Saturday

Saturday was also excellent-- I went shopping with Sophia and got a ton of cute stuff! OK, maybe not a TON, but a handful or two :)

The GAP outlet in Tunica is probably the best outlet I've been to-- I always manage to find something I really like at a great price. You would think the great price part would be guaranteed at an outlet, but not so mon frere! The GAP and The Children's Place were the only ones having sales, so I picked up some stuff for me and some stuff for Violet, then a couple of kitchen items we needed for back home.

Sophia and I had a blast at the shoe store where not only did we find jellies, but Sophia decided she wanted to try on the most ridiculous shoes she could find!

CLEARLY we were having a good day! I went to Target afterwards and found some shorts for Jeremy, then got my toe ran over with a shopping cart-- people are so rude! After getting it to stop bleeding, someone spit gum on it on my way to Office Max! Unbelievable.

We got home, got ready, and raced over to see Charles and Krystal-- the older kids weren't there, but we had some amazing lasagna, got to hang out with little Felix and hear about Charles's newfound place at the police academy. We ended the night by watching some Top Gear; how awesome is that?

Felix!

Jeremy teaches Felix how to play Angry Birds

Felix tries to help Jack with his sound mixing

Me and Krystal-- so glad she's back stateside!

Krystal and Charles were stationed in Japan for a while, but I'm so excited they're back in the states and I get to see Krystal now and again. It's funny, we were never entirely close at Rhodes, but I guess we just always got along really well and bonded more than either of us ever knew!

Just not nice!

I have a lot to update on, last week was crazy, but this is what's on my mind at the moment because it's just irritating me!

Our house is a quadraplex, which means there are four apartments in one house. Our neighbors to the right are the Oakhurst Baptist Recovery House (like a halfway house-- the residents don't own cars, but do have some office staff and visitors now and again), to the left of us are four more houses that are anywhere from duplexes to quadraplexes and NONE of us have off street parking. For the last week, some guy whose mother is visiting has been having her park square in front of our house instead of in the three car garage behind his. It's not unheard of for us to come home and walk halfway up the street from where we've had to park for cars that leave after two hours. I don't want to be un-neighborly, but I find that to be distinctly rude and is something that never would have happened in the neighborhood in which I grew up.

I decided to e-mail the Oakhurst neighborhood group just in case folks didn't realize that we don't have off street parking and that it's a major inconvenience for us, not to mention there are several side streets that are actually better for guests to park on because if you're not used to the traffic, it could be dangerous. Almost immediately, someone e-mails me directly asking if I feel like I'm entitled to a reserved parking spot on a public street!

I told him, nicely, that I was just asking for the same courtesy that I extend my neighbours-- when we have guests, they park in the lot that AT&T holds at the end of the street so as not to clog up the parking. The only people who park in front of houses are people with infants in carriers.

Two words: How Rude!

Am I wrong here? I'm not being rude, I'm not being demanding, and my e-mail was really just an FYI kind of thing. I live here, am I less entitled to park remotely near my home just because I rent? And does this guy realize that probably half the houses in Oakhurst are rentals? Yeah, it's probably not something I should get so bent out of shape about, but it just sends me through. the. roof. when people are rude about common courtesy sort of stuff!

Boredom strikes again...

The last week or so has been a little crazy and a little boring all at once. I had a fever for the first time in years, which was strange, and I didn't realize it for a few hours. Last night at work was a little slow, and we had the rudest most ill-behaved people in I've seen yet. They barely tipped me 10% because they were ticked that we didn't have more specials and I wouldn't let them take an open bottle of wine with them. I've been asked several times about whether we do cork and carry (meaning, if you start a bottle and don't finish it, you can take it with you) and the answer is no.

These two argued with me about it, they kept insisting City of Decatur had passed the law (where it frankly doesn't make sense to me that they would, we're not a "walk around with an open container of alcohol kind of place) and that they'd been doing it everywhere else, and got totally bent out of shape when I told them that it wasn't our policy and the City of Decatur hadn't notified us, I couldn't double check with anyone because there was nobody to double check with, we'd just had a staff meeting and we would have been notified, and no, we wouldn't make more money, because we have a retail license to sell bottles of wine to take home and they were welcome to do that if they liked.

Then, they left, finally. And left one of the hallway doors wide open, which made the hall even colder than it was before and forced up the heating. I was really ticked off. This was the same woman (the cheap Tara Reid knockoff) who ordered six bruschettas to go when they were on special, and who tried to order more of the specials to go another time over the phone and got irritated when we wouldn't let her take them out. I really hope they never come back again. They spent $50 and tipped me $6. Jerks.

One of the knitting clubs was back last night, though, and I always enjoy them-- one of them just found out she's about six weeks pregnant which is really exciting. Even the new one who came off a little rude warmed up and was really sweet by the end of the night. I think next Monday, Megan and her crew should be back-- they're the crazy fun ones.

Speaking of work, it's time to head out. I'm not expecting much from a Tuesday night, so if we don't have anyone in I'm going to start designing the surprise I'm making for my bridesmaids and Ana.