A Day in Hohenwald...

To start things off... here's a mushy gushy little sampling of an adorable text I received from Mike on my way to work on Saturday night. He's amazing. I'd post the rest but it's just as lovey-dovey and I realize that is sometimes overkill :P


So as you know by now, Mike, Baby G and I loaded up and came down to my parents' house in Hohenwald for a bit. A nice little escape from the Franklin bubble that we live in. It's only an hour and a half-ish south/southwest of Franklin so it's not like it's a long haul or anything. We packed up our stuff with the intention of only really staying one night... but here it is, 11:15 on Monday and we're still here. We've really enjoyed the mini-vaycay. Georgia just played it cool the whole way down... here's a silly picture of her for ya.


Upon arriving yesterday (roughly 4:30pm) we just kicked it at the house for a little bit, poked around, and then we went out to dinner with the folks. We went to a little mexican restaurant and had some deeeeeelish veggie fajitas. We all came home and my parents quickly excused themselves to bed as they both wake up ridiculously early to head to work. Mike and I decided to treat ourselves to the last 4 episodes of Dexter season 1. Man alive! SUCH A GOOD SHOW! I'm hooked. It literally threw my world in a tizzy but we were dead-set on getting season 2 today (no Walmart in a 45 mile radius has it! And sadly stores like Best Buy don't exist this far into the deep country haha). Well we finally poured ourselves into bed at about 3am or something and Georgia managed to wake me up literally every fifteen minutes until I finally said OKAY and got up at 11am. Mike and I had previously woken up at 9am to go get breakfast (I want him to try chocolate gravy) but sadly the place was closed so maybe tomorrow!) We came back home and back to bed we went. Mom came home for her lunch break and an old friend of hers stopped by. After she went back to work I decided to curl my hair. That's a good hour and a half process. Mike was still sleeping and I was unsuccessful at prying him from bed at noon. He eventually woke up at like 1:30! We got all ready and went to "town"... and by "town" i mean the smallest Super Walmart you can picture! Afterwards we stopped by Movie Gallery because they were going out of business. We managed to snag 10 DVDs for $19! Win! Including Season 2 of Flight of the Conchords! Yussss!

My parents got home from work and we did some family things and what not. After coming home Mike and I decided it'd be nice to finally eat our first actual meal of the day so we got some food at about 5:30pm. Came home and he put in Flight of the Conchords season 1 to watch and I took a nice little 2 hour nap! It was much needed since G decided to act like a newborn baby last night. When I finally woke up at 8pm we headed over to the little dive bar and hung around for a bit. No one was there but an older fella chatted me up about Creation vs. Evolution for about 2 hours while Mike played my stepdad in pool (and lost. It's okay babe, I still love you :P). Now we're all piled onto the couch (G, Mike and myself) and we're about to watch Brothers Solomon and probably a few other movies. It's nice to stay up late and sleep in! Georgia took a nap after I woke up. She literally just passed out like this! Hilarious!


My Formspring is blowing up with drama about being "fake" because I wear colored contacts and hair extensions (this also goes for makeup, push-up bras, tans, body modification, and hair dye). My oh my! The things people get into these days. It's quite comical if you want to take a gander. You can CLICK HERE to see for yourself. I'm all about people having their right to opinions and whatnot... and I'll 100% respect them, even if they're against what I do/believe, but some people just get downright immature and ridiculous. I think from this point forward, I'll just stop acknowledging any dramatic, immature, or low-blow comments made in my formspring. (Plus, at 1,700 questions answered, It's about overstayed its welcome). Thats not to say I think this person's opinion is immature; I'm talking more about people just trolling. Anyway, if you take a gander at the whole fake vs au naturale battle, let me know your opinion if you want... even if it's opposite of mine! :)

I'll leave you with this picture I saw on my mom's mirror today in her room. D'awwww! Little 5 year old Kaelah! Yeeeehaw!


Happy Monday/Tuesday! I don't know when I'll be back at my computer with wireless (I'm on my parents' prehistoric PC now) but I'll have some music for y'all!

xoxo PS; Hello to all my new followers! Introduce yourselves!

Let's play catchup...

Sorry I didn't blog yesterday... I've come down with a crazy sickness that stemmed outta nowhere. Waking up with a killer sore throat and a headache from Hell... Yesterday I sucked it up and headed over to campus for my Portfolio class. Sometimes that class just infuriates me. At least yesterday was tolerable. I got some feedback on an album design I'm doing (which is due tomorrow... and I'm nowhere near done) and then Mike picked me up and we went to Goodlettsville so I could get tattooed by Jason.

Here are some interesting pictures...

I don't understand why she sits this way...

All of my classes at school are tiny. Like literally 7 people or less. That's the amazing thing of an itsy bitsy private art school.

The VisCom building... we get treated like the red-headed step children of O'More... yes, I'm aware that I'm actually a redhead.

This is Abbey Leix Mansion... aka the Administration building. Isn't it gorgeous? The whole darn campus is ridiculously haunted. It's awesome and creepy at the same time.

This would be the library. The old VisCom department was upstairs for my first 3 years at O'More... it's literally only 3 tiny classrooms. Which is equivalent to what we have now... except one extra bathroom haha.

The tattoo session got cut short (we were going to shoot for a longggg one) by some unforeseen happenings. We dilly-dallied around town for a bit and headed over to the Rivergate Mall... I'm not sure if anyone that reads my blog has ever BEEN to the Rivergate Mall, but it was quite possibly the most ghetto place I've ever stepped foot in. Half the place was run down and torn to bits. We did manage to find a Wet Seal though. It was surprisingly nice... I managed to pick up two awesome new dresses and then we headed home. By the time we finished the 45 minute drive, Mike was feeling woozy and sick. I could barely talk because my tonsils had swollen so big. We got inside. got into our pajamas, he ran me a hot bath (that I could only stand for about 3 minutes) and we laid on the couch to watch a movie. I took some Nyquil and it knocked me outttttt. I was out for 12 hours. I woke up at 10am in a dizzy state. I had to push through it though, I had a lot to do today. I managed to get to campus way early to try and talk to Shari (Academic Dean) about my classes if I were to get the BME Internship (luckily everything is now 100% Systems A GO! Sweet!) and then I headed over to the Student Government meeting to work out the budget for the cocktail party. At 1pm I had Print Design 2 so all 7 of us huddled at our table and did a creative brainstorming session for the headlines of a high-end real estate piece we're designing.

After school, Mike drove me 20 miles to Sweet CeCe's in Belle Meade because they had Pomegranate Raspberry sorbet and the local one down the street didn't. It's my absolute fave! I piled it high with kiwi, strawberry, and pineapple! So delicious! We came home and that's when the drama started to unfold...

Adam is attempting to sell the Macbook computer he stole from me on Craigslist... for $500. I called my mom immediately. She told me to contact him and tell him if he didn't send it back by 5pm tomorrow, she's suing. She was dead serious too. My mom is such a sweet, little woman... you rarely see her with a super serious or angered tone in her voice... oh buddy, but when she gets fired up, you best take cover. I passed on the information and all of his responses were very coy and "sweet"... aka full of bullcrap. I called the police and they came over for a bit just to help me sort things out. Then I contacted an attorney that I've been speaking with about the whole matter. Wish me luck! That computer WILL be retrieved! I told him to send my stuff with it, too. Let's see if he cooperates.

I spent a bit of today editing my final intern assignment for BME. I don't speak at all in the video because I barely have a voice. When I'm audible I just sound like an old lady who has been smoking for too long. I sent everything in though, so now all I do is wait. Patiently. Man it's hard! The videos and blogs go live on ModBlog at midnight Thursday PST!

Oh, someone on formspring asked for progress photos of my arm... here they are. My little octopus looks like he has leprosy. But worry not! The magenta will fade and we'll go over the whole thing with orange. I'm excited. My arm feels like it has a constant charlie-horse though. Bleh!

Now I'm going to settle into my couch, get cozy, and work on this album art for a bit (until the wee hours of the AM) while Mike plays Grand Theft Auto... then I'm getting in bed and I'm gonna snooze until I've got about 15 minutes to make it to class. haha No care ever.

xo

EDIT: I felt the need to come back to this post... I guess I just wanted to share something... No matter how many crappy people try to ruin my day or rain on my parade, or screw me over... I am so incredibly, genuinely happy right now. Everything is amazing. I may despise the fact I only have until March 25th to write a ridiculously long paper over Andy Warhol, and the fact that I work has been slow... but nothing compares to how happy the awesome people in my life make me. Honestly. Everything is A+ and I'm so grateful for every single person that has contributed. That means all of YOU, as well. So thank you! Give yourselves a big pat on the ol' back for me, would ya? ;)