Work and Looking for Work

I was about to post yesterday with an update of what's been going on in my life, but I stopped myself. Why you ask? Because I realized I am not that comfortable doing a post with no pictures. I don't know why exactly it just seems weird to me to not have pictures. I have decided to suck it up though because I need to update you guys on my life, pictures or not, so here it goes.

The past couple of weeks I have been working at Chili's, applying for "real" jobs, and going to a few interviews. Period. End of story. That is all I have been doing. Sounds fun doesn't it. Nope it's not. The working at Chili's part is okay because I actually really enjoy my job, but looking for a job is not glamorous or fun. Frankly it stinks a whole heck of a lot. Can't I just have my dream job already?! I have had interviews at two different places: a law firm as an administrative assistant and at a timeshare resort as a concierge. I have gone back to the resort or a second interview and am going back again this Friday to see if I like it so I will keep you posted on that. Also if I hear anything else from any other places I will let you folks (not guys...staying gender neutral) know.

I was joking earlier. I haven't only been working and looking for a job, although it does feel that way. I have been working with my coworker, friend Lissa on making headbands to sell in salons and on Etsy. It has been so much fun. I mean I love doing crafts and to make money for doing it sounds fantastic to me. We are in the process of working out our Etsy so I will give you the deets on it once it is all set up.

I have also been doing some awesome garage saling (I know that isn't a word but we have made it one) and thrifting with my bestie Liza. We were on a mission to find the boys (when I say boys I mean Ryan and Bobby, and Robert most of the time but on this case no Robert) some furniture for their new apartment. The first time we went we got them a nice sold wood coffee table for $9! I also found some great finds for myself as usual. I got two great vintage suitcases for a buck a piece!!!

When the lady said $1 each I was shocked and snatched them right up. The next time we went we brought the boys with us so that they could see the items and decide right there if they wanted it or not. Apparently they are good luck, because the first place we went was not even 1 minute from their apartment and we found a nice table with four chairs for $40! We then proceeded to find a sectional couch for $50!! Meaning they got all of their furniture for under $100. I'd say that is impressive. I have to pat Liza and myself on the backs for that one. If it wasn't for us they would have a $600 couch and a cheap walmart card table. That same time I found a high end wine aerator never been used for $1!!!!

It was the same one Mr. Armentor used at our wine tasting. At the same place I got these two awesome hot air balloon plates for 10 cents a piece. I am currently obsessed with hot air balloons so I figured why not they are 10 cents I can figure out something to do with them. I ended up giving them to Chrissy because she is doing a plate collage wall decoration thing. At least I know they are being put to good use.

While we were out garage saling we stopped off at the Antiques Showroom in downtown Mesa. Holy motherload did they have a lot of stuff. We spent probably 2+ hours in there, to Ryan's chagrin. I was in love!!! Every booth I was enthralled in all of the amazing vintage goodness. At some of them I was even saying "hey my grandma has that!" I ended up buying three vintage books: a political cookbook for Chrissy, a 50s housewife how to book basically, and a perfect hostess book.

This is a picture in the how to book. I thought it was hilarious. It is showing you how to have proper posture. I have a feeling I am going to learn a lot of extremely useful stuff from this book :)

I will definitely be going there again real soon. After all that Bobby, Liza, and I went to eat lunch at The Cornish Pasty which happens to be on my list of restaurants to go to in AZ up on the right of this here blog. Now I can cross another one off of my list. I am going to do a review of it in another post so you can see if I liked it. A couple of days ago Liza and I went to an estate sale down the street from her grandparents to peruse around and look at some furniture her grandma thought we would like for our future apartment. We ended up getting a table and 6 chairs, an old trunk, a corner shelving unit, and a ton of other littler things for $10!!! The people were basically begging us to take the stuff. I was cool with it. The cheaper the better and the faster we can save money and move out into a place we can use the stuff.

Man I sure do know how to ramble on. I am sure I have more to say, but this post is getting a little ridiculous so I will save it for another time.

Thanks for putting up with the long post and I will keep you posted with my job search.

By the way this was typed on my phone so excuse any spelling errors. I blame it on the iPhone autocorrect. And I know at the beginning I said I didn't have any pictures, but I realized I had a few on my phone so I guess I fretted about nothing.

Vegas Baby!

A week ago Liza, Ryan, Robert, Bobby, and I all headed out to Vegas for a fun little vacation. None of us, minus Robert, had been to Vegas since we turned 21 so we thought it was a must do. I mean we are young adults how could we not go to Vegas, it is kind of a right of passage.

We drove up Monday and spent the night in the hotel just relaxing and getting ready to have a good week. Our hotel room, scratch that suite, was awesome. We stayed in a full kitchen, three bedroom suite with a giant porch, it is definitely the way to vacation. We were very lucky to be able to stay there for free because Robert's parents were kind enough to let us use their timeshare points. It definitely helped cut down the cost of our trip.

Tuesday we walked around the strip for a very long time. We made sure to stop at the slots and take a stab at them. They honestly weren't fun at all, all of the joy of it was just the fact that we had never done them before. If there was more of a skill involved with it other than just pushing a stupid button I think I would like it more.

I was fun winning $3 but I lost it basically right after I won it. Kind of dumb.
Haha Ryan won $6 and immediately cashed out. He was extremely excited!

There he is with his winnings!
As we were walking around we went past Madame Tussaud's and they had a few wax sculptures outside. Liza saw Harrison Ford's statue and she of course had to get a picture with it. He is her old man crush haha.

The Venetian is definitely one of the best places to walk around in Vegas. The faux sky ceilings and the "canals" are beautiful. While we were in there we saw David Hasselhoff, woohoo right? Please understand my sarcasm in saying that. Don't get me wrong it is kind of cool to see someone famous, but come on couldn't it have been someone cooler? I really dislike David Hasselhoff. He seems kind of like a fame whore. He likes being a celebrity more for the fame than for doing anything good. Ryan didn't believe me that it was him and he told be to prove it, but I refused to give David Hasselhoff the pleasure of me going up and asking him if he was indeed the Hasselhoff. I don't really know where this hate for him comes from, but as you can see I am apparently somewhat passionate about it. I guess I just like celebrities that are humble, seem sweet, and are using their fame for something good.

We stopped for lunch at this place called BLT Burger that was DELICIOUS! They were reasonably priced, very filling and absolutely yummy. The best part was their scrumptious alcoholic milkshakes! Liza and I split one and if I hadn't read the ingredients I wouldn't have even known there was alcohol in it. If you are ever in Vegas definitely go here and they even have togo so you can get a milkshake and walk around with it.

In one of the casinos they have a big REVOLUTION sign so we decided to take a picture in our respective letters.
The L and the E were backwards but you get the idea.
Doing this made me realize that all of the boys' names start with R. It was funny when I told them to go and stand in front of the R, Ryan looked at me funny thinking it was for all of them to support him and then he realized they were all R names.
This was our view when laying by the pool.
Liza won $8 I think. She was very excited, as anyone would be.

Looking up in Luxor was really cool looking. I love that the floors are tiered up like that. Although not accurate to the real pyramids, I like this way better.

One night we went to the restaurant Dick's Last Resort. It is a restaurant where the servers are basically jerks to you. It is kind of funny, but I think our waitress was new because she wasn't that mean or funny. Watching some of the other tables they were definitely having a better time than us. They make hats for people to wear while they are there saying kind of obscene, but funny things. Robert got a hat that was kind of lame, all it said was I pee in the pool. The one funny thing our server did was give us the pitcher of water since she was pissed we all asked for water.


Our last night there we went to Fremont St to see the light show. It was pretty cool, but my favorite part was playing the actual coin slots! I was definitely disappointed when gambling on the strip because I didn't know that slots weren't coin slots anymore. That eliminates all of the fun of gambling so when I found out that Fremont St. had the old school slots I decided we had to try them. I am SO glad we did. There is something about hearing the coins cling cling cling that really makes it fun. Plus playing with nickels makes it go much slower and last longer! What made me like it even more is that I won $17 off of just $1!!! Woohoo. That put me at breaking even for the trip since I had lost basically that much on the strip.
Here is me with my winnings!!!


After Fremont St. we went to the Stratosphere and saw the beautiful 360 view of the city lights. It was definitely breathtaking. The best part was someone gave me a free ticket to ride one of the rides on top of the Stratosphere!!! I was like a child when I got the ticket, I was so excited! While we were waiting in line I had told everyone that I wished I had bought a ticket for the ride and then my wish was granted for free! I did the rollercoaster like one that shoots you down and over the edge of the building. I thought it would be scarier than it actually was, but it was still fun!


Overall Vegas was a ton of fun. I think next time, if there is one, Liza and I are going to go with a group of girls so that we can go out dancing more.

Friend Fiesta

Graduation has come and gone and now real life is hitting me. Looking for jobs is been kind of annoying honestly. It is so gruesome. I apply for job after job and 9 times out of 10 I don't hear a thing back from them. grrr I just want to find a job. If only I could make money planning stuff for my friends and family. I am really good at that, but as of yet my friends haven't paid me for it. Oh well I still do.

I planned a dinner party for all of my friends a few weeks back as a last shebang before we all kind of split ways. Honestly I was just looking for an excuse to have a dinner party cause I really wanted to be able to go the whole nine yards with the decor. haha I am such a loser.

Here is my tablescape:

Because it was fiesta decor we of course did mexican food. Yum! Danielle and Vince brought up some delicious homemade tortillas from Tucson and my mom and I cooked everything else. (when I say my mom and I, I mean my mom basically cooked everything. I haven't mastered the art of cooking, decorating, and getting ready for a dinner party.)

The whole group. It was so much fun to get everyone together from high school. It was a little weird because all of us haven't been together in a very long time, but I think everyone had a great time chatting with each other.

We definitely had the drinks flowing! I bought lots of sangria and we had tons of beer and alcohol that I got for free from work! We even had canned margaritas. I was a little skeptical at first but they were delicious, it basically tasted like sprite. Lauren definitely enjoyed her drinks.

You see Michael in the back? Ha I like how he snuck in there.

It was so much fun hanging out and having a good time with great friends. We definitely don't do it enough. I am glad everyone was able to come. Now back to looking for a job...boo. Time to grow up I guess.