you slept through the last small town

Jamster has an ad on MTV encouraging people to download the Crazy Frog song, saying "the #1 chart hit from Europe is finally available in the US!"

Like that's something to brag about?

Curse you, Crazy Frog.

I joined Panama City Freecycle the other day, mainly to get rid of an old monitor of Sean's. Someone posted a NEEDED ad yesterday though that got my attention. A friend of hers had to rescue his teenage daughters from an abusive situation out of state, and they literally had to leave with just the clothes on their backs. So she was asking for clothes to help them out.

One of the girls wears the same sizes as I do, so I am scooping up all the clothes and shoes that I haven't got rid of but don't wear much. So far I have like 5 pairs of jeans/cords, three pairs of shoes, a handful of camis and tank tops, and a dress. Then I thought I could do something for both of them by clearing out my make-up drawers. So I'm giving them a bunch of nail polishes, some eyeshadows (Vincent Longo & Hard Candy), a blush, and some sample YSL foundations.

I'm going to look for more though, I have until tuesday when this woman will come pick up whatever I have. I'll maybe throw in some books they might enjoy too.

I was just thinking how hard it must be for them right now, having come through that, and having left all their things behind. So I wanted to help. It's easier for me to get rid of stuff I honestly don't need when I have a specific person or people in my heart that I want to help out.


We got up at 0645 and got on with the business of getting Sean out the door. When we were about to leave he gave me the sweetest card that made me cry. More notable because he almost never does cards, even for holidays, he forgets until I give him one and he's all "Crap I forgot again!" So a random card was super touching.

Once we were ready we had a bit of a snuggle, then headed out to Spudnuts. I guess if you get there before 0800 on sunday, you can actually have your choice of donuts! Usually it's nine or so when I arrive, and I'm lucky if there's anything but plain cake left.

So we got a glazed for me, a chocolate for Sean, and a cherry fritter and an apple fritter. Remind me not to do that again! The fritters were killer, it was like three heavy greasy donuts in one. I crammed my glazed into myself after it, but I was sorry. Sean took his chocolate with him, because he just couldn't.

We were way too early to the airport, as usual. It's such a small place, they don't open the security gate until like 30 minutes before a flight, so there's no point in being early.

We sat in the small lounge area for an hour and talked, read a real estate magazine and smooched some, until it was time for Sean to go. We hugged and kissed good-bye, it has been a long time since we had to do that in an airport. I handled it well. All things considered, I think I feel pretty okay about it and secure about him being okay while he's gone. Only time will tell, but I'm finding it less hard than I'd thought to have faith in him.

I did console myself with a $200 shopping spree at WalMart though! I went to hit Sonic after we said good-bye and thought I'd run into WalMart to get a new photo insert for my wallet, since the one I have now is all broken and spilling the contents out every time I go for a credit card.

But I ended up finding these adorable satin camis with contrasty lace trim, and then I decided to get some pretty woven placemats, they look like French cafe signs, I got two with a coffee mug and text, and two with a Provençal style farm image. Then I saw there were matching tie on chair cushions, so I got two each of those too!

I got some frames, one to replace a picture the glass broke in recently, and one multi-photo frame to fill in a hole on the photo wall.

Then I stumbled into the candle area. Oh my gosh, the candles! Right now they have SO MANY great candles at for around $5. I got three 12 oz candles in mason jars for $4.96 in scents that made my mouth water like Strawberry Sorbet & Double Berry Blizzard and an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie so true that is literally made my tummy grumble!

I also found $5 twenty ounce jar candles in Pink Grapefruit that smells exactly like Yankee Candle Jellybean. Seriously, $5! For the same size that you pay Yankee Candle $20 for. I bought two and as I am burning one now and realizing it does smell just like YC Jellybean, I am seriously considering going back for more. $5!!!!!!!

I was there for well over an hour.

When I left, I went to Sonic for sodafication, did NOT get another sour slushie (I did last night) and then popped into the pet store next door to refresh my memory of what they carry. I came out with a pretty blue leather collar for Lola with sparkly rhinestones. Her pink collar was looking kind of ratty, she needed a new one. I also got a catbip mousie for Chico and some plastic spring things for Lola which she won't play with. Lola, who thinks a hair tie is the best toy ever, who will play with anything, will not even take a single swipe at them. So back they go.

I unpacked all my goodies when I got home, and with impeccable timing Sean called about five minutes after I came in the door. He was killing time in Atlanta and was considering taking a $400 voucher to go on a later flight. I pointed out that he might miss his Phoenix -> Yuma connection and be stuck there overnight. He was glad I was sensible. I checked to be sure, because $400 in air tickets would be nice, but the flight he was on to Yuma was the last one & he'd have missed it. So he had to pass.

We've decided we have to go to Warren, Ohio the last weekend of September. Sean's aunt is having a huge retirement party, I haven't met anyone from his dad's side of the family, and his aunt and her daughters, his cousins, was really great to him a aterrible time in his life, so he feels like he really owes it to her to be there for this big shebang.

We are going to have one crazy month.

I managed to procrastinate going to the gym until 1530. I was sure the gym closed at 1700 on sundays, but the guy came by when I'd been on the ellipse machine for 15 minutes and gave me a 5 minute warning. 1600. Oops. Oh well, I got my 20 minutes in, that's the minimum.

Came home and had a nice bath, washed my hair, and then loafed around online pretty much for the rest of the evening! Lazy bunny.

I installed the Lemmings game on Sean's computer but I can't figure it out. So I played more Simpsons Hit & Run instead.

Sean called from his rental car in Yuma to tell me he'd arrived and had to find his way out to the base. The airport code for Yuma is YUM so we have been calling it that all day.

redrosebud, I will do that idiosyncrasies meme tomorrow, I'll probably need it to pad out my post and make it more than few sentences long :)

Also, lucymoore, I have almost finished writing the 10 questions from the first book, I find it's taking longer than I thought because I'm having to go back and check what happened in which book so there's not a book 2 question on the book 1 test. But it's getting done!

Oops, there's my bedtime call from Sean. He got to drive from Yuma to the training ground in a sandstorm, lucky guy.

Would that he were back here. The rain stopped, it's been lovely. Lovely, but lonely.