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Wow so much to talk about, so little time. Where to start. Okay chronologically or will drive myself nutters. So we were having the Beltane sale, and Tristan was somewhere, probably catching up on some major needed sleep and who walks in? That vamp chick who nearly killed me last year. How weird is that? Okat wait cause it totally gets weirder. Apparently? I am on a no eat list. She, oh and her name is Katerina, Kat for short, said she couldn't kill me or someone was gonna stake her. It was probably Joan the bartender from the Bronze who according to the crabby bartender chick who also isnt around anymore, went back home. I wonder if Kat knows that she could have killed me and no one would have staked her. Its probably one of those things I should keep to myself. Anyways we like actually talked. Me and the vamp who tried to kill me hanging out in the shop talking about magick and what its like to be a vampire. It was kinda surreal.
Oh yeah and for real? She does magick too. How messed up is that? A vamp that can do magick. Kinda not fair. You should totally be alloted only one supernatural power at a time in my opinion. But talking to her about magick made me think about my own learning of the craft. She gave me a lot of food for thought where that was concerned. Anyways, she should totally be a car salesperon or something, cause she was telling me the pros of being a vamp? And she makes a good pitch. Not that I have any intentions of signing up, cause I am super attached to this life. I'm just saying she could totally get herself a bunch of minion vamps if she wanted. It's kinda interesting getting her perspective on things, though really I'm never gonna look at certain foods again the same way. I haven't told anyone about running into her. Not that its a secret or anything, just its kinda awkward going 'hey you nkow that vamp that almost killed me last year? Bumped into her at the shop the other night, she's kinda cool". I'm pretty sure there would be freaking out.
So yeah there was that and then whats next. Oh yeah, the guys finally decided on a house. They picked the one that I liked. Which is cool. They've been getting it ready to move in, cleaning it up and stuff. This weekend we started painting. Marcus and I debated about paint colors, cause its such a pretty house, it should maybe just be restored, and he's all thinking with the artist part of his brain and is thinking ooh color wheel. But since I feel bad about him and Amber breaking up, I would let him paint the house purple with pink polka dot. Okay I wouldn't but I didn't debate my opinion too much. Besides its totally not my house so who am I to say. I don't know how he's taking the break up, I have been so busy I haven't really had time to talk to him, or Nick for that matter, at least on this subject. He's all in fix the house mode, but I figured however he was feeling it wouldn't help any if I was all poor marcus, so argueing with him about paint colors seemed the way to go, even though in the end, he is the artist and knows better than me what colors would look best.
So when I wasn't at work this week I was over at the house helping them get it ready for the moving in. This weekend we started painting, and I guess we'll be moving their stuff in here and there between now and our trip, cause they want want all that to be done before we leave. Throw in their graduation. And we got nervous breakdown busy. Nick asked if I had any time off this weekend maybe we could go out and spend some alone time together. To which I totally agreed to. I feel like I haven't had time to hang out just him and I and talk like we used to in like forever.
Friday is graduation. Nicks been putting his speech together, the bits and pieces I've heard sound awesome. He worried about it all going well. Commencement 'round here has a bad reputation of going badly. Giant snake mayors, the whole nine yards. The only odd thing is that the school courtyard where they are holding the ceremony has had like bunches of bunnies and frogs hopping around it. Nick kinda freaked, especially after Summer said something about them being demonic. It was really cute when Nick declared that there would be no demonic acticvity ruining his graduation. Maybe I can do some sorta spell keeping out demons during the ceremony. He's worked hard for this day and its been a major crappy past year, so anything I can do to make it go well for him would be sorta like a present to him. Not that I haven't already picked him out a real gift. I'll hit the books Mr.Giles left and maybe I'll give Willow or Tori a call.
Also to make things crazier, we moved up the trip. We originally planned to go later in the summer but it'll conflict with their schedule for their EMT thing so we decided to do it as soon as possible. Add to that the make Marcus cheery add on to the trip we plan to make a stop in Paris. Well Nick was thinking Italy for the museums, but Marcus pointed out there were better museums in Paris, I pointed out that um I speak french better than italian(which I do not speak at all) and that it was closer to where we were gonna be in the first place. So we will be major world travelers this on this trip. Three weeks away from Sunnydale. One of those weeks going home, the other going to the place where we fought an entire army, and the a few days in Paris. How totally cool.
So like since the plans changed I had the burn out my net connection trying to change everything to this new schedule. We leave in the middle of the night so that'd be late on the 2nd or really early on the 3rd of June. Its totally zig zaggy and stuff, but we are gonna retrace our steps and hit Avalon then Tir Na Nog and the visit Pais before we leave. Avalon is actually Glastonbury now and I found a cottage thats right in the middle of everything to see. We'll stay there a week the go onto Ireland. Since we aren't seeing a specific place, we picked a cottage thats sorta centrally located so we can just drive to all the places we want to see which you can pretty much get anywhere in less than an hour. We'll stay there for about a week and a half and then finally off to Paris. Since we'll only be there a few days we kinda picked an apartment/hotel kinda thing. Its really close to the Louvre, but also close to the other things to see in Paris. Heh, there was a place called Hotel Therese that I giggled at and almost picked, but they didn't have any two room together kinda thing that I saw and in effort to save money and stuff that other apartment~y place works out much better. And can I say how cool it is that not only do I get to go home to see what it looks like now, but I also get to go to Paris on top of everything else. I had toyed with doing the foreign exchange thing my senior year cause really whats the point of 4 years of french class if not to actually use it. But the 'rents were so not gonna let me go.
Not that they actually consented yet to me going now. I'm still working on them. I've been trying to be mature and not throw a tantrum of any kind. For every reason they give as to why I shouldn't go, I have had a counter arguement as to why I should. Luckily, I have a passport thats still valid from when I was supposed to go with our youth group from church last summer. Considering all the bad stuff that happened right before then, they didn't make me go. I um sorta went through the filing cabinet and grabbed all my important papers when I came home from school for lunch the other day. I have them secreted away in a safe place, just in case the negotiations fall through. Cause yeah I'm totally going with or without their blessing, I worked hard to save up the money to go, its gonna cost them nothing out of their own pockets for me to go. Plus, you know, sheesh, its totally safer for the three of us to go out of the country during the middle of the apocalypse season, then for us to stay in town and get eaten by vamps or demonic toads. Not that I can use that as an arguement. I haven't told Nick about the no permission yet. He might think since him and daddy get along so well that he can convince them, and if he can't then he might not want me to go, not wanting me to get into trouble. I contemplate spelling them into saying its okay, but its such a short term spell, half way through the trip they would freak out on me.
And um ooops I still have to tell Tristan my vacation plans have changed. I was hoping to give him the whole summer to get used to stuff. Benny, who is so totally the sweetest person ever, is catching on quick and I'm sure Tatiana will help him. I would suggest him asking someone else to help like Buffy or Dawn, but I can hear Anya in my head going NO NO NO. Plus I will have my cell, I don't know if it'll work over there, but I am taking the laptop. I checked with the cottages we are renting and they do have access. So its not like I can't keep an eye on things even though I'm half way around the world. I will totally catch him at work tomorrow and break it to him gently. He's tough he can handle it! Just as long as he doesn't like kill any of our demon customer and suppliers I think we will be doing good.
In miscellaneous news. Lets see the Bronze was sold to new owners, so the gossip mills are saying. Though I haven't seen any of them yet. I hope they fire Tristan. What???He needs sleep! Theres supposed to be some cool end of the year parties, but I doubt Nick and I will have time to go, but it'd be fun. I don't know how soon after Graduation Bindi is leaving, but I'm gonna miss her. Go figure, its so my luck to make friends with someone so soon before she ditches town. But maybe once they are settled, Nick and I can go down and see them play someplace. And OMG the psuedo parents are like gonna be married in less than two weeks. I totally have to bring them their gift like soon. maybe Monday after school. Ugh and I have two more exams to study for. But they should go well, maybe. And okay there comes a point where I am just rambling, and really I should try and get this paint out of my hair so I look somewhat decent for me and Nicks date.
Oh yeah and for real? She does magick too. How messed up is that? A vamp that can do magick. Kinda not fair. You should totally be alloted only one supernatural power at a time in my opinion. But talking to her about magick made me think about my own learning of the craft. She gave me a lot of food for thought where that was concerned. Anyways, she should totally be a car salesperon or something, cause she was telling me the pros of being a vamp? And she makes a good pitch. Not that I have any intentions of signing up, cause I am super attached to this life. I'm just saying she could totally get herself a bunch of minion vamps if she wanted. It's kinda interesting getting her perspective on things, though really I'm never gonna look at certain foods again the same way. I haven't told anyone about running into her. Not that its a secret or anything, just its kinda awkward going 'hey you nkow that vamp that almost killed me last year? Bumped into her at the shop the other night, she's kinda cool". I'm pretty sure there would be freaking out.
So yeah there was that and then whats next. Oh yeah, the guys finally decided on a house. They picked the one that I liked. Which is cool. They've been getting it ready to move in, cleaning it up and stuff. This weekend we started painting. Marcus and I debated about paint colors, cause its such a pretty house, it should maybe just be restored, and he's all thinking with the artist part of his brain and is thinking ooh color wheel. But since I feel bad about him and Amber breaking up, I would let him paint the house purple with pink polka dot. Okay I wouldn't but I didn't debate my opinion too much. Besides its totally not my house so who am I to say. I don't know how he's taking the break up, I have been so busy I haven't really had time to talk to him, or Nick for that matter, at least on this subject. He's all in fix the house mode, but I figured however he was feeling it wouldn't help any if I was all poor marcus, so argueing with him about paint colors seemed the way to go, even though in the end, he is the artist and knows better than me what colors would look best.
So when I wasn't at work this week I was over at the house helping them get it ready for the moving in. This weekend we started painting, and I guess we'll be moving their stuff in here and there between now and our trip, cause they want want all that to be done before we leave. Throw in their graduation. And we got nervous breakdown busy. Nick asked if I had any time off this weekend maybe we could go out and spend some alone time together. To which I totally agreed to. I feel like I haven't had time to hang out just him and I and talk like we used to in like forever.
Friday is graduation. Nicks been putting his speech together, the bits and pieces I've heard sound awesome. He worried about it all going well. Commencement 'round here has a bad reputation of going badly. Giant snake mayors, the whole nine yards. The only odd thing is that the school courtyard where they are holding the ceremony has had like bunches of bunnies and frogs hopping around it. Nick kinda freaked, especially after Summer said something about them being demonic. It was really cute when Nick declared that there would be no demonic acticvity ruining his graduation. Maybe I can do some sorta spell keeping out demons during the ceremony. He's worked hard for this day and its been a major crappy past year, so anything I can do to make it go well for him would be sorta like a present to him. Not that I haven't already picked him out a real gift. I'll hit the books Mr.Giles left and maybe I'll give Willow or Tori a call.
Also to make things crazier, we moved up the trip. We originally planned to go later in the summer but it'll conflict with their schedule for their EMT thing so we decided to do it as soon as possible. Add to that the make Marcus cheery add on to the trip we plan to make a stop in Paris. Well Nick was thinking Italy for the museums, but Marcus pointed out there were better museums in Paris, I pointed out that um I speak french better than italian(which I do not speak at all) and that it was closer to where we were gonna be in the first place. So we will be major world travelers this on this trip. Three weeks away from Sunnydale. One of those weeks going home, the other going to the place where we fought an entire army, and the a few days in Paris. How totally cool.
So like since the plans changed I had the burn out my net connection trying to change everything to this new schedule. We leave in the middle of the night so that'd be late on the 2nd or really early on the 3rd of June. Its totally zig zaggy and stuff, but we are gonna retrace our steps and hit Avalon then Tir Na Nog and the visit Pais before we leave. Avalon is actually Glastonbury now and I found a cottage thats right in the middle of everything to see. We'll stay there a week the go onto Ireland. Since we aren't seeing a specific place, we picked a cottage thats sorta centrally located so we can just drive to all the places we want to see which you can pretty much get anywhere in less than an hour. We'll stay there for about a week and a half and then finally off to Paris. Since we'll only be there a few days we kinda picked an apartment/hotel kinda thing. Its really close to the Louvre, but also close to the other things to see in Paris. Heh, there was a place called Hotel Therese that I giggled at and almost picked, but they didn't have any two room together kinda thing that I saw and in effort to save money and stuff that other apartment~y place works out much better. And can I say how cool it is that not only do I get to go home to see what it looks like now, but I also get to go to Paris on top of everything else. I had toyed with doing the foreign exchange thing my senior year cause really whats the point of 4 years of french class if not to actually use it. But the 'rents were so not gonna let me go.
Not that they actually consented yet to me going now. I'm still working on them. I've been trying to be mature and not throw a tantrum of any kind. For every reason they give as to why I shouldn't go, I have had a counter arguement as to why I should. Luckily, I have a passport thats still valid from when I was supposed to go with our youth group from church last summer. Considering all the bad stuff that happened right before then, they didn't make me go. I um sorta went through the filing cabinet and grabbed all my important papers when I came home from school for lunch the other day. I have them secreted away in a safe place, just in case the negotiations fall through. Cause yeah I'm totally going with or without their blessing, I worked hard to save up the money to go, its gonna cost them nothing out of their own pockets for me to go. Plus, you know, sheesh, its totally safer for the three of us to go out of the country during the middle of the apocalypse season, then for us to stay in town and get eaten by vamps or demonic toads. Not that I can use that as an arguement. I haven't told Nick about the no permission yet. He might think since him and daddy get along so well that he can convince them, and if he can't then he might not want me to go, not wanting me to get into trouble. I contemplate spelling them into saying its okay, but its such a short term spell, half way through the trip they would freak out on me.
And um ooops I still have to tell Tristan my vacation plans have changed. I was hoping to give him the whole summer to get used to stuff. Benny, who is so totally the sweetest person ever, is catching on quick and I'm sure Tatiana will help him. I would suggest him asking someone else to help like Buffy or Dawn, but I can hear Anya in my head going NO NO NO. Plus I will have my cell, I don't know if it'll work over there, but I am taking the laptop. I checked with the cottages we are renting and they do have access. So its not like I can't keep an eye on things even though I'm half way around the world. I will totally catch him at work tomorrow and break it to him gently. He's tough he can handle it! Just as long as he doesn't like kill any of our demon customer and suppliers I think we will be doing good.
In miscellaneous news. Lets see the Bronze was sold to new owners, so the gossip mills are saying. Though I haven't seen any of them yet. I hope they fire Tristan. What???He needs sleep! Theres supposed to be some cool end of the year parties, but I doubt Nick and I will have time to go, but it'd be fun. I don't know how soon after Graduation Bindi is leaving, but I'm gonna miss her. Go figure, its so my luck to make friends with someone so soon before she ditches town. But maybe once they are settled, Nick and I can go down and see them play someplace. And OMG the psuedo parents are like gonna be married in less than two weeks. I totally have to bring them their gift like soon. maybe Monday after school. Ugh and I have two more exams to study for. But they should go well, maybe. And okay there comes a point where I am just rambling, and really I should try and get this paint out of my hair so I look somewhat decent for me and Nicks date.