me + blogging = not exciting

so i clearly fail at this blog thing, since i haven't updated in quite awhile. to be fair, they've actually made me DO stuff at work lately. and since i don't have the internet at home, that leaves me with the options of 1) staying longer at work and 2) not posting. i chose option 2, mainly because i never want to be here longer than i have to be here, and since they don't seem to care if we peace out right after the paper's done, regardless, then i'm OUT. woot. so yeah. i know. excuses excuses. i apologize to all of my loyal readers (kate still being one, she reassured me today, and sami and victoria also ones, i was previously reassured), and i will try to post more.

this past weekend was mostly nice but sorta eh. we went to a hibachi grill place on saturday night, which means it was one of those places where you sit around a grill and they cook up your food right there for you. and our chef was really fun, he told jokes and did little magic tricks and stuff. some of them were easy but others i had no idea how he did. but the fried rice was freaking amazing, and the veggies & steak were good too. it was a lot of fun. and then we went to see harry pothead, and i loved it. particularly rupert grint, because he is adorable and i heart him. i thought book 5 was unnecessarily long, and it's actually my least favorite book. but i thought they did a superb job of cutting out all of the angsty, angry, depressing nonsense and getting to the point and the good stuff without missing that it's all still sullen and angsty. frankly, i kind of thought harry was annoying in that book, but he didn't turn out that way in the movie, which made me happy. either way, LOVED it. i'm feeling a little sad because the new book comes out on the 21st, and that is my first day of vaca -- we are leaving i think friday night, which means i'll be up in a fabulous and sort of quaint resort town on saturday. and we'll probably be going to a HUGE craft fair that they set up in town that weekend, and as much as i love it, i just don't foresee anyone selling hp books at said craft sale, nor do i foresee any of the little shops -- while adorable and cute -- selling hp books either. which means i'd have to drive to a real town, however far that may be, and buy the book, and then spend the next day or two immersed in harry potter goodness. which sounds nice, but also seems rude, and non-perfect, because part of the reason i am so excited for vaca is because it is with my dad & brother, both of whom i don't tend to see for more than two hours at a time lately. so diving headfirst into a book seems like the not-best plan i could have, so i may have to wait til we get home. which kinda sucks cause i want to read the book, but i've waited this long, so i suppose i can wait another week.

on the plus side, my bathing suit is in! this has been a big fiasco. i couldn't find any suits i liked in stores -- all i could find were boring, look-down-the-beach-and-see-an-80-year-old-wearing-it suits, and that's not really the look i'm going for. it's hard to find a happy medium between teensy bikini and long-sleeved one-piece. so. i resorted to the speedo website, because speedo usually has suits i like. they are patterned in fun designs instead of the normal diagonal colored and/or gold lines/plain suits you see in stores, and they usually have an interesting t-back or racing back or just something other than a back that comes up to your shoulder blades.. i don't want a tube as a bathing suit. so i went to the web site, and they had a huge selection, so i was all excited, and they even have a little "try it on" model thingy that i was like pffft at first cause it's like a 15-year-old, but then i found out you can personalize your model -- put in your height, weight, hair color, skin color, body type, etc. so i was even more excited! and i had it down to a few suits, and i went to check my bank account to see if i could afford to order two and send one back (i was nervous about them fitting), and lo and behold, i am in the negative. i had apparently done some creative math (ironically, it's the first time since... 2003? that i sat down and did math. usually i just go with a 'well i think i have this much' mentality, and apparently that works better. oof.) and some things i'd thought went through hadn't, and either way, it was clearly a no-go, cause i was already in the negative, the bank charged me $30 every time i overdrew (three times -- $90!! highway robbery!! i am clearly already poor, you jerks!), and i don't have a credit card, so i was not ordering a suit any time soon. but then jon came to the rescue and ordered it for me, and i guess it arrived today. so i am still nervous because i could not try it on, so here's to hoping it fits and/or looks good! (ps, it is the sparkler flyback in red: http://www.speedousa.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/products.detail/categoryID/44c7b34d-d192-4b75-b573-f7cd91645012/productID/f62e1cdc-6eb1-4e52-9bd7-4b337e59b354/ it wasn't my favorite just in the pictures, but on my personalized model it looked really nice, and the color i think will be okay with my skin & hair. i did like the pink too, but we went with red.) i am hoping it looks decent, cause i don't have time (or money -- i get paid thursday but until then i am in the neg!) to order another one, and the selection in the stores i've been to is less than satisfactory.

so. we're about done here, which means i'll be leaving, and no longer writing, but i have one last bit to impart your way: jon told me about this sweet website and i have been perusing it off and on today. it is abandonedbutnotforgotten.com, and it is pictures of all these abandoned places/things that people have gone and photographed.. houses, factories, ghost towns, schools, insane asylums, theme parks, highways. it's pretty cool (and creepy) to see some of them.. and weird! like there's one asylum that still has curtains up in it, and one ferris wheel that's almost completely grown over. jon said there's some that have tables that are still set, and some that show you how much it keeps getting rotted/old over the years. i've still got plenty to see, but i'm mainly looking for ghost towns, cause the whole idea of a ghost town just seems so interesting to me. a whole town built and then abandoned.. i want to go to one someday, i just think it would be so cool. but then i do love history, so.. not shocking, right? haha.

anyway. that's a good something to check out if you're bored, cause it's pretty interesting.
ttyl kids.