a week more
welcome to your new year
i was still sick this week, which makes it kind of nice that i didn't have any work this week. the drive back to dc with juanita was as nice as the drive upstate. monday i tried to get used to being home, and finish some of the painting in the basement.
tuesday i tried to get on a 2:30 bust to nyc. it left at 3:45. then it stopped in baltimore. then philly. then new jersey. i finally got to nyc at 10:10pm, so i paid for the cab up to webster hall, and caught the last hour and a half of the gogol bordello concert, which makes everything i'd been through in the first half of the day worthwhile. plus, myra :) then thai food with rick and myra.
slept at myra's parent's place in riverdale, and hopped on metro north to tarrytown to meet greg and mike, then converge with jenna and rett so we could carpool back to dc for new year.
for some reason jenna and rett insisted on eating white castle, which they both regretted for the rest of the night. i wore my scandalous blue dress, and jenna wore her black dress from europe. in fact, we all guessied up, which made it very entertaining for me, because it was just a casual affair with mixed drinks and rock band and conversation. bless pete for hosting it.
we were driving home around 2am (after tina left with aaron....), and as soon as we got home, matt suggested we go get ben's chili bowl. i invited mike to join up, because he'd be partying in columbia heights, but when we got to ben's, they told us they'd just closed, and they wouldn't let us in! heartbreak! so we tried mc'ds, same problem. we went to oohs and ahhs soul food, and rett and matt got into some fight, right around the time mike says "i can't chase your progress across town, i'm going home" so i'm like "great. jenna feels sick (and i broke her camera), tina is maybe making a horrible decision, the boys have all turned into bitches. i'm done. i'me going home". i didn't even meet up with carl in adams morgan. i just went to bed.
and woke up with a hangover, of course. we laid around till 11, then i took the kids to ben's chili bowl for lunch. rett was thrilled. jenna and i picked our way through what we could eat. then a driving tour of dc, and a close up look of the lincoln memorial (i am glad my favorite is their favorite), and made plans for them to come back for the cherry blossom fesitval.
spent the rest of friday moving my stuff to the attic, and having dinner with mike. friday i couldn't find my phone, which made my day frustrating. eventually i got things sorted out, got done at the pharmacy, and played some guitar hero and gears of war. around 10 pete and i agreed we needed to be social, so we went to big hunt for drinks. ethan wasn't there, but katie treated us well. jeff met up with us, i got drunk and found myself incapable of expressing my ideas. left the bar at closing, and passed out as soon as i got back. woke up with a terrible hangover, but couldn't nurse it because i had to get to the metro to pick up my car and meet with logan. she's a good kid, and i think the lessons will go well.
there were many options for tonite, but i was just too tired. i managed to get my futon into the attic and set up, as well as the clothes rack. i'm going to have to pad the rafters i think, or suffer some brain trauma. but i'm ok with the space. sleeping on the couch tonite anyway, because i'm too llazy and tired to finish unpacking my stuff and blow up the mattress.
i was still sick this week, which makes it kind of nice that i didn't have any work this week. the drive back to dc with juanita was as nice as the drive upstate. monday i tried to get used to being home, and finish some of the painting in the basement.
tuesday i tried to get on a 2:30 bust to nyc. it left at 3:45. then it stopped in baltimore. then philly. then new jersey. i finally got to nyc at 10:10pm, so i paid for the cab up to webster hall, and caught the last hour and a half of the gogol bordello concert, which makes everything i'd been through in the first half of the day worthwhile. plus, myra :) then thai food with rick and myra.
slept at myra's parent's place in riverdale, and hopped on metro north to tarrytown to meet greg and mike, then converge with jenna and rett so we could carpool back to dc for new year.
for some reason jenna and rett insisted on eating white castle, which they both regretted for the rest of the night. i wore my scandalous blue dress, and jenna wore her black dress from europe. in fact, we all guessied up, which made it very entertaining for me, because it was just a casual affair with mixed drinks and rock band and conversation. bless pete for hosting it.
we were driving home around 2am (after tina left with aaron....), and as soon as we got home, matt suggested we go get ben's chili bowl. i invited mike to join up, because he'd be partying in columbia heights, but when we got to ben's, they told us they'd just closed, and they wouldn't let us in! heartbreak! so we tried mc'ds, same problem. we went to oohs and ahhs soul food, and rett and matt got into some fight, right around the time mike says "i can't chase your progress across town, i'm going home" so i'm like "great. jenna feels sick (and i broke her camera), tina is maybe making a horrible decision, the boys have all turned into bitches. i'm done. i'me going home". i didn't even meet up with carl in adams morgan. i just went to bed.
and woke up with a hangover, of course. we laid around till 11, then i took the kids to ben's chili bowl for lunch. rett was thrilled. jenna and i picked our way through what we could eat. then a driving tour of dc, and a close up look of the lincoln memorial (i am glad my favorite is their favorite), and made plans for them to come back for the cherry blossom fesitval.
spent the rest of friday moving my stuff to the attic, and having dinner with mike. friday i couldn't find my phone, which made my day frustrating. eventually i got things sorted out, got done at the pharmacy, and played some guitar hero and gears of war. around 10 pete and i agreed we needed to be social, so we went to big hunt for drinks. ethan wasn't there, but katie treated us well. jeff met up with us, i got drunk and found myself incapable of expressing my ideas. left the bar at closing, and passed out as soon as i got back. woke up with a terrible hangover, but couldn't nurse it because i had to get to the metro to pick up my car and meet with logan. she's a good kid, and i think the lessons will go well.
there were many options for tonite, but i was just too tired. i managed to get my futon into the attic and set up, as well as the clothes rack. i'm going to have to pad the rafters i think, or suffer some brain trauma. but i'm ok with the space. sleeping on the couch tonite anyway, because i'm too llazy and tired to finish unpacking my stuff and blow up the mattress.