The Big Rain

I’m kind of tired. I feel like I need a day to recover from the weekend. I had a really good weekend but I had the big drive and we did a lot of things over the weekend. Thursday after work, I made the Big Drive down to SC to see the folks. It’s about a three hour drive because of two bottlenecks – 1. Leaving the Triangle and 2. Concord/Kannapolis (NASCAR country and home of the big outlet mall. Leaving the Triangle wasn’t as bad as it could have been. It helped that I was heading West and not East towards the beaches. Concord is always bad and it doesn’t matter when I drive through there. There always seems to be some sort of traffic hold-up. I don’t recall doing much Thursday night. It was mostly show and tell time since my little sis had flown in on Tuesday. Friday, my sister and I ran some errands and that night we went to the Charlotte Knights/Durham Bulls baseball game. We had lawn seats which reminded us of the lawn seats we had at the DMB concert in 07. There were some interesting people sitting in front of us- the parents, the two sons and the girlfriends and they were all inappropriately dressed and groping each other periodically and throwing popcorn at each other. It was like having our own episode of The Real World only live and right in front of us. The coolest part of the whole thing was the fireworks show after the game. Those were some serious fireworks. Smiley faces, hearts, noisy ones, sparkly ones. It was really impressive and since we had lawn seats we had the best view in the stadium. The downside was that we didn’t make it out of the parking lot until 12:30 am, so I was really tired Saturday morning.
Saturday was mostly tv watching and a little more shopping. Since I don’t have a Hobby Lobby in my area (the closest one is like 1 ½ away) and Mom has one down the road from her house, we decided to go there for fun. It was a usual trip until we rounded the corner and saw a few balls of the new Lion Brand Sock-Ease and Red Heart’s Heart and Sole sock yarns! Holy Cow! This was the first time either one of us had seen it in stores and I let out the little joy squeal. It was kind of picked over and they only had one ball left of the colors but I bought one skein of Sock-Ease and three skeins of the Red Heart. I have decided that I am fired from shopping. I didn’t realize how much yarn I had accumulated since I arrived here until I came home this evening and had to start storing yarn in my vintage wood Budweiser crate. Oops! So I think I need to go on a spending diet because I still have plenty of money, but I did realize that I am shopping way more than I need to. So no more yarn buying until I use some of it up. When I was at Michael’s I did find these really cute Amy Butler fabric tags that I am going to use to decorate my Inspiration Board. It is really blank because I took it all off before I moved so I wouldn’t lose anything and I like to change the items out every few months or so. I also have mini clothespins and little binder clips with faux typewriter keys on them that I am going to use to hang stuff up on the Inspiration Board. I am going to try and work on it this coming weekend because the only event I have this weekend is the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss concert Friday night and that’s in the Triangle so I will have plenty of free time. I had a lot of quality crafty time with my mom and I got to see my little doggies so that was a good thing.
This morning (Sunday) I went to church with my Mom and then we went to the movie Kit Kitteredge: An American Girl. Yes, I am an American Girl doll fan. I still have my dolls and even though I don’t have them out on display now I still take them out every once in awhile to brush their hair and change their outfits. The movie was really good. Kit is the doll from the Great Depression era and a lot of the themes and situations in the movie parallel what our country is currently experiencing it. The kid actors were great and Julia Ormond (hello—Legends of the Fall) and Chris O’Donnell (uber hottie) played the parents and Stanley Tucci and Joan Cusack played the villain types and they were hilarious! Every once in awhile, I do break my rules, going to a kid’s movie is not my usual fare but I will always make an exception for an American Girl movie or movies like Nancy Drew last summer.
After the movie, it was time to load up the car. It was a torrential rain storm the entire way home and it is still raining hard as I type this. It took me an additional 30 minutes to get home because there were some parts where you could only see a car length ahead of you and people were going like 45 miles an hour on a major highway, that is how hard it was raining. There were several people that had pulled off the side of the road to wait it out and motorcyclists taking shelter under overpasses. It was no fun driving in that storm but I carried on because it looked like the rain wasn’t going to stop anytime soon and I wanted to make it home before it was night.
The temperature has cooled off because of the storms. It is sad when 70 feels cold. I think I am going to read for awhile before I go to bed because that is one of my favorite activities when it is storming. I have also decided that having my itouch on road trips is one of the coolest things ever. I was constantly using it to look things up and adding stuff to my calendar. So tiny, yet so much fun!
Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend. I know I won’t be the only one hitting the snooze button tomorrow morning.