Eggplant, Costumes, and T-Scores... Oh My!

On Sunday night I made Eggplant Parmesan. It was delicious! Everyone enjoyed it (and by everyone I mean my family and Nick). I didn't end up using Jennifer's recipe, mainly because I didn't want to make the sauce myself, so I used a Martha Stewart recipe. So yummy!!

Well, I just found out another friend of mine is pregnant! (and I'm totally going to talk about it here even though not everyone knows yet, because really... only like 4 people read this blog, and none of them are related) I swear, there is something in the water! haha... I'm happy for the families of these 2 precious fetuses.

I'm going to a Halloween/Birthday Party and am very excited about my new costume. If you recall I went to a Halloween Costume Party/Dinner a few weeks ago at the Fratellanza club and my parents won 2nd place with their Popeye and Olive Oyl costumes!... wait, did I post about that? Let me go check... Oh, hmm... I totally didn't talk about that... well... now you know. I went to a Costume Party/Dinner/Dance thing at an Italian, Members Only Club, with my family a couple weeks ago. I helped plan my parents costumes (re: I told them they were going to be Popeye and Olive Oyl) and I helped plan my sister's costume (re: I told her she was going to be Cruella De Vil). That left little time for the planning of my costume, so I ended up going as Beth Chapman... again. I was Beth last year in SD. I figured since no one from SD will see me, it's cool if I wear the costume again. Well... I didn't really want to do that again. I could have recycled my boxer costume from 2 years ago, but I wanted to do something new, so I decided on a fairly decent and easy costume. I went to JoAnn fabric and craft store today for some material and Party City for some hair color and lastly WalMart for 33¢ knee high panty hose!! (Those were a great find, I'm just going to wear them on my arms, so I didn't want to ruin something expensive... but 33¢ is amazing!) I'll probably post a picture later. I hope it works out. That's the most hint I'll give you. I won't spoil the surprise. :)

Oh, this morning I got my T-Score breakdown in the mail. Remember the POST test I took that I passed. (I know I wrote about that, so just scroll down some if you don't remember... go ahead... I'll wait.... .... ... okay, ready? good.) I got the breakdown of my score, which basically means that instead of just "Pass/No Pass" I got a score. My score is 68.3. (The different categories had scores too, but I"m just posting the overall T-score) I have no idea what that means. I went to the site it told me to go to for more information on interpreting the scores, but it wasn't super helpful. It was helpful in boosting my confidence though because it told me that I am "above average" of other test takers. :) What I think it means is that, of the questions I answered, I only got a few wrong. The test added points for correct answers, deducted points for incorrect answers, and did nothing for no answers.

I haven't heard back yet from the Oral Board Interview, but it was less than a week ago, so that's not surprising. I'll keep you posted (no pun intended).

When Pigs Fly

I'm 25 years old. You'd think I'd have figured myself out by now. I never understood how the world expects an 18 year old to know what they want to do with their life. When I was 18, I had no clue. I went to college because it seemed like the next logical step. Okay, that's not entirely true, I've always had ideas, aspirations, goals on what I wanted to do with my life, but they fluttered all around my head never quite in reach. I used to want to be in the Secret Service, a police officer, a singer, an actress, a lighting designer or theatre electrician, an IRS auditor, and even a truck driver. Yeah... I've had quite a wide range of ideas, with none of them fully realized.

I'm hoping that this blog will help me realize some of these goals and/or dreams. I know I cannot become all the above professions, but to be able to work on something that I really enjoy will be a nice change. My giant, overbearing step 1 on my list of things to get done in life is: lose weight. I am unhappy with my current weight, as I find most women are, which I think leads me to be unhappy with other aspects of my life. What I'd really like to do in life is lose weight and start working in some community theatre groups in plays - onstage or behind the scenes. I would love to get into the entertainment industry. I used to want to be an actress, I still do sometimes, but I've only taken a couple of classes and have never been in any plays. I took a practicum class in college where we focused on set lighting. I loved it. It was so much fun to figure out the light plot, hang lights, focus for designers, even set the light board for a play. I once was the light board op for a play too... it was great! I want to get back to that sort've "love what I do" mentality.

My current job falls way off the mark of such a "love what you do" mentality. In fact, I may even venture to say that I hate being at my current job. The problem isn't so much what I actually do, as that is more or less easy, it's more of the envirmonment that I work in. I can handle getting yelled at by people all day to help them save money, but I can't handle my managers not backing me up, pushing their work back on me, not communicating well, and talking about killing animals at work (yes, it is a frequent topic at work. very disturbing). I want to love what I do and it would be a plus to be paid big bucks to do it. :)