That's right! I am back on the productive train and the first stop was changing my sheets! We will not go into how overdue that was, but will skip to the fact that having new, soft, wonderful sheets have brought me to a very happy place. Also, given the fact that I am mostly in my apartment JUST to sleep, it's very important that I am in love with my sheets, which I am:)
I should be ashamed about the mood it put me in and the inspiration it gave me to keep checking things off my list, but... it worked! I FINALLY moved the cats litter to a different closet, cleaned out two other closets, put my clothes away, cleaned the fridge out, went grocery shopping, re-filed and shredded my papers and ran some errands. It was a great weekend.
I should go back to the now catS thing. Yup. It's plural. I am one cat and one ugly dress away from being labeled "crazy cat lady". (Charlotte already holds this wonderful title. Just the sheer number of pictures she has of them is enough to add her to a very sad, unfortunate club of cat ladies). ANYWAYYY, her name is Lily and she is extremely cuddly and adorable. I inherited her from my Nana, which Charlotte and I were happy to do. She's a little heavier than Jacoby, but a lot more friendly. She is also very high maintenance. She can only eat a certain type of food (which I am inclined to search for since my carpet is not supposed to be the color it now is), she tends to leave her mouth open and drool at random times and talks constantly. I'm also pretty sure she's the one who ruined my brand new, fabulous bath mat. But Jacoby has been really testing Lily's limits. We are sure to referee the disagreements, but Jacoby really pushes her around and since she can run faster, tends to always get the best of Lily. I'm sure they'll be on the same page soon. (Thank goodness neither of them have front claws). Their attitudes with each other come and go. So we are now a 2-cat household.
School this semester has been on another level of difficulty. My days of breezing by and half-assing my way through... pretty much everything, is over. It's taken a lot to get by thus far and the semester is only halfway through. Working full time and going to school full time is not ideal. Which is probably the reason SO FEW people do it! I love learning things the hard way.
In other news:
Traffic report:
Car: Red JAG - top down. Driver: Older man. Balding. Adding to the humor: he's blaring Journey and it's foggy and cool out.
Incident: See above. Enough said.
Mom and I had a chance to spend some time together which always leads to some sort of strangeness. We were busy! We made friends at a Jiffy-Lube, watched the fate of a seagull we were waiting to be eaten by the "shark" we saw, shopped so much the card company called (*mucho sarcasm), watched a strange alien cartoon movie (which I'm blaming mom for), ate snacks for meals and pretended to be able to handle an endless pasta bowl.
The first weekend of October marked the first annual girls-getaway weekend in Maine. Hayley and I left Friday night for Kennebunkport, ME. Even though we were both dreading spending THAT much time together and were thinking of ways to prevent the awkwardness of being stuck together for that long, we managed to have a FANTASTIC time. I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard or had such a good time in the rain.
Tips we took away from that weekend:
Just because a store is called "The Best of Everything" does NOT mean that "everything" is in the store OR that it is the "best".
Free wine ALWAYS tastes better than wine you have to pay for.
One can have MUCH MORE fun in a place that is club-sized, more so than if you went to a normal-sized venue for dinner.
Kennebunk, is in fact, NOT close enough to Kennebunkport to prevent a $20 cab ride that lasts 90 seconds.
When a resort posts quiet hours on their walls, that is really a threat that they will send a Grampa-looking man up to your room should you be laughing past those hours.
Foxy-moxy's are NOT appropriate attire to go out for drinks in.
Onine degrees from fake online colleges will ALWAYS lead to a singing career.
(Thanks Hayl for my bday present. Best. Time. Ever.)
I also spent a great weekend at home with the family a few weeks ago. Blane's putting together longer sentences and remembering and understanding so much! It's amazing to watch him and listen to him. He cracks me up. I even shared a couple popsicles with him, which is a pretty big deal... since, I'm not a big sharer. Caitlin came up too, which was fun! We decorated pumpkins, made homemade cupcakes together (well, mostly me... she knows extremely little about baking, I had to be patient with her :p) and we also... oh yeah, chased pigs. It was a great weekend.
Charlotte, Tyler, Hayley and I are planning on carving pumpkins tonight and making soup, which I'm sure will turn into some sort of story, so... to be continued.
xoxo-
