Sick of Bad Dates!

Look Familiar Anyone?

I've started to give my bad dates nicknames...

Like the guy who thought America deserved to fall apart and wanted to pack up all his stuff and move to Russia (the Russian)

The Boy Scout: He turned out to have a live in girlfriend

The Cat Man: Owns two cats and can't hold a conversation to save his life

The New Yorker: Moved down here from NY and promptly latched on after one date...I can't handle the cling fest!

The Accountant: OOO He got so drunk on our first date I wasn't sure he should be driving home!

And many more...



I don't really ask for much, just an attractive, tall, man who's got a good head on his shoulders and is going somewhere with his life who I share some values and interests with. Is that too much to ask?

I think not! My Prince is out there somewhere....

In the meantime I've got some very interesting stories to tell about all the frogs!

Mission Trip?

Well I was super bummed at the beginning of last week because I had this great opportunity to go to Estonia for a mission trip but I needed 7 Vacation days and only had 6...the good news,

This opened me up to be able to go to Spain on a mission trip! I'm super pumped we had our first informational meeting last night and I cannot wait to get started! Expect some fund raising letters in the mail soon!

On a side note,

We played Bocce Ball after the meeting was over last night and I must say Michael Frank and I make a pretty darn good team...We won 10-9...

Don't know what Bocce Ball is? You must learn now! as David said last night, "It's the lazy man's golf"

Wikipedia's Bocce Ball Instructions...trust me it's far more fun that it sounds here!

Bocce is traditionally played on an oyster shell court, but has also been played on decomposed granite, soil, or asphalt courts approximately 20 to 27 metres in length and 2.5 to 4 metres wide, sometimes with wooden boards of approximately 15 centimetres in height surrounding the court. Bocce balls can be made of metal^[6], wood, or various kinds of plastic. Unlike lawn bowls, bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias.

Red scores 2 points

A game can be contested between two players, or two teams of two, three, or four. A court match is started by a randomly chosen side being given the opportunity to throw a smaller ball, the jack (called a pallino, a pill, a bolus, or a boccino in some areas), from one end of the court into a zone about 5 metres in length, ending 2 metres from the far end of the court. If they miss twice, the other team is awarded the opportunity to place the jack anywhere they choose within the prescribed zone. At this time the team that attempted to put the jack into play first gets to roll the first ball.

The side that places the jack is given the opportunity to bowl first. Once the first bowl has taken place, the other side has the opportunity to bowl. From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls. At that point, the other side bowls its remaining bocce balls. The team with the closest bocce ball to the jack is the only team that can score points in any frame. The scoring team receives one point for each of their balls that is closer to the jack than the closest ball of the other team. The length of a game varies by region, but is typically played to 11, 12, or 13 points.

Players are permitted to throw the ball in the air using an underarm action. This is generally used to knock either the jack or another ball away to attain a more favourable position. Tactics can get quite complex when players have sufficient control over the bocce ball to throw or roll it accurately.

Today, today today, t-o-d-a-y...I am bored. What do you do when you're bored? I research stuff no one cares about on the internet, or eat, or re-organize something I've already organized 10 times, or I find a new excuse to throw a party or have a get-together...basically anything that's off the task of what I should be doing.

For example, if I'm bored at home maybe I should go out and exercise, or clean my room, or go through the PILES of magazines I have, or firgure out where the heck I'm going to live in 4 months.

If I'm at work I should take it upon myself to find new projects to do or get all the odds and ends no one ever thinks about done, or something other than blog and play around on facebook.

Usually I can do this. Yet I must admit, ever since Jaw Surgery I've had NO motivation to do anything. I'm better now and should be kicking my tail into the gym, but instead I'd prefer to...I don't know, anything but! I know that once I start going back to the gym all of this will change, I'll have more energy, I'll feel better about myself, I'll have my drive back...

So my question for you is, what do you do to MAKE yourself work out, even when you think you don't have anytime?

...That is all

Two Things...

1) Effing MARTA sucks at life sometimes, there's just so much frustration when you leave your house on time, get to the train on time, and get on the train just for it to stop moving a little while later. Usually I'm all for MARTA, I love riding to work in the morning, I get so much done and it's so much faster! However, when it makes me late to work I get very frustrated, there's nothing you can do at that point, you aren't at your car, you can't just hop off and go a different way...and the Chairman doesn't know you're late because of MARTA, he just knows you're late. (PS I do know MARTA can't actually suck at life since it's not a living breathing thing)

2) I absolutely love my new morning drink! I've been drinking these XS drinks, they're 8 Calories, and they taste REALLY good, plus they're energy drinks. But the energy comes from Vitamin B instead of Sugar so you don't crash and burn later...Delicious Root Beer today, and it really tastes like root beer!!!!

Well maybe three things...

3) I've decided recently that I'm determined to like Sushi, and Coffee. I like latte's but I'm becoming determined to like the real stuff. And as far a sushi goes as soon as I can open my mouth wide enough I'm going to need to inundate myself in sushi until I find something I like...who's eating with me? It's very much the whole cook every type of egg until you figure out which one you like, only with sushi instead.