Hey everyone - it was a lovely weekend and I wish it had lasted longer.
The joy I was feeling on Friday carried over the rest of the day and through the weekend for the most part, though I’d say it mellowed out and there was one point that sucked, but I’m over it now.
The sucky part had to do with some shitty kids on scooters on the sidewalk and that’s my pet peeve (those motorized scooters are not supposed to be driven on the sidewalk, but everyone does anyway. I’ve seen wipeouts and near-misses galore). But these kids were soooooo bratty and they called me names and I was SHOCKED that they were so disrespectful. I let it hurt my feelings and I shouldn’t have, but again, over it for the most part (though not enough to not mention it in my journal, heh).
The good part was seeing Matt in town with his partner Marco (Matt lives on the E. Coast and moved his boyfriend Marco here to town so that he could keep their loft together and be with his - Matt’s - family). We got to celebrate his birthday and I got to see his daughter, whom I’ve known since she was 10 and her brand new BABY! I mean…time sure does fly.
But yeah, really nice weekend, if not mellow-ish. I saw the guys on Friday night at Marco’s place of employment (he’s a bartender) and it was a little weird because Marco had invited me to surprise Matt and then made a big deal of how we shouldn’t be taking up space at the bar because the owners were milling around. We ended up at this other nightspot that wasn’t quite hopping yet and we all needed to go home early because we’re OLD. Heh.
Saturday morning, the Bulldog (WHAT?!) wanted to walk the city trail with me! How weird is that, huh? So we walked and talked and I told him that it was a NO NEGATIVITY ZONE with me. The guy can’t walk 10 feet without telling me that some body part hurts or how old he’s getting or how everybody in the world sucks. I pre-warned him that I wanted nothing to do with bitching and moaning…and he was pretty good about it. I had to reel him back in a few times, but for the most part he was fine.
Saturday afternoon was for napping. That was nice.
Saturday night was another get-together at Matt and Marco’s loft, which happens to have the best downtown view of all time. Though they had 6 or 7 people over for casual dinner we all called it an early evening. One couple had an early morning, Matt’s daughter wasn’t feeling well after nursing the baby, and I was ready to call it an evening shortly after everybody else left. I brought bubbles and dessert that we didn’t even break into!
Not sure what that says about us, but it clearly means that I’m just not up for wild nights anymore. Back in the day I would have stayed out later than any and all of my friends. I’m hoping that this is temporary, but it might just be a permanent thing from here on out. I’m not mad if it is - it’s just a little weird.
Sunday was early dog walk, grocery store run and then a fun shopping excursion with the dog at a cute boutique that was doing a charity event that benefitted a dog rescue. That was fun.
I’ve been shopping quite a bit lately. Buying a lot of clothes that I don’t need and things for my road trip (rolling cooler that folds down - this may go on the Grand Birthday Adventure to the Grand Canyon as well), two sets of mixing bowls for the kitchen (needed those!), lots of makeup (debatable since I haven’t really done the “wing” eyeliner look since that class and I even bought Kim Kardashian’s SOOO FIRE bundle because I feel like it matches my coloring), wireless earbuds that I never, ever use (Amazon Prime Days purchase), a package of Lume Deoderant: the deoderant for Pits and Private Parts (believe the hype!!!), shoes, shoes and more shoes…the list goes on and on and on. I don’t know what it is but I’ve been on a non-stop spree ever since I started feeling a whole lot better.
Contrast that with the fact that I’ve also done a lot of purging. But clearly I have replaced all of the holes that I have created by getting rid of stuff. I clear out space…I fill the space…
I don’t know what all of this means except for maybe the fact that I need to sit down and bust out my list of GOALS for the rest of my life. It’s time I start figuring out what I want to accomplish for the rest of this glorious life of mine.
I’m serious. It’s been amazing so far and I clearly need to give myself some direction for where it needs to head from here on out.
OK. Enough blabbering. Time to take the dog on her lunchtime walk and then bust some other work out today.
Happy Monday, all.
Ever,
GS
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