I don’t have anything to update you on really. We’re in Louisville today after spending Friday night and all day Saturday in Madisonville with my best friend Megan and her husband and Neil’s best friend Bryan. Her parents were hosting their annual fall party and Neil and I have been every year since we met them. Traditions are what I live for

Megan and I took part in Louisville’s Breast Cancer Walk this afternoon and it was really refreshing. We walked 5 miles with several thousand other people in downtown Louisville so needless to say it was a tight walk. We’re planning on leaving for Murray sometime this evening. I’d love to stay longer but Neil has class tomorrow morning and I have to work. Soon though we will live in Eddyville and Megan and Bryan will live in Madisonville. That’s shortening our current distance of 3.5 hours to 45 mins. We’re all really excited for that.

This week is going to be rather slow for me. Usually I have ten other things I have to do other than work and this week, nadda. I’m not complaining though. That just means I can watch more Gilmore girls and clean the house. Oh, the life of a housewife!

I get home this evening and I’m all I haven’t been here in weeks!!! But that, of course, isn’t true. It just seems like it.

Last Monday was Labor Day so Neil and I were in Paducah with his family celebrating with lunch and hang out time. I don’t remember what time we came home (Murray) but I do know we slept in our own bed that night. Neil had class on Tuesday and I was suppose to work. I didn’t go to work. More on that later….maybe. I cooked Neil and his sister’s boyfriend Tim dinner that night before Neil went to his softball game and it was so good!! I tweeted about it, in case you missed it.

Wednesday morning I packed a bag for one night and left for Paducah. I took the new Hwy 80 from Murray to Mayfield and while driving passed a beagle doggy in the medium.  Any normal person wouldn’t have thought much of it but being the dog lover that I am I had to take a double look in the rear view mirror. When I did I saw the doggy walking into my side of the Hwy and that’s all it took me to make  a U turn. By the time I made the second U turn the beagle was already to the far side of the Hwy and that made it easier for me to pull over. Before I stepped out of the car I made a couple phone calls and finally connected myself with Animal Control in Graves County. They asked me to stay there with the dog to make sure they could find us. The beagle ended up in my back seat and we waited for 45 minutes. Forty five minutes and no one came. No wait, a state trooper did stop because he noticed my emergency flashers on. Had I known no one was coming I would have taken the dog to the animal shelter in the beginning. I’m sad that’s where I had to take him, especially since he had a collar on, but I would have hated myself if I’d seen her dead body on the side of the Hwy when I drove by the next day.

I spent the day with Emmy and Erin until Erin had to go to Murray for her grad class. Emily and I had dinner at our church before we joined the church choir for choir practice.  Emmy and I have sung off and on in that choir since we were in middle school and since neither one of us is doing anything too time consuming this semester we thought, or rather my mom thought, we should start singing for the church again. Wednesday was a start.

Thursday was suppose to be spent with Erin and Emmy but the day instead turned into an outing with my mom. We had lunch with my dad and his brother and then my mom kidnapped me to run errands with her. By the time I was freed Emmy had yoga so Erin and I went driving and stopped for dinner at our favorite 50’s diner. I wanted to stay longer but it was getting late and I didn’t pack enough clothing. I had to go home.

Of course, it wasn’t long until I was heading back to Paducah. I baked half of the morning and then by 4:30 Friday afternoon I was at Emmy’s house again, along with Erin and Jenny. Jenny’s birthday celebration had begun!! Friday night included a Walmart trip in heels, a sushi dinner with four of my favorite girls, yummy cuppy cakes, grimy public bathrooms, my camera effing up, a marriage in the front yard of the Carson Center, nasty lemon drops at the neighborhood bar, and a ridiculous good time drinking and dancing the night away. Come Saturday morning the last thing I wanted to do was climb into loaded car with my in laws for a trip down to the family reunion.

The reunion itself was nice; it was the winding roads that lead to and from the gathering place that was bad. It more or less made the whole day crappier than it needed to be. I do love my new side of the family though so I was very glad we got to go. Neil and I spent Saturday night at the lake house with my parents before getting up Sunday morning and driving the rest of the way to Paducah for church where Emmy and I shared our first day back in the church choir.

This week holds an exciting opportunity that I hope I get to share with you all – time will tell.

There we were, Erin and I, staring up at the departure and arrival board at the Nashville International Airport. We had just said goodbye to Emily and we feeling rather melancholy. We saw that there was a flight leaving for New York City in about 2 hours and we got to thinking, we weren’t doing anything this weekend. My aunt lives in NYC and I knew she wouldn’t mind the two of us crashing there for two or three days. We were seriously thinking about getting in the ticket line but we kept thinking. Good thing we did because I’m pretty sure that’s the only thing that stopped us from getting on that plane.

We hadn’t saved up for a trip but we had just seen Emily off to Germany and for some reason the only thing Erin and I wanted to do in those 15 minutes was to go somewhere ourselves. Somewhere, anywhere. NYC sounded like the most fun. Also, neither one of us is particularly spontaneous. But we didn’t have any clothes. Any toiletries. And oh yea, any money.

In re-thinking our plan we decided it would be much more fun if we had money to spend in NYC. Much more of a NYC worthy trip if we had our favorite clothing. And for the plane ticket money we would have wanted to stay longer than a weekend.

So we left the airport but did decide that we would try to save up for some kind of trip in the near future. We debated going down to Destin and and booking on of those destin florida rentals but settled on going to Germany at the begining of the year to visit Emily.

Since Emily’s coming home sooner than planned we won’t be saving up for a plane ticket to Germany so maybe we’ll revisit the NYC idea? Or maybe some place completely different. Now that we’re not buying a house a little more of my money can go to our trip. Hell, Australia sounds like fun.