Playing catch up

Thursday 7/14, On the flight I probably got an hour or hour and a half of sleep but the flight was only a total of 3 hours so I’m surprised I got that much. So we land and go to baggage claim and Mom spots us right away and we go sit down by our carousel and I spot 2 rockers and am semi-interested in their existence, but then after they got their bags and instruments I see them walk over to another carousel and I decide to get a snack at Starbucks and have to walk by them and realize they’re standing with Art Alexekis from Everclear. So I get my snack and head back to tell the girls and we all gawk then go upstairs to meet Dad and they totally are checking out Mom; depressing. Then Dad calls and says he’s downstairs so we go back down, load up and head out. We got lost at some point but saw a lot of beautiful houses, got directions, stopped at a gas station (Lish and I peed) and then to Uncle Dick’s. Uncle Larry was there to greet us and I went inside for a while and chatted with everyone and ate breakfast with Dad, Roxy, Larry, Mom and Aubs, had a cream filled donut even though I ate a big muffin at the airport, it was from Toby’s, yum! Then I went out to the motorhome and fell asleep with Kassie and woke up not much later and got ready. Found Aubs and we ran around and took a picture and she tried to hoist me onto the motorhome but I couldn’t stop laughing. Oh, did I mention it’s hotter than hell there? And humid too, like 118%. Beau shows up and we hang with him for a while cause all the adults went into town so we hung inside cause it had nice AC. Finally they came back and we all headed out to see Grandma and since I had used up all my film Dad took it to Target to get developed for me and Aubs brought the lyrics for the goat song and when we all got there we sang it and Grandma's roommate sang along too, it was fun. Grandma was out of it for a while but Kassie and I held her hands for a long time and talked to her and she started talking. She kept asking who Larry was and said Rosemary was pretty, said that all of us had beautiful hair and asked us what color our eyes are. Dad went and got my film so I showed everyone the pics. We reminisced about Grandma and the farm and her cookies and she said she wished she had made something for us to eat but we told her it was ok, and Dad took lots of pictures and Grandma had her frown-smile, so overall we had a nice visit and I’m glad we got to see her again and talk with her even if she doesn’t remember who we are. We left there and went to Dairy Queen and Rosemary bought treats, I ordered a small Oreo Blizzard but the ice cream was piled so high out of the cup, it was practically a large. Then Uncle Larry tried to lose us being an unusually crazy driver and everyone yelled at him mostly Rosemary and we got gas then Dad, Aubs, Kassie and I went to the all natural store in Litchfield and I bought chapstick and they had all of these great free samples of shampoos and EmergenC and when they ring you up you pick a piece of paper out of the basket and that’s how much you get off of your purchase, I got 5% and Kassie got 10%. We went back to Uncle Dick’s and loaded up and took off and dumped the holding tank and Uncle Larry opened the gate for us and then got on our way to Fargo and started the OC and got Kassie hooked. We got to Fargo for the night and Dad got us a hotel room and we ran into Clint, Jodi, Casey and Dylan and we all walked to dinner and I had a Mediterranean chicken sandwich that was good and we left to go back to the motorhome to finish our episode with Casey and got her hooked too. Finished it just in time as Mom and Dad were getting back and headed up to our room then I went back down to the lobby and called Court and we chatted for a while then Lish sent me out to the mortorhome for meds but I couldn’t get in so I found the vending machine for her and we went back up and all of us talked for a long time before going to bed. Long day.

Wednesday 7/13, I left work at 12:00 and went home and B was there and I made us some lunch. I had my leftovers and he had these chimichangas or whatever and then I packed the rest of my stuff and we took off for Leavenworth. Stopped in Monroe for B to get gas and saw a bad ass biker dude with a Jesus jacket on and riding a crotch rocket, thought he was like 60. Got to the property and showed B around and unloaded my car of Dad’s tools. Went down to the river and I saw a snake, then headed out but stopped by Morey’s (not there) and left except I forgot my sunglasses so we had to go back, then we were on our way. Stopped at 59er Diner for blackberry milkshake that we shared and headed straight home to his house via Everett. Got there and Sky and Chrystol had baked Macaroni, so B and I went upstairs for a while then out to the hammock and laid in it for a while then dinner was ready so we went in and Chrystol made me a little bowl and I ate it then I called Kassie and she told me I could come over so at 8:30 or 9:00 B took me over but I didn’t think she was there but found out that her car was just in the shop. So we hung out for a while and I laid down in her room while she got ready and I think we finally left her house around 11:15 for Moms. We got there quickly and took off for the airport. I thought Mom was drunk but Kassie just thinks that Mom thinks she’s hilarious. Got through everything fine and to our gate with a little stop at a magazine store.

Tuesday 7/12, B came over to my house and we went to the eyeglasses place on 8th and picked out some glasses. We saw Susan on the way there and we chatted while stopped at the red light. After we ordered my glasses I think we went to the little teriyaki place by Quiznos but it wasn’t very good and after that over to Nordstrom so I could get my eye shadow. Then we went home.

Monday 7/11, Ok sike, Kay-See and I hung out on Monday and this is what happened: I was going to drive to Erin’s to return the steamer she let me borrow and meet Kay-See for dinner. Instead, we decided to meet in Bellevue and K would just return the steamer for me, which is a good thing cause I guess after we hung up they closed the freeway in Kirkland or something. So we met at PF Changs but I got there before she did so I put our name down, got a vibrator and sat out on the fireplace. I saw this hot guy go by with shaggy hair and followed him with my eyes all the way up the stairs. Then K got there and we just sat and talked for a while, then my mystery man came back down the stairs in some form of workout wear and Kay-See was like, “I saw that guy and thought of you” and I was like, Oh my word, I just saw him and thought he was hot! But she didn’t like his shaggy hair, but that’s a trademark look that I go for, so then he drops his wallet or whatever and bends over to pick it up and I’m like, oh yeah! So then we get seated and order and there are a couple of cute waiters, one short one for Kay-See, and a shaggy one for me. Dinner was good then we went back up to my car cause I had a surprise for Kay-See: Bobby T video. OH YEAH! Then I dropped her at her car, but as I was driving out she called me and reminded me about the steamer so we met at Wendy’s and as soon as she got out of her car she realized that her keys were in the ignition and her door was locked. So we sat in my car and she called her parents and we just chatted then they got there and we left. That’s all I remember from that night. Maybe B came over and spent the night and I packed. Don’t remember.

Sunday 7/10, I forgot to mention that on Sunday, B and I (before seeing the open houses) went to Kassie’s eyeglasses place and tried on like every pair of glasses in the joint, but only one pair kind of looked good on me and they were $255, yeah, no. After that we went to the open houses.