Well, as some of you know, I have a perpetual work schedule, which means my schedule rarely changes - I work 10 days in a row - then I'm off for 4 days every other weekend. It seems that I always have a lot going on those off weekends and this past weekend was no exception. After an early doctor's appointment on Thursday morning, I met a friend for coffee. This is one of my new favorite things to do - I'm sure I could have filled this time doing things that needed to be done like laundry or washing dishes or cleaning my office. But at this stage in my like, cultivating my friendships is very important....and what better way than chatting about anything and everything over spinach stratta and hot white chocolate (with no coffee in it PLEASE).
Thursday afternoon Danny got off work early, so we took a gift card we received to a local movie theater and went to see a movie - Feast of Love featuring Morgan Freemana nd Greg Kinear. It was an interesting movie...but way too much nudity for my taste - which is pretty much no nudity please. I mean, it's pretty much a given that there is going to be sex in a movie about love, and it stands to reason that people will get naked when they have sex....so let's just leave the rest to the imagination shall we - I don't need to see all that. But anyways - they just don't make good, clean movies anymore...sigh!
Friday morning I forced myself to sleep in because I knew that Friday night my sisters and I were going to sing Karaoke at Cisco's which didn't start until 9:30 pm (and I am usually in bed at this time!) For lunch on Friday, Rachel treated me to lunch at our favorite tea room. We didn't have much comversation here because we just at and eves-dropped on the table next to us dish on some summerville gossip which involved a person that we all knew - small world. Oh and we watched 2 small snails climb all over the window by our table....which leads me to a few pondering questions....get ready people, because this is how my mind works. Are snails always wandering, never to visit the same part of the garden twice, put down roots so to speak? Being as they carry their homes on their backs, does this mean that they never really know the feeling of home? Are they
loners, or do they have families and meet back at the north side of the big oak tree for family gatherings?
Anyways! It's Friday night and off to Cisco's for some Karaoke with my sisters. Kristi's solo was "No News" by LoneStar.
Evanesence seems to be my karaoke band of choice, so tonight I rocked out on "Call Me When You're Sober."
Rachel sang JoDee Messina's "Stands Beside Me" - then I helped her on the harmonies for Martina's "Safe in the Arms of Love."
Rachel and I brought out those smooth sister harmonies on a classic Judds hit, "I Know Where I'm Going."
Kristi joined us for some more sister harmonizing on Blackhawk's "Goodbye Says it All," Shania Twain's "If You're Not in it for Love," Mr. Mister's "Kyrie," and "Zombie" by the Cranberries.
To end the night (almost) Rachel and I helped the DJ sing "Loveshack" byt the B52's - that song is so FUN!
There was plenty of other talent to enjoy, too. Ron knew the words to every single song. He was hilarious! One girl sang "Midnight Train to Georgia" and the entire crowd there was her backup singers... "All aboard!" Big John was there - as always - "God love ya!" This one chick sang "Three is the Magic Number" - a SchoolHouse Rock song by Blind Melon. Too funny! We stayed till it was over, almost 2 a.m. What a night! Oh, and there was a guy there that looked like Morgan Freeman! haha!
I spent the night with Rachel since I was out so late and the next morning we were off to mom's house to scrapbook all day! What fun! I love to scrapbook! I try to do a little bit each week (though it doesn't always work out that way).
Saturday evening Danny and I went to a friends house to hang out, watch some football, organize some halloween decor, eat some amazing mac & cheese (gotta have the recipe Laura!), and watch a guy do some tattoos. That was pretty interesting actually. I'm not a big fan of those people who have several tattoos - or are covered from head to toe - but 1 or 2 small ones in some place tasteful is not out of the question...Hmmmmm.... Anyways, we left there a little before 10 because I was getting tired from my late night on Friday. Also, I had taken some medicine that I knew was gonna knock me out, and boy was I right....I didn't get up on Sunday until after 11 a.m. and I still felt like I had a drug-induced hangover. No matter though - besides missing church, I didn't have any plans for Sunday; so, I just let it wear off while I organized some pictures and watch the RedSox sweep the Angels! Go SOX!
