Helloooo out there!

I've finally gotten a break to take a breather from the whirlwind of TFA. This long weekend has been exactly what I needed. Yesterday I went to the Margaret Mitchell house. (She wrote Gone with the Wind). It was incredible! I was having a "table for one" kind of day. It was going to be lovely. I walked to get some ice coffee and then headed to the museum. On my way, I got a text from my friend Jimmy asking where I was. I told him, and he proceeded to inform me that he would meet me there (in spite of never having watched or read gone with the wind). I was like, OK.

So, Margaret Mitchell is my hero. She was engaged once at the age of 17 to a boy who was killed shortly after in WW1. Then she ended up marrying a guy named Red (reminscent of Rhett Butler), who was a socialite and also ended up being phsyically abusive. She divorced him (this is in the 1920's, so it was pretty scandalous), and then ended up marrying John Marsh (Red's best man in her first wedding). Apparently John Marsh had just been waiting around for Margaret to be free. He had been in love with her the entire time.

Margaret was one of the first female reporters in Atlanta and wrote articles about everything from women's rights to word culture. When she broke her ankle and was homebound, she began writing Gone With the Wind as a past-time. She wrote the entire book in a very tiny, hot apartment, saying she wrote in "a low point of her life." She did not think the book was well-written and often denied she even wrote a book. Eventually the book was published, and now Gone with the Wind is the 2nd most published book in the entire world, second to the Bible.

Anyways, I love Margaret Mitchell, and I almost cried in the museum because I felt such a strong kinship to her. I also bought a B&W photograph of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler from the movie. It's lovely. Do you know initially Scarlett's name was going to be Pansy!? I'm so glad she changed that.

So, my friend, AKA- little puppy dog Jimmy follows me around the museum as I'm having this emotional roller coaster. He's a really nice guy, but I am not attracted to him at all. He's only an inch taller than me, and wears square specks and often cargo shorts, belt and polo shirt tucked in. NERD to the nth degree. Anyways, he's nice, and I love having such an adoring fan, but...I should eventually tell him I'm not interested.

Anyways, we went to the High museum afterwards and saw the Monet exhibit. Monet's paintings were incredible, Water Lilies is a "stroke" of genius. So many layers, and scaping techniques and colors, just overwhelming. I love Houses of Parliment in Fog. I just sat there and looked at these paintings and reflected, and it was lovely.

Then we went to watch Public Enemy with Johnny Depp. AMAZING. I would definitely recommend it. It actually has a beautiful love story that is central to the entire movie. Loved it! I absolutely love movies too. Then I ended up going out, and I told Jimmy, I love that we're just friends :)

Anyways, I am so excited to see the Bachelorette on Monday! ED IS GOING TO WIN! I told you he'd be back. She is obviosuly so into him, as I am.

I miss you girlies!!