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!