Abbie's Real Life Blog

I had a great weekend- one of those weekends that hit every note.  I love weekends that have the perfect mix of socializing and laziness and productivity, that end with a mostly-clean house and a general feeling of satisfaction.  It has something to do with getting two days off in a row and feeling like I should make good use of them.

On Friday, as I mentioned many times in the last couple of weeks, I invited some people over to watch a movie.  I was using this event as an excuse to get the house clean, which I managed to do (with the exception of the one room that is still a total mess, but the door remained closed for the evening so no one was privy to my insanity).  The event went well, well enough that I am inspired to have a party sometime later this year.  Maybe at Christmas?  We’ll see.  Anyway, after clearing off the cups and plates and whatever, I woke up to a pretty clean house on Saturday morning.  I managed to run some overdue errands on Saturday and returned home to get some photos processed, which was great.  In the evening, I went with a couple of friends to the CoMO Derby Dames roller derby bout, which is the third time I’ve attended.  It was a lot of fun.  I really get into it.  They played against Oklahoma City and won.  I have the next bouts on my calendar and totally expect to attend those too.

On Sunday, I got up and painted the door frame, which I had scraped down last weekend.  That was kind of dumb timing, because everyone who came over on Friday saw an in-process project.  But oh well.  I am pleased with myself that I managed to finish it so quickly after starting it, and it was one of my Quarterly Resolutions as well.  Bonus.  It’s not totally done, but it looks fine from head-on and I hope to finish the rest of it after the weather cools off a bit more.

On Sunday night, my family came over to eat tacos and watch a movie, though the weather was nice enough that we spent a big portion of the evening on the patio.  I do not spend enough time on my patio, so that was all very pleasant.

After recounting all of that nice weekend stuff, and having a general feeling of being on top of things, I just remembered that tonight is photo club and I totally forgot to take a picture for the competition.  The theme is ‘tattoo’, which, well, I had thought about taking photos at a tattoo parlor but didn’t put that plan into motion.  Oh well.  So I don’t have a free evening after all.  Too bad, too, because I have a lot of photos to work on.  Maybe I can duck out of there early and get home to do some work before bed.

I’m not totally on top of everything.  My 365 project has suffered in the past few weeks.  I skipped three days in July and at least another one in August, including yesterday.  I should be proud that I’ve managed to take more than 200 photos for the project, and that I’m definitely on track for completing it (so many people start these and don’t finish them), but I’m disappointed that I’ve become forgetful.  I will have to do a good writeup after this project is over, because it has been an interesting experience.

I finished the series Rome last night.  It was ok, but not on the level of the other HBO shows from the same time frame.  I made myself finish the rest of the show this week after I took a break from it last week with season 1 of Breaking Bad.  I zoomed through that pretty quickly and get to start season 2 of Breaking Bad today.  It’s a great show.

School starts this week for a lot of the public school teachers and parents that I know.  The teachers complain on Facebook about having to go back to work, which makes me irritable since what do they think the rest of us have been doing all summer?  Working, that’s what.  Not everybody gets a couple of months’ break.  I am willing to argue with anyone that teachers work really hard during the school year and deserve some time off, but the comments on Facebook make me want to vote in a year-round school calendar.

At the same time, I am not finished with my summer yet.  Columbia is still pretty quiet since the students are arriving back in town this week and classes start next week.  Labor Day is still two weeks away, and I have summer-y plans scheduled through at least mid-September.  I refuse to let anyone make me feel like it’s time for fall, because it isn’t.  We still have weeks and weeks of summer left.  When it’s time for fall, I’ll be ready.  I love fall and winter, but I want to take advantage of the long days while they’re still here.