guest blog: ash
you lucky people are in for a treat. after you read this, go read her blog here. this girl. she’s just the bomb. i look forward to our sunday “coffee/blog/photoshop” dates more than anything. we’re really like one of those old married couples who sit on the couch and read their books. only we sit next to each other (or across from each other at a table if we can’t find comfy chairs GODDAMMIT I HATE THAT.) on our laptops, busily tapping away on our own blogs or catching up on our zillion-blog-long readers. every sunday. at 11. only now at 10 since it’s football season. and she has developed a love for the steelers and a love for Troy Polamalu (one of these things i may NEVER understand. and let me give you a hint. it isn’t her love for the steelers. just kidding! he’s totally hot! *gag*) and sort of a love for that dude she’s married to. so they hang and watch football. it’s cute. so’s ash. read her guest post.
Hola! I’m Ashley from over at The Past is a Guide Post, Not a Hitching Post. Today is Sunday… which should mean that I’m at Off the Leaf with RaeLeigh. This is something we do pretty much every Sunday. We sit in comfy chairs, have great coffee, catch up on all our internet stuff, and of course, catch up on the juicy gossip the week has provided. But not this Sunday… No… RaeLeigh had to go gallivanting off to Texas.
Now I could still go to the coffee shop by myself and chill and enjoy great coffee and catch up on my interneting… but I won’t. Just like I won’t go watch the Steelers game this afternoon at the bar by myself, since my husband doesn’t get off work until about half way through. He thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. But what does he know… I mean, he even goes into restaurants by himself. I mean, who does that? Certainly not me! Why? Because I’m kind of nuts!
Normally I am a fiercely independent person. I don’t mind spending a lot of time alone… be it on the couch with the pups, on a hiking trail, or on a solo road trip… as long as I am not in public. I am not exactly self conscious… more, self aware. I am VERY self aware… and I think WAY too much. Not a good combination to add to a situation where I am eating dinner at a restaurant by myself, or sitting at a table in the corner of a bar trying to watch the game, or hyper-caffeinating myself somewhere.
Now, I am these things with people around too, but I am able to distract myself with snarky comments about the mean barista (note from raeleigh: seriously. mean. not sure what her problem is. but smile, sweetheart. no one likes a growly barista) conversation. I have someone to talk to about the craziness that is streaming constantly through my brain. And no one understands my crazy as well as RaeLeigh… probably not even my husband. I have someone to talk about things other than my crazy… and well, RaeLeigh is the best source of information on pretty much anyone you want to know about.
So… as you read this, know that I am not at the coffee shop by myself… and since the internet at my house is more than sketchy, I will probably not be catching up on interneting… which means I will have to do it at work tomorrow… which could possibly get me fired… and then I won’t have any money to meet with RaeLeigh on Sundays anymore…
In conclusion… I vote we all band together and tell RaeLeigh she’s not allowed to leave me alone on Sundays anymore… and as an added bonus, you won’t have to read my guest posts anymore!!!
she’s silly. leave her some love and go check out not a hitching post.