AUGHHH!! My blog!!

Okay, okay I'm here! I absolutely do not know what I'm about to type, so this may ultimately be the most boring thing you have EVER read! I have been a bit absent on both facebook and here, I'm guessing out of pure laziness and well, I've been busy hanging out with people I enjoy hanging out with :) Last Thursday night I went downtown with a group of girls to paint pottery, and plan on doing that a little more often...it's somewhat therapeutic ;) Then Friday night I got home to find my neighbors and husband in my yard and we slowly became a larger group and got out the lawn chairs, had drinks, shot off fireworks and shared stories and pictures that I could have probably gone the rest of my life without seeing and I would have been perfectly fine with that! LOL Regardless it was impromptu and a lot of fun....So, Saturday we had a homeowners meeting and cookout and a big nap! After which I had all intentions of driving to the Outerbanks but got talked into staying in town for a bonfire and more fun with the neighbors....I said this on fb and I'll say it again, I love my neighbors if it weren't for them life would be a little more boring..

Sunday morning I got up and got the car packed and Garrett and I headed to the OBX to see some old friends, Kristin and Victoria. The last time we all saw each other we were younger, singler and funner. haha Really, it's been about 5 years since I last saw Kristin and 4 since I last saw Victoria. We're all married with children now and we still thought we needed to stay up all hours of the night and drink our first night together...I drank more this weekend than I have in the last 3 years put together. I got a new Pandora bead to signify my girls weekend and had a few hours on Monday of alone time with my little man and a bowl of rainbow sherbet. All in all it was a nice escape for a few days.

Now it's all back to reality, but I'm trying to take a new view on things and make reality a little more exciting, in other words I'm trying to let go of some of my OCD about things needing to be done and bath times and bed times needing to be exact (at least on the weekends) Not worrying so much about eating "junk" a couple nights a week if I'm just TOO exhausted to cook a good healthy meal, maybe letting the laundy pile up until Gabe absolutely has not one more pair of shorts to wear to work (he only has 4 pair of "work" shorts so it won't pile too high! lol) Point being, all of this OCD has made me not such a fun girl, and I want fun Andrea back....

SO...here we are at Friday again, 3 day work week for me..it was nice but quite busy! New Bern is celebrating 300 years and there are some festivites and fireworks going on downtown all weekend so I'm hoping we can get out and partake in some of the social activites! Everyone enjoy your weekends and I'll try to be faithful and write more often so I'm not catching up and I'm sure leaving things out ;)

Hurricane Earl...

Don't worry, I'm not making a big deal about a hurricane..that's just the title because it's relevant to today...
I have a hair appointment at 2:00 today, I have all intentions of taking it darker...darker than I've ever been, just for something different, and just for the fall and winter (unless of course I LOVE it and want to keep it....um...we'll see

So...anyway, the point is, I'm leaving work at 1:00 and this is awful but I hope because of this hurricane (sorry to make it sound so trivial) that my appointment does not get cancelled and if it doesn't get cancelled, that I'm not sitting there with all kinds of mud on my hair and get a call from daycare that they are closing... because the other side of this is that if builders are trying to secure job sites, guess who is going to be extra busy at work today and not be able to drop everything they're doing to pick up the boy...yep, that would be Gabe. While everyone else is rushing to get home and secure things, he'll be working harder to help insure that things are secure...(and I'll be getting my hair done) LOL, should I be freaking out and going to the grocery store too? No, let's hope not...after living in Wilmington for 10 years and having Jim Cantore on the beach about 10 miles from my house, I still didn't leave...of course this is the biggest one that has headed for our coast in all of my years in these parts of the state, and I'm well aware that it could turn and head for us and not in the direction predicted...

And while I'm hoping that things aren't cancelled this afternoon...I'm keeping my fingers crossed that maybe my 3 day weekend will turn in to a 4 day weekend (praying of course for everyones' safety and that we're not dealing with a huge mess!)

Oh, and I will actually be making a trip to the grocery store anyway...sigh...
I just remembered that Garrett needs milk.
So..pray for my safety and that I'm not dealing with a huge mess in the grocery store because I know that there are people freaking out around here...