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Happy Anniversary, James and Terry!!  Love you bunches!

Weekends always seem to blurrrrr. The work week ends, Friday night arrives and on Monday mornings I struggle to remember anything that went on over the past two days. I try to go over it all in my head, trying to follow the time line and put it back into chronological order, but much like our flickr account the photos aren’t organized into sets, they’re not labeled, and they appear at random.

While I am firmly grounded in this agreed upon reality, I fully understand and accept the part where our subconscious struggles to tell the difference (if it knows any at all) and the only divider between our real life and our dreams is that our dreams don’t reoccur as often as our everyday.

Leah and I have different views concerning the weekend. For her, weekends are a chance to do everything else you couldn’t do during the week. For me - they’re a chance to eventually get around to doing those things - if you want to - but if not - they’ll just have to be scheduled in during the work week - just like everything else from everyone else who demands your time (job) - but the weekends are mine. I do not feel guilty about my afternoon naps. I rarely struggle with having not done something on a Saturday afternoon. Errands are not going to fill up my weekend and steal the free time I have to do everything and nothing all at once.

And although worrying thoughts and anxiousness over things let undone do creep in from time to time, I usually fail at beating them back. Because beating them back means that I’m holding onto them and for the most part, I’ve stopped holding onto those types of feelings that sink deep into your core and steal your breath. We didn’t get too much done this past weekend - unpacking/apartment fixup-wise but I think we had a good time. Good food, no real pressures, no real deadlines for anything at all.

We helped run auditions for a talent show - one with a real celebrity comedian emcee’ing (meaning it’s not ANY of the comedians from VH1’s Best Week Ever or I love the [insert decade]) - I just took photos and Leah helped with the registration desk - that was fun, watching all of the awesome and not so awesome acts.

On our way to get Gelato we ran into two of our friends from Yelp! - Eric & Laura. Then it started raining so we all ran away from each other.

Leah and I have been seriously craving gelato practically the entire time we’ve lived here in Atlanta. In Phoenix we lived down the street from one on the corner of 32nd St. & Camelback - here… we just didn’t know where one was. So finally, this weekend we found one and it’s an awesome stamp size shop delivering an overload of ‘italian’ type sweets & decor - but not in the fake-chinese-replica-of-Italy-vomit that Bucca Di Beppo chooses to fill their restaurant with.

We received a great little tea set from one of our regular benefactors. It was a generous gift - a Japanese made cast - iron teapot set. A dragonfly design on the outside, hand crafted blah blah blah marketing description - but this really isn’t some generic little teapot.  It’s quite awesome and impressive. Tetsubin.

I have to get the emissions test done on my car today. This whole process of getting a Georgia license and registering my car in this state is really much more time consuming than I’d like for it to be. ESPECIALLY since I could feasibly just go online, click click click and register my car again in Arizona - and be done. That’s what I did last year and I don’t really see why I should register here in Georgia. Although I did order another copy of my AZ drivers license just before I went down and got my Georgia license last Thursday (they take your old license when you get a new one here.) My AZ license expires in 2044. Georgia? 2013. But I like my picture on the AZ license MUCH better so I’ll keep my two extra copies of that one.

Yelp event this week. Lots of work and school. Unpacking the Apartment and generally just holding on and going forward. It’s all quite awesome.