The Weekend

Curls and Croptops

This weekend was the busiest weekend I've had in many moons. I did have lots of fun but today my battery is running extremely low (introvert here). Let me tell you about it.

Friday night I went over to Rosalynn's house to hang out with her and the kiddos, including their exchange student, Maria, who just arrived 3 weeks ago from Spain. We wound up having a pretty intense game night and Maria turned out to be a natural at video games. First we played Mario Kart and then Nintendoland. I hadn't played Nintendoland in years and I'd forgotten how much fun it was. One of the games is kind of like hide and seek and Maria totally dominated all of us. Rosalynn's eldest daughter is 13 and Maria is 15 so it's nice for Jaden to have a girl slightly older to look up to. Maria is so mature for her age and extremely sweet and intelligent. I've recently been thinking about possibly going abroad next year to teach English but am apprehensive since I'm terrified to go live in a foreign country by myself but Maria is adjusting extremely well. I'm really excited to get to spend time with and get to know such an amazing young lady.

Roz and I at The Yard

Saturday was UNBEARABLY hot (113 degrees) and I felt lazy and sluggish all afternoon. Rosalynn had invited me to go with her and Ian to a mutual friend's birthday party at The Yard but since it was so hot I was considering just hiding out in my house all day. I had never been to The Yard, though, so after Googling it, I decided it looked pretty cool and was only 15 minutes away from my house in case I got too hot and needed to come home. I got there around 9pm and it was an absolute ZOO! Luckily, they had complimentary valet parking or I would've had to go home (I have major parking anxiety). The Yard has a restaurant (Culinary Dropout), a bar with live music on weekends, and then a huge game area where you can play ping pong, shuffle board, bean bags, and fooseball. The gaming area had fans and misters but no A/C so we had to go into the bar every now and then so we didn't die. I had Chipotle beforehand since I'm vegetarian and I wasn't sure they'd have anything for me to eat so I can't tell you if their food was good or not but I did have some of Roz's fries and they had the most amazing ranch dipping sauce--OMG! It had garlic and dill in it and I wanted to drink it.

Roz and Ian destroyed us at shuffle board

Shortly before closing time the boys got into the most intense game of fooseball I've ever seen. While they were playing a couple of drunk dudes came up to them and pretty much started accosting them. One was rubbing the fringe of his shirt all over one of the guys and breathing in his face. He got so annoying that they challenged him to a game and said if they won that he had to give up his hideous fringed shirt. It got pretty crazy and the ball was flying off the table like crazy. I honestly was worried that a fight was going to break loose. Our team inevitably won and the guy was hesitant to give up his shirt. He eventually conceded but the bouncer immediately made him put it back on. It was pretty nutzo and further evidence that boys are just weird.

Pizza Time!

One thing that was a bit of a bummer was that (as per usual) I was the only single person at the party. Everyone came with a partner except me and the older I get it seems like anywhere I go, I'm the only single person in the room. The next morning this hit me like a ton of bricks and I got the sads really bad. I miss affection. I miss holding hands, forehead kisses, having someone's arm around me, heck, I miss simply having a warm body next to me. Not that I got that a lot in my past relationship (he was really weird about showing me any kind of affection in public) but it would be nice to have someone I felt comfortable being affectionate with. Sigh...

Anyway, I had been invited to another birthday party that afternoon at Peter Piper Pizza but wasn't really in a party mood. Michelle texted me and asked me if I was gonna go and I told her I was having a sad girl day. She texted back and said "let pizza, cake, and children's laughter make you feel better" and I thought, she's right. I don't want to stay in bed all day feeling shitty about my love life. So I hoisted myself out of my pit of despair and went to the toy store to get the birthday girl, Mia, some toys. I hadn't seen Mia in a year, so I was a bit worried she wouldn't remember me (she only just turned 4) but as soon as I walked in the door she was like "COURTNEY'S HERE!" It warmed my icy cold heart out of my funk and I ended up having a lot of fun. I'd even say it was the funnest kid party I've been to in recent memory. I think we even had more fun playing games than she did!

Barbie Time!

So yeah, yesterday was a good example of just because you had a bad morning doesn't mean you're going to have a bad afternoon, evening, etc. I really am lucky to have such amazing friends. Even though I've been pretty fail in the romantic relationship department I've been #blessed with my platonic relationships :)

At the end of the month I will be dog sitting for a friend at work and I'm very excited to say it's for a PUG! So prepare yourself for lots of pug selfies. Thanks for reading! XOXO!