Breaking Dawn Part 1, Chapter 1

Happy Monday, folks!  (WTF-yeah right!) 

I did not want to get up this morning at all!  There is just something about having a four day weekend that completely ruins Monday mornings more than usual.  But here I am.  I am back at work, my voicemail message is set back to "I'm here damnit, leave me a message" and my email away message has been turned off.  FML.  Actually, in the spirit of Thanksgiving coming up this week, I would like to say that even though I did not want to get my ass up this morning, I am VERY thankful for my job that I love so much.  Amen and thank you baby Jesus.  Enough said.

I need to stop complaining so much and give props where props are due.  I <heart> my job very much and I am thankful that I have somewhere nice to work. 

I have so very much to say about this past weekend and the shenanigans that went on...I don't even know where to begin.  Let me just start at the beginning...(duh!).....

Wednesday night, I did my usual routine.  Supa was closing down his store and he had a meeting after work so he was out of the picture.  I took the kids to Bilo with me to get my couponing done and then it was back home to cook dinner.  After that was complete and I had the kids all situated, Lolly showed up to spend the night.  I still needed to pack so she came in the bathroom/closet to talk to me while I got my shit together.  BAD IDEA.  I hadn't seen her in person in about a month because we have all just been busy because her new boyfriend is selfish with her free time and we were talking our asses off.  In result of our catching up,  I packed very distractedly .  

We made sure everything was good to go for in the morning, hung out for a little while, watched some Real World together and then it was time for bed!  We needed to get some rest for our big day on....

THURSDAY!!!

Let's just say that we were supposed to be at Jade's house at 7:30 AM.  I kind of gave her a hard time about not being able to leave at 7:00 like I originally planned (damn, can't the kids just drive themselves to school and daycare just for this one day?!) so I figured we better be on time.  Well, we were ready, I kissed Supa goodbye (14 times) and then we went outside to load the truck and it was RAINING.  <SIGH>  Not a little sprinkle either.  The wind was blowing and it looked like it was kind of raining sideways.  Grrr!  So, it took us a few extra trips and a few unhappy moments trying to get us and our shit in the truck without getting soaked.  

It wasn't quite this bad, but you get the point.  We didn't get the fucking memo that it was going to rain. 


We arrived at Jade's house at 7:35 AM.  Late.  FUCK!  She had a great little story for us when we pulled up.  She went outside to wait in the front yard for us with her bags, locked the door behind her and then it started raining.  She then tried to go BACK into the house to wait on dry land.  So far, good story right?  Yeah, UNTIL she stuck her key in the door nob and turned and the damn key bent in half.  Had she kept turning it, it would have broken off in the door.  Oh shit.  Unable to get her door unlocked with her gimp house key, she was trapped outside in the rain to wait on her two late best friends.  Oh, lawd.  She wasn't very happy when we got there.  Thankfully, since we were only 5 minutes late, she allowed us to live this one time.  (I mean, how could she have seen Breaking Dawn if she was busy burying our dead bodies??)

I have a feeling that digging two of these would be time consuming.  Especially if you were locked out of your house and it was raining.  ;)

After that little whoops, we were finally off and on our way to Shoney's for some yummy breakfast buffet.  We got there and got seated with no issues.  We went up to the bar, loaded some plates and dug right in!

Not exactly your breakfast of champions but delicious anyhow!!



This WAS Lolly's pancake....It must have been pretty yummy!!

So we're sitting there, minding our own business and eating our food when we realize that everyone is staring at the man sitting in the booth directly across from us.  We look over to see what all the staring is about.....There is a middle aged black man sitting by himself and he keeps falling asleep sitting up!  He's falling over onto his table because he's asleep!  We weren't sure if he was homeless or sick or what.  Jade said she thought he might be blind because when we first sat down he was trying to put sugar in his mug and he was sort of having a hard time.  So we just kind of kept eating, continuing to mind our own business, all of us feeling sorry for the guy.  Then the waitress came over and woke him up.  He just kind of sat there, staring into space, still nodding off every now and then.  (Oh, how I wish I had a picture of this guy!)

Then, we're just sitting there and Jade decides that it would be really entertaining of her to dump her entire Pepsi (a huge full glass) right down her front and into her lap.  Wow, really Jade?!  You could have just said, "Hey, you guys, pay me some attention" and we totally would have.  No need to wet yourself (literally).  When she stood up, it looked like she pissed herself good.  LOL.  She didn't think this was all that funny, which of course, made it funnier. 

**Remember, at this point, we haven't even left town yet.**

Shortly after Jade dumped her entire drink into her lap, Mr. "I might be homeless but either way, I'm definitely tired", decided to throw his glass (mostly just watered down drink and ice) onto the floor!  WTF?!  He fell asleep with the glass in his hand and when he woke up, he just threw it out of instinct, I guess.  The people sitting around us were like, "Hey, is there some sort of chain reaction going on over there?!?)  The entire section was laughing.  As Jade helped Mr. Sleepy pick his ice cubes up, she determined that he was not blind just possibly drunk and definitely homeless.  After she helped him, he decided it was time to ask us for money.  No sir.  Do we look like we carry cash?!  We sure don't!  Bye bye!  Time for us to split!  Jade went out to the truck to get clean clothes with a dry crotch and off we went!

We left Shoney's and made it across the street to the gas station where Mr. Sleepy Homeless Guy was sitting just inside the door.  Wonderful!  For some reason, we could not escape him!  He didn't bother us.  We got our drinks and snacks and got on the interstate!  Charleston, here we come!!!

We drove to Charleston without any crazy bullshit happening.  (That was a miracle.)  We sang all the new (and some old) songs I downloaded onto my iPod for us at the top of our lungs and talked our heads off.  (Think Bobby Brown, Dev, Breathe Carolina, Lloyd, Nicki Minaj and many more)  That was some fun, quality, girl time that was much needed by all of us.  This is usually one of my most favorite times of our trips, just the simple girl time that we spend together.  This time was no exception. 

When we reached Charleston, we decided to go straight to the hotel to get our room and unload our crap.  We all had to pee so bad that we got out of the truck and went straight into the bathroom off of the lobby.  Well, it's a pretty old hotel.  The bathroom isn't amazing.  Jade went into stall #1, Lolly into stall #2 and then I was left with stall #3 which was missing something very important.  A fucking DOOR.  That's right, the stall had no damn door.  So, I said I had to pee really bad so I dropped my drawers and peed with no door.  If they don't care enough to replace a missing door on a bathroom stall, then I don't care about anyone walking in on me.  I kind of WISHED someone would so I could say, "Hello, I am peeing.  Yes, I know there is no door on this stall but I don't care.  Peeing comes first.  If you don't pee when you need to, you might end up like Pepsi Crotch over there in stall #1."  :O  Unfortunately, no one walked into the bathroom while we peed.

After our much needed pee-pee session, we went back out to the lobby, got our room keys and headed on over to check it out.  

And, this is where the magic was scheduled to happen.  LOL

It was a regular old, run of the mill type room.  Two double beds, TV, mini fridge, bathroom.  (Note the NON-smoking symbol on the door....Yep, still haven't smoked a single cigarette!!)  Whatever.  It would do.  $22.00 per person for one night!  WOOT!!  Right up our alley!  We unloaded our overnight bags, looked in the mirror for a minute and then out the door we went!

TO BE CONTINUED......................................