La mia settemana e bella!

Oh, that is so discouraging--- I know that I just wrote that all wrong- I can't even remember how to say 'My weekend was beautiful!' I am currently registered for Italian 201...however, I am rather concerned, because it could drop my gpa A LOT, and it is guaranteed to drop it at least a little. It's funny, when I was trying to write that sentence, I got super confused...and I am still not sure if what I was thinking I should write for "was" was Italian, Spanish, or Latin. Latin did help learning Italian, at times, but more often then not, it was just close enough to mess me up...I would want to start doing Latin chants on my Verificas (pop quizes!)..bo, bis. bit. bimus, bitis, bunt. bam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant. ero, eris, erit, erimus, eritis, erunt, o, s, t, mus, tis, nt, eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant.....funny how those darn chants haunt you...wish I could remember at least 3 of my Italian chants. shoot.....trouuuuuuble.

Yet, I will still probably keep the class, because I really would like to learn the language....and study abroad (?????)!!!

Not only that, but I really do believe that learning another language, somehow gives you a better command of your own. I will not forget how studying Latin, actually taught me the parts of 'language' so much better than I ever had understood them. Not to mention, Italian is romantic :) And as you all should know by now, I am a silly romantic girl...it's true.

This post, is about my weekend (though you might be confused after the Italian introduction which became a 4 paragraph argument about the Italian language and my success, or rather, failure with it).

Friday night, Kim and I went to Green Hills and wandered the mall for a bit, got some delicious gelato (see, Italian again- it's a hidden theme!), and then saw Hairspray. Short funny story- the theater (this word always bothers me- theater, or theatre?) didn't have the number visible outside so we thought we might be going into the wrong one, but it seemed like it should be #10. Well, after all the previews, the movie started and I'm thinking, "This doesn't seem right." Then we realize, it's License to Wed (because we had seen that a few weeks ago). Kim gets up and starts sneaking out of the theater, figuring, we weren't in #10 after all. But I hear someone behind me say that THEY were in the wrong movie, and a number of people all over the theater start trying to leave "discretely" so everyone doesn't realize that these stupid people have gone to the wrong theater....like Kim. Well, I lean over to the women next to us and ask them what movie they were here to see. They are kind of bugged at first that I am talking in their movie (they obviously had not seen Hairspray or License to Wed yet). They answer, "Hairspray." By this time Kim is at the exit, waving at me to come, and I just shout out to her, "It's the wrong movie- Everyone is here to see Hairspray!" At this time, pretty much everyone else is also figuring out what I have. Kim laughs and comes over, then she decides to go tell someone so they can fix it....a few others had too. I hadn't realized just how many people had "sneacked" out of the theater, until rows of people started filing back in. Everyone in the theater was laughing.

The movie was great by the way- I sooo wanted to dance after it. If Kris had been there, we probably would have been up face to face with the credits, dancing away. Instead, I just danced right in front of Kim the whole way out of teh theater---Green Hills is like Bellevue, but even more extreme....it's where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban live...it's "hoity-toity..." you get what I'm saying ;) So, my dancing like I was a 1960's rockstar was probably a little out of place. lol....But, You can't stop the rhythm as it.....oh, sorry. Back to my weekend.

Saturday, is usually the wonderful, sleep in late and wake up when the day is half over, right? NO. 9am, and I was wide awake. It ended up great- I felt refreshed, and I had lots of time to spend with the Lord....and then still lots of time to blog. That's when I found all the little picture icons that are now on the left of my blog. I looked through that website at icons for like an hour! And, it's when I got to add those verses to the left as well...I'll probably just keep cycling those through as I find verses that are working in me.

When Kim and Jason finally got up, Kim make crepes and fresh French Press Coffee (that's why I look forward to the weekends these days!!!) while Jason and I fed our addictions- the drug of his choice, online scrabble...and of mine, well, you're looking at it. lol. Not really, but we like to laugh about it....we spent a lot of time this weekend with him on the computer in the guest room, playing scrabble and looking up new words, and me sitting on my bed, on my laptop....checking repeatedly to see if anyone left me a comment. (uhum.)

The crepes were delicious! Then, once we finally headed out of the apartment, we went to Franklin for their Fair. Where we ate yummy food, watched some cool people (I mean these guys, more than the Blue Grass Bands) ... ate Kettle Corn and just walked around for a bit. THEN, on our way back to the car, Kim swore that it was Kimberly Williams Paisley who had just walked buy us holding a little baby...I didn't think so. I had caught her profile and it just didn't look like her. Kim goes...I just looked her straight in the face- it's her. So we were walking along behind her, and she crossed the street, but kept walking in the same direction we were. Then, up ahead there were two girls with a camera, all excited. And Kim goes, "Thats Kimberly Williams, huh?" And they go- Yeah! She turns to me, SEE!

The girls went over and talked to her, but we just continued to our car. That's a pretty cool story, huh? Brad is on tour right now, so that's why I'm betting she was alone- plus she's probably got a better chance of just being left alone when he's not with her.

SO, we were done with our plans for the day, and it was only late afternoon. We were headed home and I asked if we could just go drive--I haven't seen much of the country, or even the suburbs since I've been here. Jason turned the car around and we just headed off into the hills. We came across this old battle site, and he pulled in. Of course, I wanted to get out, so we wandered around it for a few minutes, read the signs, and then jumped back in the car. We drove through some beautiful countryside and looked at amazing barns, lol, and huge houses! Then, Jason headed in the direction of Leiper's Fork.

As we pulled into town- comprised of 5(?) buildings- Jason pulled the car into a gravel parking lot and shut off the engine. We went into the coolest little hick shop- grabbed 3 glass sodas (orange creme for me, black cherry for Jason, and cream soda for Kim) and walked out to the front porch of a little art museum (closed by this time), and sat out on the porch swing with our kettle corn and soda. It was great- meanwhile, people were pulling up and dragging their lawn chairs and blankets around back. There was an outdoor movie all set up, just waiting for dusk. We waited around till dusk and caught the opening moments of the movie, then drove back through the hillside, with all the little sparkles of lightning bugs like the last few promises of the day, materializing.

Dusk is my favorite time of the day, and there is few things quite as wonderful as a drive through the countryside right as the sun and moon exchange guard. We didn't talk as much as we had on the ride out, the music was low, and we all just enjoyed the moment.

As we reached familiar territory, Jason told us a great story about driving a big 'ol lift (a construction vehicle that is HUGE, and is SLOW) down this curvy street and getting pulled over by a cop. He also pointed out the house of Tony Brown (I believe that's his name), George Strait's producer.

When we got home we were going to watch Sweet Home Alabama, but we watched So You Think You Can Dance, and Don't Forget the Lyrics with Jason so he could catch up--or perhaps, it was just so we could hear him sing along to the "So you think you can, so you think can, dance, dance, dance." And mimic Cat Deeley. ;)

Kim crashed out before we ever started Sweet Home Alamaba, so Jason and I started Tombstone- Jason's all-time favorite movie, and a movie I had never seen= a must movie for us during my stay. Doc is one of Jason's all time favorite characters, and I agree, he was pretty great. I guess the movie came out while Jason was playing in the Minors, and he and his travel roommate loved it and would watch it ALL the time...it was like their soundtrack for cardgames, sunbathing on the porch,,,everything. And they would sit on the field and quote the movie to each other. So Jason knows literally, every line. BUT, he was pretty good at keeping quiet during it...though, we did end up rewinding quite a bit because one of us would be saying something, or it was just too good and we had to hear it again, or there would be some funny detail that you wouldn't normally catch the first 4 times you watch it and Jason would point it out to me.

Can you believe we are only on Sunday? Sunday, we had church, which was great! Then, the three of us went to Corky's for some really, really good southern BBQ. We got a bunch of wet ribs and then we all picked different sides- Kim and I both ordered this delicious fried corn...it actually had a light seasoned fried batter on it--- I want to know how to make it because it was amazing! Then I also got fried apples, which tasted pretty much like the filling of an apple cobbler---delicious!

Saturday afternoon we were going to go swimming- I put on my swimsuit, and so did Jason...and Kim fell asleep and we just didn't end up going..Then sunday after church, I put on my swim suit and fell asleep, then kim ended up falling asleep...and again, we didn't go. lol. SO we never did make the pool this weekend.

Sunday evening we went to the Bluebird Cafe, apparently a very Nashville thing to do. It's a tiny little cafe, that they pack out twice, each night. We were there 45 minutes early and still hardly got seated (after waiting quite a while!). They turned plenty of people away. It's has a stage and I guess it is pretty tough to get to perform there, you have to pretty much already have a name for yourself. The performance is usually pretty impressive according to Jason, and everyone else we've heard about it from, but last night was like a writer's open night, kind of...they have to audition one minute of their song and wait in long lines and stuff. Well, it actually got frightening at one point...a guy got up there and sang a song he;d written called "Porky." We'd had out eye on him since we came in because he'd been acting so strange...I'd thought he might be autistic. When he got up, I was impressed how well he played the piano, but he was still acting very strange. Then his second song was "On the outside looking in"...all about being left out in highschool. The guys probably in his 30s! His third, and final song was called "Shopping for Love" and it included lines like "You're the only produce that will do" and "Can I put you on my grocery list." I litterally started laughing at this point! Jason and Kim were both too scared, Jason said he was afraid he was gonna pull a gun on all of us after the first two songs. There was a list of pretty bad ones- and only two of the 11 even seemed to be good song writers at all- which is frusterating when we are sitting right by Jason, who has impressed us with several amazing songs! There were two highlights in the actual show, Greg Atkins, who I can't really describe except 'cute.' I really liked him. He was just kinda layed back and made himself less than he was...and his songs were good- especially his first one. And he had an okay voice...I enjoyed his time on the stage. Last writer to get up was Angel Snow- she looked kinda captivating with bleached blonde hair, real short and styled cute, and this beautiful skin, and pretty eyes. She sat down on her stool and started singing and the place was like in a trance! She had an incredible voice, and she just stole the night!

At the end of the night, the writers spotlight was the guy who has written a number of songs I love! I already forgot his name..I'll ask Kim and Jason later. But, he wrote "A Little Past Little Rock" which is a beautiful song, and "Don't Ask Me How I Know" which was a hit the summer after we graduated...I loved that song! And he wrote, "Good Little Girls Make Some Mighty Wild Women" as well as "Better Man, Better Off." All are really great songs, or at leat fun ones. It was pretty cool and we were glad we'd stuck around for that.

We were home late, and I got to bed around midnight...and this morning, I am TIRED!
It was a wonderful weekend though. I do believe that some of the greatest moments are the ones no one plans. I think God's a romantic too, and He likes to surprise us. At times, He even tries to take our breath away.