Since my last post I have:
- Gotten my living room furniture
- Been to training in Mexico, Indiana and Illinois
- Flown on Southwest airlines for the 1st time
- Been to the Exit/In to see Will Hoge (twice)
- Been to my 1st baby shower
I finally received my furniture from Rooms2Go. I still have a little ways to go. I have posted a picture in case you’d like to see what it looks like so far. I still need to get some sort of table for the front entrance and an entertainment center & TV.
I was finally able to experience my first beautiful weekend in Nashville this weekend. It seems like the past few months have been but dreary, but in the vain of London with foggy drizzly skies that make even the nastiest days have their own kind of beauty.
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I got a stack of new CDs this weekend. The Arcade Fire, the two new Bright Eyes disks, Wilco, Low, AC Newman, The Decemberists, to name a few. I haven't been able to listen to them all yet. I already had burned copies of The Arcade Fire and Wilco, but I listen to them enough that I figured I should purchase a copy. I haven't had this many new CDs in a while. They all seem to be pretty good, but they are also all very depressingly soft and slow for the most part. I need to find something a little more up tempo without being bubble gum pop or post hardcore or whatever the new genre or choice is.
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I went to the mall for the first time this weekend. I’ve been to the Cool Springs area before, but I hadn’t been to the mall. This weekend I decided to go to the mall in Green Hills. Both are about the same distance away, but I quickly realized that I was entering the “wrong part of town,” but not in the usual sense. In Green Hills, I don’t think they’ve ever heard of a small house. I took a different way to the mall than I did leaving, but both routes were the same...4,000+ sq ft houses left and right. The music industry must not be doing too bad, at least not for the executives or whoever lives in Green Hills. The mall was no different than the drive to the mall... hoity toity. But it all worked out because the only reason I was there was to use a gift card for Victoria’s Secret and look for work clothes, and it served both of those purposes fine. There was no teen scene like most malls, just a bunch of uppity people. I’m not sure which is worse. Sometimes I wish I could pull off the whole indy thing with the complicated haircuts, tight clothes, and high musical aptitude. But I'm just not that cool...never have been, never will be there's no use in trying. I think most of them are as much of a sham as I would be, so that makes me feel a little better, but not much.
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Mexico was warm, and I got to bring back Tequila. Crawfordsville is in the middle of nowhere. It’s only 30 miles or so from Indy, but I didn’t drive and didn’t have any way to get around so I was stuck in the hotel all week. Illinois was cool because it was “Corporate Training” and I was able to spend the week with 11 other trainees instead of being alone like usual. One of the other trainees was even another Clemson grad who’s working in Greenville. The downside was that we had a regimented schedule and didn’t get to visit Chicago, even though we were only 25 miles or so outside of the city.
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That’s about it for this past month. Jeff is flying in on Thursday night...and he’s staying for a week!! I can’t wait. We’re going to celebrate Valentine’s a month late since we couldn’t get together any sooner. It’ll be nice to get out and see some more of the city, and just to have him around for a while. Nashville’s a cool place, especially the music scene; it’s just not as fun when you’re going out alone. My parents are coming up for Easter and bringing my Jakers, so I’ll have him to take to the park on nice weekends like this one.
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So the concert is almost over, and it kicked major ass...more than I thought it would...so I'm really bummed I couldn't get in...
