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 ;)