Laid Back Weekends.

Sadly the weekend is over. I wished it could have lasted just a few days more. I had a very enjoyable and low key weekend. I spent the entire weekend with Jessica. She is such a fabulous person. Friday night Jessica and I visited a friend of hers and the friends husband. After that we went to Easy Street to listen to the music. It is a piano bar but not one of those in the River Market District. I think we were the only heterosexuals in the entire bar but it was fun. My friend David was up there and we just talked and listened to the music. Saturday we slept in and when we finally did get up we went to Ozark Mountain Smokehouse for a good break fast. Jessica had never been there so I had to introduce her to it and not to mention I go there every weekend for breakfast at least once. After breakfast we went to the Rave and saw the 40 Year Old Virgin. It was extremely good and funny. I personally liked Wedding Crashers better but definitely a movie to go see. Then came a surprise…We went bike shopping. I bought Jessica a cute retro bicycle. It is so her. We did not get to go riding because I had to work Saturday night.

Saturday night was pretty good. I got off early so Jessica came back to LR. David and some of his friends came in to the restaurant. They previously had a BAD experience there and swore they would not come back. Their bad experience was the result of a crappy waiter that we have there. I will just call him Dick because that is what he is. Hopefully David has a better experience to replace the bad one. Saturday night Jessica just hung out and drank wine after I got off work and we sat and drank for about an hour longer after the restaurant was closed.

Sunday I got sick. I am having problems with my hypoglycemia. It is getting worse. I am going to have to monitor it more closely now. Any way once I everything got ok I was tired and crashed for about 3 hours in the middle of the day. The entire time Jessica was their taking care of me. She is so awesome. Later that day we finally got to test out her new bike. We went down to the river and road. We ended the weekend by cleaning my room, ordering pizza and watching a movie. It was a good weekend.

Life Update

This is only my second post this week. Is that a sign I need to spice up my life some? This week has been pretty typical as of late. Not a lot to write down. I have been busy at my my main job and I worked Tuesday and Thursday nights at SG. Both nights were pretty good up there. See nothing new to say except...

…I do have a new woman in my life though. I say new but she has been around for the last couple of weeks. I am pretty crazy about her. She is very different from anyone I have ever dated. She is such a girly girl. She reads those gossip magazines and wears lots of pink! Her toe nails and finger nails match her outfits all the time. This whole girly girl thing is very strange for me. I have, for the most part, always dated people around my height that are fairly athletic. There have been a couple of exceptions but very few. My new lady friend is named Jessica. She is very short, 4’11. I feel like a giant around her and I am only 5’6! She is just so damn cute! I like the girly girl thing too for the most part. Her personality is so very much like mine; playful, slightly sarcastic and silly. My roommate, Ashley met her Wednesday night and loved her. I ran into another friend of mine Monday night when we went to Bene Vita for dinner and she said that we looked so comfortable around each other that she would have never guessed that we were just started the dating process. Any way that is all I am going to say for now. There is more to the story but I will save that for another time.

I hope everyone has a good weekend! If you get bored come up to SG Saturday night because I will be working…just tip well.

Weekend in Review

No great stories to tell. My life is getting a little dull. Friday evening I spent it working on Shannon’s (the single mom from previous posts) car. Turns out she tore up the transmission and was stuck in a very questionable part of town. I did all I could at that point and took her home. On the way home she wanted me to run take her to the other side of town but we were not too far from house. I told her no that I did not have time. It was 8:30pm. I did not get to pick up my son because I was working on her car, I was also suppose to hang out with Ed who I have not seen in over a year and was going to be way late, since I had to still go home and shower since I had oil and grease all over me. We ended up getting into an argument over it. Is it wrong that I wanted to take her home and that was it? I felt I had already gone above and beyond the call of duty but then again maybe I was being selfish because I had plans.

Ed moved to St Louis about 4 years ago and I do not get to see him much. We hung out, Friday night, down in the river market and dranked maybe a little too much. We were at Underground and then went to Ernie Biggs. I don’t think I will be going back to Ernie Biggs. I have been there the last two Friday nights and both times it has cost me a $100 bucks. They are just WAY to expensive on their drinks.

Saturday morning I went and picked up my son. We spent Saturday in Hot Springs downtown. We toured the bathhouse and strolled along the shops. We went to the Aquarium in town and Mid America Museum. We were both disappointed that the muscle car museum is not open anymore. We also checked out the Arlington Hotel and the Hot Springs Tower. It was a long hot day but we both had a lot of fun. Sunday we work up early and went bike riding along the NLR River Trail. The rest of the day we just spent it in the house watching movies. It was just so hot outside. I worked last night. It was a pretty good night up there. I am tired this morning though.

Life is good, even with the embarrassing moments.

Half way to the weekend! Alright! I am looking forward to this weekend. First of all I get my beloved little boy. He will be racing BMX again Friday night. Also a great friend of mine is coming in from St. Louis. We have not hung out in over a year. It will be good to see him. This week has been a little eventful. I am going to keep some of it to myself for right now. Just really curious to see how it all plays out.

On a slight different note I completely embarrassed myself last night at work. My old high school friend Mei came into the restaurant last night. We were slow so we talked a lot. Well turns out she is a blogger and one thing led to another and she was reading my blog! Of course she saw the posts I put in here of her. I so wanted to crawl into a hole and hide. Now I will watch what I say about her! So when are we going bike riding Mei?

Work was ok last night but I am ready for all those damn kids to go back to school. They are noisy, messy and are so cheap! They take up tables that a paying customer could have, little bastards. Ok just kidding but I am ready for them to go back to school or something.

Have I mentioned how much I love life lately? My life is not perfect by any means and right now the little drama I have is a little too much. I may be a few pounds heavier then I wish I was (I am trying to loose some of them), I may not have the financial security that I wish I did, I may not have done all the things I wanted to do this summer, and I don’t have someone special to share my life with but I am still happy. I am happy with what I have done, what I do have, my good friends and the best little boy in the world. Life is not perfect but it pretty damn good!

Drama and Silence

Have you noticed that some people just love drama even if they say they don’t? No matter what they say the put themselves into situations that create, harbor or infuse drama taking place. If they can not be in that situation then the are unhappy. I used to be one of those people. My friends called me the Drama King. I never knew what was in store for me when I woke up. I created so much stress on myself during that time but I did have a lot of fun also. My craziest capers are from that time of my life. Let me clarify though that crazy is not necessarily good.

I have been able to stay drama free until recently. I have been spending some time with a new person in my life. She is a drama queen. It bothered me and irritated me when she would complain about the situations she had gotten herself into. It irritated me because she would not do anything about it. They would continue to foster the situations so the drama could grow. I have been able to stay separated from the drama until this weekend. I am not going to go into details but needless to say I will not continue with the status quo and let my life get swallowed up in mind numbing unnecessary stress. I will be nipping the source of the drama in the bud.

This weekend I also took place in a “Ride of Silence.” It was a bicycle ride to honor and bring attention to the tragedy that took place last weekend. Jason Pratt was ran over at around 6:30 in the morning while riding is bike. The car that hit him did not stop and Jason died on the side of the road that morning. He was 29. I did not know Jason but as a biker it worried me and wanted to take part in the ride. We met at the location where Jason was hit, Markham and Hughes, and road to the capitol. There were about 80 of us and we road in two single file lines, side by side. It was an impressive view seeing 80 bikes ride as a group. Will the bike ride bring any more attention to the accident or that cars need to learn to share the road with bikers and pedestrians…I doubt it but at least we are trying.

The rest of the weekend was pretty calm. Just sleep, laundry and work last night.

Is it really Friday?

Has it really been 5 days since my last post and is it really Friday? Oh my, this week has flown by and has been pretty good and not real eventful so this might be a short post. Well to take the week in review Tuesday night at work was not good. We were so slammed that there was not an empty seat in the building. We had people standing at the door waiting for the next seat available. Wednesday night at work was perfect. It was not too busy but just busy enough to not be boring. My knitting ladies came in like they do every Wednesday night led by their fearless leader, Mei. Mei asked if I was going to be at the restaurant tomorrow (Thursday) night. I told I was not working but I may come by for a glass of wine. I then asked if she was going to come up there and she replied “Not if you are not going to be here.” That made me feel so good. I really have a soft spot in my heart for Mei. One, she was my very first kiss 20 years ago and two, she is such a classy and intelligent lady and I have such respect for her. Also on Wednesday night I had a group of 4 ladies about my age dinning and having drinks. They were there for a couple of hours. After they had tabbed out and were just sitting there I came by to pick up the signed credit card receipts. When I get there, they had the receipts stacked up with a note on top of it. One of the girls put her hand on top of the note before I could read it. She said that we left you a note. Ok I was a little nervous and did not know what to expect. She then told me what the note said. “We used to come here all the time and quit because of poor service. We decided to try it again. This is the best service we have ever had here.” That is what she said and the note said the same thing. It made me feel so good, plus they tipped really well. Thank you ladies! Waiting tables is not what I do for a living it is just a part time thing for more spending money, but it is nice to be appreciated for doing a good job. Just be sure you tell the owners!

This weekend should be pretty good and quiet. I am going out with some friends tonight and the rest of the weekend is up in the air. I sometimes like not having plans because that means I can do anything or nothing, just what ever I want to, when I want to. Let us hope that it turns out to be a wonderful weekend full of adventures of fun.

Weekend Blues

I had a most terrific weekend. I had my son, Branson. He is such a wonderful little boy. Friday night he raced BMX bikes. He loved it and he did really good considering it was his first time to race. He qualified for the final his first time out. Saturday my parents came to Little Rock to see him and they took us out to Ozark Mountain Smokehouse for breakfast. What a wonderful way to start the morning of the only day I get off but with a tasty breakfast! After that Branson and I went shopping and then we went to Benton to visit his Godfather. Later that day we saw The Dukes of Hazzard. If you have not seen this movie yet…DON’T! It is awful. Branson liked it, of course, since it had a lot of car chases and stunts but as an adult it was a terrible movie. God should strike down the director of the movie so he/she can not make another one, ever. Sunday we rode 14 miles on bikes and watched another movie. After that it was time to take him home and me go to work.

Work was good. We were busy but not slammed. Just busy enough for the night to go quickly. It also helped that I made some money too. That is always a nice way to end the weekend. Last night was pretty good. I went to Loca Luna with a friend of mine for dinner. I had the Voodoo Stew and it was not very good. I will stick to the Salmon there. After dinner I went to Barnes & Nobel to get some coffee and read some magazines. I know I should not be going to another coffee house to get coffie since I work at one, but we do not have all the magazines there. While at Barnes I saw Michelle. It was so good to see her, she is such a beauty. We talked for 10 minutes or so. Later, I read the new Backpacker magazine and wished I could go to some of the places they talk about and share those adventures with someone special. Maybe in time I will.

TGIF

It is Friday and looking forward to it. Tonight Branson will race BMX bikes for the first time. I know he really excited about it. I just hope it goes well and he has good time. I guess I will not be able to go on an adventure this weekend since I will have Branson for the entire weekend. The bad thing about that is next weekend is the Kids Triathlon in Conway and he will have to miss it.

On a different note I have been reluctant to right about this but I am vaguely going to mention it. I have gotten myself into a situation that I want out of. If I remove myself from that situation there are going to be hurt feelings and I NEVER want to hurt anyone’s feelings. I struggle with the best way to handle it and realize there is no good way. I know what I want but what is best for me to do but it is not an easy thing.

Is it Friday yet?

Thank goodness it Thursday. I have just one more day until that 1 day each week that I get to relax and contemplate the issues of the world and direction in which society is heading. Ok I really don’t worry about society or do much contemplating at all on Saturday’s. This weekend is so up in the air right now. I am suppose to have Branson this weekend but his mother and I will most likely swap weekends. The weekend of the 13th is the Kids Triathlon and he really wants to compete again in it this year and there is no way his mom would take him (too early in the morning for her). I still want to take him this Friday night to the BMX race. It will be his first time to race. I guess I will find out today if his mom will let him race Friday or not.

Today I am feeling pretty good but I am very tired. Like normal here lately, we were slammed at the restaurant last night. Thursday’s are hard on me because of the lack of sleep over the last several nights due to the second job. The receptionist asked me if I was ok when I walked in the office this morning because she said I look like I had been out drinking all night. So is she saying I look rough? Thanks Tammy you look great too! On a different note…I feel so fat. I have not been able to run or bike much at all this past month and I have not been eating good at all.

Ok back to the weekend…if I do not have Branson this weekend then what kind of trouble can I get into? I would like an adventure, something exciting and noteworthy enough to record in the blog. Any suggestions?

Hump Day.

Well it is Wednesday and the week is half over and ever so closer to the weekend. That is good because I want a redo on this past weekend. It was not nearly as much fun as I had envisioned it would be. I went to Cowboy but did not dance and left early. I was not feeling great. I am sure the thick fog of smoke lingering at ground level had a little to do with it. Saturday was pretty much spent running errands and Sunday was laundry and work. I did try to run Sunday morning but after a couple of miles my calves tightened up so much that I could not run anymore.

This week has been ok. Monday night I had to work on a friend’s car. Not exactly how I want to spend my night off but she is a single mother and a full time student so money is not something she has. She can not afford to pay someone to do repair work so I usually do it for her. For the most part I don’t mind working on cars. My grandfather was a mechanic so I spent a lot of time in a garage growing up. What is aggravating though is this single mother does not see it as a favor when I work on her car but EXPECTS me to do it and on her schedule! Last night was work and we got slammed. I love being busy but not like we were last night. It is impossible to give good service to your customers when you are running from table to table with your head cut off. We also had an acoustical 3 person band playing for a few hours last night. The music they played was interesting and entertaining. It was a Celtic style of music. The problem was they set up in the middle of the floor, completely in the way of going to the kitchen or behind the bar. Not the most thought out location to set up a band. Oh well maybe next will be better.

At least today is payday for job #2 and Friday is payday for job #1. I am looking forward to Friday. Friday will be Branson’s first BMX race. I know summer is almost over now but I have finally have his new racing bike and his gear together. I just hope he really enjoys racing.