Pile of Tomatoes

Today we had BLT's with tomatoes from my Pappy's garden. When I came out to the kitchen for supper, my mom had sliced up a mound of tomatoes. Even while she was praying I couldn't help giggle at the massive pile of tomato redness on the table. Geez, only three people were eating, not a giant army of tomato hungry elephants. I wish I had gotten a picture, but I do have a picture of one growing on the vine or stock or whatever the plant's appendage's are called.

I Got Toilet Papered

Yesterday when I woke up I had an interesting surprise waiting for me in the driveway. My dad was shocked. I was shocked. My neighbors were shocked. My car was COVERED in toiletpaper and saran wrap. I was impressed at how well it was wrapped around the bottom, almost like a present...
But yeah, the dew must have set and then the sun dried it, so now there are little specks of toilet paper all over my car like it had a bad shave job in the morning.
At first I wasn't sure who to be mad at. But then I thought who else would do this than Emily, especially since she had mentioned something of the likes of this to do someone else a few weeks ago? She fessed up after many accusations. Her and Neil at 3 in the morning. Those little boogers.

Philadelphia

This weekend Tami, Emily, Nicole and I went to Philly. Wahoooo. We had fun.
I may have hopelessly driven over the Benjamin Franklin bridge into New Jersey but eventually we got there.
We saw the Liberty Bell that is a tourist must-see, but a little disappointing since its kept indoors and roped off.
We toured the rest of the historic part of the city.
We got our picture taken with a mean colonial man.
We (at least Emily and I) ate Philly Cheese steaks at the infamous Pats.
We visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
We took a cab ride with a creepy driver that obviously had a mental deficiency so we requested to get out before even getting back to our hostel and lucky me got to ride in the front.
We met Dr. Fiorini at the Pink Rose on South Street for dessert (mmmm white chocolate raspberry mousse cake).
We drove through maddening streets looking for legal parking spaces.
We walked into an extraordinary expensive restaurant at 12:30 AM, realized we couldn't afford it and left there for another chic restaurant that was very nice, but in which I ordered a paté that I now know is mystery (most likely lamb) meat spread.
We starved Tami on Friday night.
We went to see the Lion King (a post to follow)
We sat outside my car while waiting for a security guard to jump my car (luckily in a safe part of the city)

I Heart Benji

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Benji won!
Benji won So You Think You Can Dance!
I have been cheering for him since the beginning of the show.

This past week I've been at my Grandma's house so I didn't get to see the show on Wednesday but my mom taped it and I just watched it. I think I screamed when I found out who won.

A: I love Benji, He's so sweet, down to earth, a good dancer, funny, and incredibly entertaining.
B: My favorite show of the summer was So You Think You Can Dance. I just can't describe how much I loved it. And my favorite dancer won. How often does that happen? Maybe the 18 times I called in to vote last week actually helped...

Sometimes I feel like I have nowhere to express my happiness. No one really shares my enthusiasm about this. At least I have a meager blog to share my reality television obsession with, even if cyber space doesn't care so much either, at least I FEEL like someone is high-fiving me and dancing on the tabletops that Benji won too. I mean come on, somebody has to care.

Camp Fire USA

This summer I interned at Camp Fire USA Lone Star Council as a public image cooridinator. I absolutely loved it there. My sister agreed to let me live with her in Dallas and I found this internship online with Exxonmobile summer jobs program so I applied for it while I was still in Spain.
The people at Camp Fire are all so cool, I miss them. The atmosphere was very inviting and fun. I liked the marketing part of my job so much that I am seriously considering changing my major...again. I translated a bunch of stuff into Spanish for them and made some brochures, made some surveys, brushed up their website that you can take a peek at here (note the fire banner), and other stuff too. Awww, now I am sad. I couldn't have had a better internship experience, I wanna go back to Texas. Boo hoo.

If nothing else, I learned the keyboard shortcuts for all the Spanish accented letters. I hate not having a Spanish keyboard. That is very frustrating. You could never compose long papers without a specified keyboard. Just when I got used to finding the @ button or the upside down question mark, I had to leave it behind. bah humbug

Jenn's House of Ants

Hey everybody! This is Emily typing...yay! So, we're just chillin at Jenn's house and we were walking around outside and we stumbled upon these stinkin gross ants! Blah! The thing is, everytime I'm here, the ants are there and we keep killing them and they keep coming back! They won't die. So, being the kind hearted people we are, we got out the ant spray and ended their sad, pathetic lives.

Les Misérables

I read Les Miz that I bought at Half Price Books this summer and then Michelle and Tony took me to see it on the broadway tour in Dallas. I loved it! The book was good and the play even better. They had a revolving stage that added a new element to the show that I've never experienced before. The whole show was dimly lit in sync with the mood. I kept on pointing out all the differences between the book and the broadway show and getting really excited about it. Eponine was much more a central character in the play while in the book she was only glanced over. She was much less idealized as on stage. And then the similartities too, made me happy. Jean ValJean's yellow passport and the scene where he is carrying Marius through the Parisian sewers. Oh, and when Cosette sang the Castle on a Cloud song I about flipped. I remember singing that in Chorus in like 8th grade and I had no idea that is was from Les Misérables. M and T bought the 50 dollar sound track at the theater because Tony like the chain song. I say why not wait a few minutes and download it online for a fraction of the price? Nevertheless a very good show, and I hear it is coming back to broadway in NYC too.

Pirates of the Caribbean II

<--A giant bill board we jumped in front of in NYC.

Pirates of the Caribbean II: The Dead Man's Chest: my new favorite movie. We went to see the midnight showing on the opening day in Dallas. Actually, we had just finished watching a Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare in the Park and then decided to race to a theater in hopes that we could get tickets. We got lucky and were part of the biggest opening weekend for a movie in history. Sigh Johnny Depp. Who could ever imagine a guy could look so hot in black mascara? My favorite part of the movie by far, was the scene where the pirates were all in the giant balls made of bones hanging over the cliff. Then when they reached out their hands to grab the roots on the other side, my sides hurt from uncontrollable laughter. I'm telling you, the movie is genius. Smart, adventurous, humorous, good cast, intriguing choreography and special effects, plot twists, and of course, Captain Jack Sparrow.