11:59pm. That means it’s still March 27h and I still made my post for the day! (Ok, it is kind of an obsession now and I will feel like I’ve failed if I don’t finish but that’s only because I’ve gotten so far) (And 11:59 is totally when I started so it still counts!)
Today has been long and fun and fulfilling. Unfortunately, it started out kind of difficult because I woke up at 6:30am with cramps. Like side effects from the IUD, so bad I had to get up and walk around. And I was cursing someone because nothing had happened all week and all of a sudden, the day I was supposed to have fun, this starts? Really?!
But by the time I woke back up around 8:30am they were gone, so I was a happy person. I got up and puttered around a bit, picked that place up, opened the blinds, got ready to go and still had about an hour to kill. So I watched some TV and surfed the ‘Net before I had to leave for the airport.
Compared to the Philly airport, the Charleston airport is a BREEZE! I picked up the girlfriends in a matter of 10 minutes. Then we headed down to Sullivan’s Island to meet Steve for lunch and spent the afternoon driving around, getting the lay of the land. For dinner we went to Bocci’s, which was delicious, and then we caught the Doppelganger show at Theatre 99, which absolutely hysterical!
It was a very good day. I love having girlfriends in and just hanging out. I needed this time. It’s been too long without girl time, without relaxation and without a general break from work.
And there’s still three days ahead of me!
As usual, there’s nothing new that happened today. I had a meeting first thing in the morning, so as you can imagine, my whole day was thrown off. So now I’m playing catch-up between today and not being at work yesterday. And I have off Friday and this coming Monday, so I’m going to be really behind come next week. Such is life, I guess.
I hope the weather at least clears up because two of my girlfriends are coming in on Friday morning and it would be nice to have a girl’s weekend with nice weather that we can spend outside. I’d hate to have them fly all the way down here and end up being stuck inside. There aren’t even any good girl movies out that we can go see!
But overall, today was a rather boring and uneventful Wednesday. I’m still feeling some after effects from Monday but I think it’s a combination of the IUD and the girly cramps. I can’t really take anything as far as pain medication so I’m just trying to tough it out. You boys sure do have it lucky!
Other than that, we didn’t do much. Had some BK Lounge for dinner, I watched last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. I teared up at last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. (Seriously, I really am not upset about Izzie dying because I think Katherine Heigl fucked herself on that one – but I am very, very sad for Alex having to loose her. Because I love Alex. And on an aside, the character development of some previously unlikeable characters has been phenomenal this season!)
Then we played blast from the past and I had Steve watch Jerry Maguire because he had never seen it and I loved that movie in high school. I didn’t know Cameron Crowe did it and now I know partly why I loved it. I’m pretty much a fan of any of his work. And I remember watching that movie, probably like any other girl, and melting because I wanted to complete someone. Now, I watch it and it’s kind of cheesy and Cuba is really the best actor out of that whole movie but the sentimentality is still there. It’s sweet and boy, that kid sure is cute! Steve was just kind of “Eh!” about it but he’s never a big fan of movies like that and it is like thirteen years after that movie came out (13 years, holy crap!). He like Cuba though too. Now we know why he won an Oscar.
Tomorrow is another day. My final day before a four day weekend. Should be nice. I’ll spend it dropping the dog off for his hair appointment/daycare, organizing things and completing projects at work then coming home and getting ready for our company. Not too bad of a way to spend the day. And tomorrow is TV night too (Grey’s, ER, The Office) so that makes it even better!
Hopefully, even with company in, I’ll be able to make my posting goals. I’ve got, what, six days left. I’d hate to quit now.
But as I said earlier this month, if I do, oh well, I’ll try again another time.
I didn’t set out to post every day this month, it’s just kind of happened like that so far. And it’s actually a bit easier to keep up with me because I’m not forcing myself to do it. If I don’t, so what, there’s another month.
But it’s nice to at least be writing again on a somewhat regular basis. Even if my life is a bit mundane and boring. How do people find stuff to write about everyday?
Because what I did today is basically what I told you I was going to do yesterday. I slept until about 10am or so, got up and took care of a few household duties, spent a leisurely amount of time getting ready, then went to see The Watchmen. After that, it was dinner at Sticky Fingers then dessert at Cold Stone Creamery, where I tried some of their rather delicious, but insanely rich, marshmallow ice cream, which pretty much had the taste and consistency of frozen fluff.
So overall, we did the same thing tonight that we did yesterday night with the exception of the movie. And the fact that between the popcorn, dinner and the ice cream, I feel like I ate my way through the afternoon and evening.
I haven’t been able to focus much lately because I’ve been a bit exhausted. Adapting to the new schedule is tiresome and the Daylight Savings Time rollover tonight probably isn’t going to help much. I am just all about being lazy these days and truthfully, would’ve like to stay in bed until noon today. Unfortunately, I was wide awake around 10am and had we not had plans, I would’ve been super-motivated to actually get shit done.
I love going out and having friends and a social life but some days, knowing that I have to stop what I’m doing to get ready to go out and then go out makes me so unmotivated to actually start a task or household chores, mainly because I don’t like leaving things unfinished.
So my house is a wreck, we are in desperate need of a major grocery run, I’ve got phone calls and appointments and plans that need to be made and all I want to do tomorrow is lay in bed with the windows open and the breeze blowing in, surfing the Net, watching crap TV and reading. What will probably happen is that I’ll be wide awake, will sit in the living room doing the same thing for the better part of the day until it’s time to get ready to go to trivia. I’ll have thought about everything that needed to be done but never actually started.
Last time I checked, thinking didn’t stock the cabinets.
One of these days I’ll work out some sort of balance where there’s no guilt about my messy house awaiting me while I’m out eating delicious food and having some laughs with friends.
I’ll just have to teach the maid to be as meticulous as I am.
For now, I’m just going to go cuddle up with my puppy dawg, who has been at home by himself for the past seven hours patiently waiting by the window for us and is now snuggled onto my chest and begging for attention. Babies may make my ovaries dance, but my Sammy just makes my heart melt!
A perfect day for me is one where I don’t have to put any makeup on. Or pants.
Basically, I love my house. I love bed. I love my laptop and my books and my Tivo and my XBox. I love wearing a big, soft comfy t-shirt and, on ocassion, my well worn, soft cotton yoga pants. I love gathering all of my entertainment accoutrements, a big huge glass of Diet Dr. Pepper, maybe a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie ice cream and snuggling on my couch under my fuzzy blanket and spending all day vegging out and enjoying my various hobbies.
Basically, I am a homebody. If there is a weekend where I don’t leave my house, I’m ok with that. But there’s a balance I have to strike. If I spend a few weekends in, we need some time out, so we don’t go insane.
This weekend is one of those weekends. Tonight, we had dinner with some friends at O’Charley’s then went over to the mall and had dessert at Dairy Queen, where we were able to avoid the drama that usually comes with our visits there. Seriously, every time we go to get ice cream, we get shitty service or they forget our food or they give other people free ice cream before we, as paying customers, get ours. One time, they told us they ran out of ice cream! Another time, the girl called Steve an asshole. And you know, we happen to know the people who own it, and everytime we get bad service they hear it. So it’s probably a good lesson about customer service – we don’t expect the world but we don’t expect you to be shitty to us either. And you never know who you’re being shitty too! (We also make sure to tell them when we get great service too. Because there are times where the people are awesome!)
So we had Dairy Queen and just hung out, eating our ice cream and people watching.
Tomorrow, we’re going to see an afternoon showing of The Watchmen then probably go shopping for some essentials. Steve needs boots and we need the household usuals – toilet paper, etc. And Sunday, we’ll probably go to trivia.
Of course, by Sunday, I’ll probably be exhausted and ready to snuggle back into my ass groove on the couch. And my house will probably be a wreck from neglecting all of my normal house duties. But we’ll have had a great time with some awesome friends and that will have made it all worth.
I’m still not a fan of wearing pants!
Oh, and just for you – to start the weekend with a smile. This makes my ovaries dance! (If you can look at this without even cracking a smile, you are a soulless heathen! LOL)
Note: For those of you reading through a feed reader, I have a new design that nice and fresh and clean with updated content. And I did a massive update to my Delicious links, which comes through the feedreader as well, so yea, sorry about that! I also preemptively thank you for reading this because it’s a long post! *grins*
Today has been one of those crappy, cold and rainy days here in the Lowcountry. In Yankee times, I would have hoped for snow and truthfully, with as cold and bitter as it has been the past few days, I wouldn’t have been surprised. No lie, we were downtown last night and there was a fountain in the garden of a hotel that was FROZEN! It was a sight to see. Regardless, this is South Carolina and snow is pretty much non-existent so we just have to be accepting of gray skies, crisp air and puddles and puddles of rain.
Even Charleston gets cold!
But dreary, rainy days give me the perfect excuse to do absolutely nothing but surf the Internet, watch TV and wear my pajamas all day. Steve hates this! He tries to act like he is all good with having a relaxing weekend where we have no obligations, no errands and spend nothing but after a few hours of doing nothing, he is as antsy as a five year old. Whereas I, on the other hand, relish days where I can veg out and do nothing and not feel guilty about what needs to be done and hasn’t or what rooms I could be cleaning. Sometimes I feel bad about him being bored – like maybe we should use the free time to go out as a couple and enjoy something and just get to know each other again. Or something like that. Other times, when he whines that he’s bored, I want to whack him in the face with his XBox controller, just to get the point across that he’s a grown man with hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars of fancy toys and tools and he STILL can’t find something to entertain himself.
Meanwhile, I never have enough time to fit in all the things that entertain me.
