I didn't get the memo

but I am assuming we are just not worrying about that plane anymore...................

Remember, big plane, Malaysia, disappeared..........
we don't care anymore.....
we do care....
wait.....
we don't care....okay...got it....good

Just checking

Thrifting!!!

I love a bargain and a great T dress.

Yes, that is what they are called, T dresses
Ask anyone who knows me very well and they will say,
"Oh, that's a T dress" whenever they see one in a catalog or store.
V or scoop neck, empire waist, above the knee......T dress.

Well one of the horrible things about gaining all the "my boyfriend just dumped me, married someone else and then died" weight is that I could not shop at thrift stores.

I know, I know "thrift stores make me itchy", "ewww, you wear used clothes", "I just can't do that"
That's fine you don't have too, but don't get upset when we have on the same White House Black Market dress and I paid $5.00 for mine.
Don't even try to tell me you got it on sale cause even then I know you spent at least $80.00.....and that's a 50% off sale.

Oh yeah, and the really cute one of a kind vintage bag that I'm sporting.......$7.00......BOOM!!

Well with the sporadic running, zero appetite and the "I'm so sorry, there really isn't a whole lot we can do other than make you comfortable" illness I am back into thrift store sizes.

I went to one of the best thrift stores in town Friday just to test things out and was oh so richly rewarded

I left there with a $40.00 bag of treasure.
Anyone who thrifts knows that $40.00 at a thrift store will get you an entire wardrobe.
It was awesome. I have T dresses for days and some in sizes I did not think I would ever see again.

Thank you running, thank you lack of appetite, but mostly thank you, thank you rich ladies of Atlanta.
I will gladly wear your hand-me-downs (and look good doing it)

"You're in a chair in the sky!!"

Hilarious

Summerfest

I love living in town. I realized quite early in my life that I was a city person.
Its not that I don't like the country, I'm just happier in the city.

As a city person I'm usually up on all the pre-planned traffic nightmares that will ruin my life, such as Summerfest.

Summerfest is an arts festival in Virginia Highland and it's really fun. Thousands of suburbanites converge on my neighborhood making it impossible to drive or park. Good times.

Well this year.......I forgot

I forgot, I know, I don't know how, I know I'm getting old but damn.

Anyway, when The Drummer called and wanted to come spend the day in the hood, I thought beautiful, let me run down to the murder Kroger and grab some beer before he gets here. Apparently The Drummer did not know it was Summerfest either.

I noticed more foot traffic as soon as I hit the street but it was a beautiful Saturday so not too shocking.........
and then the car came to a complete stop.......
"what the hell" "why is the traffic not moving"  OH......CRAP, SUMMERFEST!!

Don't worry, I made it through the traffic nightmare and was still able to find parking when I FINALLY made it back to my house. Drummer and I got about 1/2 a block into the festival and decided "Nope, lets find a patio and get a beer". A beautiful day was had by all

Did see the entire festival on Sunday when more friends came over. That was a little more taxing than The Drummer.
"do we have to walk?"
"wow, it's really hot"
"are we going to walk all the way down there?"
"wow, it's really hot"
"didn't we go up a hill to get here?"
"are you this sweaty?"

OHMIGODD!! Yes, it's summer.....it gets hot in the summer. I live a short walk from the heart of Virginia Highland, it is not going to kill you.......SO SHUT UP OR GO HOME!!!   :)

I love street festivals.....................

How did I not know this happened......no really....

So have you ever thought that maybe just maybe there is only a finite amount of cool in the universe and only a small percentage of people can harness it........yeah......well, this is one of those people.

He's just so fucking cool

Apparently I am going to be a day late for all memorial events this year........oh well, its still amazing.



http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/d-day-landing-sites-pictures_n_5458026.html?1402052492

The Huffington Post UK  |  By Charlotte Meredith and Elliot Wagland   |  Posted: 06/06/14 BST  |  Updated: 07/06/14 BST

D-Day Landing Sites Then And Now: 11 Striking Images That Bring The Past And Present Together

As the world marks 70 years since the launch of a mission which ultimately led to victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two, these powerful before and after pictures show the true horror and heroism on a day that changed the world.

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, in an operation that marked the beginning of the end of a devastating six-year conflict.

In a mission described by wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill as "undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place", D-Day was the beginning of an 80-day campaign to liberate the region which involved three million troops and cost 250,000 lives.

Few are left to tell the story of the D-Day landings, but today, as we remember the sacrifices and heroism of troops involved in the landings, these pictures of tourists soaking up the sun on Normandy's beaches stand in stark contrast to haunting images taken around the time of the crucial invasion

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  Tourists walk by where the body of a dead German soldier once lay in the main square of Place Du Marche in Trevieres after the town was taken by US troops who landed at nearby Omaha Beach in 1944.
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  Beach goers walk past a captured German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach near Saint Laurent sur Mer.
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  Farmer Raymond Bertot, who was 19 when allied troops came ashore in 1944, stands where US Army troops once made battle plans on his property near the former D-Day landing zone of Utah Beach in Les Dunes de Varreville.
• Reuters
  Children walk over the remains of a concrete wall on the former Utah Beach D-Day landing zone, once a vital means of defence for US Army soldiers.
• Reuters
  A farm field remains where German prisoners of war, captured after the D-Day landings in Normandy were once guarded by US troops at a camp in Nonant-le-Pin, France.
• Reuters
  In 2014, tourists stroll by where the 2nd Battalion US Army Rangers once marched to their landing craft in Weymouth, England June 5, 1944.
• Reuters
  The former Juno Beach D-Day landing zone, where Canadian forces once came ashore, in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France. Once a scene of death and destruction, now a tourist's paradise.
• Reuters
  Where Canadian troops once patrolled in 1944 after German forces were dislodged from Caen, shoppers now walk along the rebuilt Rue Saint-Pierre in Caen, which was destroyed following the D-Day landings.
• Reuters
  Where US Army reinforcements once marched on June 18, 1944, tourists now tread the same path to the beach near Colleville sur Mer, France.
• Reuters
  Tourists top up their tans where the members of an American landing party once assisted troops whose landing craft was sunk by enemy fire off Omaha beach in 1944.
• Reuters
  Holidaymakers enjoy the sunshine, while on June 6, 1944 US reinforcements landed on Omaha beach during the Normandy D-Day landings near Vierville sur Mer, France.

This week thousands of people, including some of the ever-decreasing number of D-Day veterans, flocked to beaches, cemeteries and villages linked to the landings.

British veterans of landings have honoured their fallen comrades today during a poignant service of remembrance in Normandy attended by the Queen.

David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and about 400 Commonwealth troops also attended the Royal British Legion service at Bayeux Cathedral.

The Prime Minister said it was "incredibly moving" to be at the events in Normandy and it was "humbling" for people of his generation who had not had to do anything like the heroic actions of June 6 1944.

"It is awe inspiring, it gives you a sense of humility but above all it gives you a sense of extraordinary gratitude for what these amazingly brave people did."

He said the veterans still had a "spring in their step and joy in their hearts about coming back here and remembering what they did".

Guests also included French prime minister Manuel Valls and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who were all packed into the Norman-Romanesque cathedral - the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry - on a day which is expected to mark the high point of the D-Day anniversary events.

At the start of the service the Reverend Patrick Irwin, the Royal British Legion Chaplain to Normandy, told the congregation: "Here in this cemetery we are reminded of the true cost of D-Day whose 70th anniversary we mark today.

"We pay tribute to the dead and welcome enthusiastically the veterans for whose courage and devotion we are most grateful.

"This is a British cemetery and most of the graves in this place are British but D-Day involved many nations and many nations are represented here."

The Chaplain added: "Here in this cemetery men from many nations lie together united in death, and together, united in gratitude, sorrow and respect, we honour their memory - may they rest in peace."

Stop Being Weird

or

Dating part.........duh

Yeah so I've been dating a lot.
It's been fun and not fun and...."I'm sorry you want to WHAT!?!"
and overall just a really busy crazy time.

But I have one question......when did men start being so weird?
Don't get me wrong I have met some really stellar guys.
Some that are wonderful and charming and even keepers.

And then there are the others.
The one's that forgot dating is supposed to be fun and apparently "hormonal psycho" is not just for women anymore.
Remember when guys were guys and you knew when you hit it off.
Not hard to decipher.
Not a whole lot of mystery.
Not "hey I'm going to share all my pain and misery with you because woman like sensitive men, right?"
WRONG.
NO.
NADA.
When I am "your girl" you can be super sensitive. Yes, please, share your thoughts with me. I want to KNOW you, everything about you.
But when we are just "dating" and having fun.....lets just do that, shall we.

I get these long drawn out....blah,blah,blah messages when all I asked
was "hey man, I'm free tomorrow, you wanna grab dinner?"

What does the "paradox of the last three years" have anything to do with ribs at Fox Brothers and how did you fit all that in a text.
You don't like ribs, that's cool.........Six Feet Under? No, OK you pick the place.

I'm just looking for dinner and maybe a little suck face after....not too complicated.

I am really sorry that your wife left you 5 years ago, or that your last girlfriend was a nut-ball or that your best friend "stole" the girl you were "stalking" for a year or that you have no friends and have not left your apartment since "she" took the dog but lets be clear....I don't care.
Seriously, I'm not trying to be cold but I DON'T CARE.

I have more painful, scary sh*t in my head than you can imagine but I don't go around polluting the world with my "misery". (I put it on a blog.......like a civilized person)

Besides, airing all your crap is boring.
Seriously, it's boring. I know, you're life sucks, so does mine so does everyone else's but for the moment
can we suspend that reality, have a few drinks and laugh at the waitress with the buck teeth.
Why is that so hard.

When I meet one of you that I want to "be serious" with I will end this; good time, don't bring me down, are those shots? fun filled summer.

Until then, can you all stop being so weird, shut it and start the bike.....DAMN!!!