PrismaticPrincess: Living Like a Lover with a Radar Phone

So, since my apartment is completely and utterly undecorated and uninspiring, and the lovely answering service I work for doesn't in fact pay me a whole lot, Will and I have been frequenting the yard sales and estate sales. Estate sales are my favorites because they are normally in an old person's house, and old people generally tend to have old things. (I'd have to consult a priest, but I'm pretty sure that sentence just doomed me as a heartless hell-goer.) At any rate, Will and I went to an estate sale a couple of Saturdays ago, and I bought a really cool lamp from the 60's. It's not quite the midcentury design that I love so much, but I still thought it was funky and unique and with a little love could

be great. Haha, Will thought it was hideous and didn't want me to buy it, but what does he know? Besides, It was only ten dollars, and with a little brown paint over the hideous shade (see below), it makes a perfect accent next to the typewriter my grandfather gave me. I bought a whole smorgasbord of paint colors to find just the perfect color match for it ( I was actually thinking painting it green, blech.) and I bought a cheap canvas to paint some wall art and use my left over paint. I started painting on it today, but that's a whole 'nother blog. I also managed to pick up a butter dish that PERFECTLY matches the Carnivalware set my aunt/ grandmother gave me. I was so excited! I had been wanting a butter dish for a while ( since my BFF has one and leaves her butter on the counter so it's all soft and easily spreadable) and how great was it that I found this one! with a price tag of 45$, it was a little out of my range, but I managed to argue the man down to 18.50$. Still a little pricey, I know, but did I mention it matches perfectly?

The next day, The weather was gorgeous! So after a breakfast of homemade bread and apple butter on the porch, and watching the birds and the Mondonormous squirrel that live in our tree, hash it out at the birdfeeder over the sunflower seeds, Will and I went on a random Sunday drive down Buford Chapel Rd, across from our house and the countryside was beautiful! My favorite part though was stumbling across a two-story gazebo randomly in the middle of a pasture. Will and I stopped (and trespassed) and snapped a few photos of it.(Click them to make them larger)

It was a little derelict, but entirely built by hand with a wrough iron staircase to the 2nd level. What was weird though, is there are no houses around it. So I'm not sure who owns it, or uses it, but it was a pleasant surprise for us on a beautiful Sunday morning. Also, I totally think Momma and Daddy should convert their gazebo into a two-story one. It would be so great there next to the lookout! So I'm sure by now everyone knows that my brother's trampy ex-girlfriend dumped him on Easter ( pics of which are coming soon (of Easter, not my brother getting dumped :P), and I had already bought her two kids Easter baskets! Well the boy one was easy to split up for Makagan and Davey, but what to do with the girl basket? Enter Emily, the adorable

little girl of Sarah, our tech manager at my work. She hangs out with me at work, and colors and draws me cute little notes, and she adored the Easter basket (that's her left, with the pompoms and hair clips from the basket) I think she drove poor Sarah crazy, shouting her made-up cheers in the megaphone, but she was adorable doing it so, it's okay. She's one of the few kids who don't get on my nerves, she never shrieks or does anything annoying, other than being annoyingly cute. Moving on up to last Thursday, I was out cleaning off the porch and doing some gardening, so I decided to let out my beautiful cat Ozma (named

after the Princess of Oz. Yes, I know it's not in the movie, Read a book once in a while!) She loves to go exploring, and sniffs everything her extremely long whiskers can get close too. However, this particular Thursday, she decided to be a mischeivious little devil and tree herself in a dogwood! She was so sad looking! Will and I tried everything to get her down, but couldn't reach her, so she just sat there and mewed so that it nearly broke my

heart. She acutally convinced Will that he could climb a tree. He couldn't of course, and hilarious laughter erupted on my part. Eventually she flopped her bowling ball of a butt over the branch and backed down the tree. Will swears she'll never go out again.... but.... we'll see. :) The next morning, I got up at 3 AM to go to the library to study for my calculus test. I got dressed drove all the way into town, then decided to be a slacker and check my e-mail first. I'm glad I did, turns out my test was cancelled, and moved to the following Wednesday. It was actually good though, I had a whole lot of extra time to study. Too bad all of that studying did me absolutely no good. I still did really bad on it. I'm embarrassed to say how bad, but it's okay though, as long as I do well on the final, my lowest test score will be dropped. So, there is still hope for my B average. After my test I drove to Memphis to spend the day with G'ma, shower-flopping and paintin' up the town. We ate at Macaroni Grill, which is ridiculously over-rated, although my spinach orzo was good. Of

course, maybe if I had actually eaten pasta instead of following my diet and staying below 600 calories, the food might've been better, but that's no excuse! They only had 1 under 600 calorie meal, and lots of places have lots of excellent food for under 600 calories. I mean seriously, get with the program Macaroni Grill. Anyways, G'ma and I went to Lowe's 42 times over the day and a half I was there, hunting down Knockout Roses, Sedums, and Irises. We also went to Digger O'Dells, and while the fascinating display of numerous blossoms were captivating, he didn't really have anything unique. I did end up buying a 10$ knockout rose, some pink geraniums, a purple columbine, and a pink double impatiens. I really like double impatiens, and I'm hoping I won't kill the rose. I always manage to kill my roses! I spent the night at my aunt's house, so G'ma and I could sit in our night gowns together, drinking Diet Orange Crush, and bickering about who gets to play for their Pogo badges first. G'ma and Aunt Chandra had really been working on Aunt Chandra's backyard ( I say Aunt Chandra, but only because she funded it, as I'm pretty sure G did most of the work :P).