Thursday, May 18, 2006

Happy Birthday to Me !! [updated 10:56a CST]

So, today is the big day ! The big *4*0* ... who cares.....I feel the same. So far it has been great ! My friend Curtis at work made me an gorgeous purple birthday banner that says 'Happy Birthday Tracy !!' - I love it.

Happy day to everyone !!

10:56a CST UPDATE : I just received awesome flowers from my family - here they are :

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Batman, magic potions, a mystery guest and patio furniture....

Happy Birthday, Courtney !

I love making up fun titles for my blog…..it makes you want to read it, doesn’t it ?? By the way, we’re now into the single digits for my vacation countdown…8 days until Florida.

OK, so last night two of my friends, Jeff and Alicia took me out for graduation dinner which because of the delay in coordinating it, turned kind of into graduation/birthday dinner. We had dinner at ‘The Magic Time Machine’ in Dallas which was awesome. In case you aren’t familiar, the waiters dress up as characters and as you might have now guessed, our waiter was Batman. It was fun and he was funny, but the funniest thing was that this guy, the restaurant photographer, comes by our table, presumably to take a picture of us that he hoped we would later purchase and he says “Is it just the four of you tonight ?” We glance around the table to see of there is a mystery guest sitting there that we missed and cautiously reply “Ummm, no only three….” Needless to say, he continued to try and be funny, took our picture, which we did not buy and left. Dinner was yummy, and we each had a drink called “Magic Potion”, not sure what was in it but Alicia got a red one, Jeff got a blue one and I got a green one and when they came they were bubbling and smoking…..eeeeee. Here is a picture of mine, but you can’t really see the bubbles and smoke.

Before dinner, Jeff and Alicia had given me my graduation present back at the apartment. It was new patio furniture for my new apartment I’ll be getting in September. When we got back to their apartment, I made them set it up and get their picture taken. Here is my awesome new patio furniture :


Anyway, it was a great night, and they are great friends. Until next time, ciao !

Monday, May 15, 2006

Change is good....

10 DAYS UNTIL I LEAVE FOR FLORIDA !!! Yipee !!

Whew…..it’s finally over. I am taking a break for the summer because I have to re-think where I am going next. I was planning on going to UTA or maybe UNT but now that I will be moving over here at the end of the summer, I need to re-think. But, change is good. I am still leaning toward UNT but I need to make sure the commute will work from here to there in the evenings. Plus, on my own, I will probably need to get a 2nd job for awhile to make ends meet so I may have to delay the next step of my educational journey to the spring. But, I tend encounter a challenge in everything I attempt so this will be no exception.

Stay tuned.

P.S. My new schedule at work for the summer is 8:00a - 5:00p CST.