Score!

I've been needing some new tunes for awhile now. I'm a cheapskate, however, when it comes to buying CDs, because I refuse to be robbed by the music companies asking ridiculous amounts for new CDs. $15 for a CD -- who do you take me for??!!? Used book/cd stores and ebay are my playground when it comes to music, and I got to visit my favorite store in all of ATL this afternoon. Ahhh....I could have spent hours and hours. I might have, had I not been in a building with no public restroom. :( In the hour or so that I was there, however, I found...drumroll, please...the new Weazer! Yes, I'm excited. Track 4, "Hold Me," is amazing. I also picked up Gavin DeGraw (I have a penchant for men who can sing and play piano) and the soundtrack to "A Lot Like Love" which, admittedly, isn't the most amazing movie about love ever made, but it was well-done and has some great songs that take me back to my high-school days.

Oh, did I mention that I'm not camping? Yeah, well, apparently Mr. Weatherman didn't catch the huge rainstorm that has refused to leave the area. Seriously, I feel like I'm in Seattle. My poor dad had already gone up on Tuesday to pick out a spot and get some trout fishing in before my mom and I came up. He spent two miserable days in a soggy tent with swollen rivers incapable of being fished and no dry firewood.

Yuck.

He came home this afternoon, so in the past day that my mom and I have been enjoying together we have managed to get in both Bridget Jones' movies and a lot of goofiness. It has been a good reminder of the way things can be with my mom, the fun times we can share when stress, school, men, you name it are not around.

Have I mentioned that I'm training for a triathlon? I've been reticent to mention it here because of the added acountability. But heck, at this point I need that. I need that extra measure of exposure...no one wants to disappoint, right? So the skinny is all here, and I really feel like it's do-able. Why California, you ask? A friend from Wheaton is spending his summer out there and, having bit by the triathlon bug when he participated in this same tri last summer, has invited a bunch of Wheaton alum to come out and have fun together. And, I mean...it's California, need I say more? I'm looking forward to spending a few days in the beauty of God's creation and fellowship with friends. Now if I can just figure out how to ship my bike out there and get a flight without spending all my cash. The fun begins...