Alabama + Graffiti

Sweet. I am so glad that my schedule allows me to be off on the fourth. But seriously, even if I wasn’t, there is no way that they would pay me time and a half to work it, so basically I was getting it off either way.

But there is only one more work day till my glorious weekend. I can’t wait. This has been a week to forget for sure. I can’t wait to hang out at the pool all day, and watch fireworks at night. I love fireworks. I made up a little song about them, and bennett doesn’t want me singing it anymore.

Really think about it; there are two days out of the year that fireworks are normal. There is New Year’s….and the 4th. There’s the occasional friday night braves game, or memorial day if you’re at the lake, but that’s it. So that is why I love fireworks so much. And last year they had smiley face ones, so I’m pretty excited about that.

Anyway other than that, just have to make it through one more day. And then it’s off to DC’s tomorrow night, and pool all day Friday.

Yay.

So it has been another fun filled Sunday at Oxmoor. This really is the least favorite of the places on Sunday. It’s supposed to be a relaxed, chilled-out day, but it never really is. And having foreign people scream in your face for doing your job is not really all that fun either. But I stood up for myself, and I was proud.

Friday was a blast. Went to Cajun Steamer for the first time, and their food was fantastic. Had some kind of shrimp thing that was super spicy. Ended up going back to DC’s for some drinks and chattime. The boys played cards, while C and I talked on her porch. They have the most awesome patio thing. It overlooks Birmingham, and has the magical power of making Birmingham look pretty. We talked forever, and when we finally decided to go check on the boys, it was 4 o clock in the morning.

Yesterday was kind of a lazy day. Stayed in our pajama’s pretty much all day; made our own pizza for dinner which was kinda cool. We’ve gotten into this habit of making a menu for the week; to save money. If we force ourselves to eat at home every night, then that saves us a ton of money. Last Friday was the first time we’d eaten out in awhile. It actually isn’t that hard to limit the fast food intake.

I have finally cracked the 10-minute mile. I am on my way to getting to try to do more than one mile in one sitting. Our goal for next year is to enter into a 5k, then maybe getting a little more challenge in the form of a 10k sometime thereafter. It’s the first time I’ve actually set a kind of “fitness” goal. Makes me feel all special.

Anyway, one hour left to go, and then I’m headed home. Thank God.

So today at lovely work, our computer system has been down since 9 AM. This basically means that I have been doing hardly anything for 7 hours. And I will continue to not be able to do anything probably until tomorrow when the system decides to come back up. But we’ll see, I suppose.

The past couple of weekends have been great. Hanging out with DC. They came over for dinner at Bennett’s house this past Saturday and we drank just a little too much. But it was great fun; chicken fighting in the pool (which we all regretted later. At least the boys did; didn’t really appreciate us girls on their shoulders I suppose), playing games, and eating lasagna, drinking bourbon and sprite.

It really is great to finally have a girl friend again. Makes my life feel so complete. Bennett and I officially move into our apartment together on the 24th of July. It’s going to be so great. I absolutely cannot wait to be able to be living with him.

He is definitely “the one”

So I finally saw the sex and the city movie yesterday. I feel so much better having everything all tied up. And I’m seriously jealous of these blue blahniks that were in the movie. They were so cute. I could never afford them though…so we’ll move on.

Caitlin and I met up and the theater to have some SATC fun with buttery popcorn and twizzlers of course. I just can’t believe that I finally saw it, and now it’s over for real.

So afterward, Bennett and I had plans to go to City Stages to see Citizen Cope and Old Crow Medicine Show. Went to Innisfree for a drink, and Dan and Caitlin (who I will refer to now and always as DC), called us up and were like come over and see our new place so we did. And they ended up getting free tickets too, so we all went down there. Had the biggest corn dog known to man, and had fun listening to the music. So instead of going home like good boys and girls, because DC were driving home in the morning, and I had to work, we go back to their apartment again and drink some more. Then we’re like, well, let’s go to the pool, even though it was supposed to be closed. We did, and then the cop came. He was like, did you not see this sign right here that says the pool is closed at 10:30, and it’s almost 2? There was only one other incident that I’ve had with a cop and a pool. And I was underage then, so I was a little more scared then. I guess this guy could have done whatever he wanted, but we weren’t making any noise, so he let us on our merry way.

Finally got to bed at like 3, forgot to set my alarm clock, and by some magical something, I woke up at 6. That could have been a disaster….

Looks like we’ll be going to city stages again tonight….bennett’s going home for father’s day tomorrow and I’m sure I’ll sleep the day away.

Aside from the blood clots, life couldn’t get much better than it is right now.

this will be a super short entry. I don’t have a lot to say.

today’s happy list contribution: daisies.