Girls' Weekend

Recently my Mom and cousin Alli came to visit for the weekend. I took Friday off and we had fun hanging out. We ate dinner at Chuy's one night, shopped at Opry Mills Mall, went to our favorite fabric store and did some sewing. Oh, and I almost forgot, Sweet Ceces... 

Butter came to stay...

This weekend, my pal brother, Butter came for a visit.  I have a lot of nicknames for my brothers, but butter is Ben's oldest one.  ;)  He doesn't like it, I'm sure... 

Brody and I picked him up from the airport on Friday night, and we spent the evening watching tv, walking Brody and eating Taco Soup.  Brody looved having another human to sit on.  Ben kindly brought me apples from the north (they smell glorious!). 

Saturday we went to breakfast at Fido.  I had fried eggs, ham and cafe' au lait.  Ben had steak and eggs and a latte.  Then a walk at Edwin Warner.  Where we got lost and sang "All I want for breakfast is cornbread and coffee..." with a reggae band there for a benefit event.  Even though we were tired, we still managed to go play laser tag with some friends, take a long drive, and have dinner with my neighbors.  It was a fun day, but boy, we were tired in the end.  

Sunday morning was sunny and warm.  After church and a fun lunch with friends we picked up Brody and headed to the dog park.  All too soon it was 4 o'clock and Ben needed to be at the airport to catch his flight back to Chicago. 

Brody and I were worn out last night.  After his bath and haircut he plopped down by the couch and didn't move until bedtime, and I barely worked on some laundry. 

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Nashville Flood 2010

The last 3 days have been crazy, weird, eye-opening and sobering. Torrential rain caused flooding all over middle TN. We normally get something like 12 inches of rain from May through July and we had over 13 inches of rain from Saturday to Sunday night.
On Saturday night I was driving back from Atlanta and heard on the radio that 24 was closed up ahead of me. I called some friends to find out what was going on, and realized I might have trouble getting home. Here is what the highway looked like just miles ahead of where I was:

via examiner.com

I got off the highway about a hour from home and found my way around the city. It took me about 2 and a half hours to get home. I was so glad to have made it! I was considering finding a place to stop overnight instead of trying to get home, but I'm really glad I didn't. It rained over 8 more inches overnight and I might have had a harder time getting home on Sunday. Many of the roads heading into my neighborhood were completely underwater on Sunday and still are. One of the water treatment plants in town has flooded and the other is in danger of running out of water. I stopped at the store last night to get some groceries and the shelves were pretty bare.
Hundreds of people have lots their homes, and many have had trouble getting out of their neighborhoods because of the flooding. It is sobering to see something so tragic happening so close to home. No one expected something like this to happen, and the loss of lives and homes is so sad.

This is at Edmondson Pike and McMurray- where I used to live. via Channel 4 new WSMV

via Channel 4 news WSMV

Downtown Nashville. via Tennessean

Belle Meade Kroger. via Tennessean

Belle Meade, Hwy 100. via Tennessean

Poor Cows! via Nashvillest.com

Ghost Ballet Sculpture downtown, knocked down. via Channel 4 news WSMV

Monday

This is the second week for my temp job at the law department at the city. They are interviewing for a paralegal, so hopefully they won't need me for much longer. I'm really glad that I'm working, but I don't enjoy working there. The attorney's are nice, however they can be a little intense (which comes with their job I guess). I just can't really do the work they need me to do, and it's frustrating to sit and do nothing all day. I actually don't mind not having anything to do, except when the attorney's there. She is always walking by my desk and I feel like she is giving me shrewd looks judging me because I'm not busy with work. But I've organized the whole office, washed all of the shelves and desk surfaces, alphabetized the binders, straitened the filing cabinets. After doing all of that I can't come up with anything else I can do on my own. And when I ask them if they'd like me to do anything, they get impatient with me. But I've realized it's not my fault the phone never rings or that I don't have outlook so I can't keep their schedules, or that they don't give me work to do.

So today the attorney left the office for the afternoon and the assistant attorney told me to surf the internet or something! lol. I must have played solitaire at least 25 times. It was nice. : ) luckily I also had a book with me today so I read and did internet stuff too. I feel guilty for sitting there and doing nothing, but they want me there to answer the phones and take messages for them when they're not there--- so I need to just relax...