tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Aaron and I went to the driving range by our house today. It has been so long since I swung my clubs, and he has only played once before.

It was so much fun, and he was really good! I want us to take a few lessons so I can refresh and he can get the basics down. I would love to have a summertime hobby we can do together – and this is one we can do our whole lives.

Now I just have to get him on the tennis court!

New couch, home made cushions, and end table/lamp things.

Ah, new fridge and stove!

Tonight I made three new cushions for our new couch. The old cushions (which I bought at Crate and Barrel) totally clashed. It’s amazing how much I paid for those pillows, and how cheaply I can make my own. I think they turned out pretty well. I’m too lazy to take pictures, though, so you’ll have to take my word for it.

Also, I have an interview on Monday, which I really really want to do well on, so if you wouldn’t mind sending some positive vibes my way, I would appreciate it!

I will never answer my cell phone unless I know the number who is calling me. Or if, as in recent times, I have an interview set up at a specific time and that time is now.

This is what bothers me. Voicemail was created for a reason. Why call my cell, and then when it clicks through to voicemail (because I have pressed the ignore button) do you hang up and immediately call me back?!? Do you think that this time I will answer you, when 0.9 nanoseconds earlier I didn’t want to talk to you? No, jackass, I’m letting it go to voicemail again.

Leave a message this time and I might call you back.

Today was exciting in that I finally got to meet my Invisible Friend, as Aaron calls her. Her husband calls me her Fake Friend. No longer invisible, no longer fake!!

We met over email (set up through a mutual internet friend – I do leave the house and log off the computer from time to time, I swear!) and after the first email I knew we would become real friends. Not just real, but real close friends. At least, the potential is there. I can be somewhat of an acquired taste, I know, but I felt like she and I were on the same wavelength. I mean, anyone who likes red wine as much as I do has to be quality, right?

At any rate, I met her today and it felt so natural, like we had been friends for so long. I can’t wait until her life calms down a little bit and we can hang out for wine and cheese couples night, and girly happy hours, and fun things like that! I already feel so comfortable around her, which is how all of my close friendships have started out.

It makes me think of cliches like the circle of life though – MA, a very close, amazing friend, moves away to San Diego, and then suddenly NLIF (no longer invisible friend – may have to work on a new nickname….) drops into my life. Sad in one way, happy in another, and balancing overall.

That hasn’t always happened when good friends moved away though. But I’ll take it at least this one time! I still have fantasies of somehow all of our friends moving to the same area one day…how amazing would that be. I’m voting for Denver!! J, MaD, Amy, Matt, NLIF, Kim, what do you say???

In other news, I primed our remaining living room walls, and the closed doors and window (and wine) may well be contributing to the length and overall happiness of this post. Normally I only get effusive when I am sad. Hmmm.

Tomorrow, the Sandstone Cove goes on the walls! Hopefully only two coats on the primed walls, but we’ll have to do a third coat on the already-Sandstoned walls, since they didn’t turn out so well.

It’s finally starting to feel like home in here!