most of my weekdays are horrifically boring and predictable. but, my weekend days are crazy and busy and often fun.
this was definitely a crazy/busy/fun kind of day...
we spent the earlier part of the day trying to fit a whole day's worth of browsing and shopping into a couple of hours. we braved the insanity that was toys 'r us. we managed to run into santa, who wanted very much to have his picture taken with our gorgeous little girl. and, we even (mostly) had fun goofing off in the toy store.
i generally don't love mall-kinds of toy stores. kb toys makes me nauseously claustrophobic, with its tall and narrow isles as well as the piles of really hideous stuff out front. i protest every time wallace wants to go into one, and usually seek out other nearby stores to bide my time, until he's through.
but, the paradise that is toys 'r us, i do love... and, cooler still, our little girl is now bigger and fits into more of the age groupings than she did last year. she can play with cooler and more fun stuff. and santa can bring her cooler stuff than last year, too.
we found a few things that we liked. we even found something cool we think my nephew, nicholas will like too. and, only $100 and two hours later, we emerged with a cart full of fun stuff, including a star wars trivia game for wallace and i.
then, we tried to find a red sweater vest that wallace wanted to wear to his holiday party this evening. i took savannah and wandered down to the ulta3 salon, to inquire about pricing for eyebrow waxing.
it was fairly cheap, and there was no waiting so... i got my eyebrows waxed. and, oooh, do they look pretty. but, waxing is a bitch, and if i didn't love the way i looked with neatly groomed eyebrows, i would have run out screaming.
but even as painful as it was, it was fast, and a whole lot easier than tweezing them myself. i'll probably continue to do it. i don't bother with my fingernails, not like i used to... i haven't even bought myself any makeup since savannah was born, as i could probably count on both hands how many times i've bothered to put it on when i go out, since then. but, when my eyebrows are groomed, i've gotten a lot of positive feedback. and, it does make me feel good.
oh, and my ever-so-cool savannah sat on my lap and patiently waited while the ulta3 woman ripped many tiny hairs from my face with hot wax. she chatted with me a bit, and didn't fuss or grump at all. yay savannah!
she finally had a little catnap in the car, on the way home from alpharetta...
we had to go home and start getting ready to go to wallace's party at the tongue and groove, in buckhead.
after checking the website for the club, i had expected so much more... but, it was actually disappointing. and, at $10 just to park your car in buckhead, i hadn't wanted to be disappointed.
the party was fine. the music was loud, and kind of fun. savannah entertained more than one of wallace's intoxicated co-workers. we danced a bit, savannah and i. and, we were up way too late, for savannah.
so much for hoping to see anyone famous...
but, savannah seemed to have a good time twirling herself around on the dance floor and clapping.
another cool happening of the evening, wallace's co-worker, cara went into labor with holland. i will be babysitting holland, when cara goes back to work... and, i'm just now wondering if i should call the hospital to be sure everything went okay. but, the little person who will be spending the days with savannah and i, at the end of February, maybe has come into the world already, or will be very soon. it's just a cool but surreal thought.
here's to good and interesting saturdays... now, i'm off to bed. (i hope.)
the election bullshit, i mean. i'm sure you're sick of it. i know i am.
i haven't really talked about much, but i did have a little bit to say.
i felt my heart break as al gore gave his concession speech, twenty minutes ago. i cried. and, i expect to mourn this for a while longer.
i've liked and followed al gore since he became vice president, almost 8 years ago. i liked him so much that i used to have a picture of him on the door of my dorm room in college. he's a good man. a very decent, intelligent and eloquent man.
so, now... my heart broke as i watched him say, 'it's time for me to go...'
i can only hang on to the hope that, he'll be back in four years, and that he'll win next time. and, i hope everyone is satisfied with the horrible, mean and stupid man they've put into office for the next four years.
it's so very very wrong. and, i hope like hell that it only lasts for four years.
i'm going to miss you, mr. gore...
i'm feeling all oogly googly today, this week, this month, i think... very much not myself. and, i have no idea what my problem is. but, i do know that it's annoying the hell out of me.
i've been busy, and not. stressed out and not. happy and not. i feel like someone who knows better than i needs to pick up the scattered pieces of me and put them back together properly.
my parents came for thanksgiving, as well as my sister and nephew... and it was marvelous. i even managed to make a turkey dinner that didn't completely suck.
we were supposed to be going to florida for christmas, with my family. but, our plans changed at thanksgiving when we spoke to my parents. they had decided they couldn't really do it; so they invited us to come spend the holiday at their house in pennsylvania, instead.
the coolest bit of this whole holiday thing this year is the fact that wallace's company decided to give everyone the whole week or so off. the office will be closed, and no one has to use any vacation time. i was thrilled to learn that when he told me, because i've been sad every year he's had to work between, and when i had to work between also. so, it was an unexpected gift.
i'm glad to be going to pennsylvania again. after all, it's been over two years since we've been there. and, i really need a few sheetz hot dogs.
i'm hoping for some snow too. as wallace and i were talking last night, we both confessed that as much as we loved living here, we miss the snow.
i remember fondly chilly winter evenings in our last apartment, looking out the french doors, and out into the valley as the snow came down. it was beautiful, and i miss it.
and, i'm usually a big holiday freak. i decorate for everything. and, this year, i've hardly touched my decorations. i can't seem to get into the holiday spirit. and, it depresses me further and so on and so forth. blah.
but, today is an up kind of day, or at least it has been so far. i did a bunch of things last night, and all of this morning. i can even see the floor in our room once again, now that i did laundry and picked up the toys.
i'm hopeful this is the start of an upswing in my attitude towards things in general. and, i'm hoping that i'll be less scattered, each day as i go on. i just want to be comfortable in my own skin again.