Some Pretty Cool Things

Alright, it was unfortunate that another bad thing happened at my apartment because this weekend was pretty cool.

If you've been following this blog at all, you'll know that I have had quite a few problems with my apartment and I will be happy to move out soon. Unfortunately, bad stuff has continued to happen the entire time I've been here but I just stopped writing about it. The reason that today seemed so sucky was because I actually spent some time trying to fix up this dump and then it turned on me again. But I'm going to try to focus on what good I did - a lot of organizing, a thorough dusting, and tomorrow vacuuming if everything goes to plan.

So on to this weekend. It has probably been one of the funnest weekends I have had in Dallas.

On Thursday night in Addison (a day before the 4th) they had Kaboom Town. Kind of like Taste of Addison but focusing on the fireworks. I had texted a bunch of people and talked to a few peeps at work earlier in the day to see if anyone wanted to go. No takers. I have a friend that lives in Addison Circle and she mentioned something about meeting up there, but I wasn't relying on being able to see her. Now came a decision I have to make quite a lot these days - do I stay in because I have no one to go do fun things with or do I go try to make my own fun? Most of the time I opt to stay in because I find that I have a lot more fun when I'm out with others. This time, I decided I was going out.

Now I've written about eating out at a restaurant by yourself which I've never really warmed up to. That's something I still need to work on, but I think that Thursday night was a baby step in that direction. I fought the traffic, was surprised when I actually got a parking spot, made my way into the crowd and found a place to sit on the grass between families on their spread-out blankets. I got a spot near the speakers so I could hear the music. At this point I didn't know if I really had any concrete plans for the 4th, and I always like to see fireworks, so I just sat and enjoyed the fireworks to the patriotic music. I have to say, Addison puts on a good show.

After the fireworks they had an outdoor screening of Rudy. I really love the idea of seeing a movie out under the stars so I stayed to watch. I had actually never seen Rudy before so it was fun to just sit out. It was a pretty nice night and eventually I even laid back, propped my head up on my purse, and nearly fell asleep out there. One of the scenes in the movie involves a bunch of football players starting a slow clap for Rudy. Everyone in the audience played right along and started the slow clap - it was cheesy but really fun (I love cheesy things) and I just had to smile and laugh. You just have to be laid back when you're outside watching a movie.

Sure, friends would have made that even more fun but I didn't want to stay home. I was rewarded for being independent and had a really great time.

On to the 4th of July. Just a really casual gathering of friends and watching the Lewisville fireworks. It was nice to not have to make a big fuss - I wasn't cooking, I didn't have to travel too far, I didn't have to fight traffic, and I just got to enjoy good company. I especially didn't want to travel to Austin this weekend because of all the holiday traffic so I'm glad I went to a celebration that didn't involve all the hoopla.

Finally, tonight. Went out with a group of friends to see a band in a small country bar. We know the drummer, and it's always fun to know someone in the band. I love to just be silly and dance, I'm not very self-conscious about it, so it was really fun for me. I don't have too many friends who like to go out dancing here and I don't often get invited, so it was a real treat for me to go dancing. When I'm in Austin, I really like to go to a bar where everyone dances and no one has to feel embarrassed about it. When everyone's moving to the music, I bust out a few of my extra moves. Now most of the time when I dance, not a lot of people are dancing so everyone feels a little more exposed. I turn the dancing down a few notches so I don't embarrass my friends. :p I just like to be crazy and free when I'm dancing...I would say it's probably my favorite thing to do.

So it's late but I just wanted to go ahead and get this down on the old blog. I meant to blog about it today but then the printer mishap occurred. I didn't want to wait until tomorrow to get it down because I'll just be doing stuff around the apartment and we all know how I feel about that! Haha. Just trying to pull through and get to the point where I get to move out of this place.

All in all, though, I had a really good time and I just really wanted to record that. I seem to have fewer and fewer things that are really making me happy these days...the last year has been rough. But I believe that's a whole other post reflecting back on my first year out in the real world.

To be continued...