What an Awesome Weekend

Well I had the best weekend. Just what I needed to get myself out of my slump. First on Friday my friends Gina and Courtney (who I never see because they go to school in Idaho) came over. We first went to the beach. It wasn't really beach weather but we were determined so we headed to Del Mar on Camp Pendleton. My favorite moment happened at the beach. We were walking to the car and saw a guy in a shirt that said "Asains Love it" WELLLL, with Gina being half Asian we HAD to get her to take a pic with him. How did we do this? I went something like this....

Courtney: You need to take a pic with him Gina
Me: Yes dooo itt!!
Gina: I am not going to just go up to him and ask!
Me: Oh I will! Wait I'm nervous. No I am going to do it! (From 40 feet away) Hey, Hey HEYYY!! Come here! My firend is Asian and she wants to take a picture with you!
Random Marine: Haha okay.

It was an embarrassing and awkward moment for all parties involved.

Anyway, we laid out, gossiped, and had an epic water adventure. We basically got raped by the water and LOTSSS of boobs were exposed. Then we went out to dinner, ice-cream, Walmart, Redbox, played the PlayStation moton game thingy and watched a TERRIBLE movie. T said we were EXTREMELY loud all night but that just means we had a good time, right?

Then the next day my best friends from High School basketball came over. We went out to sushi (my favorite food of all time) gossiped (yes, I am a big gossiper, don't judge I know you do it too..) headed to the outlets did some "wishing we had $$ to buy clothes" then headed back to my place for some drinks and homemade ice-cream. It was perfect.

To top it off I went to dinner today (I know, I know, it wasn't the weekend) an old friend from High School Stephanie.

Being able to hang with friends really lifted my spirits. I am thankful to have such great people in my life!

Friends?

I feel like I have been a super bad blogger lately. I just have not been inspired to write. Needless to say, I am in a mood.... It has been really hard to make friends down here and it's really bumming me out. I get super jealous when T goes out with his friends because I have nobody to call up and hang with really fast. It's pretty lame  I also really want to find another job because if one more person says "You're still here?!" I will seriously flip (I work at the community college I used to, and still, go to)

Anyway, these big parts of my life, Friends and Work, are totally sucking right now. So I need your help ladies, how did you make friends at your post?

My New Friend, Mr. Doyle

I have a new friend. His name is Doyle and he is 95 years old. Yes, that's right, 95 (He looks AWESOME for 95 by the way, and he is so incredibly cheerful too!). I met him taking Maesie for a walk. (She is the baby girl I watch two days a week. She is 4 months and absolutely perfect, almost as perfect as my nephew, almost...) So Maesie and I are walking around the block 2 weeks ago and we encounter an old man in an electric wheelchair. To make a long story short, I stopped, he stopped and we ended up walking together to the corner lemonade stand. We had a good talk that day. He told me about his wife who just passed away in June. They were married for 73 years! I told him about T, how he was a sailor and how he just came back to Afghanistan. He then told me about his grandson who just came back from a year long tour in Iraq. We had a good chit chat that day and I decided we are going to walk more often.

Today, I stopped by to say hello while I was walking with Maesie. Doyle's face lit up when he saw me. He was so excited I came to visit and his excitement made my day. We couldn't go on a walk because his caretaker had not arrived yet. But we had a good sit and a short chat about school and marriage. He told me he married his wife when he was my age (19) and she was 16. They had some rough moments, but were fortunate to make it all on their own. He told me she was beautiful, and they had the best times together.

I am so very excited to learn more about him. He is the sweetest man and being born in 1915, he has truly seen history happen. Just imagine. I am happy I have made a old and wise friend and I look forward to our visits.