Mikala167

Weekend Fun

So this past weekend was a blast!

FRIDAY
Friday night we had a couple of people over our house for just a chill night in our PJ's ( well some of us in PJs).. hehe. That was so much fun as usual. I love just being to chill and not have to worry about impressing people... its so nice and relaxing.

SATURDAY
   Katie and i picked up our new rugs!!! YAY! we got a new area rug for the living room... looks awesome, and totally brightens up the room. To me it looks more like an "adult" room now. God, really? But im excited for them. No more smelly kaka rugs in my house! We also got a new rug for the back room. Technically it's supposed to be an outdoor rug, but it goes perfectly back there so now it's an indoor rug!
   We also went to a BBQ at our friends Kevin and Brian's House.  OMG.. they smoked everything they served (except the salads).  The food was OOC delicious. I ate so much that day.. oh and to top it all off they had made homemade cookie ice cream sandwiches... ridic. Oh and we got to see Lisa and Darcy there too! yay! Lisa made her famous jell-o shots, scrumptious.  We even got to take some home!
   After the BBQ, My friend Britt came down to see me! We just had a lot of popcorn and got silly. Katie went out with her friends so me and Britty had a girlie night. It was exactly how I wanted to spend my Saturday night.

SUNDAY
Sunday was a perfect beach day, so me and Britty decided to go to the beach.  Our friend's TinaMarie and Kat were headed to the beach too so we met up with them and they were nice enough to shuttle us in so we didnt have to pay! My friend Lynnie-Loo was coming to CT for her birthday dinner with her aunt that day so she took the train in early and came with us to the beach too! We packed a cooler and just chilled all day.  It was so nice. Katie and I got re-burnt, eventhough we put lotion on this time too.. but definitely not as bad as the last time we went. Holy Moly.

So that was it. A pretty stress-free weekend, well, not stress free.  Lets call it stress-almost-free.  Putting those damn rugs in underneath my huge sectional sucked ass.

Oh and just a quick update: I got a call back today for a Para job in West Haven!!!! I have to take a math and language arts test on thursday as part of the interview process... I have a feeling the interview process is going to end right there.. I suck at math. But I'll def keep you posted on how I do!! YAY!!
 

Job Search

I finally started to apply for jobs last week. Finally schools are posting jobs for the 09-10 school year. I had been looking every week starting in May, thinking that schools would post before the school year was over for the upcoming school year. Nope. Budgets still needed to pass, so the only postings they had up were for Summer school and over the summer jobs. So May quickly turned into June, which quickly turned into late June, which quickly turned into early July, no job postings yet, I was starting to sweat a bit. Then last week, everything turned around as I happened upon my first 09-10 school year job posting.

Thank God!

There seemed to be a lot open as I looked further, so I got all my resumes, cover letters, letters of rec, and transcripts all ready to go. I started to print out applications and send all my paperwork out. I sent out at least five or six packets to different schools who had jobs posted. Have I heard from one of them? No. 

I AM SO FREAKED OUT AT THIS POINT.

Now it's turned into a frantic search-every-single-school-website-every-day-a-thon.  I don't know what I'm going to do if I don't get a job. I cannot afford to not have a job. There's no way Katie can support both of us...

I don't want to write about this anymore. No sense in getting crazy just yet.

QotD: "Fast" Food

If you were going to enter a competitive eating contest, what food would you choose to speed eat?

Well, the first food that comes to mind that I could literally eat until i passed out is McDonald's Big Macs.  Ugh.. my mouth just started to salivate.. what is in the special sauce?? I don't know but i could smear it all over my body... better yet, Katie's body and lick it all off nice and slow....

I just reread that and grossed myself out a little bit.

Anyway, Big mac's are tasty, and Im sure I could eat a lot of them but they're not practical speed food.  I think the most practical food for ME to eat is Planter's Cheese Balls. 

Cheese balls

I can totally demolish a canister of them in minutes...effortlessly. I have no doubt that I would win against anyone who challenged me to a Cheese Ball eating contest. The key is to get them wet... then they just smush down to cheesy paste... I know it sounds gross but its delicious as its happening inside your mouth. I believe getting hot dogs wet has the same effect, at least with the buns anyway. Isn't that what the professional hot dog eaters do? Dip the whole thing in a big glass of water first?

 I dont dip the cheese balls in water, just to make that clear, I do like to suck on them and get all the cheese off though and as that happens they break down. 

Poor Katie.. if only she were made of cheese and special sauce.

QotD: Grill Master

What's your favorite food to cook on the grill?

GrilledSteak

I love to grill STEAK.  And I have to say... Im pretty damn good at it.

Not necessarily T-bone ( in the pic). My favorite cut is a nice thick-cut Ribeye. Mmmmm Marinate that in teriyaki... cook it up medium rare. damn.. that sounds good right about now. Gotta grill the corn on the cob to go with it too!

QotD: One Day. $100,000.

If you had one day to spend $100,000 - and you had to spend it totally selfishly - what would you buy?

$100,000 to spend on just me?? Well, let's get started.

oh wait... I thought that was a million. damn. i just started listing "paying off my mortgage" and shit. F that.

If I only have $100,000 I would first give HALF of it to the government because those assholes are just going to take it from me anyway... then i'd pay off my debt and with whatever I had left pay that towards my mortgage.

Being an adult is no fun.

QotD: My Ideal Life Ten Years from Now…

What does your ideal lifestyle look like 10 years from now?
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Oh man, I've got this all planned out. 

Ten years from now I will be living in Hawaii with my Bubba.  We will have had probably 3 kids by then, at least. I will be a stay at home mom because we are rich.  Katie will have inherited some kind of fortune or won the lottery so she is stay at home as well. From there we just live out the good life on the beach, living the Aloha Spirit way, and we will live happily ever after in our mansion. The end.

ugh. wouldn't that be nice?!

Ten years from now I'll still probably be stuck in F'ing Connecticut, paying off debt, being an underpaid overworked elementary school teacher. Killing myself a little more every winter. Sounds awesome, doesnt it? Can't wait.