frankie says relax

So I finally have a few days off... I didn't have to work at all yesterday and pretty much wasted the day sleeping (being to work at 7am for the last 9 months earns me one day of lazy, yes?) I then decided to go lay by the pool and nap, thus finally getting a little color, that color being pink. I was only outside for 40 minutes, but it was from noon until 12:40... oops. Anyway, I HATE matching bathing suits which works out just fine because I can always snatch up the odd tops/bottoms from the 75% off section at Target. Sometimes they kinda match like today

(hey, they are both striped right?) and other times, they are SO mismatched, but I don't care. It's my thing. I also have this habit of wearing bathing suit tops as bras all the time in the summer. I think it looks hoochie if you walk around in a top where people can see your bra (either due to sheerness of the shirt, or like wearing a tube top or halter with a regular bra underneath.) But anytime a bathing suit top is sticking out of a shirt, it is just plain cute. I do it almost every day in the summer and the bf is annoyed by it but what does he know? Plus I can just keep a pair of bottoms in a ziploc bag in my purse and if I feel the need to jump into one of MN's 10,000 lakes, I am all ready. I grew up on a lake, and seriously spent all my summers in the water, so while having like 40 bathing suits seems odd to some people, to me it is just the summer wardrobe. Anywhoo, sometimes I do wear real clothes (although come to think of it, there is a green bathing suit top on under this little baby) Here is me today Slightly less pink skinned than yesterday and spending 3 hours this morning organizing my sewing stuff. It was making me nuts. Now all the trim is together, all the upholstery fabric, all the scraps big enough to do something with, etc. I feel so much better and that is why I am leaving you to go sew. I am going to try to finish sewing a few bags and put them up on

my etsy

within a week or so. I'll let you know when they are up and in the meantime, go put on a swim suit (the top at least.)

one more day!

Only one day of working at a middle school and then I am free! I'm not too worried about a job yet, as I have the country club gig to get me through the summer, but this whole arm thing has me thinking that I may get myself in trouble when my insurance stops in July. Yikes! Anyway, I am going to see REM, Modest Mouse, and The National tonight, hooray!

Also, this morning when I woke up at 6am at Ryan's house there was a random black dude in his 30s SLEEPING sitting up on one of the camping chairs on the porch. I was scared to leave so Ryan yelled at him to leave and when the dude got up, he was on some SERIOUS drugs. He fell down like 3 times then sat back down in a chair. Ryan yelled some more and the dude was stumbling and fell down the porch stairs. Then I finally left. Yikes. The same thing happened last year but at like 2am, when Ryan and I were still on the porch and he pulled a KNIFE on us. We had to do some serious acting and perform an elaborate lie to get him to leave, but he eventually did. On a lighter note, here is the outfit from today ...


and yesterday's since I didn't post it and it is fun.

Also... these sights make me laugh every day

Garfield Minus Garfield is just what it sounds like. Poor Jon is so pathetic without his pets.

Natalie Dee is terribly witty and always makes me laugh.



Ok, mama needs a nap before the concert so adios kittens!

Geez

Well, on Saturday I got my wish for a storm... a HAIL storm. I am so glad my car was in the garage because a lot of my neighbors have dented up cars from the close to golf ball sized hail that fell. Here is what it looked like outside my door


I decided the storm had passed and met Ryan and a few friends (and a pit bull) at the lake to go sailing. There wasn't much wind but figured we'd try it. 15 minutes later, the wind picked up and we were happy! Till we realized that wind was bringing in some scary storm clouds. We started heading in, but the wind wanted to blow us away from shore. It started lightning and thundering and raining. Luckily Ryan actually knows what he is doing on a sailboat and was able to get us in just as it started pouring rain. We made a mad dash for The Tin Fish (a little cafe under a big concrete overhang covering some of it's tables). About 15 minutes after that, the rain was barely a drizzle and we pushed the boat home. I'm glad we didn't get hit by lightening and Kylie (the pit bull) did fine on the boat and in the storm.

I don't have an outfit for today cause I am wearing PJs because I stayed home from work. I felt this wierd "twang" feeling in my forearm yesterday and then my arm felt sore. I left to go to the Twins game with 5 friends and my arm started getting puffy and swollen. Then my hand went numb and got fat and puffy too. I called in sick to work and felt guilty cause Friday is the last day of school. Anyway, 2 hours and 2 x-rays later, they think I have an inflamed tendon. She said if it gets worse or doesn't get better within a week to call cause I may have a cyst that is irritating the tendon. Whatevs. Here is what I wore Monday



Anyway, I'm off!