It's been FOREVER!

I  apologize for the absence of my blog updates for like the past two weeks!  I have been on vacation and it was pretty much a blast! I had the BEST two weeks....so really, sorry but I'm not sorry!  So I spent the last two weeks in CT, NYC, and York Beach with my sisters, my parents, the boy, and others!  The weather was absolutely perfect and as always we stayed at the beach too long, drank too much, and sang too loudly....but no one was complaining.  And of course we are going to do it all again next year!  

More stories later, I have to go watch the movie Twilight...I just finished the book and fell in love....and I shamelessly admit to being a "Twilighter" 

xoxo,

K

Blogs I love.

Okay, anyone who does not follow these blogs. You are going to start.

City Intern Girl LIfe

Preppy in Vermont

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I will be back to post more later on. I have 4 more hours to kill until sister #1 comes back from class....

xoxo,
K

Harry Potter

Please do not hate me for what I am about to write....I have never actually read any of the Harry Potter books.  Ahhhhh!  I know, I know I am probably the only English speaking citizen left who has not!  And I have only seen the first movie.  BUT!  I have made it my summer resolution to read the Potter series from start to finish and I am starting tonight!  This idea was prompted when the book I was currently reading got left out in the rain, because I left it out there....and has since started growing mold, therefore I am unable to continue reading it...oops.  It's alright though, it wasn't that good....it also wasn't mine!  Ehh, what are ya gonna do?  

I am also going to start reading the Twilight series (when I finish the Harry Potter series of course) because I am curious about all the fuss surrounding that one as well!  Wish me luck!

xoxo,

K

Tennis

One of my best friends from home, T, called me tonight to play tennis with him and his friends, they needed a fourth player for doubles since their original teammate (who happens to be my ex boyfriend...who I'm not that fond of anymore, at all) ditched them and never called to say he wasn't going to make it...shocking!  He never was one for common decency, hence the EX BF status.  So I show up to the court to find ALL THREE wearing red shorts and white tee-shirts...I thought, "hmmm...did they join some adult league and I missed the memo about the uniform?".  Turns out no.  They just COINCIDENTALLY wore matching outfits....hahahaha.  Too funny!  Whoever says only girls do stuff like that, never met my group of guy friends.  Anyway, as embarrassing as it was...it was fun to play doubles again!  I miss tennis!  Of course I say this now, come preseason in August I'll be blogging about how miserable my 6 hours of tennis a day are!!

xoxo,

K

First Night of Bartending

Soooo much fun!  It was my first night ever of bartending!  I mean don't get me wrong, I've poured a few mixed drinks in my day and certainly popped open a few bottles of beer...but straight up bar tended?  Not until tonight.  It was actually a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. Pretty much everything people ordered I've made for myself at one time or another so I caught on quickly.  The hardest part is memorizing all the names of the liquors we serve and where they are on the shelf, or which cooler a particular beer is in.  You definitely meet some interesting people, who (since most quickly become liquid courageous) will tell you more than you want to hear. I won't complain though because making more than 20 an hour in tips alone makes it a lot easier to sit through stories, I can tell you that.  $ 20 tip on a $5 tab isn't bad!  The guy who gave that to me reasoned because "I'd much rather look at you workin' than my buddy over there" (his buddy being the owner of the bar).  Well, I guess I can cross learning how to bar tend off of my list of things that I will find useful in the future.  ;)

xoxo,

K

Guilty Pleasure

Okay, so I officially decided that Chelsea Handler's talk show "Chelsea Lately" is my new guilty pleasure every night at 11.  She is freaking hilarious and I used to watch Girls Behaving Badly on Oxygen all the time and I loved her on that too!  If you've never watched Chelsea Lately, you don't know what you're missing.

xoxo,

K

Monday...

So my holiday weekend is officially over!  I go back to working tomorrow and sisters #1 and #2 went back to CT and so did the boy.  But it's okay because I am only a working girl for the next week and a half before it's vacation time again!  I'll be traveling down to CT next week and then all of us are off to vacation in Maine!  On a drunker note, here's the holiday weekend recap....

It was sister #2's birthday over the holiday and we had a happy hour in her honor!  Champagne, wine, and mixed drinks were served for the celebration.  Although it was not sister #1's birthday, she sure as hell celebrated enough for the whole family!  And got the first piece of birthday cake...which she cut with her own fork...while the candles were still burning...and while people were still singing.  Classy, no one could tell she had a bottle of wine to herself, and a handful of cocktails at the happy hour.  Definitely love her.  

We ended the night with some karaoke in honor of MJ...rocked out to some Billie Jean and Thriller.  We had to get up early for the "parade party" the next day that my parents host on our front lawn.  Things went smoothly for the most part...the boy, who is HARDLY a morning person was unimpressed with the start time, but he got over it...nothing a bagel w/cream cheese and a cold beer by noon won't fix right?  And sister #1, to everyone's surprise was awake before 9am and back at home...still drunk though, and still in her party dress from the night before.  Love it.  

On a more depressing note....I'm pretty sure I gained at least 3 lbs this weekend..although I cant be sure because I refuse to check!  

On  a more encouraging note....I get my stitches out tomorrow (the tests showed that the mole was just a mole but it was removed anyways) and can workout again!! 

That's all for now.  Hope everyone else had an equally eventful fourth!

xoxo,

K

Greys

Also...just thought this was blog worthy, if anyone out there is a Grey's Anatomy fan you will understand....sister #2 is currently sitting in a bar in Manhatten next to DENNY, yes!  That's right, the actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is having a drink a bar stool away from her!  I told her to chat him up and get the new season scoop...WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH IZZY AND GEORGE?! but she is not quite as outgoing as I am, if it were me, I'd have already sent a drink and an "I think you're so amazing and I love you as Denny in Grey's" glance his way!  

xoxo,

jealous K

Holiday Weekend!

So, in honor of the holiday weekend sisters # 1 and 2 and boyfriend of sister #2 AND boyfriend of this girl will all be traveling from CT to VT tomorrow evening.  Sister #3 and her boy live about 5 minutes away so they will also be here!!  Our family will be hosting not only one but TWO 4th of July parties because well, let's face it...after twenty years of partying together...it's safe to say we do it pretty damn well and we love any excuse to make themed martinis and wear party dresses.  I can guarantee it's going to be a a wild weekend.  Updates Tuesday.

Hope everyone else has a fantastic fourth!  

xoxo,

K