Prom and Polo

On Saturday night I went to a prom. No, I didn't go with some 17 year old boy (i try to not date guys more than 5 years younger than me!! ha ha!). My friend from Rock Hill, Brenna, got me a ticket for the "Second Chance Prom" in Charlotte. All the money went to a charity, which made me feel better about going to a prom (I could just tell people, "Oh, I'm busy at a charity event this Saturday night...it's a sort of gala"). So my friends and I got all dressed up and danced the night away with other twenty-something/thirty-something/forty-somethings who wanted to pretend to be in high school again and get dressed up for prom. Patrice, Brenna and I ended up wearing almost the same exact dress, which we thought was pretty funny. "i just feel like I really stand out in this, you know, I feel so original," I told Patrice when she complemented my dress! We had a really fun night.






The next morning, I drove to Camden to go to the first Polo game I've ever been to. It was definitely a cultural experience!! There were women in all kinds of crazy hats (I think the woman in the lime green had should have won - it looked like she made it herself!). There was a group of women next to us, all about forty-fiveish, with the typical blonde hair and lime green capris with tank tops with grapefruits on them (you know the type of outfit), all drinking their wine with ice. One said her name was Dixie. It was so perfect! I did enjoy gettting dressed up, but I couldn't bring myself to wear the hat that Alice let me borrow. I think my head looks weird with a hat on it - some people actually look really cute, but not me!!

So in all it was a very busy, very fun weekend! I'm looking forward to this Tuesday when anna will be done with exams and she and Jason will be home sweet home!! We will go to Dads award ceremony for his poem that he won first place on!!

Recently...

Music that I've been especially in to lately: Band of Horses, especially "The Funeral."
Books that I've been reading: "A Walk in the Woods," (absolutely hilarious and it makes me think of Jess and Joel every day becauuse it's about the AT), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (a bit sentimental, but pretty good), and "The Things they Carried."
Stuff that's been making up my days lately: I fixed my A/C in my car!!! So now I can have a cool car for the next summer that I own it and have a car that someone may actually want to pay money for whenever i sell it! Also I've been checking into transplant centers in the northeast. Pretty exciting, I know!