I'm going to miss these care free Summer afternoons where nothing takes place but the sun's warm rays upon your skin and Kylie Minogue playing in the background. Occasionally, some yard work will get done, but nothing satisfies me more than all this warm weather. Now on with the weekend wrap up!
This weekend was full of personal self discovery, 7am garage sales and parties that I was happy to not be a part of.
The first Friday of mine that I didn't have to pull a split at work was supposed to be epic. I had no idea what I wanted to do but I was excited for the possibilities. I had been invited to my friend Joy's house to get "chocolate wasted" with a bunch of friends of mine as soon as everyone got off. While the idea of consuming unnecessary amounts of chocolate and sugar was tempting, instead I was glued to Wikipedia researching body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). I was really blown away by all the information and actually became overwhelmed emotionally by it. I really can't go into anymore detail on that other than I could barely finish the glass of wine I had poured for myself. I cleaned my bathroom to clear my head, got ready for bed and fell asleep around midnight. I had a long day ahead of me which would start at six in the morning.
I can't remember the last time I had woken up at six in the morning. I think I was in Elementary only to watch cartoons. Oh, how I long for those days again . . . But not this time. I had to drag myself out from the comforts of my comforter, into a quick shower to meet my sister. She had somehow hustled me into going with her to garage sales all over town after she got off work.With a protein shake and toast in my hand I was out the door by seven. We agreed to meet at her in-laws where the entire family plus my nephew were gathering. She had already made a list of places she wanted to go which actually turned into a totally different plan hitting different addresses in between the addresses she originally had planned! Try saying THAT three times fast. Now I know that Clovis isn't really that big of a city, but we managed to lose our way a couple of times having to turn around in random Culs de Sac neighborhoods (which is actually the plural term for Cul de Sac. Inside joke.) I managed to find two journals for four dollars, a steal, right? We must have hit a dozen homes one after the other all trying to get rid of things they no longer had use for. I didn't expect all of them to be perfect, but you really have to question the thought process people put into them when they are selling seat belts. Actual seat belts, you know, the ones the use in cars. I was shocked too. I must say, my favorite part of the entire day had to be when we made a pit stop at my house on the way to another location. My sister and I were in my room when I decided to show her all the things I had been collecting for my nephew since before he was born: letters, pictures, mementos and other things that incorporated both sides of his family. All these things were bundled up in a wooden chest that I planned on giving him later on in life. One of the things I put in there was a hat that my grandpa had given me when I was a baby. It was a blue cap that said "100% Boy" on it. I was holding my nephew when I took it out and my sister put it on him. He usually doesn't like hats and often pulls them off, but this one he seemed to like. She wasn't aware that I had still kept it after all these years and at that moment her eyes began filling up with tears. She was one of the closest to our grandpa and I think seeing something that he had given me on her son kind of made it like he was there witnessing the moment with us.
We eventually finished around two in the afternoon and ended the day by eating red velvet cake that Felicia had made. It was the sweet ending to our crazy and chaotic morning. By the time I got home I had enough strength to unlock my front door and crash into bed where I slept for two hours before waking up drenched in sweat. One of the disadvantages to Summer naps. I stayed up long enough to eat and play catch up with my roommates to see how their day went. I was envious to find out they had a luxuriously lazy day. But it was the first time I had spent an entire day with my sister since I moved out. Our lives and schedules clashed so we don't get to spend as much time as we'd like to with each other. It was nice having a day to reconnect again though. It's weird, for the first I realized that my sisters and I had our own separate lives full of different people, jobs and views on the world, but one thing we could always count on was each other.
As for the party that I didn't attend, it was at my friend Lauren's house. Her roommate was celebrating his 21st birthday and let's just say that the idea of spending a night watching ping pong drunks was not my idea of fun. I half expected her to text me so she could have someone else sober there to roll her eyes at, but she later told me that she went to bed early anyway. Oh, the weekends, they are never dull that's for sure. Even in small towns like Clovis.
Xoxo.
B.
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