Life is good

I've completely disregarded the blog.. shame shame shame.. I know.. I don't know man, after that Brazilian wax, I just have been shunned from doing new things. That was seriously traumatic for me! The results were obviously great, but man o' man, I never made a follow up appointment and every time I think of it, I seriously cringe.. That one really did me in. But good thing that I kept up some of the new things I did without trying! I've been keeping a list on my NEW IPhone!! Yay!!!! I don't know why I held on like hell to my little, sad, razor phone, but once I upgraded, WOW! I think I got it around march? April? and basically went into an At&t store to "browse" the new smart phones/text phones. I must have had sucker written directly across my forehead in bright, red, flashing letters because this nice little white boy came up to me and softly guided me to the IPhone area, in which I was purposely staying away from, and as I looked at him like "oh hell no!" he literally handed me his phone to play with and walked away.. WALKED AWAY!! He sniped me! That little bastard! This guy must have been about 120lbs wet, and I'm pretty sure I could've taken him, and he totally outsmarted me.. He knew what he was doing.. I immediately lost the battle. I was sold. So after re-upping my contract, taxes, and new indestructible case, I was $300 in the hole.. This whole new thing is really putting a damper on my funds.FML. Here's a picture of my little(not that little) phone on top of the magazine i just inherited/stole from another office:




So, I've always had paper lists of "shit to do".. Cluttering my already cluttered purse, and loosing them sometimes.. Now with my phone, I'm able to keep it all on my notepad. Good bye paper! This phone has been a life saver and I don't know how I managed so long without it. The Internet is super fast, and it acts as my little computer since I still don't have one of my own. I especially love the compass on it. Oh I'm in love! And I depend on the map quest part of it like you wouldn't believe! So here are some "new" things from my list..

Lent- Even though I don't really go to church, or read the bible, or really do anything related to my religion like I should, there are some things that I still uphold. Lent is one of them. I do the whole no meat on Fridays, Ash Wednesday, give something up, yada yada. So this year instead of giving up sugar or something that I normally give up, I decided to be daring and stick with the whole "new" merriment. I gave up all chips and crackers. You have no clue as to how incredibly hard that was for me. Every day was absolute torture! You would think that I would've lost at least 10 pounds from cutting that out of my diet, but nooooo.. I gained 5 pounds!!! I was seriously like an addict trying to quit smoking or something so I was substituting with whatever else I could get into my mouth. I even ate desserts.. YUCK! Sugar ended up being my go to drug and I was NOT happy about it. Worst 40 days of my life. Maybe that's why my whole blogging thing has gone to hell in a hand basket.. hahahahaa! My first day after my 40, I ate a box of cheezits.. and I didn't feel bad about it at all.

I also saw Alice in Wonderland. That was surprisingly good! The only Tim Burton movie I ended up liking was Nightmare Before Christmas, so I was pretty happy with how this movie came out.

My taxes had some new things tied to it too this year. I used turbo tax for the first time instead of going to the veterans hall to have it done by little, cute old people and the ad said it would cost like $13. So I thought, why not? Might as well try a new way.. $55 dollars later, I had them filed and learned that next year, I'll go back to my little old peeps and have it done my normal way. I also had my first experience to Amending taxes.. I didn't even know you could do that.. Like a retard, I totally forgot to claim the quad until after I filed with my new and expensive way, so I refiled, mailed my taxes for another $5, and still have not heard back from the state. I'm so worried I messed up and their going to come and audit me.. Yikes! I'll stick with the tried and true with legal things from now on.

My St. Patricks day celebration was also a new thing this year. Instead of getting tanked, I had a few glasses with my friend Debbie at Tupelo Junction, which is a southern style restaurant, and had me some chicken fry and mash taters! To go along with the chicken fry, we also went to go see The Zac Brown Band at the Arlington Theatre! Wow, they were seriously one of the greatest shows I've seen. They were on tour with Joey and Rory, another band that I like, and had the best instrumental show ever! I was super happy about that! Thanks Deb! I've also never seen any bands play at the Arlington since its usually a movie theatre, so that was a new thing as well. double wammy! The only picture I have is one of Debbie while we were sitting outside about to eat, so here it is. Hope you don't mind Robo :





To keep in tune with the party scene part, I went to a bachelorette party for my roommates sister. That was good times! We rented a limo to take us from Grass Valley to Sacramento :




And kept one habit instead of changing it, and stuck with champagne :




ate at a really good (new!)Mexican restaurant called Zocalos:



Then went to a club (new!) at The Park Downtown and had us a great time in a VIP section! That's where this picture originated from woohoo!:




That was also my first time being in Sacramento and not just passing through, so there were good times all around!

I'm not really one for clubs, but I go when people ask (sometimes), so I also went to a club I've never been to before for Shannon's Birthday.. The Standard aka- Tommy's stomping grounds.. :) It was pretty cool with some cool music, although most people were incredibly high for what seemed like 2 weeks so I made sure to stay away from those people..But cool none the less











We also went to Stagecoach again this year which isn't a new thing, but I saw all new bands. And we took Kelly's younger brother Vinnie and his friend Steven, in which that was our first time taking teenagers for a weekend and watching them. They were awesome and I'm glad we were able to do that




I got to see some of my favorite bands too! For those who don't know what Stagecoach is, shame on you, hahahaa! just kidding, its a country music festival type thing that has a ton of bands play for two days in the sweltering heat. Sugarland was incredible, Toby Keith was amazing, Joey and Rory I got to see again, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, but my absolute favorite act was Brooks and Dunn.. They are done forever with touring and I was lucky that they played some of my absolute favorite songs.If you feel adventurous, look up one of my favorite songs.. I think its called "I believe" or "Mr. Wrigley", actually I'm not sure, but its an amazing song.. Brings tears to my eyes every time. We were lucky to also meet up with great friends and have a great time:










And I was totally doing new things almost everyday and didn't even realize it! I'm taking two English courses right now to pump up my GPA for school so I can get on that darn nurse waiting list! In the mean time, I'm reading a ton of short stories and poems by some pretty awesome authors. Its more on the side of actual Literature and not just my normal novels that I read so its pretty cool. I cant think of any one that stood out the most, plus I just don't want to think about school right now, but overall, I've been reading all semester with new things and I didn't even realize it! And I don't have to continue spending money! I'm going to be poor very soon here.. but I'm enjoying every second of it.

So, I will still continue to try with of course some coaxing from people when I'm not being diligent, and tonight I'm going to try and make potato taquitos. To be continued..