Friday- Lindsay, new jeans & top. Getting ready, borrowing shoes & jewels, James Joyce meet up w/ Kiera & Aussie friend. Cute bar owner. Get armbands from Czar, take a birthday round. Stop by Honey Pot, lovely Kyle, drag show(!!!), half naked men dancing = awesome, Back to James Joyce, TB shows up w/ crew, more rounds, rain, Steak & Shake, rainy sleepover. :)
Saturday- Head home from Lindsay’s, get Chick-fil-A on the way, shower, laundry, get ready. Pick up Amber, meet up w/ Pavlo & Nicole for a beer before HIPPIEFEST! at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Meet up with Cate! Lots of chair dancing, lols & Italian sausages. Hookah bar. Tried ladies giggling/verbal spewage. <3 Drop Amber off. Drive home, Sleeping in your own bed = <3 <3
Sunday- Wake up early, made “HIGHLY CAFFEINATED” tea gifted by Melissa. Cleaned the apartment, Gregg came home early from camping. Ruby Tuesday’s lunch before seeing Scott Pilgrim. Very good! Saved a turtle ^ from parking lot death in the raging rain. Named him Frank! Snugs & Snogs & Sleepytime. :*
Still trying to keep up w/ E-mealz, here’s a stir-fry from this week.
I “kicked it up a notch”, I make everything super spicy.
Sriracha or chili paste in EVERYTHING I make.
I went to my good friend Kim’s birthday on Saturday.
It was awesome & these cupcakes rocked my world -Lemon!
Me at work, drinking coffee.
I drink so much coffee, like 8 cups a day.
I’m kinda glad the weather here has been rainy, I can enjoy hot coffee!
My boss got a Carin Terrier last week…!
Harry! I love him & I’m sure he’ll be hanging out at the office all the time.
The apartment is a complete mess. From my seat on the couch, with last.fm playing, I see:
-Blankets/bed stuff from Jon sleeping on the couch.
-Bottle of Sriracha & noodle soups I bought for Gregg at the Asian market in Brandon w/ Jen, Orson & Jon.
-Wrapping paper & ribbon scraps from the diaper cake I made for Regina’s baby shower.
-Empty Brita on the kitchen counter.
-Half empty jar of dill pickle cashews.
-Cast-off camping supplies from Gregg heading out to summer camp.(flashlight/sleepingbag/towels/etc…)
-Settlers of Catan box sitting in the middle of the living room.
-Empty box if tissues from Jon being sick.
-Half drank mug of tea from last night…just…sitting there.
Two weekends ago, our friend from Tennessee, Matt, came to visit again. Last week (Wednesday till this morning) Jon came from Connecticut. I’ll have to share pictures soon. Went to Busch Gardens for Gregg’s companies Family fun day w/ Jon, Marissa, Doug, Josh, Josh ++ So much more, tonight I am utterly exhausted. I had planned on getting home & cleaning like a mad lady. I grabbed Taco bus (ughhhfattymcfatterson) & just vegged while watching True Blood. (Missed last night’s ep.) Catching up all on the blogs. Work was relatively decent, I blame it on starting the day w/ a venti iced Americano. This week, I am seeing The Smashing Pumpkins (yes, my *first* time seeing them, holy moly excite!) on Wednesday, #EpicThanksTampa meeting Thursday, & gym gym gym any other day. Oh & sharing everything that went on the past two weeks here. Bedtime starts… now.
Melissa at Oh my Darling is hosting a Surprise Ball exchange. It’s based on “suprise balls” made my Gina Namkung.
I posted a few weeks ago about surprise balls made to look like bombs & in lieu of posting 500 images of cute surprise balls, go sign up here!! I signed up last week, & registration ends July 22nd. I’m really excited, I love little, cute trinkets. Let me know if you end up signing up! :) & I will make sure to show pictures when it’s all over!
I guess I really like “challenges”. Saturday evening I told Gregg I could make a better pizza then him. The only rule is that we each could only spend ten dollars. Here’s what we came up with.
These are my ingredients; potatoes, broccoli, pancetta, mozzarella cheese, garlic & milk. I decided to roll my pizza up & then cut into slices & bake them in a pan. Here’s my finished product.
It was really good. I loosely based my around this recipe for mashed potato pizza. You used garlic mashed potatoes as the “sauce” layer. If I made this again, I’d have some sort of dipping sauce, or make the crust thinner. It was so starchy.
Gregg’s ingredients were brie, prosciutto, basil, and roasted garlic. (He used the silicone cupcake/muffin pan to roast them in the oven.)
& here is his finished delicious pizza;
His pizza defiantly won. All of his ingredients melted in your mouth; he took the roasted garlic & used the “paste” as his “sauce”. Thin layers of prosciutto & brie, & topped w/ basil just after it was out of the oven. So good!
If you were to make pizza, what would you put on your perfect pizza?
Okay. So my hair was flat. I was twenty minutes late to work, yesterday morning was crazy. The A/C was broken at work -It was 86 degrees from when I got there at 10am till 2pm. Everyone had left work till the repairmen had fixed the unit, but you know, one person has to stay to “watch over” the office or something. I had posted on twitter that I looked like a hot mess, people asked for pictures. I drew myself. (The coffee was made prior -One sip & I had to stop drinking, too hot!)
Anyways, after work I headed over to Tampa Bay Brewing Company for the Social Media Day with Mashable Meetup. I met up with my friend Joe, and at the door, another good friend, Oz, saw we had been tweeting about it and joined us! Super stoked! After saying hi to a few people we headed to the bar, and got beer. I just asked for the wimpiest beer since I’m not much of a connoisseur. (Happy hour $4 + $1 tip = -$5) I had brought mini bottles of rum in my purse. I was trying to think smart! Anyways, diet coke is free & purse booze is some serious win.
Gregg showed up an hour or so later, I was so happy to be around everyone. I’m glad to have been able to spend time with Lee & Gil… & get to know them better finally! They are a super cute couple, & have great personalities. I am looking forward to seeing them again & going to concerts. We went to Mema’s Alaskan Taco’s & got yummy food & then headed to the after-after party @ New World Brewery. Drank PBR (Thanks to Gregg, woot!) & told Joran that I’d win next week with foursquare. We bet $20. Joran is always the top out of all my foursquare friends, I’m going to have to be busy next week. It will help that I have a friend coming in town. Muhaha ;)
After that, a few of us party people got pizza (Yay Gregg!) & heckled passerby’s. Moved my car to the garage & we headed home.
That makes my 4 day total -$5.79. $14.21 left. I am going to the Tacobus tonight (Come out come out!) & to see Eclipse. (You know, support my husband’s acting career… RPatz) I’m going to go out on a limb & say I think I am going to fail. I think the movie’s $9 tickets is what will kill me. We shall see -I don’t do well with defeat!
I’ll leave you with another winning picture Tony decided to take:
I’m down 79 cents; I needed chicken broth for last nights dinner. $19.21 left for the week. I’m quite nervous about tomorrow night, & VERY nervous about Thursday night as I am going to eat burritos (I think $5-6?) & going the movies. (Eclipse – Ehh… $8-9?) So, that’s $15 out of my $20 & $1 is practically gone. -That means no drinking at the brewery tomorrow! Ah! That’s the *real* challenge! I’d call off the movies, but that would be a jerk move. I can do this… I can do this…
Over the weekend I made a list of a few things I wanted to do/complete before 2010 ends. One of them was to save $5,000. I had originally planned to save $10,000 for 2010, I think I may have been aiming far too high. Or, I am just terrible with saving money. I’m pretty lucky in the sense that my only bills are car insurance, gym membership & gas/tolls. The bank I use (Bank of America) has a pretty cool system where it makes a chart of how you spend your money – Here is mine since Jan. 1st:
“Other” was listed as:
Travel (Hotels&Tolls)
Home Maintenance (Ikea & Dry Cleaners)
Personal Care (Gym)
Other Expenses (Paypal)
Entertainment (Movies/Museums/Redbox)
Automotive Expenses (Oil changes/Driver’s license)
Clothing/Shoes
Hobbies (Micheal’s)
Charitable Giving (Some thrift stores/Donating)
Telephone Services (This seems to be withdraw fees & web hosting?)
Service Charges/Fees (Monthly fees)
Home Improvement (Lowes/Home Depot…garden)
Electronics (Apple store)
Online Services (Gregg Bday gift)
Utilities (Walmart?!)
Cable/Satellite Services (Tolls?)
Anyways, all this equals I spend a ton of money. So, I’ve set myself $20 for the week (Monday-Friday). This may be kinda tricky since I am attending the Mashable Meetup Wednesday, the Tacobus Tweetup Thursday & seeing Eclipse that evening. I have a full tank of gas, so that’s good, although usually I fill up again mid-week. (I drive 45mins each way to work) Tolls are automatically taken out of my bank account; so I am just going to not drive toll roads…which adds mileage. I’m not sure how I’ll work that all out.
Anyways, this will be a fun game for the week. I’ll post everyday how I’m doing. Itemized lists & all. I asked Gregg not to pay for anything for me, so I can’t cheat.
Today I am at $0, since I just drink coffee (work has a machine & beans) & I bring a refillable bottle of water. I usually eat breakfast at home, skip lunch & eat dinner at home. Thankfully, since last week was all wacky busy, I still have a ton of groceries left over. :)
Okay, I’ll report back tomorrow!
Ps. This font is pissing me off lately, I think I am going to change it. It randomly spaces out weird & makes it hard to read. & it doesn’t bold <b> or <strong> it’s all funky.
Pps. Does ANYONE know how to make my blog posts show full size in readers? I hate that truncates it. I’ve reset my feed burner & set “show full text”. I am completely lost, please help! Sos!
I want to make a post with a ton of random lists. This song popped into my head. I like it, I put it on a ton of burned CD’s for the car.(“Lisztomania”, is a term to describe the massive public response to Franz Liszt’s piano performances. Liszt’s playing was reported to raise the mood of the audience to a level of mystical ecstasy.Admirers of Liszt would swarm over him, fighting over his handkerchiefs and gloves. Women would try to get locks of his hair, and whenever he broke a piano string, admirers would try to obtain it in order to make a bracelet. )
Sounds pretty crazy. Or, how any teenage girl gets about pop boys.
But, Lisztomania=Listomania ???
Things I could never put a price on:
Kids being psyched to give high-fives.
My families dachshund, Oliver, who lives with my mom.
The feeling of waking up early on Saturday, & thinking it’s a weekday, realizing, and going back to sleep. :)
Having my 87 year old Grandmother beat me in Rummy; repeat times in one sitting.
My dad still calling me pet names, when I talk to/see him.
Things that always put me in an awesome mood:
New shampoo & conditioner.
Forehead kisses; given or received.
Running around with a wand. Bonus awesome mood points if it jingles.
Finding tops/bottoms at a thrift store that fit perfectly.
Helping someone out & seeing them happier for it.
Stuff I’d put in my house if money was not an option:
Monochromatic rooms. One color, each room. Obsessed over the apartment linked in the picture above!
Mixture of polished concrete floors (Please! Click that link!) and wood flooring.
The biggest, softest, enrapturing, 3 feet high of white linens bed. I want 15 pillows. I want to jump and disappear because I’ve sank into a huge cloud-like bed pile.
Things everyone loves, & I just don’t get it:
Owls. I don’t get it.
Men with vain-popping muscles; I hear women swooning over how “ripped” men are, blah. I like strength, but really? I don’t want to cuddle w/ a rock.
Tans… -wrinkles, sagging skin, & sun spots… why?
The whole thing that is too long to be a shirt, too short to be a dress things that you wear with leggings.
Hello! I still can’t figure out what to name my links/image/random floaty thought bits. I’ve been working on actual blog topics this week, but for some reason when I try to write about more serious things, I get so nervous & proof read everything 15 million times… so soon. I’m in no rush -I just want to make sure I’m through and convey everything correctly, my head is so jumbley. I don’t know how all my favorite bloggers write & post multiple times a week… It’s all so good! As always, all images link to source, I’m trying to be good girl about this!
I found out one of my longest friends (since I was 6!), neighbor & all around awesome person, Sophia Canino, had fallen 150ft off a cliff while hiking in South Carolina on May 27th. I had no idea for the pass three weeks, but thankfully her parents have been amazing and created a website & a site where there is updates about pretty much anything that has happened. Yesterday she left the ICU unit, this was great news, I seriously teared up at my desk when I got the e-mail alert that her website had been updated. Reading back through the journal entries was pretty hard though… hearing her sister describe holding Sophie’s hand while she was being read her final rites -I couldn’t imagine! Yesterday, I contacted all the girls we were all friends in highschool with and asked them to look around for some old photos of us all. I think I’m going to put them on all on a poster & mail them to her for her hospital room. Her family’s faith in God has been so so inspiring, times likes this -you believe miracles do happen.
There is a swamp/lake/thing next to our apartment, & I have been taking the back way in because I like hearing the cicadas, frogs & whatever other noise making things are over there. I feel like I’m in the bayou!
I think I am either going to the Tampa Etsy Craft Party or #PascoCountyTweetup tomorrow. If I end up going to Etsy party (#1 pick!) I want to enter the cupcake contest. Gregg suggested I make meatloaf cupcakes w/ mash potato frosting -I’m not sure those will fare well. I thought about making pineapple upside down cupcakes. I’m not terrible at piping, but I prefer the way cupcakes look when they’ve been knife frosted, I do not like the popular “puff” of frosting on top. It’s too much frosting people & terribly distributed. So, pineapple upside down cakes, completely rids the option of frosting.
^^ Holding true this week! >_<
I made this image for Gregg to try & convince him for a puppy in an apartment. It’s so not a good idea; but waiting for a yard seems forever. & waiting for magic kitten/cat to walk into our lives is also unknown time frame.
Exodus 15:26
26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Wanted a easy little post. I’ve seen some people do Friday Fill-ins. :) Thought I’d try.
(I made bold what I added)
1. Drinking unsweet iced tea instead of coffee in this hot weather feels great.
2. “When the solution is simple, God is answering.“- Albert Einstein
3. It’s easier to fall asleep after a few drinks. ;)
4. How about getting crafty with leaf prints?
5. Loving the one you’re with is something I highly recommend!
6. Imagine people realizing they can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to going to my grandmothers with Gregg, tomorrow my plans include hanging out at the pool and Sunday, I want to hangout with Gregg’s friends in the evening once we’re back.
<3 So much fist pumping. Their label is Memphis Industries & also on the label is Black Moth Super Rainbow, which I love too & saw last year sometime. Which reminds me, I need to find out when GreyMarket plays in Tampa again… sooo good! (& super sexy!)
Burn her!! Demon!!! LASER EYES!!!1one
