Alice hates ...

And not to Atlanta! More specifically.

I've moved the blog. I'm at McShank.tumblr.com. I waited a bit, because I wanted to generate some good posts. But I'm liking tumblr more lately cause there's more you can do with it.

Come say hi, and update your links?

Have you guys seen Cassie's myspace page? It makes me BLUSH. For shame.

So, this weeeeeeek...

I went to the gym a few times. It's not far, but the gym out here SUCKS. A lot. Compared to the one in Goodyear, it's like.... It's like the LA Fitness in Goodyear compared to the Lifetime Fitness in Goodyear. It's just that lame. But I still go! I took Matt today. He got all sweaty. And he doesn't play with me like Rachel and Esther do, which is good for my workout but boring for the two hours I spend there. I guess I'll get a radio tuner for my iPod in case he keeps going with me. I at least could have watched the Wedding Planner today. (That's right, I like J-Lo movies.)

And I have a shiny new Bank of America checking account. That's something. Accomplished. Ummm, yeah.

And I did some job stuff! Like, looked around. Spotted some things. Spotted a definite lack of things I want to do. I'm hoping I can just wait long enough and someone will just walk by and give me a job.

Or I can work at an ice cream shop. I think I'd make a cute ice cream girl. No pressure, no expectations. And ice cream. And I'll have curly pig tails...

Yeah, so I spend a lot of time these days fantasizing on the things that I could do, but would most likely be not the kind of thing I should be doing.

Or like a bookstore, right? I'd wear my glasses every day.

And then there's grad school.

Anything to avoid getting a real job I think.

Well, that's all I've got for now. Off to pen an email to my mum and daaaaa.

-Ace

Hi everyone!

We just got back from Sunday's Dbacks game. Another win, and another great time. This time, the editor of the AJC gave Matt tickets for this game, so that was really nice. We did the Auggie Ojeda cheer (Auggie is our back up second baseman. So it's like having a special cheer for a nobody. Except I honestly like Auggie.) and that's where we stand up and yell, "Auggie Auggie Auggie, Oy Oy Oy!!" And all the Braves fans stare...

Great times were had. What else is new?

Yes, Leah wins in comments for the Matt can't work a can opener post. I'll just buy bagged veggies and be happy he eats veggies period. Very wise. But my Dad is runner up, with sage advice: never let him near my car.

We took a trip out to Atlantic Station yesterday to see the new Indiana Jones. I liked it. I won't say too much, but I don't think I'm spoiling if I say the plot revolves around aliens. And that's wierd for an Indy movie. But it's still fun and the Le Beouf is great.

Job hunting starts in earnest Monday. Waiiiiit that's Memorial Day, let's make that Tuesday. I'll have more to report then.

Alice

OMFG.

Seriously. I'm making dinner right now and he can't open the green beans. This is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Oh dear lord.

He's sitting at the coffee table now, can opener in one hand and can in the other, softly saying, "I've done this before."

He's been at it for four minutes now. And the prognosis does not look good.

Aaaaah, home again. I swear, I'm exhausted. I got eight hours of sleep, I suppose, but my body prefers I start that before 2 a.m.

I'm in the living room, watching baseball with Matt. His team, the A's, are in town playing the Braves. We'll go to tomorrow's game, too, and it'll be the first time seeing his team live in like two years. So it's an exciting weekend. And next week the Diamondbacks play Atlanta so I can see them too.

So, shopping! That's what we did today. We started off at the Steak and Shake for lunch. It's pretty lame burgers, but the shakes are great. And the equivalent I could come up with is like, if Johnny Rockets had a drive through. And was a Denny's half-breed. So... there's nothing really worth driving out of our way to have it again, unless I have a strong and unsatiable craving for a milkshake.

But after that we hit up The Container Store. Which all my friends and family will recall as my favorite store I don't live by. Up until now that is. Really, knowing Atlanta had one made the move a little better. I may have to move all my stuff across country but once I'm there, I can find a smarter way to contain it all. Excitement.

We spent $200 there. On cute caddys to sort bottles under the sink (in green and blue). And on plastic storage drawers to hold all my extra bathroom stuff. Shampoos. Bedhead Shine Spray. All the mascaras. Oh, and hangars, in turquois! And then underbed storage bins.

Oh, and Matt bought me this month's Real Simple. :) He's so cute.

Anyway! We ran all that home, through traffic at 4 p.m. Dropped it off, then ran back to Ikea at Atlantic Station (it's nearby, a http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifreally nice outdoor mall/shopping center).

At Ikea, after much browsing and deliberation, we picked up:

-One blue rug. (To add color to the living room, which I've been filling with neutral colors too much.)
-A new quilt and pretty white duvet cover. It's got a cute floral pattern done in flat and shiny thread, so you can only see it up close and with light... I'm very excited.


And that's all we took home tonight. Tomorrow morning we're having the following delivered:

-Side table.
-Dresser.
-Bed, with a box spring that we got on as-is clearance at a huuuge deal.

So now, like I said, I'm home and tired. Frozen pizza for dinner. I have to go grocery shopping tomorrow, in addition to cleaning and putting things away. And the baseball game. But it should be more fun than not.

If you're wondering- the drive went well. No tickets and the neon was a trooper. The weather was even pretty good, just a teensy bit of rain through Louisiana or so. It was great to see Raf, Leah and the Quattrinis in Houston. We grabbed a hotel room for San Antonio and spent a day- Tuesday, I think- doing the River Walk and the Alamo. Oh my, I was so excited for Matt at the Alamo. I have pictures to prove it, I'll post in a few days. We also spent a whole day at the beach in Galveston, which was perfect, and probably my very favorite part, and then I took Matt to the Space Center at the Lyndon B. Johnson Nasa thing. Also fun.

Aaaaah. That's the day. I'll post pictures next time.

Ace, signing off.

I made it back to Atlanta.

We got in at 1:30 a.m. today, unpacked the car, then went to sleep. Woke up at 10 a.m., had a waffle, unpacked the boxes. Stuff's a mess right now, mostly because I don't have any place to put stuff. We did the Wii early this morning and took a break to play MarioKart.

Plans for the day: Eat at Stake and Shake (it's a chain out here. I'll report on that later.)
Do some shopping
Research armadillos and pollywogs (Are pollywogs a real thing? Are armadillos mammals or reptiles? These are leftover thoughts from my trip.)

Oh, Esther! There's an Estherwood. Somewhere in Louisiana. And, we decided that Sarah McLockland looks like Esther. However you spell that. (Not the other way around because Esther is prettier.)

Sooo, I'll post more tonight. The cat has been meowing non-stop since Matt walked in the door. She's excitable.

Boo,
Ace

This is a word I just created. Why?

Because the word "entrepreneurs" is too long and frequently messes with my headline creation.

Bizppl: it's faster, gets the same point across.

Use it people, love it.

Ace

And when I woke up, I immediately started plotting to sleep at my desk this morning.