whats for dinner??

HOME MADE PAD THAI...

i got the recipe from Chez Pim. it was amazing. only mommy was not totally in love. she would have rather just had noodles and shrimp in peanut sauce.

first day jitters

This morning i got up early to go for a run with my dad, we refer to him lovingly as pa-thug or just thug. (this is all because my good friend Jess saw his aim name pathug### and was like who is pa thug. it stuck)

anyway he and i are going to be running the 1/2 marathon in Virginia Beach this coming march.

after i had this funny feeling in my stomach. At first i assumed it was just a post run thing. i did run faster with him. then i thought maybe it had to do with my diet.

i ignored it and went about my list of things to do today, then i realized what it was...

i have first day of school jitters.

i guess no mater how old you are some things never change. i just hope i can get a good night sleep before my 8am!

dissapointed

so after my big move and because the great state of NC keeps asking me to do jury duty i got a new Virginia license.

normally this is a hassle. surprisingly it was not horrid. AJH and i headed to the DMV located closest to the rental home. after hiding our water-bottles -no drinks or food allowed- we made our way to the front desk. this is where a kind woman checked to make sure we had all the proper documents. although i had checked the VA DMV site multiple times neither abby nor i had the appropriate documentation. Abby is not in possession of one crucial piece and i did not have my passport. we went home and i grabbed my passport. after waiting a mere 30 min my number was called.

this is where the fun began. my eyes where checked and i was passed once again without glasses or contacts. then it was time for the dreaded picture. i have had very good luck with sweet taking the people at the NC DMV into always allowing me to check my picture. no such luck. in addition to this VA just started enforcing that secure ID procedures from Ws days where you can not smile in government documentation. MLF says this is because no one smiles when the get pulled over... well i mainly use my ID to get into bars and i am ALWAYS smiling there so i decided to sneak a smile. CAUGHT! she made me do my picture again and told me not to smile or open my mouth. AHHHH. i quipped is this like a mug shot to which a gentleman in line behind me laughed. the DMV worker was not ammused and i was left with the picure below....



its not even in color... ugh... at least its only valid until 2016...

choco chip pancakes

k-dawg and i just had a delicious and nutritious dinner of chocolate chip pancakes and turkey sausage and grapes.

we went to the v. classy food lion where there is a security guard packing heat and green graps were on sale and those are the only type of grape k will eat so we added that to the menu.

i think this is totally acceptable because

1. the chocolate chips were organic (trader joes thank you!)
2. the sausage was turkey and jenny-o.
3. i made him eat grapes!

oh yeah and i forced him to have sierra mist because the 2-litter i opened last week was going flat.

i think i am a prety good babysitter.

reading list

so right now i am reading EMMA. if you have ever read Jane Austen you know that it can be hard to get through.

i was telling my good friend Jess about (she is very in to books and all things cultural) how i feel like i'm cheating on Jane because i keep devouring trashy summer novels and can't finish Emma.
this was the convo that ensued:

hi friends

i have been in hiding but i have BIG news...

1. i quit my dead end job

2. i got into grad school (the fact that i got accepted to the wrong program is moot)

this is GREAT news for all of you because now i will have so much time to blog.
-downside i am leaving chi town - i need a new twitter ID
but i am moving to Va and going to live by the BEACH!!

right now abby is here with me. i just love love love my little sis. we have not been having that great of a time because i was sick and now im going to work everyday. she flies home on tommorw.

MLF was also here over the weekend. it was our last visit before he starts L-school. EEEK. i am so proud of him. he will be enrolled in Univerisity of Cincinnati's law school. this will mean that we will be back in the same time zone but now a plane ride away.

this also brings me to my new Pet Peeve. why when you say that you are in a long distance relationship do people ask if its hard, say it has to be so hard, say they could never do it... on and on and on. -eh life could be worse.

i will post about alex maries trip soon!!!