Towels

Who thought towels could be such a major decision? Joel and I spent an hour in Kohl’s the other day trying to pick towels. I was determined that I was not leaving there until we had towels to eventually bring to our new place (and who knows when that will happen). What a major decision on colors and style. Plus, I don't even like bath towels. I use what they call a bath sheet. I need it to cover all of me…not just some of me! None of this half covered stuff.

Anyway, we left Kohl’s at 8:00pm with 4 bath towels, 5 hand towels, 4 wash clothes, and 1 bath sheet!!!! Honestly, the sets are only for company. Who really brings a bath towel, hand towel, and wash cloth every time you take a shower. I'm lucky if I remember if I washed or didn't wash my hair yet that morning while in the shower. Anyway, we have a one bedroom apartment...who will visit? But the display in the bathroom must look nice...as Joel calls them...fancy towels :-)

So what did we pick?....Our bathroom is dark grey and white, so I wanted to add just a touch of color. Then there was the decision of what colors to get. Apparently, matching towels aren't cool (like a set of all blue or all grey, not that cool apparently). So my bath towels had to be different from my hand towels. Also, the wash clothes and the bath towel should match.

We decided that the bath towel color would be a light grey (pewter). After the long decision of what color the bath towel would be, we found out that they didn't have matching wash clothes in stock! AHHHHH.....so we ignored that and started looking for the "other" color. Normal people would go with a blue...so we decided to go with a brighter green to add some color into the room.

In the end we managed to get 5 hand towels (I was wanting 6 just in case...oh well we settled for 5). And low and behold we bought the wash clothes in the green color and we'll just have to suck up the mess up in our wonderful fashionable design of every other color towel.

My soon-to be bathroom colors

(my land lady was upset with her tile choice because it only kind of matches,

but oh well, a shower curtain covers it...the tile is really nice in general :-)

The infamous pewter towels and the infamous palm towels
(the palm towels aren't really that bright, but still bright)

Spontaneous…that’s me…

Recently, I have lost my will to be spontaneous. I have to have things planned out and organized. I asked Joel to take me out of my comfort zone and make me do things that I would not normally do. Well he rose to the occasion. I get a call last Friday at work asking me what we were doing for the evening. I gave my usual answer..."I don't know...what do you want to do?" And he replies..."Let's go to a Mets game." I immediately panicked inside. The game was in 5 hours, we would need to eat, get gas in the car, figure out how to get there....and we did not even have tickets yet. BUT with all that said, we went!!!

It took us two hours to get to amazing Shea Stadium in wonderful Queens, NY (the word amazing was used for Joel). We got there 15 minutes before the game. I wanted to get there early enough to get our free Pedro shirt at the gate. So, God must have made extra shirts available at our gate to keep me going on this spontaneous thing. We actually got our shirts which definitley came in handy as a blanket for me in those windy nose bleed seats. :-)

We get there and walked all the way up to our section, which I think is the best section...tons of crazy cheap fans :-). When we got there we had to start walking higher up the stadium. We looked at each other and we said, "forget that." We plopped right down in the box seat section of the nose bleeds. The whole time I thought people were going to come and say that we were sitting in their seats...OR...even worse, security was going to walk by us and realize he did not seat us and then kick us out. The first four innings I was a nervous wreck...constantly asking Joel if security was coming towards us. Talk about getting out of my comfort zone! About the 5th inning I began to relax and enjoy myself while I was actually doing something that I don't like...breaking the rules! I'm turning into a rebel! AHHH (I feel like geek more and more these days) :-)

Done anything spontaneous lately?

Mets, Me, and OOB!

So much has happened in the last 3 weeks. I still think it's all processing in my head. We have had a great summer to say the least. Three weeks ago Pete and Lorinda took us to a Mets game. We had great seats! I think if I yelled a players name they may have actually heard me...probably not turned around, but still - it could have happened. We were in such "special" seats that some one came and took our food order and then had it delivered to us in no time at all. It was so cool. It was living like the other side for a couple hours.

A few days later Joel and I were off to Maine. 6 days of no work was a real treat. The better treat was to be around family (both sides) and having fun with everyone in a different setting. We got to see Joel's parents and brother which we had not seen for a while, so it was nice to catch up and spend some time with them. PLUS, I turned 23! HOLY COW! How old am I?

Now we are back home, catching up on work and starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Our apartment is almost ready. Our land lady let us pick our own colors for the place and that was exciting. We saw the colors and they look fantastic! I actually got to decorate the way I wanted it! We are so excited and at the same time a little nervous about what's in store for us. Things are finally starting to fall into some sort of place. We hope to be in there sometime in September, but still aren't holding our breathe.

Mets, Me, and OOB! (cont.)