Memorial Day

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day (observed). Mine was delightful. I slept in (you can do that when you're unemployed) and ate pizza for breakfast (because it was 11:00)! After that, Zack and I drove around trying to find Prattville's River Walk. I'm not sure if we ever found it, but we did find a nice little park and boat launch. So we walked around in nature for a while, and that felt nice, since I knew we'd be spending 3 hours in the car driving to B'ham and back. Today was dinner at Granny's!

For just about every holiday, and some birthdays thrown in during the year, my mother's side of the family gathers at Granny and PawPaw's house for lunch or dinner. It evens out to about once every 5 or 6 weeks, and I love it. Today we went for dinner - a cookout. It is so great to see my family, especially now when I'm feeling a little homesick. Everyone was able to come except for the few of us who are more than a couple of hours away. Zack and I traveled the farthest, and there are only 3 branches that have moved farther away than we have. My first cousin and her husband (and their precious baby) are in Mobile, another first cousin and his wife are in Augusta, and my aunt and her fiance are in Atlanta. But other than those family members, we were all there, and it was really nice to just be with them.

It's really late now, but I am not that tired. My sleep pattern has been all messed up since moving, because, what is there to wake up for? I will be so relieved to get back on a normal schedule. I hate waking up late and feeling like the morning is gone and therefore the day is wasted. That's a crappy feeling.

Just killed another roach. So grossed out right now.

My uncle and aunt from my dad's side of the family live nearby in Montgomery. We are going to meet them for dinner this week, and I'm looking forward to that. I was never very close to them (no one from my dad's side is close at all, in comparison to my mom's side), but now that we live so nearby, that should change.

I think that we will go home tomorrow for Zack to go fishing with my brother and stepfather. After this week, all of Zack's free time will be zapped, because he will start his new full time job, and his bar review classes will be held at night - sometimes 6 or 7 nights a week. Talk about crappy.

This was such a boring post. More excitement later when I'm not tired.