Strawberry Meringue Pie 
Recipe (except switch key limes for strawberries…I made key lime pie last week, so this week I made this instead. Plus, it is strawberry season 
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Spring break! I’m so happy to be home for a while. I spent Friday night buying beads with a Living Social coupon, and the beading store was ridiculously amazing…I think it created a black hole for my wallet and my money just couldn’t resist the gravitational pull. I then went over to my friend Cece’s house and we pretty much hung out with a couple other people and ate pizza together/watched old episodes of Batman (I forgot how cheesy it could be. One of them featured a villain who called himself “The Creeper” (lol!) and another one featured the Judge.) =)..it was nice relaxing and enjoying our Friday night.
Saturday we then spent at the beach (Ft. De Soto):
Group photo
Human pyramid
(Photos courtesy of A. Kurtz’s camera…Gabby took the pyramid pic, and strangers took the group pic)
It was a lazy day, again, just kicking it back at the beach. The sun was gentle enough to leave me with practically no tan and no burn despite having applied no sunscreen from 2:30 until about 6. However, the weather was just chilly enough so that going in the water would be too cold, so we mostly just hung around playing some soccer, frisbee, Catch-phrase, chasing Gabby and sea gulls, and eating.
I spent the rest of Saturday night cleaning my room. It’s the first time in a while that I was able to do a complete clean up of my room–prior to that night I had mostly done small amounts of cleaning here and there, and it would become messy again almost instantaneously…however, it was easier to clean up because I moved most of my clothing into the hamper. And I guess my clothing was a bulk of the mess. 
Yay..clean room!
I think my rooming situation should improve too. I guess I hadn’t written about it much, but I had been having major issues with one of my roommates because she never cleaned/take out the trash, but would complain about messes or whatnot, and has been really irritating in general (leaves food rotting in our sink, puts food down our already clogged drain, has her bf over 5/7 days of the week, but he doesn’t clean either; and they’re noisy enough to wake me up from my should-be heavy sleep <–because of sleep deprivation…). Well, I guess she angered my other roommate (whom I am close to) enough to make her leave for the night, last week, so I decided to write her a note on the things that were bothering us and how we have already addressed the issues she raised so we hoped she would respect our hopes too. Well, that note transformed into a short essay (3 pages, single space, 12 pt Times New Roman, ~1800 words), but it seemed effective enough. It’s nice to think that the situation is improving since it stressed me and my close-roommate out a lot. We’re both very non-confrontational types, but I guess in our three years living together we haven’t had roommates cause us so much stress/anger. : (I even talked to a bunch of people about it to see if I was just being too crazy about it or if I was being reasonable…I feel like I was being fairly objective when explaining my situation, but they most of them said they felt angry just hearing about what was going on..)
I returned home yesterday, and pretty much just did a combination of relaxing, eating, cleaning the carpet, and playing Super Smash Brawl with my brother. Today was a nice day…woke up, ate a late breakfast, watched half of a Chinese movie with the parents, and then went to eat Thai food for lunch. The afternoon was devoted to finishing the movie, and then gardening. I have a couple thoughts about that too, but I’m going to eat some pie and think more about it before I write about it. ^^
