I just said good bye to my parents. they are heading back to buffalo tomorrow morning, hehehehe, back to the cold, i just laughed at them ;) and all of you too, hehehehe... but i really shouldn't laugh too much, it's nice here but definitly not as warm as it has previous years around this time of year. but yes, definitly warmer than the 8 degrees you guys had today...

so yeah, they are gone, but not for too long, they are going to another race in 5 weeks, the ACC championships i think...

oh!!!!!!! and aside from all the restaurants they took me to during their visit, they got me an early early birthday present!!! a digital camera!!!!!! im soo excited!!!!

and i know, it's not my birthday yet, but i had to open it!!! i couldn't let it just sit there and not be played with, that would just be wrong ;)

and so once they dropped me off and before then left for the hotel i took em for a little tour de campus, with the intension of taking some pictures with my new camera! but no, it was too dark, only a few turned out, but i just deleted the bad ones ;) soo cool!!!

ahhh, and i would post a pic now, but they are too big... yikes, how i have to figure out how to make em smaller so i can post em... herm...

At the request of (e:amanda) I have yet another stupid story of what NOT to do!

So we were presenting our updates for our senior design class the other day (Monday) but it was just updates pretty much, nothing all that big. So we decided we were not going to get all dressed up professionally (as in suits and all) so we were just going for like nice skirts and a nice top for the girls and just something respectable for the boys. Nothing too fancy!

So I picked out a cute little brown skirt, it went well with these brown flip-flops that I Love! (And I usually go with pink or white with this brown skirt, they just look nice with it. But those shirts are tight and I have been getting really weirded out by the professors for that class, they must think I have something written on my shirt really faint cuz they just stare, sickos!!!) ok, so I went with this nice little yellow polo shirt! Ok, all set! I left to meet up w/ someone for lunch then right to my presentation.

Too bad it was not until the middle of lunch that I realized what I was wearing. I LOOKED LIKE PEE AND POO! ! !

I felt so stupid and there was no time for me to run back to get something else, I had to go present in my pee and poo outfit :(

The only redeeming part of the outfit was that for the presentation I was discussing the plumbing systems of the building ;)

So there ya go! The lesson I learned was to not leave the house in BAD color combinations. But come to think of it, I always have bad color combinations, I got made fun of by at least 10 people last week for wearing a red and green rugby shirt, "it's not Christmas, you know?" (stupid people) and today, wow, I was wearing my mustard yellow "Boston" hoody, a pair of maroon mesh basketball shorts, and my green astro-turf flip flops.

Ok, I guess the actual lesson I learned was to not wear color combinations that can be associated with things, like pee and poo ;)


Oh, and on a side note, I went to my first ever job interview this morning. It was ok, the guy was nice, but I still walked out feeling like a moron. But hey, it was experience right? And I got to wear my suit! I look so sexy in my suit, ahaha, jk.

boy oh boy, my parents are in town, they got here wed night. I met up with em at like 9:45 after i got out of my class. we went out to dinner on thursday night after classes all day. I stayed with them at their hotel on the beach across the street from the boathouse(to get to practice easily on friday morning). friday after like a 15 minute nap after practice we went to get my car fixed... its getting a new transmission, but hopefully free with the warrenty thing. then i got rid of them for a little bit with rowing meetings and another practice. then we went out to dinner again, this time to Joes Stone Crabs on south beach, ohhh soo good!!!! and then back to the hotel to sleep. back to the hotel saturday morning for our race. first official race of the spring. we lost our first race to UCF(damnit) but won the second against RIT. ahhh, the whole time my mom was hounding me to get some pictures, "this is my last time im gonna see you rowing here, i need to get some pictures!" ahhh, she like wanted me to pose or something... we were trying to pack up the boat trailer to head to sarasota. yeah so we left miami sat at 12:30 to head to sarasota to race yale, we got there, got to the hotel, showered, left for dinner, got lost and it took 45 minutes to go to a restaurant 3 minutes away from the hotel. so then we ate, a lot!!! the servings were huge, youd tink they would have warned us... then we got back to the hotel, went to sleep, got up at 5:00 for the 8th day in a row, come on now... went to the "park" rigged our boats, carried then what felt like 8 miles down to the water down these big ramps and had to wet dock (put the boat in the water by getting in the water ourselves then jumping in all wet) then we raced yale a bit... yeah, they are fast!! and too bad their men's team wasnt there, they have some hot guys on their team!!! but no, not there :( so then we loaded up the trailer again , jumped on the bus and went to breakfast with the yale girls, i met a few, they were nice, not what you would think of as yale students, but as they explained, there are the "yale geeks" and the "yale social athletes" hehehehe, it was funny. ok, so after breakfast we jumped back on the bus, back to the hotel, shower, back on the bus and another 4 hours back to miami. then i met up with my parents again, we once again went out to dinner, then out to dessert, Key Lime Pie Factory, (e:amanda) remember that place??? yummy... then to church and then finally back here, ahhhhh, so nice just to sit, finally check my emails from the past 4 days and just have some time te relax, tomorrow is OFF!!! completely OFF!!! im soo excited, we might go to the beach, maybe a little pre-birthday shopping (digital camera possibly!!!) and maybe get my car back tomorrow!!! hopefully!!! i miss him kinda... ok, that was my hellish crazy weekend in a nutshell. well now im tired, and everyone is talkinga bout st patricks day parade stuff, i never really did that when i was in buffalo, but i sure do miss it all now, there is NOTHING of it here. well im gonna get all dressing in green on thursday anyways ;)

oh, and its spring break now too!!! ;) not like i really get a break though :( we still rowing twice a day all week (except for monday) and i have lots of studying to do for that FE test im taking in april, wow, i started studying that on the buss to sarasota, and the math stuff, geez, i last learned that stuff in 8th grade and freshman year of highschool... i have no idea how to do any of it, equation of a line was as far as i could get, ahhhh, ok, well my parents are snoring right now and i can hear it over my headphones... geez, then need those breathe stripes or whatever to put on their noses while they sleep, that way i can finally sleep!!! ok, well I'm out, for serious this time ;)

I always seem to learn things the hard way. I mess up some how and realize at that moment, "Don't do that ever again!!!"

A prime example of that occurred the other day: I was over hanging out at my friend's apartment, we ordered Chinese, ate it all and were full!!!!!! Full beyond full!!!!!! Chinese food has a tendency to do that, don't you think?

Ahhh, so as we were sitting there, completely full, I rolled over onto the floor and said, "oh, I need to lay down a minute after I..." now I don't wanna say it. It was bad enough saying it then.

But the lesson learned was: although it's ok to say, "oh, I tired myself out" (from such activities as running up and down big hills, random example, but you get the point)

It's NOT ok to substitute "tired" for "ate" after you consume an enormous amount of food.

In case you didn't read all the way through and got a little confused, I'll sum up the lesson for you:

It's sounds very very bad to say, "Oh, I need to lay down a minute after I (past tense of eat) myself out"

well that's not even much better, but i don't want to say it again :(

lets see how long it takes for ppl to forget that one...

last night after a long Saturday of meetings and practice and stuff, I met up w/ a bunch of ppl and we headed out to "Cold Stone Creamery" about a mile the highway and indulged ourselves in some ICE FANTASIES!!!

Cold Stone is AMAZING!!! you can mix any of their homemade ice cream flavors with as many toppings as you like, and they have tons to offer. the first time is always overwhelming... hehehehe, ask (e:amanda) . i took her to Cold Stones when she was down here, explained to her the whole process of ordering, but when the time came, she froze... it really is overwhelming.

but now you guys don't need to drive over 150 miles to visit a Cold Stone Creamery because ONE IS OPENING UP RIGHT IN BUFFALO!!!! (well actually Amherst, but close enough) here is a link from the Buffalo News, my mom called me this morning to tell me all about it!!! I'm soo excited for you guys!!!

the only down sides to Cold Stone are the fact that here and apparently a lot of them, the lines are always really long, way out the door (but that just offers you more time to think about what you might want to order), and the fact that every time you tip them, all the workers start to belt out some Disney song or something but they just change the words around to ice cream and Cold Stone (but again, some people really like that, i guess that's why they always tip...)

but when it does open, be sure to GO!!! and if you feel you might get a bit overwhelmed by all the choices, then ask (e:amanda) to take you... by now she can show you how its done ;)

and (e:amanda), can you guess what i ordered??? ;)

I just scheduled my FIRST EVER job interview!!! one of the companies i had given my resume to last week at the little career fair had called me back and i now have an interview scheduled for next tuesday at 11:30!!!

I know I'm such a dork, but I'm really excited, not that i think I'm gonna get this job or even that i really want it, it's construction management, but the fact that i actually have an interview is just sooo exciting to me right now!!!

ok, enough of that excitement, i need to get back to work... (stupid school work, of course ;) )

eeek, there has been lots of yelling around here about near naked lady covered in food, but check this out
people are selling their bodies as advertising space, how strange...

i guess you can advertise anywhere, head, shoulders, knees and toes, and everything inbetween as well...

just what would you be advertising for??? and who would do this???

maybe you'll see a pic of my leg with a big "oscar mayer bologna" advertisement ;)

oh, looks like you guys are getting a lot of snow, haha

those snow flakes that i get to shovel will never cease to amaze me :) but what am i gonna do once winter is over??? applying some spf when the sun comes out??? nope doesn't sound nearly as exciting as shoveling snow flakes...

but i can't get to sleep and have to be up at 5:00 tomorrow for practice, and did i mention i can't get to slee??? i hate this!!!

and i really don't care for snow, but i could sooo go for a good old snow day tomorrow ;)

hurricane season was too short...

well peace out :)

ok, so I've had a pretty busy weekend, ahhh, and it's only saturday night... but tomorrow morning after 7:30 am, it will all be over and I'll have a chance to resume to my normal weekend!!!

Oh, i was so busy cuz i had a recruit this weekend... that just means that a girl who is interested in coming here next year to row was staying with me for the past 2 days... it was a lot of fun, we got to go to nice restaurants and do fun little touristy stuff and even after living here 4 years, i still love doing that stuff!!!

but tonight!!! the 3 recruits, the 4 hosts, our 4 coaches and our team manager all went out to China Grille out on south beach. people have talked about going there before and how good it is, but i had never been there and never really thought much of it, just that it's really really expensive and it's in south beach so it's gotta be a special occasion ;)

ok, but it's "family style" i guess, so you order big huge "things" and just pass it all around and share... but with 12 of us that pretty much meant ordering pretty much everything on the entire menu (it seemed) and eating it all.... it was crazy.

the appetizers, the sushi (I'll get back to that), then the entrees, and then the desserts.... but it was literally sooo much food it was insane!!! but sooo good!!!!

ok, so to the sushi!!! now freshman year (3 yrs ago) i attempted to eat sushi one night when a few girls from my team dragged me out to "experience sushi" or something like that... well i think i had a California roll or whatever the "easiest" thing was and i was really about to spit it right up, i couldn't get over the chewy-ness. it felt like i was chewing on flesh, not like i ever did that, but i figured if i did, that's what it would be like...

so for the past 3 years i have stayed far far away from it... until tonight

and now is when i wish i had a camera phone or something... it was the most interesting looking thing, i just had to try it, only 4 ppl were eating it and everyone kept telling me to go for it... SO I DID!!! and IT WAS SOOO GOOD!!!! and they turned the lights down real low just in time so i really couldn't see the piece of salmon flesh covering it. but it was really sooo good!!! they were saying that that was the best sushi they have ever had so maybe i jumped into the good stuff too fast and really don't like normal sushi, but regardless, look what i have been missing all these years, I'm actually tempted to try out that all you can eat sushi place now!!!

just not tonight, I'm still pretty full from that dinner, yummy!!! and what do you know, all free!!! go recruits!!!