Toadfrogs and Elephants

Wade’s family (his mom, dad, and sister) came to visit for the long weekend. Wade and I both got off work early, and his parents arrived on Friday evening. We went out to dinner and then played dominoes – I won! His sister, Emily, joined us the next afternoon and we all got in the car to drive to Auburn. Wade’s dad and sister graduated from Auburn and Wade and I graduated from Tech. His mom tried to be impartial and root for both teams. We arrived in the early afternoon and revisited some old favorites of his dad. I am not a huge football fan, but I learned a lot about the game (Wade answered all my questions) and Tech won!! I graduated three years ago, we were at an away game, and I still saw people I knew – how cool is that? We didn’t get back to Atlanta till 3:30 AM so most of Sunday was spent recovering and shoe shopping for Emily. Everyone left early on Monday and Wade and I spent the day relaxing. Wade’s parents took Madison with them. His dad is a vet and was going to spay her. It worked out great since I have a work retreat Wednesday through Friday and would have had to board her. Now I just can’t wait till she comes back.

I suddenly realized that my sister’s wedding was only a few weeks away. In most aspects, this is great, except that I have to wear a strapless bridesmaid dress. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem, but the whole summer I have been getting a tan wearing my bathing suits, which have straps. Now I suddenly need the strap marks gone and to do that – I need a new bathing suit. I hate bathing suit shopping. It always takes forever, and then the suits are overly expensive. I decided I only needed this bathing suit for a few weeks so it didn’t have to be cute. I wanted a cheap one so I decided to do my shopping at Wal-Mart. The only thing I forgot in my master plan was the fact that it was late August and most stores are trying to get rid of their swim suits. There were two racks of suits, and each piece was only $5. I ended up with a neon orange top and neon yellow bottoms. Talk about eye catching! Amazingly, the suit actually fits really well – if only the colors didn’t scream 1980′s.

Wade, Madison, and I have been in our latest house since April – so of course I am only getting pictures posted in September. The pictures are in my gallery. Take special note of the bookshelves and the dresser in the spare bedroom. That was my project last weekend. We tried to match the colors to the bedspread, but that probably doesn’t come through in the pictures. I’m just glad to have one more project done!

You know those old photos of the 70′s when there were long lines of people waiting for gas? I saw that yesterday in Atlanta. I was on my way home from work with only an 1/8 of a tank of gas. I had heard stories about the gas prices, but I figured I’d just have to suck it up. Nobody had mentioned the “rush” on gas. I passed 6 gas stations on the way home. Three were out of gas and three had lines of cars that stretched at least a mile. I decided that was ridiculous. I went home and ventured back out at 10 – thinking nobody would be waiting in line then – wrong! I had to wait 20 minutes to fill up and then paid $3.15 a gallon. Geez!