Dress Shopping

I tried on a couple more dresses on Monday at Demetrios in Tampa and lucky me most of the dresses there are a size 10!... I'm a size 14 at best. Much like the picture above my boobs were popping out all over the place and it sure as heck did not zip up the back. I did however find two dresses that I liked quite a bit. Both are around $1500 which means I will try and find it cheaper online becuase there is no way I am spending that much on the dress if I can help it.

I showed the pictures of the dresses to my mom and she said I should keep looking. I asked her why and her response was they look "uncomfortable". This made me think that by uncomfortable what she really means is i am going to look fat in it. Oh well I might be reading too much into that.

I do have one other place in mind  that I want to go look at dresses and see how their price compares as opposed to the other two places I have been to. I also found out that I need to order my gown pretty soon if I expect it to be here in time for the wedding.

Oh and the wedding date will definitely NOT be in August. A co-worker is taking her vacation at the restuarant right on the weekend that I wanted to have it so I am still keeping November 11 in mind but I am also thinking about having it October 10, 2011 (10/10/11) mainly because it is on a Monday which means everyone we know is more likely to come. All I really know is I have to pick a set date soon otherwise I am going to be in trouble.

I also have to pick out a venue and SOON! The Hungarian church is still available but its just SO small. Granted we are not going to have a ton of people there to begin with but I was hoping for a decent size dance floor at the least. Any suggestions about places in the Hillsborough/Pinellas county Florida (not the beach because Curtis will fry and so will I) they would be greatly appreciated. And if you have a rich uncle that lives down here and has a huge mansion we can have it at I am all for it. (yes I live in la la land and my fairy god mother and white slippers are hidden in my closet).

Update - Graduation

Super over-exposed picture of Angie and I.

So what was supposed to be a sort of 3 day weekend vacation for me didn't turn out like I had hoped. Poor Angie's flight was delayed BIG time and she didn't arrive at the airport till 6am. She did get to meet Curtis for a brief minute while his car was in park in front of the airport gates. Her mom came and ended up hugging me before Angie which was kind of funny actually. We put all of our stuff in her trunk and off we went for a 4-5 hour car ride up to Tallahassee.

With random pit stops, me attempting to read and driving part of the way we made it in time to pick up Angie's cap and gown along with the tickets to the graduation. I love FSU their campus is so pretty with its old architecture. All the buildings end up looking like castles. Almost all the buildings are made out of brick.

That night Angie, her older brother John, John's girl friend Jasper, Angie's dad and I all went out to a wine bar and listened to music that was too loud while drinking WAY too much wine. We ended up following Angie's dad home in the car just to make sure he got home okay. At one point he stopped at McDonalds and I got out of the back seat snuck up to his car while he was picking up his order and asked him how many weight wachers points that was since he was on a diet. Angie's dad finally made it back to the hotel safe and we were on our way home as well.

We didn't get to sleep in much Angie's mom was up at like 5am or 6am and we were up an hour later getting ready. The shower after Angie got out kept going from hot to cold back and forth which at like 7am my body is not ready to deal with. I was doing a little dance in the shower trying to get out of the way of the water when it was cold while I had one foot up on the wall trying to shave my legs. I finally said forget it and just shaved my legs tot he point where the skirt hem stops and hoped it wouldn't be a very windy day.

We got to campus early but it was still packed from morning ceremony. We got a good parking spot and Angie, John and I went and toured the campus. We didn't get a chance to go into the buildings like when Angie and I toured the campus like 2-3 years ago. I guess they decided to lock the doors now.

I almost knocked some old lady out while we were walking into the building because she put her hand on my shoulder and started pushing me. Of course I didn't actually do it but I did end up yelling at her. Me + lack of sleep does not equal a happy camper. Not to mention I don't really like being touched let alone pushed by someone I don't even know. While they were calling names I was half falling asleep in the bleachers.

When they finally called Angie's name we hoot and hollard and let the world know how proud of her we were.

Oh I almost forgot! I ended up getting her an opal bracelet which she loved, yeay! and she even wore it to her graduation, SUPER yeay!

Right after graduation we went to eat where angie's mom almost got us into a car accident and after that we drove another 4-5 hours back to Clearwater to drop me off.

And that was my 3 day vacation at FSU, it flew by like it didn't even happen.

Update - Job

Well as you can tell from above, I did not get the job. It has been over two weeks now since the interview and even though I sent them a thank you letter and a follow-up email about the position still being open I never heard a word back. Makes me kinda sad.

Curtis also interviewed for an Assistant Manager position at his job and didn't get it. Though after the fact we found out its for the best because the guy that would have ended up being his manager turned out to be a jerk. Curtis took on more hours at a different store location even though he has finals this week as a favor and then the guy just started being an ass by leaving early leaving his sick Assistant Manager there and then when he got a text saying 250 items were missing he called Curtis and told him he was going to come over there with the cops to look at the video (which I personally took as a threat to Curtis). Come to find out the 250 peices were missing from another store entirely. Ugh! What a guy... so glad Curtis is not going to end up working for him. Plus we would have ended up moving up to the New Port Richey and while the rent is much cheaper up there, there is NOTHING to do up there.

Hopefully another position will open up soon for him and they will pick him for it. God only knows the man has worked hard and long enough to deserve it.

No Job/Wedding/Graduation/Flowers

Well it looks like I probably didn't get the behavioral tech job. It is now Wednesday and I sent them an email last night asking if the position is still open. I haven't heard anything back but I am guessing they decided to go with another candidate. I'm not too upset but just a little sad I didn't get the chance to work there. This at least means though that my weekends will still be somewhat free and I can sometime in the near future take a little vacation with Curtis. We are hoping to go to Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral area to see the Kennedy Space Center. I have been saving up and I want to get a hotel on the beach even if it is not an ocean view. The problem there comes in that it is so expensive. I want to try and keep the cost of the hotel to be around 60 bucks and with it being this time of the year that is going to be difficult.

Tomorrow night my best friend flies in from Boston then she, myself, her mom and two brothers who are staying at my place for the night are all going to drive to Tallahassee for her graduation. She is getting her masters in Child Psychology. I can't wait to see her. Its been almost a year I think since the last time I saw her and this will also be the first time she meets Curtis. Granted it will be a short meeting because all of us have to get some rest before the drive. I also hope our room mate will just go to bed and not wonder in and out of the house and keep them awake since they will be sleeping on the couch.

I keep thinking about moving the wedding day up to August 8th which is a Monday but I don't know if we are going to have enough money saved up by then to actually have a nice wedding. The little Hungarian church is a good idea but I don't know if there would be enough room for everyone to dance and eat etc. They also said they would cater but I would prefer a sit down dinner for the wedding. Another girl from the restuarant may also be going on vacation that same weekend on top of everything else so that may not work out either. I guess part of me is just sick of waiting. But once I start adding everything up in my head as far as dress tux cake food etc. I have to admit to myself that its just not enough money yet. Curtis mentioned doing a pot-luck dinner thing but that just seems so cheap and cheesy to me.

As you can tell from the pictures above my little garden is growing big time. The radish are growing the fastest (the one in the first and second picture) and the squash I planted with the radish are really starting to grow (they are the two plants that are taller and have thicker stems then the radish). My flowers in the little blue pots are growing pretty quickly too but not as fast as some of the other items.

I am getting so into this planting thing that I actually bought more planters, the last picture the light blue one in the corner is going to be the biggest challenge seeing as they are cherry tomato plants and from what I have heard they are some of the hardest things to grow.

The red pot (which yes is actually one kids use to make sand castles) has carrot seeds and I have two other big plastic bowls (again not really meant for planting things but work just as well and are only $1 at walmart) one is growing poppy flowers (which I love but apparently take 180-300 days to grow) and the other has snap dragons which I have always loved since I was a kid in Hungary.

Hopefully everything will bloom, and bloom before we move so it will be easier to move the potted plants. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and a green thumb up in the air.

Its already 3pm!

Its already 3 PM and still no word at all via email or otherwise whether or not I got the job. My gut is telling me I didn't get it and while I can understand that I tried my hardest and there is someone else out there better for the position I can't help but feel disappointed and wonder if I am ever going to get a chance to work in the field I studied for.

My best friend is graduating with her Masters this weekend in child psychology she is living out of Florida and I am freaking stuck here as a receptionist. I want a do over! But only if I can keep Curtis too. I guess no one can have it all, well not unless you have the funds to have it all or your parents do and they like to share these funds.

I think next earth day I am planting a money tree.

tick tock tick tock come on people let me know if I have to job or not!

Today is Monday

Today is Monday. What does that mean besides another lovely week of work? It means that today I am should be getting an email or a phone call letting me know whether or not I got the Behavioral Tech job. I say should because if they did a lot of interviews, and I didn't get the job, they may not get in contact with me at all. It also means I am glancing at my phone every 10 seconds to see if I have any new emails. Every time I think I see the little green light that lets me know I have an email I pick up my phone and unlock it just to make sure my phone isn't messing up on today of all days. Has my phone ever messed up and randomly had the green light go off when there were really no new emails? No... but hey this could be the day right so I better keep an extra eye on it.

I already, in the course of writing this out, have probably looked at my phone over a dozen times.

The weekend was pretty uneventful really. Neither of us really get into celebrating Easter but I did manage to grab a couple of plastic eggs from work and draw a little bunny and chick on them and hide it around the house on Saturday. I made Curtis go look for them after he slept in till 11 (which he needed) and we played the hot and cold game. *just unlocked my phone again to see if I have anything new* I just put a couple of little chocolates in the eggs nothing big but I think it was fun.

I spent a ridiculous amount of money on going out last weekend so this weekend we pretty much stayed in. We did end up going to Ocean Blue but only had a couple of things of their half off menu so the final tab wasn't too bad.

I called my mom on Easter only to find out that she is in Arizona visiting with a friend of the family (who I can't stand because she and my mom would get together and discuss me being fat and "suggest" ways for me to lose weight). Well I found out she went with George (who is also another friend of the family and kind of like my dad) *just saw the green light lit up on my phone, it was junk mail* I know they didn't mean to but I kind of felt left out. She had to get off the phone quickly because they were playing a game and it sort of just felt like I wasn't a part of being invited and I was just bothering them by calling. Now I know I am dwelling in that a little too much and I should just take it with a grain of salt but it would have been nice if someone at least asked me if I wanted to go. oh well.

I also received a phone call from my grandmother in Hungary (this is a very rare occurrence) and she said she finally got a computer so she wanted to know what my email address was. In the mean time I told her there was going to be a wedding soon. And both she and my grandfather congratulated me and she said she wished she could be there. She also threw in a "its about time you're 26!" which really just made me laugh because thats just the mentality of that generation over there. In their eyes I should have been married and had babies by now.

Speaking of babies, seeing as I will not be having any for a while I started a small garden out on our patio. I am VERY suprised at how well its going.

This picture was taken I believe Friday and they have doubled in size since then. They are radish plants. The sushi restuarant actually uses the green part of the plant in one of their roles. I did pluck one cleaned it off and ate the stem (not the leaves) and it had the lightest little radish flavor, it was pretty neat. I am also growing some flowers in blue planters (aka plastic bowls) and there are a couple of squash seeds in the picture above that are just barely starting to sprout.

This is the first time I have every really planted anything and I think it is so neat to see these little guys grow. I want to maybe have a little cherry tomato plant growing soon but I know those are pretty hard to grow so we'll see. I got all the supplies at the dollar store of all places too! I don't mean a dollar general I am talking dollar tree where everything is a dollar. That includes the dirt I am using because god only knows the only kind of dirt I am getting outside in Florida is sand.

I will try and update the photos of the plants from time to time and see if i can convince Curtis to make some more sushi using the little radish plants.

Interview is Over Now We Sit and Wait

So the interview is now over, as of this morning. Now all I can do is sit and wait by the phone. The overall interview went well I think I said all the right things smiled at the right times and I do think I would fit in well there. The lady said she has some more interviewees lined up and she has to do a background check so as long as they don't find anyone better for the position I think I have a good chance. The only thing I am really worried about is them calling my current job and my current job finding out I am looking at a job that will require me to be up for 24 hours. I just hope they will understand and realize I want to be with their company too. The only thing I really answered no to for them was being able to work during the day short notice.

The position itself seems like its going to be somewhat challenging even though they said the quietest time is at night. I will be there at night all by myself but the other women will be on call 24 hours. I have a strong feeling that if I do get the job the people there will try and pull a fast one on me especially as the new girl but I am SOOOO ready for that challenge.

I SUPER hope I get this job!