Realizations

Realization #1: So.. I just did a mini-Facebook stalk of myself (I'm waiting for traffic to die down a bit before I go shopping), and I realized that most of the pictures of me recently posted are me eating food. Which really shouldn't be a surprise because eating out is one of my very favorite things to do in the whole world. BUT I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't take so many pictures of it?

Food. Food. Food.

Realization #2: If eating is my favorite thing to do in the world, maybe I should get better hobbies.  Quick Google search and I'm already a whole step ahead to discovering my new hobby: http://discoverahobby.com/

Realization #3: Remember in this post where we laughed together about my flash-induced lazy eye? Turns out I was lying to myself! I'VE GOT A LAZY EYE ALL THE TIME. Upon seeing the picture below, one of my very first thoughts was I need to start parting my hair on the other side so that it doesn't accentuate the lazy-eye syndrome that is my face!! Does anyone out there even think that will help?!? What's a girl with a lazy eye to do?

Realization #4: Sometimes things you look forward to are even better than you imagined! Like going to a food truck downtown with my co-workers and having the most wonderful time in the world! It started raining just as we were leaving work, so I prayed a quick pray that it would stop. PRAYER ANSWERED. Then we followed our GPS to the address the Waffle Bus's twitter indicated and BOOM-BA-DA-BING - we arrived to the location to find not just ONE food truck BUT SEVERAL food trucks! I seriously was freaking out! It was like a food truck utopia. As we were approaching the Food Truck Utopia a man called out to us: "Try the lobster rolls if you go to (dirty-named food truck)!" It was a food truck community! People coming together sharing tips on where to eat - so sweet! We ordered our food - I followed my southern appetite to the chicken and waffles, while my friend instead got the Vietnamese-fusion chicken tacos.  We drove back to work jamming to a few of our current favorites including "Turn Down For What" you should all give the clean version a listen - it's a pretty good car-dancing song. Then ate our food together - it was actually delicious until I got to a weird part of the chicken - y'all know how I am about chickens - but the brightness of the rest of the day definitely out-weighed the weird chicken parts! It was seriously one of the best lunch breaks I've ever had! 

The Aquarium

I went to an aquarium in downtown Houston, 

and I left with a picture of me and a tiger.  

I'm a little bit frightened that the crazy part of this picture isn't the fact 

that The Downtown Aquarium feels it appropriate to include tigers in their fish exhibit

 but rather me--I AM THE CRAZY PART. 

Despite the whole lot of cray-cray oozing from above photo, I super enjoyed the Aquariam. 

• I touched a few sting-rays: 
• they are some smart and scary creatures. They'd flap their 'wings' at us if they thought we had food. And they'd come close and I'd touch them and scream a little. I just kept thinking about the Steve Irwin, and so I was a little hesitant. But I conquered that fear and touched those nasty slimy things. It may have been a first and last!
• Road the ferris wheel - which was a significantly more pleasant experience than the Park County Fair - much less rickety. 
• Observed some fish. Good times!
• And checked one more thing off my Houston Bucket List!