6/6 End of an era

EWU class of 2010 graduation is this upcoming Friday. And it is an end of an era. My last close friends are graduating this year. We will all be officially out of college. It's weird to think that now we are all in the post-college group, moving on to our adult lives.
Our lovely Marisa will be moving to Yakima to start a produce delivery service business with her husband.
Beautiful Christie will be doing her wonderful adventures wherever those may take her.
And my most awesome wonderful Mollie may be spending 6 months in Ireland nannying, or working in Spokane doing some pretty good work.
Though Mollie couldn't join us, we decided to get together for one last girl's night where we all live in the same town. It truly is an end of an era. While we may have been apart for summer, school always brought them back.
I'm truly going to miss my friends that move on and I'm not sure I'm ready for that part of my life to be completely over. Even though I graduated in 2008 I still had that connection to current EWU and that simplistic college life. Now we'll all have 9 to 5 jobs, vacation time, and weekends off..HA. One good thing...I won't have to go without my friends during dead and finals week..yay!
I just hope that no matter where we end up we can all work hard to make sure we stay in touch.
Because really...how can I go through life without these girls?

6/5 Taking care of our furry friends

At Meals on Wheels we noticed something about our seniors and their pets...sometimes they're all each other's got. A lot of our seniors feed their animals their own food when money's tight and the price of Purina One has gone up so they can't afford pet food anymore. I know if I were in their same position I'd do the exact same thing. So we teamed up with Spokanimal animal shelter and with some funding through Banfield Trust...we are now able to deliver dog and cat food to our vulnerable seniors as well as other seniors in the community.
As the new volunteer coordinator with Meals on Wheels I get to come in one Saturday morning to distribute pet food to our volunteers to go out on small routes around the city. I was able to do two routes on Saturday and saw how happy these people were. I even got a lipsticky kiss on the cheek from a lady who was so happy we could keep her fat dachsund chunky :) It was quite fun.
I was busy that I forgot to take a picture of all the dog food but I was able to get one of the bags I took out.

I brought Dexter along to keep me company. Hanging out in a non-profit meal site in downtown Spokane alone is not the best idea. So he was my little mascot for the day :)
It was a pretty fun day and it managed to stop raining for the day...yay!

6/4-What I would rather be doing most of the time...

I love sleep. I really do. I want kids but I know I'd have to give up something very precious to me..sleep. I love sleeping in and napping. The past two weeks of work have left me mentally exhausted. So much drama and getting used to doing a new job while still trying to pay full attention to my first job. I've had two jobs before...but they were at different places, two totally different jobs. One was at a sushi place and the other at Maurice's clothing store. That was pretty easy going back and forth to those even if they were in the same day and I was usually working from 8 am to 11 pm with my only break being in my commute from one to the other (took about 30 minutes to get there). But having two different jobs at the same place is a challenge. I know it may seem weird for my boss to offer me another job on top of my first one, but my first job was only allowed 25 hours a week per the grant that funded it. The second job gave me an extra 10 hours a week. So I'm still not doing a 40 hour a week job but it's definitely hard going back and forth. I'm hoping after a couple of weeks I'll be in a good routine and will be able to switch gears back and forth. So after two weeks of this and the frustration of the drama that's been going on in the office...I'm spent! I'm so glad it's Friday. Even though I have to go into work Saturday morning to meet our volunteers that hand out pet food to our clients once a month. So when I get home tomorrow I will be crashing...

I can't wait :)

6/3 The rain stopped...for today

It's been raining...a lot. We haven't had to water our lawn at all because we've had so much rain. But we had a bit of a break today so we decided to fire up the BBQ and have some yummy BBQ chicken. Brand is an amazing BBQer so these drumsticks were delicious :)
I'm so excited for summer BBQing

6/2 The gas arrow

Ok, I write this with the risk of looking like a complete idiot. However, I have it on good authority that I'm not the only one who did not know of this awesome invention. Sometimes car manufacturers have an epic win.
I recently found out after reading the 1000 awesome things blog that there is a trick to always remembering what side your gas tank is on. Now, I'm pretty good about it but I still second guess myself. We have two vehicles and the gas tank is on the opposite sides of each other. But apparently, some cars have a little arrow that points to the side where you fill up at. Now if you don't have an arrow apparently the trick is which side the gas pump is on the little drawing. Well the next day after I read all this I hopped in my car and had to gas up, and wouldn't you know but there was that sweet little arrow looking right at me :)
So here's to the gas arrow! cheers!

So..did anyone know about this? And if so, why have you been holding this secret?

6/1 A Lan gathering

Our dear friend Jay is heading to Africa for two years pretty soon and we thought we have to send him off right. So we BBQed up some brats, ate some chips, and the boys played video games.
They had fun I'm guessing because Brand crawled into bed around 3:30 am. I didn't want to bother the boys for a picture so I just took a pic of their piles of shoes. We have a sign from Maui that says "please remove your shoes", it's not a rule I just like the sign :) My Hawaiian friend has a sign that says "mahalo for removin' yo slippahs" and though I couldn't find one of those I still wanted one similar. I like that in Hawaii they take off their shoes...in fact Hawaii makes you want to walk around barefoot all the time, and I'm never barefoot.
So I thought the shoes could symbolize the boys that joined in on the fun, Jay, Drew, and Brian.
We're gonna miss Jay but he'll be doing great work in Africa and we're so excited for him!

Ahoy! Mine eye has seen a mount so sweet!

I realize that title could be taken the wrong way but it is not my job to clean out your mind gutters....so shall we continue?
I woke up today and thought OI my eyes are FRAKKIN blue today! so I took a pic...a little blurry and not the official Allison Adams sponsored picture of the day but I wanted to include it..

But onto our regularly scheduled program...
DATE NIGHT! We decided to splurge and go to IHOP for our date night. With my promotion and Brand's super duper amount of hours delivering the best sandwiches in Spokane, we thought a little international house of breakfast delights would definitely fit into the budget:)
They've been advertising pancake stackers. Two pancakes with mounds of cream cheese in between topped with strawberries, cinnamon apple, or blueberries. Um delicious! So I chose the strawberries (so did Brand...copycat) and chowed away. For 5.99 you get hashbrowns, two eggs, and either bacon or sausage (or one of each...duh!) and of course the pancakes. That's a pretty good deal.
So here it is..that sweet mount :)