posted by Carolyn Ohme at 11:59PM

Been spending a lot of time with my friends lately, which has been amazingly fun. This past weekend was great random times. On Friday, I had off and after having a leisurely morning I went to do some shopping. I was very proud of myself because I did a lot of research and took my time in deciding about my purchases and I believe that it paid off in the end and I got the best deal for the best items. Later on that night, my 867, Nikki and Shannon met up at my apartment for us to have a magical evening of dancin Specacle of Lights at the Disney-MGM Studios. It was great fun! I got to utilize my new purchase and it was super fun to explore the parks with my friends who haven't seen the magicalness in awhile and who truly appreciated it.

Got to Studio Cafe right after to meet up with G and Cali for our CCMaD Event with Kissing Karma and Randall Shreve. It was all sorts of crazy from the moment I stepped in the door, but things certainly got better as the night went on. I had just been getting better from being sick and I had been consistently taking this severe symptom medicine and it was the first day coming off of it and I think it seriously affected my mood in a more depressing manner. I couldn't get out of my funk. It was so strange. There was really no reason for me to be upset, yet I kept getting upset. The smallest of things were affecting me. Luckily, I have amazing friends who kindly lifted me out of my crazy funk and I chalked it up to be because of the immediate stopping of the medicine. After the amazing show, we all headed over to 867's to basically cure the day of craziness and it was super fun with good friends. I heart those kids. We took lots of photos and had way too much fun. I reached my limit and got a little emotional, which I hate it when that happens, but I was sad because Randall was leaving to visit NY the next day and I am pretty sure I speak for all of Orlando's rock scene when I say, no one wants Randall to like NY. :(

Saturday, I slept in a bit before heading over and meeting up with Shannon and 867 to attempt a winter wonderland celebration in Shannon's community that really ended up being quite disappointing as it was going to take about 40 minutes to replenish the snow due to the fact that it was 85 degrees outside. Bummer. We settled for a Tjianua Flats visit for lunch and good company. That was fun in itself. After lunch, we headed out to the wildlife refuge where Kelly works for a holiday open house. It was good to see her at work and see where her passion lays. I had been hearing about it for awhile, but it was fun to experience it all in person. We met her new puppy Summer, who is a beautiful lab and seems so sweet, but we only really got to see her sleep. After taking a small tour of the place, we took photos and headed out of BFE to head home and rest a bit before the big Social show that night starring Five Star Iris (yay!), The Murphy Project & John Frank.

I met up with 867 at Wall Street and we headed over to The Social to see all of our friends. Five Star Iris was "soundchecking" when we got in and that's when the smiling began and it still hasn't faded away. We immediately went to say hello to Wes and see who was already in the bar. 5SI got done pretty quickly on the stage and began to make their way around the crowd. Got to say hello to the kids and welcome them back to O-town. I heart them. Got to spend some quality time with the boys separately and I was very grateful for that. Typically, at shows I know it's difficult for them to spend a lot of time chatting when they are so busy with a lot of different things going on at once, especially for them having a crowd at the venue, but I felt very loved the entire evening. We explored and introduced the photobooth to Alex & Robby Rob. I think they might be addicted now. *grin* Dan's shirt cracked me up. They are the sweetest of people. I'm so glad the night was good for them.

The night was full of our crazy friends. Paulie (Dirty Shannon) was toasted and so was his brother who contiunally asked me "Hey...do you want to make out?" umm no. "whyyyyy?" because you're drunk. "oh" Davie and Paul were adorable as ever and rocked out to The Murphy Project, but unfortunately had to roll when John Frank came on *grin* It was great to see "Charlie Murphy" again and he seemed geniunly happy to see me as well. I heart him. He's a very nice guy. Wish he would respond back to my requests more, but I can't have the world handed to me, now can I? They have improved so much as a band, even more so than before that it was amazing to everyone. No one had seen them in awhile I guess. We were all happily impressed. 867 was the perfect show buddy per usual. Ciara made me smile the entire night. She's adorable! We all had such a good time together and I can't wait for more nights like that one.

Next morning, I got up in anticipation of having a fun tour at Magic Kingdom, but in reality was stood up by my tour family. Not purposefully though. I stood for my two hours in front of the MKGR window, frying in the sun and questioning if I was in the right place at the right time or not. Turned out that they hadn't even gotten into town yet or checked into their resort so I assumed the date of the tour was confused. Peaced out from work and enjoyed lunch at home. Got in a small nap before Cali, Tony, Laura, Ken & baby Emily came to meet me to head over to Disney-MGM Studios for a fun night of the lights. It was really cute to see Emily enjoy her first time to Disney EVER! Seeing as though she's only 14 months old, it's not that surprising, but still really fun. I watched her more than I did the Beauty & The Beast Show or Fantasmic. Granted, I've seen those shows a million times, but it was more fun to watch her expressions and excitement. It was a fun and definitely different kinda of day for me. Got home and wanted to just crash from exhaustion, however that was not going to be the case.

Our lease is just about up for our condo rental agreement and we needed to have a roommate meeting for awhile now to discuss topics at hand and ironically and amazingly enough, ALL of us were at home at the same time on Sunday night. That hardly ever happens to be honest with all of our crazy and mix-matched schedules. Honestly, I think that we were all wanting to avoid the conversation, but it needed to happen. Bascially, after covering all of our immediate concerns with our lease, the conversation became more personal with the situation between Kevin and I and fortunately it seems like the conversation was productive and might have actually solved a lot in the four hours we discussed things. I went to bed that night with a much more relaxed and content feeling. It was a noticable difference and I am glad for that. There was effort made on all sides and I feel like it was a super positive thing. Now, I can move forward.

I had Monday off randomly. I hardly ever have Mondays off, but due to the fact that I'm participating in the Cubs Event this weekend, I guess they felt like I should rest up for it and get at least one day off this week. How nice. I woke up fairly early even without an alarm clock and got a text from a good friend that needed to talk so I went and met up with my 867 and we walked all around downtown sharing stories, venting and talking about good times and things that makes us happy. The weather has gotten drastically colder within like a day so we froze ourselves walking around and eventually made it to the mall and did some shopping. It was a great day off and I loved spending it with 867 and just hanging out to hang out. Got home and watched a bit of TV before deciding I need to have a date with the treadmill. I headed out to work out for the latter part of my evening and enjoyed a good hour and a half of workout activities. I felt like a rockstar coming out of there and came down off my high and fell asleep to happy thoughts.

Things are getting good. I'm glad that life has worked out how it has as of right now. Things are how they are suppose to be. I believe that.