Hunting & Gathering

God I love Mardi Gras. Normally, Im over it before it even starts, but this year is different. I dont know why, maybe its just my attitude towards it all.
My Mardi Gras weekend started at 12 on Friday when Lindsay & I met for a pedicure. Between getting my hair done & pregaming at the hotel, my night didnt slow down at all before the parade & ball. Heres a video of Justin parading!

Right after parade, Chris showed up, we got dressed & went to to watch call outs. This is when the real fun began. Here we are before the ball (and before any drinks.)

As soon as we got seated, here comes Justin, drunk as a mother fucker, running up into the stands. He was screaming and carrying on, grabbing boobs & butts wherever he could. To me, it was hilarious, to the people around us, he was crazy.
After call outs, we were ready to get the party started... well, after we hit the bathroom. Lindsay & I gave Chris & Pat specific instructions to STAY PUT while we peed. Of course, this directions were obviously too complex for their simple, alcohol saturated brains. Linds & I came back literally 3 minutes later, and the boys were gone. We spend half an hour wandering up and down the hall, and through the rooms to find them, but they were nowhere to be found. But just when we had almost given up, there they were, back where we had left them.
I freaked out a little. I wanted to know where the hell they had been, even though it was pretty obvious, because at that point, they had plates full of food. Chris said "We were, umm, Hunting some food." Aggravated & tipsy I replied "WHAT the fuck ever, You were GATHERING food." The boys didnt take kindly to being called gatherers... their logic was that you could not gather meat... Well, I beg to differ, but its all good.

After we finally rounded up our men, we spent a few hours just hanging out & daning a little. We got to hang out with some great friends- Eddie, Karleen, Sean, Misty, & we ran into a few other people we knew too.

Me & Misty

The Girls

The Guys

The later it got, the more drinks we had, the more silly our pictures got.

Also, as I drank, my eyes got smaller & mouth got bigger. haha

& As much fun as I had with my friends. & as excited I was that Chris actually danced with me. The highlght of my night was playing with the feather hats & getting to put one on. I was so happy I knew Jeff & Kim Lawson.

When people started heading out, and the numbers started thinning, Lindsay, Pat, Chris & I headed to Boo's after the ball. Chris & I didnt even stay long enough to get a drink beforewe were ready to call it a night.

 

The next morning Chris, Justin, Alisa, Lindsay, Pat & I went to breakfast at Spot of Tea. It was delicious as always.

The rest of the day flew by way too fast. We finally got home, got showers & a nap, and by that time it was already close to 4. We had to return Chris' tux, and do a quick clean sweep & trip to the grocery store.

Around 7 we had Lindsay, Justin, Alisa, Mike & Paulie over to watch the UFC fights. We had a nice time just being able to hang out and unwind from a nice weekend.

Today Im going to write my religion paper from my Marriage & Family class & then Im just going to hang out around the house, got to get ready to do it all again next weekend!

& The Living's Easy

Okay, so I know it's not summer time, but I LOVE this beautiful weather. It is so perfect outside. The sun is shining, its about 70 degrees, life is good in lower Alabama today.

Along with beautiful weather, I had another great weekend. Saturday day was spent mostly on working on school work.
[I realize I was just bragging about how I had this phenomenal weekend, but let me digress for one minute and RANT about my damn online class *Warning, I say (fuck) like 10 times here...sorry*
I thought I was signing up for an easy online class. Sign in once a week, read some shit and take a quiz. Maybe write one paper. No. Fuck no. I have to log on like every fucking day to participate in some dumb forum-style discussion about Marriage & family issues. On top of this we have to answer 6 questions each week. Which doesnt seem all that hard, except it is. It takes me easily 3 hours to answer these questions. We have to be insanely specific, but she wont grade anything over 3 pages. Anyway, normally when I do this, I am satisfied when I get a decent grade. However, this week, my crazy bitch professor took off 7.5 points out of 10, because I said I dont feel sorry for poor people who use check cashing places, but dont utilize a bank account. REALLY?  Her comment was that "some people dont know about banks." Where the FUCK did they think their check came from? The magic check fairy? I dont buy that bullshit. She also told my I need to work on my sociological thinking. NO. Here is the problem. I actually thought about it and gave my opinion rather than spitting back the garbage she gave us to read.... UGH. I hate my online class...]

Back to my amazing weekend. After my school work, Lindsay and I went to Paint Party Studios & had so much fun! I cant wait to go back! I painted some love birds (so sweet) & Lindsay painted a really cute Mardi Gras painting. Enjoy a few pictures :)

After Paint Party, we went to Bonefish for a glass of wine & some dinner.

Sunday was also a pretty great day. When Chris got home, we got dressed and went down to his dads house to help build a shed. Well, Chris helped build a shed. I mostly tried to stay out of the way.

When we were finished (or tired of) shed building we left and went to the Rec Center & played on the Rock Wall. We also got to meet a few people going on our climbing trip too. I am SO excited. This is where we are going...

                                  This is Cherokee Rock Village, where we are going for our Hiking Day

                                This is Little River Canyon, where we are going on our last day.

I am so excited! I cant wait to go. After our little Rock Wall adventure, we played some racquetball, then headed home to get dressed for Jeff Eardly's birthday party at Bluegill.

Bluegill was pretty good. I mostly just enjoyed spending time with Chris. We didnt stay too long because, of course, I had to come home to finish my online class assignment that was due at midnight last night. Luckily, Chris helped me get it finished. Now Im just hoping for a good grade on it, so I dont have to go crazy again next weekend.

Scratch that, next weekend is going to be so amazing that I am not going to let anything bother me. INCA is in 4 days! 4 days!!!! Im pretty excited. :)

Have a good Monday everybody!