BEDA 2013 #2: First day In Atlanta

Day two of BEDA, and I have had a pretty fun day.  

Patrick and I drove to Atlanta.  Well he drove most of the way, and we are just outside of Atlanta, but it is all the same difference.  We went to the Sugarloaf Mills Mall, and it is pretty awesome.  It has quite a few stores that I would LOVE if they were closer to where I lived.  Some of my favorite stores there include Sanrio, The Lego Store, Lydia's ArtBox, Panda Express, and one store in particular called Pica Pica! I love it the most because one, it sounds like Pikachu is talking, and two is one of the coolest anime/plushy/video game store I have seen. We have gotten a store like that where we live finally, but it still isn't as great as this one is.

This mall also had a book-a-million, and there was one thing I had on my mind to get while I was there, and that was the Legend Of Zelda Hyrule Historia. I have wanted this book the moment that it was released in Japan, and when they announced that it was going to be translated to English, I about flipped my lid. I am very paranoid when it comes to buying books online. I am afraid of it being mistreated or damaged while in shipping, so I like to buy locally when I can. I could not for the life of me find it anywhere at any book store in my area. I was about to give up, and buy online a little bit before Patrick and I even considered coming to Atlanta. The moment that we made plans to come, I decided to hold out from buying it until I looked here, and I was super ecstatic to find it here! It is so pretty, and totally worth the money. I have yet to read it, and I know it is worth the money just based on the size of the book, and how much content is actually in it. I mean it is the time line for the entire Hyrule history!!!!! I'm a nerd and proud!

We then went to Dave and Busters, and played a bunch of games. I have found two games that I absolutely love. One that is a reflex game where you hit the light buttons as they light up. I love games like that. It was a great way to be active and work on my hand eye coordination. The second game is also a reflex game, but is not active at all. It just involves pressing a button at the right time to stop a line to see how many tickets you can get. I think I played it about 12 times, and I won the bonus five times. The bonus was 250 and increased every time you missed the bonus, so I made ticket bank!!! I used my tickets to get two full music albums: Billy Talent's III, and Cherri Bomb's Stark ep.

Just at the mall alone, I walked over 10,000 steps! It normally takes me an entire day to do that. I was happy. I added about 6,000 after we left the mall. We are going to the zootomorrow, and the aquarium the next day. If I don't get about that amount of steps or more each of those days, I will be completely shocked. I will also be shocked if I don't lose weight this week on Friday.  

The last thing we did was go to probably one of the best restaurants I have ever been to in my entire life. It is a Vietnamese restaurant that once we read the reviews and looked at the menu we knew we had to go. We were not disappointed!!!! Everything was AMAZING!!!! I had the Chicken with eggplant in a black bean sauce, and a soft summer roll, and Thai tea with pearls to drink. Everything was so good and you could tell that all of the food was fresh! When I was full, and had left overs, I was upset that it went to waste. I definitely have a place to come eat every time I come to Atlanta now. If you are ever in the area, GO!!! It is worth it, the price is not bad at all, and the food is so good. I have never liked a restaurant before I even got the food. That is how good it was, and it is a very pretty place too. It would be a good place to have a wedding reception.  

We went to the asian grocery that was right next door, and got a bunch of Ramune, tiny juice bottles, and the coolest Red Bull bottle I have ever seen. Here is a picture of it.

How cool is that?!? I am not a fan of Red Bull, but I thought this bottle was so cool that I had to buy myself one. We also bought a big box of dates. It's a good snack, it's healthy, and they last us a couple of days! :)

I am excited to see the zoo tomorrow. I have only been to one zoo, but I don't think it was that great of a zoo because the only thing I can remember from it is seeing flamingos, and going into a reptile house. I am excited to see the cute baby panda!

I am going to go now because I want to get sleep, so that I can wake up, work out, eat breakfast, and go see cute animals.

DFTBA

Much love! :)

BEDA #1: Returning with a vengeance!!!

I am BACK!!!

 I know, I know, I say that every time I take an unexpected long break from this blog, but I am for serious this time!!! I now have a Chrome book, so I have NO EXCUSES!!! If I don't post now it is not because I don't have access to a computer, or have computer problems. It will be either forgetfulness, or plain laziness this time. I don't want this blog to be like everyone of those returning blogs I do. So onto the next subject.

 I decided (just now actually) to participate in Blog Every Day April once again. My life has picked up a lot more lately, and I have been enjoying every moment of it. I will have a lot more to talk about, and I have a lot more to catch you all up on now. It is rather exciting really.

 Tomorrow, Patrick and I will be leaving for Atlanta for three days to go take picture of the zoo and the aquarium. He has been needing a break from everything what with his busy work and school schedule. He has been craving to take picture of things he has never taken pictures of before, so we are very excited about that. When I get to editing my photo's I will definitely post some of my favorites here.

 I have started vlogging again, and I love it. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I started to do it again. Holy crap did I miss it. Editing has always been a kind of stress relieving hobby, so I don't know why I ever stopped doing it. Mostly I have been vlogging about books and my weight loss progress.

 Now that I have a Chrome book, I have been working on finding websites I haven't been to in years. It's weird seeing all of the websites I have just forgotten about over the years. Rooster Teeth is probably the website I have been apart of the longest(apart from myspace and facebook). I was 16 when I joined the site, and I forgot all of the "Treasures" if you will that I have posted. It is quite funny.

 Tomorrow's post will be a hell of a lot more interesting than today's. I have gathered a complete and growing list of topics that I have been wanting to blog about for the longest time, but have just been too lazy to do anything with them. Like I said, I now have no excuses, and if I make any excuses....well, I am hoping it won't happen anymore.

 See you all tomorrow!!!

 DFTBA! :)

BEDAugust was a fail this year.

I was so hyped up and ready to do BEDA this month, and then the moment it turned to August the 1st, I was bombarded with so much stuff! So here I am to tell you why I haven't been blogging at all this week.

About a week and a half ago I was asked out on a date for my next day off. My next day off just so happened to be this past Monday. We got together at around noon. We went for lunch at a sushi place in Greenville. Then we went to Downtown Greenville to get coffee at Coffee Underground, and to walk around Falls Park. We then went to Books-A-Million (He automatically won awesome points with that one.), and then to his house to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. What made the watching of the HP so awesome was the fact that he hasn't seen but one movie (And of all the ones he watched he watched the worse one in my opinion: Goblet Of Fire). I am just converting all of these people to like HP. it is quite great, but I digress. The point of the story is, we got along like a big house on fire.

Tuesday I worked. After I got off, I joined my mom in watching the rest of the last HP movie. When we got home, we went out to eat and then shopping. Again another day where I wasn't home.

Wednesday, I worked until five when Patrick (My date from Monday, now my boyfriend) picked me up and we went to my house to hang out. I was home the rest of the night, but I was busy watching movies and youtube videos, and playing Halo Reach.

Thursday was my day off, but I went shopping for groceries for the following week so that I won't starve while my mom is at the beach. After that, I took a nap, and when Patrick got off work, I went to hang out with him. I got to meet his friends, and I think they like me which is awesome! :)

Friday, I went to weight watchers where I found out I lost 5.6 pounds this week!?!?!?!?!? This shocked the hell out of me, but hey I will take it. :) THen I got home and got ready really quickly because I thought I worked opening shift. When I got there however I found out that I work the closing shift. When I got home I took a nap, and when it was time I walked to work and didn't get home until well after midnight.

Tonight is the first night I have been able to blog, and it would have been sooner in the day if it wasn't for my internet being stupid and not working.

So in the past week I gained a boyfriend. Not much, but considering how much time we have spent together just in this one week, it has made it almost impossible for me to write here. I will try a lot better for the rest of the month because I really do love blogging.

Now I am going to go because I have been on my knees entirely too long, and it is now really hard for me to get up now.

I will start the music video of the day back up tomorrow. :)

DFTBA and much love
~Alicia~

These are slow times there's no denying. (BEDA #24)

You see what I did there? I took Rufus Scrimgeour's first line of Deathly Hallows pt. 1 movie and applied it to how today went. It just felt like a really long, slow day, but finally work is back to normal. Spring break for the high schoolers in our county is over which means back to weekend working until summer. I'm not happy about that because that is less money to be made, but at the same time I am tired of babysitting teenagers. haha

I vacuumed the lobby today, and it took me about an hour to do the entire floor. When it came time to empty out the dirt chamber/filter, I went outside to empty both of them. Wouldn't you know that the wind was blowing, and no matter where I moved the wind seemed to want to constantly blow at me. It took a while to clean the filter of all the dust, and by the end of it I felt like a chimney sweeper that's how covered I was. From now on, I am emptying it out inside away from the wind.

I just finished watching Deathly Hallows pt 1 with my mom. It was mom's first time watching it. It was my fourth time watching it, and I still cried at all the sad bits. I don't think I've ever been able to say that about any movie. Normally if I cry at a part the first time, by the second time I'm ready for it and no emotions surface. It must be the fact that Harry Potter has such a special place in my heart that it will always pull emotions out of me no matter how many times I read it or watch it. That is what's so good about the Harry Potter series. The books/movies carry you into another world, and dwell in your soul. I'll be totally sad when it's all over this July. I just hope the fandom doesn't die out. That's my outlet. :)

Today music video is The Wallflowers "One Headlight". I love this song to pieces!!! It is just one of many masterpieces to come out of the 90's! I could listen to it for hours! It comes of their album "Bringing Down The Horse"



It's time for me to go get some sleep. I have a long day of cleaning/packing to do tomorrow.

DFTBA!
~Alicia~

New Doctor Who season starts TONIGHT! (BEDA #23)

I am so excited!!! I've been waiting for this since Christmas!!! I have a feeling that I am going to be at the edge of my seat for every single episode, but I am like that with every single episode I've ever watched. :)

I have been kind of avoiding the internet all day because I actually have friends who live in the UK, and I know they are going to watch it. I also have a lot of friends who will be downloading it off torrents to watch it early. (I probably will as well, but at the moment I am getting ready for work). I won't get to see the episode until after I get home from work which could be at exactly 10 pm if I can find a ride home, or midnight when my boss gets off work so that I will have a ride home. Either way I am going to watch it the moment I get home. I may have church tomorrow morning, but I can run of five hours sleep no problem. I did it last Sunday. :) Though if I get off work before ten and get home before Doctor Who ends, I am going to wait until five minutes after. I'm really weird about spoiling myself. I don't even like watching a movie or listening to a song unless it has started at the beginning, even if I have seen/heard them before.

I am having so much fun learning guitar. I have started learning how to switch chords fluidly, but I am having a slight problem with it. I think with practice it will be better, but I am not quite ready to start playing songs yet. I think that is what's driving me to keep learning. I also don't want it to be a waste of 150 dollars.

Also last night I won my very first bid on ebay. It was for blue pirate dreads from one of my favorite Real World/Road Rules Fresh Meat 2 contestants! She has only made two of these blue dreads, and I will be the only one to own them!!!! How awesome is that!!! They will make a fine addition to my Ravenclaw outfit for leaky con!!!

Today's video is a song that I have always loved, and the name of it kind of relates to what I am going to be doing today. Pantera is by far one of my favorite metal bands. It's just a shame I never had a chance to meet Dimebag Darrell (R.I.P.). He was such a genius, and from what I could gather from every interview I've seen him in a really nice down to earth guy! He is still missed to this day! The Song is "Walk" and it is off their album "Vulgar Display Of Power"



Well I am going to go back to watching doctor who and making things for the craft fair so that I can earn my 50 dollars for the final battle...hopefully.

DFTBA
~Alicia~