I made salsa!! Oh and it is quite spicy :-P Here is the recipe link I used in case anyone is interested: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/The-Best-Fresh-Tomato-Salsa/Detail.aspxI used tomatoes and peppers right from our garden and the most difficult part was chopping them up haha. I did a little improvising and stuff but I am so proud of it!! Other things I've made that I am proud of: I made a blueberry pie from scratch on Father's Day after picking the blueberries myself that morning; making hummus with my grandma; making chicken. I think that's all I've really made that has felt like an accomplishment. This one night I made tacos but it ended up being a mess so I'm not so proud of that...
So Thursday night was my first real day of work and it was pretty fun! It was slow and tiring to be standing up but I like it a lot. Then I got home and my boyfriend came over and we watched Conspiracy Theory. We didn't actually go to sleep until 2 and then got up early for the beach so I was way tired by Friday night but we aren't there yet!
When we woke up we got all ready to go and my mom wrote a note that it didn't seem like beach weather. I was totally bummed but we started driving anyway with the notion that no one would be there if it was cold at least. We stopped for Dunkin' Donuts and by the time we left it was sunny out! We got to the shore and the red flags were out and I decided it would be a waste to pay to sit on the beach and not swim so we started walking around the boardwalk playing games and stuff and it was fun. Then we decided to check out the Tiki Bar so we went in there and ordered drinks and sat basically on the beach. So it was a success after all.
After we left the beach we went back to my house to change and then go over my best friend's house for a Hawaiian Luau! She and her parents went to Hawaii ten years ago and bought a cook book they never used so they made a Hawaiian meal and drinks and it was tons of fun!
After hanging out there, we went to see Eat Pray Love (yay!)! I was so tired and falling asleep in the theater, but it was a good movie. The book was better, obviously, but it caught all the good, key moments. Although it sort of de-focused the prayer and meditation part and made a lot of the God stuff seem like her imagination which really bothered me because finally there is a great story that is about finding their own religion and finding one's self and one's balance in this world and the movie sort of took that away and was like "I'm doing this because my ex-boyfriend did it" or something and sort of felt like a total oxymoron of the plot.
Anyway we got home at 1 and were up really late again so when he had to leave in the morning I thanked God that I could go back to sleep after he left. I wasn't supposed to start work until 1:30 so I had my alarm set for 11:30 when my mom came rushing into my room at 10:15 with my work on the phone acting like there was some kind of emergency. It turned out someone called out and no one could come in and they wanted me to come in early. They asked when I could be in and I said 11, not remembering that it takes almost a half hour to drive there and I had to get gas. I guess I was too tired to really think about any of that so I got up, got in the shower and dressed quickly so that I could get out the door and in my car (which was in bad need of gas so I was glad I didn't run out on my way to the gas station). I got to work with a few minutes to spare and I even thought about getting Jamba Juice with an energy boost in it before going in but I didn't.
Work was better than Thursday. It picked up because it was the weekend and was going by quickly until I had about an hour and a half left. That was when my lack of sleep hit me and I was tired, my feet hurt, and I was bored. I stuck it out though, resolved to buy new shoes that don't kill my feet if I have to stand up for five and a half hours straight, and left at 4:30.
When I left work my cousin wanted to know if I wanted to come over and hang by his community pool with him. I really just wanted to go home and sleep but I figured I could rest there and so I did. I stayed for a little over an hour and then came home where I watched tv and movies the rest of the evening/night with my parents. Then I went to sleep.
Today my boyfriend and I have been dating 2 months. He bought me beautiful flowers and I bought him a movie (the one we watched on Thursday when he arrived). I felt like sharing this information because in May I wrote a lot about love and relationships and when they are the best and what I thought I was doing wrong and what I was trying to do right. I still agree with everything I said back then and sometimes it helps to remind myself of it. I've fallen so fast and gotten so caught up in relationships in the past and it is a habit that is difficult to break. I'm still trying to do it, to find that balance I suppose you could say. It doesn't help that there are many factors to a relationship, but it helps to step back once in a while and look at where you are. I'm still trying to figure it all out and of course, when I understand it, I'll let you know. Hopefully this doesn't make me sound too clueless, it was easier being opinionated about it all before I was in the relationship, but that always happens. Some advice though? Never lose your confidence, always stand up for what you believe, and don't think that anyone will respect you less for speaking your mind. Trying too hard to please another person makes you forget who you are and it's best you just tell the truth and stop being afraid to say what you feel! I love you <3 <3
Peace&Love&Salsa
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