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