Random Wednesday

I'm working the late shift this week and for some reason I cannot make myself wake up before 10:30 and I really can't make myself be productive before I have to get ready for work. So here I am.. on the couch.. watching Gilmore Girls...reading blogs. Whoops.

Anyways, I had a post idea today and it just wasn't happening so you're getting some random life snippets.

My birthday is Sunday! And I don't even feel like it's my birthday week.. I'm usually a birthday brat and spend the whole week planning and celebrating. This year, though, I'm a grown up and I have no time to do these things and all my friends are grown ups who have no time for these things.

So far, being a grown up is not all it's cracked up to be. 

We're going to the beach Saturday! I've got a 3 day weekend and my uncle is getting married Sunday ( yes.. on my birthday.... I'm not bitter...) so Mom will be here Friday night and we'll be driving down to Wilmington early Saturday morning!! I am so ridiculously excited for this - I'm in desperate need of a vacation.

I'm a terrible bride. Seriously. I need to send out my Save the Dates.. last week. And they're still sitting in their packaging on our desk... And my mom calls to ask me if I've found shoes, decided on a cake, picked out what the boys will wear, decided on a weekend for the bridal shower, etc. None of these have happened and there are so many other things to do, too... Oh well. 172 days left!

I just found one of Zuko's whiskers in my blanket. I don't really know where I was going with that.. but it's weird. This wouldn't be the first time I've found a whiskers of is. I guess this is normal? Cats shedding whiskers like snakes shed their skin?

I think I might become one of those "blog 3 times a week" type of blogger. I'm finding it pretty hard to blog more than that. I'm actually finding 3 times a little hard, but I love it and I want to keep it up and I also want to keep reading all of your blogs! 

Look at this sweet text I got last night. I have terrible, terrible night vision (and honestly day vision, too) but it's even worse when it rains and we were expecting terrible weather last night but now it's not supposed to hit until tonight I think. But, he goes to bed around 9:30p and wakes up at 6a, whereas I don't get off til 11p or later usually and can sleep in. He's precious. 

Weekend What?

With this new position, I don't have a weekend. Granted, I've always worked Sundays but I always had Friday and Saturdays off. Nowadays, I'm pretty much always off on Saturday but my other day off is up in the air and changes each week so I've always got to make the best of Saturdays.

This one especially because I won't be seeing Christian again until late Friday night or possible Saturday morning since I'll be working 2-11p Monday through Friday since we'll be leaving for the beach Saturday morning!!!

Saturday morning we woke up early and headed to Southpark for the Walk to Defeat ALS with one of my best friends. Her dad was diagnosed her senior year of college (3 years ago) and ever since I've seen more strength from one family than I ever thought possible. And every year we all walk with them to raise money for ALS research and to support families dealing with this terrible disease.

I stole this awesome group picture of all of us from all 3 walks from her Instagram. It's so wonderful to see so many people stand up with her family and fight with them! And as you can see the group has only grown!!

After the walk, the mister had to be fed because he was hungry and cranky so we headed to Chili's for lunch before a quick cat nap. We had grand plans of cleaning the apartment which quickly disappeared after the nap when I headed to the pool. I was there for literally an hour and I have tan red lines. #palegirlproblems

For Easter, his parents gave us a gift card for a free movie and we decided to cash it in on Divergent! We're day-movie people but since it was so gorgeous outside, we decided to wait until the night showing... terrible idea. 

Since Divergent had been out for awhile, I assumed we were safe - FALSE! Children everywhere. The movie started at 7:10 and we got there about 6:50ish and the theater was pretty empty so I felt good about our decision. Slowly but surely the theater completely filled up with children. Two parents even came and asked us to scoot down so they could put their 3 kids next to us and then they LEFT THE THEATER.

Needless to say, I spent the entire previews thinking we should leave to go see a more "adult movie" so I wouldn't have to listen to all of the kids talking through it but by the time the movie actually started, they all shut up! It was wonderful and I was actually able to enjoy the movie.

I've yet to read the book that I downloaded on my tablet months ago, but now I'm really wanting to read it. Also - WHY was that movie so depressing?? I won't ruin anything - but I wasn't expecting the first movie to be that sad. 

Luckily, Four is ridiculously hot and I could keep myself distracted that way. 

Time Hop

Has anyone downloaded that Time Hop app? I had seen people talking about this app on Twitter and I was curious. It is the best and the worst thing that I've ever downloaded.

Basically, you link all of your social media profiles to it and every day it tells you what you posted in the last few years. I've only had social media for about 6 or 7 years so most days I just see the last 5 years because Facebook was different back then and I didn't post too much.

But, oh boy. When I did post on Facebook in the early high school days it is so embarrassing... Seriously so bad. So over dramatic and embarrassing. But then I remind myself that I was 16 years old and all 16 year olds are dramatic. And I also remember that there are plenty of people my age or older doing the exact same thing today.. and I feel better about myself.

Here's some things that make this app so wonderful, though.

This was the weekend I met Christian so I got to home and reminisce with the Mister about the weekend we met. 

And this was about 4 days later when I applied to App and knew it was where I was meant to be.

And this was me waiting on pins and needles wanting my acceptance to come back. 

And this was a night out in Boone.. taken in a bar... and uploaded to Facebook immediately. Oh college. 

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The ability to reminisce about Bachelorette weekend shenanigans with friends. 

Now that I think about it.. all of this just makes me really nostalgic and want to go back to college. Luckily I also have things like this to remind me why I don't want to... 

I don't really know the point of this post except to say if you want to be equally embarrassed and jealous of yourself you should download it. Any time it only goes back a year or two, I'm jealous of college Leslie. Anything farther than that I'm usually embarrassed of high school or college Freshman self. Trust me, she was equally as bad as high school Leslie.