I want some Crest White Strips.

First of all, my phone is not working.  It worked the whole time I was in VA, and it worked when I got off the plane in NH, but then Sunday evening I had no service.  Monday morning, my phone turned off twice by itself, and I still had no service.  At this point, I start freaking out.  When I get home from work, I call AT&T and they tell me there's no outages.  So, I call Apple and I'm literally on the phone with them and AT&T for an hour and fifteen minutes.  I took my SIM card out a millions time, reset the thing, did all kinds of fancy stuff, and still nothing.  A girl from AT&T told me to go to the store and get a new SIM card because maybe it's the card.  So, I did that today and when I'm at the store, I have every bar ever and 3G service!!  They changed my SIM card and told me to "hope for the best."  Now that I'm at home, I still don't have service.  I have no idea what the deal is and I feel lost without my phone working.  Hopefully there is an outage, or something like that and my phone starts working soon.

My trip to VA was short and sweet.  I met my dad's girlfriend and I really like her.  She's pretty outgoing and down to earth, and not annoying like past girlfriends.  My dad's graduation was pretty boring, but my Aunt Kelly had a surprise party for him afterward and he was pretty surprised.  I got to hang out with my mom for a little bit and I got my haircut.  It's nothing too serious; I had awkward layers and I'm slowly working my way toward having a single-layered bob.  When the hairdresser styled my hair, it looked AWESOME.  Unfortunately, I'm totally uncoordinated when it comes to using a brush and a hair dryer at the same time, so my hair hasn't looked awesome since.  

I got to hang out with my brothers for a little bit.  Unfortunately, I think Seth is back to his old habits.  You can totally tell when he's not clean because he's angry and irrational and ridiculous at times.  Apparently he's moving down to Richmond where his friend has a "guaranteed job as a cook" lined up for Seth.  I guess my dad gave Seth the deadline of August 1st, to get a job or go to school, or he has to move out.  

Also, the most exciting part of my trip was meeting up with one of my BFFs from high school, Carnita.  I have known her since 5th grade and we were really good friends, but lost touch during college.  She was never one for technology, like no AIM or facebook, so it was impossible to keep in touch with her.  I have been thinking about her a lot recently, and last week she joined facebook!!  She saw that I was going to be in VA and she stalked me and met up with me for an hour and then drove me to my haircut appointment.  Catching up with her was like medicine for my soul.  She has a 3 year old son who wears tiny gangsta hats and holds doors for people.  Oh!  Carnita is working as a paraprofessional just like me!  What are the odds?!!

David took me for a ride on the motorcycle!!  It was  little bit terrifying at first, but it was also really neat.  While on a motorcycle, you see things that you would never see if you were in a car.  Also, you get to smell all the flowers and freshly cut grass.  It's pretty neat.

I think that's all I have to say.  Tomorrow is my interview at EMS.  Hopefully they'll hire me on the spot.  Does anybody have plans for the 4th of July?  I'm pretty sure it's going to rain here, for the 40th day in a row!!  And that is no exaggeration!  It has rained so effin' much!  I'm so depressed!!

Pictures!

Molly and her crazy ears.

Me, Greg, Tara and Russ riding on an escalator.

Upper Crust. Look at how delicious it looks!

This is one of the Ducks in the water.

Us waiting for the tour to start.

This is the Duck we were on.  How beautiful!

Me posing with a Duck.

A cool picture of Jellyfish.  

I have a runny nose.

Well, I'm stuck working in the campground.  I'm breaking all of my rules by being on the internet right now, but whatev.  There's about 4 people in the campground and it's rainy and stupid and slow and boring.  A girl Sarah is supposed to be working 12-8, and she hasn't shown up yet (it's 4:30) and isn't answering her phone.  Apparently she worked here a few years ago and had to quit becuase she was going to school, but now she's back!  I told Greg I thought it was a bad idea to hire her back, because she has like 3 other jobs and can only work Wednesdays and Sunday, and we already have coverage those day; we really don't need her.  Her first day, she was 45 minutes late, her second day she had to leave 3 hours early, and now this.  Apparently she was awesome when she worked here before, but I say she sucks.  And, she totally reminds me of Carol.  She has the same build (i.e. round face, hips, everything), and kind of the same personality (i.e. weird jokes, always sick). 

Good news!  I only have two more days of school left!!!  Tomorrow I'll get out at 12 and on Tuesday I get out at 10 and then I'm done!!  I totally skipped school on Thursday and Friday.  Thursday I did a lot of nothing and it was great.  On Friday, Greg and I went to Boston with our "friends" Tara and Russ.  We went to the aquarium and we went on the Duck Tours.  I don't know if you're familiar with those, but you get a tour of the city in a crazy vehicle that is both a car and a boat.  It's pretty sweet.  The aquarium was okay.  Not as cool as Balitmore, but that could be due to the fact that there were about 50 field trips there and I could hardly breathe!  For dinner, we went to this pizza place called Upper Crust.  Nathan and I ate there pretty much every night during our trip to Boston, so I convinced everyone that Upper Crust was where we needed to go.  Seriously, it is the most delicious pizza I've ever had.  If we go to Boston when you're here, I suggest we go there.  The trip to Boston was fun, for the most part.  But I don't know if it's because I secretly hate Tara, or if we're too different, but I just never really have anything to talk about with her and she's not really funny (which is a MUST, if you want to be friends with Kendra Cox).  I feel like her and Russ don't have anything to talk about with Greg, either, because all they freaking talk about is park stuff.  It's really fuckin' annoying.  I mean, I work at the park, I can relate to what they're talking about, but all day?  Seriously?  So, for the most part, I just sit silently and think about what I can eat for dinner.  And Russ is apparently God's gift to fixing things, so that's pretty much all he talks about, when he's not talking about the park.  When we were on the Duck Tour, we went under some bridge and he would not stop talking about the amount of steel used to make the bridge.  He was way too excited about it, like to the point of needing some alone time. 

Also on Friday was my Relay for Life with my softball team.  I was planning on going right at the start of it and staying for a few hours.  Unfortunately, Tara is the one who drove to Boston, so when her and Russ wanted to keep looking at shit, I couldn't really say no.  We ended up getting home at 9:30 and the Relay was about an hour from my house.  Yeah, that wasn't happening, and frankly, I didn't really feel like going anyway.  So, I called the captain of our team and explained the situation and was like "Well, I'm going to try to get there at 6am, because I have to work at 8."  She was like "you have to work??!!  Don't come here!  We understand!  Don't feel bad!!"  I was pretty happy she said that to me, so I didn't argue with her. 

My Saturday and Sunday has been pretty uneventful.  It's seriously rained almost everyday in June and the temperature hasn't gotten about 70 and I'm totally depressed about this.  It's almost 4th of July and I'm still wearing hoodies!!  I wish it would just be summer already!!  Oh!!  Something really exciting-I have an interview at this store called EMS (Eastern Mountain Sports).  This is pretty much my dream job.  This is seriously the coolest store ever and I plan on retiring from this place.  As of right now, I'll only be working like one or two days a week (if they're willing to do that) because really I just want the discount.  However, the manager wants to interview me on Friday, and I totally forgot that I'm going to be in VA on Friday (I'm going there for 2 days to watch my dad graduate from college and party like it's 1999).  So, I called the manager to see if I could reschedule it and she's never freakin' there!  I hope this doesn't hurt my chances of getting my dream job! 

Should I buy tickets for Harry Potter?  I'm totally serious about going to see it at midnight, so before I go buying tickets, I want to make sure you are, too. 

Okay, Sarah (the girl who's supposed to be working) just called and "totally forgot that she's supposed to work today!!"  I was like "Well, by the time you get here, you'll only work for 2 hours and that's pointless.  Don't worry about it." 

Well, I think that's all I have to say.  I will post pictures later.  Good day!

It's a small world

Yesterday, Greg and I walked through the SCA camp, by the cabins I lived in.  While walking, we saw a few of the SCA kids outside, chopping wood and I recognized one of them!!  It was a kid named Thomas Hodge (he goes by Hodge) that was in a bunch of my classes at CNU!!!!!!!  It was so weird seeing him.  It was like a little taste of home.  But he seems to be enjoying his time with the SCA, so that's cool.  We weren't really friends, but we were in a bunch of classes together and we talked in class.

I just thought it was so crazy that someone I know is up here.  I wanted to share.

I have two softball games this week.  Bleh.  I wonder what kind of drama we'll encounter this week...

I'm only happy when it rains!

Greg and I have been trying to take the girls on a walk every night.  It helps Molly sleep through the night and we can appreciate that.

This is a picture of my beautiful tomatoes that are starting to grow in my garden!

Greg put my hammock up yesterday!  Look at how comfy and bug-free I look!!

Jen (Greg's sister) is here this weekend.  We told her to come up because it was supposed to be rainy and we wouldn't have to work too much this weekend.  Now they are saying that it's going to be sunny and awesome and Greg "just remembered" that on of the kids on staff has a wedding to go to, so I have to work 8am-10pm.  I'm so pissed!  I asked him like 6 times this week if this was the weekend she was going to be gone and he swore to me it was next weekend!!  Damnit!  

This week I had three softball games.  The first game was on Tuesday and I was tired and cranky and decided not to go.  That night, I see my teammates' statuses saying that they won!  I was so pissed that I missed a game that we won!  The next day I found the other team had to forfeit the game.  The second game this week, I got hit with the ball in my arm.  I'm actually a little disappointed that my bruise doesn't look too bad.  It hurt (and still hurts) like a bitch, but I don't really have anything to show for it.  I was actually kind of excited to post a grotesque picture of my bruise, but it's barely noticeable.  The third game this week was filled with drama!!  The girl Kristen, that I work with and got me started on the team, is a little bit crazy.  She has an 18 month old who she brings to all the games and practices.  She keeps him locked in his stroller and he screams the whole time.  A lot of the time, she'll be playing in the outfield and she'll yell "Brodie, SHUT UP!!"  or she'll get in his face and say things like "Brodie!  I don't care!!  STOP CRYING!!"  It's really kind of awkward, but who am I to say anything?  I don't want to get suckered in to babysitting.  So anyway, the game on Thursday was just a normal game- Brodie was in his stroller screaming.  Finally, the umpire CALLED THE GAME and told my coach that Brodie needs to shut up and leave.  Kristin (being the crazy one that she is) screams "YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!"  And girls on our team are litterally holding her back because she's going to kill the guy.  Then, one of the girls on the team says to me (so Kristin can't hear) "I work in child services and this is child abuse.  I'm not doing my job because I haven't turned her in."  Yikes!  He facebook statuses have been really weird since the incident.  The other day it said something like "Brodie is grounded."  How do you ground a baby?  Now it says something like she "doesn't care that people judge her for her parenting skills, only He can judge her."  She's really crazy and tries to play the "I love Jesus" card so that people think it's okay.

A MamaC Weekend!

These are pictures of Molly Girl waiting for her grandparents to arrive.  I put the bandana on her so she'd be extra cute!!

My mom and David arrived on Friday afternoon.  They brought my twin bed and some boxes of crap that I had at their house.  I'm pretty excited about the bed.  I think it's going to be my nap time bed.  

On Saturday, I had to work for a few hours, and while I was gone, they planted flowers in the flower boxes on the outside of our house.  They look pretty cute and happy.  Also, they bought some Miracle Gro, so I gave it to my vegetables.  Hopefully they will grow huge and delicious.  In the evening, Greg's parents came up so we could all go out to dinner.  Greg and I were prepared for the most awkward night of our lives.  You know how my parents are, and Greg's are pretty much the exact opposite.  They seem pretty quiet and mundane, until you get to know them.  I thought my mom and David would be trying too hard to keep the conversation going and end up annoying everyone.  However, the exact opposite happened and I'm pretty sure they're best friends now.  Here's how it went down:

Greg's parents show up in Greg's dad's 1970-something Pontiac GTO.  Greg and I are both like "Oh, no.  Seriously?!!"  Because 1.  it's super loud and 2.  It's a little embarrassing.  However, my mom and David are like "AWESOME CAR!!"  So, there's 6 of us and we're going to a Japanese Steakhouse for dinner.  The most people any of our cars can fit is 4 people.  We're awkwardly trying to figure out the seating arrangements and finally my mom and David are like "We want to ride in the Pontiac!!"  So, Greg and I ended up riding in my car while our parents rode in his parents car.  Pretty much the whole ride to the restaurant we're like "What are they talking about?  This is so weird!!"  

We get to the restaurant and everyone gets out of the car laughing and saying how awesome it is!  Greg and I are in shock.  We sit at our table and you know, it's the usual Japanese Steakhouse stuff.  And then my mom randomly says "Isn't this a great birthday, Kendra?!"  The chef hears and thinks it's my birthday for the rest of the night.  I get all the special treatment, like he tries to throw extra pieces of food in my mouth!  The most hilarious part is at the end of the night, he brings me an ice cream sundae!  The sundae was a little weird.  It had fruit loops on it.  But they sang to me, so it was fun...I guess.

We came back to the house and played cards for a few hours and took part in some friendly banter.  When Greg's parents left, my mom exclaims "I LOVE THEM!!"  I was quite surprised to hear this, but still happy.  Later, I asked my mom how long they were in the car before she brought up me and Greg getting married.  She said not very long.  At first I was embarrassed by this because his parents seem like they're closed off and don't really think about those kinds of things.  But she said that they're wondering the same thing.  Greg's dad apparently thinks he's  a fool for taking so long (which made me so happy to hear).  The mutual consensus was that Greg is waiting for Jen to get married so he doesn't steal her thunder.  It got me pretty excited to hear that his parents would like us to get married.

On Sunday, my mom, David and I did some hiking and then some shopping.  We went to EMS (Eastern Mountain Sports [my favorite store ever!]) and I got a sweet-ass portable, bendable tripod for my camera!  I can bring it hiking with me and wrap it around a tree branch, or something.  It's so cool!!

           

This is a picture of it.  However, mine is black and pink.  I also bought an awesome hammock!!  My front yard has two trees perfectly placed for a hammock.  At EMS,  I found one that has a mosquito net with it, so it's pretty much the best thing ever!!  I haven't set it up yet because the motherfucker didn't come with rope, but maybe tomorrow I'll have to make a trip to get some.  I'm probably going to take naps in it all summer.

On Sunday evening, my mom put me though mashed potato boot camp!  My mashed potatoes are nowhere near as delicious as hers, so I made sure that I knew the technique before she left.  Apparently the secret is to use beaters and not a masher.  We had a delicious dinner with a delicious strawberry shortcake-type dessert.

The parentals left today, so it was back to normal life.  I seriously can't wait until  this school year is over.  I think I have 5 sick days left and I'm probably going to have to use them.  I've about had it with these high school bitches.  After work, we took Molly on her first walk.  I wish I had brought my camera, but I forgot it.  She was really precious with her tiny collar and leash.  We didn't go too far, but she did really well keeping up!  I think she really loved it.  She's been sleeping ever since we got home.  Hopefully this will make her sleep past 4:30am.  If so, it's going to be an everyday routine.

Well, we're watching the movie 21 and Greg is bitchy because I "haven't looked up once!!"  Good day!

A preview.

Rachel-I mailed your bday package yesterday.  This may or may not be a preview as to what's coming...

You spin my head right round.

I called out sick today from school so that I can make my house look presentable for when my mom gets here.  Apparently she's not getting here until tomorrow, late morning-ish.  Part of me thinks she's trying to surprise me and she'll be here today.  If you have been following the countdown on my facebook, you'll see that it's a countdown to today, but when I talk to her on the phone she's like "well, we're going to take our time driving up there, so we probably won't get there until Friday."  But anyway, my calling in sick couldn't have come at a better time.  We're at the end of the school year and so everyone has a ton of work to do, and these lazy bastards wait until the day it's due to start it, and some teachers actually expect me to LITERALLY do it for them.  Not happening.  One of my students is 18, but she seriously has the mentality of an 11 year old.  She's more immature than the girls on my basketball team.  To top it off, she's bipolar.  I'm pretty sure yesterday was the beginning of her downward spiral because she was being a fuckin' bitch to me!  I get the last laugh in the end though because she has a ton of make-up work to do for chemistry, due on Friday, and she was too much of a bitch to accept my help yesterday so she's going to be stuck with all that work and no one to help her.  MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

So far I've had two softball games this week, and today is my third.  Monday was a really good game for me because I caught two pop flies in the outfield and I got a pretty good hit with an RBI!  On Tuesday, I got a hit and my fielding was okay, but not as good as Monday.  One of the girls on my team is letting me use her brand new bat because it's too heavy for her.  Well, my coach told me that my batting hasn't been as good as it normally is because the bat I'm using isn't "broken in yet."  Who knew you had to break in a piece of metal?!  On Tuesday, I played right field (which I HATE!  I'm a left center kind of girl) and my (kind of crazy) friend from school who got me on the team, Kristin, was playing right center.  Well, a ball was hit to ME and Kristin was supposed to be my back-up.  Well, we both started running to get the ball, and it actually blew past both of us.  Because it was directly behind me, I ran to go get it.  Kristin, thinking she's all that and a bag of chips runs after it as well, except she PUSHES me out of the way and screams "I'M GETTING IT!!!!!!!"  So, I'm fucking pissed off.  I literally stop in my tracks and purposefully stand in her way so she has to throw it around me to get the ball in.  Once the play is over she says "Sorry, I just knew I could get to it and throw it in quickly."  I say "Do you honestly think you're faster than me?  And did you seriously have to push me?"  (BTW, there's no way she's faster than me.  She's about 5'2" and her entire leg is about as long as my shin.  And she's not the most physically fit person I've ever seen).    So, the story ends with her not even realizing she pushed me and me being totally pissed off.

So, today I have a lot of cleaning to do.  I'm also mailing Rachel's birthday present!  Finally!  Molly can sit on command.  Also, Molly just stood in front of the closet door and cried so I asked her if she had to go outside and she barked at me.  When I let her out she went poops!!!  SHE IS A PUPPY PRODIGY!!  She's going to the vet today for all her puppy shots.  It should be interesting.

These pictures are me and the girls taking a nap on the couch (this is mostly for Rachel), a giant snapping turtle I saw crossing the street, and Molly spooning her toys as she sleeps.