So... Last year this time I was in the ER getting stitches from my rampage. Maybe drunken, maybe not. Fast forward one year and now I'm in the ER waiting on one of my friends to get out of the ER because she took a serious fall while intoxicated. Let it be known, if you go out drinking with me, I or you may end up in the ER.
UPDATE: There was a broken arm of a friend involved but she is doing much better.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
V-day
I'm out and about waiting on some stores to open so I can get Chef his gift. I decided to check out this blogging on the go thing in the mean time. I know it's last minute but if Chef knew a gift of his was in the house it would kill him not to know what it is. While he's at work cooking for all the lovebirds this morning I get to go out and buy his gift. I'll post a pic later but let me tell you, Chef has been begging for this one for a while.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Snow Mayhem
1. I live in the South
2. I used to live in the North
3. I know how to drive in 3 inches of snow and more.
4. Southern natives cancel life in the threat of snow.
My mom, who is a northern transplant by way of the deep south is getting over record breaking snow of 72+ inches. They were literally shut down due to the blizzard of 2010. Since global warming seems to be a clever scheme, my wonderful state of South Carolina has been experiencing record breaking low temps and snowfall.
It all began yesterday, light drizzle all morning and then the temperature began to slowly drop. All of a sudden, schools were closing and my school was dismissing all staff at 3pm. Luckily for me we have "Fermentation Fridays" in lab with good quality beer so I refused to go outside with all the crazies panicking for no reason. I waited it out and left lab at about 4:45.
I had a dinner date with Carter's mom and I refused to give that up over a threat of southern snowfall so Chef and I left our house at about 6. At this time it still wasn't snowing. It was what I like to call a wintry mix. Whatever, we didn't care. We hung out for a little bit and decided to head out for dinner. While at dinner, I noticed one of the bartenders take table salt and sprinkle it outside. REALLY? TABLE SALT? I'm not judging, do whatever you need to do to make you feel safe. By the time we left the restaurant there was some slush that had accumulated on the Catmobile. We went back to Carter's parent's house and we were there for maybe 2 hours and their power went out. SC is so not prepared for anything. We helped her light candles and decided to come home and check on our own animals. On the drive home, trees had fallen, transformers were blowing left and right and there was maybe 3 inches of slush on the ground. Lucky for Chef and me we got home at about 9:30 and they closed the bridge we crossed 10 min earlier because it was deemed "impassable". Um.. We didn't have any problems but then again I've done my fair share of snow driving in a way worse conditioned vehicle than my 2009 CR-V. About 5 minutes after we got home our transformer blew too but we were only without power for about 10 min. The pups were okay and by the way things looked outside, I promised the pups I would take them out to play this morning. This is Sincere's first snow but not Gigi's. Before we adopted Sincere, Gigi and I used to travel up north for my winter breaks. She loves the snow...to a certain extent.
This is our neighborhood. I never thought I would actually get to see my abode covered in snow. Kinda cute. Definitely don't want this shenanigan to continue though. The people down here created a clusterfuck on the roads. They get a pass this time, apparently the last time there was significant accumulation was in 1973. There's a new generation of crazies on the road. I'll go out when they go in.
Doggies in the snow. After about 45 minutes, Gigi was so over it. Check out the sweet coats my mom got the dogs for Christmas. Sincere really needs it, he's pretty sensitive to the cold. He really did love pouncing around in the snow. We had a great time.
2. I used to live in the North
3. I know how to drive in 3 inches of snow and more.
4. Southern natives cancel life in the threat of snow.
My mom, who is a northern transplant by way of the deep south is getting over record breaking snow of 72+ inches. They were literally shut down due to the blizzard of 2010. Since global warming seems to be a clever scheme, my wonderful state of South Carolina has been experiencing record breaking low temps and snowfall.
It all began yesterday, light drizzle all morning and then the temperature began to slowly drop. All of a sudden, schools were closing and my school was dismissing all staff at 3pm. Luckily for me we have "Fermentation Fridays" in lab with good quality beer so I refused to go outside with all the crazies panicking for no reason. I waited it out and left lab at about 4:45.
I had a dinner date with Carter's mom and I refused to give that up over a threat of southern snowfall so Chef and I left our house at about 6. At this time it still wasn't snowing. It was what I like to call a wintry mix. Whatever, we didn't care. We hung out for a little bit and decided to head out for dinner. While at dinner, I noticed one of the bartenders take table salt and sprinkle it outside. REALLY? TABLE SALT? I'm not judging, do whatever you need to do to make you feel safe. By the time we left the restaurant there was some slush that had accumulated on the Catmobile. We went back to Carter's parent's house and we were there for maybe 2 hours and their power went out. SC is so not prepared for anything. We helped her light candles and decided to come home and check on our own animals. On the drive home, trees had fallen, transformers were blowing left and right and there was maybe 3 inches of slush on the ground. Lucky for Chef and me we got home at about 9:30 and they closed the bridge we crossed 10 min earlier because it was deemed "impassable". Um.. We didn't have any problems but then again I've done my fair share of snow driving in a way worse conditioned vehicle than my 2009 CR-V. About 5 minutes after we got home our transformer blew too but we were only without power for about 10 min. The pups were okay and by the way things looked outside, I promised the pups I would take them out to play this morning. This is Sincere's first snow but not Gigi's. Before we adopted Sincere, Gigi and I used to travel up north for my winter breaks. She loves the snow...to a certain extent.
This is our neighborhood. I never thought I would actually get to see my abode covered in snow. Kinda cute. Definitely don't want this shenanigan to continue though. The people down here created a clusterfuck on the roads. They get a pass this time, apparently the last time there was significant accumulation was in 1973. There's a new generation of crazies on the road. I'll go out when they go in.
Doggies in the snow. After about 45 minutes, Gigi was so over it. Check out the sweet coats my mom got the dogs for Christmas. Sincere really needs it, he's pretty sensitive to the cold. He really did love pouncing around in the snow. We had a great time.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Hair Update
REALLY! This is my second post in one day. So shoot me. I wanted to let you know how my locks are coming along. I have a serious case of the itchies. I will be going to the store TODAY to get some ACV (apple cider vinegar) to combat this craziness. With the itchies come the scratchies and with the scratchies come the hair flakes. I'll pass on looking like its snowing around my hairline. NO THANKS. About 4 locks have completely unraveled but they are technically my sideburns. I do have one at the back of my head and another one around my hairline in the front. Let me say that I curled my hair using my cloth sponge rollers for the cocktail party and I still am very curly. They last about a week now and I only spritz my hair with water before I roll it up. Pictures to come. I know I keep promising them but I'm serious this time.
Better Late Than Never
I know I'm a little late with the post but the past week and a half has been ridiculous for me. Let me break it down and let you know what's been going on in my life lately. I usually try to post on the weekends but that seemed to be an impossible task this past weekend. On the 6th our Graduate Student Association threw our annual cocktail party for the students and pretty much for anyone else that wanted to come. I have come to find that a qualification of being in a PhD program is that you must be a functioning alcoholic or something. We rented a nice building in the heart of all the bars and action downtown and had an open bar catered event for three hours. We had our fair share of skeptics about how we were gonna pull this off but it ended up being quite spectacular. The best part is, once you're wasted, you don't have to go home. Walk that drunk off and go to a bar or my personal fav dance it off. I had a blast because Chef came out and had a good time too. Since he only likes one kind of beer, they reserved a six-pack for him.
While rebounding on what Chef has dubbed "Sunday Funday", it dawned on me that I had an exam on Thursday. "Sunday Funday" is when all of Chef's chefs (and I) get together to bond and have a good time. Usually involves food and beer and this time, it involved a Superbowl. I had not started studying and forgot I was in the class for a little bit. I started studying on Monday and realized that "Waffle Wednesday" was coming up. "Waffle Wednesday" is when Chef's chefs come over to our place for breakfast for dinner. The main star is Warrick the waffle maker. We eat waffles, bacon, sausage, eggs, and homefries of hashbrowns. Delicious. Puppy Carter usually comes over to keep Sincere occupied too. I'll take pictures next week so you guys can understand the seriousness that is Waffle Wednesday. Its all family style, you know, passing the big plate or bowl of food around. We're trying to get one of the other chefs to start Taco Tuesday or something like that. Any ideas for other days of the week are graciously accepted.
I took my exam at 8am this morning and feel relieved. I honestly don't care what I get but I'm just glad that it's over. I have dinner plans with Puppy Carter's mom tomorrow evening and our school's annual winetasting on the 26th of this month. I forgot to bring my camera to the cocktail party so I'm sad I don't have any shenanigans to show but there was a lot of shenanigans that went down that evening. We ended up with overnight house guests that went to brunch with us on Sunday Funday. I will make sure I bring my camera to the winetasting because that night usually conjures up the crazy in everyone. I ended up scoring tickets for Chef's friends so he won't feel too weird there. Tickets come at 2 per student so I had some extra students getting tickets for me.
Yes, I have been pretty busy the past couple of weeks and it's not really going to slow down soon. At least I have a three day weekend to catch up on some much needed sleep.
While rebounding on what Chef has dubbed "Sunday Funday", it dawned on me that I had an exam on Thursday. "Sunday Funday" is when all of Chef's chefs (and I) get together to bond and have a good time. Usually involves food and beer and this time, it involved a Superbowl. I had not started studying and forgot I was in the class for a little bit. I started studying on Monday and realized that "Waffle Wednesday" was coming up. "Waffle Wednesday" is when Chef's chefs come over to our place for breakfast for dinner. The main star is Warrick the waffle maker. We eat waffles, bacon, sausage, eggs, and homefries of hashbrowns. Delicious. Puppy Carter usually comes over to keep Sincere occupied too. I'll take pictures next week so you guys can understand the seriousness that is Waffle Wednesday. Its all family style, you know, passing the big plate or bowl of food around. We're trying to get one of the other chefs to start Taco Tuesday or something like that. Any ideas for other days of the week are graciously accepted.
I took my exam at 8am this morning and feel relieved. I honestly don't care what I get but I'm just glad that it's over. I have dinner plans with Puppy Carter's mom tomorrow evening and our school's annual winetasting on the 26th of this month. I forgot to bring my camera to the cocktail party so I'm sad I don't have any shenanigans to show but there was a lot of shenanigans that went down that evening. We ended up with overnight house guests that went to brunch with us on Sunday Funday. I will make sure I bring my camera to the winetasting because that night usually conjures up the crazy in everyone. I ended up scoring tickets for Chef's friends so he won't feel too weird there. Tickets come at 2 per student so I had some extra students getting tickets for me.
Yes, I have been pretty busy the past couple of weeks and it's not really going to slow down soon. At least I have a three day weekend to catch up on some much needed sleep.
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