Germany!

So this past week or so has been hectic. Last weekend was the St. Paul Art Crawl that I was supposed to go to with mom and Diane. Well, mom was already annoyed about Diane and I saying that we would probably leave a bit earlier than planned because we got invited to a bonfire almost 2 hours away. Well, mom was giving me grief about that already, so I was taking whatever she was saying with a grain of salt by that time. Diane and I had decided to meet at mom's house to leave her car there and drive to the SPAC in my car. Mom said that she wasn't going to plan on meeting us at her house and she would just meet us in SP whenever "we decided to get our asses out there." OK, fine.

So that morning, Diane and I met at mom's house and we were talking about how we should go to Cosetta's since it's so close to the SPAC and we haven't been there for a while. Mom called, coincidentally, to ask if we wanted to do lunch when we got out there and suggested Cosetta's. Great! I love when things work out like that! Diane and I were on our way out there and we looked up directions on Diane's phone since we knew where it was, but not exactly. Mom calls and long story short, blows up at Diane for Diane wanting to get off of the phone with mom so she can give me directions (since mom's directions were CLEARLY wrong as she was saying 6th and 7th don't intersect when Diane and I were AT the intersection on 6th and 7th.) The whole thing ended up with mom leaving Cosetta's in a huff as we were driving up and waving "bye" to us in such a manner that a simple flipping us the bird may have been more polite.

Well, not to have our day ruined by our sometimes overly-sensitive mother, Diane and I decided to continue with our plans and had a grand ol' time. I also bought my first art! O shoot, which I still have to send a check for. That evening we went to the bonfire and I had a blast, but I think Diane was a little cranky at me for staying up so late. :( Sorry Diane! Also, my friend Courtney lit the bonfire with his car! It was AWESOME. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=612779378611&ref=mf

I hope that link works. It's a video of the awesomeness that is bonfire-lighting!

The next day I was volunteering at a bake sale, which was very successful, but I was super tired. But what else is new?

Another story of interest, I was told this week that I was in fact going to Iraq after all, even though my transfer to the reserves is almost complete. What?! Ya, I hounded some ass for that one. Amid much prayer and many phone calls, it was decided that the NG would honor my conditional release and I was still going to Germany with my husband. Thank goodness! I haven't even gotten to live with my husband and we have been married for a year and a half.

Also, this weekend I have drill up in Camp Ripley. Blech. I still haven't found out if I'm still going to SRP since I"m no longer going to Iraq, but I almost hope I do go because then I can leave early. But we'll see. Either way, I'm out in the boondocks for the weekend. At least the weather is warmer. When I was there in January, we literally had to RUN everywhere we went so we wouldn't freeze and they cancelled most of the outdoor training due to the -15' and colder weather.

Next week is the trip to Monterey, which may have a side-trip to Ft. Huachuca, AZ. Stupid JAG people. Whatever. But I'm looking forward to seeing my friends out in Ol' Monterey! Cocktails and dancing! Can't get much better than that, eh?

And since I already told my "mom was so mad" story at the beginning, I'll save one for next time. Hehe.

Swing dance and Cake

So since my last post, I turned 22. Hooray! I celebrated in a couple of ways. First, that Thursday before my b-day, I went swing dancing with my usual group of buds. I LOVE swing dancing...and dancing in general, but mostly lindy. I don't think I could survive without it. Well, ok, that may an over-statement, but it's pretty close.

The other way is I had a small party at my place. It was fun, and involved various fried foods and platters of the usual veggies and fruits. All in all, it was a good birthday. :)

I also have quite a bit going on in other areas right now. The place that my friends and I go swing dancing every week, Tapestry Folkdance, came up short in their budget this year. Boo! So I've volunteered to help. As usual, I went overboard and volunteered to bake massive amounts of goods as well as volunteering time and Mary Kay products I have that I never sold when I went on a brief and crazy stint in salesmanship. I may be a good salesman, but I'm definitely not good on follow through.

So this week has turned out to be quite a doozy. I'm exhausted and it's only Wednesday! I have a swing competition tonight, volunteering at Tapestry tomorrow night, with a combination of swing dancing, baking like mad Friday night for the Bake sale this weekend. I have the St. Paul Art Crawl on Saturday with my mom and sister, then a bonfire that night with my sister at my swing dancing friend's house (Joe) and volunteering at the bake sale on Sunday, then a fitting for a WAC uniform that evening.

Needless to say, I'm going a little crazy and pretty much drinking coffee by the gallon. My sister and I were talking about how she has a hard time saying "no" to people. I don't have a hard time saying "no" when I don't want to do things, but my problem seems to be that I want to do everything and so I say "yes"! I need to learn to say "no" to myself first...


Also, here's my mom was so mad story. So I've been wanting to dye my hair blonde for a while now. I've always been a red-head, but I wanted to try something different. Well, this past week, I dyed my hair blonde. I like it a lot! it's more of a strawberry blonde, but blonde nonetheless. Well, my mom saw it for the first time at my birthday party, and she was so mad. Well, ok, not mad, but she didn't like it. O well. :)

*Disclaimer* I love my mom very much, and we mostly get along. Sometimes we just don't see eye to eye. Maybe that's cuz I'm about 3 inches shorter than her...

What it do?

So yesterday was Easter. I had fun with my family down in Albert Lea for the morning. For the occasion I made banana chocolate chip bread and fruit salad. Delish. Tim sent me an Easter video of him singing Suspicious Minds which was pretty funny so I showed all of the relatives. Haha, Tim is such a dork, but I love him.

After the lovely time had by all at G and G's, I drove back to hang out with Amanda. Well, we were planning on getting something to eat, but everywhere was pretty much closed, and we weren't very hungry anyway. She had a sucky morning, so we were just kind of hanging out until we had to go pick her husband up from the airport. When we got back we decided to walk down the street and chill out at the Onion. Well, it was all fine and good until we got our drinks, two mojitos. They tasted like butt! Well, actually more like soda water with a little mint. The waitress didn't offer us a different one, so we just ate the cheesy bread and stubbornly refused to drink our gross drinks. Well, we saw her talking about us with the other servers and then the manager. Eventually, we flagged her down to get our checks, thinking we wouldn't pay for the drinks. When she came over she offered us different drinks, but we were already planning on leaving! Ugh. So we asked to have the drinks removed from the checks, which she sadi she couldn't do so we asked to talk to the manager. By this time Josh was at the restaurant to pick us up so we didn't have to walk back. Well, the manager was being super rude! He actually stormed off in a huff after we tried to reason with him. So we paid and left, but Josh plans to call his supervisor and get something about it. I hope so, it never pays to be that rude and the guy had perfect authority to remove the drinks but didnt because he was all up on a power trip.

So the day was good, but the evening turned it a little sour. O well. I have delicious left-overs for work today. :)