!! IF WE RUN OUT OF GAS ON THE INTERSTATE I’M GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!!!” Chrissy seriously has anger issues. I tried to calm her down:
Me: Getting pissed off isn’t going to move the cars. There’s nothing we can do so just chill.
Chrissy: STFU. WE’RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF GAS AND I’M GOING TO CRY IF WE MISS NO DOUBT!
Me: We’re not going to run out of gas. Chill out.
While we were sitting in traffic waiting to get in, we could hear Paramore playing. We FINALLY got to the entrance and realized it was closed off. The cops were letting people out, but not in, redirecting the traffic around the block. Chrissy stopped to get gas and Angelina and I went to pee. We finally figured out how to get in to the place and made it just in time for No Doubt’s set. Chrissy finally cheered up.
No Doubt was pretty awesome. They played a lot from Tragic Kingdom, as I had hoped for. The band looked amazing. It seemed like they were just so happy to be together again touring. They were letting fans on stage. They were singing they’re old songs. I’ve been to a lot of concerts where the bands just played their set and left, not really seeming to care. They looked genuinely happy and excited to be on the stage. Chrissy took a few pictures, but I don’t think she uploaded them anywhere yet for me to steal.
The way back was much less stressful than the way there…except for the fact that we couldn’t figure out how to get to our car. All the gates were locked except for one, so we had to backtrack, along with a bunch of other people, halfway across the venue to get out. With that said, I won’t be going to a concert at the Ford Ampitheatre again.
Jen and Gerald’s Wedding
May 31st, 2009
Yesterday, we saw our friends Jen and Gerald get married. They had a beautiful ceremony and reception. I usually cry at weddings, but I was surprised at how well I held it together. Even Jen held it together most of the night. It has to be so overwhelming for the bride. The months of planning…getting the perfect dress, who do we invite?, what food should we serve?, where’s the perfect location?, the fighting between bride and family that thinks THEY know how YOUR wedding should be…and then it’s finally here. Finally, it’s all over. Your getting MARRIED. That would be enough to make anyone cry.
I told Dave early yesterday morning that I was going to take a long time to get ready, but he still insisted that we go waste an hour and a half getting breakfast all the way in Tampa. He also insisted that I do my nails since I’m a bad biter, so now I have these stupid fake nails on that is making typing extremely hard. I can’t wait to rip these damn things off.
We got home and I showered, shaved, and lotioned myself. I started doing my hair because I knew that was going to take the most time. I wanted to do something different than the normal, straight hair I sport. I was going to buy a curling iron, but my sister let me borrow her hair straightener and showed me how to curl my hair with it Friday night. This didn’t work out nearly as well as it did when she gave me the how to like 12 hours prior. I would take a chunk of hair and try it and half the time it would curl and the other half I got a weird wave that wouldn’t straighten out so I could start over. I sort of got the hang of it halfway through my head and it was after 12:00 and we needed to leave no later than 1:00 to make it to the ceremony on time and my hair was nowhere near done and I wasn’t even dressed. At 1:00 Dave was shouting at me to hurry up because we were going to be late and we rushed out of the house quicky. I ended up forgetting the memory card for my camera, so I got no pictures at the ceremony. Jen looked beautiful, though.
We had a little over an hour to kill in between the ceremony and the reception, so Dave and I stopped at K Mart so I could pick up a memory card. The pictures I took made me realize just how badly I need a new camera. Many of them turned out dark or blurry. I’m extremely disappointed in the photos; they don’t do any justice to how pretty everything was!
This was the first time in our year and a half relationship that I’ve seen Dave in a suit. I regret not taking a picture of him with his jacket on because he looked great.
There was a lot of dancing, a lot of eating, and a lot of fun.
Gerald was pretty drunk and he kept rubbing Dave’s head and saying, “When we put our heads together, it looks like an ass!”
Jen and Gerald are the kind of couple that I hope Dave and I will be if we get married. They’re just completely happy and comfortable with each other. It’s comforting to see a couple like that when we live in a world where people seem to always want more than what they already have.
