Not Your Average Jane

Its Sunday Houston, here's whats not in todays Chronicle.... :0) Quick update...
Thursday, packed, sorta watched friends (saw the beginning and the end - the important stuff... :0) ) and studied... Friday took a final, finished packing, went to Ft Worth (got lost in Oklahoma on the way... The exits aren't numbered worth a damn!!!!). Ran into Nat after stepping into the lobby or the Renaissance Worthington... I think I may have been a bit abrupt with her... I was tired, stressed and hungry, as well as caffeine deprived... Not my best of moods... Lauren showed up a few minutes later... We almost scored free drinks at the bar there... If only mom hadn't shown up... Friday night went out to dinner at a little italian place in downtown Ft Worth... Stopped at this little place called 8 0's, listened to a band for a bit... We need more places like that in Houston.... Then we went back to the hotel and I fell asleep b4 11!!! (so we didn't make it to the Stockyards... Mainly since Lauren said people that hung out there were 'shadesters'. Her word not mine... Gotta love Lauren and her unique vocabulary! I wonder where she gets that from? :0) ) Woke up at 8, watched some TV, got ready for graduation, went to brunch with Lauren and Mom and John (Chapman not Price - far as I know JP was still in Austin... :0) ). Lauren gave me a cute little case for my glasses and a cute little cleaning cloth thingy... Mom gave me my diamond heart necklace she's been teasing me about since she got it like 2 monthes ago... As well as a nice bit of cash to shop for teacehr clothes with... Sweet deal!! So checked out at noon... Walked around downtown for a bit,went to the the Barnes and Noble (that is one hell of a big B & N!!). Thought of Kev and Brian there... In the discount section there was what had to be the world's longest books on the history of baseball... Kev - you should go get it, its right up your alley and right down the street! :0) Anyway graduation at 2.... Saw Lauren, Kelly and Saylor, as well as our cousin, James graduate.... There were a few funny moments... The nursing students had silly string and confetti and threw it when they were announced.... The badn had silly string and confetti too and whenever one of thei friends walked they went wild with it.... Also a few very meloncholy moments... They honored a woman who had been murdered with a posthumous doctorate, and a girl who was SUPPOSED to have graduated that died last week, had her diploma handed to her mom and sister... I teared up there... The whole audience went wild and the guy announcing had a bit of trouble getting to say the next name.... Anyway we left at 4... Went back to the hotel, and had champagne... Dropped Lauren off at her apartment and headed home... Got back to Houston about midnight... Almost immediately fell asleep... Course I talked to Linz for a while (she was here studying when we got back...) and then we promptly over slept for mom's breakfast in bed... Wound up making chicken ceasar salad for dinner and strawberries for dessert.... But guess the first place I went today??? :0) Cactus... Got the new Mac CD, Willie live at billy bobs and James Otto... Then went to B & N for moms presesnt and then on to Krogers for dinner stuff and food for me... Came home, checked the email (found out there was some sort of drama with Katie while I was gone...), made dinner and watched chasing liberty... Now here I be done blogging for the day and thinking about watching girl with the pearl earring... :0) (ok, so maybe this update wasn't so short... :0) )Laters...

posted by Ali @ 9:54 PM