"I've got some friends, some that I hardly know, but we've had some times I wouldn't trade for the world..."

-Rise Against

Seattle is very very stormy today! I was at work with Rayana, Tate and Carol, and it was raining so hard outside that the rain was overflowing on to the sidewalk! When cars would drive through the puddles, they would make waves that were taller than me! I was very excited about this. Then we started having power surges, so we closed the store an hour early. I heart the rain.

!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTER-FACE!!!

Happy birthday to the best sister-face in the whole world. Katie and I are so different and so alike all at once and it is so nice to know that no matter what I do or where I go, at the end of the day, I have a sister that loves me and will always be there for me. I'm so proud of everything that she has done with her life, and I am so excited to see what she does next.

Sisturrrr... I love you!

"Her voice whispers softly 'Go real slow'..."

-Christine Kane

Yesterday was a very fun and crazy day. I arrived at work in the morning and was happy to see that Melissa and Rayana were working as well. The three of us had fun being silly all day. Nick stopped by on his break and hung out for awhile, and Suzy showed up for the last part of the day. Good times.
Finally it was closing time, and Suzy, Melissa, Rayana and I piled into Suzy's car and headed to the shop's annual Christmas party. And gees, the word "party" feels like an understatement! Tammy and Andy (the owners) booked the upstairs of this really fancy restaurant/bar/bistro downtown and we had never ending food and NEVER-ending drinks. If my glass reached the half-empty stage I would have a bartender behind me in seconds, asking what drink I wanted next. We were all verrrry intoxicated, and there were 32 of us there, and we're a wacky group as it is, and this pretty much pushed us all over the top. It was tons of crazy, silly fun.
After a few hours, the party started dying down and people gradually started leaving. I was talking to Nick when Alex came up and asked us if we wanted to join him and some others at a nearby bar. So Nick and I went with Alex, Anna, Charlette and Charlette's boyfriend and drank more. Charlette really wanted to make sure we were taken care of I guess, because she bought all of us enough drinks to float a sailboat. We were there until the bar closed. All in all, a really fun night.

"He says he's got a healing machine and it glows in the dark..."

-Tori Amos

It's been a very hectic week. I've been working alot and trying to hang out with people and trying to sleep every now and then.

Yesterday at work, Nick, Tom, Melissa and I were all working at the same time. Whenever the four of us are all working together, very strange things happen. We make eachother wayyyyy to hyper. It didn't help that the owners aren't there on the weekends so we didn't have any supervisors to worry about. We played a question/answer game, we made a little house out of raisins and toothpicks, we made some handpuppets, you know, the usual work stuff.

Anyways, they are three of the coolest peeps that I have met since I've lived in Seattle, so I thought it was about time that I get some pictures. So here they are for your viewing pleasure: Tom is in blue, Nick is in black, and Melissa is the one that isn't a boy. But you probably could've figured that out on your own. These are kind of silly pictures, but it was a silly day, so whatevuh.
(In the above picture, note the Andes Mountains in the background. We were very proud of our ability to make the scenery so realistic).
And I saved this picture for last because it is just so gosh darn special:
I don't know why Tom's expression in that picture makes me soooo happy, but it really really does.

That's all for now. I know that wasn't much of an update, but you know, update schmupdate.

"Sorry I couldn't get there, maybe you could show me how to let my guard down..."

-Jen Wood

My oh my, it has been a very hectic past few days.

On Thursday, (aka Thanksgiving), I headed over to Ben & Kai's place around noon. Ruby, Tom and Sonya all came to town for Thanksgiving, and we hadn't all been together for years. I was sooo excited. Ruby was already there when I showed up, and we talked and talked and then Sonya and Tom came and we talked and talked more, and then Scotty and Rebecca arrived, then a few other peeps, and it was lots and lots of fun. We drank lots of drinks and ate lots of food. I ended up staying for the night. Ben, Kai, Sonya, Tom, Ruby and I stayed up until about 3 AM. We were tired, but there was so much for us to catch up on and sleep seemed like a very silly idea.

The next morning I woke up at 7 AM and took the bus downtown . I worked until 5:15 and then Tom, Sonya, Ruby, Kai and I were going to go meet at Gina's bar and surprise her. (Ben was at work). The night didn't go quite how we planned it, since we discovered that Gina is on vacation for the week, but we still had lots of fun. It was happy hour, so the drinks were super cheap AND there was a $1.95 food menu! "Happy" hour indeed!
We stayed until Happy Hour was over, then we headed back to Kai's place. We had a very fun time on the bus, although I'm sure that the other passengers were very happy when we finally got off.
We spent the rest of the evening drinking happy drinks and being absolutely ridiculous and I seriously laughed so much that I was starting to lose my voice. Good, good, good times with great, great, great friends.
We stayed up for a long long time. I knew that I had to work the next morning, but I also knew that Sonya, Tom, and Ruby were leaving the next day and I wanted to get in as much time with them as I could. I ended up sleeping at Ben & Kai's and only getting a few hours of sleep (again), but I didn't mind, because we had so much fun.

The next morning I went to work and somehow made it through my 8 hour shift even though I was ready to collapse. I was planning on going home at 5:15 to visit my magical bed, but Nick, (one of my coworkers), asked if I wanted to go out for a drink, so I ended up doing that instead. The concept of time got away from us and we ended up spending a little less than 5 hours at the bar. I got home pretty late, and once again only got a few hours of sleep. Oh well.

This morning I got up early and headed down to the Seattle Center. Scotty-face ran in the marathon today, and I went to be a part of his cheering section. He was running with two of his friends, so Rebecca and I joined the other two members of the cheering section and spent the morning driving around to different check-points so we could cheer and clap and take pictures. We ended up at the finish line about 4 hours later. Scotty's time was very good and I am a very proud sister.
I stayed around for awhile afterwards and then came home. It was a very fun way to spend the morning, and the check-points allowed us to see some very pretty parts of Seattle.

When I woke up this morning, I had a voice-message and a text-message from Scotland saying that he was in Seattle but that he had to leave today. I left him a message saying that I would be at the marathon. When I got home afterwards, he called and said that he wanted to come by and see me on his way out of town. (He had to be back in Ptown by 7 PM). He called around 3:30 and said that he was outside of my apartment building. I went down to let him in, and saw that it was snowing!!! When I opened the door, he came in and gave me a big, long hug. Then he said "Well, this was fun, see you later!" And then he left. It makes me very happy that I have a friend that will go out of his way just to give me a hug.

Wow. This was a long blog. Congrats if you read the whole thing.