Where I've Been - The Big Recap

Damn near everywhere. Work all day and play all night. Lounging on the beach on the weekends. I finished a prayer shawl and started another one. I crocheted on the beach near Wilmington for WWCIP day. I crocheted at Myrtle Beach State Park and in the Subaru (when I wasn’t driving). I discovered another couple of yarn shops. I bought a ticket to the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss concert on July 11th. I had a blast the last week or so while Sunshine was visiting. I was completely SPOILED ROTTEN while he was out here. He supervised the delivery of my furniture, did chores, made spaghetti and cleaned the inside of my Subaru and made it sparkle inside. He is just so much fun to be around and manages to handle all my quirks. He is the only person I would get up at 4am eastern time to drive to the airport. I’m not even sure I would willingly do that for my sister.
I did finish reading the book Bonk by Mary Roach. This book is probably not for everyone but I was completely engrossed by it. You will definitely learn a lot about sex and the study of it from reading this book in a humorous and non-gross way. I have read a pile of magazines. I can’t help it, they last longer than newspapers and the good ones are like little flat books.
Wilmington was a lot of fun, but I think I would pick Myrtle Beach State Park as being my favorite beach. While in the Wilmington area, we went to the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher. We walk in the front door of the Aquarium and this photographer pulls us over in front of a green screen and all of a sudden, he’s taking our picture without even telling us to say cheese. Sunshine hates the pictures but I honestly know we have taken worse pics and I am a sucker for souvenir. Right next to the Aquarium, is a nice state park beach (with free parking). Sunshine spent most of the time in the water and I spent most of the time sitting on my Little Mermaid beach towel crocheting the teal prayer shawl.
The day after Wilmington, we went to a newer yarn store in Hillsborough. I went a little nuts there, but it was all in the name of creativity and stimulating the economy. I bought Noro sock yarn, Plymouth Yarn Happy Feet and Brown Sheep Prairie Silk, some heart shaped stitch markers and a tiny tiny crochet hook the size of a tooth pick.
This past weekend, I rocked my world at the Hard Rock Café and the Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach. I rode the Led Zeppelin roller coaster and drank a rockuccino at the KISS Coffeehouse. The Hard Rock Park is really cool. The first time I rode the Led Zeppelin roller coaster I was scared shitless but the second time I was more prepared so I loved it. Our favorite ride though, was Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin – The Trip. You sit in a little car with 3D glasses on looking at all these optical illusions while listening to Nights in White Satin. Words cannot due justice to the awesomeness of this ride. You just kind of relax and are lost in the moment of it all and it is really peaceful. I think we rode it at least 4 times.
The Hard Rock Café in Myrtle Beach is really unique. It is in the shape of a pyramid and I had the world’s best Caesar salad there and the photographer there took one of the best pictures of Sunshine and I ever. Right around the corner is the KISS Coffeehouse. I love their French Vanilla Kiss Rockuccinos. Yum. They had a Cabbage Patch doll by the cash register that had full KISS face paint on and it was so awesome. I would totally do this to my old Cabbage Patch dolls but my mom would kill me.
We went to Myrtle Beach State Park and it is really pretty and you can find the biggest seashells there. I am not a huge fan of popular crowded beaches. Beaches are supposed to be pretty and peaceful. It also has a nice pier that you can walk out on and you can fish off the far end of the pier. I finished the teal shawl and started the seafoam one. Later on that week, I ended up frogging the shawl that I started at Myrtle Beach State Park. I was trying to gauge how much yarn it was going to take and I laid it out and realized it was the size of a couch cover and not a shawl, so I ripped it out and now I have a giant ball of seafoam green yarn sitting on my desk. I was so made that I started another shawl with the green apple Homespun that I had purchased on sale at AC Moore. I will use the seafoam green yarn eventually.
It really sucked to leave Myrtle Beach. I really felt like I was on an actual vacation there even though we only spent one night there. On the way down there we listened to Margaret Cho’s Revolution cd and it was absolutely hilarious. She is one of my all time favorite chicks and a true inspiration.
When we weren’t at the beach, I was at work or we were unpacking my furniture that finally arrived. We did a lot of shopping, I introduced Sunshine to the joy of Whole Foods and we found cool bookstore and club in downtown Raleigh. We also watched a couple of cool documentaries. This Thursday, I went to TJ Maxx for fun and they had a ton of Converses there and it was really hard not to buy a pair because I was really looking for new work shoes. Then on the last rack in my size range I found a pair of size 8 ½ Borns! Normally I don’t wear 8 ½ unless I am wearing arch supports or socks but they are narrow enough that I can keep them on without them slipping too much. So I bought $100 shoes for under $30 and I fully understand why my Mom and my sister love them so much. They are so cushy. These are brown leather squared off ballet flats with corset stitching on the heels and thin leather bow ties on the toes. They are hawt. I am wearing them to work today even though it’s casual day and I could wear Converses. I just have to wear new shoes right after I buy them. The funny part is that while Sunshine was here, we spent all this time looking at shoes for him, and I didn’t really see any that just had to come home with me. Then he leaves and I just find these cute little Borns that just called out to be adopted.
Prior to the shoes, I had gone to the Suncoast Video store in the mall in hopes of finding something to watch this weekend. I ended up finding a used copy of Big Love Season 2 and The Vicar of Dibley: A Holy Wholly Happy Ending. It was like 100 degrees out and I am pretty sure it is going to be like that here all weekend because when it rains it is only for a couple of hours and then sometimes we get a bunch of humidity afterwards.
So tomorrow, I am going to the post office to mail off swap stuff and post cards. I am also going to try and go to the yarn store in Raleigh. I don’t need more yarn but I am determined to experience everything possible while I am out here. 4th of July weekend I am driving down to Charlotte to see the parents and my sister who is flying in for the week. I am such a book slut and bought a copy of The Importance of Music to Girls, which is a memoir by Lavinia Greenlaw. It looked good flipping through it and it reminded me of my angsty teenage years lying on my bed listening to Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin. I plan on working on the green apple prayer shawl and watching dvds for the majority of the weekend. It is just really hot again and I don’t like going to a ton of places when it is hot out because I become uber cranky very fast.