Looking for a New Best Friend!

Welcome to the Annual Notice of what Stephanie is doing for her birthday. This year I won’t be hopping on a plane and heading to any crazy wild place like Vegas or Mexico. I am keeping it a little closer to home, as long as you think 4 hours is close. The theme for this year’s birthday is “Looking For My New Best Friend” except I am not going to go all Paris Hilton on you and make you express your adoration for me on camera (although if you would like to make a tape as my present, I will gladly accept it) or make you do stupid stunts (once again, if you would like to humiliate yourself for my entertainment, I will let you). This year I hope my best friend will be in the form of a shiny new diamond! No, not that kind of Diamond... One I find myself in the mines of Arkansas! Here is the linkey to the mines:

http://www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com/


I want to stay at the Swaha Cabins. This place is located on a lake, they are pet friendly and have boat rentals! There are cabins, cottages and condos at this place. So it seems like it would a great place for relaxing, grilling and lake fun….all with puppies!

http://www.swahacabins.com/index.htm


So here is the tentative schedule:

Thursday, July 23, 2009: Leave Dallas and drive up to the Swaha Cabins. Make it up there, unpack and drink and play some games.

Friday, July 24, 2009: Start the search for the perfect best friend at the Diamond Mines. The mines are open from 8 AM – 8 PM. Yay, plenty of time. Obviously we will get breakfast, lunch and dinner some where in the day. Also, it might be fun to find a local bar at the end of the night. I figure this day is up for grabs on what you want to do.

Saturday, July 25, 2009: Let’s go to the Diamond Mines again! You can never have too many friends! I figure we could do a half day this day and then the other half we could rent a party boat and hang out on the lake near our Cabins. The have some BBQ/Grill fun at night.

Sunday, July 26, 2009: This is all up to you but eventually I will be making my way back to Dallas.

If any of this sounds like fun to you, let me know. I think I will probably book something at the Cabin place next week.

In summary, the plans are diamond hunting, lake fun, puppy fun and more diamond hunting.

Feel free to invite anyone you want. Let me know if you are in.

Updated...with a Soundtrack

Once again, it has been awhile since I have updated my blog. So here I go again….and to mix it up a little bit, I will let you know what I am listening to on my iPod while I write (I am at work writing this…)...yeah…I know it won’t make it any more interesting. So here goes.

First Song: Waste It On – Silversun Pickups – I have this song because I bought the CD for Lazy Eye. Since I don’t like this song…I shall skip…

Cover Me – Candlebox – Who doesn’t like this song? I downloaded it (illegally of course) in college. No good story to continue with it.

So back to the updates… a couple of days after my last entry I got in a car accident. First of all and shockingly enough, it wasn’t my fault and no worries I wasn’t damaged at all….just hit my head on my side window. As I was driving to have dinner with one of my friends, I was hit by crazy Dallas driver. She decided to ignore all the road signs and go the wrong way on a one way street thus insuring that she would collide into the beautiful, kind of scratched up (ok, beat up) paid off Jetta. Needless to say, she killed it. She killed my sweet, sweet paid off Jetta. So update number 1, my Jetta died.

Oooh, new song….Lose Yourself – Eminem – Yeah, loved 8 Mile, love the song and most of all I love Eminem. Yum.

Since my car was killed, I had to go car shopping. If anyone knows anything about my first two cars, you will know that I am stubborn. Once I decide I want a car, I refuse to look at anything else. Even if it is a good deal, cheaper or better car for me overall…I won’t even consider it. Since I don’t like the new body styles of the Jettas and I wanted to upgrade, I set my sites on an Audi A4. So I scoured the Dallas area for an Audi A4 in black or gray. I drove a lot, Ben drove some and even my friend Ama tried to kill me while driving a few. Needless to say, I finally got one. So now I am in the Audi club, which isn’t as popular as the BMW and Lexus club in Dallas. It did how ever make me d-bag. I am becoming waaaaay too Dallas now….I live downtown, I have a designer dog, I carry a Prada purse and now I have an Audi. Don’t worry I hate myself too….

And on to Inacceptable by Rinocerose. I bought this album because of the iPod commercial with the song Cubicle. I don’t like this song. Time to skip….

Hardhouse Anthems 3 CD1 by ??? Yeah, I remember when I got into techno, I downloaded anything and everything with techno or House in the title. Needless to say, this was not a good choice.

I Do – Toya …..umm I guess it was good in College…..NEXT

Read My Mind – The Killers. Oh man, I love the Killers and I love this song.

So as I am sure you are all wondering…. the Naked Man is still out there. Oh yes, and he came back to his favorite garage about a week or two ago. Once again, I was on the phone with Mom and taking the dog out for a walk when all of a sudden I hear “Excuse Me…” Thinking it was someone needing directions, I turned around. BIG MISTAKE. There was no car behind me, there was no lost tourist….there was just one completely Naked Man in the parking garage waving his hands…..and junk. He got me. I didn’t think it would happen but he did….he got me. Third times a charm, I guess. Needless to say, I screamed in my mom’s ear. Hung up the phone and called Ben to come help me find him. Mind you my mom is now freaking out as she thinks I am being killed. Good thing I didn’t get killed and also, we never found him…..but I am sure he will be back. I will keep you updated.

Hero – Enrique Iglesias. He is hot, he is Latin and he can sing. Why wouldn’t I download this song? We had a brief love affair for awhile until I couldn’t stand the whining in his songs any longer. :)

Final update: Mary Beth and I finally did it. We started boot camp. Oh man, 5:30 AM is early. Or first week we were pretty pitiful. I am not sure if it was sweat or tears running down our face but man there was a lot of liquid. We figured as the days would go on the workouts wouldn’t be so hard. What were we thinking? We are in week three, I can run farther and for longer but I get my butt kicked every day. I am amazed at all the different exercises these guys can come up with. The craziest thing about the whole thing is we both signed up for another session, for another month. Hopefully this next session will help me get skinny. I guess I should stop eating ice cream, fries and queso…..and not all at once either…

Final Song: Oceans – The Fray. When I discovered Pandora.com and I made my own Fray channel, I was introduced to this song. Love it. Pretty sure I downloaded (legally this time) the day I heard it.