OCD

After reading Erica's post about the random things that get stuck in her head, I figured I'd reveal my unnecessary OCD tendency. I count random things in my head all the time. I count stairs when I'm walking up and down flights (17 to my apartment, 18 in the parking garage at the Studios), how many steps it takes to get to my car (depends on where I'm parked), and the weirdest one: how many slices of banana go into my cereal (25). It's so very random, I know. Especially since it's not everything or every time I walk somewhere, although it is every morning I have my Honey Nut Cheerios! So there you have it, airing my dirty laundry.

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season...it's Christmas Eve Eve, so Santa is on his way soon! I have to work a few hours tomorrow then am headed to Cooper City for two days, then it's back to work. It's fine, since two days is about all I can handle at home before my mom drives me crazy. I'm excited that my bro and sis-in-law are coming down with Blake. Also, they're expecting another baby and just found out it's another boy, so bring on the testosterone! I will leave you with this cute pic of Blake with Santa!

Merry Christmas!!!

Things About Me

I'm late on this, but I saw it on Erica's page and thought it would be fun to do. I am all about a mindless post filling out random questions. Let's go!

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now?
My windshield sun shade and some anti-bacterial wipes.

2. When was the last time you threw up?
It was a long time ago...last time I can remember was after my friend's wedding and I had waaay too much to drink. I went home and made myself throw up so that we could get changed and go out to karaoke (what a trooper!)

3. What’s your favorite curse word?
I say the f word or some form of it way too often

4. Name 3 people who made you smile today?
My roomies Bethany and Lauren, and my nephew Blake when I saw his pic with Santa!

5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning?
sleeping

6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Taking a shower

8. Have you ever been to a strip club?
yeppers

9. What is the last thing you said aloud?
Holla back!

10. What is the best ice cream flavor?
cold stone vanilla w/cinnamon and chocolate chips

11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
water

12. What are you wearing right now?
a blue tank top and pj pants

13. What was the last thing you ate?
chocolate chip cookies

14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
what week don't I? I bought a really cute Tinkerbell shirt at the Disney Store (so much for not needing anything Disney!)

15. When was the last time you ran?
at the gym on Friday

16. What’s the last sporting event you watched?
maybe I'm watching Sunday Night Football right now... that doesn't make me a lesbian!

18. Who is the last person you sent a comment/message on myspace?
my old roomie Doug

19. Ever go camping?
when I was younger and didn't have a choice in the Brownies

22. Do you have a tan?
no, kinda pale right now unfortunately

24. Do you drink your soda from a straw or a bottle?
I prefer my soda out of a fountain, therefore I drink through a straw. Otherwise it's a can.

25. What does your last text message say?
that I sent or received? hmm...got one that said 'we're not going to the movie'...how exciting!

26. Are you someone’s best friend?
I sure hope so

27. What are you doing tomorrow?
going to work. boo.

28. Where is your mom right now?
asleep in Cooper City

29. Look to your left, what do you see?
my Jason Taylor bobblehead (again, not a lesbian!)

30. What color is your watch?
silver

31. What do you think of when you think of Australia?
maybe the dingo ate your baby!

32. Ever ridden on a roller coaster?
yeppers

33. What is your birthstone?
pearl. ick.

34. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive through?
usually drive thru

35. What is your favorite number?
23

36. Do you have a dog?
no but I will take one!

37. Last person you talked to on the phone?
mom and dad

38. Have you met anyone famous?
yeppers - the best one was Mariah!

39. Any plans today?
gotta dry my hair and go to sleep

40. How many states have you lived in?
just one

41.Ever go to college?
yeppers

43. Biggest annoyance in your life right now?
not knowing what the hell to do with my life, not having a man, not really wanting to go to the gym...

44. Last song listened to?
song by Leona Lewis (she won X-Factor, the UK's version of Idol...great voice!)

46. Are you allergic to anything?
random things in the air make my eyelids itch, as well as MAC eyeshadow

47. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
reef flip-flops

49. Are you jealous of anyone?
sure...people who know what they're doing with their lives, have cute families, don't have to work out to stay trim...

50. Is anyone jealous of you?
My friend Cindy is jealous that I get to still sleep in... it's a thing of the past once you have kids!

51. What are you craving right at this moment?
some freshly baked bread sounds good right now, no idea why

52. Do any of your friends have children?
yeppers

53. Do you eat healthy?
most of the time, until there are cookies

54. What do you usually do during the day?
work, unfortunately

55. Do you hate anyone right now?
No

56. Do you use the word ‘hello’ daily?
yep

58. How old will you be turning on your next birthday?
Twenty-nine

59. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
yep, in Georgia

Yay, wasn't that fun?!?

I Kinda Skipped November...

Wow, I haven't been good about keeping up on this blog! My last post was way too long ago, so I'll do a brief recap...
I got a temporary management position at DisneyQuest at Downtown Disney, which is a 5 floor building filled with virtual/interactive games. It has tons of old school video games like Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Burger Time. When I "walk the building", which is what I do a few times each shift as a manager, I try to play at least one game of skeeball and a few rounds on my new favorite game, Flamin' Finger. (FF is a touch screen that has a big maze on it...you drag your finger across the screen through the maze as music blares and time ticks away, faster as you get toward the end of the maze. It gets my heart going and when you finish before time runs out, fireworks go off on the screen and it applauds you for being the champion. It's pretty awesome.) Anyway, I'm there through February and then potentially go back to the Studios events team. Not sure what my future holds, but I've realized doing this job that being an attractions manager is not for me... it's pretty monotonous, and I like to feel like I'm using my brain, not just babysitting cast members.

The exciting part of November was my trip to Scotland! My roomies Bethany, Lauren, and I went for a week. The flights were exhausting (with stops in DC and London before ending up in Edinburgh), but we had a lot of fun. Our Bed and Breakfast was amazing and very close to the main areas in Edinburgh. The official Scottish breakfast the girls had is below (I had cereal).A bonus for our B&B was that it was run by a super hot 28 year old named David. Mmmm. We were kind of obsessed with him. We had lots of conversations about sometimes inappropriate things, but he was fun and helped us a lot when it came to planning what to do. Here he is ... We did a lot in Edinburgh - walked up and down the Royal Mile, toured the Edinburgh Castle (the view from the top of the castle is the pic below) and the Palace of Holyrood (where the Queen stays when she's in Scotland), went to many museums, saw the tea house where Harry Potter was written, learned all about how whisky is made on a whisky tour, and I got to shop at my favorite clothing store, H&M. It got dark around 4pm, which was very strange and made us want to go to bed super early, but we sort of got used to it by the end of the week. Also, all the stores close by 5 or 6pm except on Thursdays, so we had to do any shopping earlier in the day. I guess they want you to focus on drinking at the bazillion pubs at night. It's cheaper to drink beer than soda, and very difficult to find Coke products since apparently it's one of the only countries in the world that Coke is not the #1 selling soda. Sometimes a girl just needs a Diet Coke!!!
We took a day tour to Loch Lommond (Loch is just a fancy word for lake) and Stirling Castle, and another day tour to the Highlands and Loch Ness. Unfortunately, we did not see the Loch Ness Monster, but in our hearts she is in there (I point out where I think she is below). We took the train to Glasgow for a day, which is the more 'cultural' city in Scotland, but not nearly as pretty as Edinburgh. This was the prettiest place we visited in Glasgow, a cathedral that withstood the Reformation and has been around since the 1000's! On our Thanksgiving, it was actually the start of the Christmas festival in Edinburgh, so we watched the opening of that which was fun. We rode a huge ferris wheel and wandered through a German Christmas market.
The weather wasn't great while we were there, which is why this is the off season. It hovered around 40-ish, and was mostly overcast. It was misty rainy a few days, but never full on poured. We finally saw the sun the day before we left...it was glorious. I was pretty much cold the whole trip, since I am definitely a Florida girl and can't handle temperatures below 65 very well. I look like a cow in most photos since I have so many layers on. Speaking of cows, the cow below is Hamish, who is a Highland coo. (They call them coos, not cows, which made us giggle. When we did, our tour guide said "You haven't experienced Scotland until you've seen a hairy coo." Done and done!)

Overall it was a great trip and we met so many great people. All the Scots are so happy that people choose to visit their country, and they're so helpful and friendly. Plus their accents are so fun to listen to and kilts rock!