Tammi's World

A Nice Change of Pace

Yesterday was such a nice change for me. I had my training class in the morning. Handled some issues, answered some questions and basically built a bit stronger relationship with this particular store.

Driving home I decided I just didn't want to deal with a day in my office by myself. I wanted to have a bit of fun.

So I called my friend that doesn't live to far from me and asked if I could come over for a bit. Perfect timing. She wanted to do some running and we always did enjoy doing that together.

So we meet up at her house and off we go. We took a drive up to Altamonte Springs and popped into a fabric store that she loves. I am not a sew-er at all. I used to have to make a lot of my own clothes and I hated it. I will make curtains if I have to but I don't enjoy it at all. But still, I love to look so that's what we did.

Drove back to Orlando proper and saw much of the damage still evident. Oh My - so many beautiful old oak trees gone. So many houses all but destroyed. That wasn't so fun.

Finally we make it to the top secret meat market and produce store. Oh My Goodness. I love this place. They've been around for about 35 years and this place rocks. I'd been here before, but couldn't find it on my own, so we're going to start going together 1x a month. Listen to this, you can get 8oz NY Strips, beautiful - $2.99 each. Pork steaks, gorgeous, 3 for $2.99. I bought some sirloins, pork steaks, 2 Tilapia fillets, 2 HUGE sweet potatoes, some plumes and a packet of snow peas for less than $10.00. Oh Yeah. All fresh, all good quality. I'll be eatin' good for the next 2 weeks.

We laughed and insulted each other. Got very catty and basically acted like girls. As we were leaving the meat market the heavens opened up with rain. I mean it dumped some serious water down. Then the wind picked up. We were stranded in the parking lot of the bakery for about 45 mins. Listening to music, talking about what we've been up to, remembering things that we'd done. LAUGHING!!!

I had forgotten how much I enjoy something just that simple. I haven't been able to spend an afternoon like that in a very long time. Once I moved to Tampa over a year ago, my friends were all too far away to be able to pull something like that off. Plus my schedule was such that I just couldn't fit it in.

So now I know that at least 1x a month I'll be able to have a great Saturday afternoon just being a girl. Oh, and we're also scheduling in a day of mall crawling. That's not so fun for me, as I spend so much of my work life in malls and such. But I love shopping with her, and I'll just stay the hell out of the mattress departments.

Yeah - I had a Saturday!!!! So today, I'm having a Sunday. I've got my coffee poured, my bathing suit on and I'm headed out to the pool deck. Gonna take my book and just sit out there as long as I want.

Don't care about laundry, don't care about vacuming, don't care about dusting. Today is all mine!!!!!

Posted by Tammi at August 22, 2004 08:05 AM