"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.