Something cool and something "adult"

Two quick things that happened tonight that I promise I'll go into more detail about"

1.  I just "won" a trip to  FL.  I say "won" because it's one of those things where you have to listen to a 90 minute time share thing.  Uhhhhh...I'll take it!  I can't afford a time share, so there is no concern of me being tempted to actually buy one.  So I'll give you 90 minutes of my time so I can go the Harry Potter Theme Park or maybe Disney.  

2.  I just registered for a two day play therapy conference.  Professional development here I come.  

woo hoo??

Could I possibly be so lucky to have my vacation from work and spring break fall on the same week? If you define "lucky" as still having internship, then, yes I am that lucky.  

 

Now my site, which I hate a little less everyday, is awesome and would have let me not come in. However, taking a week off would just mean I would have to make up the hours.  Later this semester.  Probably in the summer.  That's not something I really want to do.  So I offered to dog sit for my bosses while they are gone.  Which is easy peesy and they usually pay me.  

They have a crazy amount of channels, but you know what I ended up watching last night?  Tangled.  Again.  

I know how to live large!

February Resolution

February - no alcohol

Ok, so February is over and I did a good job with that resolution.  I truly don't drink all that much anyways but I do enjoy some yummy flavored vodka or Bailey's in my hot cocoa on cold nights.  I also like to have dinner and drinks with friends.  The only day that I did drink was Winter Brewfest.  But that was a conscience decision since I made plans to go to that before I thought of doing the monthly resolutions. Partner was actually the one that asked how I was planning on going to the Brewfest if I wasn't drinking that month.  

March - no buying coffee out

I'm going to change my March resolution from "No fast food" to "No buying coffee out."  The grocery store closest to my house closed last week in order to move to the new and awesomely improved, bigger and better store that they've been building.  It won't re-open until May. And because I'm so busy, I sometimes don't have food in my house.  So I would like the option of running into the store to grab some food.   

So what I mean when I say "no buying coffee out" I mean that just because I drive by a Dunkin Donuts (my preferred coffee) doesn't mean I have to get a coffee.  What usually happens is that I go to work and make a cup of tea.  Then I bring Master to school and I pass a DD.  So after I drop him off, I'll go grab a coffee.  I don't need that cup of coffee, I've already had my caffeine for the morning.  

I'm not counting weekend mornings when I go to the cafe to do school work and I get breakfast/coffee. I'm also not counting if I meet anyone for coffee.  I am including all coffee places (Starbucks and Tim Horton's). Not that I usually get coffee from there, but I don't want to have any loop holes.  

I think this will be a though month, because I love DD coffee.  

Where's your scar?

So I am watching The Woman in Black. Now mind you, I'm only like 10 minutes in, but I can't get past "Harry Potter" playing non-Harry Potter.

January Resolution

OK, so I'm trying out a resolution a month instead of one for the year.  So far so good.

January - Eat breakfast everyday 

I love breakfast.  I truly believe it's the most important meal of the day.  So I normally try to eat it everyday.  Because I have a job where I can eat there, I do.  But what I found was happening is that I would get to work and immediately start working.  All of sudden it would be 10:30 and I would be starving.  Then I would realize that I never ate my breakfast.  So I started making sure I ate/made my food almost as soon as I got to work.  I also tried to make sure I took my vitamins with my breakfast, although that didn't happen every day.  I ate my breakfast first thing almost every morning.  Now it's starting to be a habit; which, in all honesty, that is what I hoped would happen.  Weekends not so much; I usually wake up later and putz around the house drinking coffee.  

Over all, January was a success

February - no alcohol

This month I would like to try to now drink alcohol.  And as I write this I realize I'm probably gong to sound like a have a problem.  Which, BTW, I don't.  Superbowl?  no beer.  Yay me!  Dinner tonight with the girls? I guarantee Suska acts shocked that I'm not going to drink and will convince me to have something.  I would almost bet you money on this.  My friend Brandy saw me at Superbowl and knows I'm not drinking this month, she won't say anything.  

Next weekend is a craft brew fest.  I'm willing to break my resolution because I've been looking forward to this.  But it's a conscience choice and I'm OK with it.  

Letter from the future?

For my one of my classes we have to pretend it's 2023 and write a letter to a friend that we have been out of touch with since 2013 and catch them up on our life.  

By no means a hard assignment but it kinda is. 

What do I want to have done in the next tens years? 

I dreamed a dream

Ok, before I go on and talk about how obsessed I've become, I need to say that I had never seen a production of Les Miserables before.  I'm seeing it in May on stage.  But I really wanted to see the movie too.  And since patience is not a virtue I have, I didn't want to wait until after I saw it on stage. I also didn't know if I should see it first on stage or in the movies.  First world problems, I tell ya!

One of my friends had seen both the play (several times) and the movie.  She said to see the movie.  So I did.  

Holy cow!  How have I never seen Les Miz before??!!

I instantly became obsessed!  

Here's my basic knowledge of Les Miz pre movie watching: 

 I  roughly "knew" the story of Les Miz, so there were no major surprises for me.  Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing.
I've loved the song "On My Own" since Joey Potter sang it at the beauty pageant.
I've heard most of the famous songs since I listen to a lot of Broadway music on Pandora (I refuse to call them show tunes).  

I really, really like the movie.

Remember, I've never seen the stage production.  

I know everyone is hating on Russell Crowe and his singing skills.  I do agree that his voice was not necessarily the strongest and he may not have been the best choice in that sense.  However, I do feel as though his persona was spot on.  I believed that he would spend his life hunting Jean Valjean.  

But remember I have nothing to compare it to.  

My biggest concern/issue was Amanda Seyfried.  I felt that she didn't really commit to the singing. Yeah, she can sing, but I just think there may have been a better choice. Maybe I just don't like the character of Cosette,  Maybe whenever I see Amanda all I can think about is Karen from Mean Girls.  

Remember, this is the only version I've seen.

So basically I'm now obsessed with Les Miz and have been listening to the music on my newly created Les Miz Pandora station.