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Miss Ellie's Pizza

Today for lunch I decided to try something different.  There is a small, little, family run pizza shop called Miss Ellie's Pizza by my work that I decided to try.  They serve New York style pizza.  I got a slice of their pepperoni and sausage pizza.  I also got a side salad and a garlic knot.  It was soooo good.  The garlic knot might have been my favorite part, but definitely worth a second visit. 

You should try this place next time your in San Antonio!

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What's your favorite local pizza?  Wherever 'local' may be for you!

local cookies.

Thursday at work my co-workers were talking about the 'best cookies in San Antonio' from Broadway Daily Bread.  I have never tasted their cookies so we decided that we should stop by on our lunch break and try get a half dozen to try out.  The cookies that were baked that day were Oatmeal Chocolate Chip, and let me tell you, they were pretty dang good.  If I had microwaved the cookie it might have been perfect.  Thursday they bake Peanut Butter cookies so I am going to make a run so the boy and I can try them.  Yummies!

May I add that the shop smelled heavenly?  I want to try some bread as well.

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(photos taken with iPhone)

death.

last night around 7pm or so my grandma passed away.  she had a triple bi-pass and when they went to take her off the heart machine, her heart didn't have enough strength to beat on its own. 

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thanks for all the thoughts and prayers

Notes

Dear crazy storm outside my window, your rain is much appreciated as we need you but please end by five o'clock as that is when happy hour starts.

Dear hair, thank you for being easy and cute this morning, it really makes my day when you cooperate.

Dear friends of friends at happy hour last night, please be nice to my friends!  if you are not having fun or do not like where we are you are free to leave, but don't talk shit to the people that arranged the outting, as we were having a great time. 

Dear future cottage, i am so excited to make memories with you, and to decorate you, and to make you mine...you are so charming and cute!  move in day is coming quickly so you won't have to be vacant for much longer.

Dear parents, have i told you lately that i love you?  ha but really!  you might be are my favorite people in the world and your support over the last three weeks (or my entire life really) mean the world to me.

Dear Philadelphia Flyers, win tonight please, i want to watch you make a run for the Stanley Cup.

Dear 3D obessed people, those red and blue glasses you have on make you look stupid, and real life is better...make your own 3D adventures!

Dear weekend, i hope you are as productive as you need to be.  thanks in advance.

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TGIF ya'll!

(Notes idea taken from Naomi at Rockstar Diaries)

Movie Review: Iron Man 2

Monday night i met up with the boy at the movies to go see Iron Man 2.  I was so excited to see this movie, as I absolutely loved the first one.  And I must saw that this one didn't disappointment either!  I absolutely love the Iron Man character and think that Robert Downey Jr. does a great job in the role of Tony Stark.  He is such an ass but as they perfect about of charm to make you love him anyways - absolute greatness!  The new villian, Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, was pretty awesome too.  He kinda freaked me out a little too.  This movie has a more action than the first, as well as a deeper relationship building between Tony and Pepper.  Oh and the introduction of 'The Black Widow' played by Scarlett Johansson.  And she pretty much kicks so major ass!  I like that this movie includes a girl that can hang with the boys. haha Pepper does out of the suit and Natalie does it in the suit! I don't really even know what to write about this movie because I want you to go see...I don't want you to read anything about it...haha!  I will tell you this though - there is a little 'bonus' scene after all the credits so you should stay through them.  So anyways, I really hope the rest of the 'Avenger' movies come out and do well so we can see them all in one movie.  Mainly, because I love Iron Man...I need to acutally watch the other characters!

This still pretty much makes my day every time I look at it. YES!

Amazing Quotes:

Heckler: "BLOW SOMETHING UP!"

Tony: "Blow something up?? I already did that."

Hammer: "If it were any smarter, it'd write a book that would make Ulysses look like it was written in crayon. And it would read it to you.."

Tony: "I'm sorry. I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. Do I look at the patch or the eye?"

Pepper: "You're dying?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

Tony: "I was going to make you an omelet and tell you...! WE COULD BE IN VENICE RIGHT NOW."

Tony: "'Mr. Stark displays compulsive behaviour.' In my own defense that was last week. 'Prone to self-destructive tendencies.' I was DYING. I mean please. And aren't we all? 'Textbook narcism ?' ... Agreed."

Mother's Day

this past weekend I went home to Tomball to be with my mom and family for Mother's Day.  I really love going home, mainly because I just love the feeling of utter comfort that washes over me when I enter Tomball, it's really kind of weird to explain.  I had a great time, even though my Mom didn't feel so great on Sunday and we spent the majority of the day napping in front of the television.  I did get to spend some quality time with my BFF Melody and her son, we went to the new Five Guys in Klein and then played with Maddie, my dog.  I miss these two so bad!

parents house: the place I grew up

beautiful backyard and hot pink toes

maybe the most spoiled cat on the planet, Scruffy

only the cutest little kiddo in the world, Daniel James, my BFF's kid

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!  and I vow to look at like more positively from here on out.  I think I'm learning that just because one thing goes wrong it doesn't mean your life is a failure.  You can keep going, you can make your wrongs right and you can make it! I would however like to catch a break life, so if you are feeling generous, I would really appreciate it.

photos taken with iPhone (1-3) and Nikon D70 (4)

Cinco de Mayo

so last night was pretty rough.  im growing up and have to make adult decisions and do life and im a little scared but looking forward to finding my way in this world and coming out the other side doing it my way.  last night was also cinco de mayo, and i do hail in good ole San Antonio, so it was a party.  not really.  i pretty much found the cutest house ever but don't think i can swing the two month over-lap in rent payment.  then i got the 'your cut off' call from my parents.  then i cried my big blue eyes out, mostly out of fear. but Michael came to my rescue, he took me to dinner and a movie.  we went to Habanero's Grill, where we shared a 24oz margarita, and saw Disney's Oceans.  the movie theater was having a great special, five dollar movies for cinco de mayo. then i went home and had a great chat with the boy who told me i can do anything i want to do, he doesn't know how much that meant to me. yay!

pardon my post crying ugliness...but look at that beautiful margarita!

(sorry bible study, i was too overwhelmed for you last night, and i know that is horrible to say since nothing in life is too overwhelming for God but i dont really feel like talking about it now)

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photos taken with iPhone

kayaking.

on sunday i went kayaking with some friends on the Guadalupe River.  it was so much fun and the weather was gorgeous!  it was my first time to kayak ever and i only flipped once, and it is because i ran into a rock, not even on a rapid, thinking i would bounce off - not so much.  totally flipped but the dunk was quite refreshing! can't wait to go back!

hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Growing Up Sucks!

from my junior year of high school until now i have wanted to be an orthodontist.  i worked extremely hard to make that happen, through school and volunteering and shadowing and tutoring.  but it seems like my dream isn't meant to come true.  i have been declined or wait listed from every dental school i applied to.  i have failed. i gave it my best but have failed.  so when everyone ask me if i got into dental school i get to tell them no and hear their condolences, the whole time im wondering if they expected failure from me all along, or if they know how hard it is to tell everyone that i failed.  its one thing to fail and no one know but to fail publicly, that sucks.  i really feel like i have let my family down, my friends down, and myself down.  as a biology major i knew a lot of people that had similar aspirations as i, and i just wonder what happened to all of them.  i competed against these students to be in the best in the bunch but in the end none of it even mattered.  the reality is im just not good enough.  and it sucks.  really really sucks.  today i ran into someone that i havn't seen in a very long time and i had to relive this failure again, and i know that it's just going to continue to happen every few weeks.  why people can't ask me about anything else, i have no clue.  so now you all know.  im not looking into teaching because it is my dream or what i feel like i am meant to do forever, reality is im not good enough to do what i want to so im forced to move to second best, and second best for me is a career with a summer break.  and that unfortunately, this world revolves around money so i need a job.  i want to love to go to work, not overly so where it consumes my life, but one thing i have learned is that you have to enjoy your work or its pointless.  so i will teach and try dental school again.  that's all you can do right?  or will my dreams change as this reality sinks in more?  

sorry that this post is horribly depressing but it's my blog, i can write whatever i want, and you can choose to read, im not making you.  and i started this blog as a sort of journal for myself.  i feel like one day i will look back at this and be thankful i wasn't accepted into dental school because i find that occupation that makes me so extremely happy and proud.  at least i really hope that happens.  they say thats what happens but then i look at the majority of 40 year olds that i know and they hate their job, they are burnt out.  did they give up on the occupation they were meant for?  maybe they were just simply not good enough.  i don't know, but i refuse to become that.  it's okay to not know exactly what i want right. i feel like i always have to have answer to the question, what's next, what are you going to do.  

i had indian food tonight.

i do love indian food.