Friday night I planned on a low-key night. I didn't have any specific plans so I decided to head to my parents to hang out with them, and let Noah run around, because he absolutely loves it. I ended up meeting my mom and her long time friend, Robin, for linner? Dunch? at Iguana Grill. Then we headed home and the intern from our church, Nik, who is staying at my parent's for the summer ended up being home. Neither of us had plans, so I offered to check off some of the Austin things to do from his list. I took him to Spiderhouse and then Tiff's. I sat down at Spiderhouse, and if you've never gone, first of all, you should go because it is one of the best Austin-y places out there, and second off, they have a bunch of metal lawn chair type seating outside. So, I sit down, and there were these square holes, that apparently if you press hard enough, my button on the back of my jeans could fit through. But I couldn't just pull it right on out. It's like in the movies when a kid can push his head through the stair railings but can't pull it back out because his ears get in the way. So, I literally couldn't move much, and I was trying to maneuver the button out of the hole (of course, since it was on my back pocket, it was really hard). Anyways, after like 10 minutes of trying to find a way, I did it. Thankfully, my dad taught me to laugh at myself, otherwise, I could have been very embarrassed, since I didn't know Nik very well.
On a side note, one of the ways my dad taught me to laugh at myself, and one of the reasons I am as crazy paranoid and anxious as I am, is because when I was in elementary school, we would be going through a drive-through. We would order our food, and when we were like the next car up to the paying window, my dad would say, "Oh my goodness. I don't have any money. I don't know how to pay for this. Do you guys have any money?" and of course, worry-wart Alex would start FREAKING out. I remember thinking, "How are we going to pay? This is going to be so embarrassing." I would start looking in the back for coins. Then right before we got to the window he would say, "Oh, wait I found my wallet." Oh, how I just love my father. :)
Saturday, I got up, and ran a bunch of errands, got ready for the night, and cooked Stephanie the same cake that I made her last year. It's a yummy chocolate cake, that I just top with strawberries and powder sugar, but you can top with any icing of your choice. I'm just not a huge fan of icing. I always eat just the cake and leave the icing (unless it is cream cheese icing, then I eat that like it's going out of style).
"The Best Chocolate Cake Ever" (That's what the blog called it)
1 box devil’s food cake mix
1 small pkg Jello instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups mini chocolate chips
1 small pkg Jello instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups mini chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a very large bowl, mix together everything except chocolate chips. Batter will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into cake pan of choice (I normally use two 9-inch pie pans). For cooking time, I use the cooking times on the back of the devil’s food cake box as a guide and usually add 10 mins to whatever it says. Then I do the toothpick check, and if it’s not done, I check on it every 5 mins after that. It usually takes around 45 mins for two, 9-inch pie pans.
Nik decided to come to Z-Tejas with me for Stephanie's birthday dinner (since it was on his list). Z-Tejas was yummy as always. It was a bunch of Stephanie's friends, and her boyfriend, who is in the army and lives in Alaska came into town.
The group!
Nik and I outside Z-Tejas (had to document it for him)
After Z-Tejas, some of us headed over to Peter Pan Mini Golf. I brought a cooler of beer, because it makes it a lot more fun. This pretty much consisted of me drinking and taking lots of pics with Lindsay. We ended up not even really caring about playing. We even would just skip some of the holes because they looked boring. We were more interested in all of the awesome creatures around the course. Also, in the frat boys, who brought vodka and soda...just kidding...kind of. The frat boys took a picture for us by the turtle, but they insisted that we climb onto the turtle, so we thought, why the heck not?
We hopped right on. It was a lot harder than we had anticipated.
Stephanie looked sooooo pretty. Her hair was rocking. If I had that much hair, I'd definitely be a happy girl.
When I went to pretend kiss this dog, I was too entranced by his charm and accidentally kissed him. When I walked back I said, "Oh man, I think I actually kissed him." Laura then asked, "Was there some tongue action?" I then proceeded to say, "Yes...on his part." (I only share this conversation, because other people laughed. I always hate it when people share a story that they said something "funny" in. It seems so arrogant and makes it not so funny - which is probably what I just did).
I mean does she look like a model or what?!
After putt-putt, my other friend Stephney came and picked me up. We wanted to go out. We headed over to a little show and left pretty quickly from that. Then ended up at a friend's house. We did some two-stepping in the kitchen. It ended up being a pretty fun night, and a very happy birthday to Stephanie Lynn. I'm so glad I met her in sign language a year and a half ago.
Then Sunday came around. I woke up and went to church, even though I was out til 3:30 the night before. I told myself I wouldn't have a late night out Sunday night, but then life happened. I ended up at Spiderhouse with Elo and Marshy. Then Nik and his two friends met us there later in the night, and they said they were going to go downtown. So, of course, I had to say I was coming along, and I even convinced Elo to come out. (which is a rare occurrence as she always ends up in bed by 10:00 pm when she's back in Austin. I guess she just parties too hard while in California). It was a really fun night. We danced our brains out, and burned about 50,000 calories from it being so dang hot in the club. I also had many drinks spilled on me. It was a successful night.
I woke up Monday for the holiday at like 11:30, which I never sleep that late, even when I do stay up late (which also shows how successful the night was). Since it was memorial day, my parents had planned on cooking out with some people. So, Stephney, Elo, Nik, and I ended up outside by the pool for the afternoon. Have you ever watched Cougar Town? It's a great show. But Courteney Cox's character always has a HUGE wine glass for the "tough" times. She named it something like Big Joe. Well, Stephney and I found a wine glass that holds an entire bottle of wine, and since we both love the show, I had to buy both of us one. So we pulled those babies out for the holiday. Only, we put beer in them instead of wine...because we're classy like that. I named mine Big Bart and she named her's Big Al.
I tried to get Stephney to jump off the roof with us, but she refused after standing up there for like 10 minutes, because she's a big pansy.
Stephney and Elo ended up leaving somewhat early, so Nik and I played some pool. I won the first round, even though I haven't played in years.
This is Nik sad that he lost to a girl.
Then we played some cards with my parents and the Woottons. And then watched a movie and went to bed. It was a great weekend. I am so happy with my life right now. I finally feel like I'm living my life the way I need to live it.
I need to end on a pic of Noah. He's been missing in my posts. He likes to lay in my lap and watch TV with me.
Rachel: Just come by at lunch so that my boss doesn't see you, 'cause Kim will just freak out, and she already doesn't like me very much.
Chandler: Oh, that's weird. I don't think my boss likes me either.
Monica: I don't think mine likes me either.
Ross: Maybe it's a universal thing.
Joey: Yeah. Or maybe... it's because you're all hanging around here at 11:30 on a wednesday.
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