We are family

Blogger World, in four hours my family and I will be traveling to The Lonestar State. This weekend marks the annual shopping/mini-family vacation. A few years ago my mom came up with this grand idea of spending one weekend, before school starts, shopping in Dallas. I know, my mom is super wise; and my dad is even wiser because he comes along to hold our shopping bags. Ok, not really. He usually reads books and drinks coffee in book stores. He makes us hold our own shopping bags, which is fine because I’m independent and stuff.

This year’s trip comes with good news and bad news. The good news is this year my family is in for a special trip. See, a few months ago my dad played in a golf tournament and won a big prize. He won a free night stay at a fancy hotel in Dallas. When I say fancy, I mean fan-cy. I’m pretty sure my Okie family will stick out like a sore thumb, but who cares it’s free. I’m planning to lay out by the fancy pool and receive a fancy tan!

The bad news about the trip is my mom is making all of us ride together in a car. Let me repeat the part you should care about…ride together in a car. As I have mentioned in previous post- I do not do road trips. I have this car sick problem. It usually flares up when I have to sit in a hot crammed car! Pretty much my whole life my parents have owned either mini vans or suburbans. And can I just say that was the smartest decision of their parenting life! Not only do I have the car sick problem, my sisters and I have this rule when we travel. We cannot touch. I’m dead serious. There is NO touching in the car. Even today, the 28, 25, and 18 year old cannot touch each other. As you can imagine, 5 adults in a car will be a bit crammed, and its 100 degrees outside! Folks, I don’t know if we will make it to Dallas. This just might be the end for my family. Who cares that we’ve made 67,189 trips to Arkansas; this dinky trip to Dallas just-might-kill-us! Stay tuned for fun stories on Monday morning.

I left my heart in San Francisco…

Ok, not really. I actually brought my heart back, along with the rest of my tired body. And oh how I was tired! Yesterday, I overslept and arrived to work an hour and half late. I kid you not. I was so embarrassed. I have never been late to work after a vacation. Never. Not even when I’ve flown across the world. But I guess that is a sign of a good vacation- being dead dog tired when you return to normal life. Blogger World, until I have time to post more enjoy the pictures from the city.

The first night I had dinner here. It was good. However, I only had the In-n-Out Burger experience once. I'm sorry, I had other things to do...like shop at H&M and North Face.

It was a great trip and I had loads of fun. I ate great food, saw all the sites, walked across The Golden Gate Bridge, and even tasted wine in Napa Valley.

I'm Off....

My bags are packed! I'm off to San Francisco for a long weekend. I have never been to San Fran. I'm pretty excited about all the fun things I will be able to see while there. What's at the top of Ok Chick's list of things to do? Eat at In-n-Out Burger. That's right, food! I've never experienced the In-n-Out Burger experience. If it's as good as people say, I might eat a burger a day.
Well Blogger World, hold down the fort while I'm gone. I will return!

Ok Chick

Japanese Pancake Night

Last week, The Roommate and her husband invited MrT and I over for dinner. We were the newly married couple’s first dinner guest. I must say, being someone’s first dinner guest is quite an honor. The Roommate made a superb meal for everyone and the conversation throughout the meal was great! Sidenote: I would add the picture of MrT and I, from that night, but it wasn't good. Actually, MrT looked fine. I on the other hand, looked like death. Really, I did.

Anyway, one of the dinner conversations from that night was about our friend ML. He’s the guy that’s currently living it up in Japan. Someone at dinner had the great idea of visiting ML’s favorite Oklahoma Pancake establishment, Bev’s. We thought it would be fun to eat at Bev’s and have a Japanese Pancake Night; which Japanese Pancakes are just regular pancakes eaten with chopsticks. Yes, we totally made that up!

Monday night, The Roommate, The Roommate’s Husband, MrT, and I all ate at Bev’s in honor of ML. Here are some pictures of Japanese Pancake Night…..

MrT and I eating our Japanese Pancakes. See, this picture is much better! And look at MrT's cool glasses! Aren't those cool? I wish I would have woren my cool glasses. No, I really have cool glasses...they're red.

The Roommate and The Roommate's Husband enjoying Japense Pancakes. Actually, The Roommate is eating Eggs Benedict. I guess she didn't get the memo that it was Japanese PANCAKE Night! I kid, I kid!

I must say it was a fun night!

Life as a single

Today I received this mass email from the Singles Minister at church…..

Class,
…. is co-hosting with us a cookout and devotional at the Park on Sunday. I have just received a call from a single from (another church in town) who is about your age wondering what age singles would be attending. Please come out that Sunday evening. I think there will be a good group your age attending.

Ok, I don’t blame the minister for this email because he seems like a nice guy. And I'm aware that he is trying to get people to attend the cook-out, but really? REALLY? He wants my singles class to attend a cookout because there might be a good group your age attending. See, this is why I take Single Trips! Right here is a good example of the dumb things people say to singles. When I read the email I laughed to myself, and immediately emailed my friend Suzy... to make fun of the email. WELLL, funny thing is I didn’t hit forward, I hit the reply. My lovely Singles Minister received my email poking fun of his email. Now, normally I would feel bad for this whole thing. You know, making fun of someone to their face. However on this occasion I don’t.

Here's my resply that I thought went to my friend Suzy....

Did you get this email? If so, what does he mean by....single from (another town) who is about your age. I'm sorry but this sentence made me laugh out loud!

In the summertime when the weather's high...

Another busy weekend has come and gone. Monday is always so depressing, but it seems worse in the summer. I’d much rather be playing at the pool, than sitting at a desk wearing a sweater. Yes, I’m really wearing a sweater. Ok on to the Weekend Updates.

Friday
I hung with two great friends, Krista and Tara. Krista is one of my oldest friends. Krista and I met when I was in 8th grade at church camp. Since then we’ve gone to High School together, been college roommates, and gone through the whole college/real world transition. And after all those things, we’re still friends. Anyway, Last week Krista celebrated a birthday so Tara and I celebrated with her. We enjoyed a home cooked meal, and then ventured downtown to meet OK Dude. He had a new girl he wanted us to meet. IT Girl, as he calls her, seemed nice but she didn’t overly impress me. BUT, she did inform me that there is an H&M in Dallas; which as you know…excited me beyond words. Actually, I was speechless. All I could say was…SHUT UP!

Saturday
This was an exciting day. Sister #2 and I went to see Harry Potter. I was very impressed with the movie. I highly recommend the movie, and its $9.00 worthy.
After the movie Sister #2 and I went to the pool. I love the pool! I love reading and lying by the pool. It’s great. If I ever become a millionaire, I’m going to build a pool. I might even get a pool boy!
Saturday evening was spent eating hamburgers and visiting my favorite cupcake joint. I took my parents and Sister #2 to my favorite cupcake place. My dad was impressed that people actually pay $3 for a cupcake. I quickly reminded him that Sister #1 and I had a dream of owning a coffee/cupcake place; a dream that he shot down. Yup, he’s eating his words now!

Sunday
After church my friend, Teresa, and I decided to walk around Lake Hefner, which is about 11-12 miles. We were doing great until the last mile. I had to stop because the world started going black. Then when I stopped my friend got a bit sick to her stomach. As you can guess, we did not have enough water in us to walk 11-12 miles. But luckily a random nice man, who was fishing, offered us a ride to our car and some ice. I could have kissed this man! Of course, I didn’t because I didn’t know him, he was old, and he had a big bucket of crickets in his trunk. Yeah, we won’t talk about how I ate ice out of his ice chest that I’m sure he touched with his cricket hands. Really, we won’t talk about that!

Anonymous Truths

This is an experiment to see how honest people can be if they don't have to identify themselves. A question from one of my favorite blogs- Anonymous Truths.

The Rules:
1. All comments should be left anonymously.
2. Just because the comments are anonymous is NOT an excuse to leave an inappropriate or judgmental remark.
3. It is fine for a healthy dialog to take place in the comments section, but keep it clean, impersonal, and on track.
4. If you recognize someone’s answer, please keep it to yourself.
5. This is in NO WAY intended to be offensive or hurtful to anyone.

The Question:
Confession is good for the soul, so...