Picture Perfect

I can't even stand it! Hip Hip Hooray for Meredith!!

While I was in Atlanta at Patti's 40th birthday party, I was in awe of this book that was made by Alicia for Patti. We all sent her out favorite memories and pictures so Alicia made this awesome book for her birthday. I was looking at it and yelled out that I couldn't wait until I turned 40 so I could get a book like this one. Well today I got one in the mail!!! It is so incredible. It has every picture from every event that Meredith and I attended since 2005! She is such a camera Nazi and everyone always teases her about it. Well thank goodness for the Nazi because I have the last 8 years with Decatur crew captured and published. Everything from Field Day to weddings to birthdays to Thanksgiving to New Years to beach trips to GA parties complete with hilarious “inside joke” captions. I can't stop looking at it. Thank you so much girl, it means the world to me!

I mean yesterday got a purse, I wake up and it’s Administrative Appreciation Day, so I get breakfast, lunch, Starbucks, chocolates, cards and now a freaking book!

Yesterday I got my bonus and the news of a raise in next bonus. I also got the news of an upcoming raise in my salary once I finish training on this new software.

What a day….. what a week!

We had so much fun at Patti’s party and it was perfect way to complete the book. I can’t wait to start the next 8 years of memories! I love the people I keep in my life cause they make it so awesome.

Tomorrow I get to have dinner with Wood, lets cross our fingers that the week keeps on acting as if it were my birthday! He just texted me and told me “I can’t wait to see you pretty girl” AWW.. NO whammies no whammies and knock on WOOD!

 

key problems

Ok well the first sentence goes out to Sarah! Yet another package to brighten my day. I found a brand new purse in my mailbox, yes fresh from the store, I am the original owner of a cute leather purse that will go nicely with my boots, thank you girl, I love it!

 Well as you know I have been slacking on the blog front and spending all my time with the blog blocker. We went to dinner Friday night, he brought his dogs over here on Saturday and we took them for a walk. We decided go find a place to eat and leave the dogs behind. I grabbed what I thought were my keys and realized they were his after I locked us both out and the dogs in. I swear, I don't know why it’s so hard for me to do the little things correctly. We decided to go eat and come up with a plan to get back in. We decided that backing up his truck under the deck and me standing on his shoulders and shimming up the side of the deck with the hopes that the sliding glass door was open was the best plan. Well when were in position he decided that he was 6'6" and he can just do the shimmying and I can stand there and try not to break his fall, it’s worked! Yay! We hung out here yesterday, watched the Braves game and then went to the batting cages, so fun. He then goes home and takes my keys with him in his coat pocket after driving my car home from the batting cages. What??!! Are you kidding me?? I never thought that key drama would be the thing I have in common with a boy I like. I had to use my spare key to drive to work today. But this boy makes me freakin laugh y’all, like my stomach hurts from laughing all weekend. I am holding my breath and hoping it’s not a fluke. We swung by Kelly’s deck on Saturday and jaw-jacked over there for a bit and then went and played pool with his brother. I feel terrible cause my friend from college, Patty, was in town and we tried to hook up but couldn't make it happen. They were honky tonkin none, of my group wanted to do that and since my funds were nonexistent I stayed put and waited for the guilt to set in.

Well that’s about all folks, my almost full DVR is calling my name.

 

wood brain

 I am one scattered brain Spaswell this week! This boy has got me all kinds of forgetful. I am so glad I went through the process of putting my groceries in Betty's Grill's fridge, just so I could set them on the floor near the front door with the rest of my stuff and let them sit there all night. Awesome. Then I almost burned my place down this morning. After cooking some chicken on the George Forman for lunch I decided to head out and leave the damn thing plugged in. I got to work and turned right around and came back to the place filled with smoke but no smoke detectors are going off. Awesome. I saw my wallet on the coffee table that I decided to grab. I forgot to deposit money into my account and had to make a mad dash to the bank so I could get out of the red before it processed a bunch of late fees. I am a mess I tell ya. Now I am headed to Kelly’s to do my laundry so I gotta scoot. I will write more tomorrow, that is if I remember where I left my computer.

knock on wood

Ok so I know I have a lot to go over, we'll start with today and work our way back. Bonehead move alert!!!!

Holy crap, who ever let me do my own taxes online should be shot. I totally paid $63 to file my State taxes. So what happens if Tennessee doesn't have State taxes???!!! Spazwell gets PUNKED that's what. What the hell??!! I totally filed taxes that don't exist and paid to have it done. Awesome.

SO Wood has been completely been occupying my time. I have found the male Spaz and he is cracking me up. We have spent every evening together since we met except when I went to Georgia. Every time we hang out it’s a hoot; tonight for example he invites me to dinner after work. I tell him I have groceries in my car from when I went grocery shopping at lunch and he tells me it’s not a problem, we will figure it out. I show up and he tells me he knows the owner of the place and that I can put my perishable items in the fridge. Um ok, that works. I store my stuff and go sit down. We have a great time and the best part was walking up to the bar and asking the bartender (while people are sitting there) if I can get one gallon of milk, one dozen eggs and some salmon. The bartender looks at me as says no problem. The couple at the bar was dying laughing as he plots these items on the bar and I walk away with groceries. I just got home and I have a stupid grin on my face.

He is so right up my alley ya’ll. I am enjoying Wood and I will be knocking on wood as I shout out NO WHAMMIES NO WHAMMIES!!

 

yay

Well I have been hanging out with a boy. He has been blog blockin me so that is the reason for the no call no shows. We met organically, not on the internet and I am really hoping that by telling you guys I am not jinxing it but it’s either that or not tell and we can't have that since he is making me really happy. He is the guy who changed my oil the other day. He works for the company who fixes all of our Servpro trucks and I had the grand idea to go try and get a discount on an oil change. It was the most entertaining oil change I think I have ever had. As I was pulling out he asked me for my number and I told him he already had it that it was written on the side of the big Sprinter that was sitting in the garage next to us 1-800-Servpro. It was a slick comeback and for once I didn’t just give my number out and the ball was totally in his court. He came up later that day and delivered the fixed truck and on the way out he called up Servpro and asked me out. We went out Friday night, Sunday and he just left after bringing me dinner. He is 6 foot 6, cute and hilarious, not a bad combo. Here is the kicker, his name is Wood. Wood Bartholomew Smyth Caldwell. I told him that he must of caught a lotta crap growing up with that name. He told me he has a rebuttal for each and every comment so bring it on. I asked him what his favorite one was, “Well growing up in a Catholic School, the Nuns would greet him by saying, morning Wood."

 

So far so good and I am cooking him dinner tomorrow night so I will report back on Wednesday with a full detailed report of the first 4 dates. Right now the bed is calling my name.

 

green doesn't always mean go

I have been MIA for a few days just sitting around simmering quietly to myself with a whole lotta nothing to say, but the lid is about to come poppin off this pot! I haven’t heard from Will at all, until this evening and I am still shaking. He texted me and told me that he was nearby and wanted to see if he could stop by that he really needed to tell me a few things and it needed to be in person. I told him that would be fine that way I could give him book back. Well that was how I set up the bomb-ass April fool’s joke to Brandy. I got her good! There is no way I could sell it in writing but my delivery over phone was Academy Award winning. I told her that he asked me to marry him and he handed me his Grandmother's wedding ring. I had her all bent up and uncomfortable. She was like, “What did you say?! Please tell me you are not engaged!” I told her I simply said April Fools Day. Ha gotchya sucka! Then she called me a bitch and well that was pretty much it.

The thing about an April fool’s Day joke is that it has to be a little farfetched so you don't jinx yourself. This is a lesson learned firsthand by Brandy. She told her Mom she was pregnant on April fool’s Day like 7 years ago and bam, two months later she was with child. True story.

Other than coming up with ways to trick people I really have been doing a whole lotta nothing except making my apartment look like a frat house and watching TV. I did however go get my nails done. I don’t think I have ever been so mad at myself. I literally walked right up in there and picked out the ugliest color they had and told them to paint my nails. I never get my nails done and if I do it’s a French manicure, but this time I opted for color and asked the guy what the kids were wearing these days. After a few minutes of looking at the colors I take his suggestion of either yellow or green, he tells me pink and red are out. After the first coat, I figured that the Sage green needed two coats, then after the 2^nd coat I figured maybe after it dried the beauty would take over. Um nope, the cashier at Kroger confirmed my thoughts that my fingers looked like they have been dipped in mucus. I went home and pouted for the rest of the day and my Saturday suddenly became consumed with sweating the small stuff. I then decided to paint over them and now then are a lumpy coral color that has the imprints of the couch cushion on each nail.

I did however get a chuckle out of this morning's staff meeting. I come traipsing in with my water bottle, set it down as I am talking to Vickie then walked across the room and sat next to Paul. I asked this girl to pass me my water bottle, I grabbed it and took a big swig only to find out that it wasn't mine. So I slid it back on the table where I found it and was very confused as it was warm and flavored, mine was not. I then see Ryan reach over, grab it and take a big drink of it, he looks down at it and it is covered in lipstick. He was also very confused and I am laughing hysterically to myself as the whole room is quiet while the boss is talking. I am actually still laughing about this, I had to watch him for a whole hour as he periodically wiped lipstick off of his lips with a blank look on his face. I never told him.

 Ok more tomorrow I still have ten minutes of working out to do so I can earn my workout point for the day.