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| Hello various readers-
I am still alive. I've spent a few weeks debating retiring my xanga and getting a more grown up blog. However, I am still unsure if I will actually do that or not. I may just start emailing the people I don't see and just forget about blogging.
I got home from Maryland fine. I managed to pick up a new dog in the process. She is a pure bred Yorkie and she's a super b*t*h. But she loves me, and I just can't help but have a soft spot for her. She's like the mean annoying friend that is really nice to you. You don't approve of her actions, but she's never done anything wrong to you, so you still hang out.
I've done some job hunting. I turned down Mullins Jewelers. I think its time to move on from the jewelry business or I'm gonna get stuck. Also, I need something that will look a little better on the resume in the future.
School starts Monday. I'm still trying to decide what I want to to do in school and what I want to do after. Ahh, the life of indecisive me. I've got an urge to go to culinary school that just won't go away. Maybe that's what I'll do.
My puppy Sam just had surgery. He had one HUGE kidney stone and a bunch of little ones he couldn't pass. So they had to operate to remove them. He did great and is recovering nicely, but he looks like Frankenstein with about 10 staples on his lower tummy. He gets them removed Wednesday. The absolute best part was that someone anonymously paid for his whole surgery! I could just kiss them I am so thankful!!! That dog means the world to me and I had no idea how we were going to afford a $600 surgery when we had just spent $400 getting the Xrays and a process of washing the stones back into the bladder to relieve some of the pressure.
Other than that, life is just lovely. I miss having my own place, but being back in Tennessee is super super nice.
Leave me a message if you would like to get email updates or a link to a new blog if I decide to retire this one.
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| So, my time in Maryland needs to be over now. I made it to the halfway point and was then ready to head to the homestead.
I have 4 weeks left up here. I have a feeling they will go by quickly. Hopefully, I will do some more exciting things on the weekends. This past weekend I pretty much hung out around the apartment. It was nice to sleep in and do nothing.
Q got a really awesome deal on Rock Band. I thought I would hate it, but I'm not too shabby at the fake guitar. Somehow, I find it an insult to real guitar playing
The internship is okay, but the company has kind of run thin on things for the interns to do and so it is getting a little boring.
I haven't upgraded to xanga premium yet, so no pictures. The owner has purchased an internet plan for the apartment so I won't have to sit by the front door with the company's air card to get internet. 
That's all for now!
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| Okay-
I made it here alive.
I have to go up near the owner's house to get internet and my cell phone does not get any reception at all until I drive about a mile away from the house. Yeah, I'm in the boonies. It's kind of nice though. A 15 minutedrive will get you most anything you want. Everything else is quite a ways away.
Haven't been anywhere exciting yet, but I am looking forward to seeing some new stuff.
The job is pretty good so far. I wish I had a desktop computer, my own desk, and my own phone. I would get SO much more done. Right now I am at a little table in a little corner of the Marketing/Sales office area and am on a laptop, which is slow and annoying. I honestly can't stand laptops. They are just not designed for comfort.
I had an AMAZING crab cake the other day. It was actually my boss' lunch, but after she found out I had not had a Maryland crab cake yet, she gave me her whole lunch, except the fries. It was almost nothing but meat and was just a little spicy with black pepper. I have to get more! I have barely started my seafood eating, but I have a feeling once I start, I won't be able to stop!!
Once I get my paycheck, I will get xanga premium again and be able to post lots of pictures!
That is it so far!
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| So for those who don't know and that read my blog, I will be living in Maryland for the next 10 weeks. I got a summer internship in the sales and marketing department of a Ready Mix company called Chaney Enterprises.
I will be living here:
Living in Brandywine, MD and working in Waldorf, MD. When I found out I would be living in Brandywine I was a little excited. I am a big nerd and the Shire (where the hobbits live) is on the West bank of the Brandywine river. Yeah. I know that. It's kind of sad how much of a Lord of the Rings freak I am. I try not to show it too much.
Anyway, I will try to post pictures of the apartment and where I'm working when I get up there. However, I have been told the internet connection in the apartment is pretty bad because we are out in the boonies. I'm not sure how frequently I will be able to update this thing, so bear with me.
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing. One minute I am super excited and the next I'm ready to go ahead and decline the offer for the internship. I just have to keep telling myself it will be a good experience.
In other news, I went out shopping for shoes today and it never ceases to amaze me how FEW flat white shoes there are out in the world. They have every color but white. I'm almost 6' 1''. I do not need high heels to give me height and I try to avoid adding to my height any way that I can. Now that I have kind of grown into myself it is less about self confidence and more about safety issues. Being 6' 5" leads to things like putting my arms in ceiling fans when I stretch, hitting my knees on the edges of tables, etc. It's a danger being tall. I am still on the hunt for cute, professional, comfortable, flat white shoes.
I did have a good shopping day though. I managed to put together a semi cute outfit and find pants that were actually long enough for me that I didn't have to order off of the internet. If you know me, I spend most of my time looking completely disheveled and have a hard time putting "outfits" together. I'm usually okay with whatever is comfortable on. In the beauty world, comfort is not easy to find!
I'm spending this evening packing up all of my stuff. Tomorrow I need to get a new social security card and then I am spending the day with mom and Grandmama. Friday I go through emissions and I am off to the north!
I will try to keep pictures and stuff up to date while I am out there!
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| I made dinner tonight and thought that the people who read my blog might like to try one of my favorite things to make, especailly with summer coming up.
It's easy to make and you only have to boil water for the ramen noodles. So no oven heat!! That's what makes it so great during the hot summer. The picture isn't exactly how I make it, but it is pretty close. I forgot to take a picture of what I made so I found this one online.
Boil Ramen noodles, but DON'T use the seasoning on them.
Get some peanut sauce from your local Thai restaurant. The sweet stuff. Its like a combo of sweet and sour and chili pepper sauce.
Slice up cucumbers, red bell peppers (I like to chop these into bite size pieces), lettuce, and mint. Also chop some peanuts up or get them pre-cut up. Then get some very thinly sliced roast beef from the deli.
Arrange all that on the plate as show above and pour the peanut sauce over the noodles ( I pour it over all of it because it is sooo good.)
Or you could just toss it all together like a big salad. That's how it gets eaten anyway. People mix it up on their plate when they get it. It tastes better.
Cheap, quick, light. It's a very good lunch or dinner.
Enjoy.
Also, because I was really proud of it, I will post pictures of Quentin's birthday cake.
Without candles:
With candles:
Yep, it is half of a die!!! I felt pretty smart.
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