February 2010

Breaking news! The camera has been found! Jon emailed a few minutes ago and said, “I found your camera today, left it in a pair of pants, thankfully found it before I washed them ”

So, by Tuesday or Wednesday I should be taking pictures with a real camera!

In the meantime, I’ve been taking pictures here and there with my Blackberry, so that is what you get.

First, a confession. I’ve been watching this season of The Bachelor.

Total time waster, total guilty pleasure.

Monday was such a great day! I was coming off a great weekend in Michigan, and was a little nervous about my upcoming week, but Monday was just great! I met with the marketing director of KREMC (electric company) for lunch to discuss the video I’ll be doing for them. The meeting was awesome and I am just so excited about this video! Basically they want to interview people that were around “when the lights came on” in the county (1939). So I’ll be doing these interviews and then creating a documentary type piece on the history of electricity in Kosciusko County! I’m not very knowledgeable about history but I am so excited about this project! I can’t even write about it without a lot of exclamation points!! There’s also a possibility of a part-time marketing position with KREMC in the future which is exciting.

Tuesday I had another good meeting, this time with a financial advisor. We went over a lot of different things (life/disability insurance, planning for retirement, wise money management, etc…). It was really good! I have a lot to learn about financial planning, this meeting was a great start, and we’re meeting again next week!

At work that night one of the cooks came in (on his night off) and ordered this ridiculous salad, so that night I had to have it. It’s our mesclun mix with a grilled salmon filet, caramelized walnuts, candied strawberries, crumbled gorgonzola, dried apricots and a raspberry-dijon dressing. YUM!

Wednesday I worked lunch at the restaurant and had the night off! Nights off are fun, especially since I work 5-6 nights a week now. So, I went to see Avatar, I had no idea what it was about, had just heard the buzz that it was good. I was impressed! I don’t do particularly well with watching long movies, I guess I have a little bit of a short attention span, but I didn’t get bored at all during this 2 hour and 45 minute movie! Plus, it was in 3D which is awesome. I think I look pretty good in the 3D glasses

Thursday I was productive at home. I was almost out of groceries, but had some asparagus I needed to use so I made chicken and asparagus soup which I ate with the yummy roasted garlic bread that Jon made!

I also made a necklace which I debuted at work that night! It’s a lariat style and I’m quite pleased with it.

Friday I worked lunch again, and as we say at the restaurant, “we were hurting.” Busy, busy shift. I got home, ate my bento box and immediately went to bed (around 3pm). I woke up a couple times to reply to text messages, but eventually really conked out and woke up at 7:30pm and freaked out because it was super dark outside. I still had no energy so I went grocery shopping in sweats and then got coffee with a friend from work. This friend from work is a 17-year old boy and all of his church/school friends that we saw at the coffee shop thought we were on a date. Apparently I look young enough to be on a date with a high schooler? Or I look my age and I just look creepy enough to be on a date with a high-schooler? Regardless, it wasn’t a date, haha

I took a few pictures today of my post-church cooking/lunch extravaganza with my friend Greg, but I suppose those really belong on next week’s post.

So, I’m signing off. Hopefully when I have a camera, and more of a routine going, I’ll post more than once a week!

My brother lost my camera.

I ordered a camera (a cheap-o on Daily Checkout) about 6 weeks before my trip to Argentina.

It arrived at my house the day after I left.

Jon borrowed it and used it a little while I was gone.

It was last seen sometime between 2/7/10 and 2/13/10.

If you have any information regarding its whereabouts please contact me.

With that said, my week was busy and I only have a few pictures from the week that I took with my phone.

Work was busy! Tuesday night was actually one of the hardest nights I’ve ever had at work. It was just a high-stress, somewhat chaotic night with several big tables (28 top, 25 top…). We were moving tables from one dining room onto the porch, we almost ran out of chairs. Super crazy!!

I went to see Jon and Natalie and the doggies on Tuesday.

They cooked up some delicious tapas

I scheduled some meeting for the next 2 weeks. Tomorrow I have my first planning meeting for the video I’ll be doing for KREMC. Tuesday I’m meeting with a financial advisor to learn how to manage my money, and figure out the whole college loan situation. Next week I’ll be meeting with my awesome friend Monica from United Way and someone from Volunteer Kosciusko to begin planning videos for the Volunteer Kosciusko website. I’m definitely excited about the video work I have coming up!!

I had Saturday off work so I headed up to Michigan for the night. Sunday I went to my home church (Countryside Bible Church), it was wonderful to see everyone. My church family is such a blessing to me. After church I went to the Parker’s house for Ben’s birthday party and got to visit with people more.

The youngest Parker, Noah, was showing off his chin-up skills.

Then I headed home. It rained almost the whole way home. Now I am home. The end.

This week was sort of an epic fail on taking pictures I left Argentina early Wednesday morning and don’t have a camera at the moment. I’ll pick it up (and my winter jacket!) when I go see my brother/sister-in-law on Tuesday.

Friends of my parents came by one evening, bringing with them this sweet little girl She was a little fussy because she’s teething but mom said she’s usually an “unnaturally good-natured baby”!

We visited mom’s tutor to see the new puppies! So cute, all wriggly with their eyes closed.

This doesn’t even begin to show how beautiful it was flying above the clouds with the sun setting.

What did I do as soon as I landed in Miami? I got sushi!! The airport had a really nice sushi bar, it was yummy

I have no pictures from the rest of the week…

I worked Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Good ol’ Valentine’s weekend. Thursday night was slower, which was nice, got me past my nerves of being out of practice. Then Friday and Saturday night we rocked it out, almost 200 (customers) each night, which is especially impressive considering most of those were tables of 2. We turned the tables 3-4 times in 5 hours!

I’m sort of unpacked, but don’t have the apartment cleaned up yet, that will happen tomorrow.

I ate too much pasta in Argentina. I returned to find that most of my jeans are uncomfortably tight So, I have decided to not just lose the few pounds I gained while I was there, but go ahead and lose the all extra weight I’ve had for awhile (20-25 pounds)! I’m doing the Weight Watchers online program. I like that it’s online, and I’ve done Weight Watchers before with success. I just started with it on Friday and really think it’s going to work well for me. If anything it’s making me simply make healthier choices and be more aware of what goes in my mouth. I also plan on getting back to the gym (and not just to use the tanning bed)!

Lastly, Happy Valentine’s Day! I went and saw “Valentine’s Day,” it was cute. The funniest part was the Indiana reference, considering I’m in Indiana the theatre had quite a reaction to it!

We took a day trip to La Cumbre this week. Had lunch at a great restaurant that was recommended by mom’s tutor, stopped at artisan shops along the way and even stopped by a hotel that Hitler vacationed at.

We had dinner at the Colle’s.

My parents took me to a Basque restaurant and we shared tons of seafood! Squid, octopus, shrimp (some big ones with the heads on), oyster and scallops (both still in the shell).

Saturday morning was clear so dad and I went to the Aerosilla. It’s like a giant ski-lift that takes you up to look over the city.