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Happy Independence Day!

1) I love love love today. Patriotic music and barbecue smells everywhere! It’s a hot day, so I’m sitting inside cleaning and taking breaks with the intrawebs. I have no real plans for today except to go out to see Elvin Killerbee tonight. I know Seth and I will go and get fireworks, but I don’t know where we’ll play with them. There are a few options that mostly depend on other people. I know I want a margarita. Yes!

2) I really hope I won’t be going out tonight alone. It sounds like that may be the case. Hm. Well, even if I do go out alone, I’ll be out and not really alone anyway. I doubt it. She’ll go. We’ll have fun. Tomorrow we’ll regret having so much fun, but it will probably be funny.

3) I found out some stupid shit about a supposed friend and her real intentions regarding her ’surprise visit’ Sunday. I’ve been ignoring her (millions of) calls and I got a new number anyway, so I may not have to speak to her again. If I wanted friends like her, I’d go back to high school. No thanks! I hope she decides to stay where the hell she is from now on.

4) I need a new job. Life sucks when you’re broke.

Well, Christmas is over and while I actually enjoyed the holiday season this year, I’m kind of glad it’s over. I don’t feel obligated to do anything or be anywhere outside of the ordinary anymore. Not like I could be anyway. I’m stuck at home without my car. I needed to clean the house anyway.

We spent half of Christmas day at my grammas house, eating too much delicious ham and making fun of family members. As my younger cousins get older, they become so much more tolerable. Most of them, at least. My uncles just grow more and more obnoxious with age. I can’t even stand to be around them anymore. They’re nothing alike, but still completely intolerable. They’re also hell bent on making my grandmother feel like shit, which pisses me off to no end. Everything she does for them and they have no respect nor appreciation for it.

The second half of Christmas was spent driving to and hanging out in Ocean Springs, MS at Gary’s mom’s house. We had a bonfire and drank some. I woke up the next day feeling like crap. I made it through the ride home, a visit at grammas with her and my uncle (see above), and a trip to Wal-Mart to exchange gifts we got from there. Goodbye, tacky Navajo-looking flannel sheets, hello new shiny carafe coffee pot. Hey, I warned her. I asked her to borrow some flannel sheets until I bought some since it’s fucking cold in my house and my cotton ones hurt when I get into bed. She said “Hey, that’s what I’ll get you for Christmas.” I said, “Please PLEASE don’t buy me sheets. I like to pick my own.” Guess what she picked out for me? Yeah, really. Sheets. Ugly ones. Her redeeming factor is that she got me a sweet cake plate/punch bowl combo. I really needed a cake plate. Not so much a punch bowl, but Gary’s excited to be making Jello in it. >_<

For New Year’s Eve, I think we will be going back to Gary’s mom’s for another bonfire. This time we will be more prepared and it will be more fun times. I think it won’t be below freezing that night either. Though, it would be nice for it to snow. It’s been five years. Also, this is the first year I think Seth is actually going to remember the holiday season, so it would be nice if it was super memorable. That may sound silly, but it just DOESN’T snow here. We are freezing our asses off when it’s 50 degrees. Snow is a special event. To you it may be icky nastiness that traps you in your house, but here it’s a magical blanket that falls from the sky and sticks in our mind forever.

I need to take more photos. I feel like I’m slacking. Also, why would anyone not like Martha Stewart?!

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