Birthday Dinner

I took Jake out to Red Lobster on Saturday for a belated birthday dinner (since I was 1000 miles away on his birthday). He ordered the Harborside Lobster and Shrimp meal (see picture to left). I ordered a Center-Cut NY Strip Steak (since I don't like fish or shrimp) and mashed potatoes. It was really good! I did try his shrimp, and I even tried the lobster. The garlic shrimp was pretty tasty but I didn't really like the other shrimp or the lobster.

My favorite part of the meal has to be the dessert that we ordered. We were both pretty full, so we decided to split a dessert and we decided on the Warm Chocolate Chip Lava Cookie. It was AMAZING! It tasted like a chocolate chip cookie-brownie with hot fudge and ice cream on it. YUM! <3

New Book Series

I just started reading the first book (Marked) in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (mother & daughter). It's really good. Very different from any other vampire series that I've read before. I think it's different mostly because it's written from the prospective of a 16-year-old, but it also differs from the other vamp books because the authors put their own twist on the whole "vampire disease" thing.

Anyways. I don't want to give too much away. But, if you're in to the teen-ish novels and you don't mind reading about vamps, you might want to try this series out. I think it would totally be worth your time. :) Also, because it's written for teens/young adults, the books aren't very long, and they move at a fast pace, so it doesn't take long to read them.

I'm only on Chapter 10 of Book 1, but I'm pretty sure that I already love this series!

I'm back

Well, we arrived home at 11:29 on Saturday night. After having driven the 14 hours back on 4 1/2 hours of sleep, I was so tired that I felt drunk. It was a new experience. But, I still had enough energy left to give Mom & Dad their goodies (I bought them a bunch of coffee from one of their fav. coffee places and I also got Dad some Bono's Bar-B-Q, which is his fav.), and to have Jake come over to get his belated birthday gifts.

The drive back really wasn't that terrible and we didn't get as lost at the end, obviously, because we knew exactly where to find our home. On the way down, we had difficulties finding our grandparents' house, so it took almost another hour, between looking for them and after having taken a wrong exit earlier in the day. Not terrible, I guess, but still a really freakin' long trip!

So, I'm glad to be home now, even though I had to return to work this morning. *sigh* I could include a ton of details about my trip, but my lack of sleep over the weekend is catching up with me and I'm just too tired right now. So, more details later.

Oh My Goodness!

I leave for Florida tomorrow morning! I can't believe it! The trip is so close and there is still so much to do, but I'm super excited about it!! It's going to be awesome! :) I get to see a few of my friends, hit the beach, swim all afternoon long...it's going to be wonderful!

Hopefully my tan gets darker while I'm down there so I won't be completely white all summer. I plan on more than making up for my lack of swimming all summer while I'm down there, so I should definitely get some major time in the sun! Of course, I will be applying sunscreen so as not to get sun poisoning or blisters, but I might end up with a nice brown glow to bring back with me. :D

The Future

We're already in the second week of August and I have yet to finish my resume or to start looking for applications and job openings. I guess that's not entirely true since I did poke around on Monster.com and JobfinderUSA.com yesterday to search for openings in the area (of which there apparently are none). I still feel like I've wasted my summer and soon my time at my current job will be over, which means the money will run out, and I was hoping to have something lined up before that happened.

I really need to get this ball rolling. As my mom pointed out the other day, I only have about a month left of work and then I'll need to have another job, or else have no money to pay my bills and to live off of, which isn't really an option. So, I need to find something ASAP, which means getting off my lazy butt and doing stuff.

The only problem is that I only have a few short days before my Florida trip, so I know I won't be very productive in the preparation of my resume and the search for a job. So I'm making a goal to start all that the week after I get back. I'm almost done with my resume, so if I have our Career Services Coordinator check over it sometime on the 24th, then I can start putting that out on some of my 1/2 days that week.

Sure, it sounds like a great plan, but can I do it? We'll see.

I can't believe it!

Today is Monday and we leave for Florida on Saturday, which means I only have about 4 1/2 days to prepare and get everything in order for my trip. My biggest issue right now is the lack of funds to make sure my car is running well and to clean it out and such, but I'll make it work, somehow. I did receive some Wal-Mart gift cards for graduation and my birthday and such, so that'll help with some of the supplies that I'll need for the trip, so that's good, at least.

I just can't believe how close it is. This time next week, I'll be lounging around by the pool, or possibly on the beach. It just seems so unreal!!

My new fav. show

is "Dance Your Ass Off"! It's a weightloss reality show but I absolutely love watching it! I've only missed one episode so far, and I really regretted it because now I'll have to wait until they start playing reruns after the season's over to see it...DANG!

But, if you haven't seen this show yet and you like to watch reality shows, you might want to try it out. It's a lot of fun and I'm starting to become attached to a few of the contestants and I keep crossing my fingers that they don't get eliminated!

I really hope that this isn't one of those shows that gets cancelled after the first season!

Special K Challenge...

where supposedly you can lose up to 6 lbs in 2 weeks. So, I tried to give this a shot today but apparently I wasn't able to find the protein bars, which kinda screws the plan up because I can't go all day without protein. So, I've decided not to follow the plan exactly but I will be using the Special K cereal and snack bars and such in an effort to cut back on junky snacks and candy. :)