Just Another Football Saturday

This past week has been pretty eventful.  Sunday through Tuesday, I finished the first two season of Dexter.  This is a pretty decent show.  Obviously I enjoyed it by watching 24 hour long episodes in 72 hours.  It is about a guy that is a serial killer by night but then leads a normal life as a forensics person and brother and boyfriend to a woman with two little kids.  Even though Dexter is a serial killer, you still love him because he is only killing bad guys. 

On Wednesday, Tillie and I went with Charlee, Todd, Eric, and Berkeley (Charlee's dog) to Charlee's farm in Micanopy about 20 minutes away.  The house is on a lake so I was a little nervous about Tillie and the alligators, but she survived.  We got there and picked up some really good BBQ.  Of course it is nothing compared to the BBQ that I am used to from the Pee Dee, but this was good in its own little way.  We got to the house, stuffed our faces and then went outside to let the dogs run around.  Tillie had so much fun running in the open fields with Berkeley.  She loves doing figure eights around people.  We then went exploring around the house and found an old house that reminds me of mine at home before we renovated it.  Todd and Tillie went inside the house to look around but I was scared a cool breeze would come through and knock the house down.  After exploring we all sat on the porch drinking beers in rocking chairs and looking at the sun set over the lake.  It was very relaxing and peaceful and I did not want to come back to Gainesville and worry about the Internal Revenue Code.  We did hurry back before 9 so we could watch the season premiere of Modern Family, which I must say I was a little disappointed by.  They might have the second season slump this year. 

On Thursday, Charlee and I went to be team mom's for the guys intramural flag football game.  We brought orange slices, capri suns, and a little summer beer cocktail.  They lost the game, but it was still fun to watch.  Afterwards, we all met at this sports bar to watch the Thursday night game.  We all got pitchers of beer and just discussed what had been going on throughout the week.  The guys started having a dirty joke off, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  Our waitress was a little crazy.  She looked as if she was 19 at the most.  One of the guys with us started flirting with her and she started asking these questions that were a little insane...the first and second being, "Would you choke me" and "Can I stick my finger in your butt" and the correct answers were both "if you want me to."  She then discussed her affair with a professor and how she got kicked out of her sorority for sleeping with other people's boyfriends.  She was interesting.  We had one guy with us that gets shot happy.  We ended up taking at least 4 lemon drop shots.  After the shots, the rest of the night gets a little hazy.  Needless to say, I didn't feel so hot yesterday morning.

So yesterday, once I finally recovered from the Thursday night festivities, I get my camo on for the Car Warz demolition derby at the Ocala Speedway.  We pull up at the speedway in the four runner with California plates and tailgate for awhile drinking Miller Hi Life.  In line on the way in, we meet a couple that is friends with one of the drivers named scooter (so we found out who we were going to cheer for).  We get our seats in the bleachers and get ready for the first event.  It was a station wagon that flew off a ramp at 45 mph into a van that was seated on its bumper.  The wagon T-boned the van in the windshield crushing the both down to the ground.  The next event was a 50 lap race with 20 cars and no caution flags.  It was very exciting because all of the cars kept spinning out and running into each other.  However, during the last ten laps of the race it started raining pretty hard.  The put the show on standby to try to wait out the rain, so we are all in the stands getting drenched, drinking beer, and trying to stay warm.  An hour goes by, and they finally call the night.  On our way out to get our rain vouchers for the next show, the vendors are handing us free hot dogs and hamburgers.  Despite all the rain, it was a fun night and a great adventure.

So today, I will be attending my first Florida football game.  Florida is playing Kentucky at 7.  However, I will begin my tailgating at 10.  A friend that went to Kentucky is having us over to his place for Pancakes and Booze to watch game day.  We will then watch the noon games and grill some meat.  We will watch the first half of the 3:30 games and then finally head our way out to some of the tailgates around the stadium.  Apparently, tailgating isn't as good at Florida as it is at Clemson, but really not alot of schools can compete with Clemson tailgating.  Fortunately, Clemson is not playing this week, so I am not one big ball of nerves today.  However, USC is playing Auburn who beat us in overtime last weekend, so I am really hoping Auburn will play a good game this weekend.  The Kentucky friend got us tickets to the game.  We are in the Kentucky section, so I will be working on my Cats cheers today.  I guess I am still not ready to actually pull for Florida yet.  Anyway, it should be another fun Saturday.

Missed a Few Days

I don't live an exciting life right now.  I go to class in the morning.  I come home, Tillie rings the bells, we go outside, I watch soapnet, take a nap, read a book, Tillie rings the bells, I attempt to do homework, Tillie rings the bells, and before I know it is bed time.  Yet with all the excitement in this day, I can't seem to bring myself to post on this blog.  Of course I do feel the pressure to write some poignant witty post, but then I have to remember that I am not a newspaper columnist.  I am merely a lawyer, and a tax lawyer at that so I shouldn't expect myself to write articles that would appear in the New Yorker.  But anyway, I guess I will catch you up to speed. 

On Monday, thankfully I had a long day because I was so excited about the season premiere of Gossip Girl, that if I wasn't busy, the hours would have crept by slowly until 9:00.  GG did not disappoint.  I was very skeptical about this show at first.  I boycotted it, as I did with the whole blog thing.  For some reason, I try to fight the fact that I am actually very girly.  But when a group of girls were getting together every monday night for wine and GG, I had the FOMS (Fear Of Missing Something).  I started at season 1 and watched every episode and became hooked.  Blair is my favorite character.  She gets things done and she is pretty bitchy which I love. 

I can't even remember what I did Tuesday, but I am sure it consisted of Tillie ringing the bells constantly, checking facebook, napping, and lying to myself about doing my homework. 

However, on Wednesday, a friend and I decide we wanted to mix our lives up a little bit and have a fun happy hour.  There is a place downtown that serves grey goose martinis for $5 for happy hour.  We went to the farmer's market before hand.  I got some sweet potatos, tomatos, basil, and some type of citrus juice.  We then make our way to the bar.  However, it is 4:30 and the bar doesn't open until 5.  So we go to another place where happy hour starts at 4:00.  We have on drink there and then make our way to the martini place.  1 turns into 2 which turns into 4 maybe 5 martinis.  The calamari did not do its job by soaking up any of the extreme amount of alcohol in me.  Since we both realize we have been overserved, we decide it is a good idea to get something to eat before I go home.  So we stop in at a sushi place.  We continue to order beers and each order a roll.  I try one bite of the roll, go into the bathroom (the roll didn't stay in my system very long) proclaim that I did not like the food here, and leave.  I get home.  Take Tillie out and then at around 9:00 I find myself passed out in the bed in my clothes.  I woke up at 2 am wide awake.  I get some advil and go back to sleep.  The next time I wake up  when my alarm goes off at 6 am and realize that my hangover has kicked in and I will not be able to see people until later that afternoon. 

So yesterday, not able to make out of bed until 1 pm, I go get my zaxbys and get ready for my group meeting at 2:30. (My car didn't smell all that great because I left my produce and juice in the car last night).  Anyway, Zaxbys is a cure all.  Well first I attempted Chickfila, but the line for the drive thru was wrapped around the building twice.  Waiting in a line that long would not help the situation.  The Spicy Chicken would have to wait for another day.  I did not go out last night, and felt much better in class this morning.  Hopefully I can remember that I am old and my body does not like me to drink that much alcohol when we all go out to dinner tonight. 

Just One of the Guys

I experienced my first weekend out in Gainesville this weekend...

Friday night we started the evening at BallyHoo's for a friend's birthday.  This is the place that has a statute of Tim Tebow made out of a tree that has coined the name "Tim Treebow."  I of course took my picture with Tim Treebow.  There were a big group of the tax nerds at this dinner.  About 30 of us.  After much debate, we finally figured out where our next move would be.  We decided to go to some restaurant/bar called the top.  We lost about half the group once we made this move.  I lost the one girl friend that I have made so far because she had to go home to go to bed.  Not because she is boring, which is the first thing that I would think, but because she had to wake up to go pick up her ex-boyfriend in Orlando at 3am.  So it was me, a couple of really drunk girls, some of the international girls, and a whole bunch of guys.  We hung out outside at The Top and it was extremely hot.  Any make up that I had on previously had completely melted off.  We get a little bored with The Top and we took one car load to a crazy undergrad party at Cantina.  There was a long line to get in, so the one girl that was still with me went home because she was way to wasted to be in this situation.  So it dwindled down to me and three guys.  Of course the guys have to go to the bathroom all at the same time.  One of the guys ended up coming back to where I was standing (not one of the ones that I came with or was planning to hitch a ride home with) and the other two were no where to be found.  I was a little upset and I thought they had left me.  So the other guy when he was ready to leave helped me get a cab and make my way home.  Turns out the other two guys were there and met up with a bunch of people we were with earlier and shut the bar down.  Tons of miscommunication there. 

Saturday was all about football.  I rode with a group of people (three guys and two girls that might potentially be new friends) to a guy in our program's house to watch football and grill out.  This guy is my age, married, and has a three bedroom party house equipped with a tennis court and a pool.  He is renting this for 1200 a month.  I am a little jealous.  We spend the day watching Florida play terribly, Georgia playing terribly, all ACC teams playing terribly, and USC playing well.  This was not a good day for football.  We leave the house and I get dropped off to go let Tillie out and then they pick me back up and we walk to a place called Gator's Dockside which is a Wild Wings type sports bar.  There was a wait for tables, so we split up our party.  I was placed at the table with 4 guys and a married couple.  As we are watching the first quarter of the Bama game, the wife part of the married couple leaves because she doesn't like football.  The other group leaves because they didn't get a table in time.  So I am left watching the Bama game with 5 guys.  I love being around guys don't get me wrong, but this was a little overwhelming.  There was a lot of detailed football talk that was way over my head.  Luckily I have a brother and have constantly had guy friends so I was able to hold my own a little bit.

So today... I am going to church with two of the guys.  I guess all of my new friends won't be coming over to drink martinis and watch Gossip Girl with me tomorrow night.  They will be too busy watching Monday Night Football.

Sick as a Dog

Wednesday night we went out for a friend's birthday that included tequila shots and kareoke, which can be a very dangerous combination.  Luckily the bar wasn't too crowded so not too many people had to hear my rendition of Wilson Phillips' Hold On.  Needless to say, I wasn't my usual chipper self yesterday morning.  I woke up and attempted to run through the assigned problems before I went to class.  I came home from class and Tillie just kept whining at me.  I took her outside, but she would rather have stayed inside.  I go in my room about to lay down for my after school nap.  Something wakes me up, so I go into the den and I see that Tillie has thrown up all over the floor and in her crate.  I finally get done cleaning that up, and then she starts again.  I spent the entire day cleaning up regurgitated pieces of a busybone.  Sorry, this is starting to sound a little gross.  Anyway, the point of this post is that I was the one who I thought was going to be sick the entire day, but motherhood called.  I had no time to think about or take care of my own discomfort, but had to make sure my little puppy was going to be okay.  I think I am becoming a responsible self less mother.  I woke up this morning and decided that if she was still sick, I was going to skip class and stay at home to be with her.  So far so good, so I did my homework this morning just in case. 

Skinny Fat

After stuffing my face all weekend at my Aunt's house right outside of Palm Beach, my midsection is poking itself back into my thoughts.  When I first moved to Gainesville, not sure if it was the sadness, or the fact that I had know one to eat or drink with me, but I lost 5 pounds the first 2 weeks that I was here.  I was close to the weight that is listed on my drivers license so I was pretty proud of myself.  However, I have started drinking again, eating out with friends, and just not hitting the gym nor the yoga mat like I should be doing.  Plus, I get out of school early everyday which leaves an afternoon full of snacking.  However, I may have found a solution to keep me from snacking.  I was putting on my gym clothes just to take that first step that maybe i will cut on the p90x dvd.  My phone rang before I was able to put on a shirt so I just have on my shorts and sports bra.  I realized that if I just walk around the house in just my sports bra I am going to have the constant reminder that a) I need to be working out instead of watching tv and b) that after looking at my fat belly, I do not need to eat everything in my pantry.  Thank goodness I have blinds so no one else has to see me just in my sports bra.

I have a belly.  I always have.  A person in law school told me about the term skinny fat.  This is where you do indeed carry a lot of fat, but you have the ability to hide it and from far away or in certain outfits you look skinny.  That is me.  I have skinny arms and legs, but a big ole belly.  So when I am not wearing a bathing suit or something completely skin tight I look skinny.  Which is good, because I am very rarely in a bathing suit or something skin tight.  But unfortunately, I still have to look at my big ole belly everyday, so for now I will still be continuing my constant struggle with my arch enemy...my midsection.

A Day of Boating

Who knew tax school would be so rough.  Yesterday morning during my one class of the day a friend asked me if I wanted to go on the boat with one of her friends from high school.  Since I have nothing else to do but watch movies and soapnet all afternoon, I decided to take her up on her offer.  So I went home and changed and after getting lunch we drove the 45 minutes to Lake Kingsley.  There, the two guys we met up with had the boat ready and a cooler full of beer packed.  So for the next 4-5 hours I spent my Wednesday afternoon relaxing on the boat, drinking beer and basking in the sun.  I need to figure out a way to do this and still get paid to be a tax lawyer. 

The boys we were with on the boat had a new ski toy.  It is called an air chair or sky ski (not sure what the appropriate term is).  Anyway, this was a very interesting contraption.  You sit on a stool attached to the board and then there is hydrorunner type thing on the bottom.  When it is pulled behind the boat it looks like you are flying in the air.  Apparently it is really hard to control and the guys were wearing helmets, so I figured it wouldn't be a good idea for me to try it since I can barely get up on two skis. 

We got home that evening and I was exhausted.  I turned on the movie Heathers and took a nap.  But of course I had an email that people were going to a bar last night so because of my FOMS (Fear of missing something) I of course went out to the bar and had a two double vodka waters while listening to music on a patio. 

The best part is I was able to do all of this stuff yesterday and still was able to be prepared, comprehend, and participate in class the next day.  I love a balanced schedule :)