Nervous

So the wedding went well, party was fun, hotel room was nice, etc. I'm over it.

In good news I am back on the health bandwagon and I'm dragging others up with me, as I usually do when I am motivated! I made these little calenders with spaces on each day to write calories and exercise time, and at the end of every week a space to write weight. I made one for Seth also and they are pinned next to my bed so I can be faced with them daily. We are both trying to lose some weight so I felt that we needed something new to get us going. Plus, to me weighing in once a week has a game-like feel to it, and is motivating because I find weight loss tv shows to be satisfying. Since I started last week I have been exercising almost every single day, and yesterday I even went twice. It helps to have Shirley and Seth to go with me, sometimes together and sometimes seperately. Summer's coming up and I can't hide behind winter clothes forever. Plus I would really like to once again fit into the pants that I could fit into last summer.

So my family is taking a trip to Israel at the beginning of June for Jake's 13th birthday. I am really excited about it because I havn't been there since I was 11, and I think I would really have fun there if I went now. Plus I havn't seen my family over there in that long, so I think they will be really happy to see me. They are always asking me to come. And my grandmother is 90 years old, this will probably be the last time I will ever see her. Last time my family took a trip to Israel together my grandfather was alive, and he died shortly thereafter, and I have felt pretty bad about that ever since. I am even trying to get Seth on board with the trip!

I just wrote my boss a letter explaining that I wanted 2 weeks off to go and also explaining the significance of the trip, but I am extremely nervous about my request being turned down. I don't know what I would do if they said no. I am worried because we are a bit short handed, although June is far enough away that it shouldn't matter by then. Plus, I know of 2 other people that just had their vaccation requests denied, even though they were for much shorter periods of time, for example: 3 days. Also, my bosses are not very understanding people, and are sometimes even huge jerks for no discernable reason. So, yes, I am very, very worried about it.

Still haven't written that essay for CSU, but I think I know the reason. As the reality of the cost of going to college out of state set in, I think I became more solid on the idea of just going to College Park, even though I would prefer Colorado. Going to CSU would cost twice as much, and I would be far away from all of my friends and family. I think part of me doesn't want to finish applying to CSU because if I got in then I would have to make a hard choice, while this way it's easier for me to just blow it off. But another part of me still wants to apply, because I may one day regret not doing so. It's just very confusing. So that's my story right now.

Friends

Bachelorette Party:
So the bachelorette party was a huge success, if I may say so myself. We made it to the restaurant on time, the Banana Cafe and Piano Bar. Elise loved her little outfit, she wore her penis-queen costume all night, and so it was worth every penny!

The food was pretty good, yummy fried plantains and yucca and rice and guacamole and vegetables. I think everyone liked their food, and the atmosphere was very upbeat and colorful. I gave everyone the gift bags I had put together, which included glow in the dark penis straws (which everyone used all night), temporary tattoos of butteflies which we plastered ourselves with at the restaurant, mardi gras beads, and giant fake diamond rings.  We had margaritas and Lydia made a penis-shaped cake with penis-shaped sprinkles on it!



We had a great time! Here is a picture of Elise, Lydia, and Rachel (Elise's cousin):

Afterwards we went to the hotel to check in. The room was nice and we actually even found street parking. Bree, Lydia, Elise and I shared the room.

Finally we went to the club Ziegfields/Secrets. The downstairs area seemed pretty normal, not a whole lot going on, but upstairs at Secrets there were nude male dancers everywhere. At first I was pretty uncomfortable, it seems wrong to stare at naked people dancing, but after a while I got used to it. 

Why not objectify men? They do it to women all the time. Plus they didn't look miserable or anything, actually like they were enjoyng the attention. After all, they were super...super...super hot. At least most of them were.

The best thing about going to a gay club is that nobody hits on you. You are dancing with your friends, surrounded by hot guys, and no losers try to creep in.

When I was finally sick of naked men for the moment I went downstairs and there was a pretty great drag show going on, drag queens lip synching to songs like "It's Raining Men", dressed in sequins and costumes and giant headdresses. It was awesome!

At around 2 A.M. Elise was pretty drunk so we decided to head back to the hotel room. She was making quite a ruckus, hootin' and hollerin' and singing loudly. I tried to tell her to be quiet, I'm sensitive to hotel problems seeing as I work in one, but there was just no use. I was sure they were going to call up and tell us to be quiet, but nobody ever did. Then they were all like "ooh let's call room service and make them bring us a bottle of chamapgne!" I tried to explain that it was 2am and nobody was going to bring us champagne, but they called despite my explaining that the front desk would just get annoyed and laugh about us behind our backs. Which is exactly what happened, but oh well! Elise and I shared a bed, and I was a little afraid she was going to throw up on me, but she didn't, which was wonderful.

In the morning we ate at the hotel's breakfast buffet which was expensive and mediocre. Finally we left and headed back to the real world. I am very proud of how the night went, considering how stressed I was about the whole thing. I bitched a lot, but it was even sort of fun to plan. I would still not like to plan one again for a very long time, if ever.

Kate:
So this week I hung out with my friend Kate who I havn't seen since my New Orleans/travelling days, or almost 5 years. One day we went out to lunch in Ellicott City, and then another day we went shopping around all day. It was really awesome to see her and we had a lot of fun. I'm sad that she left again, but hopefully we will see eachother again soon. It sucks to finally have someone to connect with, and then have them leave, but that's life. Here are pictures of our fun time!

We stopped by the lakefront, It was dreary out.

Then we went to eat at Golden Corall. I am not really a buffet person but I decided to try it out. OMG we ate So much FOOD! They had a large vegetarian selection, and by that I mean vegetables and desserts. Their cabbage was deeelicious, and I also had broccoli, cauliflower, fried okra, a baked sweet potato, mashed potatoes, a cheddar garlic buscuit. When it came time to try the desserts I was wayyyy too full, but I still nibbled several things. Buffets are bad because you end up eating much more than you normally would, but it's kind of cool to get to eat so many different things, and then if you don't like something you just throw it away and get more of what you do like instead. After dinner we stumbled over the the nearby mall and walked into Bass Pro Shop which has taxidermied animals EVERYWHERE. So we decided to take pictures with an elk!

And a moose!

Bass Pro Shop is a crazy place, with giant waterfalls cascading over rocks, and everything you would ever want or need to be cruel to animals. It also has a giant GIANT fish aquarium with huuuge fish in it:

Then we found the section where they sold guns:

People were giving us the strangest looks...I have no idea why!



They sell strange things there...like Acorn Rage! Yummy.



When we were finally done in the store we wandered around the mall and bought matching bear hoodies, brown hoodies with a hood that had a cute bear face on it and bear ears sticking out. So cute! I coudn't resist, they were $3! Craziness.

Another thing we did was go shoe shopping, so now I have shoes for the wedding:

They are very pretty and super comfortable.

So anyways it was really fun hanging out with Kate. Also, I just finished the last book of the Hunger Games series...THAT SERIES WAS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD WOW! I would recomend that series to...anyone and everyone. It was so enjoyable to read, although at times very violent and depressing, but mostly just exciting and entertaining. So good!

Last but not least, I got my first college acceptance letter!!!! I got into UMBC! That's my safe school, so we'll see what else happens, but either way I am excited! YEAH! Even if i don't go there it was free for me to apply so why woudln't I have? Yay, I'm having a really good week.

And finally, to end this blog, a picture of Ender: