Year end Review- By Month
January: It's been a minute since I last updated. To begin from the beginning, I am now in grad school. I started last Wed. I am taking one clss, American History of Education, on Wednesday afternoons from 4:30-7:00. All the students in the class are Ph.D level except me, so I am a little scared, but I think I will be ok. FOCUS was last week, so of course that kept us in the office a little busy, Keith mostly. On Friday, I babysat for Sam and Lucy, then on Saturday I helped mom out with a party. It was at Bill Preston's house, and I must say, I have been in some rich people's houses before, but he is CRIBS worthy. He has a elevator in his house. So many rooms you get lost, A jacuzzi, a fire pit and a pool on his patio. HE also has a full court basketball area. Not only is he BLACK, but he's a Jehovah's Witness. Too bd he is happily married.... and no kids I could see. Some people have it all.
Yesterday because I'm a glutton for punishment, I babysat again. The kids weren't bad, I was just ready to go home, not be at the Wollman's til one a.m. Now I am still in the bed, listening to India.Arie and trying to motivate myself to get out of bed.
In good news, DDA FINALLY got a car. That was great!I was happy, and I got a chance to ride it in, then had to high tail it to work for mom.
Today I want to get my closet situation shaped up, go to Sam's and get gas, go shopping at NY & Co and then I have to get ready for the rest of the week. I hope all is well with you, toodles
February: So, had a root canal, had class, planned my Spring Travel and overcommitted this week.Cool thing happened yesterday, Darius came to dinner with me, and I had a really good time. It reminded me of the ol' days, when he was Triple D Dedicated, Determined, Dependable. It was fun. I came hom and fell out. I could barely keep my eyes open. This weekend is the firs accepted women's reception... on Sunday, I'm babysitting on Saturday and its NACAC weekend so lots of admissions folks are in town.
:) happy happy joy joy
March: So I have 20 minutes before I need to be babysitting and instead of cleaning up like I know I need to do, I decide to post.
In good news *Best Week Ever* fashion, I shall update you on the good things in life.
On Sunday I went skating and Janyata and I hung out and had fun. I met this boy named Quinton, I'm sure he's Jail bait but we skated together and that was nice. On Monday, I went to work and endured making more tough crappy decisions. Had family study which is always nice, then I came home and went to bed.
On Tuesday, I had the meeting and I went, which is good, but I also had a demonstration and I had prepared for the oral review. Go Leslie!
On Wednesday, Sandy and I started adding running to our morning walking routine. It went faster, and I felt energetic after we finished, but by the end of the day my thighs were killing me. I had class on Wednesday and I got my paper back, I earned a 24/25, which was the highest score anybody received!!! I was super excited.
On Thursday, Ingrid, my boss, brought me about 200 files at the end of the day that needed to be entered into the computer system. Being the great and wonderful employee that I am, I stayed until 6:45 to try and finish them, but I had to pick up my grandma from work at 7. I went to pick up grandma, talked to her and caught up with family business, then I went back to work until 10:47. Giselle was there too, so we had dinner together and we talked about how great work is and how much we love our jobs. :) I went home and took a steaming hot bath 'cause my muscles were so tight.
On Friday, I had a program so I arrived at work at 6:45. The program went off without a hitch and everyone was happy. Both my bosses came to lunch, which was good, and they seemes to like how everything was going. At 4:30 I went an waited an hour for my mom and sisters to meet me so we could get a pedicure. They finally arrived at 5:30, and we had fun getting out toes done. After that, I ran to the BLC opening mixer to show my face and say hi to a few key friends, because I had a appointment at 8. At 8, I went to Spa Sydell to get a massage and it was to DIE for!!! I had such a great time, I came home and went straight to bed.
Today, woke up and went running, which was good, then I went to the bookstudy, and out in service. After that I went grocery shopping for my FP diner on Wednesday and for fod for me for the week.
Now I have to go and babysit the Backs.
Have fun y'all.
April: I just got offered a once in a lifetiime opportunity to chaperone the Oxford Program this summer!!! I would be soooo excited if I got a chance to do it. I have to talk to my bosses first thing in the morning.
http://www.oxford.gatech.edu/index.html
May: So here I am in Vienna, and I really am not liking the museums. The sad thing is we have sooo many cities and sooo many museums to go. Perhaps it will get better. I hate that I can not cross post, but it you are at all interested in regular updates, visit gtabroad.livejournal.com
good night
June: Cross posted at gtabroad
I have arrived here in Brugges to find that it is the largest tourist town I have ever seen. There is not much here but tourist and shopping.
Too bad I am not small and petite like all the clothes I keep encountering.
I am going to travel to Brussels tomorrow since it is a larger town. It is just an hour ride away and the students only have class anf the rest of the day free so I will not be responsible for them.
Perhaps I will go alone.... that would be nice.
We will leave Belgium on Tuesday and arrive in London and then I will be near to friends. I can't wait to see Jenny from Sweden, and Matt and Abby from London. It will be nice to be around people I know, and around ppl who speak English!!!
The ride to Belgium was cool. Justin sang Yeah! and of course the "Frat Pack" sang "Ridin Dirty". We have so much entertainment on out trips!!
Well, I shall try to upload pictures of Partis before I leave Begium, but if not, definately in London.
Hi all! I'll be home in 6 days!!!
July: European Wrap up
I had a really great time in Europe this summer. I met some great people, and had a chance to see so many things that I might never see again.
I went to the Lourve again. I saw Big ben, the London Bridge, Venice Beach, I saw trhe Sistine Chapel. I saw artists such as Klimt, Van Gough, Goughin, Cezzane, Matisse, da Vinci, Manet, Monet and Andy Warhol just to name a few.
But I think the things I will take away form my trip most, arenot the great painitngs, the awesome food, or the cool places I went. The thing I will remember most about my trip are the great people that- for a brief time- became my family. Kristin, Alex, Collin, Kasiem, Brett, Melissa, Mary, Joyce, Colleen, even Baby J. We had a great experience getting to know one another... getting irritated by one another , and liking one another all over again.
My best memeories are
1) Swinging in Zurich
2)Climbibg to the top of the Church of England
3)Playing games in Klagenfurt
4)Hanging out with friends in London
5)Laying in the grass at the park in Bruge
6)Eating unbelievably good and chaep pasta in Bruge
7)Sleeping on the bus with my ipod on and my eye mask
8)Welcome Dinners-All of them
9)Almost running out of money in Vienna
10)Making it back in one piece
I had a great time. I hope to go again one day, but if not, it was worth all the time, energy and sacrafice.
August: Life as I know it
So.... I have had little reason to update tis thing lately. None of my old lj friends comment anymore, and if they are posting, they aren't doing so publicly where I can read them so..... well that's part of the reason I haven't updated.
The other reason is that I think I am in a bad mood. I've been in a bad mood for a few weeks now, and while I am not taking it out on others or making my life miserable, when I write my bad mood seems to become more noticeable. Hence.... me not updating. So, let me tell you why I am not in a good mood.
Starting in November, my rent increases by $75 dollars. You may think, well that's not to bad. Well, it is. Trust me.
One of my closest friends, Kemba, is not speaking to me, and to this day, I still do not know what prompted this sudden mood change. I have a feeling, but honestly, at 35 I would think I was past high school drama. I'm pretty upset about it. Hurt more than anything, and then under that, pissed, and under that.... wanting to let this "break" be permanent. I used to have a friend who took 'hiatus' from our friendship, only I wasn't there whenever he decided he wanted to be friends again. Makes me want to react that way. But I'm a really loyal friend, so you would have to do soemthing really mean, underhanded and inconsiderate to make me cut you off. I hope it doesn't get to that point.
Beyond those two really good reasons to be ina bad mood, my peak travel season is beginning again. On August 28th I fly to Tampa, and thus starts the four month craze of traveling to near and far cities. GT starts in August 21st and people are aready pissed because " GT accepted to many freshmen." When in actuality, we accepted the number of freshmen we were told to accept. It's revenue driven. Not our fault, and I have a solution.... but 1,000 in state students would not like attending there second choice school. Be happy you were accepted to the number 9 school in the country and shut up.
Sorry, that was just the bad mood talking......
September:
still alive
just busy....maybe I will update one day.
October: No post to LJ (here is a post from xanga)
I arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on FRIDAY and it took forever to get my begs, get a rental car, and drive to my brother's house. I am staying with my brother and sister in law while I am here- not really to save money, but to get a chance to see them. On Friday night, I went to this Welcome Reception hosted by the Sunshine Invitational College fair committee. It was fun! I met a ton of admissions reps I had never met, plus saw a few of the old crew. I also had this looong conversation with the USC rep, who coincedentally, not only was this his last trip in admissions, but we were in the same room for the collge fair the next day. It was cool. After the Welcome Reception, I went and met up with Mike and Tavia, my brother and sister in law and I met a few of their friends. We were going to go out to eat, but by the time we finally got moving we decided to grad some take out and eat at the house.
On Saturday, I was suppose to go to Breakfast before the fair, but instead I ate with them, and just talked. It was nice to catch up on everything. Once I got to the college fair, I saw gthat I was in a room with only 5 other colleges, which I thought was going to be bad- but it turned out ok for me. Georgia Tech is well known and a big draw in Ft Lauderdale and Miami, so I was fine. I actually had a line to talk to me. There were 4 other colleges in the room, USC, Gettysburg, CW Post Long Island, and Pomona. But really, me and USC were the major draw for the room. As a matter of fact, USC had ppl still talking to him long after the fair was over. Which was bad, because we were all going on a boat cruise in Miami next, at 5:30 and we needed to go change clothes and get back.
After the fair, I went and picked Tavia up, and we went to the gtrocery store. I wanted to do something nice for them while I was here, so we went shopping, and I paid for the groceries. Then we went to Costco and we had Pizza and Ice cream.... what a balanced meal. I ended up not eating my ice cream, I took it home and put it in the freezer.... but wouldn't you know when I got back from the cruise, it was gone!! (That is why I LOVE living by myself... no one is there to eat up your food!)
Speaking of the cruise, I had a great time! It is affectionately refered to as "The Booze Cruise" cause its all the beer and wine you can stand. But I, being rational, reasonable, and not wanting to do anything stupid, only had 2 glasses of wine. We took the boat out to Star Island, and went to see Shap's house, JLo and Mark Anthony's house, and P Diddy's house. It was fun. I met some other admissions reps on the trip, which was nice. Then after the cruise, everyone was talking about going out to a club. I was interested, but I was reluctant to go, pay for parking, then get to a club and the group decide that we were going somewhere else. So after about 45 minutes of hanging around to see where we were going, I took my tired self back to Ft Lauderdale and went to bed.
On Sunday, I woke up early, hung out with Mike and Tavia, then I got dressed for the college fair. I was determined to be on time because I had heard that the Brunch was offf the chain! It did indeed live up to its reputation. It was nice eating and talking with the crew, we had fun, then it was time to go to work. After the fair, I went back to the house, and I was alone. It was nice to have some peace and quiet. I enjoy having a hotel room sometimes because I can rest and relax, and with no one home, it was a perfect time to take a nap. I went straight to sleep. It was a great nap too!
When I woke up, I made dinner for them because Tavia had to work, and I thought it would be nice for her to come home to a homecooked meal. I also spent countless hours on facebook and Myspace... and I don't even like Myspace.
Now, it is Monday morning and I have tons of stuff to do -spend time with Mike, pack my suitcase, maybe do some reading for my grad school classes.... life is non stop. Tomorrow at 6, I am flying from Ft Lauderdale to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to New Orleans. But on Friday, I will be home for homecoming!!!
November:
So… where do I start to explain why my life is seriously messed up. See! I don’t even curse but this is a cursing situation.
On Sat night, I am getting ready to go hang out with some Admissions counselor friends- Brandi from Samford (soon to be at Vandy), Sandra from Southern Poly, Maiyawa from Emory and Jakita formerly of University of Alabama.
I am late as usual, but not driving super fast. I get about a mile away from my house and I hear this LOUD pop. The car suddenly is uncontroable. I slow down and pull to the side of the road.
BOTH of my passenger side tires are busted! Its ridiculous!! So I call the gang and tell them that I am out- Game over. No car, flat tires. They say- we’ll come pick you up, call AAA. So I call them, and ask what they can do for me. Nothing is the basic answer. See, a light duty truck could change my tire, but I only have one spare, and a tow truck can only tow me 5 miles before I pay 5 dollars for each additional mile.
So…. I try to think of an alternative. I decide to drive the car to a safe place out of the middle of the street. Thankfully, my eyes catch site of an elementary school near by. I pull the car slowly and difficulty into the driveway of the school parking lot. I figure, leave it there til morning, then I can get my dad to help me take the wheels off and get them repaired at Pep Boys.
So, the girls come and pick me up from the house, we go to the Tavern at Phipps, Tech wins the game against NC State, a bad night turns into a pretty good evening.
On the way home, we pass by my car, it is still there, I go home, call AAA and ask them about my options again, and I decide to wake up this morning to have them change the tires for me.I might as well use them for what they are good for.
So this moring around 10 I call AAA, they meet me at the school to change the tires and…..THERE IS NO CAR.
The car is gone. No CAR!
I panic. I look for posted signs about towing. There are none. I call the police to report the car stolen, but I don’t have the VIN number, so I have to call back. Then, I call the police back and ask if they would have impounded the car. They claim that they would not impound a vehicle unlesit was in the roadway. It wasn’t. I give them the VIN and they caim not to have the vehicle. They suggest calling A-Tow a private towing company to see if the school had it towed. I call A-Tow, they saw call R & T Towing. I call them, they say to call B & L towing. B & L have my car. The police had it impounded for “Abandnment”. It had not even been sitting there for a full 12 hours before they had it towed, much less 24 hours. I didn’t get chance to abandon the stupid car cause they had it towed!
Now I have to pay 105 for the towing, 10 dollars per day for storage and I STILL have 2 flat tires.
To top it all off, I need a copy of my tag tax recept in order to get an impound release from the police, and I thought it was in my car, but after driving to the impound lot and going in the car0 its not there.
Greta things to look forward to doing on Monday morning:
1) Going to the Tag office for a duplicate of my tag reiept
2) Going to City Hall East to get an impound release form
3) Going to B&L towing with the release and paying 115 to get my car out of hock.
4) STILL having to TOW THE STUPID CAR to PEP Boys so that the TWO flat tires can be repaired.
5) Trying not to curse anyone out in the process.
6) Going to work and acting like I am happy.
If only I believed in drugs, or frivolous sex- I need an out of this world HIGH to keep me from going insane, and alcohol just isn’t going to cut it. Sigh….. the thought of cracking open my good friend Jack is tempting but I have to be able to accomplish lots tomorrow, so I shall resist.
Days like this though…… I really do wish I had a man who could at least change a tire for me
December:
I had a great conversation with a close college friend this past weekend and it was nice to know that my friendship is valuable. Far from being trivial, they told me that they like the fact that we have such a close friendship, and that they honestly wouldn't change anything. (Which is different from "you are too good a friend to consider romantically.)
I have actually been working on this wrap up for about 2 weeks. Hopefully I can start the Funny, reflective year end wrap up soon!
Yesterday because I'm a glutton for punishment, I babysat again. The kids weren't bad, I was just ready to go home, not be at the Wollman's til one a.m. Now I am still in the bed, listening to India.Arie and trying to motivate myself to get out of bed.
In good news, DDA FINALLY got a car. That was great!I was happy, and I got a chance to ride it in, then had to high tail it to work for mom.
Today I want to get my closet situation shaped up, go to Sam's and get gas, go shopping at NY & Co and then I have to get ready for the rest of the week. I hope all is well with you, toodles
February: So, had a root canal, had class, planned my Spring Travel and overcommitted this week.Cool thing happened yesterday, Darius came to dinner with me, and I had a really good time. It reminded me of the ol' days, when he was Triple D Dedicated, Determined, Dependable. It was fun. I came hom and fell out. I could barely keep my eyes open. This weekend is the firs accepted women's reception... on Sunday, I'm babysitting on Saturday and its NACAC weekend so lots of admissions folks are in town.
:) happy happy joy joy
March: So I have 20 minutes before I need to be babysitting and instead of cleaning up like I know I need to do, I decide to post.
In good news *Best Week Ever* fashion, I shall update you on the good things in life.
On Sunday I went skating and Janyata and I hung out and had fun. I met this boy named Quinton, I'm sure he's Jail bait but we skated together and that was nice. On Monday, I went to work and endured making more tough crappy decisions. Had family study which is always nice, then I came home and went to bed.
On Tuesday, I had the meeting and I went, which is good, but I also had a demonstration and I had prepared for the oral review. Go Leslie!
On Wednesday, Sandy and I started adding running to our morning walking routine. It went faster, and I felt energetic after we finished, but by the end of the day my thighs were killing me. I had class on Wednesday and I got my paper back, I earned a 24/25, which was the highest score anybody received!!! I was super excited.
On Thursday, Ingrid, my boss, brought me about 200 files at the end of the day that needed to be entered into the computer system. Being the great and wonderful employee that I am, I stayed until 6:45 to try and finish them, but I had to pick up my grandma from work at 7. I went to pick up grandma, talked to her and caught up with family business, then I went back to work until 10:47. Giselle was there too, so we had dinner together and we talked about how great work is and how much we love our jobs. :) I went home and took a steaming hot bath 'cause my muscles were so tight.
On Friday, I had a program so I arrived at work at 6:45. The program went off without a hitch and everyone was happy. Both my bosses came to lunch, which was good, and they seemes to like how everything was going. At 4:30 I went an waited an hour for my mom and sisters to meet me so we could get a pedicure. They finally arrived at 5:30, and we had fun getting out toes done. After that, I ran to the BLC opening mixer to show my face and say hi to a few key friends, because I had a appointment at 8. At 8, I went to Spa Sydell to get a massage and it was to DIE for!!! I had such a great time, I came home and went straight to bed.
Today, woke up and went running, which was good, then I went to the bookstudy, and out in service. After that I went grocery shopping for my FP diner on Wednesday and for fod for me for the week.
Now I have to go and babysit the Backs.
Have fun y'all.
April: I just got offered a once in a lifetiime opportunity to chaperone the Oxford Program this summer!!! I would be soooo excited if I got a chance to do it. I have to talk to my bosses first thing in the morning.
http://www.oxford.gatech.edu/index.html
May: So here I am in Vienna, and I really am not liking the museums. The sad thing is we have sooo many cities and sooo many museums to go. Perhaps it will get better. I hate that I can not cross post, but it you are at all interested in regular updates, visit gtabroad.livejournal.com
good night
June: Cross posted at gtabroad
I have arrived here in Brugges to find that it is the largest tourist town I have ever seen. There is not much here but tourist and shopping.
Too bad I am not small and petite like all the clothes I keep encountering.
I am going to travel to Brussels tomorrow since it is a larger town. It is just an hour ride away and the students only have class anf the rest of the day free so I will not be responsible for them.
Perhaps I will go alone.... that would be nice.
We will leave Belgium on Tuesday and arrive in London and then I will be near to friends. I can't wait to see Jenny from Sweden, and Matt and Abby from London. It will be nice to be around people I know, and around ppl who speak English!!!
The ride to Belgium was cool. Justin sang Yeah! and of course the "Frat Pack" sang "Ridin Dirty". We have so much entertainment on out trips!!
Well, I shall try to upload pictures of Partis before I leave Begium, but if not, definately in London.
Hi all! I'll be home in 6 days!!!
July: European Wrap up
I had a really great time in Europe this summer. I met some great people, and had a chance to see so many things that I might never see again.
I went to the Lourve again. I saw Big ben, the London Bridge, Venice Beach, I saw trhe Sistine Chapel. I saw artists such as Klimt, Van Gough, Goughin, Cezzane, Matisse, da Vinci, Manet, Monet and Andy Warhol just to name a few.
But I think the things I will take away form my trip most, arenot the great painitngs, the awesome food, or the cool places I went. The thing I will remember most about my trip are the great people that- for a brief time- became my family. Kristin, Alex, Collin, Kasiem, Brett, Melissa, Mary, Joyce, Colleen, even Baby J. We had a great experience getting to know one another... getting irritated by one another , and liking one another all over again.
My best memeories are
1) Swinging in Zurich
2)Climbibg to the top of the Church of England
3)Playing games in Klagenfurt
4)Hanging out with friends in London
5)Laying in the grass at the park in Bruge
6)Eating unbelievably good and chaep pasta in Bruge
7)Sleeping on the bus with my ipod on and my eye mask
8)Welcome Dinners-All of them
9)Almost running out of money in Vienna
10)Making it back in one piece
I had a great time. I hope to go again one day, but if not, it was worth all the time, energy and sacrafice.
August: Life as I know it
So.... I have had little reason to update tis thing lately. None of my old lj friends comment anymore, and if they are posting, they aren't doing so publicly where I can read them so..... well that's part of the reason I haven't updated.
The other reason is that I think I am in a bad mood. I've been in a bad mood for a few weeks now, and while I am not taking it out on others or making my life miserable, when I write my bad mood seems to become more noticeable. Hence.... me not updating. So, let me tell you why I am not in a good mood.
Starting in November, my rent increases by $75 dollars. You may think, well that's not to bad. Well, it is. Trust me.
One of my closest friends, Kemba, is not speaking to me, and to this day, I still do not know what prompted this sudden mood change. I have a feeling, but honestly, at 35 I would think I was past high school drama. I'm pretty upset about it. Hurt more than anything, and then under that, pissed, and under that.... wanting to let this "break" be permanent. I used to have a friend who took 'hiatus' from our friendship, only I wasn't there whenever he decided he wanted to be friends again. Makes me want to react that way. But I'm a really loyal friend, so you would have to do soemthing really mean, underhanded and inconsiderate to make me cut you off. I hope it doesn't get to that point.
Beyond those two really good reasons to be ina bad mood, my peak travel season is beginning again. On August 28th I fly to Tampa, and thus starts the four month craze of traveling to near and far cities. GT starts in August 21st and people are aready pissed because " GT accepted to many freshmen." When in actuality, we accepted the number of freshmen we were told to accept. It's revenue driven. Not our fault, and I have a solution.... but 1,000 in state students would not like attending there second choice school. Be happy you were accepted to the number 9 school in the country and shut up.
Sorry, that was just the bad mood talking......
September:
still alive
just busy....maybe I will update one day.
October: No post to LJ (here is a post from xanga)
I arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on FRIDAY and it took forever to get my begs, get a rental car, and drive to my brother's house. I am staying with my brother and sister in law while I am here- not really to save money, but to get a chance to see them. On Friday night, I went to this Welcome Reception hosted by the Sunshine Invitational College fair committee. It was fun! I met a ton of admissions reps I had never met, plus saw a few of the old crew. I also had this looong conversation with the USC rep, who coincedentally, not only was this his last trip in admissions, but we were in the same room for the collge fair the next day. It was cool. After the Welcome Reception, I went and met up with Mike and Tavia, my brother and sister in law and I met a few of their friends. We were going to go out to eat, but by the time we finally got moving we decided to grad some take out and eat at the house.
On Saturday, I was suppose to go to Breakfast before the fair, but instead I ate with them, and just talked. It was nice to catch up on everything. Once I got to the college fair, I saw gthat I was in a room with only 5 other colleges, which I thought was going to be bad- but it turned out ok for me. Georgia Tech is well known and a big draw in Ft Lauderdale and Miami, so I was fine. I actually had a line to talk to me. There were 4 other colleges in the room, USC, Gettysburg, CW Post Long Island, and Pomona. But really, me and USC were the major draw for the room. As a matter of fact, USC had ppl still talking to him long after the fair was over. Which was bad, because we were all going on a boat cruise in Miami next, at 5:30 and we needed to go change clothes and get back.
After the fair, I went and picked Tavia up, and we went to the gtrocery store. I wanted to do something nice for them while I was here, so we went shopping, and I paid for the groceries. Then we went to Costco and we had Pizza and Ice cream.... what a balanced meal. I ended up not eating my ice cream, I took it home and put it in the freezer.... but wouldn't you know when I got back from the cruise, it was gone!! (That is why I LOVE living by myself... no one is there to eat up your food!)
Speaking of the cruise, I had a great time! It is affectionately refered to as "The Booze Cruise" cause its all the beer and wine you can stand. But I, being rational, reasonable, and not wanting to do anything stupid, only had 2 glasses of wine. We took the boat out to Star Island, and went to see Shap's house, JLo and Mark Anthony's house, and P Diddy's house. It was fun. I met some other admissions reps on the trip, which was nice. Then after the cruise, everyone was talking about going out to a club. I was interested, but I was reluctant to go, pay for parking, then get to a club and the group decide that we were going somewhere else. So after about 45 minutes of hanging around to see where we were going, I took my tired self back to Ft Lauderdale and went to bed.
On Sunday, I woke up early, hung out with Mike and Tavia, then I got dressed for the college fair. I was determined to be on time because I had heard that the Brunch was offf the chain! It did indeed live up to its reputation. It was nice eating and talking with the crew, we had fun, then it was time to go to work. After the fair, I went back to the house, and I was alone. It was nice to have some peace and quiet. I enjoy having a hotel room sometimes because I can rest and relax, and with no one home, it was a perfect time to take a nap. I went straight to sleep. It was a great nap too!
When I woke up, I made dinner for them because Tavia had to work, and I thought it would be nice for her to come home to a homecooked meal. I also spent countless hours on facebook and Myspace... and I don't even like Myspace.
Now, it is Monday morning and I have tons of stuff to do -spend time with Mike, pack my suitcase, maybe do some reading for my grad school classes.... life is non stop. Tomorrow at 6, I am flying from Ft Lauderdale to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to New Orleans. But on Friday, I will be home for homecoming!!!
November:
So… where do I start to explain why my life is seriously messed up. See! I don’t even curse but this is a cursing situation.
On Sat night, I am getting ready to go hang out with some Admissions counselor friends- Brandi from Samford (soon to be at Vandy), Sandra from Southern Poly, Maiyawa from Emory and Jakita formerly of University of Alabama.
I am late as usual, but not driving super fast. I get about a mile away from my house and I hear this LOUD pop. The car suddenly is uncontroable. I slow down and pull to the side of the road.
BOTH of my passenger side tires are busted! Its ridiculous!! So I call the gang and tell them that I am out- Game over. No car, flat tires. They say- we’ll come pick you up, call AAA. So I call them, and ask what they can do for me. Nothing is the basic answer. See, a light duty truck could change my tire, but I only have one spare, and a tow truck can only tow me 5 miles before I pay 5 dollars for each additional mile.
So…. I try to think of an alternative. I decide to drive the car to a safe place out of the middle of the street. Thankfully, my eyes catch site of an elementary school near by. I pull the car slowly and difficulty into the driveway of the school parking lot. I figure, leave it there til morning, then I can get my dad to help me take the wheels off and get them repaired at Pep Boys.
So, the girls come and pick me up from the house, we go to the Tavern at Phipps, Tech wins the game against NC State, a bad night turns into a pretty good evening.
On the way home, we pass by my car, it is still there, I go home, call AAA and ask them about my options again, and I decide to wake up this morning to have them change the tires for me.I might as well use them for what they are good for.
So this moring around 10 I call AAA, they meet me at the school to change the tires and…..THERE IS NO CAR.
The car is gone. No CAR!
I panic. I look for posted signs about towing. There are none. I call the police to report the car stolen, but I don’t have the VIN number, so I have to call back. Then, I call the police back and ask if they would have impounded the car. They claim that they would not impound a vehicle unlesit was in the roadway. It wasn’t. I give them the VIN and they caim not to have the vehicle. They suggest calling A-Tow a private towing company to see if the school had it towed. I call A-Tow, they saw call R & T Towing. I call them, they say to call B & L towing. B & L have my car. The police had it impounded for “Abandnment”. It had not even been sitting there for a full 12 hours before they had it towed, much less 24 hours. I didn’t get chance to abandon the stupid car cause they had it towed!
Now I have to pay 105 for the towing, 10 dollars per day for storage and I STILL have 2 flat tires.
To top it all off, I need a copy of my tag tax recept in order to get an impound release from the police, and I thought it was in my car, but after driving to the impound lot and going in the car0 its not there.
Greta things to look forward to doing on Monday morning:
1) Going to the Tag office for a duplicate of my tag reiept
2) Going to City Hall East to get an impound release form
3) Going to B&L towing with the release and paying 115 to get my car out of hock.
4) STILL having to TOW THE STUPID CAR to PEP Boys so that the TWO flat tires can be repaired.
5) Trying not to curse anyone out in the process.
6) Going to work and acting like I am happy.
If only I believed in drugs, or frivolous sex- I need an out of this world HIGH to keep me from going insane, and alcohol just isn’t going to cut it. Sigh….. the thought of cracking open my good friend Jack is tempting but I have to be able to accomplish lots tomorrow, so I shall resist.
Days like this though…… I really do wish I had a man who could at least change a tire for me
December:
I had a great conversation with a close college friend this past weekend and it was nice to know that my friendship is valuable. Far from being trivial, they told me that they like the fact that we have such a close friendship, and that they honestly wouldn't change anything. (Which is different from "you are too good a friend to consider romantically.)
I have actually been working on this wrap up for about 2 weeks. Hopefully I can start the Funny, reflective year end wrap up soon!