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June 05, 2005
Supppper Boyfrienddddd
I realize that I must have become a LUSH since moving home :-) My friend Elizabeth called me Friday night on her drive home from work (to kill time in Austin traffic!)...I missed her first phone call because my phone was set to silent. When I listened to the message, she just said Hi!!! and that I was probably at Happy Hour, but she wanted to check in and see how things were going :-) Well, I laughed really hard, and called her back right away. I had just pulled into the parking lot next to Mex, to join Carrie, Adam, and Ari for HAPPY HOUR :-) Elizabeth knows me tooo well. :-) Anyway, she and I had a nice conversation until Carrie and Co. showed up. Afterwards, we sat outside (even though it started sprinkling) and I proceeded to drink 3 Apple-Tinis. The 1st was for Elizabeth, because I missed her and they are her "favorite" too. The 2nd was for me, and my cancelled birthday party @ Mex, and the 3rd was just plain stupidity and love of Apple-Tinis.
Around 8:30, Seymen showed up to pick me up. (And I DID need picking up...although I was very proud of myself, because I wasn't CRAZY drunk) We walked over to Matthew's Street (that's a bar, not a Street) and ate dinner with Nate and Johnny. Nate kept pushing me like those topple toys because it thought it was funny to see me wobble. When we left dinner, Thaun and Chau walked past, (later I realized that was planned) and walked to the East End Fest. I lasted 5 minutes, and then had to drag Seymen home because it was too crowded and Beth had too many Apple-Tinis. Well, the plan was for us to go home and I was supposed to sober up and at like 1AM we'd go back and pick up my car. (It was about 10 when we left) Around 1AM, Seymen woke me up (Yes, I guess I was snoring and drooling...EWWWWWWWWWW just kidding!!!!) and I was still too drunk to drive...Sooo he called a cab, and went downtown and drove my car home for me. I seriously SERIOUSLY felt soooooooo bad, and THANK HIMM PROFUSELYYYY, and even though he was kind of mad at me the next day, he still just kept say: "I'd rather of had to do that then have you drive drunk". What a nice guy.
So Saturday I woke up, with surprisingly no problems. I had to go to Tutor Training at 9AM! I got up and drove myself (in my car THANKS to Seymen) there. It was a great training class, the first of 5. I met some really neat women (all women) and learned more about Cultural diveristy, and how to work culture into our own lesson plans. It was very interesting. I also learned about the other women in the training and why they are doing this volunteer work. It's always interesting doing things and finding out why people are doing the same thing that you are. Anyway, a few of the women had dome some extensive travelling throughout Eurpoe and Asia, so they had some pretty amazing stories about cultural diversity, culture shock, etc. My homework is to write about my own cultural diversity experiences, but I'm kind of stumped. I know I've had them, but I just can't seem to come up with a good example to write about. I think I may have to dig back to my Spain trip...Anyway, we have a few assignments, and Maureen, one of the women in class, and I are going to meet Tuesday night to work on our project together.
Saturday afternoon, I dropped off lunch for Seymen and the guys at work, and went to dad's to hang out until he was ready to leave work. It was nice to spend some time with my dad. Georgia was out doing stuff on her own for part of the time, so Dad and I were able to have some good talks, and I got to "help" him by turning the hose on and off while he cleaned his grill. :-) <--That's classic right? Seymen called around 6:15, and gave me the OK to come to Fuji so we could leave for Buffalo. We drove up and had dinner at Fuji Grill with Chrissy and Jake. It was DELICIOUS!!! (But Shiki's ginger salad dressing is still #1--hands down--the best ever). I was so excited because they too served strawberry mochi-balls. I planned my whole dinner around saving room for dessert. Afterwards, we visited Walmart where we bought Balderdash for the evenings entertainment, and I was able to find the PERFECT birthday present for Seymen's mom. The deal for the night was, that Seymen could drink as much as he wanted and I wouldn't drink at all, and would be DD and drive us home. We stayed and played balderdash twice (since Jake thought that I was cheating ;-) hehehe, but I SERIOUSLY Wasn't...when someone says something about Wisconson, I AUTOMATICALLY think CHEESE!! And just because Seymen thought it too, and wrote EXACTLY the same thing as me...was PURELY COIENCIDENCE ;-) hehehee...Anyway, we drove home at about 1:00AM. I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired, but I refused to let Seymen know how tired I was. I was actually having trouble keeping my eyes open. My eyes were soooo dry, that even when I'd yawn, they wouldn't water. It was crazy. I had to pinch my neck from Palmyra all the way to the 390 exit. I think i have a bruise there now because I really had to stick my nails in my neck to keep awake. Anyway, we made it home SAFE and sound. I think I slept until 12 noon today.
It took us a while to get going, but we finally did. We went to Perkins for breakfast/lunch. Afterwards, we drove out to greece and test drove the new Mustangs! Seymen's been dying to drive one...and we set up our plan ahead of time, so he knew how to play it off well enough so it didn't look like we were just going for the test drive, and not really going to buy it. Anyway, he drove a red 5-speed coop. It was NICEEEEEEEEEEEEe. Definitely smoooooooooooth. I think for about a second he really did consider buying it ;-) But in the end afterwards, we talked and know that it's not worth it. After that fun, we drove to Fuji so he could go to work and I could get my car. I went home to mom's and worked on pictures, and walked Bayley. Seymen and Maki both came for dinner at mom's tonight too.
We were supposed to buy tickets for our July trip tonight, but we were distracted, so Seymen's going to call the hotel tonight and do that, and tomorrow I can buy tickets. We're sooooooooooooooo excited to go. We decided that we're going to rent a Caddilac Deville (Seymen's choice). He wants to drive a really COMFY BIG (OLD MAN's) car...and since he's the one who's driving, he gets to choose...but I do have to admit that they really are comfortable, and we are purposly flying into the Phoenix airport JUST so we have an hour drive to Tuscan to get GOOD use out of the rental car :-) We're staying here: The Westin - La Paloma. We are trying to make this an annual trip. We get to see Eric, and spend 4-5 days in the MOST COMFORTABLE room, with the Heavenly Bed and Heavenly Shower...Delicious food, swim up bars, waitresses that bring you french fries to you at the poolside (my favorite hehehe), and an AWESOME Spa.
Darn, I just looked at the clock and it's 11:25. Past my bedtime. I have to go to sleep...and check in with Seymen on his phone call to the hotel...if he made it...He received his Tushy cleaner in the mail today, and was VERY EXCITED to install it tonight...but that is another story for another night
Posted by beth at June 5, 2005 10:51 PM