[Long] Weekend Update
Greetings Family and Friends!
I have just gotten back from Mt. Shasta, CA and I immediately sat down and read an entire weekend's worth of posts, and laughed so hard and just all around enjoyed myself.
It is 10:30 over here, which means several things:
1) That it is still Carly's birthday over here! So happy birthday Carly, even though you'll read this tomorrow and it won't be your birthday anymore. I still get credit and you get to feel like your birthday lasts longer =) P.S. I would have called except my phone has been dead since I woke up this morning, and I have been on the road for 9 hours....so you'll get a call next year, haha.
2) It is 12:30 in Oklahoma/Louisiana.
3) It is 1:30 in Florida.
These last two things are not very important I just think it is crazy weird how far apart we all are, and I just like to remind everyone of the crazy weirdness.
Now about my weekend...
We had SUCH a good time with Emma this weekend! She is so wonderful and fun. I am starting to feel more like a part of her life rather than a partial-intruder like I had kind of foolishly thought of before. I was just psyching myself out for nothing. She is so fabulous! On Friday when we got there we met Emma, her Mom, Estee, and Estee's fiance, Jerry.
We had dinner with all of them, which was pretty uneventful except for the fact that we found out that Estee is pregnant and Emma will get to be a big sister, which is what she has BEEN asking for. I am pumped b/c it totally takes the pressure off of me. For those of you reading this who have no idea who these people are and whatnot, I apologize, and please bear with me.
Anyhoo...Emma stayed with us in our hotel room that night, and the next morning we took her to a waterpark in Redding, CA 60 miles away because that is the closest freaking thing to Mt. Shasta, Wasteland of All Eternity, You Just Think You Have It Bad Where You Live.
The waterpark was tiny to say the least, but Emma loved it, and actually so did Tim and I just because it was something to do besides stay in Shasta and ponder the universe about St. Germaine and the eternal purple flame of cosmic harmony. (I am getting ahead of myself, sorry.)
We left the part around 5 and went back to Shasta and took Emma to see Barnyard, which was really quite funny, even though I had to sit right next to a mountain woman who smelled like bad perfume and popcorn butter....not a cool combination, trust me.
Later on that night Emma and I stayed up late and watched Legally Blonde after Tim went to sleep, and she explained every part of the movie to me as if I hadn't seen it before. *so cute*
Then finally today we dropped Emma off at the Ampitheatre where they all do their weird play thing every year. I should interupt to briefly explain to any confused person reading this, what exactly we were doing in CA in the first place. Basically, Emma's mom is in this funky cult/religion called "The I Am." I will explain it later to anyone who is wondering, but I don't have the finger power to do it right now. But every year the weirdo members of this religion get together in Mt. Shasta, and basically just freak the hell out of everyone else in town. They put on a play about the life of Jesus (even though they don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God, only a Prophet....don't ask me.) and do this big angel pageant thing about angels of different colors and what each color means (harmony, peace, transcendence, flatulence, etc.) And they are bascially just out of their freaking minds and the entire religion is based on two people in the 1930's who smoked too much peace pipe up on the mountain side and decided to follow this make believe dude called St. Germaine, and get a bunch of rich white people to use the religion as a tax write off and social event.
ANYHOO...now that you have that bit of info, let me tell you that the stuff I said earlier about the "eternal purple flame of cosmic harmony" is like seriously actual stuff that these people talk about in real life, and they dress in white and purple all the time and don't believe in wearing black or red because it passes off negative energy, and NEED I EVEN GO ON?! I think you all see my point, and why Tim and I were so anxious to NOT be in the midst of any of that nonsense this weekend.
By the way, before any of you panic for Emma's soul, worry not, she is still just a kid, and this stuff is so out there that we have faith that as she gets older, Tim and I will be able to direct her to the real truth. So pray for her and her family, if you will, but please to do not worry :)
Back to the weekendupdate...today we brought her to her practice at 10, waited to take her to lunch and then told her goodbye and started the LONG trip home. But there were no tears this time when we left, thank goodness. But we had so much fun, and I miss her already.
We took a few pictures of us today before we left, and some yesterday at the water park. I will put them on snapfish tomorrow, and send them out to those of you on my list. That reminds me, if anyone reading this feels as if they are missing out on all the pictures of stuff we did this summer, please give me your email address, and next time I put an album on snapfish, I can send it to you too. Snapfish is super easy and free, and I love sharing pictures so give me your email addresses!
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OK, I believe I have made up for my absensce from LJ this weekend, and I am pooped. I don't feel like proofreading, so please forgive mistakes. Goodnight everyone!
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