My Weekend

This is one of my happy songs, circa Kate's life in 2009.

I had a fabulous, absolutely wonderful weekend. And I stayed in town too! Dothan has been very hard to adapt to, being from a city with around 800,000 people (according to Wikipedia). Dothan supposedly has around 60,000.

On Friday, I went around doing my cycle times. There are 42 machines, I have to get 3 cycles, which are about 3 minutes apiece. It should take me about 7 hours to do every machine, but it tends to take at least 10 (a day and a half of work) to time them all. Sometimes machines are down, sometimes everyone is on break and there is no machine running to time, and sometime I waste some time talking to my operator friends. I like to think I have made at least three operator friends. They are hilarious & wonderful. They have bigger dreams than what they are doing now, and I applaud them for being so driven. It's hard to go to college, get a degree, and then work in a tire manufacturing plant and be proud of that.

After work, I went to La Parilla, a Mexican restaurant, with James. It was DELICIOUS. I had a strawberry margarita, though nothing can compare to my Bama Breeze margarita from Margaritaville. And I people watched, one of my all time favorite activities. We sat at the bar and had a fabulous time making fun of other people.

Saturday, I went to the Grower's Market at the Convention Center and bought blueberries & tomatoes. I made my favorite lunch (grilled cheese sandwich) and then went out and bought myself a new camera. Best Buy was having a sale this weekend, and the cameras I had my eye on were on sale! However, they were out of all of them, so I bought an older version of a Nikon Coolpix. I haven't had a camera since March, when I lost it/misplaced it at my sorority formal (GOSH DARN IT I'M STILL UPSET ABOUT THOSE PICTURES!).

Then, I went grocery shopping, made bread pudding, ate bread pudding, and went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner and had hibachi chicken (yum.yum) and tons of red wine. Cue the UB40!

The Labyrinth at The Episcopal Church of the Nativity

Then, Sunday, I went to church. I had not been on my own since my birthday week, when I went to Holy Week and Easter services. It was wonderful to be back in the Episcopal church, which I know is my home. Everything is so familiar, no matter where I am. It gives me hope, strength, and I find solace in the tradition.

It made me miss Holy Comforter...

Sanctuary Stained Glass Window

"I will send you another comforter from the Father, even the spirit of truth." John 14:16