January 11

Today is Bubbie's birthday. I fail at being a good granddaughter, I was the last person to call her.

I picked up Dennis around 7:30 and we headed to Jose and Christy's. He was given the grand tour and we made our way to the beach. I decided that we would go to Burger and Beer Joint, since he had asked for something good and to hit up the beach; kill two birds with one stone. It took us FOREVER to find parking and Jose started freaking our.The food was delicious as always, but the service sucked.

After dinner, we drove around the beach for a little bit. We drove past the Jersey Shore gelatto place, just for the sake of it. We were going to walk on the beach, but couldn't find parking. We headed home and wound up talking in front of Jose and Christy's for about an hour.

Dennis said that he and Julie are coming down sometime in April for their birthdays. He wants all of us to go to Disney together. We'll see.

After I dropped him off at his hotel, he texted me and said thanks and "see, I'm not such a bad guy after all." AHA! I knew there were ulterior motives.

Jess called as I was driving Dennis and said that she was drunk and I would need to drive Damien back to his car so he could drive her car home. I love my drunk wifey. They got home about half an hour after I did. We all hung out for a little bit then I took Damien back to his car.

Add this to the list of reasons I don't sleep any more.

January 10

Monday, Monday. The only thing I love about you is my TV and pizza nights with the girls.

Work was incredibly busy today. We had far too much to do, and I messed up someone's transcript. Oops. I got my ass chewed out because of it, but whatever. I'm still waiting for the call from the Concierge job. I WILL get this job; I know it.

After work, I passed by the Papa John's on campus. They have an $8 XL pizza special, which is so much better than the $13 that I usually pay. Bianca texted me that she was going to leave class early to have dinner and watch TV with us. Her and Jess got to Kaleena's around the same time, just in time to watch PLL!

After dinner and TV, manicures happened. I have barbie nails, and I love it!

I have to go to dinner with Dennis tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it, but I'll put on a happy face and play good host. We'll see how this goes.

January 9 - All for the love of chocolate

I'm posting, just for the sake of it. Today consisted of a whole lotta nothing. Jess and I woke up late and went to the mall. We were on a mission to replace the jeans I bought in a size too small, but we were unsuccessful.

Victoria's Secret was having the semi-annual sale, so we decided to pass by. That was completely unsuccessful as well. We were just too tired to shop. We did, however, get yummy chocolate and shakes from Godiva. An entire afternoon at the mall just for good chocolate. I totally approve.

On the way home, we discussed what to have for dinner. It was decided that bagel bites were acceptable. We went home and watched hours of Millionaire Matchmaker and ate an entire box of bagel bites, with some oreo's for dessert.

All in all, a pretty relaxing day. I definitely needed this to recover from the weekend.

January 8 - More adventures with Kaleena and Tiff!

Jess, Tiff and I finally wake up around lunch time. It is decided that we're going to have hot dogs on the grill, ala Jessica. She actually starts the grill without catching on fire (a first!). We have a delicious lunch, served with doritos and moscatto.

After lunch, we watch part of There's Something About Mary and make plans for the evening. Cynthia is at Carmen's house, so we decide we're going to head up to Pompano. Tiff goes home to get ready, Kaleena is told that she WILL come with us, and Jess and I start the beautification process. We started out to leave at 7:30, but didn't leave Miami until 9:30; you know we run on Cuban time.

We finally make it to Carmen's around 10. That is obviously the cue for the drinks to be poured and the music to start playing. Tiffy breaks it down (and was a zebra humping Jess), Kaleena and I make our way through a few strong drinks, Carmen forces Ashley to dance and we all have a great time. I really enjoy hanging out with Carmen, Cynthia, Brian and Ashley.

Sometime around 2, Tiff, Ashley and I passed out on the couch. We continued the night with lots of random conversation about roosters, music, and all kinds of crap. After losing track of time, we finally decide its far too late to still be up and we head home. At 6:00 in the morning. Brian invited us to hard rock next weekend to go dancing with him and some friends. I really enjoy his company, so I think we may go. Jess jokes that there's going to be a fight between Kaleena, Tiff and I over him. It's not that serious.

On the way home, Jess had to pull over in Miramar and rest for a little bit cause she was out of it. We saw a rooster in the gas station parking lot. No lie, a fucking rooster. After our long talk about the roosters at Carmen's. The universe was messing with us, I'm convinced.

Jess was finally stable enough to drive us home. I wound up taking Tiff and Kaleena home and let Jess get some sleep. On the way to Tiff's, she asks me, with a serious face, "Staci, where do you live?" Right after we left MY house. It was too funny.

I finally got home around 7:30. I called my parents and they were just getting up for church. I love late nights and long weekends with these girls.

January 7 - Friday night adventures of Blondie, Bambi, Kaleena and Tiffy

So Kaleena messages me this afternoon saying her and Tiff get out of school at a reasonable hour tonight and that we should do something. Of course I suggest Roundup for ladies night. What is better than $5 cover and free drinks? NOTHING I can think of!

We head up to Davie kind of early, which is surprising. We get there before the crowds and the music was kind of crappy. It was a lot of dances that none of us knew. We hung out and drank for a while waiting for the place to loosen up. Finally around 11 it got fun. We danced and drank and ran into old friends and had an amazing time. We left around 3, had our typical post-roundup waffle house breakfast and headed home. We got home around 4:30. Kaleena left and Tiff spent the night.

I love random nights like this with my lovely ladies!

January 6 - The anticipation is going to be the death of me...

I really really hate waiting. This anticipation of hearing back about the job for at least a week is going to drive me bonkers!

It was decided today that our anti-valentine's day ladies night will be on the 12th. I'm super excited and looking forward to a crazy night out with Leah and Deedee. Hibachi and Hoochies will definitely become a tradition. :)

Christy and I decided on sushi for dinner. After a long debate on where to go, we decided to try this new place in the gables, POC. It was amazing! $20 for all you can eat sushi makes me a happy girl. I definitely got my money's worth, but ate far too much. I can't wait to go back though.

FIU's alert system apparently fails. There was a robbery on campus and no one got the initial warning message, only the all clear messages. Lovely. I pray that there is never an emergency during work hours.

January 5 - Interviews and such

I woke up far too early in anticipation of my interview today. 10 AM seemed so far away! I felt way overdressed of my typically lax office, but it was all good. I gave them this wonderful excuse about having to meet with a professor for grad school.

I met with Elizabeth and she said that she recognized my name from somewhere but couldn't figure out where. I think this was a good thing. Not to mention she was smiling at all my answers to her questions. She said that she's going to be interviewing through next week and hopes to make her decisions shortly after that. They're hiring 5 people and only interviewing about 20. I have a 25% chance of getting this job, and I personally think those are some damn good odds.

Jess and Rick went out to dinner. I stayed home and I think I'm just gonna get to bed early. I'm quickly becoming a lazy bum...