I passed my exam at work this morning--hooray! Thanks for all the luck and good vibes, I know it helped me!
I just got back from a nice lunch with some of my coworkers who took me out to celebrate. Excellent meal and a GIANT piece of raspberry chocolate cake later...and I'm in a food coma. But still ecstatic that my test is done. It feels like finals is over and now its time to play--especially since Sara is coming tomorrow and I'm taking a half day on Friday. I've got that special "May" feeling again. Sigh.
Tonight A and I are going out to a fancy Hawaiian/islandy themed restaurant and I can't wait. The menu looks delicious and the drinks look even better. Can't wait. Plus, since I got to the office at the crack of dawn today for a cram session, I'm going to leave a little early, maybe do some grocery shopping and maybe even bake something delicious too. Lovely day!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Ode to May
May has always been my favorite month of the year. Beautiful weather, the end of the school year, an entire summer stretched out in front of me. Beach trips, the pool opens...basically, life is good. I'm happy that May has rolled around again, although I'm hoping this one will be just as good as usual, despite the fact that there is no school to end this year. I graduated from college a year ago--a whole year! I'm still not sure how I've survived this past year. I've said many times before (and I'm sure I'll say again) how much I have learned/changed/grown in my first year of "real adulthood". I appreciate all the experiences I've had, but frankly, I hope this next year is a little more calm:)
Anyway, May is full of fabulous things this time around: two trips home (one already happened last weekend), Sara comes to visit this coming weekend, my Tybee Island beach trip with A, hopefully lots of laying out by the pool, dinners with girlfriends and a few good weeks in the office with no traveling!
Apart from all the wonderfulness, I'm feeling pretty anxious today about my exam I have to take at work tomorrow morning. Everyone has been telling me not to worry, but of course its natural to freak out a little. I haven't studied or taken a test in over a year. So today, in my usual finals style, I am cramming like crazy and hoping for the best. Distractions appreciated!
Anyway, May is full of fabulous things this time around: two trips home (one already happened last weekend), Sara comes to visit this coming weekend, my Tybee Island beach trip with A, hopefully lots of laying out by the pool, dinners with girlfriends and a few good weeks in the office with no traveling!
Apart from all the wonderfulness, I'm feeling pretty anxious today about my exam I have to take at work tomorrow morning. Everyone has been telling me not to worry, but of course its natural to freak out a little. I haven't studied or taken a test in over a year. So today, in my usual finals style, I am cramming like crazy and hoping for the best. Distractions appreciated!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Project
I inherited one of my Granny's old chairs when I moved down to ATL last year. Thank goodness for a family who love to furniture shop--I had to buy so little when I love because I had some much family furniture collected for me over the years. Gotta love being the oldest grandchild in the family:)
Anyway, I have this beautiful old wing back chair in a horrible shade of dusty rose pink, so I've been wanting to have it recovered for a while. I finally bought some fabric this weekend so I can have it reupholstered! Here's the print (except mine has a green background):
I know, it seems very busy and bright, but it looks gorgeous in person. And we all know how much I love color and bright things. I'm so excited...now I just have to get around to actually having it done!
Anyway, I have this beautiful old wing back chair in a horrible shade of dusty rose pink, so I've been wanting to have it recovered for a while. I finally bought some fabric this weekend so I can have it reupholstered! Here's the print (except mine has a green background):
I know, it seems very busy and bright, but it looks gorgeous in person. And we all know how much I love color and bright things. I'm so excited...now I just have to get around to actually having it done!
Rain+dark sky=extra caffiene needed.
Back in ATL after a fabulous Raleigh weekend. I purposely didn't make many plans while I was home this weekend, and that was an excellent call on my part. It was nice to be at home, run errands and shop with Mom, and just generally hang around town and relax. I always forget just how relaxing it is to be in my hometown. Home is peaceful and quiet and green everywhere. You can actually hear birds and insects and not the usual city noise I'm used to now. Atlanta is many things, but "relaxing" isn't really one of them. At least I haven't really discovered my relaxing places here just yet. I have very ambitious plans for exploring Piedmont Park and going to free concert Wednesdays in Centennial Park all summer, but as of right now the most relaxing place I can go around here is the mall (I know, I'm strange..the mall has always relaxed me). But, I really need a place to go where I don't spend tons of cash:)
Needless to say, I had a lovely time in good old NC and didn't do anything terribly special. The book sale was great (I fed my art history habit and got a ton of great/huge art history books...too bad I couldn't bring them back to ATL on the plane. oops) and I had an awesome dinner with Erin on Saturday night at North Hills. I did some quality window shopping by myself before I met her and soaked in a little of the place where I used to spend soo much of my time. It was really nice. The creme brulee cheesecake I had at dinner made me very happy too!
As great as the weekend was, I was ready to come back south yesterday afternoon. I take this as a good sign, considering how torn I've been feeling lately..missing home and feel lonely and whatnot. But I'm hoping that was just a little phase of the last few weeks. Something about May (the best month of the year, in my opinion) has given me a new lease on life.
Last night once I got back home from the airport, I went to A's house where he made me delicious fajitas, even though it was raining too much to grill outside, and we watched bad Sunday night tv as usual. I've been dragging this morning, despite my best efforts to caffienate with the extra bold brew. Tonight I'm looking forward to doing some laundry, unpacking from the weekend and going to bed early. I'm finally taking my work exam on Wednesday morning, so its like final exam cram time for me for the next two days. I feel like a college student again! If only..
I hope y'all had excellent weekends too and are having a happy Monday:)
Needless to say, I had a lovely time in good old NC and didn't do anything terribly special. The book sale was great (I fed my art history habit and got a ton of great/huge art history books...too bad I couldn't bring them back to ATL on the plane. oops) and I had an awesome dinner with Erin on Saturday night at North Hills. I did some quality window shopping by myself before I met her and soaked in a little of the place where I used to spend soo much of my time. It was really nice. The creme brulee cheesecake I had at dinner made me very happy too!
As great as the weekend was, I was ready to come back south yesterday afternoon. I take this as a good sign, considering how torn I've been feeling lately..missing home and feel lonely and whatnot. But I'm hoping that was just a little phase of the last few weeks. Something about May (the best month of the year, in my opinion) has given me a new lease on life.
Last night once I got back home from the airport, I went to A's house where he made me delicious fajitas, even though it was raining too much to grill outside, and we watched bad Sunday night tv as usual. I've been dragging this morning, despite my best efforts to caffienate with the extra bold brew. Tonight I'm looking forward to doing some laundry, unpacking from the weekend and going to bed early. I'm finally taking my work exam on Wednesday morning, so its like final exam cram time for me for the next two days. I feel like a college student again! If only..
I hope y'all had excellent weekends too and are having a happy Monday:)
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