Lorraine Says: The Best Laid Plans

Hey kids! Want to know what I'm really good at? (Yes, that. Oh, that too. I'm very good at that. But all of those guesses are wrong.)

PLANNING. I am a woman with a plan.

Hey kids! Want to know what I'm really bad at? (No guesses right? I know. I'm not bad at many things.)

Following through with my plans, apparently. In an attempt to make myself look less like a losery flake, I'd like to blame my total weekend-plan break-down on a few things. Namely, not me. Mostly, these things:

1.) The blog. Seriously. If I write it on here, I think there's an 92.6% chance it isn't gonna happen. I have this thing where I think if I tell you guys about it, I might hold myself to it. Yeah no. Blog = plan killer.

b.) Venus and Fetus. This is not a complaint. I spent the entire weekend with these girls, because of a small emergency they had and somehow we managed to turn it into a giant adventure.

cat.) Roxanne. (And I mean that in the nicest way possible. Promise!)

See? Not my fault. And even if I do have flaky tendencies, I'd like to think that I'm an awesome flake. Like Frosted Flakes. And not a bad flake. Like dandruff. Gross.

What I'm saying is, my weekend did not go according to plan.


I was feeling a little iffy about going to celebrate Phinsfan's birthday on Friday at ABY, because it would be Penny and Phins and Rox and Goob. (I'm in that situation more than is good for my health. Srlsy.)

But then Roxanne disappeared off the face of the earth and wasn't returning texts, BBM's, signal flares or messages by way of carrier pigeons. So, Penny and I assumed she was not coming.

Then, I get the message from Venus and Fetus that they were on their way to my house. They explain what happened and why. Now, I surely didn't need to stick around to babysit, but they're my friends. Ditching them felt weird and I was already laying on the floor in my underwear, too lazy to put clothes on and comb my hair. Okay. No ABY for me.

Thankfully, Penny was able to convince Babie and her boyfriend to go along.

Have we ever told you about Barbie? Witness, Barbie, Roxanne and I were pretty much inseparable our freshman year of high school. As time went on, though, the group got split up with Witness and I getting closer and Barbie and Rox getting closer. Penny, Rox, and Barbie were best friends all throughout the rest of high school.

Barbie is a bit of a strong personality. Anyways, Rox and her had a falling out at the end of senior year, I think, where Rox basically told her she looked like a man and Barbie said Rox wasn't allowed to be in her same zip code.

That's the cliff notes version. She is still holding a grudge, can't stand Rox and Rox is sort of "meh" about the whole thing.

They totes both ended up at ABY with Penny. And though for reasons I will tell you later, I'm glad I didn't go, I'm really sorry that I wasn't there for that explosion of awkward.

Saturday morning I was up super early and ended up at the mall with Ting Ting and California Tax. Namely, we ended up at Sephora. Make-up is my crack, ya'll. I can spend hours lost in that store. I have a problem.

Unfortunately, I'd crammed in like two days worth of activities into one afternoon, so a few eyeshadows later, I was on my way to pick up Venus, Fetus and Tipitiki and we were off to North Miami Beach.

I mentioned my friends who were recently married, Milk and Eyes. They invited us all to their new apartment to eat chicken wings and watch movies and stuff.

The day was absolutely beautiful and the area they live in is gorgeous. Their apartment is right off the inter-coastal, and we sat around and drank while watching boats pass by.

After we left their house, we drove back to my house. At this point, I still hadn't hear back from Rox despite the Bat-signal, a singing telegram and skywriting above her house. Phoenix texted me all, "So dinner isn't really gonna happen, is it?"

Nope. It didn't happen.

I ended up eating tons of chocolate (to wash down the wings?) with Venus and Fetus, planning a weekend getaway to Orlando with Ting next weekend (which now that I wrote about it is less likey to happen...) and walking around on a beautiful night with some of the people I like best in the world.

It certainly wasn't what was planned, and it was a little last minute and slapped together, but I had a good time.

Sunday, after church and family dinner, I asked Penny to put pants on and come get dessert with me. According to Pen, Rox was too lazy for pants and was also watching a Disney movie.

Penny caught me up on her weekend. Phinsfan was very attentive to her, despite being at ABY with a group of his friends on his birthday.

I don't feel like doing a 30 Days of Truth. This? This was a lazy post. That I've been writing for the past 3 hours?!

And now? Now, I'm pretty sure I'm going home with a case of the "I-don't-wanna-be-here"s.

It's Monday, y'all.

I'll try to be fully functional tomorrow.

♥

Lorraine