half way through my vacation: a recap


so saturday night was so much fun. me and the amazing ms. k did our typical dinner and a movie thing. we discussed sharing a personal trainer as we ordered healthy and sipped our sewer flavored water. even the lemons couldn't save whatever it was they were serving us. i suggested just stalking a trainer a la grace on will & grace, it would be much easier on the budget that way. she laughed and then said maybe we should look into doing something like that. we've both been on a major health kick this past year. sixty pounds lighter and at my goal weight i still haven't achieved the perfection i dreamed of when starting this a year ago. so i need some hottie barking orders at me and showing me how to tone up. so we'll see what comes of that. by the way we saw elf and i loved it. will farrell is too adorable in that. after watching that i decided that i'm going to start answering my phone the way he does in the movie: "buddy the elf here, what's your favorite color?!?", too funny.

on sunday i didn't really do too much, just tried to plan out my upcoming week off. watching the simpsons pretty much was the highlight of my day.

monday i met the former best friend for lunch. she mentioned something about hanging out a while back so i thought i'd give it a shot. we had such a nice time. it was nice that the ten years without talking, the anger, the hurt and the misunderstanding could all just melt away in a matter of seconds. no lie. it was as if we were the same friends we were back in high school and i'm really glad that we both made the effort to move on. i'm going to love having gina back in my life. so we met for an early lunch and she suggested the frozen cosmos. never having one before, or a normal cosmo for that matter, i was in. the glasses were as big as my head, i kid you not. two drinks later i was drunk at 11:45am. i've never been drunk that early before. yes i've been still drunk from the crazy that took place the night before, but never freshly drunk so early in the day. another reason why i'm gonna love having gina around again...gurl knows how to drink. totally buzzed we went our separate ways and promised that we'd make lunch a regular thing. i drove around for a bit trying to figure out what i wanted to do with the remainder of my day. half an hour later i was back home on my couch watching ellen trying to shake the buzz. damn what was in those drinks? gina was convinced that they were trying to get her drunk so they could bang her in the back. she said that mine had something in it to knock me out so i wouldn't object to what they were going to do to her. damn, why couldn't it have been the other way around?

anyway, monday night i spent two and a half hours on the phone with adam. this stupid distance thing just sucks. don't get me wrong, i think the world of him, it's just that i'm starting to need a little more than all that. the conversation went well, i just don't know where to go from here. he's been in my life for five years. that must count for something, right? i mean if it wasn't something significant then why would we have invested this much time? there are easier ways of making things work, but we're putting forth the effort, that means something. it has to.

so tuesday i slept in late and passed on the errands i promised myself i'd run that morning. i never sleep anymore so it was nice to catch a full eight hours and just be a bum. i showered and then headed off to meet sasha for lunch date number two. we had these kick ass turkey and roasted red pepper sandwiches that i'm still thinking about...gotta go back there, soon. so after our late lunch she asked me what i was up for. i told her the choice was hers. that was my first mistake. a few moments later she was dragging me kicking and screaming through the wal-mart parking lot towards the doors of hell. okay, so i wasn't kicking and screaming, but i did feel sick and a little dirty. the people. the mess. i felt like i was in someone's basement looking at all their crap that just happened to be marked with price tags. too bad the cosmos from the day before weren't a part of that equation, it would have made things much easier to tolerate. i did check out this cutie that worked there. he was in a shirt and tie, i was wondering why he even bothered. maybe it was a part of some white trash outreach program. maybe he was fighting a losing battle by trying to bring some class to wal-mart. who knows. now those who know me know that i'm in no way bold at all. if i see a cutie i look a few times then look away and giggle like a school girl if they should happen to look back. but for whatever reason i was feeling bold that day. i guess it was the superiority complex that shopping at wal-mart gave me. so i saw him from a distance away. we walked towards him, i kept looking. he looked back, i kept looking with a smile. we walked away, he kept looking. we came back around, i spotted him again. did the eye contact thing again, as did he. then we walked right next to him, my eyes on him the whole time, his on me. then we left, he kept looking. i smiled and then threw him back. i mean he works at wal-mart, i mean come on. the poor dear. but hey if you should happen to be reading this and you're the hottie in the burgundy shirt and tie call me...when you transfer to target. so after that we hit the movie theater and saw love, actually. that has to be the best movie i've seen all year. well, i don't know about all year, i'd have to think back. but definitely the best movie i've seen in months. it ended and i wanted to sit through it again. i loved it.

on wednesday i picked up one of the two last things i needed to buy for christmas. how is it that every year everyone in my life agrees that we'll cut back for said year, and every year somehow i end up spending more? i don't see it stopping anytime soon. i'm a gift giving junkie. what can i say? so while i was out in the snow i thought i'd catch the matrix: revolutions. yeah, i know everyone has seen it by now. well, everyone but me. and from the looks of things i'm thinking this is the last week for it to be playing around here. so i figured i better check it out while i still could. it was good. i like the way it ended, a happy ending after three movies of lots of darkness. i walked out with a smile on my face thinking that maybe things really can work out no matter how impossible the situation may appear at the time. i know it was just a movie but i felt like the positive spin at the end was speaking to me and all the thoughts i have swimming around in my head about the whole B mess. maybe i'm not just kidding myself, maybe this will finally work out the way i want it to this time. it's early yet, so who knows. all i do know is that i'm willing to let him back in again. and i'm willing to see where things end up this time. good or bad, i know i'll be having fun. i always do with him.

so today was more shopping, target this time. i'm almost done, i swear. i'm just trying to track down a copy of wig in a box for B. his eyes lit up when i told him about it, now i just need to find it somewhere. i've looked all over and i guess i'll just have to settle on amazon. i had hoped to have it to give to him this weekend, but what can you do? as for now i'm on my way out for a birthday dinner with some work friends. my friend offered to pick me up, so that means lots of drinks for me tonight. *trust*

my vacation is almost over. sigh. at least i'm having a good time. who knew that being social was so much more fun than my normal hermit-like existence. well i'm out the door. more terribly exciting updates to follow soon i'm sure...