My Dreams are Coming True

Today Widespread Panic made an announcement, and it made me think I had died and gone to heaven.That's right! They are teaming up with the Allman Brothers for a 9 city tour. Here is a list of the shows.

We will be going to Nashville, for sure, and Chicago or Charlotte. Maybe my sweetest husband will surprise me and say we can go to Chicago and Charlotte.

I finally know what people mean when they say they feel high on life. Or maybe that's just anticipating being high.

Gap Dress and Invitation Etiquette

The dress I order from The Gap just got delivered, and I think it's pretty cute. I'm going to try it on for Greg later to get a second opinion. I'll report back what he thought, and if it had any bearing on my opinion of the dress. He says that I usually do the opposite of whatever his opinion is on fashion and decorating, and he's right. Not intentionally. It just happens that way:)

I haven't really talked about this yet, but I'm in my friend Jessica'a wedding in June. I've been waiting until she sign's up to follow, so I can introduce her and discuss her upcoming nuptials. She hasn't yet though, and something has come up in the planning that I would love to have some more opinions on.

I am planning her lingerie shower/bachelorette party for the end of May ( I'm very excited to be doing this since planing a fun night out is my forte and I'm so honored she asked me to be a bridesmaid). This week I got her guest list from her and finalized the details with her. I was planning to order the invitations this week so I could be sure to get them out at least five weeks before the party.

Today her maid of honor, who I don't know well at all, told her that was too early to send out the invites. She said she was sending out the invitations to the bridal shower brunch that she's throwing 2 weeks before hand.

I've always sent out invites at least four weeks before if all guests are in town, and six weeks if any guest are traveling in town. This girl works for a printing company so maybe I'm wrong, but to get an invite two weeks before an event would be strange to me. Or have I been showing poor etiquette by sending invites too early?

It's not my reputation if she's wrong, but a lot of Jess's fiance's family are going to be invited to the brunch. I don't want something that is out of her control to make a bad impression.

What do y'all think?

"You Tube Tuesday"

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Music

I picked up the new Jason Mraz album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. yesterday. I figured I should familiarize myself with some more of his music since he opening for Dave next month. I really already like the track "I'm Yours" off  of it ( obviously since it is on my blog play list). I thought the rest of his songs would be more like Jack Johnson ( singer, song writery), but his song writing skills are not nearly as strong as Jack's. I'm going to listen to it a few more times, and maybe it will grow on me.

Heads up! Dirty Dozen Brass Band  is playing at the High Tone this Thursday (4/2). They are a great band out of New Orleans. I can't make it out on a Thursday anymore, but those who still have some youth and/or energy  should go. Here's a video of them performing at Bonnoroo (2002):

Boom Box is going to be at Newby's this Saturday (4/4). I saw them the last time they were here, and they were pretty. The band consist of a DJ and a guitarist, but that is kind of an over simplified description. To me there music is a fusion of techno, jam, funk, and whatever. For just two guys there is all kinds of stuff going on all over the stage. It's entertaining  and something a little different. Here they are at Newby's in '07:

I hope someone goes to at least one of these shows and can report back to me how they were. I need to live vicariously through y'all since I'm not going out the next three weeks ( hopefully!). 

Weekend Ending

So I thought I would write a quick post about my low key weekend. 

I have been having allergy issues since Wednesday. I don't know if I've mentioned on here, but I try to avoid taking any western medication because of the funky chemicals and side affects ( but I'll smoke cigarettes when I drink? DUH!). My spiny nettles and MSM powder are not doing a very good job of keeping the sneezing, scratchy throat, and stuffy head at bay. It probably didn't help that my salon kept the front doors open all week to enjoy the nice weather. Maybe I should have asked them to close the doors when I saw a layer of yellow-green film on my station, but it was so nice and springy outside.

So due to allergy illness and the past two weekends being blow outs, we decided to not do much this weekend. 

Friday night we did go to my parents for some family time since my grandmother was in town from Jackson. This made my allergies worse since my mom and step-dad are the last people on the planet to smoke inside their house, but it was worth it to hang out with my cool Grandma Almeda.

Saturday I tried to keep the snot from dripping from my nose into my clients' hair. After work I came home and watched TV in bed. 

I've had an excuse to go directly to bed to do my TV watching because our three year old (warranty runs out after two) plasma in the living room  decided to turn half of the screen into a rainbow. I personally think rainbows are quite lovely, but Greg was not happy when he tried to turn the basketball tournament on to watch the UofM Tigers and saw the rainbow instead. He's suppose to be taking it in to see how many hundreds of dollars it will be to get it fixed, or if we're better of just buying a new one. It's perfectly reasonable to spend thousands on TVs every three years , right?

Along with my TV watching I've also been reading this book:

I got this on the recommendation of another blogger, and because I normally love Southern humor writing from women authors. I though that it was going to be similar to " The Sweet Potato Queen" series, but it wasn't nearly as good. My opinion could also partly be because the last books I read were the literary crack series Twilight. What book could follow what is basically teenage, supernatural, romance novels? 

So now I'm reading  sTori Telling. I'm only a chapter in, but it already seems way more promising. I've always liked Tori Spelling even though she is the butt of many jokes.  I really liked her show on Oxygen about her little family and their inn, and the second season about her pregnancy and moving back to L.A. . I wonder if they are doing another season of it.

I also got book by the blogger Jen Lancaster, Bitter is the New Black. I decided after the first chapter that I didn't care for it at all. The Barnes and Nobel return policy states that they give refunds for unread books. Does it count if you just read one chapter? Oh well I'm going to try to return it anyway. I am after all my mothers daughter, a women who could get a refund for a used box of tissues and a discount on anything. {side note: She took Greg shopping one time at Outdoors and got a 15% BoyScout discount because she was once a GirlScout leader and surely they didn't want to be sexist. I hadn't warned Greg about her shopping tactics before hand. Sometimes it's a little embarrassing in the moment, but hey if it saves you some cash, so what!}

Today I got out to do little shopping. I went all the way out to Wolfchase Mall to go the Gap. I can practically see the Oak Court Mall form the end of my street, but their Gap is tiny and never has all the stuff I see online. I also like the big Old Navy out there. 

Old Navy had nothing to speak of, but the Gap trip was somewhat successful. This is the dress that I originally saw online and wanted to try on. They had it in my size in this color, and it fit pretty well. The color looked very different in person. Online it looked coral, but it actually is much more orange. This color may have looked alright once I had gotten some sun, but it looked not good right now. 

So I got them to order this cocoa color form another store. I did that instead of ordering it from online because I had 20% off coupon for doing one of those surveys you get with your receipt, and you can't use those with online purchases. My mom should be so proud of me. Also the shipping is a whole dollar cheaper than online (WOW).  I'm planning on wearing this to Greg's graduation in May. I might also wear it to one of the showers or the casual rehearsal dinner of my friend Jessica, whose wedding I will be in this June. Now I need to find the perfect pair of espadrilles for the outfit.

I also got these shorts the other day from the Gap, but they look way cuter on me than they do on this girl. On me they don't looked nearly as tight ( especially on the legs), high "mom waisted", or like at the right angle you could see camel toe. Bad photo shoot Gap!

I plan on being fairly boring the next few weeks. I'd like to not go out any until we go Dave Matthews in Nashville on the 25th. Like I mentioned earlier I smoke when I drink ( cough, cough; excuse me) and only when I drink, but I'm finally ready to totally quit for the first time. In the past I've just chalked it up to a vise I enjoy on occasion, but now I see it as the nasty, smelly, unhealthy, aging habit it is. So I thought a few weeks with no adult beverages will help break the habit. I swear sometimes that quitting smoking is easier for people with an addiction to than for people with a social habit of it, like me.

Also a few weeks of not going out will make it easier to get back to going to the gym and eating better again. I've had a tough time with it since my birthday weekend. Drinking like that makes me lazy and want to eat everything in site. 

I do plan on starting to plant some stuff hopefully soon. I'll post some pictures of what I plant as soon as I do. I vow to water all flowers better this year. I am after all almost 30, and if I don't start to become a better gardener they'll revoke my membership to Southern womanhood. By the time my mother was my age her rose garden produced enough blooms to keep our entire house in fresh flowers. I still have trouble keeping my impatients alive for the whole summer.

Well so much for a quick post. Sorry I seem to ramble a bit on here a lot!

Butt Dialing

I'm horrified that I will accidentally call someone from my cell now that I don't have a flip phone anymore. Anytime I'm having a "bless her/his heart conversation " I have to check that my phone is not communicating without my knowledge. By the way I would never say anything ill about anyone who is reading this.

Well this morning I awoke to a missed call from my hubby's friend. This is highly unusual so I immediately checked my voice mail.  Instantly I realized that his friend, who will remain nameless, had butt dialed me. I got to be privy to an all boy conversation without their knowing.

He was leaving dinner or a bar with several other boys. I could tell drinks were involved. They proceeded to rate an unsuspecting girl from the bar/restaurant. 

An unidentified boy said she was capable of going home with him even though she was "middle range".  He said " You never go for the top or the bottom."

My husband's friend then said that he'd "rather go home was his beautiful hand than anything but the top".

This is pretty much exactly how  I thought boys talked without a girl around to hear them.

The funny thing is that the "middle range" girl probably had no interest in or even noticed any of them!

Even though they weren't gossiping about a person they knew ( that would be much more an all girl conversation), this incident confirmed my fears of butt dialing. I will either be doubling up on checking my phone when I'm talking about someone, or maybe I should just pony up the money for a new flip phone.

Thanks Tay

My cousin Taylor finally decided to sign up as a follower. I know you've been reading over Agnes's shoulder for weeks. Thanks for signing up!

Taylor is about six months younger than me. That means that he is just enough younger to have gotten tortured by me growing up. I used to make him play Barbies with me every time he came over, but I at least let him be Ken, most of the time. I figure it evens out since I spent a good bit of time at his baseball games in the summers, even though I already had developed my dislike of all things sports.

Now he's married to a great girl, Agnes, and he has a year old little boy, Andrew ( see post " Andrew's 1st Birthday Party" ). It's really strange that he's aloud to be some body's Dad, but he is a great one. Every time I'm around Tay I remember how funny he is and think how we should hang out more often. Unfortunately we are all busy and time gets away from us.

Let's make a point to get together soon. Also give me a call because I lost y'all's numbers in the " drowned phone in bathtub" incident. I would love to give Andrew is first haircut soon.

Taylor and Agnes at our old house for Greg 70's themed surprise b-day party

Agnes and Taylor in normal clothing at Automatic Slims several years ago for my b-day