How HOT is IT?

• Hot enough to fry an egg on your head.
• Hot enough to make you sweat like Richard Simmons.
• Hot enough to cause spontaneous combustions.
• Hot enough to make you not want to go anywhere.
• Hot enough to even melt all of Christian Aguliera's makeup off her face.
• Hot enough to make you think it's okay to eat an entire carton of ice cream.
• So hot that you begine to become delusional, and see things that aren't there.
• HOT ENOUGH to think that maybe Al Gore was right.....maybe there is some fact in global warming....

It's so darn hot lately.  Then we got 2 days of crazy unusual cold weather - like my sister and I had to sit outside with blankets while we were watching Charlie play (Charlie, who also had a sweater!?! on). Crazyness.

Banner Giveaway!

So Summer of Athena in the Middle.  My favorite blog to read...is giving away a bloggy banner, like the one that she is currently sporting.

So go on over there and enter to win (CLICK ME TO BE MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED TO THE GIVEAWAY!!)...and while you are at it....click to follow her, because she is FABULOUS!!

I'm back

Took a little break from the blog-o-sphere, and the internets for that matter.  1. I took a LONNNNGG vacation, and 2. Some days after staring at glowing squares all day long, the last thing I want to do is go home and do it some more.  I much prefer the white dullness of pages in a book these days.  But none the less I'm back.

What I did on vacation:

• Ate at all the places I'd been longing for that I don't have here in the 'Burg...PG's, Shiso Sushi Bar, Fridays, Broadway Pizza, Boston Market.
• Had an AWESOME Birthday with all of my friends.  Drank way too many buckets and bones ;) and enjoyed being silly and singing songs poorly while wrapped in a arm chain.  I wish every night was like that in life.  At one point I just stopped and took it all in - making note of everyones faces, and trying to take in the warmth and happiness I was feeling at that moment.
• Took a rainy, but wonderful trip to Jensen Beach with my mom.  We had some YUMMY food, went to an auquarium, and also to Blowing Rocks.  We also tried (key word TRIED) to fly a kite. We swam in the ocean and mom tried to get me to touch something slimy and disgusting. I saw my mom in a whole different light this trip.  I saw the young girl she used to be when she would go to the beach every weekend.
• I went to a place called the Lodge.  I did not like the lodge.  It was filled with crazy white people dancing poorly to bad music.  My besties love it though...and I would go anywhere with them.
• I dug for change for what seemed like an ETERNITY at a toll booth on the way back from the lodge, afraid that we would be there all night.  We came 3 pennies short, and it lifted the electric arm and just let us go.
• I ate AREPAS for the very first time, and oi are they delicous.  They kind of melt in your mouth.
• I went to an amazing July 4th party at Ashley and Lacey's house.  I played beer pong and flip cup, and volleyball in the pool.  I felt like I was in high school again...partially due to the fact that most of the people that went to my H.S. were there.

All in all I had an AMAZING time.  I miss the people in Florida so much!!

my first piece

This was my first piece of art from art school!! Not too shabby!

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Things that are making me :)

• ART CLASS!!! Even the classroom is inspirational! :)
• I get to see my besties in T minus 10 days and counting!!
• I get to go to the beach with my Mom in 13 days!!
• It's my best friend's BIRTHDAY TODAY!!! Happy Birthday Buddy :)

:) SMILE AND THE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU, FROWN AND YOU FROWN ALONE :)

What's what:

What I'm reading: Freedom By: Jonathan Franzen (which I'm struggling through the 2nd half.  It's a little un-edited for me, a lot of parts aren't really necessary, and I'm not big into birds and some chapters are solely about a bird called the Warbler).

What I'm looking forward: Art classes at the Spartanburg Art Museum!! I'm taking introduction to drawing (pencil) starting June 7th!! I have all these neat supplies just waiting to be used!

What I'm NOT looking forward to: Buying a bathing suit, for my not so bathing suit ready bod.

What I'm eating: Spaghetti...I can't get enough of it lately.  I even got desperate when I ran out of spaghetti sauce and used the tomato sauce that is intended for Chili...not. so. good.

What's making me smile: That I go on VACATION in 23 days!!!! WOOP WOOP.  In the plans: spending time with my mom and pop, spending time with the 3 best friends that anyone could have, a beach trip to Jensen beach with my mom, and lots of FUN!

What's not making me smile: I turn 26 in 23 days.....making me closer to 30, then to 20!! AHHH!

What I'm thinking about doing: Going to a BB King concert in Simpsonville.  Anyone care to go with?

Proper Responses

This blog came about due to an applicant that came in to work today.  Just a little prelude into the conversation, this man was about 300 lbs.
Man: What you eating there?
Me: Some gobstoppers.  Would you like one?
Man: No I can't eat gobstoppers any more, too much sugar, I just had gastric bypass surgery about 3 months ago.
Me: Oh, that's amazing! I've thought about doing that myself.
Man: Oh, you defintely should.

This got me thinking....I know I had prompted the man to give me the response of "you should do it".  But that is NOT the answer that I wanted to hear.  I wanted him to say, and believe the proper response would be "Noooooo, you don't have enought weight to lose to do that!!" So then I began to think of other things that women prefer to NOT hear the truth about...

Statement: Man this dress makes me look horrible.
Unwanted Response: It sure does, it makes your butt look 4 times bigger than usual.
Proper Response: No it doesn't you look good in anything!

Statement: I need to put some makeup on, I'm looking pretty bad.
Unwanted Response: Yeah...I was going to say something about that......
Proper Response: You look even more beautiful without makeup.

Statement: How do you put up with me, I'm so bitchy.
Unwanted Response: Well, some days it's tough...but then I try to imagine what it would be like to be married to Kate Gosselin, and think atleast you aren't that bad.
Proper Response: I don't think your bitchy, and I love everything about you.

Statement: I think I need to go with a 1 piece this year, my body is not fitting in to a bikini.
Unwanted Response: Yeah, no one wants to see 10 lbs. of potatoes in a 5 lb. bag!
Proper Response: But I think you look hot in a bikini.