"Let's go Outback tonight..."

Sometimes I check my email and have messages from Outback Steakhouse about new deals and menu items, personally addressed to me. What can I say? We're really close friends.

Speaking of friends, I have a friend I went to high school with that is living the life I want to live. He's living where I want to live, in the kind of place I want to live in, with the kind of people I want to live with, working the kind of jobs I want to work, doing the kinds of things I want to be doing, and I find myself wondering when my life changed into one where I was jealous of what someone else was doing. That's been me. Living where I want, when I want....what in the world happened? Anyway, I was looking at something he'd written and it could be me writing this:

"I am bad when I go to the ice cream shop. Being there, seeing all the different flavors to choose from, makes it really hard for me. Because I know no matter what decision I make I will always wish that I had chose a different flavor. Not because the flavor I got isn't good, but because I made the choice, and now I cant have that other ice cream and I am stuck with the choice I made. With all those other choices right there for me to look at. So what do I do? I spend hours just sampling every flavor in the ice cream shop. Those small little bites that are suppose to just tease you into choosing a flavor are all I need. After Ive had enough of those small bites I can leave. I can leave and I can go to the grocery store. I can walk to the ice cream section and I can buy a gallon of the ice cream I always buy. Nothing fancy. No rainbow colors or chocolate chips. no bubble gum pieces or rock hard mints. I'll take my plain ice cream home with me and I'll stay outta that ice cream shop until the gallon is gone."

I find this incredibly relate-able. On that note, I'm going to go scheme about what I want to be doing with my life next.

"remember remember the fifth of november..."

I wish that I had something more exciting to post than just a picture, but as it is, I've got nothin'. Oh well, sometimes pictures are better than my ramblings anyway, I suppose. Picture of the day:

curtis and melinda
me and jason

awww. Yeah, I have no idea when this was or what beach it was at. But aren't we cute?

"one of these things is not like the others..."

Today's picture is brought to you by my cute little niece Carly...

I cannot even tell you how cute this little girl has been since the day she was born.

"Paper bags and plastic hearts. All our belongings in shopping carts..."

Today's pictures are made possible by Smiths grocery store employees. (no offense to your place of employment, Justin) This picture was captured at the store closest to my parent's house:

For all your spobnging needs.

This next picture was taken at the Smiths down the block from my house:

Yes! "bargin" bonanza!

"This ain't believable... This ain't predictable"

Nothing super eventful has happened so far today, other than listening to lots and lots of Raditude...which speaks its amazingness for itself. so I suppose it's time for picture of the day. Let's see what is is....

Yay! Look at my amazing Ursula shirt! So last year I was working in NYC, and I got to see The Little Mermaid on Broadway, which was amazing because Ariel is my idol and we even got to meet her afterwards:

I know...don't mind my half-crazed look. It was a very exciting night for me. :)

NaBloPoMo....What?!

It's officially National Blog Posting month! You try and blog every day for the month of November. A few of my friends did it last year and I totally missed out, but it's here again! To make things easier I might just go with a picture of the day when I don't have things to blog. And when I can't decide on a picture I'll choose the 11th picture (for November) out of each of my photo folders and blog that one. I have about a million folders of pictures, so that should be easy enough. Happy Blogging everyone! Picture of the day:

Ha ha. Jason, Melinda, and I went on like a three week camping/hiking trip after Curtis and Savannah got married. We went so many cool places, and on this part of the trip we went in this little "Grand Canyon airlines" plane over the Grand Canyon to a river, and then took us rafting. It was awesome.