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