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Love :)

The end is near...

The end of my final Fall semester that is. It sure has gone by fast too. I feel like I have had no time to even take a breath. It has been good though.

2 weeks ago I went on the FPRA trip I have been planning all semester. It went really well. I was so stressed before and during but was actually able to enjoy most of it and everyone seemed to really enjoy the companies we visited. I wrote a brief recap about the trip and where we went for the FPRA blog. If you want to read it just go to this link: http://bit.ly/txNiF

Be back soon. Loveeee.

Great Day!

Today, Tina, the Sports Information Director, asked another intern and I if we wanted to watch Coach Bowden give interviews about the BYU game. Naturally, we both said yes immediately.

Not only did I get to watch him give interviews (which was awesome), I got to meet him and take a picture with him. :) The picture is blurry because it was taken on an iphone. He is as nice as anyone would expect him to be though.

La De Da

Last weekend I worked my first home game in the press box. Thank goodness I did too because it did not stop raining the ENTIRE game. I don't know if anybody saw the game either but...it was NOT pretty.

Mainly my responsibility was to get the stats from each quarter and pass them out to my row of press-people. In my row I also had a couple of NFL scouts. One of them, the one from the NY Giants, told me I was awesome and asked for my name. I felt so cool.

This week has been crazy with meetings and all my usual things. I am thinking about becoming a Mary Kay consultant. Any thoughts/suggestions? Would any of ya'll buy stuff from me? ha. I am also going to try and apply for the FPRA scholarship. Hopefully I will have time but most people said it is a good 10-15 hours of work so I am going to try and squeeze it in somewhere.

At the FPRA student meeting on Wed. night this week I passed around a sheet for people to sign up if they are planning on going on the trip this semester. (If you don't know as VP it is my job to plan a trip for the club to visit professionals in another area - this year is Orlando) When I got the sheets back I kind of freaked out 65 PEOPLE signed up!!!!!! Usually 40ish go on the Fall trip! That's an extra 25 people and A LOT Of people to plan for/that could potentially complain about the trip I planned. No pressure though.

I am SO Excited for everyone to come in town next weekend for the FSU v USF game. It will be a little crazy but it should be a lot fun (if we win that is!!)

I promise I will be back sooner than 10 days to update next time. :)

LOVEEEEEE.

Hump-Day

Well, you gotta love having Monday's off...the middle of the week comes so much faster!

Monday was the FSU v Miami game and sadly we lost. I really dislike Miami fans, they are all so vulgar and rude. Like, is it really necessary to walk down the street flicking everyone off screaming "F FSU" and "F you" and so on. I got really mad at one point and Elaine thought I was going to get all the boys in the group beat up because I was yelling back at all the Miami fans. I wouldn't do that though, I am too nice, right? :)

This weekend is the Jacksonville State game -- should be an easy one if we play as well as we did on Monday. I will be working with the Sports Information Office on this game. So far I know I will be helping set up the press box before the game but not really sure what else will happen! I will let you know though.

Love. :)

Work, Work, Work - All day long!

Hey All.

Nothing to exciting going on around here. My days pretty much look like work, internship, class, hw/club stuff/meetings, repeat. Sleeping and eating squeezes in when it can.

Today at the SIO one of my supervisors told me he has noticed how reliable I am and he appreciates how I do everything that is asked of me without question. He then told me I should be expecting for him to rely heavily on me because of this. So, that's pretty awesome since Ihave only been there a week and a half! I have really enjoyed my time there though, everyone is really laid back and friendly ands even though there are like 15 interns, almost all the staff has already learned my name. So, even though I am really busy...as of now I am really enjoying myself and still have time to get everything done I need.

I hope the weather is nice down there than it is here. It has been raining EVERYDAY!!! And of course they are all "scattered showers" so they hang around all day and rain on me when I am going to work at 7:30 am and rain on me when I am walking to my internship at 11 am and when I am walking to my classes around 3:30 and 5:00. And whoever pored FSU's concrete should never work again...every fun feet is another HUGE puddle that is impossible to navigate around so you have to walk through it and the water is ankle-high. It is not such a pleasant experience as you would imagine. Rain blows when you are outside a lot!

What's that I hear? The wonderful sound of my lunch being done. Time to eat and tackle some homework.

Much Love.

KK

Back to School - Back to School

Hello Friends.

Today is my second day of classes for my FINAL fall semester! I can't believe how fast time has gone by. I still can remember how I felt sitting in my high school classes dieing to get out and move on and now I am beginning my final year of college. People always tell you time flies by and to enjoy it and I have really seen that in my past few years.

I am going to be a busy-bee this semester so I know I will graduate in the blink of an eye! (So keep a look out for jobs for me! =]) Here's what is on my plate for this semester: I am working 15-18 hours a week at CoreMessage, Interning at FSU's Sports Information Office 10 hours a week and working athletic events some nights/weekends, taking three business classes in the late afternoon and one online class. I am also the VP of the Florida Public Relations Association so I have to attend bi-monthly meetings and plan a professional development trip for 50+ members. I am sure it will get super-stressful at times but I am crossing my fingers and trying to stay as focused as possible. Just bear with me and send me a friendly reminder if I get a little lax on the blog updates.

Big shout out to Joe - the winner of the First Annual Bay Lake Rib Cook-Off. He has a certificate and a pig trophy to prove it! If there are any challengers you can battle it out next August. Until them just call him the Rib Master. Kudos to Mare - she did a great job putting it together and it was a fun day!

Time for me to head to my management class though. Talk to you guys soon.

With Love - KK

FRIDAY!!

Joe comes back to Tally for good on Friday! Soooo excited!!

That is all.

I guess white shorts we a bad idea....

Saturday night Marian, Callie and I went to the Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum concert. Driving there, this is what we could see:

This, as you can imagine got us very excited to sit in our lawn, uncovered seats. Once we got to the concert, where it wasn't raining we waited in the car because we knew what was coming our way and didn't want to get stuck in it besides it was lighting so there was no way the concert was going to start. After about 3o minutes of people watching aka laughing at drunks, rednecks and weirdos we decieded the rain has probably passed and it is safe to go inside.

We got to the lawn and scoped out seats. Once we put our blanket down, Lady Antebellum walked off stage. They were done, we had missed them. We ran into my friend Heather and talked to her for a little bit when I decieded I couldn't hold it anymore and had to use the ladies' room. Mare and Callie came with me to get drinks/use the potty. Right as we walked off the lawn, Miranda come on stage. Awesome. After going to three different bathrooms trying to find the one with a line less than 100 women waiting in it. Even the port-o-potties were 50 deep! After 20 minutes or so the three of us made it back to our lawn seats and enjoyed the rest of the concert.

At the end, when we were getting all our things together, we went to pick up the blanket and realized it was bloated with water weight. The best part was Marian strategically brought this one because it is a camping blanket and "wouldn't absorb water!" After a few minutes of ringing out our blanket we convinced my friend Heather's brother to carry it our for us.

Sometimes I forget how much fun concerts can be. Singing really loud to your favorite songs and dancing with your friends. It was a really fun night!

Pictures.

Check out all the decorating Ash and I did. We hung everything in the common area. It's not done yet but it's so much homey-er feeling already. We are beginning the tour now, please keep your arms in the legs in the confines of your desk until we come to a complete stop.

The main entry into our living room
Above the door -- Dream, Believe, Imagine

The Dining Room/Kitchen

Oh, Hey Audrey!

One side of the living room. Disregard the stock pictures in the frames!

The other couch.

Looking into my room. Still need to hang the picture above my couch.

From the couch looking at my desk area.

Walking into the Kitchette.

Kitchenette Hallway.

Bathroom countertops. Duh. :)

Walking into my bedroom.

Cozy Bed-Nook.


Thank you for your touring my home. You may now leave your desk. Hopefully ya'll can come see it in person.

LOVEEEEEE.

New Year, New Apartment

This week my parents and Joe came into town to help me move into my new apartment. Mom and Dad got here Friday night and we met them at Outback for dinner. I forgot how much I missed Bloomin' Onions. They are so delish. My parents slept in my bed that night and I slept on my airmatress on the floor. And by slept I mean all three of us were up tossing and turning and sighing loudly in annoyance because no one could sleep. At one point in the night I got so hot, I sat up and turned my fan on. Almost immediately I started hearing "brrrr" and the covers being pulled around on the bed. Then a couple minutes later "brrrr," "brrrrrrrrrr." Apparently Linda is incapable of asking for a blanket and just make incessant noises until someone obliges so I throw my blanket up on the bed and the "br's" stopped.

Saturday morning we got breakfast at Jenny's Lunchbox. It is a popular breakfast place in Tally. I had been a few times and not been particularly impressed but I figured I don't like breakfast anyway so my opinion probably doesn't count. I have decided after this last visit though that I will not be going back. There is nothing particularly bad about it, it is just painfully mediocre. There are much better places to eat and as much as I love picking out my favorite lunchboxes hanging from the ceiling, I think I am going to retire eating at Jenny's.

As usual our moving day was full of rain, rain, and more rain. Just the way it goes I suppose. My parents left Saturday night to go take care of their attention-needy daughter who is incapable of making plans for herself. :)

Sunday, Ashley and I spent the day shopping and decorating the common area of our apartment. I will post pictures soon, we all love it. It feels like a home, finally. So far, I am very happy with my decision to move. Hopefully it will keep going this well.

Love you all.

KK

Another weekend gone!

Thursday, my boss bought our office a table at the annual FPRA Roast and Toast. This year we roasted the Mayor of Tallahassee, John Marks. I think -- correction I know -- we had the best/most fun table at the event. I don't think we heard any of the roasting, we were enjoying our little bubble too much. (Although other people around us didn't appreciate it, oops!)

Above is a picture of Me, Rachel, and Dani. My favorite ladies at work. We are our the "support staff" aka young side of the office! :)

After the event, we went to Tantra to have a drink. While we were sitting around chatting, in walks Joe. He had come in town to surprise me! (From what I hear he was waiting around on me for awhile...guess he didn't remember how popular I am)

This is a picture of us from Tantra.

I then took a picture to show my "surprise face" as you can see, he was only there for an hour and already sick of me. True love people, true love.

As some of you know, next weekend I am moving. One of my roommates Ashley and I are transferring into an apartment one building down to live with a girl we know. We wee sick and tired of one of our roommates and decided we couldn't take it anymore. On Saturday, Joe encouraged us to clean up the common area of our apartment because it was DISGUSTING and would take awhile. *On a side note - You should all know, Ashley and I had NOTHING to do with the state of our common area. We stop using the kitchen before Christmas and the living area a few months ago. We would just visit each others bedrooms, closing our eyes as we walked through the common space* Ashley and I didn't even want to clean our Kitchen because the white squares on the floor were off-white with dirt and food crumbs. The worst of all though was the FRIDGE. Not only was there food rotting in the fridge but in the FREEZER as well. I didn't even know it was possible for food to rot in the freezer. Every time one was opened the apartment was filled with a heinous smell and if you are wondering...yes the roommate we dislike was still storing food in there and cooking. ECK!! We opened the fridge/freezer to find HUNDREDS of dead bugs. Thank god Joe was there because I was gagging at the site of it, there was no way I could have cleaned it. Febreeze in hand and trash bag at his side Joe cleaned out our fridge and saved the day. Then we cleaned everything with about 6 different products. It's amazing how gross people can be. Can't even describe how happy I am to be leaving the apartment I share with that piggy!

The rest of the weekend was just packing/stacking/planning for the big move on Saturday. I took Joe to the airport at 6 this morning so he could catch his flight. I am sleepy. Looking forward to an early night in bed. Only 6 more hours until I can.

Love. Love.

KK

I have made up my mind!

Today, I decieded I am going to go travel Europe for a couple weeks when I graduate in May. It is something I want to do more than anything else in the world and the best time to do it is when I am post-college/pre-career with no obligations. So, on that note everyone start saving their pennies to contribute for my graduation present/europe fund! =]

Make a poor college girl's dream come true! Love you all!

Oops!

Recently, it has come to my attention that I have been a little lax on my blog updating. I knew it had been a little while but when I saw it was almost a month I was shocked. Mostly because I can't believe that weekend was that long ago! This summer is flying by. I am going to get you a rundown of my past month since I know everyone is on the edges of their seats waiting!

Since June 29th.... I have had lots of fun mini-vacations.

First, I went to New Smyrna on the annual Mendoza-Kelley family vaca for the 4th of July weekend. I was there Sat-Wed before returning to work Thursday morning. It was a much needed and appreciated vacation. Half because I was a green monster of everyone who was carefree and bored during there summer and half because I was tired of people shielding there eyes when looking at me because my skin was so white it had become reflective. Right when we got in town our first stop was the Breakers, everyone's favorite restaraunt. Who can resist fried corn nuggets? Not me...that's for sure. Overall there were lots of dance parties, beach games, and more dance parties. Dancing + Sun + Sand = Perfect Vacation.

I got back in town Wednesday night to a two day work week. Which I have discovered as the perfect workweek. In a very out of character move I unpacked and put away all of my suitcases by Thursday night. (Don't be to proud, it was out of necessity) My cousin Ally (AKA Alexandra) and her friend Liz were coming into town Friday night. Saturday started their tour of Tallahassee. I took them around campus and showed them one of our big lecture halls. It was mainly a driving tour because it was another sweltering-hot day in Tally. We ate lunch at one of my favorites (and theirs now too) Mr.Roboto which is a fast-food style japanese habachi grill. Think all the yummy food minus the drawn out show. Yum. We went to Bill's where they picked up some FSU garb it seems I am well on my way to having an alli at Family events who will be anti-gator! Woo! Saturday night the three of us and my roommate Ashley ate dinner at a great italian place called Bella Bella. Although the night we went they didn't have cherry coke, grenadine, the catch of the day or fried artichoke and spinach ravollis. It's pretty bad when you have to default onto a third choice for dinner! When we got home their friends came over and we hung out at my apartment before going to AJ's which is a few blocks from my house. Sunday we woke up and got a late breakfast at another Tallahassee favorite Bagel-Bagel and then spent the whole day by the pool before cooking dinner at their friends house. A very fun weekend and great cousin bonding/recruiting family seminoles weekend!

NOW! We are caught up to where we should be. This past weekend I had mini-vaca number 3 of the month. Where did I go you ask? Why, the river of course. I can't go more than a few weeks without taking a trip down there. This weekend it was Marian and Steve's friends and Joe and I just tagged along. Everyone got to the house Friday night (all 11 of us). Saturday morning we had to wake up bright and early so we could go scalloping. I cooked my potato breakfast casserole that everyone seemed to like and we packed up the boat floating away before 10. We made a pit stop and filled up the boat before heading out to the Gulf. The first place we anchored the boys jumped in and "scoped" out and it was deemed acceptable to drop anchor. After about 10 minutes all the boys came back to the boat complaining the area was to shallow and not grassy enough so up the anchor went and farther out into the Gulf we trekked. Stop number #2 was looking better so the boys jumped out again. About 15 minutes later the boys came back saying it was to shallow again. So up went the anchor and further out into the Gulf we trekked. Before stop #3 there are some mighty big black clouds looming around us and it starts raining. Awesome. The boys decide to take us to the edge of the storm to try and miss it so farther out into the Gulf we trekked. (Mind you, were are 11 people on a pontoon boat with a 90 on it, we are hitting top speeds of about 12 mph and getting stuck every 3-5 minutes because seaweed it getting stuck in the prop) At stop #3 all the boys jump in and swim again. As usual Steve and Austin disappear into the Gulf oblivious to how far away from the boat they are swimming. All the girls on Board (Marian, Tera, Debbie, and I) are noticing that the black clouds are no longer behind us they are in fact coming from every direction. After about 15 minutes...like clockwork the boys come back and what's wrong with this spot? It's to deep! Boys, Boys, Boys! That is all I have to say about that. After much convincing and debating and radar checking and more debating we finally talked the boys into taking us back to the house to wait out the storm instead of getting stuck in it and ending up as a newspaper headline like this one "Boat of 11 idiots get stuck in worse storm of summer on worlds slowest pontoon boat, all died from ignorance...that's what they get." We got back to the house and of course it didn't rain more than a sprinkle. Oops. We ate lunch and started fishing off the seawall. I caught 3 catfish. One was pregnant. I said I automatically won because if you count the eggs...I technically caught the most fish. Danny was a close second though with his stingray catch. So cool. All the boys decieded even though catfish are the garbage trucks of the water and everyone always throws them back we were going to fry them up and eat them. Good call, they were delicous. After a couple hours of fishing we loading up the rafts and went down to the swimming hole. We took the pontoon boat and the fast jetski boat (the one everyone makes fun of for being lame but secretly loves riding) After floating for a couple hours and with some liquid courage I decieded to take the fast boat back with Bernie, TJ, and Joe. Since the pontoon-ers were stopping to buy some things from the fish market we decieded to go wake hunting. After about 12 hundred 180's and spins and Joe's face turning purple...a fishing boat finally came our way going fast. Woo hoo! Jumping the wake of other boats in the lame-mobile is my new favorite hobby. Way fun! Sunday was kind of a wash due to yucky weather but Joe, Mare, Stevie, TJ, and I stayed until about 3 because we werent in a rush to go anywhere and needed to clean up the house.

Last night, I got back around 530 and as per a usual Sunday night attempted to scrounge up a meal from the random stuff I have left at home and layed in bed watching movies/tv for the rest of the night until I fell asleep.

Now you are caught up. Isn't my life fascinating?

Loveeeeeeee,

Me

Homosassa Monsoon

I met a few friends at the river house this weekend. Saturday we woke up to nothing but gray skies, not what you want to see when you are hoping for a tan. Around 2ish I was getting really antsy in the house and insisted the break in the rain was the end of the days stormy weather. After ample talking about how we should go on the boat everyone finally got moving and we headed downstairs.

Once the boat had drinks and people on it, it started to sprinkle...no worries, it will pass. Then it starts to rain as we pull off the boat lift. Once we round the channel's corner and get into the river we see a wall of water heading our way led by 4 or 5 boats hauling butt into shore. Now, it is pouring. All 5 of us are shoved under the Bimini top (which, by the way is not that effective in sideways rain). By now, everyone is telling me this is all my fault, that they all "knew" the storm was getting worse and they only came because I wouldn't shut up about going on the boat. I was insisting it was in fact not my fault because no one said they didn't want to go on the boat and they all got up and got dressed when I said we should get going. Is it my fault people can't voice their opinions? I think not!

So I told them we should turn around since nobody wanted to go out in the first place. We quickly learned turning around was even worse! Now we were going into the wind and the rain is pelting us. It is raining so hard nobody could see. There is a solid inch of water forming a small river on the floor of the pontoon boat and we are all soaked from head to toe, shivering. (Just to paint a better picture -- I was laughing very hard. This was by far my BEST idea EVER! Although Marian and Me were the only ones who seemed to enjoy the situation)

It took us about 5 minutes to dock the boat at the house because of the huge wind gusts. Cy was holding a rope at the front of the dock while the back end of the boat refused to get within 5 feet of the dock leaving it sticking out in the middle of the channel. (Don't worry though...nobody was going out like we did!)

After we finally docked, Callie, Cy and Marian went upstairs to shower and change. Joe and I stayed downstairs. Before they could even get out of the showers, the sun was out. Joe and I opened up a beer and layed on the boat. After a few minutes everyone in the house realized the sun was out and came down. We fished off the seawall and laid around outside for about an hour until they realized the storm was officially over and we got back on the boat and went down to the swimming hole.

Moral of the story: I am always right. By the time we would have gotten down to the swimming hole the storm would have been over and we would have had a primo spot. Too bad I was hanging out with a bunch of weenies.

On a side note - On the way down to the swimming hole, we stopped at the Riverside Bar and got Daiquiris. There were probably about 12 locals there and when I handed the bartender my id, every person in there turned and looked at me as if they wanted to see my reaction when my fake got declined. A few look how young this girl is jokes flew out about the same time. The bartender looked at my id, handed it back, then grabbed it back from me to look at it closer a second time. Then she said "Damn." Not sure why? I think they all wanted to bust me for being under....sorry dudes, no luck this time. The other four people after me didn't even get id-ed, I guess she figured if I was 21 and I looked 12 everyone else was too.

Today I went to Zaxby's for the first time. The food wasn't amazing but I will for sure be going back because their sodas came with blue straws. Awesome. It pretty much made my day.

Love,

KK

Movie Theatre Battle

I went and saw the new Transformers movie last night with a few of my friends. (Which was awesome) We were a little worried (since it was premiere night and highly anticipated) that the movie would sell out. We got to the theatre at 6:30 for the 7:15 showing and it had already sold out! Awesome. So we bought our tickets for the 8pm one. We went up and asked the lady if people were already lining up for the 8 o clock showing and her eyes got all big and she was like "yess, you should go in now," implying there were a lot of people already waiting. So, naturally we rushed in, back to our theatre to clain our spot in line. And good thing we did because when we got to theatre #12 for the 8pm Transformers showing there were TWO whole people in line! Incredible! We almost didn't get seats...

Petpeeve(s) of the day

Technically these are my petpeeves from yesterday but I was too tired to get on the comp. last night.

1. People who don't use cruise control on the interstate - especially those who are incapable of driving a consistent speed
2. Motorcycle riders who have mohawks glued on top of their helmets - I am not really sure why but I find them extremely agitating
3. Not being able to sleep, for any reason, especially because you are worried about someone breaking into your house
4. People who are chewing tobacco opening their door and pouring out the oh so lovely dark brown, thick spit from their dip, in the street while waiting at a red light

That is all.

FOUR whole years!

Well, to my amazement, Saturday marked Joe and my 4 year anniversary. FOUR YEARS! That is so unbelievably long...that's longer than some people stayed married now-a-days.

My stomach felt sick all day so our plans of kayaking got squashed. We pretty much just spent the day hanging out, doing stuff around town. We ate dinner at Outback, finished off our last giftcard (so if you want to...you could always send more ;)) It was a pretty good day for not feeling well.

Fun fact - Joe and I ordered the same exact thing for dinner. After much deliberation I decided against the bloomin' onion and kids mac n' cheese that is my usual Outback meal and picked the 6oz Outback Sirloin with Veggies and Baked Potato. Once I chose, I told Joe and to my dismay he informed me he had already decided on the same meal. Not wanting to be food twins I doubted my choice but now wanted the meaty, potatoey, veggie combo. So, what was my solution? When the waiter came I beat Joe to ordering my meal and ordered first THUS making him appear to be the copycat. And how did my boyfriend of four years respond you ask? "I will have the same thing but I thought of it first!" Oh how mature we are.

PRESENTS: The best part! I bought Joe - two movies he wanted, a grilling wok-esque pan for grilled veggies and such, a new grill cleaner (exciting right?), a running case for his ipod (so he could be cool like me) and SCUBA diving lessons! His SCUBA lesson will be with his friend Cy because I don't do being deep underwater, with crushing pressure, and fast moving animals with sharp teeth and an affinity for Kara snacks... :) I will be on top of the water tanning my Casper-like skin (and by tanning I mean burning) with a cold drink and loud-funky dance music. Joeee bought me - the first season of burn notice (because it was so marked down he couldn't walk away from it), two different kinds of wine, two margarita glasses, margarita ingredients ANDD a new phone! yayyss!! All you blackberry people get ready BBM coming soon!!

On a similar note - you should all be very proud of me. For the first time I can remember I called a company, complained about an unfair rule they had, became the perfect balance of angry and understanding and kicked some major customer service butt so T-Mobile would bend a stupid- brand new rule, that they didn't even inform any of their customers of and let me get my phone for the discounted price I should be paying! I even asked for a supervisor...watch out people I am on fire...don't cross me now, you may get burnt!

Love. Love.

KK

My First "I'm Old Moment"

Today, I expierenced my FIRST offical "i'm old" moment! One of the kids I used to babysit asked to be my friend on Facebook and he is a Sophmore in Highschool...which is how old I was when I watched him and his 3 siblings every Saturday night.

Now, for those of you who knew me then...you would know the fact that the ringleader of the Chillura kids, who used to encourage all of them to torture me for fun, asking to be my friend on FB is more than ironic. I mean, he is the sole-source of my most embarrasing story that seems to also get brought up in large groups of people. (if you don't know what I am talking about...don't fret I am sure you will hear it eventually -- here's a preview though: Me, babysitting 5 kids, ending up in the hotel hallway by myself, all the kids inside, lots of laughter and taunting. And YES it is probably as bad..if not worse than you are picturing)

I knew the day would come when something would happen and I would realize I am no spring chicken anymore. Excuse me while I go rustle up a cane and some denture paste.

Your Old Friend,

KK

Monday-Funday

Hello Devoted Fans.

I am sure you have missed my pearls of wisdom over the last week. Lucky for me, no dumptrucks have pulled in front of me multiple times to ruin my day...Unlucky for you because I have nothing funny to talk about.

I, in fact have been quite boring. I have been running every other night after dinner. Joe and I run around the stadium then different routes throughout campus. We usually run for a little over 20 minutes. I always get home looking like a cherry with legs and huffing and puffing. Who said asthma wasn't sexy? We have been going for about two weeks now so we are in a pretty good routine, hopefully it will last.

Last Thursday I went to a local restaraunt called Fusion with two girls I work with, Rachel and Dani. I drank TWO glasses of white wine...yes AND I enjoyed it...and ate pistachio crusted rack of lamb, with some fancy sauce, roasted potatoes and grilled asparagus. Pick your jaw up off the ground, I am an adult ya'll...got to grow out of chicken fingers and french fries one day (Or atleast one night a week) Afterwards we went to the bar next door called Tantra and all of our boyfriends met us for a few drinks. I ordered a Tantra Kiss, YUM. It was amaretto, grenadine, and something else...SO good. I wanted to order one called the Hot n Dirty just for the name but then the bartender told me it tasted like a boiled peanut. I mean really, a boiled peanut? Who wants to drink boiled peanuts? Let alone pay $8 for the liquid version of one...we weren't even at a baseball game!

On a random note - I drove by a construction site on the way back to work today and saw one of the workers standing on the back of an empty flat bed semi-truck watching something on the building. I had a sudden urge to swurve right into the truck with my car so he would be caught off balance and fall. The thought entertained me until I got back to work, does this make me a bad person? Probably.

Has your day been enlightened? I am sure it has...happy to help.

KK

Seminoles Baseball

FSU hosted a regional series this weekend at home and I went to 2 of the games, Friday and Sunday.

We beat Ohio State 37-6 on Sunday to go on to Super Regionals next weekend in Oklahoma.

...Let me repeat that THIRTY SEVEN TO SIX! That could be a football game score! The game lasted over four hours! I knew the Gators weren't the only ones who could whip up on Ohio State.

GO NOLES!

Lunch Time Adventures

Today… I had the brilliant idea of driving all the way across town to Steak and Shake during my lunch break because I had a gift card. Not spending money – great idea right? NO!

I always seem to forget how obnoxiously long it takes to get to Steak & Shake because of Tallahassee’s heinously timed lights. Light turns green, roll to a red light, wait, Light turns green, roll to a red light, wait…over and over and over again. What restaurant owners thought it was smart to place the only two steak & shakes in town on the far outskirts of town?

I get to Steak & Shake, relieved to have finally made it and let out a silent “yippee” because there is nobody in line. I order my food, pull around the building and get stuck behind three cars waiting in line fore food! Now any of you have been to Steak & Shake know, 3 people in there line is like 20 at a normal fast food place. And this S&S is 10x slower than any other one I have even been to.

Surprisingly, it moves pretty fast…for them… then the person directly in front of me is up. What do they do? Open their door because their car window is broken! I am confused… if you have to get out of your car to retrieve your food in the drive-thru shouldn’t you just walk in? In fact, I think it should be a law… as entertaining as it is to see stupid people do stupid things…I would rather them not do it in front of me and slow me down even more.

Stupid-door opener person drives away and I am up. Guess whose order takes the longest? Mine! The three people in front of me got theirs faster in a combined time than mine alone. Ugh.

As usual, I get my food and the French fries have NO salt. When did fast food places stop putting salt on their fries? Fries without salt is a tragedy and indescribably frustrating to me. Now that I have discovered my fries have no salt, I can’t eat them until I make the 10-hour hike across town back to my office and I know they will be ice cold by the time I get there. Awesome.

Driving back, I start to feel a little better…the small annoyances are rolling off my back. I went the back way to work to avoid the lights I despise so much, which was STUPID! I was just minding my own business when I notice a garbage truck two cars in front of me. I didn’t think much of it until it stopped and started picking up trashcans on the side of the road!!!! Now I am stuck behind a garbage man stopping every 10 yards at a new house collecting garbage and tree limbs. Apparently in this neighborhood it was “trim your tree weekend” because every house had 3-4 cans of tree branches. By now I am at Homeland Security Level ORANGE, I can’t believe it. A few blocks later I get a chance to go around the truck and take in a breath of relief. About 2 seconds into this relief-breath…ANOTHER garbage truck pulls in front of me! WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT? Seriously! Who does this happen to?? After a few more minutes of torture I reach a street I can turn off on and bolt. My ipod must have felt the tension in the car because it started playing “You’ve got a friend in me” from Toy Story (yes, I do have Toy Story songs on my ipod….don’t judge) needless to say I got the message and actually started to feel better.

Next my new favorite song, JT & Ciara’s, came on and all was calm in Kara-world. I get back to my office accept my fate of ice-cold fries and a watered down vanilla coke (thank god they remembered the vanilla – I think my head would have spun around exorcist style if they hadn’t), pour my food out on a plate and get excited because I got one of those extra nugget sized pieces of chicken that sometimes make it into your order before I realize that the nugget-sized extra chicken is in fact NOT extra but supposed to be my third chicken finger!! LOOK AT THIS:

Who thinks THIS is an acceptable third finger?? It was so ridiculous all I could do was laugh…I think it was the perfect way to cap a horribly agitating lunch adventure.

...I feel better now.

De-Stressed

Yesterday was CRAZY. I worked from 7:45-5:45 without taking a lunch break!! I was so busy, I could have stayed later but have to get something to FEDEX before 6. Needless to say I was stressed to the max.

Thankfully, when I got to Joe's, he talked me into getting dinner and movie. We went to the Chilli's on campus and I ordered my first drink EVER at a restaraunt (margarita). I am so cool. Of course...I don't particularly like having an alcoholic drink with food so I only drank half...but that's another story!

Then we went to see Taken at the FSU theatre, which was Awesome (yes awesome WITH a capital A). Great movie if you haven't seen it...and I know great movies.

Needless to say it was a much needed night and I was very de-stressed and thankful afterwards.

I guess he is good to keep around after all... :)

Love you all (unless you are some random creeper reading my blog),
KK

Only 362 days until my birthday!

Well, another year....another successful birthday. This one was extra special though, it was my last birthday to look forward to for the rest of my life. (Unless you ask Poppop, then I still have to look forward to 50! He thought those were some rockin' years)

For those of you lame-o's who weren't there, I will fill you in on how we celebrated. Friday night I went to PF Changs with my family, nanny and poppop and joe. Everyone made fun of me because I was scared to order a glass of mine at 7:30 since I wasn't technically 21 until midnight. Courtney told me to stop being such a wuss and to "give me your id and I will order the drink for you." Needless to say, I am my mother's daughter and I waited until midnight to order my first drink.

After dinner some of my friends went to Joe's parents house where we hung out until midnight. Then we went to a bar in soho, Mcdinton's, where some other friends met up with us. A little after 3, after last call, we hoped into a cab and went to our respective homes. I fell asleep in the bathroom....use your imagination as to why!

Saturday was...well rough. I had trouble moving all day. Finally around 4pm knowing everyone would be there at 6 and my mom had way to much to do to not have help (and I couldn't be in my PJ's when people showed up) I forced myself up and cooking/got dressed etc. (This was only possible due to the kind act of my sister and father who went and bought me saltines and sprite after forcing me to down bottles of water) =]

After dinner at our house, most of us headed off to my favorite bar in Channelside, Howl at the Moon. The most inappropriate, insanely hilarious, trainwreck bar I have ever been to. We went around 9:30 and stayed until 2ish. My parents came, woo, they stayed until almost midnight and I was proud....especially because we didn't have a table and were forced to stand that whole time. Jo-Ann and Joseph were the adult winners of the night though and stayed all the way until 2. Joesph even kept up in alcohol intake with my friend Cy, painful the next day but very impressive at the time...

My "little" sister and me before PF Changs

Stacy, Debbie, Me, Marian, and Marissa at McDinton's. (The creeper in the back is Harry!)

Marian, Me, Callie and Debbie @ Howl.

Being serenaded by the piano guy about "the facts of life"

Joe and I at Howl.

Love,

KK

PS- Thanks to everyone for making it a great birthday! :)

Because I'm Special

This is my first blog written in my NEW office on my NEW work computer. How special do you feel reading this write now? Your answer should be very. You are in the presence of greatness people, soak it in.

Here are the office pictures: (I know it's boring...haven't had time to buy frames to hang things)

I inherited the chicken. I think I am going to call him Chip. Chip the Chicken.

Above you can see my lovely tree view!

Oh Yeah! Just a friendly reminder...if you are sending me a card/present/hug in the mail you should probably drop it soon (like 2 days ago) because my birthday is SATURDAY! CRAZY!

KK

PS- Joe and I are still dating. Here's a picture of him in case you forgot what he looked like:

Just Call Me "The Bug Whisperer"

Another weekend gone. I went to the river house this weekend to celebrate mothers' day and intending to get a tan, one out of two isn't bad I guess. I was really excited to see Joe though. He had been home all week and I missed him.

Today is the start of my new almost-full time schedule. This morning wasn't a great way to start. I am exhausted! We didn't get in until after 10 last night, then had to eat, start some laundry, unload the car and straighten a few things up. I got to bed WAY later than I wanted to. Especially because Joe made me get up at 8 on Sunday to go buy his mom's card and present. At this point I am seriously considering taking a nap after I get off at 5:30! ha.

No new pictures unfortunately. Forgot to pack my camera.

Talk to you guys when I am not falling asleep on my keyboard....

KK

It's offically bathing suit season people.

Happy Summer Ya'll. (Atleast for us college kids). I got my finals grades too. An 84 in Media Techniques and a 90 in Psychology. Overall pretty satisfied on these, especially because they were both end of the week exams which are ALWAYS the hardest to motivate myself to study for.

On a sad note....to my dismay, my clothes have been getting a tad snug lately. I escaped the Freshman 15 but apparently there is such a thing as the Junior 8. So in light of not wanting to buy a new wardrobe and it being the time of year of sundresses and bathing suits, I have changed my junk-food loving ways. It's looking like yogurt, fruit and lean cuisine meals for my near future.

Work all week. The new story of my life. I added a picture below in case you forgot what I looked like. (and b/c I think a lot of words and no pictures is boring =])

(My friend Michelle and me at DT's in Orlando a couple weekends ago.)

Love,
KK

One Down...

One final down, one to go.

I had my Media Techniques final this morning at 7:30 am! It was painful, but I think the test went well. It's nice to be done with that class, I hated it. The material just wasn't my cup of tea. Tomorrow is my Psychology final. I really enjoyed that class and hopefully the test will go well like the others have.

Around 9 I took a nap and slept until 11:30ish. It was amazing. I love naps. Then I met up with my roommate Ashley and studied around the pool for a little while. I am working on grades and a tan at the same time, my kind of study session...

*AMAZING DISCOVERY* Today I found out you can change your language on Facebook. I changed mine from English (US) to English (Pirate). It is probably one of the most exciting things I have discovered in awhile. Here are few examples of the "language" differences...

• "like this" changed to "arrrr, this be pleasin' to me eye"
• "8 minutes ago" changed to "8 shots o' rum ago"
• "tell us something about yourself" changed to "avast, make yerself known"
• "log out" changed to "abandon ship"

It is indescribably amusing to me. :)

Wish me luck tomorrow.

Peace and Love,
KK

Woo.

Tuesday, Tuesday.

Today was a good/bad day. Good overall with bad lowpoints. Went to work from 730-1.
>High Point- One of the women in the office bought me a breakfast sandwich because she didn't want to eat by herself, DELISH!
>Low Point- Found two roaches crawling around my office and had to chase them around with Hot Shot.

Then went to sell back my books.
>Low Point- Stupid book store only took one of my four books. They cost me about $200, I got a whopping $16 back.

Ventured over to Starbucks for a meeting with my fellow executive board members to talk about our ideas for FPRA next year.
>High Point- Talked about some great ideas to grow FPRA next year.
>Low Point- In the middle of the meeting we were interupted by a large lizard falling on my head, walking around, crawling down the back of my hair and shoulders before being flung off by a friend.

Went back to work around 430 for a conference call. Ordered dinner from Buffalo Wild Wings, they told me it would be 15 minutes.
>Low Point- Left 15 minutes after ordering and waited 30 minutes while I watched them hand people behind me their food.

Which brings me to present time. Semi watching tv/semi studying--mostly typing this thing.

0 exams down 2 to go.

Peace and Love,
KK

**Fun Fact: 18 days till my Bday. Woop.**

Happy Monday

Today was a busy day. We had an orientation at work for the new summer intern. (Who I am VERY excited about). And I didn't stop working after. There aren't enough hours in the day!!

Exciting News!!! While at work today I was informed that I will be getting a new title too! I am a "Junior Account Executive," fancy, huh?

Going to sell back some books and hit the gym. Talk to you soon.

Much Love,
KK

No More School!

Well, yesterday was offically my last day of class. I still have two finals next week but my classes are done. It's crazy! I can't believe how fast this semester flew by. It was a pretty busy last day of class. First I worked in the morning and had two client meetings. Then had two review sessions in class. In my tap class we had our final performance. My group was called Mac Daddy and the 80's Ladies. We tapped to 80's music and dressed up. Here are a few pictures of my group:

(The girl in the blue on my right is my roommate Ashley)

We had WAY to much fun. We told our class we may not have had the most challenging choregraphy but we had the most attitude and best costumes!! After my performance I had to go straight home and get ready for an event for work. It was the FPRA image awards. Our company won 6 awards! I was so proud. :) Going to events like that with the people I work with reminds me how fun they are and how lucky I am to work there. It's the perfect work atmosphere for me. Tonight, I have a social for the FPRA student chapter. We are going to a restaraunt in town, Mint Lounge, celebrating the end of another year and saying goodbye to all of our senior members. It should be a lot of fun. No big plans for this weekend yet. Probably just doing some study guides for my finals and hopefully getting some sun by the pool.

Happy Weekend Ya'll. Talk to you soon!!

Much Love,

KK

Too much fun

I finally decided to check out this website all my friends have been talking about forever, picnik.com, and it's awesome! I love playing with pictures. Here's a fun collage I made for my desktop on my computer.

Much Love,

KK

Updates, Updates, Updates

For those of you that don't know...I have many VERY exciting things going on....

1. I got a new internship for the Fall semester. It is at the Sports Information Office at FSU. I will be doing sports media stuff throughout the week and then be working at the football games on the weekend. At the games I will be helping with all the press events before and after the game and be watching the game from the press box helping reporters with anything they need/updating stats.

2. I got a semi-promotion at work. Same title, more money, my own office!! Woo!!

3. The club I have been very active in for two years just held exec. board elections and I won the Vice President position. Double Woo-hoo!! As the VP I am responsible for planning a trip each semester for about 50 girls to visit a city and meet with PR professionals. 

4. This summer I am staying in Tallahassee and working hard. My schedule has me working about 32 hours a week. So bye-bye tanning, hello mall. 

5. I just got back from Orlando last night. I visited my friends Callie, Juli and Stephanie's apartment. I had a great time. Luckily, I was able to see the Mendoza's and my other love Michelle while I was in Orlando too which made the trip perfect. 

That's about all I got for now.

Much Love, 

KK

Just a Reminder- My TWENTY FIRST Birthday is in less than a month, May 16th. Get excited! I am!

Why Blog?

Unfortunately, I have noticed over my three years away at school, keeping everyone updated on my life is becoming increasingly harder and harder. My days only seem to get busier leaving me less time to call or email everyone I need to. This is my solution.

I decided to report my updates, good news and bad days in one location so my family and friends who are interested can check it out. This isn't really my type of thing so bare with me while I get the hang of telling a computer how my day went. :) 

Anyway, check in periodically. Hopefully someone will read and enjoy this!

Love,

KK