It's Too Late To Apologize.

So I finally decided I was going to do it. I was going to buy those shoes I've been obsessing about. Those reebok realflex. Sarah and I planned on going shopping Friday after work for some green clothes to wear on our adventures on St. Patty's day, and I decided I was finally going to get them that day. Then the following conversation occured:

"Hey Sweets, whatchya doin?" -Me

"Just bought a new pair of shoes" -Man

"By shoes you mean moccasins right?" -Me (He always wears slippers as shoes like I do, too)

"No, real shoes. A pair of Reeboks. Realflex" -Man

Awesome. I never told him I was obsessed with those shoes. I never told him I was also planning on buying those shoes that day. So what was I supposed to do? Wait for him to come over after work and be like "oh hey, I went shoe shopping today too and bought the same shoes as you!!". No. That's creepy. If this were vice versa I'd be like "welp, you're super weird and creepy, see ya!" and not bother responding to his texts or phone calls. So instead I got a pair of Asics.

Cuuute right?! Yep, those colors too. I don't know what's been with me and buying green things lately. But these babies are SO comfortable. My feet weren't killing me by the end of the day like they normally do. 

Maybe my feet were killing me because I had been wearing a pair of Reeboks that I bought almost two years ago. I had the Reetones.  You know, those ones with the balance balls on the bottom that tone your butt and thighs? I'm not too sure on the whole toning my butt and thighs part, but those shoes were like walking on clouds. SO COMFORTABLE!

But then I stepped on something at work, and it deflated my balance ball. Just on one foot. I was walking funny the rest of the day because one shoe was higher than the other, one shoe had balance and the other didn't. It was just awkward for how I walked and how it felt, and it hurt so bad. The good news about my new shoes is that if I step on something sharp, my shoes won't deflate! :)

Are We Off-Roading?

Sarah and I should not be allowed to hang out. Not at work, not outside of work, not period. We talk all day at work, then as soon as we are off work we are either together or texting/voxering each other. It's unnatural. But I'm loving it. Here are some quotes just from today:

"Is that a weiner dog?" -Me, talking about a new resident's dog

"You sure know a weiner when you see one!" -Sarah

"Hahahaha" -Us

"Most guys don't like to cuddle, but I lucked out because mine does! It's probably because he gets to put his face in my boobs...but HEY! I'LL TAKE IT!" -Sarah

Then we were hanging out at my apartment, playing with Maddie when my phone goes off. It's the sexy beast Man. 

"Hey babe, can I ask a HUGE favor" -Him

"Yeah, what's up?" -Me

"I forgot to grab my lunch on my way out, can you bring it to me?" -Him

"Break at 7?" -Me

"Sure is. You with Sarah?" -Him

"Yeah..." -Me

"Oh God, what are you two doing now?" -Him

"YOUR GIRLFRIENDS RETARDED!!" -Sarah in the background

"Tell Sarajevo (his nickname for her) she's wrong because you are fucking awesome"-Him

"Ok sweets, i'll be there sometime around 7"-Me

Like everything I do with him, I was late. We tried not to be though. It's just usually when I get supper with him on his lunch break we meet somewhere, like subway, nearby where he works. But because it's the end of the week before a holiday, and a big one for beer companies, he's been working long hours and skips his break so he can not come over too late. So it's the first time I've taken food to his actual work place. We put the address into TomTom and it's getting me there all fine and dandy until it takes me onto this street blocked off my rocks. Big ones. 

"It's fine Ella, just drive over them" -Sarah

That's exactly why Sarah is not in charge of driving when we are together. So I sit there in the road. I mean, really? There are boulders in the street. TomTom left that small detail out! So we finally find our way to his job and it's 7:50. 

"Thanks babe, I wasn't expecting you this early" -Him

So he sat in the car, talked with us for a few minutes, and then went back to work. We whistled at him as he walked away and yelled "XXXX is a hottie!". He was embarassed. Sarah and I are really good at embarassing him anywhere that we go. 

Then we went back to my apartment. We decided to mess around on the most addicting website, after facebook. Pinterest. We saw this card and just started dying of laughter.

It's really convenient for us that our men are really good friends. So we can do crazy crap like this and they just understand "the girls must have been together again". Haha. So yep, we both made one. I'm not good at drawing though, and yeah, stick figures aren't really "drawings" but it was still hard! Mine looks like somebody is suffocating someone into the floor. On the inside I wrote "true". Sarah just drew an anatomical drawing.  Now if I actually give this card to him, that's another story.

Don't Be Fallin In Love When She's Walking Away

Sooo, yeah, disregard that statement I made yesterday about not going to Chicago because I'm saving my money. Well, halfway disregard it. I'm still not going to Chicago, but I'm doing horrible at saving my money. I made a big purchase today, after paying off my student loans for the month, thanks. I'm not completely irresponsible!

New iPod!!

 I bought me a brand spankin' new iPod Nano. A lovely green one. I'm pretty sure I stood there debating between the green one and the pink one for ten years. I chose green because it matches my car. That was my thinking. Seriously? Who does that?

 So now I'll be spending the next few days of free time going through my iTunes. Which songs need to be added to it, which songs need to be taken off, etc. This is such a long drawn out process for me because I'm OCD crazy. I mess with my playlists, make sure all the genres are correct, all the artists names match, and yeah...all that jazz. It takes me another 10 years.

BUT!! now I can start running again. Thank God because my legs are so mad at me. I lay in bed at night and my legs are just screaming to run. Forget that I run around the nursing home all day like a chicken with their head cut off, my legs don't think that's enough. It's like they have a mind of their own. But I'm scared to go back, I know my first run again is going to suck, and suck hard. (That's what she said). I can also start listening to more than 20 songs on my way to work and back every day. So that will be good. Those songs on that CD...they are NOT getting put on my iPod. Oh Hell no! I've heard them all so much that before the song is over, I know what's coming next. I've even learned the shuffle on my car isn't a shuffle bc it plays them out of order, but in the same order every time. Like song 6, to song 12, to song 2, etc. Is it sad I know that? Yeah, it is isn't it?

A Change In The Weather

Well, I cooked for the new man. Annnd...he loved it! Whew! That's such a relief because the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach! Then again, when I picked pizza and sour gummy worms I shouldn't have been surprised that he liked it. Any man would. What's that you say? NO! No, I don't think that meal doesn't count as me cooking for him! Of course it counts! I had to put it in the oven! I had to set the timer! What about that isn't cooking!?

Two days later I was at his place and he cooked me supper. The man can cook! He has himself a fancy spice rack and everything. In my defense, I did ask if I could help make it and he said I could. But then I got off work late, had to run some errands, tan, shower, get dressed, do my hair, doll up my face, and then make the 40 minute drive to his side of the city. He had supper all but cooked by the time I got there.

"Jeez babe, when you said you'd be here around 5, I thought maybe you'd be here at 5:30. But 7? That's a record."

I think I've been late every time we've set a time to meet somewhere. Which is very unlike me and I feel bad! I keep telling him I'm not like this, but I'm thinking he's not going to believe me much longer. Can't say I blame him. But which of those tasks that made me late was I going to skip? None. I was going to skip none of them. 

Then, despite me being 24 and him being 28 we decided to do something CRAZY! Hold onto your seats boys and girls because we played the game LIFE. I warned him I had mad skill at that game. He told me you "can't have skill on a game based off chance". Boy was he wrong because I kicked his ass. Then I discovered he had never seen the movie Baby Mama. Half the random crap I spit out comes from ridiculously bad/funny movies such as that. So we had to watch it. He loved it, or pretended to at least. 

Nick, Lilly, and I have this bad habit of automatically getting into either A) Asian accents , B)redneck accents, or C) Indian accents whenever the three of us are together. We've done it since we've all moved in together. And by now it's just habit. We don't even realize we do it. So Man told me this joke:

An Italian, and Irishman and a Chinese fellow are hired at a construction site. The foreman points out a huge pile of sand and says to the Italian guy. "You're in charge of sweeping," to the Irishman, "You're in charge of shoveling," and to the Chinese guy, "And you're in charge of supplies."
"Now, I have to leave for a little while. I expect you guys to make a dent in that pile." So the foreman goes away for a couple hours, and when he returns, the pile of sand is untouched. He says to the Italian, "Why didn't you sweep any of it?"
The Italian replies, "I didn't have a broom. You said the Chinese guy was in charge of supplies, but he disappeared and I couldn't find him." So then the foreman turns to the Irishman and asks why he didn't shovel. The Irishman replies, "I couldn't get myself a shovel. You left the Chinese guy in charge of supplies, but I couldn't find him."
The foreman is really pissed off now, and storms off toward the pile of sand looking for the Chinese guy. Just then, the Chinese guy springs out from behind the pile of sand and yells 'SUPPLIES!"

I think I died. I was crying.  And,  no, I'm not racist, I just thought it was funny. So don't take offense to it, I wasn't meaning it to be rude. And besides, people make fun of my "accent" all the time. Even though I don't have one and people from Tennessee do.


This weekend is St. Patrick's day. I had plans to roadtrip to Chicago with some girlfriends but I had to cancel. I figured I should use my money in more productive ways, such as paying off my student loans and not blow it on trips, even though I would have LOVED to go. So instead I'll be here. Home alone. Nick is going to Chicago and Lilly is going to her family's house in North Carolina. I will be eating green eggs and ham for breakfast, going to Erin and watching the parade, then doing who knows what. Man is in charge of the planning. I do know that around 4 we will be meeting up with Sarah and her man and going downtown.   And since I live the closest to downtown we will be taking a cab back to my place that night and all four of us will be crashing here. So my sentence about being home alone was pretty much a lie. My bad. Forgive me?

Where'd They Go?!

Val and I went to a mall today after work. I needed new earrings because I have to get a special kind since I'm allergic to most metals. Otherwise my ears bleed, and that's pretty sexy. Brings all the boys to the yard. So we went to Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works. We tried on bras, tons of them. And smelled all of the perfumes. I tried on the Bombshell bra. It makes you look two cup sizes bigger. And let me tell you what. No. No no no! Maybe on some girls it looks cute, but I looked ridiculous.

But that's all the excitement I have for today! Bet you weren't expecting a bra post!

Out Of The Comfort Zone!

UPDATE: "Guy" who I eventually revealed to be named Jacob and I are no longer whatevering/seeing each other/dating. It was nothing he did and it was nothing I did, and he's a great guy who will find and make some girl really happy someday. However, I am not that girl, and he is not that guy for me.  In the months I was seeing him though I learned that not every guy is a jerk or a cheater or just plain mean. So I'll be grateful to him for reminding me of that. Recently I have been dating a new Guy, whos name I will also not reveal until, and IF, it becomes a little more serious.

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Guy told me I don't know how to relax. Which is probably true, because even on my days off I have a tendency to still get up early and pound out a bunch of things on my to do list before noon rolls around. So he told me to pack a bag and stay at his house for my weekend off. He lives here in town, but way on the opposite side of town, a good 40 minute drive away. So I packed a backpack and headed off to his side of town. Since I met him through mutual friends and he wasn't getting off work until late I met up with one of those mutual friends at a little bar. This bar is awesome! It's not a normal bar. It's bright and has games everywhere. Like Jenga with 2x4s, foosball tables, and shuffleboard. So Sarah and I played some games until Guy and her boyfriend got there. Natually, like any girls we took bathroom pictures.

Once the guys got there the four of us all hung out together. Only it was more like me and sarah hanging out and the guys hanging out. Then I met a guy from Fairfield Iowa! Seriously, who knew there were so many around here! He was in the grade ahead of me. I didn't know him but we had a lot of mutual friends. We stayed until the bars closed, then we went back to Guy's house and Sarah and her man went to his place.

The next morning I woke up early, like 8:30.

"Hey, wake up!" -Me

"Joella, no. Go back to sleep. You're learning how to relax" -Guy

"Can we do something productive today? Just one thing?" -Me

"Sure, in a few hours" *pushes me back down* "Now go back to sleep" -Guy

Well, he got his way because we weren't productive all day. And he got me addicted to Blood Marys. Next he said I needed to learn how to try new things and not eat the same things over and over. So he ordered everything from every restaurant this weekend. And he's right! I tried things I NEVER would have ordered on my own. Like fried brussel sprouts, shrimp tacos, buffalo flavored hamburgers, taco waffle fries, etc. 

That night the four of us went to fights. That's another thing I never would have done. It was meh but it was fun because I knew he was having a good time. I'll probably only go to the next one if he wants me to, not because I want to.

Then after that we went to the bar, watched some karoke, then went home and went to bed.

Sunday was pretty much the same time. But substitute going to the move Safe House for going to fights. 

I also got him to watch The Voice. It took some convincing, but he did. And when it was over he said he'd watch it every week with me. I told him to pick a team, but obviously I had dibs on Blake. He picked team CeeLo. So he better not win!

Somehow he convinced me to cook him supper Thursday. Oh God. I don't know what I'm getting myself into. This could be scary!

Concert Love

Went with the same group from the Jason Jones concert (pictured here!)

Beer. Does the body good.

Sexy? Yes.

Hey nice view!

beautiful ladies.

The concert...AMAZING!! The place was absolutely packed, but we had a great time! Both guys sounded great, I was so impressed because usually people sound much better on the radio than they do live. But these two? Nope. Sounded great. We had so much fun and amazing seats! We were on the floor just a few rows from where they preformed. We had seats next to fun people. We danced. We sang. We met some new people to stalk us, lol.  I can't even explain how much fun I had! Even though they preformed in Nashville on Friday, we decided to get a hotel room so we could be responsible after having a few drinks and not drive home in all the traffic. It was probably one of our better ideas. And the next morning we got free breakfast too!! Plus Danielle made us new friends, the hotties at the table over.

"The Crew"

Lovely.

Cool dude with seats next to us!

In love?

Look at all the people in the back.

YOU!

 

 

 

Then the next night us three went out to a hockey game a few towns over, then went out on the town to some fun bars! Danielle did some karaoke.  I did not. Nobody wants to hear me belt that out any more than I already do in the car and shower. Lilly will vouch for that!

Sisterly Love

Today my little sister is no longer a teenager! I can't believe she's 20 years old! The older she gets, the closer in age I swear we get. I mean, I know it's always four years apart, but the age difference seems less and less significant. I'm so lucky to have gotten such an awesome girl for my sister. And I can't wait until her next birthday. The big 2-1! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULYN!

The birthday girl!

5 Fun Facts About My Sister

She may look innocent...but she's straight up thug!

Her dog is incredibly spoiled!

You know that song where it goes "you're  my favorite color CAMOUFLAUGE!"?

 That's her.

She's going to school to be a dental assistant.

She has the BEST older sister. :)

My World.

For awhile now I've been promising to show you pictures of my finished room. Well, I keep my word. It's coming together, and I am in love with my room. I've never loved my bedroom as much as I love this one. Except maybe the pink and brown dorm room sophomore through senior years in college. Or my neon dorm room freshmen year. Or my orange and lime green room in high school. Ok, so maybe I pretty much always love my rooms.  I hope you like it as much as I do!

View From The Door

A little to the right

Right Wall

Front Wall

Couldn't resist! Look at that face!

Close up of my bird figurine.  LOVE IT!

My bird jewelry tree.

Birds on my wall.

Drive, Drive, Drive.

Random roadtrip anyone? 

Tampa, FL

I remember when I saw this sign everyday.  Gahh, I miss it! Is it possible to be homesick for a place that you didn't live in very long? I'm so homesick for Tampa, and for Cedar Rapids, Iowa too. But I'll probably never live in either city again. And check out the hood of that sexy blue mustang.

Dance, Dance

Gots myself a date tonight. A late one. A double one with a friend and her man. But he works late, so the date starts late. Here I am sitting all dolled up: makeup on, freshly tanned, cute hair, new clothes, nails painted, the works. I'm excited to go because I love this friend, and hey double dates are fun. Double date sounds corny though. I prefer two couples hanging out together tonight. But that sounds too long. So middle school vocabulary "double dating" it is.

So what am I doing while waiting? Well, before I started getting ready, because obviously while waiting I'm writing a blog. But anways, what did I do? I danced with Mads! Such a spoiled lil fur ball!

Blades Of Glory.

When I saw Sunny Sweeney in concert, I fell in love with this song. The lyrics go perfect for a situation one of my friends is going through now. And one that I am familiar with. Trust me, sweetheart, it will get better. You'll have me to help you all the way! It will seem hard at first, but once you are out, and the shock has worn off, you'll begin to realize how much better you deserve, and slowly you'll find happiness and wonder why it was so hard to leave in the first place. Just know that for a few years now, you've been my best friend. I would call you every day crying when I lived in Florida, afraid of what I knew had to happen. Now, roles are reversed, and I'm going to help you as much as you helped me. Because that's what best friends are for. You are smart, pretty, funny, responsible, and the best friend in the world. Don't give him the power to make you forget those things! Love you!

Leaving's hard...trust me, it's really bad
It'll shake ya, damn-near break ya, it always has
You don't go until you're praying to break even,
Until staying's worse than leaving

God knows we tried everything that we could do
You can keep your pride and blame me if you need to
Even though this freedom feels a lot like treason,
I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse
Hope it's a blessing not a curse
I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons
I know staying's worse than leaving

It's gotta get better, it can't get worse
Hope it's a blessing not a curse
I don't care who passes judgement on my reasons
I know staying's worse than leaving

Both our hearts let go a long time ago
Words leave scars and Lord knows they heal slow
Our love died but somehow we are both still breathin'
I just hope someday we'll look back on this grievin'
and say, staying's worse than leaving
Yeah, that staying's worse than leaving

Yeah, that staying's...
...worse than leaving

2.24.2012 (With Luke B. & Jason A.)

Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan!

NINE DAYS! Only nine more days (not counting the rest of today) until February 24th! That's the day of the Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan concert!!Got my tickets today, and I'm pretty pumped. I didn't think I was going to be able to go. But luckily I was at work today and Melanie came up to me and told me that she had just bought tickets for me, her, and her twin sister to go. I'm going to pay her back, but I'm pretty stoked, needless to say. I've been listening to them on my spotify ever since I've made this discovery of my new tickets.

Songs I'm most excited for:

• Dirt Road Anthem
• Tattoos On This Town
• My Kinda Party
• Big Green Tractor
• Amarillo Sky
• Crazy Town
• Hicktown
• Why
• She's Country
• What Country Is
• Drinkin' Beer and Wastin' Bullets
• Do I
• All My Friends Say
• Rain Is A Good Thing
• Country Girl
• I Don't Want This Night To End

We also decided we are going to roadtrip all the way to Chicago for St. Patty's day. Why? Because WHY NOT?! It will be me, Melanie, and Lisa. We are all young and love long roadtrips. Watch them dye the river, watch the parade, have a good time! It's only about an 8 hour drive to Chicago from Nashville, so it won't be long like when I went with a few friends to California. Pretty excited for these next few weeks!

This Is The Voice!

Oh my goodness gracious. If you do not know what the show The Voice is, or if you have never watched it....shame on you. You do not know what you are missing! It is hilarious. I'm not gonna lie, it's recording on my TiVo every episode. I'm also not going to lie, as soon as it was over I went to my TiVo and restarted it. So I watched it twice...in a row. Maybe that's because I'm in love with Blake Shelton, maybe it's because the show is legitimately good. It's probably a nice mixture of the two.

I'm completely team Blake. Even though CeeLo seems to be getting all the people who I like in the blind auditions. It's going to be a good season! Last season some of the coaches, Christina especially, were choosing people to be on their team who I thought were a waste of team space. But this year, the coaches are all being more picky.

I love watching the coaches argue when more than one coach picks a singer. I like how they try to sell themselves. I like how CeeLo is always randomly holding a cat. And his outfits and how he's always hitting on the girls. He's just ridiculous. And Adam is such an ass that it's hilarious. But Adam is by far the pickiest coach, which is probably why he won last season. Even though Blake had a pretty good team last season with Dia and Xenia. As much as Erin Martin's personality drove me crazy during her interview, her voice is one that I knew Blake could go far with. And if she had watched this show last season, she would have known that as well and gone on his team. But CeeLo and his sweet talking probably got to her. She probably wants to bang him. Did you see how quick he was to press his button after he heard the girl singing was wearing heels.

"I see your legs shaking!"

"You belong to me, don't you agree?"

"You are a lovely creature of a woman"

"It was fate that we met. She was given to me. I deserve her."

-All lines from CeeLo in a short two minute segment

"Even Christina is smiling, and she NEVER smiles"

-Blake Shelton

She's going to be a fun one to watch, even if she didn't go with Blake! So excited for this season!!

I guess it's about that time to make the trek to Memphis again soon. I've been getting crap from Jacob's friends about them not seeing me in awhile. But, I'm not sure. I'm thinking about staying in town. As much as I love his friends to death, it's nice to finally be making some of my own here in town. Plus, it's fun spending time with the roomies every now and again. Right, Lilly?

I've Got My Toes In The Water.

The number one thing that embarasses me about myself is my left foot. My 4th toe is a lot shorter than it should be. So, like any girl who can't find any good movie to watch on her day off, I googled "short 4th toe". Seriously? Who does that? Anyways. These kinds of pictures came up.

This looks eerily similar to my foot. Not very cute, I know. But by clicking around on these pictures, I was happy to learn that this condition actually has a name! Brachymetatarsia. Brachymetatarsia is caused when the growth center of the bone suffers trauma. It can also come from a genetic link, which would be me considering my grandfather's sister had it on both feet. Typically, it occurs in the fourth toe, like mine. And in 72% of cases it happens in both feet, which is unlike mine. However, just because the one toe suffered trauma, the other toes continue to grow normally. The shorter toe can't bear the weight as it should, so it begins to raise higher and the surrounding toes try to move underneath it so as to pick up the slack.

Now, none of the articles I read said anything about having poor balance, but let me tell you what.  When doing my stretches in gym class I was always embarassed. I cannot balance on my left foot. I can't do it. I'd be the girl toppling over all the time. I'd look like a drunkard. Then I'd switch to stretch my left leg, balancing on my right "normal" foot, and it was like I was suddenly sober. Pretty ridiculous, and embarassing.

I can get corrective surgery though. Make it look brand new, like a whole new foot. I could wear real people shoes in the summer and everything!

Sample Before and After

 [Read a lady's blog on this here]

Dealin' With A Heart You Didn't Break

 Thank God For Men Like This :)  (click there for the sweetest song)

So, I guess I am starting to understand why my mom got me a radar detector for Christmas. I may or may not have been in a car pulled over for speeding again this weekend. But it's never me getting pulled over! It's that speed demon of a car, I'm tellin' ya! Plus we were late for a movie! The Vow. You can't be late for a movie like that! I mean it has my favorite actress in it (Rachel McAdams) and my favorite actor in it (Channing Tatum). Plus, every girl wants a love like that. <3

 But aside from a romantic movie comparable to The Notebook and Dear John (who, ironically the two main characters of The Vow are also in) I took a different view from the movie. One that I wish I could have been slapped in the face with around this time last year so I wouldn't have wasted so much time on something I already knew. It shows that you can try to start over and change things...but no matter how hard you try what's meant to be will be. The same situations will arise again and you'll be right back where you started. All I know is that someday I want a man who loves me so truly as Leo loves Paige in this movie.

On another rampage from the whole being pulled over thing, the cop that pulled us over's cell phone started ringing. It was Red Solo Cup. I mean, the cop was hilarious, joking with us the whole time and being super cool about the whole thing. Then when he started trying to get down to business that ringtone went off. We started laughing, I mean it was playing Red Solo Cup for crying out loud. He let us go and told him to grow some balls, getting sucked into going to a movie like that. Haha.

I have found another new food obsession. These are delicious! You should all try them. But warning: they are addicting. Between these and those shaker smoothies, I'm learning I should be a yogurt spokes person. That and the fact that I buy 10 yogurt cups a week and fly through them!

I cleaned the apartment today. Hardcore. Like, down on my knees scrubbing on the floor. Like, emptying the fridge and scrubbing down the walls with hot soapy water. Lilly helped me. We made it more fun by drinking some beer and sweet tea flavored vodka. Not that I need that to make cleaning fun, because I strangely find cleaning relaxing and enjoy it, but booze helps. Our apartment smells like hotel. You know how you walk into a hotel and they all smell the same? Like a mixture of chlorine and cleaning products? Yeah, that's our apartment. I'm not sure where the chlorine smell is coming from though. No indoor pool here, sadly.

Southerners Say The Darndest Things

Go Go Go!! That was my motto today. I had the day off and decided it was about time to knock off a bunch of stuff from my ever growing to do list.

1.  Get an in state license
2. Change my mailing address
3. Return my library books
4. Return my scrubs
5. Grocery shop
6. Apply for new jobs
7. File my taxes
8. Make up my lunches for the rest of the week
9. Meet up with Nathalie for lunch
10. Deep clean the apartment

Do you see all that? Holy moly! What a busy day!

I am no longer an official resident of Florida. Let me tell you, I'm sick of becoming a new resident of a state. First of all, it cost a lot more than just renewing your license. Second of all you can't use your old state's ID as a form of ID. Then you have to bring in mail and proof of residency, and all this crap that I'm just lugging around in my purse pleading that nobody decides today is the day to mug me because my whole life is literally in my purse. I figured I'd be at the DMV all day today, because in Tampa I was there for a whole four hours. Not today. I was in and out of there with my new license within thirty minutes. I also got my official mailing address changed today too! So I really do live here now!

I had to take that cute pair of scrubs back that I was talking about the other day on here. They changed our dress code to "appropriately colored" scrubs. Whatever that means. I took that as meaning no bright obnoxious colors. Apparently it means no fun colors, period. I didn't think it was an inappropriate color, but my opinion has no say.

Nice color? Or inappropriate?

Then Lilly and I went grocery shopping. I'm SO bad at it. Seriously. I don't know how I'm alive. I never eat a real meal. Ever. Unless somebody else is cooking. After that we met up with Nathalie at Panera while she was on her lunch break from work. I wanted to get a smoothie so bad! Lilly too.

"What's with y'all and your damn smoothies?" -Nathalie

Ok, so she totally didn't say that, but she did say I didn't need a smoothie. And she's probably right. I drink them all the time. In fact, this has nothing to do with my day but Val showed me these amazing lil boogers at the store.

Main ingredient: crack?

All you do is add fruit juice to the fill line, shake it for 30 seconds and viola! A perfect smoothie! No blender, no mess to clean up, nada! A chef with my talent can't even mess these up! It's perfect. But seriously, they are like crack. I just chug them so fast that it's gone before I even realize it!

I got my taxes all filed today, can't wait for my tax return! Applied for some jobs, a few that I hope I get more than some others. Y'all are probably wondering why I'm applying for a new job again. Well, I realized that I can't go anywhere with the job that I'm working right now. I want to find a job where I can grow with the company. I don't want to be stuck in the same position years from now. And as for nursing school? I'm not so sure anymore. Yes, I'd love the job. But I'm already paying for an education in a field that I love. I should really pursue that, and ACTUALLY try to find something. So I'm trying to buckle down and work harder at building a career, which my current job is not. If that doesn't pan out after a real effort, back to school and my nursing degree it will be. 

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On a completely different note, here are some random things I've heard. Some (most) of which more than once.

Well how 'bout that?

How's y'all family in I-wa?

Darlin'/Sir/Ma'am

I'm fixin to go out tonight.

What kinda coke y'all want?