Quarter Life Crisis??

Since my last post (3 months ago!) a lot has been going on. I finished my thesis (yea!!), started working out of town 3 days a week with sex offenders, and turned 25!! Let's just start with the best subject my birthday! So usually I am looking forward to my birthday and thinking about the next theme party I want to have...but not this year. I don't know what it was but this year I just didn't make a big deal out of my birthday. It wasn't the fact that I was turning 25 because really getting older doesn't bother me but I guess the fact that my birthday was on a Monday just did not scream out fun to me or maybe I was just going thru a quarter life crisis who knows. But that doesn't mean that I didn't have a wonderful 25th birthday. Megan setup a surprise gourmet dinner for me with friends and got me the most amazing gift ever...a Kitchen-Aid Standing Mixer!! It's one of the best gifts I've ever gotten and I LOVE it. For those of you who are not into cooking or baking you cannot fully understand the love one can have towards this amazing kitchen appliance but let me tell you it's fabulous!! I also recieved a great gift from Vinny that again just goes to show that he really does listen to me when I'm talking about the things I like and I never know what to expect from him but it's always wonderful and thoughtful. And let's not forget the ice cream maker I got from my mom, again another amazing kitchen appliance that all should have. Let's just say the ice cream maker has been making some fantastic and fattening ice cream. Cookie dough was the first one and it was amazing, next came rocky road again delicious and just today cookies and cream has hit the freezer.

Okay enough about my awesome birthday, let's get to the present. Over the weekend I traveled up north with Vinny to my dad's house so that he could be closer to his race on Saturday near Patterson. He did amazing and got 2nd then we traveled down to SoCal because he raced in Irvine on Sunday. Well, we took the I5 and of course we got hungry when we were traveling thru Kettlemen City so we stopped. Unfortunately we stopped at a nasty restaurant and had a horrible meal (which we did not even eat). Our choices were fast food restaurants and one diner so we chose the diner..big mistake. Nothing tasted fresh and there were flies all over that were driving me crazy. Back on the road and of course we hit a little bit of traffic once we got to LA but other than that it was a smooth ride. Our hotel was actually in Santa Ana and it was pretty ghetto but hey we were only there less than 12 hours so for the price can't complain. But the place was pretty run down and looked like it was being used for low income housing as well so you can imagine some of the peeps not to mention the fact that there was a party going on in the building next to the hotel that was blaring Mexican music. I was looking forward to Sunday morning because I talked Vinny into going to breakfast at Knott's Berry Farm at Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner restaurant. Their breakfast is good and you get tons of food, I mean every meal comes with Biscuits and Gravy, I'm not a huge fan of biscuits and gravy but their's is great!! I apologize for all the food talk but I am a foody. So in Irvine Vinny raced for almost 4.5 hours/ 120 miles and got 13th. He's pretty crazy! I sat there reading a book from my new favorite person Anthony Bourdain. I love how the guy just says what he thinks without any inhibition. I also had the nerve-wracking job of feeding Vinny and another cyclist water bottles when they passed by the feedzone...ahhh scary at first but not too bad after 6 laps! Well we got back to Fresno around 1am and so I pretty much started my Monday off tired and more tired. So I'm sure I did great therapy with my clients! Well I think that's a lot for now but hopefully I can stay more consistent so that I don't have to write these epic catch up blogs!!!