Fun-o-Meter
Thursday: Beltane. Jeff and me and a picnic of sweet bread, stawberries, grapes, yummy cream cheese dip, those crispy herbed bread things, a herby dip, smoked chedder, and strawberry-cranberry juice. (Damn the Benton parks for not letting us have strawberry wine) Avery park was pretty with little daisies eveywhere and it was really sunny. I want to say I had a good spiritual day . . . but that would be lying. That morning Werner sent an email abount the Gamma World game that brought up several concerns about the game. His view of my charecter and my view of my charecter were completely different. Anita had also changed her charecter in such a way that all of the other charecters had radicaly different opinions than mine--a problem since I developed a reputation as an argumentative gamer not long ago. I'd never really talked with Werner about any kind of disagreement, so I was worried how to approach the situation. So we sat in the park and talked about Werner and Gamma World. I tried to change the conversation to more spiritual topics, but Jeff wasn't really responsive. He doesn't really know how to feel about my holidays. I should have taken a moment to do some solitary meditation or something, but I'm not really good at motivating myself spiritually. I'm someone who probobly shouldn't be solitary. So Beltane only gets one kitty of fun. 
Friday: We went to see X-men. It was actually kind of disapointing. No, I didn't just say X-men was a bad movie. We were origionally going with a large group--the 3 of us in the houshold, Anita and Werner, Zack, and Malcom. Well Zack had a funeral to go to and Anita got sick so she and Werner couldn't make it. So our party of 7 was 4. I was left out of the conversation on the way there and the way back, being in the back seat. Malcom had to leave directly after the movie so there was no happy afters. The worst part was halfway though the movie it became aparent to me that I wasn't in the mood for an action flic. I had to concentrate to follow it all and got really sleepy. It was annoying because the movie was good. So movie gets one kitty on general merit.
After I came home and got awake I was kind of bummed because I didn't really feel like I'd gone out. Jeff was a total sweetheart and went out to ice cream and walking in Riverfront Park with me. It was reenacting out 3rd date (we hadn't done it since) so it was incredibly sweet and sappy and made me feel much better. I had to let him play on the computer the rest of the night but it was worth it.
Saturday: Saturday was mom's weekend at the college. This means there was a craft fair with booths and stuff--kinda like a mini Saturday market. Jeff knew I still felt kinda cooped up so we went to go hang out. We wandered all of the booths and saw neat stuff. We brought home some really yummy vanilla soap. The best part was when we were looking for a bite to eat the Asian Pacific students were selling Haupia (my favorate dessert--it's a Hawaiian coconut pudding-jello thing) with shortbread crust. It was really quite special.
We didn't stay at the craft fair long because just before we left my friend Jenni called me. When I was last in Coos Bay I couldn't track down Jen because she'd moved. I was slightly afraid we'd lost eachother, but we've been through this so many times it wasn't a real fear. She looked up my name on the internet and got my number. She was also feeling restless so she got some money from her husband, packed up her girls and her friend Logan, and headed to my place. I was so thankful that Anita had helped me clean on Tuesday. There was two year olds running around my house and it was OK. I worry about Jenni. She seemes more stressed than I am and I don't see that often these days. Aside from that it was a good visit. The best part was that it was spontanious and it seems all of the spontatious people are in Coos Bay or Portland so it was nice to have one in town for awile.
After Jenni left I spent 3 hours in the Cad lab and got my homework pretty much finished. It felt really good to do a fairly complicated floor plan in 3 hours with only some finishing touches left. So more happiness and accomplishment
Sunday: Sunday was the Gamma World game. I must say it worked really well. I wasn't the only person with issues. Three of the other charecters are really similar so Anita, Zack, and Cameron had to iron out thier charecters so they didn't have too much overlap. We also went over how our charecters knew eachother. We decided that my charecter (head tecnophobe) and Anita's charecter (head technophile) were about the same age. Since our community has manditory 6 years of schooling we went to school together. We both loved learning and were concerned about the future of the world. Later we decided to make the world a better place in very different ways. This gives us the fun Professor X and Magnito type relationship. We've agreed to disagree and still value eachother's perspectives. Not only will it be fun to play but it makes it so our issues have already been hashed out and don't need to take up game time. I also don't have to worry about being the abnoxious member of the group because Jeff has grabbed hold of that role. He's decided to be annoying commando guy--our former school bully grown to a crude hostile womanizer. I'm playing one of the town medics and that's pretty much a direct quote from his med files. This game should prove interesting.
Monday: Today I worked and got a much needed haircut at Supercuts. It was my first chain beautician experience and I don't think it went badly. After I got my hair cut I went into the lab to finish my last half hour of homework. I stayed an extra half hour to help another student with his floor plan. I really enjoyed getting to be Cad expert and we giggled and generally had a good time with our computers, so there's another kitty
Friday: We went to see X-men. It was actually kind of disapointing. No, I didn't just say X-men was a bad movie. We were origionally going with a large group--the 3 of us in the houshold, Anita and Werner, Zack, and Malcom. Well Zack had a funeral to go to and Anita got sick so she and Werner couldn't make it. So our party of 7 was 4. I was left out of the conversation on the way there and the way back, being in the back seat. Malcom had to leave directly after the movie so there was no happy afters. The worst part was halfway though the movie it became aparent to me that I wasn't in the mood for an action flic. I had to concentrate to follow it all and got really sleepy. It was annoying because the movie was good. So movie gets one kitty on general merit.
After I came home and got awake I was kind of bummed because I didn't really feel like I'd gone out. Jeff was a total sweetheart and went out to ice cream and walking in Riverfront Park with me. It was reenacting out 3rd date (we hadn't done it since) so it was incredibly sweet and sappy and made me feel much better. I had to let him play on the computer the rest of the night but it was worth it.
Saturday: Saturday was mom's weekend at the college. This means there was a craft fair with booths and stuff--kinda like a mini Saturday market. Jeff knew I still felt kinda cooped up so we went to go hang out. We wandered all of the booths and saw neat stuff. We brought home some really yummy vanilla soap. The best part was when we were looking for a bite to eat the Asian Pacific students were selling Haupia (my favorate dessert--it's a Hawaiian coconut pudding-jello thing) with shortbread crust. It was really quite special.
We didn't stay at the craft fair long because just before we left my friend Jenni called me. When I was last in Coos Bay I couldn't track down Jen because she'd moved. I was slightly afraid we'd lost eachother, but we've been through this so many times it wasn't a real fear. She looked up my name on the internet and got my number. She was also feeling restless so she got some money from her husband, packed up her girls and her friend Logan, and headed to my place. I was so thankful that Anita had helped me clean on Tuesday. There was two year olds running around my house and it was OK. I worry about Jenni. She seemes more stressed than I am and I don't see that often these days. Aside from that it was a good visit. The best part was that it was spontanious and it seems all of the spontatious people are in Coos Bay or Portland so it was nice to have one in town for awile.
After Jenni left I spent 3 hours in the Cad lab and got my homework pretty much finished. It felt really good to do a fairly complicated floor plan in 3 hours with only some finishing touches left. So more happiness and accomplishment
Sunday: Sunday was the Gamma World game. I must say it worked really well. I wasn't the only person with issues. Three of the other charecters are really similar so Anita, Zack, and Cameron had to iron out thier charecters so they didn't have too much overlap. We also went over how our charecters knew eachother. We decided that my charecter (head tecnophobe) and Anita's charecter (head technophile) were about the same age. Since our community has manditory 6 years of schooling we went to school together. We both loved learning and were concerned about the future of the world. Later we decided to make the world a better place in very different ways. This gives us the fun Professor X and Magnito type relationship. We've agreed to disagree and still value eachother's perspectives. Not only will it be fun to play but it makes it so our issues have already been hashed out and don't need to take up game time. I also don't have to worry about being the abnoxious member of the group because Jeff has grabbed hold of that role. He's decided to be annoying commando guy--our former school bully grown to a crude hostile womanizer. I'm playing one of the town medics and that's pretty much a direct quote from his med files. This game should prove interesting.
Monday: Today I worked and got a much needed haircut at Supercuts. It was my first chain beautician experience and I don't think it went badly. After I got my hair cut I went into the lab to finish my last half hour of homework. I stayed an extra half hour to help another student with his floor plan. I really enjoyed getting to be Cad expert and we giggled and generally had a good time with our computers, so there's another kitty