Gruene, Tx

*quick intro. - i'm andreea. this is my first blog as a first time blogger. previously i was a livejournal journaler (?). so anything under this blog was copied from my old livejournal, which will be deleted as soon as i'm done moving all those entries over. it's been interesting rereading them. anyway - here goes!

tomorrow is my cousin d's birthday. it is also so happens to be my friend j's birthday on the same day. every year since college (5 years now) i've been spending the actual day with cousin d. so this year i'm going to j's actual birthday bash. and today i spent the day with cousin d.

she wanted to go to gruene. so off to gruene we went. it's about a 20 minute drive from my house. first we had lunch at the gristmill. i had yummy chicken fried chicken. our poor waiter had bad hair. it was model like hair. it was brown with really blonde highlights, it looked as if he used a chi iron on it and bangs that covered one eye. well it just didn't really fit in with the country feel of gruene. and he had something white on his lip the whole time.

a girl i went to high school with sat at the table next to us. don't you hate that feeling of 'oh, there's amy, no, it was stephanie, nooo, gina...' then when you think you've correctly remembered the name you shrink up wondering if they'll remember you? i really hate running into people from high school. so i did as i always do, pretend not to see them and hope they are doing well.

after lunch we strolled through several little gift shops and antique shops in the area. i was looking for something small, cute and inexpensive for j's bday. i bought myself a coozie. it has this quote on it: "you may all go to hell, and i will go to texas" -davy crockett. i love texas.

that was pretty much our afternoon. i learned that d's friend j (different j) likes men that ride harleys. that was surprising! i took my camera to take lots of pictures but i only took two. this being one of them. it's the water tower over the gristmill behind the famous gruene hall.

One Drunken Weekend

i did a lot this weekend. friday i couldn't talk ms. w into going to outback. =( so instead i went over to cousin d's, i took napoleon dynamite over because she really needed to see it. she teaches 8th grade and all year her students were making fun of her for not having seen it yet and saying lines from the movie that she didnt understand. i really meant to let her borrow it before school got out so she could tell her kids she finally saw it but oops, i kept forgetting. and throughout the whole movie she kept saying ooooh, thats why so and so says that or oooh thats why so and so wore ski boots to school that day and so on. so we watched that and then looked at puppies to adopt online. and that my friends was my friday nite.

saturday my mom, two aunts, cousin d and i went to a pre-yard sale. my aunt was interested in wicker chairs and i was interested in a desk/shelf unit thing. my mom and d were just interested in going for the ride. so we all hopped in my aunts 'burb and headed out there, it was a 30 mintute trip and any time you get all of us ladies together its a riot. we laughed the whole way there. anyway, my aunt ended taking the chairs and i just took pictures of the desk to show hubster. oh! and i also took pictures of my uncle before we even left. saturday he shaved off the beard he's had since 1973! i've seen pictures of him without a beard, but being that i was born in '75 i've never seen him in person without a beard. it was a little strange for me.

saturday night hubster and i met up with old friends B and L at a resturant/bar called stonewerks. we hung out there for a while. then we went to a bar called joeys to play shuffleboard. okay, hubster's 32, B's 31, im 29, and L is 26. how is it that I'M the only one to get carded at the door??? i suppose its a compliment, but it always happens to me. its one thing if they ask everyone no matter how old you look, but its another to watch everyone go in the door but stop me as if im the little sister trying to tag along. anyway so we proceeded to get very drunk that night. hubster is SUPER competitive at EVERYTHING and we got in a fight over me supposedly cheating at shuffleboard. in the process of cheating i knocked over a full beer and i was slipping and sliding on the wet floor all night. i almost ate the floor at one point; thank goodness the shuffleboard table was there to catch me. somehow i drove home! once there, the whole spinning of the room was going on. i threw up the spinach artichoke dip and crawfish stuffed mushrooms that tasted so good going in my mouth earlier that evening, can't say the same about the opposite direction...but it did make the room stop spinning.

sunday morning hubster had to go make tee time and i slept in till about 10, the fone woke me up. by the time i found it and answered it i heard my wake up caller hang up! i figured it was my dad because we were supposed to visit my grandmother that day. so i climbed out of bed and started to get ready. g'ma looked so much better than the last time i saw her. but she's still in the hospital.
later that night hubster and i were at bdub's playing ntn and drinking a bucket o' beers with lil bro and cousin d. i only won one game, but still love ntn.

that brings me to today. d said she wasnt going to the gym cuz she felt sick. so i decided not to go either. but now, im going to go visit the electric beach.

what a weekend =)

Babble

nothing entry worthy happened yesterday. i woke up late, didn't go to the gym in the morning but i did at night. i went to exchange a pair a shorts for hubster at academy then went to time warner to switch out our remote control cuz the volume button stopped working. there was a really long line and a cute boy in front of me but, of course, the older not so cute man behind me was the one that struck up conversation.

i came home, played with the new remote (i had to program the tv, cable, dvd and surround sound to it - that always makes me feel tech savvy), and that was my afternoon. i talked to ms. w and now im ever so grateful to not be doing summer school! summer school pays REALLY well but she only got monday off and tuesday she was back to work and the kids start this monday. i guess its only a month but we only get two months off, that's half ur summer. screw that!

i talked to s last night, her and w are going to start trying to get pregnant. i wish them well and happy practicing!

i want a new user pic but i cant remember how i resized the one i have now. i think that was before lil bro reformatted my computer. i guess now i dont have the same programs that i did before cuz i cant find one that will let me change the pixels.

there are lots of books i want to read this summer but i still have 3 unfinished books on my bedside table. so i guess i should finish those before i get any new books. im almost done with the celestine prophecy. i thought i would enjoy it more. ive been wanting to read it since '95, i finally got it and now its not what i imagined it would be. im getting more out of it now that im almost done but it was a very slow start. im still half way thru the vampire armand and i do believe i started reading that two years ago! most anne rice books take me no time, but this one is different. i even started and finished blackwood farm since i started armand. THAT was a GREAT book! and my 3rd unfinished book is jane austen's sense and sensibility. i know i shouldnt say this out loud but i really want to read war and peace. it's been on my nightstand since last august but i dont think i can read 2 or 3 other books at the same time as war and peace.

so far today ive gone to the gym, did arms again (so now its hard to type), went to the electric beach, ms. w called and talked me into going to school to finish cleaning. and hopefully i can talk her into going to outback tonight!

just another day

well today i was up at 8:15 am. what the hell was i thinking! so i met d at the gym. we did treadmill and arms. i have a feeling im going to be sore tomorrow. then i came home and sulked around for a while. i feel so unloved these days i never get any email. i got on the computer for a while (not reading email).

dinner at d's was delicious! (how about that alliteration!) she made baked ziti. it was yum! she also invited her friends from school j and v. v brought her teeny tiny new baby! i think she's a month old now. and she's so beautiful and has lots of beautiful hair! i ate way too much as usual.

a few hours later i was at the gym again. this time to do the elliptical. i watched the 1st episode of lost while there. i never watched it during the regular season, but i liked what i saw of the 1st one. i came home and watched the rest of the spurs game. hubster got home for the last half of the 4th. i can't watch the spurs with him. i was nervous enough before he got home but geez, he yells and cusses and well acts like any guy watching basketball but it wears on my nerves! anyway - we won! we're the champions of the western conference! only 4 to 7 games left to go. i hope we play detroit only because i don't want to have to look at shaq. i really cant stand him! he reminds me of grape ape. member grape ape? shaq's just a big lug and always has that dumb look on his face like duh where am i again? well, who ever we play i hope we win the finals again this year!