I've been Missing.

Sorry I haven't been updating for almost a month. It's hard when you don't have a laptop! I'd been trying to find the time at work to update using the work computers but there's always something that needs to be done.

Right now it's my morning off from babysitting the Miller's (a new job I found in my hiatus) and I had to come into the shop to open up for the air conditioning contractor. The air conditioners have been not working quite exactly right for a while and he's finally getting the final touches on to make them work correctly! YAY!

So since my last update. I got my French Visa, along with free samples of the new M&M ice cream. It's your average novelty, a M&M shaped vanilla circle covered in that traditional M&M chocolate and candy coating. They're pretty awesome and if you have the chance, I would say to get some. If even just once. It's worth a try I think.

I went with my Mom to get my visa because we both had the day off from work and so we had a nice late lunch at Vinny T's (formerly Vinne Testa's, a Boston favorite). I can't really remember what else we did because, well, it's been a couple weeks. Oh, we also went into the Prudential Center Mall (The Pru) and looked in Sephora for a nice makeup kit for me to take to Europe. Of course they had a great one but the eye shadow colors were "Spring," in other words, purple and pink which can't be changed. As those are my least favorite colors to wear, as they often make me look like I haven't slept enough, I decided to just go for the Walgreen's makeup. Oh well.

June 28th was my 20th birthday. It's that awful year between being a teenager and being of drinking age. Of course most 20yo's drink anyway and I really don't see the point of 21 but that's another story. Lucky for me most of my 20th year will be in France enjoying lovely French wines.

For my birthday Lauren, a bud from archery, and I decided to go to the beach. And of course like we always do, we didn't make it. She was late waking up and we went to Friendly's for lunch (a local ice cream diner chain with traditionally bad service; why we still go there I have no idea but they have good ice cream). And after stuffing our faces with chicken tenders and Reese's ice cream, we were off to the beach. About half way there Lauren realized she forgot her towel.

So we were off to the mall! It was on the way and Old Navy, as Lauren so excitedly pointed out numerous times during our highway turnaround, was having a sale on flipflops. At the end of four hours neither of us bought anything. No longer can we shop at the Rave or WetSeal, the fashions aren't old enough; but neither can we afford Express or NY&C. Hopefully France, the country of fashion, will cater to my bargin hunting, classic style fashioning desires?

The present of the year is a Olympus Stylus 850 SW, that awesome camera that can go underwater!

The next day was the first day of Family Vacation. I started it off with a bang, having not gone to the post office all week. They had two packages and although we could very easily leave them there for the week my Dad was in such a tired state he couldn't think straight to know. In the end we convinced him and started our vacation as planned. A week at the beach house with my new camera yielded some pretty cool pictures that will be uploaded maybe today when I get my computer back from Best Buy.

Well, the air conditioner guy is done so I'm off to the gym, the bank, and the post office. Then back home to bask in the sun on my hammock. I like mornings off!