Today started out as a normal Sunday. My mom got me up. I went into the living room. I said good morning to my parents. My dad got up and went to the kitchen. He came back with an envelope...WITH METALLICA TICKETS INSIDE!!!!!

Metallica is my all-time favorite band, and they are coming to Atlanta on October 4th, which just happens to be my birthday! So they gave me the tickets today, because I'll have to make plans to go back to Athens that Monday morning. My parents are awesome!

I also bought a rainbow-colored GIANT umbrella today that also happens to fold up small enough to fit into my bookbag. It both opens and closes with a button. Amazingness? Yes.

While walking through Belks to get the umbrella, I happened to see, out of the corner of my eye, a gray, black and red dress on SALE! It's the perfect colors for a Georgia game, which I will be going to this weekend (most likely in the rain, since this monsoon isn't going away for another week). I also had a ten dollar off coupon, so I got ridiculously good deals on both umbrella and dress.

One of my good friends got back from a cruise recently, and brought me back a t-shirt from Nassau, as well as some of my favorite body spray in a scent that has been discontinued. Oh, and I took a nap. Basically, I had a good day.

Now off to have some of my favorite frozen yogurt, Cool Mint Cookie. Yum!

RAIN.

Oh my God it has done nothing but rain for the entire week. Every day, it's drippy, and wet, and puddly, and... rainy. Sometimes it's a really good drenching, other times it's a fairly decent drizzle, and occasionally a weak little mist that coats your glasses so you can't see (which I'm wearing until this weekend, when I can grab another pair of contacts). And when is it going to stop? There's not a single sun to be found on the weather forecast until next Saturday.

Yesterday, I ran to the mailbox. It was not raining. Halfway to the mailbox. It started raining. Not just raining, oh no--POURING. I was drenched within five minutes, and I even had to go change clothes. Not cool. I like rockin my super awesome Republican rain boots, but there's only so much stuff I have that is navy blue.

This is a worm. I hate worms. They're squishy, they're icky, they're gross. The rain brings them out like there's a half off sale on chocolate and it's national PMS day.

And so: Rain = Worms. Worms = Ew. Therefore, Rain = Ew.
I know my transitive property!

Other than having a shampoo bottle fall on my head this morning and stepping on worms all day, the first Monday of the long dry spell between Spring Break and summer wasn't too bad. I ate Chick-fil-a, spent way too much money at Walmart (but I finally bought Robin Hood: Men in Tights! A banner day. And some exciting new cereal bars!), and watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium with the roommate. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it for all ages. It's worth it.

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."
-Mr. Magorium
(My new favorite quote)

Also, a bonus picture for the day:



I walk past this every day when I go up the stupid hill between the street and my dorm. It's supposed to be a drainage pipe, but, as you can see, somebody thought it looked like a sea monster, or an earth monster in this case, and decorated it accordingly. I think it's cute!

So, once again I was a bad kid and didn't post yesterday. I'm sorry. I got to decorate a gingerbread house. Mine looked nothing like that up there, but I couldn't get a picture. Our icing was too watery, so it looked like our house was going through a heat wave. It was very very messy, but I had fun anyway. Then, I got to eat my weight in candy and cake, so I was on a major sugar high. And when I crashed, I crashed hard. It might've actually made me sick...

The only other thing I can remember about yesterday is that the Weather Channel's website lied to me. I checked it in the morning, and it said it was 59 degrees, foggy, and would get slighter colder as the day went on - a whopping 57 degrees by 4PM! So, I just wore a light jacket. It seemed at first that I would be alright. But then it got cold. And it got rainy. Not just drizzling rainy, but God is dumping a lake on your head rainy. I, of course, thinking there was zero chance of precipitation, did not have an umbrella, rain boots, or rain coat. Damn Weather Channel...