Saturday, July 18, 2009

Day 65 - Drive Home

This morning I woke up automatically at 8:00. No way Jose. I went back to sleep and woke up a bit before noon. Before even getting out of bed I watched Night at the Roxbury. You really cant go wrong by starting your day off with some Haddaway. I finished packing up and left.

The second I got onto 95, my Sunpass fell off my windshield and scared me half to death. It has never fallen off before, and I feel like it knew I was leaving and would no longer have any use for it. "Alright that's it! I'm out!"

I had an uneventful drive up, which is good. I got home and had dinner and that was that.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Day 64 - Last Day of Work

Today was my last day of work. Finally. I have loved working here, and I am actually sad to leave. Although I am ready to get home and have a life again. We went out to lunch today with Denise, Carrie, Shelley, Julia, and Jessica. They gave me gifts and it was really sweet. I bought Denise a baby gift earlier in the week and I gave that to her today as I was leaving. Apparently it was her first baby gift and she cried. Then she cried again when she walked me out. My newsletter is being printed now and they are going to send me copied when it is all done.

I came home tonight, and finished packing. Tomorrow I am going to wake up whenever then drive north. No rush. Time to relax.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Day 63 - Week Six, Thursday

This morning was a nightmare. Even though I got to sleep in, it was still not too great. I went to Delray to work today instead of Good Sam, and that is a half hour shorter drive than going to Good Sam. I got there ad as usual the little old ladies at the front desk wouldnt let me in. I have my Tenet badge and everything, but they wont let me pass. I always I have to stand there for about 10 minutes trying to get a hold of Julia to come and get me from the other side of the campus. Its ridiculous. Anyways, once I got inside Delray I went to the Heart Walk kick off breakfast, where I saw bob Krieger and he saud "Oh hello there Kate! Good morning!" Fuck. I cant remember if I wrote about this, but I saw him at the Jacksonville airport a few weeks ago and assumed he didnt recognize me and I blew him off. Apparently he did. So THAT was awkward.

After that I just sat around Julia's office with nothing to do, and I texted Jessica and I ended up being rescued by her and Shelley. I was supposed to meet them for lunch in Delray, but first I had to go and get some pictures developed for Julia. I went to 4 different CVS and Walgreens stores trying to find a place that could do one hour from one of the CD/card reader machines. Finally I found a place, but everyone that worked there was an asshole, AND it was pouring rain. So I was in full fledged bitch mode. When I finally figured all of that out I went to meet up with Jessica and Shelley. At Subway. Shoot me. All they said was "Subway on Jog Rd." So I got there, and apparently there are 2 Subways on Jog Rd. By the time I got to the other place I was so stressed and angry I was near tears. Jessica didnt realize just how frazzles I was until I sat down with my drink, which was full of ice. Her face was priceless. She knows about my deep set aversion to ice, and at that moment she knew my day was a wreck. So fixed my drink for me, then made plans for me to go back to Delray and get my stuff and tag along with her and Shelley for the afternoon meeting with physicians. That was so much better. We got my stuff and went to Starbucks, and I calmed down and enjoyed my afternoon.

Tonight I did nothing but watch Clueless for the first time ever. I fail at life, basically.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Day 62 - Week Six, Wednesday

Today was work. Usual. Then Jessica and I went out to dinner and shopping in Boca. I am going to miss her so much when I leave. She is adorable.

Although, I realized something very odd about myself this morning as I was blow drying my hair. Its one of things that I do all the time, and I am aware of it, but not AWARE aware. Whenever I am drying my hair, or taking a shower, or stuck in traffic, I find myself saying the same word over and over in my head, with different inflections each time: canapes. "Caaanapes. Canahhpes. Canapayyyys." I have a problem.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Day 61 - Week Six, Tuesday

Honestly, nothing happened today. At all. My ceiling leaked. I ate a grilled cheese for lunch. I wore pants. The End.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Day 60 - Jenn, Work (Week Six, Monday)

This morning Jenn and I woke up and went to get breakfast in West Palm at the Chickfila near Good Sam. Then I went to work. And that was that.


(650): the ice cream truck is coming omgomg
(1-650): dude, it's 2 am.
(650): but its COMING

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Day 59 - West Palm, Breakers, Las Olas

Today was so much fun. It seriously felt like it was a week long. We woke up early this morning, at around 7:30, but we didn’t 100% wake up and get out of bed until 8:30. We headed up to West Palm so that we could go to the beach there and whatnot.

I wanted to take one of those Duck Boat tours of West Palm, so we drove there first, but the tours ended up being like $20 so we didn’t go on that. Instead we went to Palm Beach and to the Breakers. It is so pretty there. We walked around and took pictures and explored. Then we had lunch there, but I remembered it being pretty reasonable. Apparently not. Lunch was still fun. We had a good seat right by the window over looking the beach. Our waiter was so hot. Omg. Unfortunately he offered to bring us crayons so that we could color in our kid’s menus…. He took pictures of us and he was really sweet. He asked where we are from, and Jenn told him that I am interning here while she is from Jacksonville. Later on he asked me where I am “externing.” Um. Alright.

We left the Breakers and drove down Ocean and Worth Avenue, then got out and walked on the beach for a bit. The sand was scalding. I already had a small blister on the bottom of one of my feet but now it is so much worse. The water was beautiful though. The water at Ponte Vedra is brown and gross, but here is amazing and blue. I wanted to go swimming so badly.

We left Palm Beach and went to the mall at Boca, where I got a new dress and Jenn got a bunch of stuff. I thought about driving down to south Beach, but that takes a bit more planning. We ended up having a relaxing afternoon lying out by the pool and swimming on the roof.

We went to Samba Room tonight for dinner with Marsha. When we got there, there was music playing and all this cool art everywhere outside on the patio area. Apparently every Sunday night they have an art party right there. We ate our delicious dinners and I discovered that I love plantain chips, which I did not expect. Afterwards Jenn I went on a walk down to Yachtland and stopped in the shops along the way. And of course took more pictures. On the way back from Yachtland we were playing “Dare or Dare” but that just turned into doing a video project. We stopped random people and asked then what makes them happiest in life, and we got a lot of good answers. The very first couple we ask was two older gay men, and when I asked them one turned to the other and they kissed. And that was their answer. It was adorable. Some people said things like family, friends, etc. But there was this one guy who was walking along, holding a cup of coffee, and his eyes were about a mile wide. I stopped him and immediately h was like, “What? Can I help you? Do you need a picture?!” All in one breath and super fast. He was quite hyper. He and his wife were also a cute couple. His answer was “Good health, the people I love, and motorcycle racing. Yeah that’s about it.” Then he tried to get his wife to say motorcycle racing as well. Funny, she mentioned their kids and he didn’t.

We also asked a homeless man who had the most hilarious answer. Something about woman wearing pretty things and leaving a little bit to the imagination, and smoking cigarettes and throwing up on people that disagree. It was my turn to ask the question and Jenn had to jump in since I had no response to that one.

On the way back we walked back to Samba Room since we were going to buy some of the art. We met the guy that is in charge of all of it and he was really nice. He gestured to a table of drinks and was like, “go on have whatever, this is your house!” And we just got some water and he said, “oh that’s just water…” There were two pitchers on the table and one looked like wine. So Jenn was going to get some, but he said it was Mountain Dew. Ew. It did not look like Mountain Dew. We kept sipping the water and he brought us some cranberry juice and said, “Here this is to mix with the vodka!” Oooooh. So basically we ended up sitting on the artist’s couch, drinking the mango vodka reserved for the artist, and talking to the guy who is in charge of these events. He got my info and I may do it in December. That would be fun. As we were leaving he invited us to come with him to the Viper Room tonight, and it is gay night. He was like, “Yeah you come in, sit down in the back room, smoke a joint, enjoy a drag show and have fun!” We wanted to go, but I told him I had work in the morning. He said he would make sure that he kicked us out by 2:30, but I couldn’t do it. He was so sweet.

Today was so much fun. Seriously, it felt like we did a week's worth of stuff. I am glad Jenn came down to visit. I only have another week of work, then home for good1 Hoorah!