Drinking Fest

Well, I drank too much last night and fell asleep before I blogged. I plan on drinking too much tonight too. Not entirely way too much, but a little more than normal. I really like finding that happy place and then sipping my way across that plateau for as long as possible. That place is where inhibitions float away and maybe you talk to much, but you are more apt to dance and talk to people you don't know. The annual brew fest is today (it started last night) and when I went last year I had a blast - my s.o. and I called it the highlight of our summer. This summer had too many highlights to count! But I'm sure this afternoon's festivities will be awesome.

I'm really annoyed/intrigued by one of my co-workers. I actually think that he is an awesome, intelligent and very fun person. But on several occasions (including last night) he told me (after my s.o. had left the bar and headed home) basically that I could do better and that I shouldn't settle. We went out to lunch one day to "settle our differences" (it really ended up being that we are actually the same control freak personalities and that was causing the clashing) and he told me a very similar thing. Weird - or maybe he just likes me. Then I met his girlfriend and listened to her blab about her ballerina daughter for a while and wanted to tell him the same thing. He could do better, a lot better.

I'm a pessimist - at least that is what people say about me - but I'm actually just a realist. I analyse the situation, person, thing, etc. and then look at it in a very realistic way. Maybe I am negative but I don't try to be. I do complain a lot - and a lot about my s.o. and his son, but that's just me. I think I have complained about every boyfriend I have ever had. I don't know if I would be able to not complain about a boyfriend, even if he was Mr. Perfect.

Our local Borders (along with all of the other Borders stores) is going out of business. I stopped in yesterday on my lunch hour and bought a few things - a nice edition of the I Ching (I have always wanted to read it) and a game for my friend's kids (I'll probably save it until Christmas). The employees look dazed, the few loyal ones that have stuck it out to the nasty finish, the few new temporary ones that just needed a job for a few weeks before they left for college, the ones that are happily welcoming this unprovoked inescapable change in their lives. While I happened to be scavenging through the dregs The Smiths song There is a light that never goes out was playing on their sound system. I loved the slight touch of irony that went with that choice of music.

I have a giant list of things that I would like to accomplish this weekend:

Saturday:
Farmers Market
Try on Shoes at Plamondon
Run
Go To Hardware Store
Start Testing Acrylic Gel Lifts
Go To Grocery Sore
Make Hummus
Pre-Party at Co-Workers Apartment
Go Drink at Brew Fest

Sunday:
More Acrylic Gel Lifts
Work on Grey Wrap Skirt/Red Coat
Sew Photo Backdrop
Attend My Surprise Birthday Party
Maybe Run Again

I've got to get started if I'm actually going to get this stuff done.
3 days left of being 29.