Today was my first day post-Spring Break 2K14 back to the "real world." I have over 8 hours of class today alone, papers to write, applications to complete, and a 23 hour work week, but this is all standard. I still feel hungover from Spring Break, even though we didn't drink. Seriously, none. Nothing.
As I wrote in my last blog, I traveled 7 hours north of my home to the stunningly beautiful city (and overall area) of Nashville. My boyfriend accompanied me on the trip, and we got in early Thursday evening to my sister's house. This night consisted of tons of relaxation after the drive, pizza, and a very, very small amount of Mike's hard lemonade. So I lied, there was a minute amount of alcohol; sue me :D We all crashed semi early as my sister's girlfriend had work Friday morning.
We woke up surprisingly early on Friday and grabbed breakfast (I had leftover cold pizza, because it's the best thing ever.) Plans for the day: we were off to explore downtown. We went to a huge Urban Outfitters shop, & definitely didn't buy anything because I'd rather spend my vacation cash elsewhere... We went to a GoodWill store & bought tons of shit, bc GoodWill (hello) I wore shorts and was totally freezing, so I bitched until we went back to the car, LOL. We then decided to grab a bite for lunch, so naturally we drove a couple of blocks to Hooter's. It was full of icky old business men begging the girls to sit in their laps, which they totally did by the way. Food was okay. I guess. I was more interested in seeing all the drunk asses walking down the boulevard at 1 PM, deep down yearning to be one. They even had these crazy bars on wheels that a group of 8 or so could pedal around! It was really neat, almost like a mini New Orleans, which I absolutely love. Oh yeah, paying for parking downtown totally sucks.
This was pretty fun at UO (-:
We were finished gallivanting around & made it home by 5 or so. We waited for my sister’s gf to get off work, then we picked up cheap, delicious Mexican food take-out and grabbed a couple of movies at RedBox. We watched The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and oh my goodness… I absolutely loved it! I was so pleasantly surprised and just drawn in to the movie. I was undoubtedly emotionally invested. My boyfriend even enjoyed it, and he’s usually the epitome of a film snob, so you know it was good. My sister and I somehow managed to stay up to 3 AM, talking about everything from the falling out I had last year with my father to discussing the possibility of my beau and I relocating to Nashville Summer 2015 so I can attend Vanderbilt U or TSU for psychology. It was like our catch up night. It really made me realize how much I’ve missed her not living at home for like… 6 years. But she is honestly doing great, and I couldn’t possibly be more proud of her.
Saturday was MY day. I planned out a day at the zoo with all four of us, strategically giving us enough time to see all of the critters and attractions and be back in town in time for tattoo appointments that evening. I woke up ready to roll, buttholes. I was dressed and ready before 8:30 AM, but no one else was up. I annoyed the fuck out of my boyfriend until he woke up around 10:30, anxiously awaited everyone else getting up so we could start my cool ass zoo day. While we were waiting, my boyfriend and I spotted a yard sale next door, and naturally we went to look at what cool shit they may or may not have.
Like two hours later… They were awake and we were on route to the zoo!
We arrived to the Nashville Zoo around 1:30 PM, and holy shit was it packed. It was soccer mom central. There were cute families toting babies in strollers and wagons, adorable tattooed parents swinging their child between them, and then us. A group of 21-28 year olds tattooed, laughing, and ready to see some fuckin’ jungle beasts. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! The weather turned out to be perfect, and the zoo was just wonderful. We were so exhausted after walking about to see everything!
Like, just look at this fucking kangaroo
And these fucking lemurs
I just had to pet everything. I chased this little shit down & made him let me love him. Literally seconds after this photo, the white goat head butted my ass. I nearly fell over. I was definitely the only person over the age of 8 petting the smelly farm creatures.
Nashville Zoo also has this weird old plantation home, complete with a slave house and a creepy ass cemetery… with a bunch of dead children buried in it
We ordered take out and had time to pile up on the couch for about an hour.
Then, it was tattoo time. My sister and her girl had appointments, and they had been trying to convince me to get a small piece while I was in town. Okay, so this sounds really, really bad… But I couldn’t tell them that I just didn’t approve of the quality of the shop’s work. Not for me. Not for my body. I don’t understand it… The dude does killer line work, but completely wrecks color and shading. So weird. I almost got something, but I promptly declined, as I have an amazing artist I use here at home. I hate to act like a tattoo elitist, but I figured some of you would understand, especially those of you who model.
But we did get fro-yo after we left the shop, which I was very happy about.
We were definitely dreading leaving the next morning.
So…
We didn’t. It was gloomy and icky outside, so we ended up staying in Nashville until after 5 PM on Sunday. After a brunch/dinner/whatever at IHOP, I kissed my sister goodbye and promised her a trip there this summer.
I was so not in the mood to be in the car for 7 hours, driving on a wet and rainy highway. We put on the Joe Rogan Experience featuring Maynard James Keenan, and managed to survive the boredom.
We stopped at this cute little chicken place in Cottondale, AL. It was some damn good chicken and biscuits.
This candy was pretty damn good, too. Who doesn't love the reds?!
We didn’t make it to my boyfriend’s house until 1 AM Monday morning. I went straight to bed. I felt like a zombie. Riding in a vehicle that long just sucked the life out of me…
We both got up for class yesterday morning, kissed it out, then headed our separate ways until I catch a break in a few days (hopefully.)
Until then it’s school, work, and oodles of homework. Back to my average, boring little college kid lifestyle that I love.
