Weekend Full of Fun, Football and A Princess

For those of you who know me, probably were confused when I told you all that I was going to spend Memorial Day Weekend with my (then) boyfriend in a Cabin...in the middle of nowhere....and a bunch of his (guy) friends.

Why on earth would I even agree to this guy bonding weekend? More importantly, where did this desire to become "one" with mother nature suddenly become so appealing to me? Me, the girl who screams when she sees a fly fast approaching and once locked herself in a friend's bathroom because other kids had brought a decapitated caterpillar in the house. (True Story!)

Well girls, when you love someone and you don't get to see them often, you will agree to (almost) anything in order to spend some time with them.

Actually to sum it all up, it was not that bad at all, I ended up having more fun than I thought I would. But of course I needed to share my experience with my fellow females just to entertain you all and let you in on some of the funny things I had to encounter.

One thing I am proud of myself for is going two days without showering. The proud part being I realized I did not stink with any bad BO, and came to the realization that people can survive without showering for a few days. (I also shower everyday and sometimes on hot summer days  I have been known to shower twice a day). Go ahead, judge me...but at least I am clean! :-)

So yeah...the no shower thing. I had to suck it up and be okay with it. The last thing I wanted was to throw a tantrum in front of these guys and look like a princess. I can pick and chose my battles and this shower battle I decided was not worth fighting, so I made peace with it. But the "trying to brush my teeth in a public women's bathroom" is a whole different story. The cabin did not have a bathroom attached to it, it was made up of a small living room and two small bedrooms with bunk beds (and no doors, just curtains).

I woke up Sunday morning all tired and groggy and achy. The night before I had shared the bottom twin bunk with my ex-boo. Of course we both thought it was silly to sleep in both beds separately. No, we did not have a conversation about, it's just one of those things that you both "know" and don't need to talk about.

So I made my way to the public women's bathroom that morning a couple hundred yards down the road from the cabin. I knew it was going to be a challenge to wash my face and brush my teeth in bathroom sink. I thought it was going good until a few girls came in as I was attempting to wash my face. I'm sure they were wondering why this random girl was doing and where she spent the night. One of the girls made a comment and I just looked at her and laughed and said "Desperate times calls for desperate measures" lol. 

P.S Don't drink dirty sink water...it tastes like raw metal going down your throat.

Another thing I discovered was that maybe all this time when I thought I had no athletic ability I was MAYBE wrong. I learned that if you throw a football to me in short distance, I will actually catch it. The guys and I tossed around a football for awhile.

Now this part is kind of embarrassing to admit. One of the guys was kind of cute in that "you look cute when I first saw you but as soon as you open your mouth I take it all back" kind of way. And I only say this because if I was single and totally into guys like him then I would probably go all goo goo ga ga over him. But not to worry girls, I had no intention of doing anything of that sort. I was perfectly happy with my man, and I wouldn't trade him for the world. But eye candy is eye candy and sometimes you catch yourself in a thought bubble and it burst that exact moment.

While we were playing catch with the football eyecandy and I ran into each other and I caught myself in my head saying "You can run into me anytime, I won't object" lol. But of course it was just an innocent thought and nothing else. I actually felt horrible even thinking it in my head because right across from me was my boo and to even have that cross my mind killed me a little inside and I was mad at myself.

We moved on to playing Frisbee later on in the day, and I kid you not when I say this...but I actually broke a nail trying to catch that darn Frisbee. A nail! A nail I was trying to so hard to grow! Of course I would be the one to break a nail playing any sort of contact sport. But I am not that stupid to leave the game because of my nail casualty, plus if I left then it would be an odd number of people playing in teams. So you can only imagine my relief  when more of his friends showed up. YES! It was a perfect opportunity to escape with a legit excuse! So of I went back to the cabin to "refresh" and watch the boys play. Trust me, they were much better off without me.

Funny while I was watching them play from the deck my ex-boo and I exchanged glances and he blew a kiss at me. I waved and blew a kiss back at him only to realize that at that exact moment one of his friends also waved at me and I prayed to God and hoped that his friend didn't think I was blowing a kiss at him. Because that would be totally awkward and shit like this ONLY happens to me!

So the rest of the weekend I refrained from doing anything that would cause mix signals or get myself in trouble with myself..or anyone else.