Thursday – Went to see the 70th anniversary showing of Casablanca at the theater, which was awesome but hella expensive. I believe it was $11.50 per ticket? Huh? While I was there, it was coincidental that Johnny Depp happened to be there, too, so, naturally, I had to get my picture take with him. ;] There is absolutely nothing obsessive with that, at all.

Friday – Used up my rain check at Target and got season three of Sons of Anarchy for $19.99. Hello, can we say ‘awesome’? This night also consisted of consuming multiple Dorito tacos and taking a family trip to the Groovy Spoon, later in the evening, for some frozen yogurt. This was quickly followed by a visit to the Goodwill, next door, where Aunt Laura found me an awesome Women’s Studies book, and Uncle Mike found me a book entitled Letters of Flannery O’Connor. Second-hand stores are always the best places to find good books. The journey home, this night, provided entertainment from our own little song bird. This song bird was Murissa, and the musical pieces of choice were multiple Nicki Minaj songs. Yeah, you can imagine how that went down – lots of hysterical laughter. There’s just something comical about an almost-thirteen-year-old trying to sing a rap song in which she has to bleep out every other word. “Bleep-es ain’t bleep, and they ain’t sayin’ nuthin’. A hundred mutha-bleep-as can’t tell me nuthin.’” Ooh, Nicki Minaj. You really do have SUCH a way with words.

Saturday – Brunch at Granny’s Kitchen with Mom and Dad. I chowed down on some delicious bacon, eggs, toast, and hash browns. It’s becoming a once-a-week tradition, for us. I also saw some lovely friends of mine, so that’s always a plus. Hi, Hailie and Kevin! Then came prom. We had no intentions of going to watch the processional this year, but somehow Mom, Murissa, and I all ended up bundled up, with our hot chocolate, to watch the kids walk in. I have five top dresses. 1) The super cool polka dot hi-lo dress. 2) My good friend, Jess, had on a beautiful red dress that reminded me of a can-can dancer. I LOVED it. 3) There was a young girl who had on a short, red dress with sparkly red sneakers to match. 4) One girl had on a dress with huge, round, turquoise sequins all over it that made her look like a mermaid. It seemed heavy as heck, but I wouldn’t mind having it in my closet. 5) Another girl walked in with a faux fur coat draped around her shoulders, straight old Hollywood style, and her dress was so elegant-looking. I really wish that I had taken pictures, but that probably would have been weird, since I only actually know one of these five girls. Ha! Oh, and this is just a pet-peeve of mine that I would like to share with you. If you just spent hundreds of dollars on your dress, shoes, hair, makeup, accessories, tuxedos, limos, etc., in order to get all decked out to look, and have, fun, why would you want to CHOMP your gum during your prom processional? Chomp, chomp, chomp. I’m not here to tell ya what to do, but good grief.

Later in the night led to a spur of the moment trip to Target, so Murissa could get a copy of One Direction’s CD. After about an hour of Murry reading me random O.D. facts from the Internet, I’d say I’m an expert. Sheesh. They make her happy, though, and I would much rather listen to her talk about the cute British boy band than that Canadian with the hair ANY day. And, of course, she made us laugh all the way home.

One Direction song: “Don’t worry ’bout the table breakin’.”
Me: “What are they doing on the table?”
Murissa: “I don’t know – eating.”

XD Love that kiddo.

That brings us to Sunday, which has been pretty lazy, so far. My goal is to get most of The Feminine Mystique finished, so I can move on to the next book relatively soon. Hope you all are having a great weekend!

xoxoxo
Ash