I'm back...

Ok...so, I went out of town for 10 days. While I was gone blogging was pretty much the farthest thing from my mind, but all things are back in focus now. So here's what I was doing...

Saturday after work I headed to Springfield, where I met my best friend, Clay and we went to West Plains where he lives. I stayed there for the weekend, then on Monday we started the 4 hour journey to Burlison, TN to church camp! I love road trips!

So, we spent the week there along with about 300 other amazing people. Our church took about 13 youth kids, it was so great to see God working in their lives.

My job for the week was team leader, which means me and another guy were in charge of a team of 23 teenagers...AHHH!!!! No, it's really not that bad, I had a ton of fun. Not only are you leading, you are playing the games and getting hot and sweaty with these kids (I say kids, some were only a year younger than me!), but you are also building relationships. I was a little surprised that I was a team leader, since it was my first year to be a counselor at Sr. camp, I have been one at kids camp though. I met tons of cool people, maybe some of you are even reading this?

So once camp was over on Friday, we went back to West Plains where I stayed until Monday morning.

So now it's back to work and life as usual.

Here are some pics from camp!

The night before we left, a late night run to Wal-Mart.

Part of our group...

Me and Hayden

Clay, Makayla, and Me

Me and the Searcy girls...love them!!!

I know, I know...

I will update soon, very soon...possibly today!

Blond and Blas'e...

So I got my hair re-highlighted today, there is a lot of blond now. She used a darker red color, which I like very much. I kinda wish there was a little more of the red. I will post a picture when I have time to take one.

So next week is going to be oh so enjoyable! I am spending the week in TN at church camp with our youth kids. I'm so excited I can't wait. Camp is one of the greatest experiences ever. I'm so glad my parents sent me ever summer since I was like 10.

Some of the kids in this town really need to get jobs, or hobbies, or something. Every day since school let out the same group of teenagers has been hanging around the library bored out of their minds. They only get an hour on the computer at a time and once that is up they only get one again if we are not busy, which hardly ever happens. It seems like they could be doing something a little more productive. If you are going to hang out at the library ALL day at least pick up a book or something!

I added a counter to this page and it keeps going up, so I know someone is looking at this, leave a comment so I know who is following me!

All for now!

My weekend so far...

I think we will start with Friday, I pretty much did a whole lot of nothing for the first half or so of the day. At about 5 the UPS truck pulled in, which meant my new phone was here!!! I quickly changed clothes and headed to Alltel to change my service over to it. After that I decided I really needed some Chinese food, I needed to go to Wal-Mart after that, so I didn’t want to get it to go. So cut to me sitting in a Chinese restaurant…alone. Usually it doesn’t bother me to eat alone, I don’t do it that often, but when I do it’s fine. The waitress takes my drink order, then like halfway through my meal she comes by and says “where are your friends?” She usually sees me in there with the same people. I say “they had plans” to which she replies “Oh well, you should have brought your boyfriend”. That right there boys and girls was the clincher! I laughed and the rest of the conversation went like this -

Me - “well it would help if I had one”

Her - “whatever you’re so pretty, you don’t have a boyfriend, I can’t believe it”

Me - “well I don’t”

Her “it must be because you don’t want on then!”

Me - (with sad look on my face) “not completely”

A few minutes later I go up to pay for my food

Her “I still can’t believe you don’t have a boyfriend”

Me - ……..

Then she gets the attention of the other women working there, (at this point I should say she is about my age and the other woman is probably mid 30’s)

She says loudly to the other woman “can you believe she doesn’t have a boyfriend?”

Woman - “really!? Well she’s actually pretty smart” and she laughs

Then the first chick turns back to me, “I really love your make-up and you smell good”

Me - “thanks”

Her - “wait, I don’t swing that way, I don’t want you to think that is why I was going on about the boyfriend and giving you compliments”

This just makes the whole thing even more awkward…
I just laughed and said “yea, me either”

Then on to Wal-Mart, to buy things like make-up and food.

Saturday

Time for a wedding! One of my cousins got married today, I’m so happy for him! It was a really small ceremony, like maybe 50 people. It was very casual, the bride actually had on jeans. That was a first for me, but it worked for them, they are very laid back kind of people.
Below are some pics.

So I was going to add a few more, but the uploader thingy is messing up, maybe later.

Shoes and a hand bag to die for!

Ok, so where to begin...

I got 2 pairs of ridiculously fabulous shoes...

I'm actually wearing these today at work with jeans and a shirt I got at Hot Topic last night.

They are "Michelle D's", "Jazlyn".

The others are "Gianni Bini's". They are red, closed toe, heels with just a hint of sparkle and 3 little silver hearts on the outside of the heel. So YUMMY! Yes, I just referred to shoes as yummy, in some weird way shoes remind me of candy. I wish I had a picture of them, they are my favorite out of the two pairs. I may just have to take one and post it.

I also got the greatest handbag ever! Again I couldn't find a pic, but I think I will take one. It is a "Kathy Van Zeeland". It's metallic silver and in my own terms has lots of "hardware". The straps have really cool hinges, and it has a really funky hang down key chain with lots of bling!

So, back to the fact that I am wearing the pink ones today, a guy came in the library earlier and needed to send a fax, so while I'm sending it he says "I like those shoes". That pretty much made my day, guys noticing fabulous shoes and then commenting on it is like the greatest thing ever!

As with almost every other post I've added this one is going to involve food. I ate at Olive Garden yesterday, they have a new chicken dish that is amazing.

It is the Chicken Milanese and it consist of Pan-seared chicken breasts crusted with Italian herbed breadcrumbs, served with asiago-filled tortelloni, tossed with spinach in a garlic cream sauce.

It was so good, I hope they add it to the menu.

Women are funny, while standing in line last night to watch Sex and the City. I made some observations.

1. When going to watch a movie such as S & C women feel the need to dress up, apparently if the movie showcases great fashion you should be dressed this way too.

I don't have a problem with this in anyway, except if you are going to do it, do it right. I saw some of the awfullest outfits I have ever seen. One lady in particular, she was wearing a brown, sleeveless dress that was a size too small, which caused a problem with clinginess. It was made out of a material that was a bit heavy, so even if it had had room to be flowy, there was no chance of that happening.

2. Women feel the need to over state how much their husbands/boyfriends hate chick flicks.

It's a world-wide known fact that men don't like chick flicks. Apparently some women don't know this and they don't realize that everyone else does know it. I bet I heard 15 different women tell their friends something along these lines. "I tried to get ________ (insert guy name here) to come with me, but he didn't want to see this movie." To which the friends would reply "Yea, my husband/boyfriend didn't want to either" Duh! ya think!?!? Was this information exchange really that shocking to you?

So these are my thoughts....

I'm thinking about starting a shopping blog, like pretty much when I get new stuff posting pics and whatnot, hmmm....we'll see.

Sitting at work...

All my titles end with...but that's ok, right? So re-run season is upon us, which usually is a bad thing, but I'm looking forward to watching the Gossip Girl re-runs. I'm never home enough to keep up with a series, but I'm going to try to keep up with these. I'm also going to watch the whole season of Smallville, I kinda missed like most of them last season though, so a lot of it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The reason I missed them was because Thursday was my bowling night, anything else I might have sacrificed to watch it, but not that. I sort of have ADD when it comes to television watching, I find myself trying to read during the commercials or something like that, which usually leads to reading past the commercials and missing the show.

So speaking of bowling, our season ended 2 weeks ago, my team got 3rd place. I was super excited about that! I really wanted to bowl a 200 game this season, but it didn't happen. Hopefully I will get it next season. I would love to say I'm going to practice a whole lot over the summer, but I'm not sure that will happen.

A. Idol thoughts

So yesterday I was all caught up in the library banter, and I didn't say anything about American Idol.

Here goes...

First off if you are a living, breathing, American you already know that David Cook won. I was super excited, I like him a lot! When he first auditioned I said he totally could win the whole thing, and I was right!

Who could forget his awesome audition where he did his own version of Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" and of course the awesome argyle pull over...hot!

This was one of my favorite performances. Idol top 12 week when he sang "Eleanor Rigby". The comment from Simon that week was ,"You actually could win this entire show"

How much do I love this shot!?

My girl Amanda, "the rebel with no cause", if you will, on the end doing the classic peace sign, while all the other girls do what they were told to do in rehearsal. Total maverick!

How great is this moment...just chillin', singing with Bryan Adams. Just for the record Bryan Adams is ageing gloriously!

The greatest American Idol winner yet! I wasn't crazy about the tails on her dress. It kinda reminded my of the outfit Dolly Parton wore a few weeks back on Idol, although at the rate Carrie is going she just might be the next Dolly, who as we all know can wear whatever she wants!

I just have one question...why did they steal Mini Me's shirt and put Archie in it??

I wasn't exactly sure how humble he was a few weeks back, but I think this was for real.

So there ya go kids our 2008 American Idol, David Cook!

So TRUE...

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Around the library...

So, just in case you didn't know I work in a public library, and from time to time things happen that I feel I need to vent about -

1. Today, someone apparently knew they were going to be using a computer long enough that their poor, little body would grow faint and hungry, so they brought crackers with them to sustain themselves. This is a two-fold problem. First, when eating crackers you make crumbs, when you make crumbs where do they go? Well, if you are sitting over a computer they go into the spaces in the keyboard! Second, a small portion of the said crackers were dropped and someone else of course stepped on the small portion and therefore now, we have tons of smashed pieces in the floor.

2. The fabulous library I work in has 10 lovely patron computers. They are completely free to use and open to the public, as long as you have no over due library materials. All you have to do to use them is abide by the rules and sign in on our time log before you use one, simple enough right? Apparently not! Three grow adult people came in today, one person sat down at a computer and the other two watched over his shoulder. I ever so politely walked over with the time log and ask the person to sign in and I let him know that when he wanted to use our computers he needed to do so. Approximately 15 minutes later I see that he is now looking at books and the people with him have both decided they want to use a computer, did they sign in...NO! I know they heard me tell him what he needed to do, because they watched me tell him! Afraid that I might not be able to be so nice this time, I pointed it out to a co-worker who,and apparently when I did they heard me, because one came over and said "I was just about to sign in", keep in mind this is after using the computer for a good 5 minutes.

Those were the majors today, nothing horrible, just stuff.

On a much better note I have a great story about a really nice guy.

He came in and wanted to print out some pictures of his new grandchild from his e-mail. With a little help he did so, the kid was way cute by the way. Then he ask if we have any books about basketball, or specifically Micheal Jordan. While my co-worker searches our database for him, I decide to throw out a fact for him that there is going to be a new documentary about Jordan coming out. FYI, I got my fabulous info from Perez Hilton...

Spike Lee announced in Cannes on Monday that he is directing a feature-length documentary about Michael 'Air' Jordan, who some argue is the best pro-basketball player in history.
Lee revealed that he hopes to bring the doc to next year's Cannes Festival.
MJ on the Cannes red carpet!
The project will feature previously-unseen footage shot by NBA cameras during the final two years in Jordan's career, the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.

He replies "Oh really!" I say "Yes, and I think Wesley Snipes is involved". Ok let me cut in here and say I made a mistake I meant Spike Lee, but I had just read something about Snipes, so that's what came out...oppps! Ok, back to story at hand. He replies "is he going to do it from jail" and again thanks to Perez I was able to say "actually looks like he is not going right now"

The courts ruled on Wednesday that if he was not granted bail to appeal his tax convictions, then he'd have to check into the big house by June 3rd.
According to new reports, though, Snipes was granted bail today (Thursday) until his appeal goes through.
The judge who issued the order reportedly indicated that the appeal process could "equal — or nearly equal — the length of the term of the commitment imposed."

To which he says "well thanks for the update". So if nothing else, today I got a guy up to speed with the latest celeb gossip.

Actually story doesn't end there, he did find a couple of books we wanted to check out. When he gets to the desk with them he takes out the title cards, which I found odd. The reason I found it odd was we haven't used those cards in the "check out process" for at least 4 years. Seeing that he was a really nice guy who wouldn't get offended I said, "I'm curious how long it has been since you have checked something out at the library?" He looks at me funny and says "why?", and I say "well, we don't use those cards anymore", and my co-worker shows him the "new" bar code scanning system and the receipt printout, he was very impressed and laughed when he realized how "far behind" he had gotten in terms of the library. I wish all people were as nice and friendly as this guy. When he left he looked at me and said "bye Wesley", it was so cute! I laughed.

Frustration...

So, I got my radio all up and running on Monday and I love it! Here's the bad news, I used a promotion code when I called to set it up. The promotion was to get the first 3 months free, the activation fee waived, and a year's worth of radio for $77. This was a pretty sweet deal and I was super excited. The lady who helped me said the code was valid and everything was good to go. Today, while I'm sitting at work I get a phone call from an unknown number, so I answer and it is another representative from XM who tells me that the code I used does not entitle me to the first 3 months free. I'm pretty much not too happy at this point and she doesn't really care so I ask to speak to her supervisor. The supervisor tells me all the same stuff and after my not very happy reply they decide to give me one month free. So, I still got a pretty good deal, but I think when one representative tells me I can have something I should get it!

In other news, the mac and cheese snacks I ate earlier were delicious! It was brought to my attention last night, by a very awesome source, that I haven't eaten bacon in at least a month. Which really doesn't sound like a big deal, until you know that it is like my favorite food. Maybe not my most favorite but it's definitely in the top 10. So I also had a bacon toaster today, which was way tasty! I have a new favorite drink at Sonic also, it is lemonade with strawberry.

I just realized that pretty much all my post involve food...weird?

Tonight is the last night of performances for this season of American Idol. *TEAR* Actually I am pretty much excited, this season has seemed long to me, very entertaining though. I think this year will be one of the closest ever, both Davids are very talented. I really think that Cook will win. He has been my pick all along, all though I won't be disappointed if he doesn't win. He will definitely be getting a record deal.