Summer Swaggers & free, fab parapheralia

Today was an all around exciting day :D Though, from the start, you never would have thought so. My morning began with me oversleeping my alarm for work. Yes, early moring wok on a saturday morning. I had somehow managed to forget to turn on the sound on my phone. It was still on vibrate, so any attention the alarm asked for went unnoticed. Work beckoned me at 8 in the morning but Oops! I got there half an hour late :P

FCA (the Fellowship of Christian Athletes) football players have been stinking up the theater, I mean, having their chapel there this week. Running lights and sound in a B.O. filled theater? yum. Got that sweaty man smell wafting up into the sound/ light booth. yecch! ha
But FCA coaches took a liking to me - that was fun:) But they weren't the only ones... As I took my lunch break later, I walked across the campus and to the coffee shop. Oh, the glorious, cozy, dimlit, coffee-stained-couch, sofa-filled coffee shop with strange paintings flecking the walls - I've missed it so! On my way there, I got so many catcalls it was ridiculous!! Perhaps its because I have a sort of summer swagger? ha, so I've been told. "Hey girl!", whistles and hollers trailed after me, no matter where I walked today. I wish I hadn't been the only girl in a 2 mile radius. Back to work for the post-lunch chapel. The FCA staff and coaches decided that since they liked me, and I had been so helpful, they'd shower me with about $50 worth of free stuff! It thrilled me :D

After work, I dove into the pool. It was so muggy, so the crisp water felt so good, cool against my already simmering skin. The neighbors were there with their little kids. The tots were be-bopping around the pool with their awkward little mid-growth-spurt bodies while their parents laid out, soaking up rays of sweet cancer, er, sun. I ended up babysitting the 5 kids there for awhile (free trial much for the new neighbors?), and had a blast with them. The boys love thrown around the pool - haha! The little one who I've been babysitting for the last several years bragged to the other kids (and their parents) about how great I was, how much fun, and how he loved me (.... and thinks I'm his girlfriend, lol!). Then when he had to say goodbye, he waved ad was "bye!!! You're the most beautifulest girl in the whole world I ever seen!!!" Ha! Highest of compliments from anyone, right? The other kids' parents were wowwed. hah. So now I've been asked to babysit more throughout the summer ($10 an hour, here I come!) I love kids, but I'm always glad to give them up at the end of the day ;)

Then, movie time. Saw Kung Fu Panda with dad. Cute movie, Jack Black is always fun. And? Shopping time! I got slide film on sale for 75 cents a pop, which is exciting. Now I can go round the dilapidated uptown with my mom's old Canon AE-1 I dug up and take pictures!
Seriously excitig though? ^_^_^_^_^ - I got the sewing machine I've been wanting! And it was on sale too! (My dad couldn't help but laugh when I told him I wanted a sewing machine, "Yep. I know Michele - you've been talking about it for more than a year and a half now." lol). It's a compact little thing, and came with a hand held sewing machine for free. I have a purse, a hot pink salsa dress, a broomstick skirt, some shirts and a few other things that have been waiting to be sewn together for awhile.... Time to sew! (Here comes the cheese - I'm sew in love!)
That was my exciting day, full of free and good priced stuff. ahh yes. I think I'll be spending the next few days figuring out my new machine and playing around with it :)

Oh, and my Mac is back at Apple, being doctored up. I hope I don't have to pay too much for that. I miss my maccy so bad right now (and I hate PCs). Being without it is like missing an arm. Yes - that is a feeling I'm familiar with ;P lol

On a final(ish) note, I miss you guys like crazy. I think this is the first really good day I've had, which is nice. But oh! Virginia Beach! How it calls to me! I miss you guys more than I ever imagined anyone could be missed :'( This is a lonely little town, and I'm missin you to death - and what's even more sad is trying to come to the realization that some of you won't be back when school starts back up. It's really hard for me to grasp somehow. I hope I get to see you guys (Matt and Sanna!) before you leave out for good! I really hope we'll all get our chances to meet up this summer and just chill together for a few last glorious times :) Len, Nathan, Matt, Sanna, Al, Bekah, Dela -all you guys - I miss you sooo much, and I love you beyond anything!