Quarterlife Crisis

I'm back from vacation and have been thrown back into reality. After 10+ long hours in airports, I finally made it home at 1:30am last night. Now I'm in the midst of actively moving....started tonight by making several carloads to the new place. I would have made one more, but my car battery decided to be lazy. Wednesday is the big moving day! Wish me luck :)

A few pics from my trip home to LA






That's all for now...more after the big move is over!

Posted in: moving, vacation on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at at 4:00 PM 1 comments  

This morning I am going to do the walk through of the condo with the landlords. Then hopefully I will get keys and be able to start moving in! I can't tell you how excited I am about the idea of being able to do my own laundry at my own apt :) Woohoo! I will be doing my last few loads of laundry at a friend's house this week. Thank goodness I have wonderful friends that open up their homes to me so I don't have to spend hours at the washateria/laundromat.

So things are moving along nicely over here in NC. I am a NC resident finally, set to start a new job hopefully in August sometime, getting ready to move into a better condo with my new roommate, and have started to volunteer at the children's hospital. It is going to be a very busy month packing to move (which is no fun at all), coming home to LA for 10 days, cleaning the new and old apts, getting situated in my new condo, and vacating my current apt by July 31. Whew, I'm tired just thinking about it :)

Last night I re-entered my childhood by playing legos with a little boy at the hospital. Who am I kidding though....this wasn't my kind of simple legos, but instead we were building this hard-core Star Wars space ship thing. It took us 1.5 hours!! The good news is I could follow the picture directions enough to figure out what we needed to do. So even though I had to miss out on the new piano bar fun with friends, I spent my Friday night with a little boy who was alone in the hospital while his mom left to take care of her other kids for awhile. It was worth it and I can't complain. There are more chances for the piano bar!

I'm also counting down until my trip home to the 'boro. 5 more days until Johnny's Pizza (which will hopefully be ready for me when I get off the plane *hint hint), my sister's birthday weekend at Lake Bruin, seeing most of my family and friends in LA, and of course relaxing in the boro with the traditional trips to Burke's Outlet and Only-a-buck for fun. Hopefully I'll be able to take lots of pictures while I'm home to post.

And just to finish up with a few pics from my friend Nicole's birthday last weekend....the ice cream cake was delish :)

Posted in: on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at at 8:36 AM 1 comments  

Before heading out to the pool for a relaxing Independence Day, I wanted to post pictures from last night's Pops in the Park. It was a very festive night with lots of patriotic music and fireworks. Hope everyone has a festive 4th of July!

Our group enjoying the Charlotte Symphony

Some of the girls before the music and fireworks

Me and Nicole

Posted in: on Friday, July 4, 2008 at at 2:01 PM 0 comments  

I just wanted to put up pictures of my latest apron creation for my friend Mandy's wedding shower. I also added a new touch...I got a dish towel monogrammed at L&M Monogram (my fave local monogram shop) with her new married initials. Then I added my own special touch by sewing the apron fabric on the bottom of the apron. I was very excited how well they both turned out!

Maybe I will start taking special orders for aprons and actually make a profit from my new-found crafty skills :) Not to spoil any future surprises, but I love finding fabric specifically for my friends' aprons...this is now my favorite bday/wedding gift to give! A little more personal I think :)

The apron and coordinating dish towel

Posted in: on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at at 4:51 PM 1 comments  

Woohoo! Great news! I found a new condo! My new friend/roommate Casey (who I found on craigslist...who knew!) and I will be moving within the month to the 2 BR/2 Bath condo. It's about 2 miles from where I live now, and just 1 mile from uptown and 1 mile from my church. The best news of all.....washer/dryer, dishwasher, central a/c, fridge with icemaker :) Oh the simple pleasures in life!

More details and info to come!

Posted in: on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at at 11:12 PM 0 comments  

I thought I should explain the links on the left side of my blog so y'all (those who are actually reading this) will know who/what they are.

1. My friend Vaughan is in Copenhagen for the summer studying abroad in accounting/business. She started a blog to chronicle her adventures.

2. My cousin Ben and his wife Rachel are expecting their first baby, Avery Elizabeth, in August. Rachel started a blog to track her pregnancy journey.

3. The Charlotte Observer is one of my main news sources here.

4. Weight Watchers is pretty self explanatory :) I have just a few more pounds left!

5. Myers Park UMC is my church here in Charlotte.

6. Pray for Katherine Wolf: Katherine went to Samford during the same time I did and graduated the year before I did. Although I did not know her personally, SU is such a small school that I knew of her since she was Miss Samford one year. She suffered a brain rupture back in the spring and went through a 13 hour surgery. She and her husband have an 8 month old baby. Katherine survived the surgery and is now in an acute care rehab. Please keep Katherine and her family in your prayers. You can get updates on the site linked here.

7. CF Husband blog: I randomly came across this blog, but it is an amazing story that will make you believe that miracles still happen...and they live in NC! Nathan faithfully blogs about his wife Tricia's journey with Cystic Fibrosis while surviving giving birth to a premature baby girl and a double lung transplant. All the odds were beat because Tricia survived the pregnancy and received her transplant. Their baby Gwyneth is thriving and growing after being born weighing just over 1 pound. You can read more about their story on their site and get the quick story here. Tricia is now battling some form of post-transplant cancer. Please keep this family in your prayers.

Posted in: blogs, church, family, friends, weight watchers on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at at 7:00 PM 0 comments