WOOHOO CT!
This is the first time I've really had downtime since getting home a week ago... one week to go. No rest for the wicked. Heheheh.
I've been driving around in my dad's ragtop BMW because he took the insurance off my nice, safe, matronly Volvo stationwagon. Aside from having to pay close attention to when it's supposed to rain, having a convertible to zip around in when I've been living with the Seattle bus system for so long is beyond fun. Screaming down the highway with the radio blasting and my sister's foot sticking out the passenger side window? The picture of freedom.
I saw The Dark Knight. I am... blown away. There is nothing for me to say except that there is nothing wrong with the movie. (Yes I REALIZE that it was not completely true to the comics. But since when are comic storylines even true to one another? I thought the movie version was vivid, intense, and appropriate.)
Along the way I've met a couple new girlfriends and liked them both. (I still have a couple new boyfriends to meet, but all in good time.) One is the badass little lady of my ex, and I approve of her heartily. The other is short, sultry witch. (In a good way.) They came with the two friends of mine they're currently seeing along with one other good buddy of mine to my house, where we proceeded to have a riotous pool party. I'm pretty sure we all almost drowned at one point or another. And we bent the siding of the pool.
My sister, her friend, my friend and myself all went skinnydipping in the pool at my mom's the other day. There's just enough tree cover that the neighbors have no idea what's going on. We had been waiting for one other person, but the sky was darkening and the news foretold lightning, so we stripped and galavanted down the hill to the pool clad in towels, which we hid beneath the deck so they wouldn't get wet. It's been so long since I've been so naked; anyone who's never skinnydipped doesn't know what they're missing. In fact, if anybody who is reading this right now has not swum in a body of water nude, they should get up, turn off their computer and find the nearest pool/lake/river/beach in which to play sans clothing.
The thing about THIS particular occasion is, there is a cell tower being built on our propery, up the wood trail beyond the house. So, of course, about fifteen minutes into our swim a big white van with a ladder lashed to its roof trundles down the driveway. The people inside see us. We see it. Shrieking and laughing hysterically we all huddle into a little ball with our backs to this white van, craning our necks to watch the dark windows as the van creeeeeeeps by. We scuttle towards a water float and hide behind it, peaking from behind its inflatable side and cracking up as the van eventually rolls off into the woods. It was ridiculous.
There are many other stories... but I have places to be and my brother wants the computer. <3