Mallori's Epically #winning Spring Break 2011

So you've heard about the misadventures we had while driving to Florida. You've heard about and seen how we spent pretty much all day every day while we were on the beach.
That pretty much was my entire spring break. We would wake up whenever we did, lounge around for about an hour or two (while I would mix up a breakfast adult beverage), change clothes, then head to the beach. We would pack a lunch to take with us and come back every now and then for a bathroom break/lunch break/refill the ice chest break. Then around 5 or so, all of us would head back to the house and someone would cook dinner. Around 8:30, we'd start playing drinking games and watch TV/movies until we were ready to go to bed and start the cycle over the next day.

The trip wasn't completely sunshine and rainbows, but I guess it's not always going to go perfectly when you've got six very different personalities all cooped up in the same close living quarters. But overall, it was the trip of a lifetime.

Wednesday, Katy and I went to a restaurant down the beach called Caddy's and got some seafood. Fantastic chowder. Not kidding.
Thursday, we all needed a little break from the sun (can you imagine that?!) so we went exploring a little bit.

We went and visited Eckerd College because Katy's mom went there as an undergrad. It was a small and pretty campus and I really think that it's a good thing I don't go to school anywhere near a beach. I would never go to class. And when I did, I'd go to the beach between classes.

This was the beach behind Eckerd College

After we finished looking around, we then went and ate at Ted Peter's Famous Smoked Fish, as seen on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Now, I am not a fish person AT ALL, but oh my good-NESS it was so delicious. If you like fish, you'll love this! I had smoked mahi mahi. I seriously can't tell you enough about how good it was!

Then that evening, we went out for St. Patrick's Day. The holiday was great, the place we went to had a fantastic Ladies' Night Special, and we enjoyed the live music from a cover band called Sunburn. It was a great time with great friends!

roommate and I on St. Patrick's Day

We went to the beach a couple nights and took sunset pictures, as seen above.
Then on the way back, we were stuck in traffic for around an hour because of an awful car wreck on I-10. So what did we do? We got the soccer ball out on the interstate and kicked it around :)

All in all, it was an AMAZING week and I'm so glad I started saving for it three years ago!

I promise I'm alive!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am back at home in Oklahoma. I have been reading your comments all week, and will be responding to them ALL when I get another small nap in.

My spring break was AMAZING. What more could a senior ask for than to get to hang out with good company and good food all week long by a warm beach? I think nothing. Also! I got to cross this off of my bucket list:

• Go on a vacation with friends only (road trip is the only way to go!).

So very excited to be doing things that I want to do!

I hope you all had an amazing week, and I can't wait to finish up reading all of your posts!

Also, be on the lookout tomorrow for my four photos from Florida in the Photo Swap. It was so hard to choose just four!

You all are amazing readers :)

(My) Life is Beautiful

first things first, I am reading all of your comments, and I abso-friggin-lutely love that y'all still check out my site and have stuff to say about what's going on in my life! you readers rock my socks off!

Other than that, I just wanted to update you on what's going on down here in sunny Tampa Bay, FL. Me and all my spring break roommates slept in so that we could recuperate from our 24 hour drive from Oklahoma to Florida. Colleen was the first to explore the beaches, and then all of us quickly followed in her footsteps to get some sun and enjoy the day.

We spent all day out on the beach laying out and getting a tan for our white bodies. Caroline had to write a paper, so when she wasn't doing that she was with us on the beach. We've enjoyed cocktails and beers all morning, because what is the beach without a little something to drink?!

I also realized that people from other places are nowhere near as friendly as people from Oklahoma. I tried being nice to random strangers on the beach today, and they all looked at me like I was crazy. It kind of made me mad at first, but then I realized that it was okay to be friendly even if others weren't. If that group next to us would have been friendly back, I would have given them a deck of cards, fo' freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! but whatevs.

Tomorrow we are going to pick up our last roommate from Tampa International Airport, and then all six of us will be spending the week together :) I'm so glad I decided to treat myself to a very fun last spring break week :)))))))) <---that means I'm super duper happy right now!

Happy Monday!

p.s., don't forget to check in for tomorrow's Tell the World Tuesday! Unfortunately, it's the last scheduled one I have. So what does that mean?? you should e-mail me at mbattiestOKU{at}gmail{dot}com so you can be my next Tell the World Tuesday feature!

Thursday: This week's funday!

OKAY! I have two fun things for you today!
First off, this lady got another award! I'm super pumped! For the first time ever, I got:

THE STYLISH BLOGGER AWARD! yay!

The wonderful Kristina from a perfect dose of life so generously tagged me in this award! She is one of my newest finds from FTLOB, and I like her content a lot!

Obviously, it comes with rules. I have to give 7 facts about myself, and I have to pass it on. I don't know how many I have to pass it on to, but we'll see how generous I am at the end of this post :)

The facts:

1. I'm a Pepper. As in, Dr. Pepper is my pop of choice. I'm not really a pop drinker, but when I'm drinking pop, DP is the way to go!
2. I will get to cross something off of my bucket list 10 days from today :)
3. I am the oldest of 3 children, and we are all graduating the exact. same. weekend. I'm kind of upset about it. I am graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Jared is graduating from boot camp, and Jacob is graduating from high school. Sadly I won't get to go to theirs, and they won't get to come to mine :(
4. I own a golden lab. His name is Jax :)
5. I love reading. I'll read just about anything. I'm really looking forward to being able to relax and read on the beach next week :)
6. In case you haven't heard, I'm officially on spring break :) just won't be heading southeast until tomorrow!
7. I'm a biological sister, a sorority sister, and a brother. And no I'm not crazy :)

Well there ya go. 7 facts about me, and I may have repeated some when I got my Versatile Blogger award...

I'm going to pass this blog award onto:

Danielle at Positively Postive! because she is an amazing lady :)

Jamie at The CP because it is one of my newest blog addictions.

Val at threads and thoughts and things I love because I feel like it would be a crime to not pass it onto someone stylish enough to make their own clothes!

and Shay from Laugh Until Your Cheeks Hurt because she passed along the memetastic award to me, which she re-named "The smelly armpit award." This girl seriously makes me laugh!

The other fun thing I have is Erin of My Beautiful Disaster (you remember her from Tell the World Tuesday, right?) tagged me in the handwriting meme. Here is my writin', y'all!:

The Questions:

1. What's your name/blogger name?

-Mallori---blogger name = -Mallori

2. What's your blog's url?

-http://nushkoboaiukli-chokvshweki.blogspot.com (I'm seriously thinking about buying www.aiukli.com because it is SO LONG!)

3. Write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

-(Erin, this line forces you to write every letter of the alphabet...) [which is why they use it to see fonts]

4. Favorite quote?

-"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller

5. Your favorite song?

-ALWAYS CHANGES! But this week, Electric Feel by MGMT [I posted it on yesterday's "What I'm Lovin' Wednesday]

--or my Mimi singing any gospel song!

7.6. Your favorite band/singers?

I hate favorites [because I can never choose one]...Aerosmith, The All-American Rejects, Ke$ha, Lifehouse, Eli Young Band, Paramore...you know, a good mix of everything!

7. Anything else you want to say?

-Apparently I can't count...I numbered the one before this "7."

-You readers are UH-MAY-ZA-ZING!

-Danielle, I promise "What's in my Backpack" is coming!

8. Tag 3 bloggers to participate:

-Kristina(? I do this when I'm not sure of something)[but now I know your name is Kristina!]-a perfect dose of life

-Jaimie-Legos in my Pocket

-Mollie-OK in UK

-Jamie-The CP

(I'm not always the best at following the rules! ha!)

and apparently I just really liked Kristina and Jamie today...

Hope you had a great Thursday friends! This time tomorrow, I will be on the road to a sunny beach/beach house :)

What I'm loving Wednesday

I've seen this one done on quite a few other blogs, and today I decided I wanted to participate, even if today is the only day that I do it!

It's going to be random, and you're going to love it (or else! ha!)

• I'm loving that I finally finished The Maze Runner by James Dashner. It was very slow to start with, but it picked up and was hard to put down.
• I'm loving that I got such good feedback about the Tell the World Tuesday posts! (I'm not loving that I only have one more for you guys before I have to start begging people to answer my questions.)
• I'm loving that I have three of the best littles ever! They not only got me the paddle I have been waiting impatiently for, but they got me a VERY beautiful paddle, and exactly what I asked for!:

"Oh goodness, is it Friday yet?"

That's the phrase of the week people. This coming Friday is a little more special than your typical Fridays. Friday, March 11, 2011 begins Mallori's first big-girl vacation. That's right, my first big-girl vacation. What is a big-girl vacation?

You might just want to skip over this one.

I'm just in a funk. I don't mean to be, and I know it's not all entirely my fault, but it just happened.

I started out with good intentions by laying out my goals for March. So far I'm on track pretty well. I've got about 9 hours of community service coming up this weekend. I'm working on setting a BIG/little date with little number four (yes I have four different littles). But there are a couple of things that are setting me back: