Atrocity.

I'm totally impatient when it comes to packages arriving.  These little UPS tracking services that they provide do not help my case.  Look at this! Today is the 8th and according to my tracker page it hasn't moved since the 3rd.  FIVE DAYS PEOPLE! I think they like to screw with poor little people like me by not updating the status pages. Rude.  Well, it's supposed to be here by Friday and it says it's "On Time" so...thats ok I guess.

I'm done whining now.

For the record, if you're curious...I'm waiting for a top from American Apparel.  They're on clearance! I bought the same shirt in red in 2006 and have worn it to death.  They only had grey left, so that's what I got.  

Rockin' my stunna shades and turnin' up my radio

Sunglasses from Ann Taylor = $9.00

New membership to Picknik = Free

Radio by Beyonce MP3 = 0.99

Crazy fun pictures and overdone sayings = pricelesssss

ikea hacker: Expedit bookcase cover up

ikea hacker: Expedit bookcase cover up

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Oh. I love these little 'Share This' options. Just click and 'poof' it's on your blog. Neat. Anyway, this sounds like a really good idea, and I've seen lots of nice wrapping paper that would be good for this!

Providence Waterfire

Justin and I went to Waterfire for the first time on July 4th.  It was nice actually, and I think I will go again before the season is over.  There was good music and lots of glow sticks (which I took great will on my part not to buy one). After we watched Waterfire for a little bit, we retreated to the top of the mall parking garage to watch fireworks.  We counted at least 10 different places having fireworks.  It was quite a sight to see.  I posted many more pictures on Flickr

Chapin Memorial Beach

After my trip to Provincetown I stopped in Dennis to say hello to my aunt Deb.  We all went to Mr. Frosty and to Chapin Memorial Beach.  The beach itself was different from the beaches in my area, which was kind of nice.  It wasn't very crowded and it was definitely low tide.  The grass there is endangered and there was a lot of erosion, which was kind of sad.  I had gotten to see lots of periwinkles and barnacles.  Oh and I did LOTS of walking, but it was a nice walk.  My calves were definitely feeling it this morning.  

Provincetown

Well here are some pictures from my day trip to Provincetown, MA.  I love it there, and I missed out going last year, so I definitely had to go!  All the little shops and cottages add to this little town's charm.  We were there walking around for about 5 hours.  I had the best frozen yogurt by Bliss, it actually tasted like real frozen yogurt.

 

I think I might go back in the Fall. 

I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.  

Karen O is my hero.  

I wish I owned one of their t-shirts.  $25 is too much though.

I'm not going to be able to see them in NJ *sniff*.

I hope they have other US tour dates - maybe Boston or NYC?

Thrift me this

I like getting stuff for free.  I'm always scouring RI craiglist's free section, you never know if you might find something awesome - Like my new table! 

The lady I had gotten it from called it her Charlie Brown table, I think I'll call it that too.  As I brought it in my mother was on the phone with her friend and said "Oh my god, she's brought in a Jetson's table" What is with all the names? 

 I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. I would like to paint it, and was thinking an robins egg blue type color.  I'm going to use it for a bedside table, it's a little low for my bed, but I can make it work.  Hopefully it'll go with my orange bookcase and light yellow walls.  My room is a total hodge podge anyway. 

Along with my table, I had gotten some cute little numbers at Salvation Army.  I bought this BRAND NEW shirt from Tweeds. 100% linen and such a pretty blue color with RUFFLES!  I had never heard of Tweeds before, apparently the company is online only - and too expensive.  I had also found this shirt by Columbia, funny thing is I had almost bought it at REI a couple of years ago.  Good thing I didn't.  Oh, and black Banana Republic capri's - today was my day.  I picked up 2 little blankies for the bunnies too - all of this lovely stuff for $15. 

I love presents

I love it when I get little 'giffers, doesn't everyone.  Every once in awhile my co-worker that works first shift leaves me an apple.  Lucky for me, she has good taste in apples.  The apple she left me, a Jazz apple, I introduced to her a couple of months ago. Jazz apples are sweet and very crisp. Yummm

Oh, she also tends to make little Post-It hats for them too. :)

Eh, well it sounded good at the time

After reading a post on ljcfyi.com, I decided to look up the recipe for Creme Brulee oatmeal.  I found a decent sounding recipe and cooked it up today.  It smelled awesome!  However, it was a little too plain for me.  I think I should've added Splenda to the oatmeal, along with sprinkling the sugar mix on top prior to placing it under the broiler.

Yes, that is a Wall-E plate under those baking cups. :)  

Go Green with Slurpee's!

I love cute things.  I love cute pink things.  I love cute pink reusable things.  On a run to Seven-Eleven for a pina colada slurpee I discovered a little box filled with colored aluminum straws for 99 cents.  Thats right...NINETY-NINE cents. How can you go wrong? You can't. I purchased a pink one to go with my Megatron reusable Slurpee cup.  I think I need to get used to saying "No straw please!" Oh, I can make a little straw carrying case.  The possibilities! 

Ah, foliage.

The plant going's on around my house!

My strawberries and it's baby strawberry plant next to it.  I have never actually eaten a strawberry from it...and I've had it for about 4 years now. 

My pitiful zucchini plants!  Too much rain has made it quite soggy in that bucket :(

My bucket of clovers!  It was supposed to be for tomatoes, but I couldn't bear to tear up all the cute clovers gathered in there.

I just about ran outside with my camera when the sun poked out for a little while today.

My mom's hanging plant...and the only flower left on it!

My monstrous aloe plant.  I really need to repot it again.  My mother was wondering why I felt the need to purchase that little itty bitty aloe plant next to it.  I found it at IKEA sitting in the As-Is department looking all pitiful, not to mention that it was only FIFTY CENTS. Can't let that go by, now can I?

YumYum

Food I wish to make

From Eating Out Loud:
Chili Lime Pickled Green Beans
Vodka Sauce
Watermelon Salad

From Epicurious:
Fancy goat cheese pizza

To-Do List

1. Find a beginner sewing class - I'm rusty.
2. Save my money
3. Save my money
4. Dont forget to not spend money
5. Get used to drinking coffee
6. Get used to drinking coffee with hardly anything in it (cream & sugar)
7. Get back to the gym to do the 30 minute circuit.
8. Wake up before 10 am - perferably 6 to head to the gym when no one is there
9. Finish up reading and start new ones
10. Read my required book for school and write the essay that accompanies the assignment
11. Find a scholarship I'm eligible for (I got 5 in less than 2 years!)
12. Cut bunny nails (how does this always land here?)
13. Start eating oatmeal for breakfast...or start having breakfast
14. Eat more yogurt
15. Clean and organize my closet
16. Play my Wii Fit more often
17. Make some fancy polenta dishes
18. Clear out my DVR

wow thats a pretty big list. Luckily I can get some of it done while I'm recuperating. Well...I guess most of it is just daily things - getting up early is going to be rough.

Video kid like you

I <3 Birthday Massacre. This song is one of my favorites by them. In April I had gotten to see them in Boston. It was definitely a fun show, and I was able to listen to another band that was awesome - I Am Ghost.

*Squeals*

A very bold rabbit.
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What isn't to love about this picture?  It's a rabbit...stealing a cookie.

Who's the king now?

This is hysterical. A lot of prison inmates to do this one.

I've been trying to convince my sister to actually learn the Thriller dance with me. Preferably by Halloween. Oh and how to moonwalk.

Summer Movies

Here are so summer movies I've seen so far, keep in mind that I am not a movie critic :D

Terminator Salvation - entertaining - CGI Arnold is quite amusing!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - you already know how I feel - aweessommmee

The Hangover - hilarious! I loved it.

UP - the saddest Pixar movie. I was really getting all mushy while watching certain parts. I love Dug and Kevin though! :)

Star Trek - was pretty good for Star Trek

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - alright, wasn't expecting much out of it.

Drag Me to Hell - oh god, you might as well have gotten pots and pans and banged them together during insignificant parts.

Summer Blues

So far this summer has been awful. We had one day in APRIL that was in the 90's. It's been rainy and cold ever since then. It's almost July and the forecast for the week is mostly rain again. I have too much to do before I get my tonsils out and this weather is preventing me from doing so! I've yet to go to the beach, drive-in, vacation spots, mini-golf, yard sale hopping, or even finish gardening! (which I don't know why I'm even going to bother, everything is just going to wash away.)

I did make it to the Providence Open Market on the east side though, I bought some very cute earrings from a vendor there. Actually that same day I met up with my sister and some friends at PRIDE day in downtown Providence. It was a lot of fun, saw many many many interesting things. Ha.

What did the doctor say to the patient after surgery? "That's enough out of you."

This my friend is your mouth. Waaaay in the back is your tonsils, as shown by the diagram above. If you were to take those tonsils and enlarge them to twice their size; you would have my tonsils.

I spent Memorial Day weekend miserable with an icee and ice pack wrapped around my neck. I had a case of tonsillitis. My tonsils have always been considerably huge, however they never gave me a problem till now. A visit to my ENT resulting in a tonsillectomy date: July 22nd. I'm so nervous! There are few positive experiences from an adult tonsillectomy (until you're healed anyway). Apparently adult tonsillectomies are excruciating and take awhile to heal, whereas children are much different - quick and not as much pain.

From my ENT " Expect to be in misery for at least 2 weeks, if you don't follow the directions you're going to end up back in the hospital for dehydration, and I don't give heavy pain medications because it isn't necessary if you keep drinking."

Check out these scary websites.

http://web.mac.com/tkteri/TONSILLEMPATHY/Welcome_to_Tonsillempathy.html

http://www.karlkatzke.com/how-to-quickly-recover-from-a-tonsillectomy-as-an-adult/

http://www.doctorhoffman.com/xton.htm

I'm not dead, promise.

Wow, I'm such an ADD kid. I flip from one thing to another very quickly. It's almost annoying how I have such a hard time staying focused on one thing for long.

Anyway! I saw Transformers 2 on Tuesday for the midnight release. I'm such a dork, I loved the first one. The second was still just as awesome, it just had one problem. There were too many characters, you hardly knew who was who by the end of the movie! I love Jetfire, such a cute character.

During the previews before Transformers 2 the trailer for The Last Airbender was shown, which was followed by much excitement on my part. It's a shame that series was so short. I really hope they do an awesome job, especially with Appa!