Busiest month of the year.

Sarah recently told me May is the busiest month of the year. After this month, I tend to agree with her. I recently decided to tackle my bathroom remodel. So far, I've patched and sanded a good part of the bathroom walls, replaced the light fixture over the vanity, painted the walls and the ceiling. I also removed a wall that separated the vanity area from the toilet/shower area. It's a pretty small bathroom so this wall really made it even smaller. One of my very nice coworkers came over with his son today. He brought some leftover drywall for me to use for the patch and gave me some advice on how to run the wiring. Looks like I still have quite a bit of work to do to finish the bathroom (including replacing the floor), but it's going to look so nice when I'm done. Last night, I went to see Sex & the City with my friend Dawn that came up to visit from Tampa. We went out to Cosmo/Lava in midtown and had a great time together. Something about Dawn and I together equals a great time, every time. Tonight, the guys and I went to a festival on the Marietta Square, then hit McCracken's followed by a house party at Bob's where we all met Tuba Rex. I'm excited about sleeping in tomorrow.

Trail of Death...aka the Tour de Cure

I went on a 25K bike ride for diabetes this weekend with Team Lockheed Martin. I gotta tell you, I was feeling pretty un-sexy in my lycra bike jersey, mushroom helmet and padded spandex bike shorts that made me feel like grandma ethel after a prune juice bender. I have been going on practice rides the last couple of weeks on the silver comet trail. If you don't live here, the silver comet trail is fairly flat. The course we rode Sunday morning started at a high school in Tyrone, GA (near Peachtree City) and wound through the country roads, neighborhoods and we looped around at a golf course. The hills. The hills! I thought I was going to die. I ate Beth's dust. I felt bad because she kept slowing down for me. I got off my bike to walk up the upteenth hill and was laughed at by a dude on unicycle. A few more feet and he was walking that excuse for a real ride up the hill. Now who's laughing, circus freak!?!? I barely made it to the finish line. I got a sweet free massage after the ride. The massage students always set up tents at these charity athletic events. The holy grail of free gifts came in my post ride gift bag...a port-a-potty squeeze toy. It's the best thing ever.

In other news, apparently, I'm a "bagel and cream cheese" girl. WTF you may be asking yourself. I went to Publix to buy super slaw ingredients for a party Saturday night. I also bought a 12 pack of diet pepsi. If you don't have a Publix where you are, they like to hire disabled folks to bag your groceries. Which is fine by me. So, this alter-abled young man was helping me load my groceries onto the conveyor belt and wanted me to know that the pahaahshsee was on sale 4 for $11. I asked a couple times what he meant and then figured out he meant Pepsi. However, the senior citizen working the cash register didn't quite catch that and she said to him, "Oh honey, I don't think she likes the pop tarts.....she looks like a bagel and cream cheese type of girl to me." I didn't correct her as she had just provided me comedy gold....but...wait...what exactly does a "bagel and cream cheese type of girl" look like?

Estate Sale

I had never been to an estate sale so I went and checked one out today. I didn't expect it to be as sad as it was. The caretakers of this lady's estate brought in a management company to hold the sale. This lady had so much crap and they priced everything way too high. Room after room full of clothes, shoes and random house stuff. They even had her makeup and tooth paste for sale! She had purchased hundreds of dollars of Chanel and other high end make-up. They were selling it for $6 - $10. Who would even pay $1 for someone's used cosmetics? Gross. I was beginning to think this person had no children and died alone but I found a few pillows and tea towls with "supposed to be" funny sayings about being a mom. From looking at her belongings, I would say this person was in her 50's to 60's. I bought a NYC Ballet workout DVD that I heard was good..it was unopened and a neat silver spoon. She bought all this stuff and now she's gone and here we all were....strangers picking through her belongings. I was in one of the upstairs bedrooms that had even more clothes and shoes and another browser said to me...can you believe that one person could have so much stuff? Just sad. She had spent thousands on cosmetics, clothes and unopened fitness equipment. It made me think about the lengths this woman went to in the hopes of looking better or being happier, but in the end none of it really mattered. I'm going to go clean out my closet.

Girls just want to have fun.

I went on another silver comet ride with Beth today. We decided to best our 16 mile record and went 20 today. I'm going to feel it tomorrow. Last night, I went to a grown-up slumber party at Ashleigh Gardner Volker's house. Her husband was out of town so Jenn, Sarah and I came over. We started the day by going to see "Made of Honor." Definitely not an oscar winner, but entertaining. Then back to Ashleigh's house for drinks and to make dinner. We asked the ouija board all the interesting questions, prank called husbands and guys we know then finished the night with drunk yoga. Definitely a good time.

I'm only happy when it rains.

It rains so rarely here, that I enjoy it when it does. I'm trying to get motivated to make a trip to Lowe's so I can pick up supplies to finish out my dining room floor. I ripped up the old ceramic tile and put down a new floor last week. I have to patch a few spots, put up new baseboards and replace the heating vent, then I'll be done with another room.

Sarah, Rob, Beth, Rich and I went to the new Cobb Energy Center to see The Marriage of Figaro last night. At 3.5 hours long, it was about 1.5 hours too long. That crazy Mozart. Beth and I went to Marlowe's after and had a martini at the bar with various drunk guys. Sigh.