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So I spent almost all of my Sunday sitting around reading and it was glorious. I haven’t done that in quite some time. I usually spend about 2-3 days per book and then move on to the next one but lately I’ve been so distracted for some reason that all I feel like doing is laying around watching TV.  This has lead to a sick addiction to VH1 and I’m not proud of myself.  I’ve spent about the last 3 weeks working on the current book and finally finished it this weekend and started another.  Bliss.

I started the day with coffee and Target shopping with Katie.  Coffee on the weekends has turned into quite the sad affair.  We used to frequent our local LatteLand but found the staff to be very unfriendly.  Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want the staff starting conversations with me.  I quite prefer to be left alone.  That being said, I do enjoy a friendly greeting and feeling recognized.  Who doesn’t?  That’s the place to go in the winter time because they have a fire place and cushy chairs but right now, they’re not it.  We moved to a place by my house called A Cup Above.  This place had good coffee and VERY friendly people.  I fell in love with them.  It’s a small, quaint place that would be quite enjoyable were it not for the clientel but it was the best there was around.  Then the owners sold.  Sad, sad day.  The new owner and new staff are annoying to me.  I’m too distracted with my annoyance and growing irritability when I’m there that I can’t read or focus on work.  SO, we’ve gone back to good old reliable Starbucks.

I digress as seems a frequent occurrence.  Refocus Tams.  Target.  I found the most beautiful pair of purple pumps!!!  They’re gorgeous!!  I’m gorgeous in them!!  I couldn’t wait until Monday to be able to wear them to work.  I did purchase some other items but everything pales in comparison.

Then later in the afternoon, I got a surprise call from an old friend that I haven’t seen in ages wanting to know if I was going to be around for a while.  Well yeah.  I’m just laying here reading.  Of course that’s not what I said.  Don’t want people that have chosen to not be in my life to know that I’ve got nothing else going on even if that is how I prefer it.  So I spent the next half hour running through the house with my big fat dog following me, trying to clean the place up and make it smell less like my big fat dog.  So my friend arrives on his motorcycle (breath Tams, breath) and we reacquaint and pet the James dog.  It really was a wonderful way to spend my Sunday evening.  I’ve really missed knowing him and felt very comfortable immediately upon his arrival.  You know how sometimes, when you’re around someone you haven’t talked to in over a year makes you uncomfortable?  No?  Is that just me?  Hell, people I talked to yesterday make me uncomfortable.  This wasn’t like that at all.  It was easy.  It was cozy.  It was gratifying.  Well, no.  That’s another blog for another time and for that matter, another reader group.

So then he offered to take me for a ride on his motorcycle but since I was wearing a dress I must change into jeans as they’re more protective.  So I bounded off to my room to change and what do I see?  My new purple pumps.  Yep!  I wore them for the ride.  It was awesome.  The only thing that could have been problematic was that I kept wanting to lean over and check out my pumps and that could have been fatal.  Poor driver.  I’ve been taught in my years of hopping on the back of bikes, proper riding etiquette and leaning one way or another is definitely against the rules.  So at a stop light I held them out and admired them appropriately.

It was a beautiful end to a weekend if there can be such a thing.