Floods and Food

Yikes.  Getting back into the swing of work is taking some time.  What's also taking some time is adapting a healthy sleeping pattern.  I'm waking up around 2 AM with anxiety attacks and then I spend the rest of the morning hours tossing and turning next to M.  What makes it worse is that he's doing the same thing.  To try and get a "normal" night's rest, we decided to sleep in separate rooms on Thursday and Friday night.  Thursday I had the same awful night's "sleep," but Friday, oh, Friday.  I haven't slept that good in months.  We were watching 30 Rock on Netflix and by our 5th episode (somewhere around 8:15 PM) I started conking out on the couch.  Instead of fighting it, I picked myself up, said good night, and climbed into bed.  I didn't wake up until 5:00 AM and then fell back asleep until 7:30.  OOOoohhh it felt glorious to actually get some shut eye.
While I was sleeping, I missed a few things.  Check out this map.  Over 3,000 lightning strikes in a matter of 15 minutes.  What?!  Who slept through it all?  Sleeping Beauty over here did.  It was a miracle, I tell you.

With the lightning came an immense downpour.  It made the lake we reside on extremely high...too high for comfort since we don't have any type of insurance on the apartment.  It also did this to the parking lot at Target.

What a hot, soupy mess this weekend was.  To combat the humidity after the storm, we spent most of the weekend wherever it was cool like stores, our apartment, and restaurants.  Another exciting event was my dinner Saturday night at The Pub which consisted of a black bean burger on a pretzel bun slathered in belhaven beer cheese and onion strings.  I only ate half of it so I could save room for our whiskey bread pudding dessert.  Be jealous.  

I ate the bread pudding too fast to snap a picture of that.  Woops. 

You can drool over these, too, as your mouth is probably already watering.

These blueberry muffins are fresh out of the oven.  They are quite possibly

the best muffins ever and I can't wait to devour them for breakfast this week.

Back to sleeping with my prince tonight in the same bed.  Maybe we'll go into a food coma and sleep without any interruption.  That's a happy thought.

Identity Theft

You know what's hilarious?  When you write a facebook status and someone legit copies, pastes, perhaps alters a word or two, and USES IT AS THEIR OWN STATUS.  What the H?

My status update:  I started college 10 years ago this week. Life was so much easier back when my biggest life decisions revolved around what sort of beer to drink and where to drink it...playwright, sidestreet, hulahanks, aunt chiladas....sigh.

Culprit's status update:  I started college ten years ago today...where did the time go? My biggest decision was what party to go to or was there vodka in my fruit punch you

AND DOES THIS PERSON NOT REALIZE THAT I SEE THEIR STATUS?  Seriously?  

*Note, this is the second time this has happened.  I can't recall if it was the same person or not.

Stealing facebook statuses:  deal breaker.  SHUT IT DOWN.  

Beauty everyday.  Can't get enough of it.