Widespread Wednesday 7.18.12

Hey Y'all!  Happy Wednesday night!  I feel like this past week I have been slacking on my blogging.  I have been so busy at work and in personal life my head is just spinning in different directions.  It is Wednesday and these are thing things that I am wild about and has brought a smile to my face!

So I have a new guilty pleasure on TV.  I am sure that by watching this show I am promoting horrible behavior by kids and it is called  Cheer Perfection on TLC.  You know the great channel that brought us Toddlers and Tiaras and Sister Wives.  Since only watching the one and only episode (so far this summer), it is about a southern cheerleading gym and forming the perfect cheerleading squads.  After watching the show, it looks like we will be watching a lot of young tween crying and their "cheer" mom's bitching and or complaining about not making the team.  I am sure that I will be drawn all season since there is nothing good on TV over the summer.

The next thing that has made me smile was listening to some old school Matt Nathanson that I found on my Ipod.  I was listening to my personal favorite album by him Still Waiting For Spring (1999).  That one album made me fall in love with Matt Nathanson.  This one album has some of my favorite songs that I can listen to over and over again.  I have been the biggest fan of Matt Nathanson's since I heard this album.  I have bought every other album, seen him 74 times in concert (I have ever ticket stub to prove it) and I am hoping that this fall I will be able to go to my 75th show.  I follow him on twitter, and he tweeted over the weekend that he was starting to write for his new album.  That put the biggest smile on my face!

So the next thing that I have been thinking and wondering a lot about is should I or shouldn't I go to my 10 year High School Reunion!?!  I have talked to my two best friends, Jen and Ellen (the three of us all graduated high school together) and we all have conflicting answers on weather if they are going or not.  First, me. I want to go but then I think is it really worth going and seeing the people I really did not kept in touch, even though we are friends on social media networks.  I am sure if I went I would be hanging out with Ellen and Jen (if they go) and maybe the other 10 people I still kind of talk to and not talk to anyone else.  Second, Ellen.  I think she is going because she see's it as you will never had another 10 year reunion; but I know that her husband really wants to go because most of his friends graduated with us.  Last but never lease Jen;  She said that she is not going at all, she has no interest in going, except that it is going to be a a brewery.  She said she really cares about what Ellen and I are up to and she talks to us at lease once a week.  I am still sitting on the bubble, because I feel the same way as both of them.  I would honestly rather go out for a nice dinner as 3 couples and enjoy our time together.  I have 3ish weeks to decided on if I am going or not.

Living in the south for the past 19 years you would think that I am use to the summer southern storms.  The past week we have had some killer ones this week.  Everyday around 2pm the rain thunder and lighting until about 6:30.  But today has been the worse since the summer started!  The storm has not ended since 2pm.  And of course the Direct TV is out because of the storm so I am catching up on DVR TV, which works for me!  It would be kind of nice to be able to watch the Braves, but I will survive!


Any one have any advice on a 10 year reunion or an artist that they love that I should check out?
-Laura

Tuesday Link-Up's (me myself & I)

Happy Tuesday Everyone!  This Tuesday I am going linking up with 6 different ladies for the first ever me myself & I link-up party.  I love these questions and can not wait for you all to read my responses.

1.  What is your BIGGEST phobia? 

Ant's!  I know that sounds crazy, I do not want to know if there is a technical term for a fear of ant's but if there is, my photo would be right next to the definition.  With ant's if you see one outside, in your outside BBQ, or heaven-forbid in your house you know that there are 100 more following and I think that is what creeps me out! 

 

2.  If you could relive any day of your life, what would it be and why?

I am sure if I ever get married and or have children the day would change.  But as of right now Graduating from GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY!  It was just a great day! I finally received my degree in Printing Management and two minors in Spanish and Art and I got to do with with family watching, in my favorite place in the world (Paulson Stadium) and then after the ceremony my parents threw a huge graduation party for Jason and I and we both got to celebrate with friends and family!  (If I had met Bryan that day: the day would of been perfect)

3.  If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?
  25 years old! So many great things happened that year.  I graduated from college, I found my job that I am at right now and absolutely love, I bought my first house and I feel like I finally found out who I am and what I should be doing on this earth.  It was a sense of independence I finally had and to finally be an adult. 

4.  Which celebrity do you get mistaken for?
I do not think anyone has ever said I looked like a celebrity.  I guess that may be a good thing.... who knows!

5.  What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life?
This is a hard one!  I love love love music.  I am sure my co-workers love and hate (mostly because of my singing) that I have pandora on the radio 99.5% of the day!  But the songs that I feel I live by are?

1. Elton John - Tiny Dancer
2. Matt Nathanson - Princess and To The Beat of Our Noisy Hearts
3. John Mayer - Neon
4. Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
5.  Alanis Morissette - Forgiven
6. Corey Smith - 21 (2003)
7. Jump, Little Children - 15 stories, Habit and Not Today
8. .moe - Happy Hour Hero
9. Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Lonely
10. Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes

Loved this Link Up!  Can not wait to read other bloggers answers and to link up again the next time this link up is up and going!

Have a great day everyone!

Laura

 

Weekend Round-Up

Phew... What a weekend!!!

The weekend started in Athens (Point A on the map above) and Bryan and I had a wonderful date night on Friday.  We went out for dinner then did a little shopping and then had some fro-yo at Menchies. 

While shopping Bryan ended up buying a new camera and of course I couldn't find anything I needed that was practical.  I do not think he has realized how excited I am with the camera he bought.  We finally bought a "tough" camera.  We can finally stop buying disposable waterproof camera for on the boat, lake, or tubing.  And now I do not have to worry about my camera getting smooched, dropped, stepped on, and or at all getting wet while tailgating with all of the kids and drunk adults that are around our area!!  I have been eying a tough camera for myself for years but was never able to justify buying one since I try to be careful with my electronics. (my last camera I had before i bought a new one last summer lasted all 6 years in college (bar years and all) and 2 years of lake/normal wear and tear, and I still have the original iPod (mac only) that still works). 

On Saturday we had family weekend with Bryan Unit.  I finally got to meet the men and women in his unit.  He talks about these people all the time and it is finally nice to put a face with a name.  We were given a tour of the base he does his training at, was able to sit in some of the vehicles the use during training and then we all went bowling as a huge group!  Yes, I am going to brag a little, I beat Bryan and two of his buddies bowling! 

After bowling and military time Bryan and I headed back to my house (point B on the map) for dinner and a movie night which we watched the Dark Night. I was surprised on how good it was! I have never been a "movie" person and I would recommend it to people if they were looking for a movie to rent or see.  We actually bought it a few weeks ago because Bryan really wants to see the Dark Knight rises and he said that I had to see the first one to understand the second one.  It is still a little heartbreaking knowing that was the last movie Heath Ledger made and that some of the voice overs and or re-shoots were not him.  But after seeing the Dark Knight I am really excited about seeing the second one next weekend when B and I see it on our day off from work we are taking together!

After our quick sleep we got up very early and drove our way to Guyton, GA (point C) on the map.  (yes we did all of this driving all in one weekend)  We went down to Guyton to celebrate AG's (my little niece) 3rd birthday.  She had a horse themed party.  That little girl got so much horse stuff she might need to get a stable for all of her toy horses.  I can not explain all of the stuff she got.  The cutest was when she was opening a gift from Sarah and Michael and it was art-work for her bedroom and it had little cowgirl boots and a horse on each of the prints and she looked at it, mouth open and dropped to the floor and said "OH MY GOODNESS" in the best little 3 year old voice ever!  She was so excited and overwhelmed by the artwork it was probably the one thing I will remember from the party and it was that one comment everyone will be saying for weeks!  Yes, I was the lame aunt and got her an IOU for some new Georgia Southern gear from the book store for football season.  But Bryan got her some puzzles and a UGA jersey and beads to wear when she is watching football with her daddy!  After the party Bryan and I drove back to my house at point B on the map.  Made it back and went right to bed.  The poor man had to get up at 5am to be at work (point A) by 7am. 

Phew!  After last weekend I am warn the hell out!!  I am glad that things are starting to wind down after a few busy weekends!  We have just a few more crazy weekends but we will not be traveling as much as we had this past weekend.  Hoping for a good week at work and a little gym and down time the next few days! 

Happy Monday and hope everyone had as good as weekend as I did!
-LA!

Friday's (13th) Letters

Happy Friday the 13th everyone!  Once again I am linking up with Ashely with her Friday's Letters.  This is one of my favorite link-ups that I try and participate in as often as I can. (PS there is a little bit of venting in this one... sorry)

• Dear Friday the 13th: Please be kind to me on this last work day of this past crazy week and my travels toady. 
• Dear Weekend:  I know you are going to be a busy one but please make it an easy and stress free one!
• Dear Ms. AG:  Happy 3rd Birthday, I cant believe what a little lady you are turning out to be, I can not wait to see you on Sunday for your party!!
• Dear Men that I work with:  How hard is it to change the toilet paper or paper towel roll once you are done using it!  I am sure your wifes and or girlfriends make you change it why can't you change the roll at our place of work!?!?
• Dear Complainers/Freeloaders:  I am sick of listening/hearing you BITCH about how poor and or broke you are.  But then have the extra cash to go out and spend all your money on dumb crap like coloring books, movies, fro-yo and big screen TV's.  I am sure we the people are the ones paying for your EBT because you do not want to work a real job!  Grow the hell up, get a real job and act like an adult!!!
• Dear Direct TV:  I am not upset that you and Viacom are still battling over their stations.  (I may of been when I was the age of 14-24) but I am thanking you for making your 20 million households that use Direct TV just a little bit smarter because they can not watch shows like "Jersery Shore" "Mob Wives" and other crap television (and believe me there is a lot of crap TV, i got suckered into RHNJ last night for 3 episodes and felt my brain cells floating away).  I hope that these young people and others who watch that crap pick up a book; read; and use the brain the have in that head of theirs!
• Dear Justin Timberlake (my car):  You really did bring SEXY BACK!!  I love the extra sparkle you have now that you are painted and new looking!
• Dear Mom and Dad:  Your the best, thanks for having me over for dinner Tuesday night, it was good just to hang out the three of us and let my Only Child Syndrome kick in! 
• Dear Bryan:  Thank you for listening and being there for me and taking me to Jackson's on Wednesday.  I can not wait until family day this weekend and our day trip to Savannah!  It is going to be a GREAT weekend

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

-LA!

So What! Wednesday

Hey Y'all.  This is my second time linking up with "So What Wednesdays" with Shannon.  This is one of my favorite link-ups that I try to participate in ever week.  I do not have many things that I am so whating but the things I do are all are related to one person.  (hoping she doesn't read this, but I am sure she is and I hope she realizes that it is about her)

This week I am saying so what if...

• Your jealous of what B and I have and the things we do together. 
• Every time I go into Coach I end up buying something.
• I am pretending to be your friend right now
• Your jealous and will not admit it to me: but you will admit it up and down to others.
• I know you tell "her" everything that I have said to you.  Your a mean girl because of it!
• That blog about friendship attempts is about you;  I was told to write it to get things off my chest! 

My venting is done about that mean girl.  Now to finish my day and have a great dinner at Jackson with Bryan! 
-LA!

Widespread Wednesday 7.11.12

Happy Wednesday Y'all!  Its the middle of the work week and already it feels like this week has been dragging on.  Last weekend was a pretty relaxing weekend, as you read in yesterdays post.  This next weekend is going to be a little busy if I do say so myself.  But the things that I am wild about this Wednesday are....

This weekend is Family weekend from Bryan's Army Unit, based in Athens Georgia.  I know most people would not be as excited about going to a Family Day with their spouse, kids, significant other, boy or girl friend or heck even a family.  But this is the first time that I will be able to meet some of his Military buddies that he speaks so highly of. 
And of course I am excited because we get to go BOWLING with everyone, kids included.  I am really hoping that I enjoy my time with these men and women I am going to be meeting for the first time this weekend and hopefully since we all do live fairly close to each other get together more often then when Bryan goes to drill or does military related things with his Unit. 

Does it seam like everyone has a birthday in the month of July.  This year my group has 5 July birthdays.  I am not sure why there are so many summer birthdays or at lease we are celebrating so many summer birthdays this year. I am not complaining about celebrating birthdays because I love to party and have a good time but this month its just week after week after week!  On Sunday Bryan and I are going to be traveling to Savannah area to celebrate my niece's 3rd birthday!  It feels like just yesterday Alex and I were planning Cara's baby shower for Ms. AG!  I am excited to see everyone at her party.  And then next week we will be celebrating Bryan's Birthday and the week after we will have a group adult party at the lake for Alex, Nick and Michael!  Very excited about what that weekend is turning out to be!

What are you wild about this Wednesday!?!

Hope everyone is having a great afternoon!

-LA!

Weekend Wrap-Up!

So the weekend is officially over (i know i know i am a day late... I am still on relax mode from the week) and what an odd week it has been. We celbrated the 4th of July and AMERICA 3 times this year with fireworks and its been non stop crazyness since the last weekend of June!  I have been officially thrown off all of last week because of the Wednesday Holiday!  Lets just hope next year when the 4th lands on a Thursday the Boss Man will give us Friday off also!  (that would be epic!!). 

Over the weekend I finally got to pick up Justin at the Macco.  I am super excited to be back int he comfort of my little blue car then in my parents Honda Pilot.  I guess I have been driving a sedan way to long and not use to sitting up high in an SUV.  Macco did a really nice job with the painting of the car.  You would have no idea that the roof and trunk were peeling from the sunlight.

(a little rant about macco.  Sorry) I have to say, I know its Macco and its usually the cheaper place to go for car and collision on an automobile.  The paint job its self looks great and I hope that it will last 2-3 years (until I can pay cash for a new car) but the customer service / "little things" were totally off.  They left tape on the bottom of my car where they had to tape off some of the siding.  Never mentioned you couldn't put your car through the wash for about a month (lucky Bryan called).  Over painted on my back tires.  And did put my sun visor back on my car along with not giving me back the screws they used to take it off.  I know that these are little things, and I should be glad that my car looks new for a 9ish year old car, but come on, I use that sun visor to find my car in parking lots and did he really think I was going to know what kind of screw it was that went into the sun visor.  I am sure if I was a man I'd know the screw size and have one in my house, but I'm not a man!!

But for the rest of Satruday and Sunday Bryan and I left it pretty up in the air.  Bryan finally got his new bumper (which weighed 1,000 lbs (kidding)) on his Land Rover and his truck is now looking pretty again.  You would think driving a Rover they would use a nice solid bumper not a cheap plastic one that falls apart after a few years.  It blows my mind how much lighter his old stock bumper was.  I was able to lift it myself.  But when I recieved the new fance bumper from UPS, I had to have the UPS driver and one of our pressmen help me get it into my moms car (another reason I was driving her pilot last week).  

Crap Plastic Bumper

New Fance Bumper

Him and I went to the UGA booksore and I picked out some T-shirts for the games and to lounge around his house in.  We also picked out for my neices birthday a UGA jersey and beads so when she is watching UGA football with her Daddy (who is a HUGE UGA fan) she can match his outfit.  Bryan also picked out some things from the book store.  I am not sure where he plans on wearing all of this black and red stuff, since we will be going to to Georgia Southern for a lot of their football games!  While we were not out buying black and red nonsence and fixing our cars we watched the Braves, some Nascar (which I beat his butt in our nascar pool) and caught up on some TV.  It was a great weekend for him and I just to chill and hang out, especially with the next 4 weeks will be GO-GO-GO

• Military Family Weekend and my Neices b-day in Savannah
• Atlanta for Bryans Birthday and Kellys Housewarming Party
• Lake Weekend with my Georgia Southern Friends
• RNRC in Alabama with Jen 

 Phew! I'm already exhausted thinking about the next few weekends!  

 

I hope everyone had as good of a weekend as I did!

-LA!