new favorite toy.

i discovered my new favorite toy yesterday. i actually received it as a christmas present in 2009, but i broke my hip shortly after that and never got to use it. until now.

i got a garmin watch. and i finally figured out how to use it and am in love. it tracks my pace, distance, time. when i'm done, it syncs with my computer and shows a graph. i am so freakin' fascinated. i can't believe i didn't discover this sooner!!

my big fat lemon.

last night kaka took me to a dive bar i had never been to. we ordered beer, and i saw a delicious shot called "fruity pebbles", so i had to try it, obviously. it was delicious but didn't taste like fruity pebbles at all! the point of my story is that the lemon on my boulevard wheat was the fattest lemon slice i've seen in my life.

is this acceptable at work?

• is it okay to sit barefoot in my office? i don't want to walk around or anything, but i'd like to take off my shoes while i sit at my desk.
• is it socially acceptable to eat cupcake frosting from the container? we had cupcakes for june birthdays - we provided unfrosted cupcakes and containers of frosting so people could frost their own cupcakes. all of the cupcakes have been eaten, but there are a few containers of frosting left over... i'd like to eat the frosting.
• is it okay to wear open-toe stilletos with your nursing scrubs? does it fit within the dress code? or does it just look awful?

rollerblade golf.

last night my cousin caleb and i went rollerblading - maybe eight miles. it was great. i probably hadn't rollerbladed in at least two years. my blades literally had cobwebs on them and leaves inside them. after i put them on, i told my cousin, "there are probably spiders in here" - and i wasn't joking.

after rollerblading, we went to the driving range. i had previously been to a driving range twice in my life. and one of the times, there were cows on the green, so i don't know if that counts.

i warned caleb that i'm not very good. he asked if i can at least hit the ball. i miss it probably 20% of the time? last night i did hit the ball most of the time - probably 90% of the time. and 10% of that, i hit the ball straight up in the air. thankfully we were upstairs - otherwise i might have hit the people above us if we were on the ground floor.

angelina's interior.

sitting on the porch swing thats not on a porch.

my cousin hannah and I took a little road trip down to the lake on Friday. neither of us can drive a boat, so we've been pretty landlocked. that's okay. we've entertained ourselves pretty well. interestingly, that was my aunt's concern: "you don't plan to take the boat out, do you?"

well, considering i have driven a boat um.... ZERO times. taking out the boat had never even crossed my mind. i asked hannah if she had ever driven the boat, and she has almost the same experience i do.

friday night we stopped at the grocery store. then we pretty much got in bed and read. i slept 12 hours that night - from 10 p.m. until 10 a.m. i haven't slept past 8 a.m. since... i have no idea when. i'm an early bird.

yesterday we laid out on the dock and got in the water. we went to the outlet mall for a few hours. we came home and made tacos and brownies. yum. today, we will hopefully get a little sun before we head back to the city!

because i like to be morbid sometimes.

the cemetery where my mom is buried is one of my favorite places to go. honestly. its so peaceful and serene. i love taking pictures of all the headstones. there are so many old headstones - some from the 1800s. there is a row of headstones of priests. the picture above is of my favorite epitaph on one of the headstones.

p.s. they really need to mow.

i love donuts.

i love long john donuts. correction: i love to eat the chocolate icing off the top of the donut. i don't really care for the donut part. yuck. so if you want the rest of it, let me know. its still here for a few minutes.

34 mph?

on my lunch break, i just drove to quiktrip - my favorite place in the whole wide world. ever. i saw a speed limit sign that read, "speed limit 34". what? i thought it was a simple mistake until i saw another one about a quarter mile past it. "speed limit 34" ???? really?

i shared my observation with a friend who said he had heard about it on the news. he said their claim was that it would encourage people to drive more slowly? what the hell?

my new hobby.

i have a new favorite hobby: talking on the phone. yes, i talk a lot. yes, i realize talking on the phone is nothing new. however, for the past few years, texting and emailing have been my preferred methods of communication. or in-person conversation.

my new car has bluetooth capabilites with my cell phone and voice recognition. i don't know if i'm using those terms correctly. and i'm not even sure how i figured out how to set it up. except i got out the instruction manual that came with the car, and i read it word for word. all i know is that i can press a button and then say "call" and then tell my car who to call. and it will call the person. and i just hold onto the steering wheel and talk. and their voice comes over some magical speakers in my car. i haven't figured out where the microphone is yet, but i'm sure they hid it well.

so, i called my dad to test this out. he asked, "so did you need something?" no. i just wanted to test out this new phone call thing.