Semi charmed kind of life

As it happens, I was hyping up the last two days of my trip way too much. They were good those last couple of days, but we didn't really go on any adventures. On Friday, we lazed around and went to mt. Lebanon for ice cream and Mrs. K shared an Italian hoagie with me. We talked about the ultimate question again. (The one about which TV shows you'd pick to watch the rest of your life.) Mr. K turned on The Great Escape and we watched and talked. One by one, everybody went to bed and I finished the movie. The ending was a bummer.
Saturday, I met more of Calub's family and friends and Mr. K fed us delicious food all afternoon. Spent lots of time adoring a precious baby.

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Anyway, I found out that one of the K's family friends shares a birthday with me. It's funny how common it is to have the same birthday as a stranger.
On Sunday, Mr. K woke me up and made me a biscuit and then we packed the car. Received lots of hugs and kisses from Mr. & Mrs. K. I had the first leg of the trip back. Calub directed me to the interstate then promptly slept for 2 hours. Then we switched and I slept for 3 hours. I think after that we were fully awake.
The craziest thing happened when we pulled into a gas station in Munfordville, KY and I still can't believe it happened. My cousin Justin was standing there in the gas station waiting on me when I got out of the bathroom. He was like hey what's up, my buddy and I just got back from a show in Louisville. ISN'T THAT CRAZY? I think it totally is. I could've stopped at the gas station down the street and never would've run into him.

It's back to the old grindstone today. Kind of. I had to go drop my car off today at the body shop to get the new hood put on and now I get to drive a rental car for the week. I'm not the biggest fan of it, but it's mostly because tons of strangers have driven it and that makes me feel gross and it's nothing against the car. I'm making a mix cd for it right now because I've been spoiled by siriusxm radio and regular radio sucks.

P.S. Here's that weird looking balloon animal. I gave it to my brother because he was obsessed with balloon animals for about three days awhile back. He said the motorcycle was cool but the mewtwo on top was dumb.

Pa

The drive up to PA was sooooo long, but not unbearable.

I find it very funny how little has changed with Calub's parents. They may have gotten a little louder, but they were pretty loud before. Calub's mom calls Calub's dad "babes" and it's really cute.

Calub has been so good to put up with doing all of the things that I've wanted to do this week. We spent a lot of time in the art section of the Carnegie Museum and also a lot of time in the Andy Warhol museum, which I adored and Calub visibly did not adore those places. I also had the idea to visit the Pennsylvania Amish and it was underwhelming, not the Amish, but I think we went during a slow part of the year. I did get a bag of delicious whiskey pretzels from a winery out in Volant, Pa that made the day trip all worth it.

We've also spent a lot of time this week walking up and down city streets. Because Calub's really nice, we went in all of the shops I wanted to. So that means we went in all the candy shops and all the kitchen stores. This one candy shop we went to called Grandpa Joe's on the strip gets an A+ from me because it had all of the candy. I found it very overwhelming to decide so I settled on a jawbreaker from there.

Calub, his parents and I went to this place that over looks the city and I keep forgetting what it's called. I keep wanting to call it Mount Overlook, but I know that's not right. It had a breathtaking view up there.
Pictures can't do it justice.

Yesterday, I got a tattoo! One of Calub's family members knew a guy that he liked to get tattoos from so I figured, what the heck. Might as well commemorate my trip with a tattoo. I liked the tattoo artist a lot actually. He was really gentle and everything, albeit a little crooked on the line work. I'll keep you updated on whether or not my leg falls off.

Side note: I had to wear pajamas to the tattoo shop because I didn't bring any shorts or sweatpants.

Today, Calub is staying at a family member's house and I've spent the evening with his parents. You might think this strange, but really it was fine. Of course, his parentals flipped when they kept talking about him not being there with us, but they just miss him. He wanted to spend time with some dudes and I am totally down for him doing that. We've spent a whole lotta time with each other this week. We actually had a lot of adventures without him. (Sorry, Calub.) We stopped at Andy Warhol's grave site because it's so close to their house and we met this crazy lady who encourages people to write notes to Andy Warhol and then she reads them to him. She really was cuckoo. And then we went to Primanti Bros and I had a hot sausage sandwich that I kind of liked everything except for the sausage in. I'm funny about sausage and I don't know what I was thinking ordering it. Got caught up in the moment, I guess. Anyway, Mr. & Mrs. K bought my dinner for the second time this week which was sooo very nice and I need to come up with an idea to repay them. Difficult, but I'm sure I'll think of something. Also, I got a balloon animal from Primanti because Mrs. K saw it and asked about it and I love that she's the kind of person to always ask strangers whatever she wants. I gotta take a picture of it because it's such a weird looking balloon animal. I bought a shirt from there too, and Calub's going to scoff so hard when he sees it. Haha.

I'm sure there's tons more to come even in the two days we have left.

AHH titles are difficult

Oh my god I'm going to be in Pennsylvania the day after tomorrow! I've been packing for three days now and I still think I've forgotten something, but I always do that. I'm going to overpack.
Tomorrow is my cousin's husband's (cousin-in-law) murder mystery party and I have to play a mathematician who may or may not be the murderer. I made an Einstein shirt for my costume and I'm pumped for it because y'all know how much I love Al. He's my dude. I hope somebody takes pictures.
I'm going to be sleepy though because I'm staying up too late.
Let me just tell you, during packing, I went through my earrings and I have a heartbreakingly high number of cute earrings that have lost their partner. I don't know why I even keep them. I think maybe I'm hoping they will magically turn up. Every time I look at them, though, it just makes me sad. Because I want to wear them but I don't like to wear mismatched earrings. I should get rid of them.


Stay tuned. I'm going to be taking all of the pictures next week.

adult stuff

I had to take my car to a collision center today to get an estimate on it from when a turkey attacked my hood. I was sitting in the lobby waiting on the guy to finish estimating and a wave of something washed over me and it struck me that I was doing a very adult thing and it felt weird. 

I am also going on a week long trip to Pittsburgh and I didn't even have to ask permission. I just told my parentals that I was going to go. Although, I never really asked permission before I became an adult so I guess that instance doesn't count. I'm very excited about the trip though. I hope to update this regularly that week so as to remember everything about the happenings. I did a terrible job documenting the Washington DC trip I went on a few years back. Anyway, doing grown up things but never feeling like a grown up is weird. It's like a privilege and also a detriment. Them's the breaks, I guess.