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.
