June 25th, 2011

Good news!!! Excellent news! Probably the best darn news I can get...well me winning the lottery would be better, but this is pretty close.

Today was the day I found out my offer on the house was accepted!  Here I was thinking it was going to take until next week before we could even start to haggle with them, but they must be eager to sell because they got back to us over the weekend.

Now I have a place to rest my head after my lease is up.  There are plenty of things I will need to be figuring out now that I have a house!  Technically first I'll have an inspection done and then wait for all the paper work to do what it has to do.  Originally I was going to move end of August but the seller wants to move the closing date up to the end of July.  So, I will most likely have a whole month to move into my home.  That is crazy!

Still think I'm in a bit of a shock from having it go so well.  Please hope and pray that the inspection doesn't find something terribly wrong with the place.  Definitely don't want to look for houses yet again.  Plus I think I got the place for a pretty good price. : )

My house!  I'm so excited to be working towards owning a place instead of renting.  Lets just say the 'block' party our apartment place had while I was trying to sleep today was more than annoying and solidified my choice to get a house even more!

June 24th, 2011

Sometimes your body doesn't like to make plans.  Today was one of those days.  My morning plans went through without a hitch, it was what I had to do in the afternoon that got a wrench thrown in it.

My morning was filled with paperwork to make an offer on a house.  The papers probably won't be seen by the seller until monday.  Not really looking forward to waiting, but that is part of the game.  Despite the intial money I will have to spend on the house I can't help but look forward to the smaller monthly payments.  Need to be careful though...don't want to get my hopes up and have this get shatter.  Really, really, reaalllllly hoping that does not happen.  High hopes for all of this.

As for the rest of my day; did some picking up around the apartment because they apartment people wanted to show our place to a perspective renter.  Since the showing was at 5:30 I needed to get some sleep before hand because I had worked the night before.  Thinking I would get up an hour beforehand and scooch on out before they got there was my plan.  

Sadly that didn't happen.  My phone kept ringing while I was trying to sleep and kept me jerking in and out of sleep.  This ended up causing me to sleep through my alarm later and be woken up when I hear someone opening my room's door.  There was no panic or screaming "Omg who are you??!!?!"  Somehow I remembered they were showing it and laid still and the person mentioned something about someone sleeping and left me alone.  

Oops?  Guess I can't really feel too bad about it.  They got to see the rest of the apartment....just not my bedroom.  Not like they are judging my room, it's the place itself they want to judge.

Oh, one more thing about this viewing.  They told me that they would give us at least a day advance warning if they wanted to bring someone in and they had tried to schedule the viewing the same day they called.  Come on people, if you are going to say something please try to keep to your word.

P.s. Flower pots have their first bloom!  I can't remember what all is in there, but if you can tell me what it is you get a high five.

June 23rd, 2011

Today was a day for firsts.  Never have I ever cooked with eggplant before and for some reason this was the week to do so.  Admittedly, I should have read up more on the technique to get it to cook correctly before I jumped into the recipe but I was hungry!  Hind site; never cook when you are very hungry or you'll make too much or do something wrong.  It is kind of like how you should never shop while hungry, expect entirely different.

When I bought the eggplant I did at least look up how to find one that was ripe and I think I succeeded at least in that.  The recipe I found was eggplant parmigiana.  Basically it is just like chicken parmigiana except with eggplant in place of chicken (imagine that).

Some of the ingredients listed were not in my cupboards or I had forgotten to get them at the store, but I made due.  The only things I think I changed were crackers instead of bread crumbs.  After having made them I'm almost sure bread crumbs would have worked better.

The recipe in a nut shell: eggplant, crackers, egg whites, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, pasta sauce, and mozzarella cheese.  The eggplant is put in the egg whites and then dipped into the crackers, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder mix.  Then it is baked, flipping them once.

After they baked on the sheet you lay them in a pan and slather on the pasta sauce and cheese in layers, and then baked it again!  Some how with all this time in the oven I'm pretty sure I still managed to some how under cook them because they seemed far to crunchy and chewy.  Then again I haven't ever cooked them so I'm not really sure how they should taste.

All I can say about it is, I doubt I'll probably make it again.  Definitely not added to my favorites.

June 22nd, 2011

So I decided to finally risk the grey skies today and ride my bike.  It didn't look like it was going to pour rain or anything so I took it as a challenge.  Well, sort of... 

Having not had a bagel from Bruegger's Bagels in far too long I decided that should be my destination.  There was more uphill parts of the path than I expected.  Guess I never really noticed while driving.  About half way there I walked next to my bike; I'll admit partly because my legs were not used to hills and partly because I had to answer the phone and make some other phone calls as well.  

I made it to Bruegger's Bagels without any rain.  Did I really succeed so easily?! Nope.  While I enjoyed one of their new skinny bagel options (egg white patty, turkey sausage, and some tomato tasty spread on a sesame seed bagel) outside in the cool morning air I got a phone call and moved back into the building.  

Shortly after I was on the phone it started to mist rain outside.  Bah!  I ended up having to ride part way home in the misting rain.  Luckily it was only the annoying mist kind and not heavy drops or I would have probably had to stay at Bruegger's until it let up...which probably would have led to me eating more bagels which would be oh so bad for the diet.

My reaction to having to ride in the rain.  I had to carry my purse under my light jacket to keep it safe from rain and I decided that I kind of looked like a pregnant lady on a bicycle.  I wonder how many people passing on the road thought I was.

June 21st, 2011

This whole rain a lot thing is making me sad.  I want to be able to ride my bike more often!  It seems like the rain happens when I'm awake and want to ride my bike. : (  Then when I'm asleep it isn't raining.  Just mean!

Besides being sad about not getting to ride my bike I have had the chance to revisit a home that I visited last week.  I'm going to be making an offer on this home and I'm pretty excited about it.  I'm also extremely nervous that they won't accept my offer and I won't end up getting the house.

I'm way sick of apartment life.  The sound of children screaming in the courtyard or babies crying in the apartments near you, or neighbors making 'noises'.  I'm way over that.  I'm ready for my own place, and a yard. Maybe some day I can afford a puppy or a kitty.  I have been considering adopting a pet as well, but that won't be till much farther in the future...like next year. Haha.  Right now my gerbil is the only one for me!

Keeping my hopes up on the house and that everything will work out!

P.S. I need to trim my bangs, stat!

June 16th-20th, 2011

I seriously hate when I get behind on my blog like this and I'm not really sure why I didn't do it over the weekend.  I had one of those extremely lazy streaks come over me.  Now the challenge is trying to remember what I did during the days I missed.

I went to the movie Super 8 and that was pretty good.  I've heard it described as the modern day ET and I guess you could kind of say that.  I would have to agree with some that the mystery with seeing the alien for so long doesn't let you get time to truly connect and care about the alien.  I wish that there could have been a moment where we could become to understand what it wanted more.  Ah well.  Still good anyway.

On Friday, I believe, I went to some houses.  Well, I finally got to see the inside of a few houses.  This house search is kind of annoying but I have a feeling that apartment searching would be just as annoying.  I'm hoping to get the whole housing situation figured out soon.  There are a few hopefuls as far as a place to live, but we shall see how that goes.

Weekend was extremely boring.  I wanted to make something that needed some brown sugar...which brought to my attention that someone had thrown out my brown sugar..soooo I didn't make it. I made rice crispy treats instead!  Totally worth the 3 weight watcher points for each piece.

Speaking of weight watchers, lately I seem to be magically eating my exact amount of points without using my points calculator like a nazi.  I think I'm finally start to memorize what certain things count as and getting better at mentally figuring it out.  Which is helpful because my mobile app isn't working.  Apparently I don't have enough room on my phone...again...Bah.

Lastly, my garden is doing wonderfully!  Just check out my lettuce!

(Part of the reason I'm excited for a house is that I can finally have a real garden!)

Oh yeah and I forgot that sometime during this stretch of me being a lame face and not posting this happened. I opened an egg and it had two yolks...I'm not sure if that is supposed to happen...I think the second egg I cracked open did the same thing.  Is that what happens when eggs get old?  I was kind of concerned after that and threw them away a few days later just in case.  I mean I did eat the ones I cracked and I'm not dead now, but it just seems odd.

June 15th, 2011

Just another day for me...not! Went to Theatre in the Round to get a tour of the place and talk about volunteering there.  I'm not going to lie but I'm pretty excited to work in a new place.  Not only will I gain experience working in a place that performs in the round but I will be adding a new theatre to my resume.  They seem like a reputable place.  They have been around since 1952 according to the pamphlet they gave me.

I'm going to say it again, I'm excited.  The technical volunteer coordinator that I talked to seemed like they were really helpful getting people headed towards working professionally.  That is all I can hope for.  Getting closer to doing what I want to do on a professional level.

I just hope they think I meet their standards after the show I'm working on for them and bring me back for others.  I can't wait. : )

The show I'm working on for them is The Fantasticks.  It's going to be fantastic! :P

June 14th, 2011

Today was a sort of cooking adventure for me.  I have been trying to figure out what to do with the canned salmon I bought from Costco.  Haven't really made much with salmon before so I wasn't really sure where to start.  My grandma makes some delicious salmon patties but I can never remember the recipe for those.  In the end I decided on making what I believe would be called a Salmon salad?  It's similar to what you would make for a tuna fish sandwich, but with salmon and missing a few other ingredients.

The salmon I used was a wild Alaskan salmon.  Bear salmon (rawr).  It was boneless and skinless so I didn't have to check for bones, but I did anyway.  Never can be too careful.

I didn't have any mayo like I would normally use in a tuna salad or chicken salad.  I scowered my fridge for something that would work and came across something my parents had bought and left in my fridge when they visited me last.  It is ranch that is apparently calorie free, fat free and gluten free.  So in my world of weight watchers it was 0 points.  Woot woot.  I doesn't taste too bad either.  I would say it doesn't taste just like ranch but it's not a bad taste either.

I also added some celery to the salmon and ranch mixture to give it some crunch.

Finally I put the mixture in lettuce leaves instead of bread for less points.  I would have used bigger lettuce leaves but my romaine lettuce was getting into the smaller pieces.  Ah well.  The tomatoes are just because I like eating tomatoes. : )

Some of posts might be more about what I cook lately...mostly because I'm trying to figure out new ways to cook lighter and healthier.  Don't worry, all my posts are not going to be about food...I think. Haha.

June 13th, 2011

Time to get creative with my food.  Well, semi-creative.  I made pancakes today with strawberry chunks cut into the batter.  I think they turned out pretty well considering I haven't made pancakes with fruit in it.  The only thing I have added to my pancakes is chocolate chips and those are definitely not on my healthy eating radar.

Is it just me or does everyone else have issues turning over the first two pancakes?  The first two pancakes I make I usually end up screwing up because they don't flip over nicely.  One of them ended up in two halves and the other one kind of folded into itself, but then the  next two I made turned out perfectly.  Pancakes.  Funny things.

I also made some turkey bacon to go with my pancakes.  Someone please tell me if they think this is totally crazy but I was considering making pancakes with pieces of bacon in them.  Is that super strange? Ha ha.  I think it might be interesting.  I might try it some day.

June 11th, 2011

Today I traveled to my friend Sarah's to help her family out with her little brother's graduation party.  He graduated this year from high school just like my little brother.

It was nice to have something to do on a Saturday for once. Ha ha.  We prepared the food for the party and kept the supplies full.  Her mom cut two cool bowls out of watermelons for the fruit salad we made.  They looked very festive.  I wish I would have thought to take some pictures of our spread but I totally forgot.

It was hard to resist the Costco cake...and I didn't.  Woopsie!  It's ok, though. We went for a walk after the party died down to burn off some of that unwanted calories.

It was a beautiful walk though.  I hope my friends don't mind being in my picture, but I was trying to take it while we walk.  The lake looked beautiful.

We decided to start a fire to have s'mores when we went back but had to run and get some wood.  We also stopped at the store of liquors as Sarah puts it.  Sarah and Kelsey got some MGD lemonade or something like that.  It was beer supposedly lemonade flavored, but it didn't really taste like lemonade to me.  I don't really care for beer so I didn't really find them all that good.

I bought this wine while at the store.  I didn't open it but I'm looking forward to trying it and partly because of the name.  It had a neat blue bottle too. I like keeping certain bottles, but not all.

I unfortunately had to sleep on a tiny couch with a table pushed up to it because of a full house of people at Sarah's, but I made the best of it.  Just going feel a bit kinky in the morning. (Not that kind.  Pervos.)

June 10th, 2011

Sometimes trying new contraptions can lead to unusual occurrences.  I had bought a wine opener from a thrift store awhile back and finally decided to try it out.  

The Houdini wine bottle opener.  Quite the weird looking contraption.  It comes with a foil cutter that is used to obviously cut the foil on top of the wine bottle.  The directions to use the opener seemed easy enough but they were not!

We put the opener on top and did as the directions said....and next thing we know the cork went down instead of coming up.  Woops?  I've never seen a cork go down instead of upwards.  I have no idea what we did wrong but no way that was going to keep me from finally opening my bottle of Working Girl wine!  I just pushed it down into the bottle.  I think I'll have to keep the bottle with the cork inside as a reminder of what happened.

June 9th, 2011

Staying on my recent topic of websites I have found I'll let you know about www.skinnytaste.com.  She is actually a food blogger that includes the points for people who are part of weight watchers.  I'm looking forward to looking through her blog and figuring out some new recipes.  I like coming up with my own sometimes, but there are times when I don't know what would be  healthy to eat besides fruit and veggies.  Here are a couple recipes I want to try out from her page. The pictures included are her pictures, not mine.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/04/chicken-rollatini-with-spinach-alla.html#more

This is a Chicken Rollatini with spinach alla parmigiana.  Too me it just looks delicious!

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2010/06/skinny-italian-spinach-meatballs.html

Meatballs with a secret... a tasty one! Spinach snuck there way into these meatballs.  I love meatballs and I like the idea of mixing my veggies into my meat because sometimes I don't feel like eating veggies and feel more like having some good ol' meat.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/02/chocolate-pistachio-biscotti.html

Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti.  I don't know about you but these look too good to be true. I want to make them soooo bad but not at the same time because I'm afraid I would just keep eating them!  All I can say is thanks to this lady for making this blog so I can't find new food ideas.

I enjoy cooking for the most part. : )  Except when I get really lazy.

June 5th, 2011

Just another lazy Sunday.  Laying around and looking at the internets.

I got so incredibly bored laying around that actually got up and went for a bike ride.  I ran into a dead end on the path I picked though.  I could have swore the path was supposed to go all the way around the lake, but I couldn't see where it went.  It came out to a street and I couldn't see it starting anywhere near by.  Maybe there was something I was missing.  I guess I'll try going the other direction next time.

After the bike ride I decided to work out a bit on the elliptical machine too.  I'm beginning to think the best way to lose weight is to work out every time you are bored.  I get bored pretty frequently when I don't have much planned so I'm pretty sure I'd be working out all the time. haha.  Something to try out at least.  It's a better choice than just napping when bored, or worse eating.

Maybe that would be the solution to obesity in america.  Work out when you are bored, or at least move around instead of vegetating.

June 3rd, 2011

In the oh so 'wise' words of Rebecca Black.  "It's Friday, Friday, gonna have fun on Friday!"  I now apologize for anyone that got that song stuck in their head now.

I went to the movie X-Men: First Class.  It was pretty good.  I'm not a big comic book nerd so I didn't know how much of it was true to the comics.  I hope most of it was true so that what I know now about the characters isn't all lies.

After the movie I had some tasty lettuce roll ups.  Lettuce roll ups have become a staple in my diet because they are so easy to make and not bad for you either.  Just take a leaf of romaine lettuce, and your choice of deli meat and roll it up.  You can add cheese if you please.  I have been splitting my cheese slices in half for one roll up.  Pretty tasty.

Later in the day I went for a brief bike ride because we lated so late to go for the ride.  We started to run out of sunlight so had to turn back.  My butt isn't use to riding a bike.  I definitely had a pain in my butt afterwards and it wasn't even that long!  I might have to invest in a new seat if my bum doesn't get used to it.

I didn't actually use my new helmet when I rode my bike... I was riding near my place on a path so I didn't feel like I would need it, and I also forgot I had got it. Haha.

June 1st, 2011

Well my day today has been far better than the one before.  I had a lovely day walking around the Mall of America.

I enjoyed some tasty food throughout the time spent there.  I think I did pretty well keeping with my points.  I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but I joined weight watchers a few weeks back.  It's been interesting keeping up with it but I'm doing well so far I think.

First I shared a strawberry-banana crepe from the Magic Pan Crepe stand.  I'm pretty fond of crepes and they are only 2 points according to WW.  I'm glad that I can still eat the things I like.

Next I had a tea from the Tea Garden.  I really enjoy the selection there.  I can't remember what kind I got.  It had something to do with blood oranges... Oh well.  It was good.  I think I'll try to taste all the teas there.  I'm sure that'll be a challenge but I'm up for it!  It's tasty tea!  I love tea.

After enjoying some tasty tea I tried Tiger Sushi for my meal before work.  It was surprisingly good.  I tried grilled calamari instead of fried.  As much as I love me some fried food I know grilled would be much better for me and was pretty darn good.

Grilled Calamari...I had already ate from it before I remembered to take a photo...oops.

We also order and order of what they called tiger balls.  The name itself is pretty comical and partly the reason I wanted to try them.  It was just salmon prepared nigiri style.  Basically it was some balled up rice with salmon on top and a small strip of what I believe to be seaweed around it.  Also delicious.

Mmm balls...lol

However, it was not as delicious as the main course.  We just did the option of let the chef pick what to make and this beautiful roll came out.

Does't it just look delicious!  I believe it has eel on top because they asked if we had an preferences to give the chef ideas and I told him I liked eel.  Then in the middle is some shrimp tempura and I honestly can't remember what the yellow thing was.  All I know is that it was fantastic.  I also know that I love eel sauce...whatever it is....

I love me some food. 'Nuff said.

May 29th, 2011

I got to spend my whole day with my family mostly looking at potential places to live.  If you were not aware I have been considering actually buying instead of renting as of late.

As much stress first time home buying is bringing me now I think in the long wrong it might be the best option.  I might be able to pay less a  month buying a house than I would renting an apartment, and I don't get to own the apartment.

It has been really nice having my family here to look at the areas I have been interested in because they can give me their opinion on things.  They were most helpful when it came to figuring out what I should be looking for in a house and how much is too much for what they are selling.  Nice having a second opinion that isn't trying to sell you something.  If you know what I mean.

As a 'reward' for a good day of house shopping I let my parents experience the Jucy Lucy for the first time.  They had only seen it on tv and we decided it was the place to go.  I believe the general consensus was that they were expecting it to taste better than it did.  Hey now, they were not saying it didn't taste good...just that all the hype made them believe it would be like heaven in their mouthes.

Nice day with my family but sad to see them go.  I'll see them all again in August for my older brother's wedding. Yay!

For all my homies at work who think all people from Montana have goats.  Here is my parents neighbors who have two goats. lol

May 27th, 2011

My last day in Montana for my vacation.  It was a nice relaxing vacation for me.  Well, despite having to help my mom with some trophies and awards work.  It wasn't terrible to help out and at least I didn't forget how to do any of it yet.

I got to look through my families cupboards and snatch a few things though.  I mostly grabbed things for my kitchen.  Awkwardly enough, right now my kitchen has the least amount of space in my entire apartment, but is more for the future when I have to find a new place.

I'm hoping that I will be able to find a nice place that is with in my budget soon.  I don't really enjoy sitting around wondering if I'm going to be able to afford my next place.

Enough of that talk!  Back to what else I did today!  I had a fun time with my old friend Scott.  Not old as in age, but as in we've known each other since we were wee ones old.  He had never used the kinect before so he came over and played that with my brother and his brother.  All I can say is I'm glad that no one was filming it because I'm sure we looked pretty foolish at times.

It's hard to leave a place like Montana but when life and opportunities are pointing me towards Minnesota you can't really turn your back on that.  Maybe some day I'll come back to Montana. We shall see.

May 26th, 2011

Simple life lessons I have learned today.

Firstly! Don't ever trust a cat.  No matter how well mannered they seem and even with years of good behavior they could still lash out at you at any moment!  I have proof that at least my parents most recent cat, Turbo, is insane.

Turbo was being just as nice as could be.  He would cuddle up to me, and lay on my legs when I didn't want him in my lap while I tried to work on things.  Then all of a sudden he was laying on the couch next to me while I was searching on my computer and out of no where he decides to full on latch to my arm, teeth and everything.  His teeth and front paws dug into my arm while his hind feet began kicking and scratching my arm without mercy.  I of course promptly removed him from my arm and spanked him before tossing him out into the garage.  I mean I was nice enough to put him in there instead of out in the rain.  When my father found out he wasn't as nice and made him go outside in the rain.  I guess he is going to be an outdoor cat now instead of a half way cat.  Can't really feel bad for him.

Oh and here is my evidence.

 Look at him laying so nicely.  Just hanging out.

Now my arm is covered with scratches!  The other side of my arm has dots where his front paws dug in.  The top part of the arm is his teeth marks and then the rest at the bottom are just from his hind legs attacking.  So yeah, do not trust cats! But you can compliment me on my phone cover I got last week or the week before...I forget.

Ok and the second thing I learned was never expect things to always be fixed the way you want them to, but don't necessarily be surprised when they don't.  Does that make sense?  I say this because I had a massage today from a massage therapist in hopes of helping get some kinks out of my back but it's still achy.  So I know that massage isn't going to fix the problem.  Ah well.  It was nice though.  Felt good for awhile afterwards but now as I type this lying in bed I can feel a dull pain in my shoulder and my back.  Just sitting there.  Hanging out.  Oh and a nice headache coming on, most likely from my neck.  I'm just broken, but lets not listen to me whine about how broken I am.  Lets get some rest so I can pack and do a bunch of stuff tomorrow before I leave.

Feb 15-28, Mar 1-5

(A towel at target, sounded fitting)

I have definitely let this blog go to the wayside.  I kind of lost the urge to keep writing it after my grandfather passed away.  While I was trying to figure out how to get home for the funeral I didn't really want to have to worry about posting on here, but now I have decided to try to come back to it.  I keep finding myself thinking of what I could put on here still...so I think I'll give it a go and try to come back.

But first I feel like I should attempt some sort of a catch up post for the couple of weeks I didn't write anything about.

I suppose I can start with the funeral.  I managed to get some train tickets to go home for the weekend.  If I had done more research before hand I could have taken a few more days off from work to spend with my family but the few days I had were nice.

The funeral went really well.  The pastor did a great job with the service.  Everyone I talked to seemed to agree that he did a great job.  He wasn't the type that was trying to use that experience to convert people but more to help people remember and celebrate how wonderful our Grandfather was.  He made connections to my Grandfather's hard working attitude and how much he cared for other people to how Jesus was a hard working carpenter and really cared for people.  Also, my grandfather was really into building things with wood.  So he also connected to the carpenter thing too.  It was a well done funeral.

However my train rides were a bit more interesting. The ride home was fine, only a few hours late, but that is to be expected from winter train travel.  The ride back to MN was a bit more interesting.  How so, you say?  Well it all started with an automated phone call from amtrak saying there was a service disruption with my train.  So we called amtrak to ask what was up and found out a freight train had derailed somewhere and I had to wait for a bus to come pick me up and take me to Minot, ND where I would take the train from there.

They were not able to tell me when the bus was going to come for me exactly so my family and I sat at the depot watching cars drive by until we finally saw a bus...which soon passed us by.  Apparently they forgot to mention that they would have multiple buses and not necessarily the first would stop for me.  So after a few hours of waiting and seeing two more buses pass by, a fourth one finally showed up and picked me up.

My bus had apparently waited for the bus after mine because it was having mechanical issues, so it that was why it was much later than the rest.  Luckily I some how found myself with two seats to myself and was able to sleep off an on during the trip.  I was on the pick up and drop off bus and not a straight through one though.  I'm actually glad I was because then I didn't have to wait so long at the train station in minot, wondering why we weren't moving.

In the end I got on my train and arrived roughly 7 hours later than I should have.  I got a 40 dollar voucher out of it though.  So I can take a train again but for 40 dollars less, woo? lol

Now that I have been back I spent the next few weeks getting back into the swing of things.  I think the amount of days I have missed kind of put me off starting back up, but I miss doing this so I decided to catch myself up.

I'm almost done with the show I'm working on.  We have one more weekend left after this one.  It was a fun run but I have already planned to try to clean up my living space after the show is over.  It'll be nice to have a break from the show, but I hope I keep getting work at places.  I'll need to start applying to places again.  I haven't done that in awhile either.  Gotta get my "poop in a group", or whatever it is they say.

Oh and just yesterday I raided a closing blockbuster for some movies.  Can't really pass up four dollar movies can you?  I also bought my first ever LBD (Little black dress) the other day.  It was on clearance but it is super cute.  I wore it yesterday for my double show day.

I just keep remembering random things that have happened so this post just keeps getting longer and longer!  I had issues with my power windows not working in the back passenger side of my car.  So I went to get those fixed and lo and behold they find the issue in my brakes they should have found when I took it in over a month ago.  I was not too pleased to add 850 more dollars to my already stupid car bills.  My car better not break anymore or Ima have to kick it or something.

I think that is all that has happened to me since I stopped posting.  I'm sure there is other things but I can't think of anything.  I'm going to attempt to keep up with this again.  Wish me luck. : )

February 14th, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!!! (Yes I am aware that this post is late for the day)

I hope everyone spent the day with people they love, from your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, friends and family (maybe even pets).  You don't have to just spend the day being all mushy with someone.  You can spread the love to everyone.

So, for all those people out there who get all mopey and obsessed with the fact they are single on Valentine's day, I say let your family know you love'm instead.

In fact even though this post is later than V-day, I say go tell the people you love that you love them right now.  Today.  You don't need a silly day to tell them.  I certainly hope you let them know more than once a year that you love them.