Last Night's Party

Last night I cooked dinner for Dave and two friends from work, Sarah and Jordan. They brought LOTS of chips and dip (salsa, 7-layer bean, guacamole), and margaritas. I made portobello fajitas and Spanish rice and stuck with some red wine because I had to work. We ate dinner, talked, laughed, watched a movie, and then Emily from work also came over. She works at Buck's Grill so she wasn't there until almost 10 p.m. and had to work early the next day so she couldn't stay long.

We went outside and I taught Sarah how to make a "time bomb" out of a ziplock bag, vinegar and baking soda. We also played with cornstarch and made an "anti-Newtonian liquid." I use those a lot for my after school science programs (I didn't do any this year though)....

Around 2 a.m. Sarah and Jordan headed for their trailer, which they parked outside the house for the night. In the morning Deena, the neighbor came over and asked if we'd heard what happened last night. We said no, and she said that the house across from us had a huge party all night and were drinking and getting crazy. People were in the street yelling and this drunk guy started breaking into people's cars. So we all went outside to see if our vehicles had been broken into and thankfully, none were! Deena said that she called the police to check on things, and it turns out that about five other houses had called the police for the same reason!

Jordan said Sarah slept through all of it but he heard everything and it was definitely a crazy party. The guy wasn't breaking into cars to steal things, he was so drunk he didn't know where he was and was looking for his car, trying his keys in all of the ones he got into. Yikes! Jordan heard him getting in trouble with his friends at the party, then talking with the police....I don't know how the situation resolved (I had to leave for work)...

I came to work and got to be a step-on guide for a tour bus, then cleaned most of the rest of the day. Right now I'm sitting in the entrance station listening to it rain and happy that I found Disney music on my Pandora station!! I also think it's funny that tourists expect me to be able to tell them what the weather's going to do, and how long it's going to storm...

Ouch! ....and my birthday!

I caught a cold that lasted for a couple weeks early in June. I ended up coughing a LOT and tensing up all my back muscles. The cold went away and so did most of the pain associated with it, except for one spot under my left arm that would not go away! So I made an appointment with my doctor, which happened to be on my 30th birthday! She thinks it is a dislocated rib...

Now I am on an anti-inflamatory painkiller and a muscle relaxer which I can only take at night so it doesn't make me fall asleep! I hope it doesn't last too long--I've never had even a broken bone! Plus I hate taking any kind of drug, unless it's caffine or wine-related!

On my birthday after the doctor visit, I took my car in to have the windshield replaced--it had a large crack that started growing in the winter and I knew it wouldn't have passed inspection. I got a short nap in before it was time for me and Dave to go to my friend's house for dinner.

She made pizza while we all broke into the box of wine, chips and dip. We decided we needed exercise so we had ridden our bikes over...and it ended up being a great evening and a great way to turn 30! The pizza was awesome! She made the crust, added tomato sauce, sweet potatoes, cheese, chicken and a bunch of veggies. It made me want to start making homemade pizza again...which I used to do all the time but somehow got out of the habit.

My Shorts Don't Fit :(

...that statement made both Dave and my brother-in-law Derek laugh. I never used to own a bathroom scale and always said "as long as my clothes fit, I'm happy." Well....I have outgrown my size 4 pants and now my size 6 work shorts don't fit! So....I have to make more of an effort to exercise. I don't eat bad at all (most of the time...) and I'm ok with the way I look; I just don't like that my clothes have started to not fit and I don't want to have to replace everything!

Dave said that being in a relationship immediately adds 15 pounds for him. I'm thinking it may be the same for me! I've been walking more than before and doing some exercises and I know that during the trip to California we will be walking non-stop most of the time...so I think by the end of my 2 weeks off work my new shorts WILL fit! It's definitely a change in lifestyle though. No more vegetarian boyfriend obsessed with climbing mountain peaks--as much fun as that was I wouldn't trade it for what I have now :) :) :)

Other than that, I think exercise is the biggest thing I'm not doing much of right now. I don't drink soda and I mainly drink tea and water. Coffee in the morning and wine at night, maybe a beer once in a while but not often enough to really count as a major calorie source!

Wish me luck!