What. a. Weekend.
Holy bejeezus. What a weekend. Friday night was amazing. My brother picked me up from work and we headed out to Oakland. We hit up this incredible Sushi place downtown. I wish Oakland was closer, cuz it would be so much fun to get a group of people together to go there. The drinks were amazing, not to mention our bartender was amazing too. Apparently, my brother says he's the one that hooks it up with strong drinks, not the girl bartender. Anyways, I ordered some random drink on the menu, and when he came back to get my second drink he asked me if I wanted him to make me something good. Ah, I love bartenders like that. They can read me and know that I have no idea what the hell any of these crazy japanese named drinks are, and I just want something tasty and strong to get the job done! And that's what he did. This was pretty much the best drink I've ever had. I felt like I was on Iron Chef or something when he was explaining all of the ingredients to me. Some french kind of alcohol and pineapple, and pear... that was about all I got out of it. Oh yeah, and a buzz. hehe Anyways, we hung out there for a bit, then headed to the Warriors game. My brother bough me a freaking 32 of beer when we got there, so that definitely kept my drunkeness going... At half time we got to go down to the court side bar, and ALMOST got to go sit courtside, but the guy's friend wasn't working. So hopefully one of the next times I go, he will be, and we'll be able to get down there. Anyways, at halftime my brother bought me ANOTHER 32. Oh man. How could I say no to the free drinks?
I felt like I needed a new paragraph. Anyways, the Warriors kicked major ass and it was a blast. I talked my brother's ear off, but whatever. Feed me alcohol, you're gonna get an earful. Where's Stephy to appreciate the talking when I need her?! Soooo then we headed home. On the way home my brother and I talked about a lot, which was really nice. I told him that he needs to just accept Sean already, and he said that he has. He knows he's hard on him sometimes, but he doesn't mean to be. He noticed a change in him as well. He also offered for me and Sean to move in with him. The plan is to hopefully move in with Doug & Erica to save a bunch of money, but if that doesn't work out, we're going to be moving to Brentwood to my brother's. Louie and Lily would LOVE it. Louie would have my brother's two labs to play with all the time, and lily would have Clyde, their cat, to play with. We'd be saving a ridiculous amount of money and we'd be able to get a bunch of things paid off. I'm a little weary because it's my brother, my family... I wouldn't want anything to go wrong. So we're strongly hoping it works out with Doug. So we'll see...
Anyways, after the game, I came home and went over to Erin's where Seany was. We headed home a little later and I stayed up for a while with Trevor. I never want to go to sleep when I drink! I need to stop that shit. lol
Saturday was my cousin's Celebration of Life. They didn't have a funeral, so this was held at Del Valle in Livermore. It was one of the best "services" I've ever been to (and I've definitely been to a lot....). Around 3/4 of our entire family was there, so it was like a big reunion. Plus there were friends of Allan's as well. So alltogether, around 100 people. There was sooooo much food, good music, a keg, wine, and good conversation. It was sad that it was Allan passing away that brought us all together again, but he would have wanted it that way. Around 2, everyone gathered around and took turns talking about him. It was soooo hard to watch his wife holding on to their 9 year old son while he just squeezed her legs sooooo tight. Then seeing his 18 year old daugter and 13 year old son holding each other and crying. Man, I just cannot imagine the pain they must be going through.
People told a lot of funny stories, and a lot of love was shared. It made everyone realize that we all need to stay together. Even though our family is comprised of around 95 people, we NEED to stay in touch. I don't know how to describe it, but it was just a great day. Every one was back together again. We're family. We all get each other. We are all proud of each other. We've all made our mistakes, but we're all the ones that are still standing there when no one else is. I just kept looking around all day at everyone. The kids all playing football, the men drinking their beers and standing around cracking jokes, the new mom's with their babies, the younger cousins sneaking beer from the keg.... haha... but it was all just so beautiful to me.
My favorite part of the whole day though was about halfway through. When everyone was done with their stories about Allan, they had every family member get in the middle of everyone and the my two aunts, and my dad (the 3 oldest in the family) each had a balloon. They let them go and we all watched them float away into the air. They started to get stuck and weren't really flying then all of a sudden all three of them took off and floated away together. Everyone cheered, and cried, and was just amazed that as far as we could see them go, they never strayed away from each other. All three balloons stuck together.
That day kind of left me in a funk the rest of the weekend, but it was okay.
Anyways, this has turned into a huge posting, and Sean should be here any minute.
I felt like I needed a new paragraph. Anyways, the Warriors kicked major ass and it was a blast. I talked my brother's ear off, but whatever. Feed me alcohol, you're gonna get an earful. Where's Stephy to appreciate the talking when I need her?! Soooo then we headed home. On the way home my brother and I talked about a lot, which was really nice. I told him that he needs to just accept Sean already, and he said that he has. He knows he's hard on him sometimes, but he doesn't mean to be. He noticed a change in him as well. He also offered for me and Sean to move in with him. The plan is to hopefully move in with Doug & Erica to save a bunch of money, but if that doesn't work out, we're going to be moving to Brentwood to my brother's. Louie and Lily would LOVE it. Louie would have my brother's two labs to play with all the time, and lily would have Clyde, their cat, to play with. We'd be saving a ridiculous amount of money and we'd be able to get a bunch of things paid off. I'm a little weary because it's my brother, my family... I wouldn't want anything to go wrong. So we're strongly hoping it works out with Doug. So we'll see...
Anyways, after the game, I came home and went over to Erin's where Seany was. We headed home a little later and I stayed up for a while with Trevor. I never want to go to sleep when I drink! I need to stop that shit. lol
Saturday was my cousin's Celebration of Life. They didn't have a funeral, so this was held at Del Valle in Livermore. It was one of the best "services" I've ever been to (and I've definitely been to a lot....). Around 3/4 of our entire family was there, so it was like a big reunion. Plus there were friends of Allan's as well. So alltogether, around 100 people. There was sooooo much food, good music, a keg, wine, and good conversation. It was sad that it was Allan passing away that brought us all together again, but he would have wanted it that way. Around 2, everyone gathered around and took turns talking about him. It was soooo hard to watch his wife holding on to their 9 year old son while he just squeezed her legs sooooo tight. Then seeing his 18 year old daugter and 13 year old son holding each other and crying. Man, I just cannot imagine the pain they must be going through.
People told a lot of funny stories, and a lot of love was shared. It made everyone realize that we all need to stay together. Even though our family is comprised of around 95 people, we NEED to stay in touch. I don't know how to describe it, but it was just a great day. Every one was back together again. We're family. We all get each other. We are all proud of each other. We've all made our mistakes, but we're all the ones that are still standing there when no one else is. I just kept looking around all day at everyone. The kids all playing football, the men drinking their beers and standing around cracking jokes, the new mom's with their babies, the younger cousins sneaking beer from the keg.... haha... but it was all just so beautiful to me.
My favorite part of the whole day though was about halfway through. When everyone was done with their stories about Allan, they had every family member get in the middle of everyone and the my two aunts, and my dad (the 3 oldest in the family) each had a balloon. They let them go and we all watched them float away into the air. They started to get stuck and weren't really flying then all of a sudden all three of them took off and floated away together. Everyone cheered, and cried, and was just amazed that as far as we could see them go, they never strayed away from each other. All three balloons stuck together.
That day kind of left me in a funk the rest of the weekend, but it was okay.
Anyways, this has turned into a huge posting, and Sean should be here any minute.