Best…show…ever (well, one of them)…Ween at City Hall. Fanfreakingtastic. I get it now. I mean, I always liked them…in smaller doses…but I didn’t understand why people were so rabid for them. Now I do. Heck, I even bought a shirt. Silly.

I think the insanity from last week is starting to catch up with me. I just can’t seem to get enough sleep. I’m hoping to change that tonight. I’m sure the gargantuan cup of coffee I am drinking will help immensely, ha. The days seem so long and the nights so short. I want vacation back. I want to be able to sleep in (though I managed to wake up early every freaking morning—it’s the option that is nice). I want to finish every night on the beach with a bazillion stars in the sky and a beer in my hand (yeah, that has to be a song). I want that fantastic feeling of love and community that we all felt this time around to continue…sigh.

Ah well, reality is calling. I’d rather not answer, but I guess I better. Next week starts the budget…it’s going to take me forever to pay down my credit card after this car mess and all the trips this summer. Argh. It’s worth it, though.

Mine can be found here :) Yay! (I'm still uploading, flickr is being mean)

seriously...remind me to never agree when someone says "things can only get better from here"...

my car broke down yesterday...in Florida. I'm sitting at the house now waiting to hear back from the evil VW dealer in TN to see if they can do ANYTHING. I had the car towed to a service center in Destin. It happened yesterday (the 4th), so no place was open...I'm past the point of crying.

In the past few days the following things have happened:

-found out that my way of getting out of the majority of my credit debt is no longer happening
-for reasons I don't understand, I need to come up with a lot of $ fast to avoid a friend being screwed over further...
-this whole car issue...

Can you believe that I am still smiling? I'm at the beach. I'm surrounded by great people. I have someone looking out for me. I can't complain (well, any more than I already have).

It looks like it is going to storm this morning, which isn't necessarily a bad thing--but the storms tend to bring in the jellyfish. I saw two pretty big ones yesterday, scary!

So anyway...the trip so far--

I left work at 2 on Tuesday and had a really nice drive down. I was making insanely good time, I was probably going to make it in 7 hours, which is an hour less than usual...then things got a little messed up. I had been following the googlemaps directions exactly, but somehow I ended up driving into Florida and then back into Alabama...I realized this when I passed an AL highway sign. It was about 8:30pm at this time and very dark. There were gas stations, but they were all closed. I remembered that I keep an atlas in my trunk for such occasions, so I pulled over into one of the closed gas stations (still dark) and went to fetch the atlas. It was buried under a bunch of beach chairs/luggage/etc. so it took me a bit. When I was walking back to get in the car a truck flew by me and then suddenly stopped a few yards ahead. I though maybe it was someone that lived in one of the houses across the street. I got back in the car and locked the doors and tried to quickly examine the map to determine where I went wrong. I noticed a man getting out of the truck, so I decided to continue down the road until I found civilization. I pulled out and the guy tried to flag me down...creepy. Anyway, just a few blocks up was an actual open gas station. Hallelujah! I pulled right up to the door and ran in. The woman barely knew what state she was in, but at least was able to tell me I was going the wrong way...I was back to the map. I went out to my car and that creepy man had followed me there (on foot--it was pretty close by). I ran and jumped in my car, locked the doors and hauled ass out of there...yeah...so I ended up making it here around 11. But I made it, and that is what counts. But still...I'm not sure if the guy had bad intentions, it was just too freaking shady and weird.

This house is incredible. The kitchen is beautiful, the rooms are fantastic...the view is breathtaking. We are literally a few steps from the beach...and Red Bar! I'm going to upload some photos soon, I promise :)

One big problem, however, is the lack of people in the house. I don't know what we are going to do, but we have to think of something...and fast. Ah well, I'm going to try to be positive and think that everything happens for a reason. But yeah, be thinking of me. Seriously. In the past few days I've taken massive financial hits and they keep coming. Oh well, not the place or time to talk about it...but it's wearing on me.

Screw it, I'm at the beach. I just ate a fabulous breakfast burrito. I've already made some kick @ss friends down here and I've got a tan. Booyeah.

duuuuuudes...this house is beyond amazing. for real. i have some worries right now, but being here kind of takes them away.