day 245 burnt sienna

Ok now the play by play of Memorial Day weekend.

Friday

Got stood up!

Yep. Again.

Had a 2nd date with what's his name (I think it was Tim). All dressed up and nowhere to go....that was until I got beckoned over to Kelly’s for a cookout.  Perfect timing and I had an audience to bitch to. They all advised me to not send the "you're a d**k” text that I was planning on sending. They told me to say nothing. I am still in training on "playing hard to get" so I am fully listening to all of my advisors from now on. So I did nothing.

He did call me twice, two hours after he was supposed to meet me and then texted the next morning. I let him sweat it out. He texted all day Saturday was apologizing with some lame excuses. I let him text me 4 times before I responded, per my trusty advisors. That day we were having big fun at my pool, so I wasn't too concerned. I had Brandy, Kelly, Gary and the Philly couple over for a day at the pool and cooked out. Brandy and I had made plans to go to the Sounds game that night, but the pool was feeling too nice and getting ready seemed ridiculous.

After the sun went down, the half circle settled into my place for some R & R and girl time. Brandy became super excited about ordering food in.  Living in the country she hasn’t ordered food to be delivered in years! So we let her order all her favorite things, it being a special occasion and all.

During our pool fun, I got in big trouble, as my faded spray tan was a disaster. It looked ridiculous Friday night, so I made an executive decision to apply some self-tanning lotion to fill in the patches. NOT A GOOD IDEA! When Brandy showed up, it wasn't “hey or hello” it was “you look ridiculous; you are like 9 different colors.” She has scolded me many times in the past for this very thing. No one disagreed with her, including me. Thank goodness I got stood up! She yells out, you have pretty white skin, why do you want to look like a Burnt Sienna crayon??! I defended myself with, I am listening to you about playing hard to get, one thing at a time!!

I have to go to bed so tomorrow I will talk about my final self-tanning intervention and  how I gave Mr. "Stand me up" a 2nd chance to take me out for Sunday Funday.

Day 244 and that's a wrap!

Part 5

Ok last day of botched plans in Atlanta.

I made plans to have breakfast with my friend Lilsteph. We've known each other for around 9 years; she was once an intern at my job when I worked in the TV/Advertising industry 100 years ago. She always tells people that I was the only person who was nice to her and we've been friends ever since. She lives in Brookhaven, so naturally I schedule a breakfast on the morning after the wedding. It’s about a block from Gary’s and I will be swinging by there to grab my stuff and walk Jake one last time (the neighbors were scheduled to walk Jake on the night of the wedding long before I got there).

I wake up in Decatur at Patti's, which was cool because we got to have some girl time over a cup of coffee. We talked for a bit until I realized that I have to get going!

Ok first things first, figure out how I am going to get to Brookhaven. This is gonna be tricky seeing as I am at Patti's, my car is at Alicia's and my keys are in my purse in Christine’s car. Hhhhhhhmmmm what a pickle.

The clock is now also ticking and my breakfast plans are starting to crowd my lunch plans that I also made with my folks. AH! The first thing I do is call and push lunch to1pm. They are driving an hour to meet me off of the exit on the way out of town, so that is about as much time I have get to push it back.

LilSteph calls me to see what time we are meeting, I tell her my predicament. She offers to help, she says she will come and get me. She said if the only way I get to spend time with you is to drive you around town collecting your belongings, then so be it. Ha, awesome! Thanks girl! And that is exactly what she did. We grabbed a bagel togo and then went on a scavenger hunt for my stuff. We had some laughs about the whole thing and we have a short time to catch up on the way to Christine’s to fetch my keys. Josh and his friend from out of town are up and hopped in the car so they can go get Christine’s car. So now LilSteph has a car load of people she is carting around town. We get to the car and get my keys, drop them off and then head to my car. Being a good sport, she drops me off and we have a good laugh at my Spaswell antics.

Now I get to haul-ass to Gary’s to grab my stuff, walk Jake so I can then haul some more ass to meet my parents in Carterville by 1pm and it is now 1230pm. SWEET! I finally made it, I was only 15 minutes late and we had a fun filled lunch at Red Lobster.

AND that’s a wrap!!!!  HWY 24W was looking pretty darn good and I headed back to my cozy simple life (but not before a freakin tornado and lots of traffic to make my trip extra special).

Happy Memorial Day!!!!

Part 4

The Wedding, it was very fun and funny! We all piled in the room where they held the ceremony. I sat with Matt Burrell, the only other single guy who was not in the wedding. Eleven groomsmen and four bridesmaids didn’t leave many of our friends in the audience. We all stood up and watched Elisabeth come down the aisle. We watched her walk towards her lovely groom-to-be Mr. Jim Francis Nark as we saw his face light right up, (although that could of been from the whiskey he most likely downed on the way to the alter, ha-ha).

Elisabeth looked smashing, Jim looked dashing and the "Pastor" was a friend of theirs who got ordained on the internet. This is already off to a funny start. Here we are gathered together, standing up and the pastor starts in on this hilarious speech that he wrote himself. He gathered all kinds on personal information after interviewing the two of them a month prior. Ok here's the thing, he never actually asked us to sit down, ever. The entire congregation of people is just standing there laughing at this voice who is talking about these people who we can’t see, because we are all standing up! I am sure the ceremony was quite lovely, I heard talk of a knot being tied and I think they kissed, oh well that’s why God made videographers.

Later after the wedding, we cornered this guy and asked him why he never asked us to sit down.  He started cracking up, he said that since this was his first and probably last wedding, (too bad cause he had a pretty spiffy robe on) that it never occurred to him. He thought that we would all have enough common sense to just have a seat! Ha funny stuff.

The reception was fun, we ended up sitting at a table that wasn't big enough of for our crew, so we stole chairs from other tables and made it big enough. ha

 All in all a fun event with no drama………shocker!

It was good to see everyone and take a glimpse into their lives without me. That said, I would like to extend a congratulations to Meredith and Danny for being knocked up again, Justin for making and an honest woman out of Michelle and of course, the newlyweds Jim and Elisabeth! Everyone else is living right and staying true... just as I left em.

Ok tomorrow will be part 5, “Operation get the hell out of Atlanta!”

day 241 part three.... 90 MPH

Part 3

Ok so after everyone realized that I was still alive, I went on to my next appointment of meeting up with Samantha for lunch. Anna joined in again later; these are my two bartending buddies from Hudson Grille. Sam got a big kick out of the fact that I was still in my clothes from the night before. I didn’t have time to run by Gary’s and change cause I was running late, shocking I know. It was almost like one long walk of shame, the shame being I am just making people wait around all over town. We laughed a lot, got all caught up and now I have to make a mad dash to my hair appointment. After we said goodbyes and they gave their promises to visit… I was off again!

It was so good to see my hair dresser, Elizabeth We had a lot to catch up on; I was talking my head off and didn't notice that she had chopped 4 freakin inches off! I honestly think I have had way better haircuts (which is a shame since I waited an entire to get it cut so I could see her!) I feel like I could of put a salad bowl on my head and cut it myself. Nothing I can do about it now! I really am having a hard time liking it, its way short and could be a little more stylish. But, I will rock it with confidence, only because I really don't have a choice.

Right after I got my hair whacked, I went back to Gary’s to shower and I had a surprise visitor! Sarah came over with two Chai ice coffees in tow. What a great friend! We got to talk for a little bit (not nearly long enough). We ended up looking at the photo album that I made Gary of our 5 years together before I walked out the door entered my next life. It was so fun to reminisce and she said my hair looked healthy, ha ok, I'll take it. I totally sacrificed my “getting ready” time to chat with Sarah; I think I should get a few points back from my previous fail.

Since I had zero minutes to get ready, I had to jump in the car and try to make myself look like I did not do my make-up on the way to the wedding going 90 MPH. I pull myself together, peel into Alicia’s on two wheels and everyone is of course waiting on me. Five of us pile in Christine’s car and head to the Decatur Court house, I made it! So proud of myself.

Ok that is all the time I have....looks like this is gonna be a 4 or 5 parter....until then!

day 240 part 2 of ATL

Part 2

Ok where did I leave off?...So after I conned the tanning lady, I was supposed to meet MB but it was Friday at 5pm and I was supposed to mete her at 6pm. It was rush hour and I only had an hour window with MB, if I would have tries to get through traffic at that time I wouldn’t of made it… so I missed my chance. Sorry girl, I am still kicking myself, I should have made it happen! This is the result of me trying to make too many plans in a short amount of time. I literally had every hour of every day accounted for and I forgot that I am not Wonder Woman. So I owe MB a visit.

I then made my way to Gary’s to pack up Jake and head to Christine’s. My plan was to drop him off there and go out in Decatur. When I got there, I let Jake out, he immediately ran over to the neighbor’s house, which is where his girlfriend lives (tiny fluffy dog). The neighbors were out on the deck, so I chatted it up while collecting my dog. They insisted that I leave Jake with them, ok done!

I am off to Twains to meet my Decatur peeps. Everyone was meeting there after the rehearsal dinner for Jim and Elisabeth’s wedding.  It’s our favorite spot to hang; it’s where I spent my last night in Atlanta. We all had a blast, Megan made a guest appearance. She snuck in under the radar, we got to hang out and do our usual photo shoot in the photo booth (Twains has an instant photo booth). I love that girl, she is so fun, we go way back to my Pulte days.

Alicia and I got to go in the photo booth. During my last hooorah in Atlanta back in July, I took turns with everyone who was there in the photo booth, so I have a whole bunch of fun pics all lined up on my fridge of that night. Alicia was busy being pregnant so she got left out (excuses excuses). When I got there she had he money ready to make that long overdue photo shoot happen! Alicia, you she finally made the fridge! After we closed the place down it was beddy by time. I was exhausted! Went back to the nearest bed and slipped into a coma.

Here is the part where I disappoint yet another friend and totally stand Sarah up for our breakfast date. :( We had plans at 8am and after the past two nights of little to no sleep, I over slept. I woke up at 1030am in a panic!!! I have never slept that late in my life! I had 4000 texts and missed calls. The missed calls were from Sarah, Brandy, Gary and Marybeth, these were the 4 people assigned to the missing person’s case. I also got some pictures of Sarah eating her breakfast all alone...I suck! I call Sarah, explained to her what happened and apologized profusely. I got the "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed speech" AAAAHHH that’s the worst!! I would rather her punch me in the face!!! I then call the rest of the designated search party and listen to a few lectures. Sarah called Brandy, Brandy doesn't have anyone’s number, I can't remember how Marybeth got involved, but she couldn't track me down either. Sarah drove over to Gary’s looking for me and sees Jake running down the street, he is like walking himself. She started to panic seeing as I am not there and I am supposed to be watching Jake. She saw the neighbor walk outside; she flags him down to ask about me. He said he thought that I would have been back already to let him out cause well, that is what I told him. That is how Gary got involved the APB made it all the way out to Boston! Ok so I am sooooo sorry I worried everyone and soooo mad I missed our catching up time that we planned weeks and week ago! So now I own Sarah a visit too.

Ok that is it for part two....we will pick up with part 3 tomorrow. (Did I make it to the wedding? we shall see:)

day 238 lordy lordy, I feel like I'm forty!

I didn't sleep again last night, like not at all! So I am a little out of it, my grammar and spelling may be a little off tonight..haha.

Part 1

Whirlwind Atlanta weekend:

Thursday:

2nd longest road trip of my life. Arrived Gary’s around 11pm after sitting at my desk for 10 hours. Walked into the house and Jake knew exactly who his Mommy was and I gave him lots of hugs and kisses! After I pet him for a bit, I drag my suitcase inside and head off to bed (remember Gary is in Boston). I don't remember that bed being so comfortable and I pretend that it wasn’t weird at all being in my old bed after all this time.  I can’t sleep of course, so I spent the rest of the evening texting my remaining two boys from POF in my ex-boyfriend’s bed. I have deleted my profile but am still talking to them (Hank and Tim). I finally fall asleep at freaking 2am, I hope I am not falling into my old insomniac ways!

Friday:

I wake up and go for a run with Jake through Brookhaven; it was exactly as I remember it plus a few more tall trendy buildings. The run/walk was a success with minor knee pains. We get home and jump in the car to take Jake to get a bath at City Dog Market (I was the last person to give him a bath in October) poor guy.

After I take my own much needed bath, it’s off to Hudson Grille to meet Casey and Anna! Anna is running late, so Casey and I had a chance to catch up girl on some talk on a beautiful day at our old place of employment. Anna finally shows up with her work friends, they happen to be having a work function that day so she had to split her time up between us and them. After her work friends leave, us three head next door to get our nails and toes done, yay! I haven’t had them done in like a year! It was so nice to sit in a row and get pampered like we were all on an episode of Sex and City. Another co-worker shows up, so I pretend I’m Carrie, Anna is Charlotte, Casey is Samantha and Corrine is Miranda. We gossip and have a glass of wine like we are VIP or something, it was awesome.

Then the real fun begins, I pull a total Spaswell. Anna can bring a friend to get a free spray tan to the salon next door.  So against my, well everyone else's better judgment, I decide to get one. The condition of the free spray tan is that you must be a first time visitor. Did I mention that this is my old tanning salon where I used to get sprayed once a week? I convince myself that they won’t remember me and head on over. I go in and Anna introduces me to the girl as her friend from out of town. She was like, “Um, aren’t you Stephanie? Stephanie, as in an old client of mine?” Um nope, my name is Stacy, Stacy Miller and I have never been here before I say with conviction.  She looks at me like I have nine heads, as she should....she continue to accuse me of being Stephanie Baswell and I continue to insist that I am Stacy Miller from Nashville. I proceed to not make eye contact as I act like I am in the middle of a very important text to um nobody. It was all very awkward but I really wanted the free spray tan! I had been sitting on the patio for hours and was now burnt with strange tan lines right before a wedding, I had no choice. She finally gives in and tells her co-worker to please escort “Stacy Miller” to her booth.  Yep, that really happened and I am not proud.

Well that is part one, tomorrow I will go into more Spaswell shenanigans from Atlanta, right now I am off to bed. Hopefully I will not be watching the clock hit 1am, 2am, 3am, and 4am again tonight, I need sleep!!

day 237

Ok I have a lot to go over! I had a lot of fun in Atlanta! I got home last night, too tired to blog. Now its late again ,so it will have to wait until tomorrow because I just got back from an impromptu date! We had a lot of fun busting each other's chops all night, smart ass meets smart ass. We laughed alot, it was fun! We had some dinner at Winners in midtown. It was a last minute thing, met him after work and I changed in the parking lot when I got there since I still had an entire suitcase of clothes in my back seat. We joked about having our "bail out" calls on standby in case it was a disaster. But right now I am exhausted and I used all of my material on him. More tomorrow! Much more!