A couple Saturdays ago was Bryan’s birthday party. Another entertaining success. I made my smores ice cream, but with chocolate ice cream instead. Sooooo goooood. It was gone before everyone got a chance to get to it. I need to get another tub for the ice cream maker.

Our table was delivered during the party despite the promise that it would come no later than 4:00 … but it was exciting and we had a table to play Apples to Apples on.

The following Sunday we went with my parents to see my grandpa and show him our non-final wedding video SINCE WE HAVEN’T GOTTEN IT YET.

Cheryl’s party was this past weekend. More good times, more good food.

Yesterday we went out to eat with Bryan’s parents to celebrate his birthday.

More good food. This all after we had our company picnic and our DL took us out for ice cream. Surprisingly, my pants still fit … well, some of them anyway.

Byran has pictures and video up on facebook.

Other than that, I’ve been planning our trip to Disney! We can’t stay at the Boardwalk this year because it was all booked up. So was everything else except Saratoga Springs. Down Town Disney it is!

I’m really tired of hearing crap about our generation being lazy, entitled… especially since this article: What Is It About 20-Somethings?

I happen to be one of the few people my age with a good job, a house and a husband, but that was pure luck. I just happened to know what I wanted to do with my life, my parents’ supported me while I got my degree, and it happened to be a profitable degree.

I just read this article: Dear NY Times, Here’s Why I Haven’t ‘Grown Up.’ Love, a 20-Something, and I couldn’t agree more. What’s wrong with using all the time and resources at your disposal to make the best decisions you can for your life? Why rush if you don’t have to?

The comments after are awful! Basically telling her to grow up and let her parents enjoy their time alone together. If her parents are anything like my parents, they probably like her being home.

A few weeks ago at work, as part of this “Leading With Distinction” lecture series, a woman was talking about diversity and the differences between the generations. First time I ever heard anything positive about our group. Our generation happens to be really close to our parents. Is that such a bad thing? We text instead of calling. Again, bad? Instead of waiting a week for my friends to call me back when they have time, I can make dinner plans with them within an hour. We’re better with computers, we’re better at multitasking, we bring in a new perspective.

Apparently we’re also careful about screwing up our lives. Or maybe careful in general. My parents, like many others, are way over protective. Even now I need to call them when I get home after visiting. We were taught that the world is a scary place and to be extra careful about everything. You’re surprised we’re not leaving home? Hey, old people, this is the world you’ve created for us. You don’t like how we turned out, blame yourselves. I think we’re OK though.

Carolyn and Rachie slept over last night. Started off with some Quinoa, ice cream and wine. The wine led to some Spice Girls and a possible sulfite allergy.

I made Quinoa Coconut Curry for dinner. I modified the recipe a bit since the grocery store didn’t have some of the ingredients, but I think it came out pretty well.

For dessert, I took a second jab at the smores ice cream. I used a different recipe this time with a few modifications. I used almond milk instead of regular and I toasted the marshmallows before adding them to the ice cream maker. This was THE best ice cream EVER. I have to make it every night EVERY NIGHT. I should have doubled the recipe because it was 100% gone in about five minutes.

Then came the wine. We went through two bottles over the course of a few hours. Inevitably, we started singing and dancing. First came The Backstreet Boys, then ‘N Sync. I believe the Spice Girls were my idea. After that we started singing show tunes, but that’s something we usually do sober anyway.

We got very sleepy around 12:30 and decided to retire for the night. I curled up on the couch and tried to sleep. Itch itch. Tried to sleep. Itch itch. WTF? Itch itch. I think it was about 2am when I went up to my bed, but I was still itchy and couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t a horrible persistent itch, just small tings of itchyness all over my body. Just enough itch to keep me awake. I think I finally fell asleep around 4 and woke up again at 8:30 and couldn’t fall back asleep because, still itchy. Actually I’m itchy even as I write this. As I didn’t eat or drink anything else out of the ordinary, I’m blaming the red wine, specifically the sulfites in the red wine. But who knows.

This morning I made waffles, no à la mode this time since we ate all the ice cream last night. Rachie went home and Carolyn and I did some Yoga. Yes, surprisingly, I’m not that tired. I don’t get it either.

Off to go furniture shopping.

My daddy sent a mango home with me on Sunday. I just used it to make a mango-banana smoothie and it’s very yummy and I want to have it all right now, but it’s my snack tomorrow, so I can’t.

Saw peoples on Saturday. We had Mexican food which happened to be my second dinner that night. Had sushi with my parents before … and a Mr Cupcake cupcake before that … and a turkey sandwich with sweet potato fries before that … and maybe a waffle before that.

Saw Inception again on Sunday with my daddy. He didn’t like it. I thought it was even better the second time. Not sure if it was knowing what was going on or the not being crazy sleepy, but either way it made a lot more sense this time around. I must have been drifting off last time during the whole planning part of the movie because that was all new to me.

I don’t think I’m going to do the choir again next season. I know I’ve said that before, but I was going back and forth for a while. I like the singing, but I’m totally missing the social aspect and it’s just not fun. If I’m going to devote three hours of my free time to something each week, I should enjoy it more than that. I had more fun tonight making the smoothie :-/ But I still have another month to change my mind fifteen times.

I’m having a really hard time finding furniture. Basically everything I’ve seen falls into one of four categories:
-things I love that are not practical
-things I love that are practical, but way too expensive
-things that are practical, but also boring and/or ugly
-things that are cheap, but not an improvement over what we have
So I haven’t purchased anything.

Work has been better. I finally finished my wsdl thing no thanks to Ruben. I was stuck for about a week with an error that loosely translated to “something bad happened somewhere.” Finally I googled something that led me to the one person in the whole world that had the same problem. He found the solution! I needed to add files to my classpath … What files??? That led to more googling that led to the reason it wasn’t working. After that my fix pretty much just involved dumb luck and well, obviously my pure genius. Right.

Saw Inception last week. It was awesome! I want to see it again!

Also went to Rachie’s bday party at a hibachi place. Bryan has some video on Facebook of that. She got some really yummy cupcakes from Mr Cupcake. They were moist and delicious and I can’t stop thinking about them. Must go back there next time I’m home.