Again, it’s been awhile since I posted.  I’m pretty sure that I am in the middle of a quarter life crisis here and lately, I just haven’t felt like doing anything.  So, for anyone still reading, here’s an update since we last spoke.

Last week was somewhat uneventful.  Work sucks as usual.  I hate my job.  I hate the clients I work on.  I had a meeting with a client who may or may not be bipolar in my opinion.  The meeting was going really well, we were successfully selling him a new internet site.  Then he got up to get more coffee mid-conversation.  That is nothing unusual though.  When he came back, he sat down and starting in on how he doesn’t think he is getting what he pays for in the line of PR.  Which, even though I am the PR/Marketing account manager on his account, PR is my main job.  My boss didn’t seem upset by any of this thank God.  Even when the client threatened to pull the PR budget.

Well, buddy, it’s not my fault you don’t have any hits in the publications.  I can’t do the interview for you, and when you blow off not one, but two interviews in a row.  Well, that’s why you’re not included.  Thanks.

In the end, I think he was trying to test us.  To instill fear in me.  When we left, my boss said, ok, so we’ll reallocate your PR budget.  The client says, well don’t do anything just yet and winked when he shook my hand good bye.

Thursday, we had plans to go to Speed Street, a festival in downtown Charlotte here to entertain all the fans of the Coca Cola 600 that was in town.  They have food, vendors (that give away lots of cool, free stuff) and music.  Good music at that.  Gary Allan was playing Thursday night and L and I were going to go.  But we were having a cookout Saturday and had stuff we needed to get done.  So we skipped it.  I’m still kind of bummed even though I know we never would have got the stuff done if we hadn’t done it then.

Thursday night we painted out beer pong table.  I’ve talked before about the pink and green beer pong table that my old roommates and I had.  But they kept it when I moved out.  L has had his table for awhile.  One of those 8′ plastic banquet type tables.  We take it to all the concerts, etc. and people have signed it.  Well, now he wanted to paint it.  Actually he has wanted to for awhile and this party was his perfect reason.  Now, since it is partly my table too, he let me decorate one half of it.  Naturally, I chose pink and green.  It is pink with a green turtle in the middle.  I actually took a picture of my turtle tattoo that is on the back of my right hip, printed it out, blew it up on the copier and created a stencil from it.  It came out really good. (More pictures to come, my camera died while we were doing all of this).  L’s half is black with a red stripe down the middle.  This is the thin red line which honors fallen firefighters.  He is eventually going to print out pictures of FD patches to put along the edges.  FDs that he has/does work for.  The whole thing actually came out really nice considering it was spray paint on plastic.  We may make a plywood top and repaint it in the same design and attach it to the top of the table so the balls bounce better than they do now.


My tattoo that I made a stencil out of


L painting the red line

Friday, L was working at his part-time job, the firestation in town, and while he was there, he made some touch ups to the table and built Cornhole.  I had never even heard of this game, but last year when we were tailgating at a bunch of concerts, everyone was playing it.  So I decided we needed one.  They were kind of expensive to buy, but I think once we bought all the materials, we probably spent the same amount of money – about $60 or $70.  They are really easy to make (well, if you’re a boy and have a saw).  We painted one black and it will eventually have a gold stripe down the middle for Wake Forest, which L is a fan of.  And the other is green and will eventually have a gold stripe down the middle for UNC Charlotte, my alma mater. 

I took on the task of sewing the bags to throw.  We got canvas from Walmart and i hand sewed – double stitched – all eight of those bags.  Four of which I did at work on Friday.  I held them in my lap and pretended I was reading a paper.  Like I said, I really hate my job right now.  Then I went to Tractor Supply to buy cornfeed to fill them with.  I’ve been to this store before (they sell dog crates and food too) and L always tells me I’m not allowed to talk when we go in.  My Yankee accent and all. (Even though I don’t have an accent.  I’m from CT.)  Well, I went to the store near my office.  By myself.  In clothes I wore the the office.  And heels.  And I bought corn feed.  In a 50lb bag.  Because that’s all they sold it in.  We only need like a pound or two.  Luckily, it was only $10 for the whole bag though.  To my surprise, none of those people offered to carry this 50lb bag for me though.  But I did just fine.

Friday night we painted the cornhole and got everything somewhat together.  We had gone food shopping earlier in the week.

Saturday, I cleaned the house while L cleaned up the yard.  People started coming around 5 or so.  We had a great turnout – about 30 people.  We had hamburgers and hot dogs and lots of sides that people brought.  We played cornhole and beerpong.  Everyone had a good time.  My friends left around 11 or so, while a lot of L’s friends stayed till 12, with the last leaving around 2.  It was the first time we had a party with my friends and his.  It was kind of like a middle school dance though.  They stayed kind of separeated.  Then again, my friends are in their mid-twenties, and even though L is a year younger than me, most of his friends are 30+ and married with kids.  They all work for the fire department.  Go figure.

Sunday, we cleaned up, but didn’t have much to do.  The beauty of the 30+ aged friends.  They clean up after themselves.  While we were picking up the the tables and stuff in the yard, we ended up playing cornhole for like 2 or 3 hours.  Just the two of us.  It was great – my new favorite game.  Then we just chilled the rest of the day and I enjoyed Monday off with the puppies – L had to work during the day.

The rest of this week at work sucked per the usual.  I had to be in at 7:30, instead of 8:30, because we’re doing summer hours.  The good part though, is that I get to leave at noon today.  Woohoo!  Too bad L is working 24 hrs. today.  Oh well.

Yesterday the puppies got fixed.  I dropped them off at the vet at 8 and L picked them up around 4:30.  I was nervous that they were coming home because any other animals I’ve had they kept them overnight, but this vet doesn’t do that.  And apparently, it’s not out of the ordinary.

We kept them in separate crates in separate rooms to try and keep them calm.  But they took care of that on their own last night.  We let them out for awhie and they just kind of sat around.  You could tell Dixie was feeling it more than Shep (obviously, her’s was a little more invasive), but they’re good.  The vet said they did great.  I felt bad though because they had these sad looks like, ‘what did you do to us?’ But obviously, it’s for their own good.  Ours and the population of the animal world too!  As Bob Barker always said, “Spay and neuter your pets!”


“I still love you mom – even if you did do this to me”


They just layed around a lot

 

This morning they had a little more energy and ran down the hall when L came out of the bedroom.  I’m glad that they’ll only be home for a few hours on their own today.

No big plans for this weekend.  We might get together w/E and LM, but nothing crazy.  I need to make plans to go see the Sex & The City movie,  but none of my friends here are as big of fans, so it’s not really a priority.  Although, I’m pretty sure I can talk L into going to see it with me if I promise to go see some “boy movie” with him. :)

Next week I’ll update you on the three jobs I’ve applied for.

In the meantime, happy weekend!  And I’ll try to start posting more regularly again.  Maybe it will help get me out of this funk!