Yuletide Yardwork

May 22, 2006 08:14

Why the hell am I up this early? These kind of things are rare occurances.

Anywho, figured I would share some highlights of recent days.

I passed all of my classes somehow. I really have no clue how I pulled that one off... at all! I made C's in all of my classes except for a B in English. w00t. That brought my GPA up decently, so thank God for that little trick. I am kinda sorta looking forward to Fall semester. I dunno, classes are going to be rough, I have a feeling, but nevertheless, I am looking forward to it.

My birthday was the 11th. I celebrated it is for nearly a week. Lol. I finally got a computer desk I liked out of the deal. This birthday felt slightly different than all of my previous birthdays. I think I finally realize that I am no longer in that child age range. Eighteen set in, but now that I am 19... I feel older, more mature. I think I have matured a lot since last year. Some of the things I have gone through in the past year have influenced me a lot, and I am quite appreciative of every little thing, good and bad, that has happened. Truly. Anywho, back on track. On my actual birthday (I got my desk like 3 days prematurely), I recieved wonderful cards from my family, Gerber daisies, moolah, lunch, and dinner. Nothing super duper. But, all that mattered to me was my friends and family. I even went to visit my papa (mom's dad) at Covington Manor. Gidget called me, Jeremy texted me, Sarah called me, Tasha called me, and Jamie called me. Thanks, guys! Sarah came over that Tuesday and we did the gift thing (her birthday was the 15th). I got her some things I think she liked. She got me a wine bible, Godiva chocolate, Dove chocolate, Devil's Reject's DVD, made me a little tote bag thing, and did 100 cards for me to read, each for a day that she is gone in Indiana on her internship. She also got a frame for her favorite picture of me, my favorite picture of her, and another frame for my favorite picture of us together. Yeah, we take lots of pictures just because... well... we can. We went to the Bodies exhibition on Wednesday. Can we say.. Amazing?! Some of the details in that exhibition were simply... amazing. Yeah. Everything was so clean cut, and didn't smell or anything. I absolutely loved it. Well worth the $20 to see it. Hmm... I can't remember all the details of everything I did that whole weekend. I know I cooked Prime Rib for my mother and grandmother on Mother's Day. It was spectacular, too. Me and everyone else at the table stuffed our faces. Mm mm. That Saturday, my gma and I went to Soulcrest and shopped. She had gotten me Chanel No. 5 and some Kenneth Cole perfume for my bday. Yeah, I wasn't too fond of either perfume, so mom liked the Kenneth Cole, I gave it to her. And we took back the Chanel No. 5. I replaced it with Pure Poison. Soooo much better than No. 5. No old lady smell to it. I got 3 dresses (Yes, I said dresses) and a pair of pink pants too. I got some Escada Sentiment, some face stuff, a gift for my uncle's wedding, and needless to say... new panties, too. That was fun and meant a lot to my grandmother that I am not ashamed to go shopping with her. Damn I love shopping. Wednesday, Tasha and I had lunch at El Charro. She bought me lunch and gave me the new Goo Goo Dolls CD and some Dove Chocolate. So... good! I think I am pretty much set. Lol. I have the best friends ever.

Okay, so on Sunday (Mother's Day), I was cooking and such and the phone rang. I decided to answer it, rather than my mom getting it as usual. I expected it to be my godmother (she had called earlier in the day, but still...). I pick up the phone and it's a man. He wanted to find out if we had the faceplate to a White Jeep Wrangler that his grandson had just bought. Mom said all of the color in my face went to play hide and go seek. I asked him to repeat what he said because somehow it didn't quite register what was said. I told the man that he needed to talk to my dad about that. I put the phone down, mom got dad when she realized something was wrong... first words out of my mouth, "Oh shit." Turns out that my Jeep was recovered some time ago and the insurance company never bothered to tell us... or our insurance broker at that. Way to go State Farm. Woo. Yeah, so there was a chop shop bust in Dekalb a while back and a white Jeep was mentioned in the aftermath of it. The Jeep was trailered to Savannah (I say trailered because everytime I stopped to get gas, I would reset my odometer becuase I didn't trust my gas meter. When we recovered it, it only had 59 miles on it from the last time I reset it.) and it was either going to be shipped or sold right there. An insurance company bought it as a stolen recovery in Savannah at an auction. Then it was sold to some wholesale auto place, and that is where the man that called's grandson had bought it. He bought it just to fix up and sell (a gpa and gson bonding type thing). That's where the phone call arrived... it was fine with the exception of the stereo faceplate being stolen. Naturally, when a homie jacks a car, they have to steal the radio... it's a must. Luckily, dad and I put in a cheaper kind just because Jeeps are easily broken into and we knew this. The man described the Jeep just how it was stolen from me, less my peronal belongings. No wreckage, clean as a whistle (yeah, I detailed it the day it was carjacked), same new tires, my star stickers... and my fucking Celery tag. WTF?! I broke down when I overheard my dad about the tag situation. I knew then and there that it was my Jeep. Come to find out, also, the Jeep didn't have keys either. So, dad offered to buy it back because of many reasons (one in which he knows the ins and outs of thet vehicle.. and he happened to still have a key for it) and the man accepted. Monday, dad, Joe, and I traveled all the way up to Murphy, NC to get our 10 month lost family member back. Can we say... relieved? I wasn't sure if I wanted it back or not, but the memories are burned in my head forever and having the Jeep back won't change that. It will only bring peace knowing that it's safe and so am I. I drove it all the way back home... no stereo, but I was still... happy. I wouldn't drive it unless dad got some seat covers, so we stopped at an Advanced Auto Parts to get some. And an air freshener, too. The man that we bought it from owns a gold mine. It's been in his family for like 2 or 300 years. He owned the whole block with various businesses on it, his own car lot, and jewlery store. He came off as cocky, but he really was a nice man, I am an grateful that he sold the Jeep back to us. He made me promise to not ever stop late for gas anymore... Ha. As if I haven't heard that one. Yeah, I don't stop after dusk anymore period. So, in short, I got my Jeep back. And I am keeping my Grand Cherokee. Wrangler will be my weekend vehicle. It is not going to Clayton county. Thanks fate. I really like this God thing. Oh yeah, once more thing, the Wrangler was still registered as stolen. Again, thanks State Farm.

Tuesday, I had a meeting with Yoli (or Joly - hell if I know how to spell it) and my mother. We discussed some things going on with church and some changes that were goign to be made with the middle and high school ministries. Somehow, I got roped into going deeper into my Wildside ministry and another thing. It should be fun. I am kinda excited about it, so we'll see how that goes. After lunch, I went to my place to get some things and such, then headed off to ACC and spent the night with my girls up thur at Nanner's appartment. We went to Ruby Tuesday's for Sarah's birthday dinner and stuff. I had cheese sticks. We had the slowest service I think I have ever experienced, without leaving. Sweet waitress, but sloooooow like turtle. Then I was going to go home, but decided to spend the night just one last time. I started to form a headache, and Sarah did too. So we were pitiful and stuff. Then we watched... HOUSE! I love that show. Friggin addict, shut up. Sarah and I stayed up forever talking about random stuff. Never fails. Ever. Finally, I got to sleep (I was on the hammock), then got freezing effing cold. So I cuddled up in Anna's chair thing and slept very well. They made fun of me when I woke up because I had everything under the blanket... head and all. Oh well. I was cold. Then Christy made us all breakfast. She's pretty much awesome! Sisk came after everyone left, then Sarah and parted our ways. I had to be home for physical therapy. Oh... the hatred for physical therapy.

Speaking of which... I have to go today. And I don't wanna. Wildside was Saturday. It was crazyyyy. So much fun! Apparently for me, too much fun. I got home around 10. Went over to my brother's friend's house so that he could grab some clothes to spend the night, talked to his mom, sister, sister's girlfriend, and Cody. Then I had to definately get home for MadTV. While I was watching MadTV, I got so sore. Then I came in here (my bedroom) and got online for a while. Talked to "J-diggy" for a while, then went to bed... in pain. I woke up around 5 (I went to be at like 4:25am), went to potty and fell. My legs wouldn't move. Neither would my back or neck. All day yesterday I pretty much laid in bed. Dad washed all the cars, and I felt useless. I seriously fely like I had a rod running from my upper neck to my lower back. I guess that is why I am up so early this morning. I'm still mucho sore and I don't know how well physical therapy is going to go today. I may have to tell Scott to go screw himself. Ha! I have had a heating pad on my neck and back for the past 2 days. Still not better. Muscle relaxers, Advil, heat, ice... nothing has helped. Oh well. I may just go get a massage if PT doesn't help any today.

Sarah left this past Saturday for Indiana. I think she will do a rather well job up thur. She'd better. I have no doubts that the man upstairs wil use her to do some mah-velous things with those kids. Good Luck!!

So, plans for later this week... nothing. Thursday, I am going to a church thing called Real Life. I am looking forward to this one. It's like AA, only it's for middle and high school kids and it's with issues not just limited to alcohol abuse. I think it will do some serious good in some of these kids. Yay for that. School gets out on Friday for my brother. I think he's pretty happy about that. I bought my Family Values tickets on Thursday. Kevin is going with me. Tasha should... but she didn't want to ask off another day in July cos she's already going to the Def Leopard concert with her madre. I got gooood seats, too. Row L. Mm mm. This will be 2 times in one year of Deftones! W00t! Kevin is going mainly for Korn. They're rockin' too, but... Chino. D'ah. Yeah, I'm stoked. July is so far away. Good thing I don't start class till August. :]

Alright, well, hopefully those of you who actually read this are fulfilled. I tried to fill in all the cracks and what not.

-fin-

P.S. Sarah needs a girlfriend... any takers?
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