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March 27, 2006
Locked Out
It has been really nice being home this past weekend. I miss my family, the pets, the house, and Greenwich in general when I'm away at school in Hartford, so it's nice to have a few days back every now and then. Saturday was Molly's birthday and the night of her sorority's formal, so she was home for the day to celebrate with her family and get ready for the party. Molly had asked me if I would do her hair and makeup, so Saturday afternoon Molly came over to my house. It was a lot of fun playing makeover, what girl doesn't love to make-up their friends?
Molly after I did her hair and makeup. Isn't she gorgeous? Of course she's gorgeous without the hair/makeup done too:
I burned my arm on a curling iron while doing Molly's hair, but it was still a lot of fun to do. Here's my battle wound:
All girls know that trying to put a little curl in straight hair is a battle!
Molly sent me some pictures from her formal and she looked so cute!
Saturday night I went to our yacht club with my dad for dinner where we had the most amazing swordfish ever! It just had so much flavor and it was the perfect texture. After dinner, my mom and I watched Christmas With the Kranks which was a little silly, but still very cute. My mom cried.
Yesterday was another birthday, my mom's! We had to cancel her party due to unexpected circumstances, but we still had a little cheesecake at my grandparents' house and we all sang "Happy Birthday." My mom has a bay window above the sink in our kitchen and she loves to fill it with lots of flowers and she always makes it look beautiful. I wanted to get her something to put there that she could plant outside once it had finished blooming, so I got her an azalea and I picked out a really cute re-usable pot with it. I also framed a picture of my mom and me on Christmas and gave that to her as well.
My gift to the most amazing mom in the world!
The picture:
Mom's bay window with the new plant and pot!
My dad got my mom a beautiful silk scarf and a new Spring cardigan, and my grandparents gave her a really nice wallet and money to go inside! We'll be celebrating my mom's birthday with everyone as a joint birthday party with my dad on his birthday later on in April.
Now, this morning....
I woke up at 6am this morning to make sure that I would be out of the house and back to Trinity in time for my statistics class. I absolutely did not want to be awake that early, especially just for one class, but I dragged myself out of bed, got showered and dressed, had my coffe by Mr. T (what I named the Tassimo coffe magician) and packed all my things in the car.
My coffee being made by Mr. T:
My dad was off at work and my mom had literally just pulled out of the driveway to go to a doctor's appointment as I was walking outside to put my last bag in the car... not including my purse with my keys and cell phone that was still sitting on the kitchen table. I didn't want the dog, Chloe, to get outside so I instinctively pulled the door shut behind me as she ran towards it. As I walked to the car, thought to myself "That door better not be locked..." even though I didn't think it was a real possibility. I put my bag in the car and headed back to the door, tried to turn the handle... stuck. The door was locked. I walked to the front door, that was locked too. I walked across the deck, through the porch and tried the glass sliding doors there... locked. I tried the back door again, to no avail, and searched all around the garage for a non-existant hidden key. I was completely and totally locked out of the house. My mom had apparently made sure all the doors were locked before she left, because, you know... Greenwich, CT is a dangerous place. There might be gangs out there! Anyway, I looked into the kitchen window and saw the dog sitting there looking out at me, and I swear she was smirking.
I decided it was too early to wake the neighbors for house keys, so I walked to my grandparents' condo in Old Greenwich. It was actually a really beautiful walk through Binney Park and I wished that I had my camera with me, but it was in my purse along with my keys. I got to my grandparents' house where my grandma gave me some keys and very nicely drove me home. Now that I'm home and it's definitely too late to make it to my statistics class, I'm going to stick around for a little while and have lunch out at Bella Nonna with my mom and my grandparents.
Off to school (again) later this afternoon!
Posted by lauren at March 27, 2006 09:27 AM
Comments
i was about to comment about you misspelling "machine", but then i thought to myself "no. mr.t is absolutely a magician."
Posted by: brent at March 27, 2006 11:38 AM
Yes, it was meant to be magician. He works caffeinated magic like nothing you've ever seen before....
Posted by: Lauren at March 27, 2006 01:20 PM
lauren, my face looks ultra fat in that first pick and in the second my forehead looks the size of landing strip... HORRIBLE!!! thanks for the fabulous hair and makeup though, job well done, A+!!
Posted by: Molly at March 27, 2006 01:44 PM
You should of jumped (climbed on the porch railings) on the roof above the screen-in porch and checked my windows--they are usually unlocked. i know it is easy because I used to do it all the time when I lived there in college. Although I don't know why I was sneaking out when I was in college, but I did. I guess I was just used to it.
Hiar & make-up fabulous. I love giving make overs. I have always said if I get fired from my job i am going to go to Bumble & Bumble school and become a stylist!
Posted by: jocelyn at March 27, 2006 06:36 PM
You guys are the 14573 best, thanks so much for the help.
Posted by: Caty Tota at June 17, 2006 11:26 AM