my thoughts today during the morning commute: (to guy driving a hummer) "i wish you weren't an assho
and it was an H3 too which is funny because sometimes i look at the H3 and i get confused about whether it's a hummer or not.
so the entries were getting incredibly long so this is what we were up to the week of july 4th. last week's activities and the movie reviews for both weeks will be posted in a minute.
okay so last week was insane again at youth focus but this week looks to be much much better. so i'm putting two weeks into one because i didnt get to do much this week since i had to work so much (i worked an extra night at party city).
so let's go back to july 4th or july 3rd actually. there was a block party downtown which curtis got free tickets to which is a good thing because i was glad we didn't have to pay $10 each for it. basically we just sat down and listened to music and people watched and made fun of horrible outfits. we saw the worst outfit ever. it was worn by a woman who was probably late thirties early forties. she has her back to us and we're just staring at her trying to figure out exactly what she's wearing. from the back it's black pants, a white halter top with a big ol' belt around her middle, and then one of those things that's like a jacket i guess but it's just sleeves basically and it was 3/4 length sleeves and it was black and mesh. so then she turns around and we see that her halter top has a frilly collar and buttons on the front. and then she walked by later and we saw that her top was polka dotted. the outfit got worse every time we saw it. and we were tricked into buying silly tickets (you couldnt pay for anything with cash). i saw some little kids with soft serve and that made me want soft serve. so there was a vendor there that advertised soft serve on their truck. so we got some tickets and then got in line for ice cream but then we found out that they just had regular ice cream, so then we had these tickets and there really wasn't much going on at the block party as far as food vendors.
the next day we went to the parade with diana (a coworker from party city). it was a pretty boring parade mostly just cars, of course teh anti-bush people were there. then we wandered around downtown through the vendors and stuff looking for somewhere to spend our tickets. so we ended up getting water ice! mmm.
then we went back to our apt with diana to get ready for the cookout. the day before i made pasta salad and it was pretty good. it had roasted red peppers, mushrooms, black olives, artichokes, and feta cheese in it. i made entirely too much though and i didnt have anything big enough to shake it in and so there was pasta flying everywhere. then i made veggie artichoke dip to go with pita chips.
we had six of us total and a few more stopped by near the end of the festivities. we played apples to apples and taboo and curtis won both of the apples to apples games. we went to check out the fireworks and there were a bunch of really cool ones.
sidenote...i think i fit into one of the categories of "most annoying coworkers" according to a comic in the glamour magazine...the "olympic typist."
on Thursday we went to a grasshoppers game and saw our first complete game of the season (well minus a little at the beginning because we're always late). we lost.
i had a GA interview on friday for a position with the teaching academy. it was strictly a filing/shredding/data entry type position which was fine on one hand because it would be good to have something to do that didn't involve many brain cells but i do want a position that's related to my field. the pay was also not so good (half as much as the first position i interviewed for), it was only a semester by semester position, i needed to be able to commit to 20 hours between 8-5 and i didnt know much about my class schedule (now i know more), and she basically had to make a decision that day and i wouldn't have been able to tell her yes or no because i had another interview scheduled for the next week. i'm sure we both left the interview knowing it wasn't in the cards.
on Saturday we went to the Natural Science Center & Zoo here in Greensboro as part of the UNCG summer orientation thing. I was all excited because they have lorikeets but it turns out that you can't feed them. boo! what's the point of having lorkieets if you can't feed them? I touched a big ass turtle...i'm not really sure if you were allowed to but i could reach it in its exhibit so i did. they have tigers and one was being all cute with a ball in the pool. we played with the goats and the peacocks were running free throughout the zoo. we even saw one of those scary horned beetles chilling by the hand washing station by the barn - i think it escaped from its cage.
so the entries were getting incredibly long so this is what we were up to the week of july 4th. last week's activities and the movie reviews for both weeks will be posted in a minute.
okay so last week was insane again at youth focus but this week looks to be much much better. so i'm putting two weeks into one because i didnt get to do much this week since i had to work so much (i worked an extra night at party city).
so let's go back to july 4th or july 3rd actually. there was a block party downtown which curtis got free tickets to which is a good thing because i was glad we didn't have to pay $10 each for it. basically we just sat down and listened to music and people watched and made fun of horrible outfits. we saw the worst outfit ever. it was worn by a woman who was probably late thirties early forties. she has her back to us and we're just staring at her trying to figure out exactly what she's wearing. from the back it's black pants, a white halter top with a big ol' belt around her middle, and then one of those things that's like a jacket i guess but it's just sleeves basically and it was 3/4 length sleeves and it was black and mesh. so then she turns around and we see that her halter top has a frilly collar and buttons on the front. and then she walked by later and we saw that her top was polka dotted. the outfit got worse every time we saw it. and we were tricked into buying silly tickets (you couldnt pay for anything with cash). i saw some little kids with soft serve and that made me want soft serve. so there was a vendor there that advertised soft serve on their truck. so we got some tickets and then got in line for ice cream but then we found out that they just had regular ice cream, so then we had these tickets and there really wasn't much going on at the block party as far as food vendors.
the next day we went to the parade with diana (a coworker from party city). it was a pretty boring parade mostly just cars, of course teh anti-bush people were there. then we wandered around downtown through the vendors and stuff looking for somewhere to spend our tickets. so we ended up getting water ice! mmm.
then we went back to our apt with diana to get ready for the cookout. the day before i made pasta salad and it was pretty good. it had roasted red peppers, mushrooms, black olives, artichokes, and feta cheese in it. i made entirely too much though and i didnt have anything big enough to shake it in and so there was pasta flying everywhere. then i made veggie artichoke dip to go with pita chips.
we had six of us total and a few more stopped by near the end of the festivities. we played apples to apples and taboo and curtis won both of the apples to apples games. we went to check out the fireworks and there were a bunch of really cool ones.
sidenote...i think i fit into one of the categories of "most annoying coworkers" according to a comic in the glamour magazine...the "olympic typist."
on Thursday we went to a grasshoppers game and saw our first complete game of the season (well minus a little at the beginning because we're always late). we lost.
i had a GA interview on friday for a position with the teaching academy. it was strictly a filing/shredding/data entry type position which was fine on one hand because it would be good to have something to do that didn't involve many brain cells but i do want a position that's related to my field. the pay was also not so good (half as much as the first position i interviewed for), it was only a semester by semester position, i needed to be able to commit to 20 hours between 8-5 and i didnt know much about my class schedule (now i know more), and she basically had to make a decision that day and i wouldn't have been able to tell her yes or no because i had another interview scheduled for the next week. i'm sure we both left the interview knowing it wasn't in the cards.
on Saturday we went to the Natural Science Center & Zoo here in Greensboro as part of the UNCG summer orientation thing. I was all excited because they have lorikeets but it turns out that you can't feed them. boo! what's the point of having lorkieets if you can't feed them? I touched a big ass turtle...i'm not really sure if you were allowed to but i could reach it in its exhibit so i did. they have tigers and one was being all cute with a ball in the pool. we played with the goats and the peacocks were running free throughout the zoo. we even saw one of those scary horned beetles chilling by the hand washing station by the barn - i think it escaped from its cage.