As I get older, I am more and more enamored of simpler things. The things that are worth spending time on don't have to be amazingly complex, intellectual, metaphysical concepts. I find that I'd rather watch a movie. Or talk to my kids. Or hold hands with someone on a walk. Or read a book.
Yesterday, I got up at six and got ready to move M to her new apartment. She had an 8 am check-in time at her apartment complex. This complex is designed for college students. Furniture is already there. Washer/dryer exists, bathroom for each bedroom. The complex has a pool, volleyball court, soccer area, and a movie theater, for crying out loud. M is going to have three other roommates, two of whom were her high school best friends. I have known the girls and the parents of those girls for fourteen years.
When we got to complex, we waited in line for 45 minutes and filled out paperwork. Then, and only then, did we get the keys. And that started the process for the actual move. We still had a good number of boxes, even with all of the things that the Woodlands provided. Since I sweat amazingly well, I worked up a good one while we moved her in. Took probably two hours. Then we ate pizza with our friends. M and I went back to our house to get some things that we'd missed and we headed to Target to get a few groceries. On the way, M repeated the hilarious story of her interviewing for a job on campus...for tech support. Which she has never done in her life other than setting up her own computer. She impressed them somehow because she got the job while we were driving. She told them how her parents were both in IT and somehow that made them excited. Anyway, she has yet to figure out what to do with this job.
I went out last night with some good friends and my boyfriend to a restaurant called the Bright Star. You feel like you're walking into a bit of history, surrounded by pictures of Greek men who decided to open up a business in Alabama and it has now become the oldest restaurant in Alabama. We had amazing food prepared by the chef from Commander's Palace and topics of conversation that ranged from Buddhism, car accidents, how people met, and how spicy food makes people excited.
Today, I spent the day with K and we shopped and laughed like crazy. I bought lavender aviators, a chunky necklace, and a cream soda-flavored snow cone from Summer Snow. She bought two new shirts, a Camelbak, and a cherry limeade flavored snow cone. We got some nice loot at Walgreens and groceries to make a pizza. Somehow she managed to clean her bathroom and I went for a run on top of it all.
It's weekends like this that I really love. The simplicity of just being together with those we care about means so much.
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