were going vintage y'all

After a delightfully filling Buffet City dinner, Shea, Nicole and I came home to be lumps of the couch. While in the process of being lumps I turned on the tv and Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet was on the Fox Movie Channel. I happen to love this movie it takes me back, way back to six grade and Katie Petty's house. As I continued to tell Shea and Nicole the various reasons why I love this movie, they both confessed they had never seen this version of the movie. And I am all like what? Where were you in 1996? See I was in LOVE with Leo DiCaprio like maybe 18 months before every other girl my age was. Which rocks. But also kind of a curse with me I love something a lot, but when it hits super mainstream I resent all other who get on board. But now as time has passed I can LOVE it again. So this weeks Film Friday is vintage y'all. If you haven't seen this version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet you totally should.

I'm a grown up now.

Different people gage being a grown up in different ways. This is how I gage:
In the last year....
I went through a period of unemployment without having to seek assistance with my financials.
I stop waiting for someone else to care as much about my birthday as I did, and threw myself the best 25th birthday party I could imagine.
I went on a fabulous vacation (and crossed an item off my life list) by going to the Winter Olympics, just because I wanted to.
I turned 25 (lower car insurance rates).
I test drove a car for the first time, and sat through the "we want to get you in this car" speech without once being tempted to go for it, even though I really liked the car.
I got a job that I actually get excited to go to everyday.
I moved without my brother's truck or friends truck, but not without my brother's assistance.
I threw my back out.
I started to enjoy the taste of coffee for the first time.

What made you say- I'm grown up now?

From the Urban Dictionary of Lynne

Fancy Pants:
1. Pants appropriate for a business causal workplace
2. Contain more than one button/ slide catch
3. Enable it impossible to pee faster than a minute thirty based solely on the unbuttoning/buttoning of the pants.

I am so thirsty I could just quaff that down...

Again- courtesy of dictionary.com:

quaff

  [kwof, kwaf, kwawf] 

–verb (used without object)

1.

to drink a beverage, esp. an intoxicating one, 
copiously and with hearty enjoyment.

–verb (used with object)

2.

to drink (a beverage) copiously and 
heartily: We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.

–noun

3.

an act or instance of quaffing.

4.

a beverage quaffed.

Origin: 
1515–25;  orig. uncert.

—Related forms

quaffer, noun

outquaff, verb (used with object)

un·quaffed, adjective

—Synonyms 
1.  swallow, gulp, swig, guzzle. 

This week I am not sure I used it right, but I love it all the same. 

This is what a young cool girl does on the 4th of July

I didn't do anything fun. I mean I had fun but I imagine the average person looking in would have been: "What? That poor girl has no life" I cleaned the kitchen, did all my laundry, and completely rearranged my room. It's hard going from a huge 1 1/2 bedroom apartment all to yourself to a 2 bedroom apartment where one of the other rooms belongs to someone else. I have like 1/5 the closet space and twice as much furniture that needs to be in my room that can no longer hang out wherever I want it to. I used yesterday to essentially open Shea's Bedroom door and go "Oh yeah, that floor plan works better" and shamelessly copy it. (except you know with better style). Luckily for me Shea was out boating and didn't have to see me eying all his stuff. Now I have even space in my room to throw out my arms and twirl round and round. Because isn't that what every girl want for her room?

Yankee Doodle Pops

It was a lovely evening with the family!