Happy 100th to GG

This is my 100th post. How Craycrayy is that??? Where did the time go?! I have no idea… but I’m happy I’ve stuck with it long enough to get this far!!

And in honor of the wondrous occasion I’m making a list of 100 things I love.
Heck why not? If you’re bored you can skip right to 99 and 100.
They’re the only two that matter anyway.

1. Summer
2. the beach
3. starbucks
4. books books books
5. Philadelphia Museum of Art
6. Philadelphia
7. rain, especially at night
8. sushi
9. steak
10. broccoli
11. chocolate
12. chocolate cake
13. crocheting
14. fall
15. September weather
16. scarves
17. boots
18. sweaters
19. leather jackets
20. Halloween
21. Harry Potter
22. Candy Corn
23. Keane
24. Lady Antebellum
25. History
26. Dancer in front of a Window by Degas
27. Wanderer Above the Mists by Friedrich
28. Thanksgiving
29. Pumpkin bread
30. Christmas lights
31. Christmas music
32. Christmas Eve church services
33. Watching the light show at Macy’s on Christmas Eve
34. Decorating the house for Christmas
35. Pretending to ice skate in my socks on the hardwood floors while listening to Andy Williams Christmas album
36. Snow Days
37. Coffee
38. Snicker doodles
39. Window seats
40. Pandora radio
41. The radio in general
42. My yellow rain coat
43. Skype dates
44. driving with the windows down
45. listening to my Dad play the piano
46. singing in church while my Dad leads worship
47. Twitter
48. my egg-crate mattress topper
49. sleep
50. my down-feather pillow
51. Rita's
52. daydreaming
53. calla lilies
54. guacamole
55. flying in airplanes
56. planting flowers, or ahem, watching my dad plant flowers in the spring
57. Brown’s Donuts from the OCNJ boardwalk
58. blogging
59. pitchas
60. Disney World
61. interior design
62. libraries
63. running (sometimes)
64. Pride & Prejudice
65. old school Mariah Carey
66. shopping, shopping, shopping
67. thrift stores
68. pajamas
69. swinging
70. friends (implied)
71. family (implied)
72. mail
73. paychecks
74. driving on the turnpike in the middle of the day with no traffic
75. learning
76. cheetah
77. Tostitos
78. family pie night
79. scategories
80. pearls
81. glee
82. babies
83. the 4th of July
84. wearing my retainers to bed (HAHAHA, gross)
85. my 2007 Chevy impala
86. Duke Basketball aka Nolan Smith, let’s be real
87. Get Smart
88. 12:00 am on January 1st
89. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
90. nicknames
91. high heels
92. memories
93. the dream of being married and having a house and a family
94. going to the movies
95. laughing
96. the church in Manayunk
97. home
98. Jewish apple cake
99. salvation
100. love

 

Happy Friday!!

Thanks for reading, today and every other day :)

I love my job because…

1.  I get called Rachel all the time.

2.  I get called Becky. A lot.

3.  I talk about the weather more than I talk about anything else.

4.  I learn Spanish from one of the residents who is from Cuba – we’re progressing quite well…

Good Morning! How are you?
Good Morning…. Alive.
Well that’s good!
I am very bad, I’ve completely lost my memory.
I’m so sorry to hear that…
I’m going to sit outside. I’ll be back for dinner.
Ok enjoy!
(Of course that all happens in Spanish… I just don’t know how to spell the words I’m saying…)

5. The ladies I work with are amazing. And hilarious. And make me smile every single day.

6. Employees now get unlimited iced tea for free – SO GOOD!

7.  I get to listen to soft rock the entire time. My current favorite song is Tonight, Tonight, Tonight by Genesis. It’s a good one.

8.  The gym is five minutes from work – which is major incentive to actually get my butt in there…

9.  I catch up on current events during single shift via the yahoo home page and I learn something new every single day. My dad will be very proud to learn that I too have become an Associated Press article  junkie…

10.  The residents. They come to the desk and always have words of wisdom, compliments, and smiles on their faces. They encourage me to live every day to the fullest and to always be content. Yesterday one resident told me to “live it up”

Thank you Mr. S – I think I will :)

And yes that is a picture of me rockin’ my work ID.
Go big or go home, say it loud say it proud… yeah ok, not really – it’s mandatory :)

Why do you love your job?!

Random Fact Friday

Soo a big part of this whole blog thing is getting to know the girls/guys  you follow. You start to recognize their writing style and you feel like you can actually hear them saying the things you read, you recognize the people in their life, and you start to feel like you know the person!! That’s one of the reasons I love blogs/blogging.

So I’ve decided to have a Random Fact Friday!! I’ll share a few facts about me and you can share a few facts about you!! It’ll be like having coffee at Starbucks without the overpriced latte, smelly clothes/hair afterwards, and actually being in the same place at the same time… Ok here it goes :)

1. Speaking of Starbucks – I get the same thing every single time I go – BIG shocker there :) Either a White Mocha hot, iced, or frappucino’ed

2.  When I get in my car I think I’m Danica Patrick. Or Speed Racer. But Danica is prettier. I don’t always drive really fast… but I  love to drive. And I love to get where I’m headed. ** Also side note. I google imaged Danica Patrick and was slightly horrified.
I chose the Got Milk campaign because it was the least racy picture.
I never realized she was like the Kim Kardashian of NASCAR. Weird.

3. I love chocolate. Milk is my favorite, Dark is definitely ok, and White is tasty but uncommon. And while I love chocolate – I hate candy. Sure I’ll have a starburst or a handful of sour patch kids – but other than that I think it’s gross. Easter candy has no appeal to me… and neither does Halloween really. I’m not a candy kid…

4. I love Disney World. Love love love love it. And one of my dreams of all dreams is to be Belle in the Beauty and the Beast show at Hollywood Studios. Belle was always my favorite and this past January I teared up watching the shortened show again. It’ll never happen. But it’s nice to have dreams like that, don’t cha think?

5. And since I’m still on the Royal Wedding high… I’ll add some humor. The fact: I love hats. I think it’s super cool that everyone wears them to Royal Weddings. It sets a Royal Wedding apart from any other one… It’s classy, It’s fabulous. Humor: Was anybody else thinking this?!? HAHA. Oh dear. Yikes. The blue one isn’t too bad. But if I saw the other sister I’d want to throw something through it… And how is that staying on and not driving her insane?!? Crazy. Slightly upstaging the bride? I think so.
Thankfully Kate was too perfect to be upstaged :)

 

Hope you enjoyed the random facts!! Leave me a comment with a five about you – and let me know what you thought about the Royal Wedding!! Didn’t Kate look AMAZING!?!?