Picturessss

I had a whole bunch from my recent Boston trips as well as San Francisco, but I'm lazy and if you're my friend on Facebook you get to see them anyway.

So this was definitely a moment I was glad I bring my camera everywhere with me. The Spaghettiville bridge is a very low bridge, and a trash truck got stuck :-). It definitely made my day!

As almost like a form of therapy, I visited Rockport twice in 24 hours. Expensive on the gas tank, but I was basically saying goodbye to my favorite place in the whole world. It really helped :-)

Frankie, my co-pilot. And my bars in case I got hungry because I was broke and didn't want to buy lunch :-P. Did I mention I lost four pounds in 10 days by the way?

Boats.

On rainy, rainy days, I always make sure to wear the proper footwear. In this case, flats are always weather resistant, right?

<3

Beaches

So yeah, I'm going to definitely make a huge effort to update this more often. Before I was just so terribly depressed, you could barely get me to do anything, much less update. Luckily for me, things are really turning around, and I'm surrounding myself with people who honestly care about me and appreciate me, so I actually feel good about myself again. It's been wonderful to just not cry and smile and laugh and WANT to get up in the morning.

Life is good, and with the way things are going, they will only get better for me. I am very blessed :-)

I have so much to do tomorrow, I need to clean up my room some more (believe me when I say it's been a VERY slow process) and go to the gym... And then work. I look forward to working my two jobs so I can actually save money. How wonderful :-)

So Excited!

Okay, so to start off, I'm getting this phone by 3pm:

http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/lg-env-touch-verizon/4505-6454_7-33665903.html

It's the LG enV Touch, and if you click on the link above you'll see it has an amazing review and it's going to be mine :-) :-) :-). The Goobermaphone is happily going to be gone, thank goodness! Time to move on to bigger and better things!

I had a wonderful day today with my friend Jess... We went to Parlee Farms for some strawberry picking, saw Transformers II at Chunky's, AND went to a Spinners game. Some pictures for your visual enjoyment:

One of my favorites of myself :-)

Cutie pieeee

Don't they look absolutely delicious? Way better than the icky strawberries you get at the grocery store.

My bear, Frankie, is my co-pilot in my Ford Focus. To me, he's my good luck charm who'll keep me safe from accidents. Don't judge me, it's obvous Jess doesn't :-P

I'm seriously obsessed with all things buffalo.

Cute, then wait for it, wait for it...

Hahaha not so cute :-)

Cute again.

It was a really good day for strawberry picking, very few people were there, and it was only misting enough to frizz our hair but keep the bugs away. So many yummy strawberries to eat, can't wait :-)

Transformers II was a great movie and I highly recommend seeing it. Warning, it is very long. Like 2 and a half hours. But it's good, and worth the time.

The Spinners game was a blast. It was an absolutely embarassing loss (3-0, with 5 errors on the Spinners part) but it's the beginning of the season and hey, it's a super minor league baseball team. Jess and I were giggling the entire time though.

I love hanging out with her, we both can be complete idiots around each other. Examples:

- I promised her I wouldn't tell people why I call her "Little C", but believe me it's absolutely hilarious.

- We were driving down to Chunky's in Pelham, and we were discussing gas tanks and where people fill theirs up, like which side. I was curious about where the Toyota's was located. So I attempt to stick my head out of the window at a red light. The window was up. I'm amazing, I know.

- When trying to take a picture of herself at the Spinners game, we get this gem:

Jess happily posed for her picture, but did not realize that the camera was backwards

<3

Today was a really good day, and with the friends I have, who I can happily yammer to about the mundane stuff in my life and see as often as I'd like, I'll be just fine :-)

Picture post is coming up next! I know you're excited that I'm actually updating for once. Or thrice. Or something.

Easter, gym, car goodness

Sooooo I decided I'm going to make an effort and keep up with this blog again instead of letting it all pile up and me trying to avoid posting. I like keeping people updated and I like having a blog, because it's a nice way to see how I've changed over the years...

So like I said in my last post, Keri and I have been going to the gym a lot and since I'm a high energy person, I LOVE being at the gym. To keep myself motivated, I try and take pictures of each elliptical session I do, and at this point I'm up to an hour:

4/7 - 62 minutes on the elliptical, 6.25 miles, 638 calories

4/9 - 623 calories burned that day on the elliptical

4/13 - 65 minutes, 702 calories, 100 situps, 60 40lbs on triceps, 36 40lbs on biceps, then some leg presses

4/14 - 65 minutes, 725 calories, 50 crunches with 50 lbs, 200 crunches with 40 lbs, then some leg exercises as well as the 50 minute walk to the gym

I've been going to the gym A LOT (on average 4-5 times a week at this point) and my hard work is paying off - even with Easter weekend (and eating Chinese food before running on 4/13) I lost 5 lbs in one week. Go me!

Speaking of Easter - pictures! :-D

Corey and I posing before our Easter brunch

Me posing in my pretty Easter dress - notice my cute new Coach purse... Did you know you can trade in your old ones for a new one for FREE? Now I do :-)

With our yummy Cobblestones omelettes

The whole gang - from left front: Bethany, Dave, Kathy, Corey, MEEEEEE

My favorite picture of all of us :-D

My dad said he had a nice Easter too - he hopped on his bike and went for a ride in the sunshine :-)

Ugh, I am SO sore from the gym. Today is my day off from the gym (thank goodness!) but tomorrow, Keri and I will be running like crazy as usual.

Oooh soooooo I know I say this a lot, but I have an actual deadline to get a car - the end of May. Why the end of May? Well, I told Keri I would babysit her son Sage (who I love so much) M-F 7am - 3:30 pm till the end of June and I need a car for that. I need a car to drive Corey down to his surprise birthday locale... And I have so many oppurtunities to make some extra cash when I have a car. Garrette mentioned he could get me a job where he works (at a breakfast place) on weekends as a waitress, as well as Corey's boss Steve wants me to babysit his twins a couple nights a week in the summertime or so. No car? No money.

I've been working hard on getting my license as soon as possible. It's just so frustrating, my dad isn't exactly as gung ho about it as I'd hoped he'd be... I don't have a lot of day time to practice, like on weekends I'm usually booked with work and plans, and he just seems upset at me and I don't know why. I really need his help to get a car, and I've been looking at a lot of Dodge Neon SXTs lately. You can find a really cute newer model (2004-2005) with low mileage (30k-45k) for under 7k. I can put $1000 down but I wouldn't be able to pay the monthly payments (about $150) and definitely not the insurance ($334 just to insure myself monthly).

So here is my plan before I bring it to my dad's attention, I can take any and all suggestions, ideas, etc:

I propose to my dad that he buys the car, under his name and pays for the insurance, and lists me as a driver on the Neon I want. It will cost him a lot, yes, but not as much as it would cost me. For him to add me to his insurance, it would be about $200 total to insure two cars and cover both of us. It would cost about $150 to pay for the car monthly, but I would pay for all gas, parts, and repairs. In return, I will continue paying for my school (I'm taking out about $15k in loans yearly) and every other month, I will pay for my interest on my school loans instead of him paying for the $50 monthly. 

It may sound like I'm making my dad foot the bill for a lot, but I think it turns out to be pretty fair. I'm in college. Since 2005, I have paid for my school himself, he has never ever paid my tuition. I buy my own books. I pay for all my own expenses, including groceries. He does give me money sometimes to help me out because I am struggling, but financially, I do 95% of it on my own. 

I need a car, and badly. Corey and I are fighting like crazy over me not having a car, it's holding me back from a lot of great oppurtunities, and I desperately want to be more independent. It's always bothered me I didn't have a car, but for many years I was too petrified to even learn to drive. Now I'm comfortable on the wheel, but I just have no clue to parallel park. I don't feel comfortable in my dad's Ford Escape, as in driving or testing (the wheel, it's very loose and too responsive, very hard for me to drive, especially on the highway) but I'm thinking of asking Keri to practice on her car and even possibly use it for my license test. I'm gonna talk to her about it tomorrow while we're gymming it up.

In other news, I saw Corey's dad last night and he gaves us our Easter baskets. Me being the fat kid I am, well, mine is already gone. Guess I'm working extra hard on Thursday :-P

Also, Memento - great movie. Messed with my head, eek.

Someday I will sleep by the way. It doesn't help that I go to bed at 2am and then get shaken awake by Corey at 4:30am with crazy eyes and mass confusion on what was going on. I asked him if he was okay, and he said yes - wanted to know if I was okay. I must have been tossing or turning or something, but oh man was I NOT happy to be woken up.

Okay off to class bye everyone :-D

Lady Gaga

Kayla, Courtney and I went to Lady Gaga on March 30th and can I just mention how amazing she was? She's one of my favorite artists because she's crazy and I found out for myself what a great show she can put on. She sings and dances at the same time, refuses to lip sync, is not a fan of pants, wears hair bows... What a loon but I love love love her.

I had my first experience with General Admission and it wasn't my favorite, because we were packed like sardines and there was no room to dance, but I still had a blast. Here are the pictures. As always, click for big.

On the train to Boston

Goofy girls :-D

We waited in line for 2 hours outside in the cold and drizzly rain

Notice the guys in the background doing the claw :-D

Hahahah

At the time I was using Jergen's Natural Glow and look at my tan! I'm glowing!

Attractive

Tommy and Kayla

HAIRBOW

So this is a hairbow, made by Gaga herself. I would have worn it the entire time, but everyone kept touching it and it had to come out and then ruined it :-(

She dresses so crazy!

Her and her disco stick

Bubble piano and bubble dress!

Video glasses!

My favorite Gaga picture

Kayla and I waiting for the train home, tired and sweaty but happy :-D