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i had an interesting week!
1. i started and finished driver's ed for the 2nd time. i mentioned this before but i did all my 6 hours of driving. now i just need to practice practice and hopefully past the test this time. i went to bowie library to practice parallel parking and 3 pt turns with my sister, but alas the car is sooo long and it was really hard to maneuver. i WAS able to do the parallel parking at about the 5th try (and after running over the cones 3x....) i'll have to practice again, and hopefully it'll be alright.
2. i turned 25. man, i feel old! i celebrated by making it a weekend long thing. on friday, some people came out to oya restaurant & lounge and i got to see people i haven't seen in forever!! i was pretty happy about that. :-) we stayed out until around 1am, and i was just glad people came out, especially since so many people couldn't make it :-(
just for my reference in years to come, people who came: erin and her bf christian, cassie and katy, el and paul, bk and brandon, tiffany, steve and his gf vanessa, and of course terri. hooray!
i probably didn't get to bed til around 330, and unfortunately couldn't really sleep that well... ended up waking up around 6 for like an hour. set my alarm for 730 but couldn't get out of bed til 815... packed dressed checked out and ate breakfast and was on the road around 10ish to get cheryl. bk, brandon, cheryl, tiffany and i + 5 hours in a car = cramped legs though. i had overworked my thighs at the gym during the week and my muscles were so locked up by the time we got to the hotel that i needed to stretch. i am soo never overclocking myself like that again!
we ate nyc pizza, wandered time square, took some pics, met up with tina and her friends, ate zeppolli (sp) and gyros (best gyro i've EVER had. hands down.) off a street vendor by the swatch. met with erika and went to singsing for japanese-style karaoke! even dj showed up and sang uptown girl with me :) tina and her friends came for a bit too.
had to meet linn around 10ish, and after grabbing more pizza (lol) we got ready to go clubbing. we had a close call where the bouncers wouldn't let us in (i found out later they were at max capacity and the boss was right outside), but i love bk because he made it work by getting the bouncer to sneak us in... granted, we tipped him $40 for it and linn and erika had to pay (a discounted) $25 each before we figured out what to do. i'm so glad it worked out though; i was almost ready to call it quits because we were standing outside for a really long time and the bouncers kept giving us the run around.
now i feel like we conquered nyc.. lol
clubbing was super fun... i love dancing! i think i might have drank too much though.... i didn't get sick, just was pretty much dead weight after like 4am~
sunday we didn't do much though we tried to go to the world trade center. what ended up happening was that we took a wrong turn and ended up through battery tunnel, had to pay the toll and ride brooklyn bridge all the way back to manhattan. a really fun detour though i do have to say, because i didn't really think i'd get to ride brooklyn bridge!
FINALLY found parking and the diner to meet up with shane~~~ that was exciting! and then headed out, got stuck in traffic and lost and had to make a detour at some point, but got home at 830pmish. a few hours after i'd wanted to get home, but well worth it!!
i just really wanted to have fun on my birthday~~ :) im glad so many people helped. thanks everyone!
PS in times square, i got to take pics with two characters from the winter cirque du soleil show for kiddies... here we are!
3. started my temp job at JET today. kinda grunt work, processing applications, but let me tell ya the types of things that will disqualify you from even getting your app read... some people get disqualified for the SMALLEST details. i felt bad about a bunch of them. if i ever reapply to JET, i'll know what to do and what NOT to do for real!
i don't get paid much, but it's something for now... and i'm just glad to stop this huge break in employment. i just hope that it doesn't affect me too badly.
4. i'm 25 now. here's hoping to a new, luckier, and more positive life. :) i believe things will fall into place in 2010, so long as i keep the ball rolling for now. aaandd i'm going to try to not let the stress of not being there yet get to me in the meantime~
keepin my head up! ooooooh child ♪
1. i started and finished driver's ed for the 2nd time. i mentioned this before but i did all my 6 hours of driving. now i just need to practice practice and hopefully past the test this time. i went to bowie library to practice parallel parking and 3 pt turns with my sister, but alas the car is sooo long and it was really hard to maneuver. i WAS able to do the parallel parking at about the 5th try (and after running over the cones 3x....) i'll have to practice again, and hopefully it'll be alright.
2. i turned 25. man, i feel old! i celebrated by making it a weekend long thing. on friday, some people came out to oya restaurant & lounge and i got to see people i haven't seen in forever!! i was pretty happy about that. :-) we stayed out until around 1am, and i was just glad people came out, especially since so many people couldn't make it :-(
just for my reference in years to come, people who came: erin and her bf christian, cassie and katy, el and paul, bk and brandon, tiffany, steve and his gf vanessa, and of course terri. hooray!
i probably didn't get to bed til around 330, and unfortunately couldn't really sleep that well... ended up waking up around 6 for like an hour. set my alarm for 730 but couldn't get out of bed til 815... packed dressed checked out and ate breakfast and was on the road around 10ish to get cheryl. bk, brandon, cheryl, tiffany and i + 5 hours in a car = cramped legs though. i had overworked my thighs at the gym during the week and my muscles were so locked up by the time we got to the hotel that i needed to stretch. i am soo never overclocking myself like that again!
we ate nyc pizza, wandered time square, took some pics, met up with tina and her friends, ate zeppolli (sp) and gyros (best gyro i've EVER had. hands down.) off a street vendor by the swatch. met with erika and went to singsing for japanese-style karaoke! even dj showed up and sang uptown girl with me :) tina and her friends came for a bit too.
had to meet linn around 10ish, and after grabbing more pizza (lol) we got ready to go clubbing. we had a close call where the bouncers wouldn't let us in (i found out later they were at max capacity and the boss was right outside), but i love bk because he made it work by getting the bouncer to sneak us in... granted, we tipped him $40 for it and linn and erika had to pay (a discounted) $25 each before we figured out what to do. i'm so glad it worked out though; i was almost ready to call it quits because we were standing outside for a really long time and the bouncers kept giving us the run around.
now i feel like we conquered nyc.. lol
clubbing was super fun... i love dancing! i think i might have drank too much though.... i didn't get sick, just was pretty much dead weight after like 4am~
sunday we didn't do much though we tried to go to the world trade center. what ended up happening was that we took a wrong turn and ended up through battery tunnel, had to pay the toll and ride brooklyn bridge all the way back to manhattan. a really fun detour though i do have to say, because i didn't really think i'd get to ride brooklyn bridge!
FINALLY found parking and the diner to meet up with shane~~~ that was exciting! and then headed out, got stuck in traffic and lost and had to make a detour at some point, but got home at 830pmish. a few hours after i'd wanted to get home, but well worth it!!
i just really wanted to have fun on my birthday~~ :) im glad so many people helped. thanks everyone!
PS in times square, i got to take pics with two characters from the winter cirque du soleil show for kiddies... here we are!
3. started my temp job at JET today. kinda grunt work, processing applications, but let me tell ya the types of things that will disqualify you from even getting your app read... some people get disqualified for the SMALLEST details. i felt bad about a bunch of them. if i ever reapply to JET, i'll know what to do and what NOT to do for real!
i don't get paid much, but it's something for now... and i'm just glad to stop this huge break in employment. i just hope that it doesn't affect me too badly.
4. i'm 25 now. here's hoping to a new, luckier, and more positive life. :) i believe things will fall into place in 2010, so long as i keep the ball rolling for now. aaandd i'm going to try to not let the stress of not being there yet get to me in the meantime~
keepin my head up! ooooooh child ♪