Glee!

There is no other way to describe my facial expression, other than just saying I've got a big goofy grin on my face that won't go away!

I received my first Happy Birthday phone call earlier this morning...via a long distance, international call from Holland!

Yeaup! He called! Completely surprised me to wish me a happy birthday for tomorrow, and to have a great time tonight with all of my friends! It was so sweet and thoughtful, no wonder I've got perma-grin! :)

That Time of Year Again

That one day out of the year that I tend to drag on for at least a week? C'mon, you know it?! Yup, that's right!! My birthday! And it's fast approaching!

Usually I would have had a count down going for a least two weeks already, but it seems like this year, the count-down focus has been on the Vegas trip (15 days and counting...). So, this weekend I'm just doing the chill, laid-back thing for my actual birthday. The customary bar night is Friday night (with an unbeknownst surprise for all attendees! Hehehe...), and then lunch on Saturday with The Artist, and studying for the LSAT the rest of the time!

Bro is heading to D.C. for his friend's wedding, and the parents are heading to Sis' in-laws for the customary Labor Day weekend at the River. I am very much looking forward to a chill weekend with my urban fam...maybe take in a movie with the ladies?!

I <3 Walken!!

Self Diagnosed: BADD

I totally have Blog Attention Deficit Disorder! I have grand ideas of posts, but yet never post them! I wanted to have a running series of the fun and adventurous weekend I had with Bubbles, but something else always seems to come up and distract me from my intended posts.

My main distraction? My Dutch-Boy! :) (shocker!)

It's pretty much a smile-fest these days. Roommie was joking this morning that I totally have an online boyfriend, but technically she's kind of right! I mean, it's all email and IM at the moment, and when budget season calms down for us at work, we'll start with the phone calls then. But this past week has just been fantastic, with some really great letters and e-conversations. We learned a lot about where we are both at with each other, what we want and where we want to head. He has some things he needs to work on and take care of on his end, but as soon as that's all done, it's off to Holland for me, hopefully by November!

He's already planning things to do and take me to see when I go to visit! EEEKK!!!! :)

Act One; Scene One

So much to talk about that has happened in the past week. I've been a busy little bee, buzzing all over the place. This past weekend was definitely the highlight. I went away for the weekend with Bubbles, and we had a great many adventures!

I'm calling it The Chronic-WHAT-les of 'Delphia! Starring Bubbles and Purv, a play in 3 parts!

We'll start with the fact that by Thursday of last week, I was exhausted from having something to do every single night after work, including that Thursday night before we were supposed to leave Friday morning...and I still hadn't packed yet. Thursday night was the birthday celebration of a friend's 30th Birthday and instead of packing Wednesday night, I was baking him a pink cake. Priorities, people! (and we'll gloss over the whole "pink" thing) So I got home a wee-bit late Thursday night (Friday morning?) and passed out from all of the drinking...shocker. But, in a stroke of brilliance and slight miracle, I remembered to set my alarm clock from 8 am Friday morning. Pure torture, yes, but Bubbles offered to drive, so I wasn't going to argue. I figured I could sleep in the car once we got on the road.

When I called her at 8:16am (hit the snooze a couple of times), she was still in bed, too. And I kept thinking to myself, Isn't she supposed to be here in 45 minutes? 44 minutes? And it's a 40 minute drive to my apartment?! And she hasn't packed yet either?! Truly the foretelling of how the weekend was going to proceed.

We pushed back our leave-time to 10am, which was fine by me. Gave me a chance to shower (a service for everyone), pack AND get in some LSAT studying! Although, I was getting frustrated with how much I wasn't getting it, and almost had a fit of "I'm not going to be any good of a lawyer" until I realized that maybe studying for the LSAT while hung-over probably isn't such the great idea I had originally thought it was. Hmmm...go figure. See? I can decipher that much; maybe this lawyer thing won't be as tough as everyone says it is!

Around 10:20 am, I receive a text message from Bubbles: "Almost on my way. one more stop and then to you." Oh yeah, it's going to be an adventure-filled weekend, as our time spent together tends to be! :)

Mmmm...Cake!

Operation Pink Cake is well under way for my friend's birthday!

He turns 30 today, and Tom is making him work because things are so busy here at work with the 2008 Budget well under way. So when Tom asked me to bake a cake for the b-day bar night tonight, I had the funny idea to use pink icing! Yummy! It's not that far off-based since C is a big fan of the Simpson's, and it is oddly reminiscent of a pink doughnut that Homer always eats...

Should be a fun time tonight!

Not sure when I'm going to get a chance to pack, though for my camping trip in which I leave at 9am tomorrow morning for...

Keeping Busy

This was the email conversation I had today with one of my friends that kept me from going bat-shit crazy with hardly anything to do!

Tom: What’s for lunch today? I’m dying over here

Me: Sorry, I just got back from having lunch with a friend…

Tom: You suck

Me: Mayhap…but I’ve never gotten a complaint for it…

Tom: Dammit!!! I can’t do this today. Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me: LoL! Wow! I think that’s a first… Did it make you chuckle, at the very least?! :)

Tom: Yes. Mostly chuckling at my lost opportunity. And the worst part is that you couldn’t go to HR because YOU started it…for once! AND you couldn’t kick me with your boots for the same reason.

Me: Indeed! :) Not that I would really ever go to HR anyways…it’s all just playful banter. Until someone feels harassed, anyways!

Tom: Has anyone felt harassed yet? (I should be so lucky)

Me: Not quite so much, no…sorry!

Tom: OK, can’t do this anymore. Have to focus. One last thought though…

What if I came down there and ________ off all your ______ and _______ you over ________ and ______’d your ________ and used ________ to probe _______ until you ________ with _________ and then stuck ________ in ________ so that you __________ ride and ruined _________ for all ________ forever!!. Well, at least until Vegas. :)

There. Feeling harassed yet? ;)

Me: HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was fantastic!!!

What would have been even better? If you did a mad-libs version with noun, verb, adverb and adjective directions! LoL! That would’ve been funny! ;)

Tom: Oh but there’s still tomorrow! ;) My personal favorite was the “______’d your” :)
Actually, the first version had all the words filled in, but then I couldn’t concentrate :)

Me: LOL! Nice! My personal favorite was the “ride and ruined _________” :) It’s probably best that you blanked it out then…cause then I may have felt harassed……aww, who am I kidding?!

Tom: Actually, I was more afraid that you’d write back and keep it going and then I’d be ruined for the rest of the day…and probably night.

Me: LoL! The thought did cross my mind, because it is in fact always residing in the gutter, but with my medicine-head feeling, I’m not so quick with that wit this week…hoping to be back on my A-Game for tomorrow night’s bar night!

Tom: Wear something short and tight because that always gets the juices flowing. Or just wear something short and tight because that’d be nice

Me: LoL! I’m so glad you’ve learned to be subtle!

Tom: Once a fucktard, always a fucktard

Me: Self-proclaimed, are we?! Hehehe!

Tom: From day one, I always told you that I am quite aware of who I am

Me: From day one, I have always taken that seriously!

Tom: Oh, and under that short tight skirt, wear a thong

Me: Ok, let me ask you something…in all the time that you’ve known me and spent with me…do I seem like an “other than a thong” kind of chick?

Tom: I’d have known that answer for sure if only you’d spent more time with me!!

Me: I thought you had work to do?! :P Stop emailing!

Tom: Can…not…re-sist…your pull…TOO….STRONG!!!!!!

... ...

Tom: What are the chances you’re jumping out of that cake you’re making for C’s bday tomorrow?

Me: Tiny cake, and not-so-tiny me…not very good chances…sorry

Tom: Oh well…worth a shot. Bring extra icing…because you never know

Me: The word “slather” comes to mind…

Tom: Hey, whatever bangs your shutters. Or better…hey, whatever binds your wrists!

Me: Mmmmm…hand-cuffs…

Tom: Forget about “are you bringing the boots to Vegas?” How about “are you bringing the cuffs to Vegas?”

Me: Probably not, but only because I’m not sure how I’d get them through airport security…

Tom: There’s no law against handcuffs in your checked luggage. Trust me! Worst comes to worst, you can always get a set out when you need

Me: I don't even want to know why I can trust that information! And yeah, you’ve said that about the boots…that there’s plenty of opportunity out there to buy what you’ve had to leave behind…but leaving the cuffs behind would feel like leaving a fallen soldier behind. It would feel wrong and dirty to not use them on the “maiden” voyage since I’ve had them for so long!

(haha! I wrote “maiden” w/a straight face!)

And it sort of just kept falling down-hill from there, in record-breaking speed!

A Random Email to a Friend

For the lack of having anything else better to write at the moment, since it has been a whole whopping week since last I wrote, here is just a normal email letter from me to one of my friends.

Good morning!

I saw that movie in the theater with Wangie, and when it was over and the house lights came on, she and I looked at each other and the blubbery messes we were...and then she leaps on me, gives me a hug and says "WE need pants!" :) We then collapsed in a fit of laughter, and it was the best moment of our friendship so far! I'm glad you enjoyed the movie! I really believe there is something in it for everyone to relate to.

The week has gotten much better since Monday...Monday was not fun, on so many levels, but luckily it was only able to go up from there. My "future husband in Holland" has helped a lot in making my week so much better, and not by doing a whole lot more than just be genuine and utterly adorable! :) And god help me if I ever do actually need to introduce this poor man to anyone in my life; nobody is going to recognize him until I call him, not by his name, but by "my future husband!" LoL! I also saw Bubbles last night...she came over and we were supposed to plan the logistics of our camping trip that's next weekend, but instead we went to the diner and ate ice-cream sundaes to keep out of the heat and we chatted about everything and anything other than the trip...so we'll have to figure out the details another time. But it was awesome, and very much needed.

I hope your appt goes well tomorrow. It's never easy dealing with mean, difficult people, but hopefully as your doctor, he will write you the script you want, and you'll feel better for it!

And that's funny about the no alcohol thing. When I was out for Wangie's b-day Saturday night, we were out from 8pm - 3am...but I had stopped drinking around 11:30-12pm. And it was the best time being sober! Who knew?! :) But I totally understand where you're coming from. And besides, I think being a "morning person" is all a state of mind because some days I can be one, and others I just want to stay in bed well past 9am...

I hope the rest of your week goes well and easy, too!

And, you're welcome! :)

And I will buy a drink for the person who guesses which movie Wangie and I saw that night...but Wangie and Roomie can't guess because you were both there!

Oh, My Stars!

Sunday mornings always included church services, a stop off at the grocery store for Sunday breakfast fixings, and racing to the end of the driveway to see who could get to the Sunday edition of the newspaper first. Because c’mon, lets face it, who wanted to be last to know about Garfield’s pranks on Odie, or whether Lucy was going to fake out Charlie with the football again?!

But for me? It was all about the horoscope. To have that glimpse of what was coming my way. Even at a young age, I always needed to be “in the know” and not let anything in life surprise me. Astrology became a strong interest, and only grew stronger later in life when I would follow a path of Wicca for a while. It wasn’t a phase, and was something I loved to do every chance I could get, to find out what the stars had in store for me.

Later on in high school, whenever I would find myself in the school library and on the computer, I would always have to desperately check my horoscope. At the age of fifteen, was there really anything more important to look up on the great webby? I think not! But as I grew up, and continue to do so, no matter what your belief in the stars, I think its safe to say and realize that nothing can be 100% foretold. Maybe to use as a guide in helping you with which way to lean in decision making, but not to live your life by completely.

I don’t check my horoscope daily anymore. I find it more often than not depressing. In the past few years, however, I do frequent one particular site that gives only monthly forecasts. It is the most detailed readings I have ever been exposed to, and I have been exposed to quite a lot in my day. So around the first of every month, I check my monthly forecast to see if the stars and planets are any kinder this month than the last.