My day:
I woke up at 6:50 AM, 10 minutes before my alarm was to go off, and went back to sleep shortly after. I hit the alarm for 45 minutes or more and finally woke up for good around 8:30 or after... to see a spider on my floor with what appeared to be an egg sac attached. I chased it out the door of the apartment with a flap from a cardboard box and got into the shower like 10 minutes before I was supposed to leave for work. I got there 20 minutes late, which is OK and not OK both because I'm in charge most Saturdays.
In the morning Duncan (think Rupert from Survivor but with glasses and former college prof.) drew a picture of what he would rather be doing, which was sailing. I told him to draw a picture of a girl in a bed watching TV b/c that's what I'd rather be doing. Here's what we came up with together: I'm in bed with my hair down and a big bow in it. I have a remote in one hand and a bag of chips next to me. There is a laaarge ice cream float on the floor with a straw and a spoon, and there are no spiders in the room to crawl in my float. Also, today is a special day where you can eat whatever you want and not gain weight. They are showing a marathon of never before seen Big Brother -Hunktown (Hunktown was Duncan's idea) episodes. Outside of my window is the sun and birds and a boy throwing rocks at my window, but I'm telling him that I can't come out because Big Brother is on. Ahhhh.... the perfect day. :)
After work in the real world I went to church to get the laptop and then came back to the apartment. I went to the fitness room thing and ran 1 and 1/4 miles at 4.5 mph without stopping! In all, I ran and walked for about 40-45 minutes counting the time it took me to walk there and walk back.
Well, now that you're completely bored, you know about my day and my perfect day. :)

This is the beginning of the July 4th Parade in DC.

These are pictures from behind my apartment building. I took a little walk one Sunday a while back.

Actually, Adam, I think that the boy's bathroom was only Mr. Feeny's office for the episode in season 2 in which Shawn change Mr. Feeny's name to "Mr. Weeny" in the school newspaper. I think this is also the episode in which Eric falls in love with a "Georgia Peach" from Atlanta whose name is something like Desiree Emmaline Hollinger Beaumont. This is also the episode from which comes one of my favorite BMW quotes. Morgan is looking at the newspaper in the family kitchen and says: "Weeeeny! It says Weeeny! I can read!"

I'm not sure how to put this in an area just for links, but this is my friend Adam's blog: http://blog.cubecreativedesign.com/ he's the coolest. He was my "anti-date" to my senior prom, and now he has his own business. Wow, I'm old. :) He is also the proud winner of 70 cool points. However, I was not reminded of "cool points" by watching Friends. Rather we had the board game when I was younger. 20 Cool points to anyone who can tell me Eric's new name when he presents his manifesto. Gee, the quote Adam found makes my blog sound so much more intelligent! You too sound smart, Adam. :) I'm sure there were all kinds of commas that should have been in that sentence.

Who would have thought the day would come when 70-some degrees would seem "cool" to me?
20 Cool Points to anyone who can tell me which show is quoted on the top of my blog. 50 Cool Points to anyone who can tell me which board game uses Cool Points.

I'm at church, but I best be going... a storm's coming, and the wind's a blowin', and I'm in a trailer!

Another picture from the 4th of July... me and Chelsea from where we watched the concert.

A picture from awhile back... What's a girl to do with bread that was best if sold by yesterday and milk that (I think) was best if sold by today?

So excited and slightly stressed out to have discovered that game show network is showing reruns of The Amazing Race and OLN is showing reruns of Survivor. Like 5 days a week.
I went last night to Screen on the Green on the Capital Mall (or is it Capitol Mall?). We saw Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It was funny watching it with so many people close to my age. They were laughing at parts that were funny now but weren't supposed to be funny, and they applauded when the old guy saved the little boy. They also applauded at the line "We don't need any stinkin' badges." I met Brad there and met 4 girls for the first time. I rode the metro for the first time by myself! Yeah for grown-up me.
I have work I should do tonight.. I'll probably just watch The Amazing Race. :) I must go. Reality TV is calling.

So, I actually had a social life this weekend! On Friday night, Megan & Mike (brother and sister) and Brad came over for my first game night since moving here! We ordered pizza and played Loaded Questions and Catch Phrase. A couple of Mike's friends also stopped by. Funny story... today at church Denise was teaching the kids a game. She was telling the kids that they would each get a straw. One of our male volunteers said over-excitedly and sarcastically "you get a straw!" Like it was a special prize in the bottom of the cereal box or something. Well, I thought it was funny.
I also went with Melanie and her sister Marsella to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night. It was good. Especially since I'm familiar with the old one and could compare. The Oompa Loompa songs were pretty good.
I've been looking at children's Christmas musicals today and now I need to go get my steps in (it's a diet that I'm on and not doing so hot with this time around) and look into any teaching positions I might be able to find. If you're from this area and hear of anything, please let me know! I'm not certified, but have a bachelor's of music degree in church music and a minor in psychology. I'd be happy with a teacher's aide position or a private school position, or even a substituting position if I could count on having work and benefits.

The first of pictures from the Fourth of July.