We had 150 pounds of dog at our house this weekend. Justin and Katie went to Chicago for Katie's brother's wedding and we kept Maybel-girl for them. Maybe has a litte bit, okay a lot, of Houdini in her. We have chain link fences that separate our yards (I forgot, Justin and KT now live next door) and pretty much nothing can stop Maybel from getting to her boyfriend in our yard. Actually, nothing can stop her from getting out of our yard either. Because of Maybel's excellent escape artist skills she had to stay inside the Lipscomb's house while Blake and I were at work. Maybel and Maverick are great together. They play in crazy mode while outside and then are completely chill when they are in the house. In order to work out some of the craziness Blake took Maybel and Maverick hiking on Saturday morning. He left early, about 8am, but it was still super hot. Blake and Maverick normally run the pink trail (white & red trails) at Percy Warner on Saturdays but since it was so hot, Blake just speed walked the trails. When they got home the dogs were super hot and super exhausted. Blake took them to the Lipscombs and sprayed them down with the hose and let them rest in the shade of their covered porch.Other random things...
- Blake and I decided to re-do our bathroom. It's three different colors of lime green tile and what's left of the white grout on the floor is so dirty I can't even begin to keep it clean. We'd like to gut it and completely redo everything, but we're thinking its going to be way more than we want to spend. Anyone in in Nashville know of a good/reasonable contractor that you trust? We're also thinking of having a company come in and glaze the tile... that is obviously my second choice. We had one contractor come by this morning (from Home Depot), one will be here in about an hour and one is coming tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get a reasonable quote.
- I'm on the home stretch for grad school. I'm so ready to be done with it. I'm always thinking about what I should be doing for school, even if I've already finished that week's work. I've worked ahead for most of this year and I'm ready to think abou other things. I just finished my electronic portfolio class, which was in place of a Master's Thesis or comps, which is nice but I still have one other class to think about... and I really don't like it. Okay, it's not that I don't like the class but I feel that it is SUPER unorganized. We don't really know when assignments are due, the syllabus and the course documents say different things about the assignments and everything is super vague. I know these are graduate level courses but come on, I can't read the professor's mind. I need to know exactly what is expected of me and this class is just not that way. It probably doens't help that it's my last class either. I'm ready to move on.
- The new Brad Paisley album, American Saturday Night, came out today. I've been listening to it on repeat since 7:15 this morning.
- I feel like this is the first summer in my WHOLE life that I actually need a vacation. I've been working at Lipscomb, part time at Otter Creek, doing a lot of design work on the side plus grad school. I need some time away. Luckily that is only a couple of weeks away.
- Blake and I saw Legally Blonde: the Musical on Friday night. My parents gave us tickets for our anniversary (on the 7th row) and it was wonderful! Laura Bell Bundy (the original Elle Woods on Broadway) played Elle while the show was in Nashville and she is fabulous.
- I saved the best news for last... I'm going to be an AUNT!! Bevin and John are pregnant! I can't wait until February! Well, I really can't wait until September when they find out what they are having. I'm going to go on record and say I think that it's going to be a boy!!
