The awesomest weekend

I have so much to write about I don't even know where to start! If you were waiting to hear that I lost another 5 pounds.. let me help you out. STOP READING NOW! LOL I was bad and it was worth every minute. I'll start at the beginning of the weekend.
Bright and early Saturday morning I hopped in my happy bus (Honda odyssey mini van) with 2 great friends and drove the 3 hours it takes to get to West Palm beach, and get this... NO KIDS!!!!! Not even 1!!! In the front seat was one of my craziest girl friends making me laugh so hard that I swear I was going to swerve off of I95 and die, and in the back seat next to the dried up apple sauce on the leather seats was my bestie guy friend who was probably seriously questioning his decision to come with us. He must really love us. I swear it felt like it took 20 minutes to get there. We had such a good time. So good in fact that I forgot to tell you why the hell we were driving in the first place.  This was for a baby shower. Now, when I say "baby shower" I use that term loosely. The amount of rum punch and food being served is like no baby shower you've ever seen. I love my island people! If the drive wasn't great enough, the baby shower was for the sister of one of my bestest baddest friends that I hardly EVER get to see because she lives in New Jersey (I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS>> PLEASE MOVE TO FLORIDA!!) So that was super awesome. My other girlfriend that I talk seriously hilarious crap on the phone to all the time (but I haven't seen since high school) was there, so that was awesome too! There were so many people that I haven't seen in years and OF COURSE we were celebrating a baby on the way. All was incredible.... until it was time to drive back. You remember the 20 minutes it SEEMED like it took on the way down? Yeah. on the way back up we were skimming through my i tunes library desperately trying to find music to keep our butts from just passing out. We were so tired. We still had some incredible laughs but OMG it felt like it took 5 hours.
I got home and my husband reminded me that I agreed to a garage sale with 2 of my neighbors at 7:00 am the next morning. UUUGGGHHH REALLY? I wanted to shoot myself. I hadn't even taken stuff out that I wanted to sell or anything. The next morning I got up bleary eyed and put the tables out and put out whatever I could easily grab on them. I learned that day that I have awesome neighbors. After the first $20 bucks were made, someone (I think it was me) said barbecue and then someone else said dominoes, the next thing you know the garage sale was abandoned and we were into our second pitcher of sangria getting rowdy. HA! I didn't make any money becuause we spent it on the cookout food and booze, but I got a sunburn and a pretty good buzz. I think that's better than a few extra bucks anyway! Between the baby shower and the "garage sale" I was soooooo over my calorie budget. BUT ALL WAS NOT LOST!
In a sangria soaked blur the three women made a pact to get up and start speed walking at 5:45 every morning. Early Monday morning we were up (15 minutes late) wondering why the hell we agreed to do this. The walk started and it got hilarious. My one neighbor is deathly afraid of dogs and OF COURSE 2 german shepards came bounding out. My girl was GONE! She didn't say a word, she was almost a 1/2 mile down the street starting to climb on a random car before I even noticed the damn dogs!! My second neighbor froze like a statue paralyzed in fear. I took my pepper spray out in case they were aggressive and I shouted at them GO HOME!!! They looked so disappointed that I didn't want to play and went back sulking to their back yard. Those 2 dogs wouldn't hurt a fly. When my one neighbor shimmied off the car and the other one could move her limbs again, we were laughing so hard that we had to sit in the street and catch ourselves. I think we found our group. We were back out this morning with 3 loaded pepper sprays canisters and one retractable night stick and this time we were on time.
So all in all this was a pretty epic weekend and I look forward to more just like it.
Sonya