May was good.  May 2010, you were probably one of the best Mays I’ve ever had.  Some highlights were:

• driving all the way to Peabody to go to a Sonic
• watching X-Files on Netflix instant viewing
• getting a $100 tip, and then blowing it on dinner
• reviving my Nike + kit and running outside for a change

And now it’s June 2010.  The month where I will:  stop using an iPhone, stick to my budget, and stick to my diet.  I want May back!

I am thankful for a boyfriend who loves to cook, and an abundance of fresh seafood.  Hope you’re having a wonderful May like I am!

One little thing that has really brightened my day is all the new TV shows that have been added to Netflix instant viewing.  It really is a Godsend to someone who works overnight and has to fill about 5 hours of quality sitting down time.

This week Netflix added:  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Prison Break, 24, X-Files, Roswell, and Arrested Development.  It just seems too good to be true!  Thank you Netflix!  I love you like a brother!

This picture has nothing to do with this post.  I just have a hard time living without photo accompaniment.

I know people always say you should live your life without regrets.  Well piffel to those people, because I regret many many things.

Regret can be a good thing.  It can push you forward to do something else.  And that’s what it’s doing to me now.  So yay for regret!

If you had a time travel machine and could go back in time and convince yourself to change one thing, what would it be?  I would tell myself to get a degree in economics.  But no matter, I think I’ll just get a PhD in that later.  Now onto the MBA first.

And a hot tip?  If you start to hear more bad things about Greece in the news I would just go ahead and trade any of those Euro’s you’re sitting on for dollars.  Maybe Canadian dollars.

I have to take a minute to talk about how preposterous this new detergent from Tide is.  It’s called Tide Febreze Sport.  Since when did my workout clothes need special detergent?

The advertisements are trying to tell you that you need to get your workout clothes smelling extra fresh because you sweat in them.  But that’s exactly the reason you do not need them to be extra fresh– you’re just going to sweat in them after you wash them!  Sure, no one wants to have smelly workout clothes sitting inside the dresser stinking up the other clothes, but do you need an extra special detergent?  No, my regular one will do just fine.

Good try, Tide!

Sunday was a day to do all the homework I was supposed to do during the week or over the weekend.  Going to church was even worse, not in itself, but that it ate half the day, and left me with only a few measly afternoon hours in which to complete said homework in time to watch a few hours of television before going to bed.

And heaven forbid it be nice out.  Then I would have to deal with my one or more of my parents making me feel bad about not going outside.

Sundays aren’t so bad anymore.  It may have to do with the fact I don’t really have homework anymore.  It also may have to do with the fact that I don’t have to wake up at the crack of dawn on Monday morning.  I’ll probably always have a love/hate relationship with Sundays, but right now?  I look forward to them.

Happy Sunday.

For those of you who don’t watch, this girl is a hot mess when she sings.  This week she took on Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb.”  And let me tell you, it is quite a gift to make Miley Cyrus look like a grade-A singer.  But Haeley pulled it off.  Congratulations for singing so terrible even people who hate Miley Cyrus would have rather had her singing instead.

Originally when I was thinking about going back to school, my first thoughts were CHEAP and EASY.  But now I’m thinking oooh, where could I go?

Now I just have to decide how many times I feel like dropping $80 to find out if I could get into _____________.

Oddly enough, I’m not going to talk about this current season, even if it is quite entertaining.  I wish to merely express my deep affection for Reid from last season of The Bachelorette.  I still don’t understand how Jillian can be happy with Ed, knowing that Reid is out there.  Reid.  Reid.  Reid!

I don’t know what’s more attractive – the fact that Reid is essentially Chandler Bing in the flesh, or the fact that Reid has appeared on HGTV in an episode of My First Place.  Because let me tell you, HGTV is pretty much the only channel I watch when I’m not watching this show.

Also, I’m not the only one who thinks Reid is quite something.

I mean, it’s not like Ed or Kiptyn have entire videos on YouTube dedicated to their facial expressions in just episode 1.  Seriously?  I love that there are people out their crazier than me.  That’s the whole beauty of YouTube, you get a reality check on your sanity.

Speaking of reality check, doesn’t Chris Harrison always know just what to say?

My sister Audra and I are always secretly rooting one of the Bachelorettes will call Chris Harrison up to give him a rose instead of one of the contestants.  I’m pretty sure Jen Schefft wanted to.

The other night I was thinking that since on The Bachelor, 25 women show up who are ready to get married, and on The Bachelorette, 25 men show up for are ready to get married, they should make a show where they have 25 women and 25 men ready to get married and have them mingle and decide who they want to be with.  But then I realized this is real life at a bar.  I shouldn’t have thoughts.

Today I purchased the Stephen Colbert “The Word” application from iTunes.  It was the best 99 cents I’ve spent all year.

My hotel has a small collection of chairs for little people in the lobby.  I find this quite amusing.  My managers claim they are for “children” but I think they are only saying that to avoid some kind of discrimination case.

I just can’t wait for Peter Dinklage or Verne Troyer to come stay here!

For me, there’s something about seeing the ocean everyday that makes me feel just a little more peace in my life. I think there’s a little magic in it.

What’s something you see everyday that always makes you smile?

I said at the beginning of the year that I was going to take more pictures.  One of my reasons for doing this was that I really, really, REALLY want a digital SLR.  But if I am completely honest with myself, I don’t need one at all.  I’m not going to become a photographer, and the point-and-shoot I have currently takes some pretty decent photos for a point-and-shoot.  And I don’t even take pictures all that often, which is why I want to take more– to justify getting a digital SLR.

If I’ve even more honest with myself, I can’t really afford one.  So instead of splurging, I’ve set up a savings account just for a camera, with an automatic bi-weekly transfer of money from my checking.  I’ve just started it, and I’m on track to have saved up enough for a camera in… one year.  Maybe by then I will have entirely convinced myself that I don’t need one and use the money on something more practical.

Alright, I have to go drop $250 now to register for the GMAT.  *cries*