The Weekend

Friday: Good day at work, tying up lose ends. Went home and napped and talked to mom till it was time to go to Jojo's. She made bluefin tuna steaks w/ onions, sweet squash w/ brown sugar, blue cheese potatoes, and corn salad. It was a fabulous meal. I brought the carrot cake from a posh cake maker near my work. We talked till about 2:00 am. We didn't even bust out a game, we just sat and talked all night. It was great.

Saturday: Per Mog's advice we slept in as LATE as possible - 2:30. Went up to Daman's for lunch, ran errands, and raided the grocery store for every snack food possible. Got on the road about 6 for Olympia, about 1 hour and 15 minutes away. We got there just in time to go to the mall and blow a few bucks shopping (Mog and I got a couple pairs of shoes, Dane got some shirts), eat dinner and mosey around town. At about 9 we stood in line for the 22nd Annual Olympia Film Fest only to get a ticket that allowed us to walk around town and not lose our place in line. Right on. We walked all over town till 11 then stood back in line and waited for admittance to the theatre. Around 12 we piled in to the old school theater, donned our 3D glasses and watched Friday the 13th part 3 in 3D. Totally awesome. Totally cheesey. The best was when Jason squeezed "Richard's" head so hard his eyeball came blasting out at the audience. Followed by the cross bow scene. After that and a couple of short films we watched Phantasm - all 70's, all mullets! For the third movie we watched Lady Terminator. A horrible, horrible film inspired by the original Terminator. This movie was B-A-D. After that it was Demons, which I slept through. Dane said it was worse than the sum of the first three put together. Once Demons was over, we decided, at 8:30 am on Sunday, that it was time to drive home.

Sunday: We drove home sleep deprived, which is IMHO worse than drunk. We barely made it through Jack in the Box, the only thing we could stay up and eat. Even at that we barely finished our food. Originally we were going to stay up all Sunday so as not to mess up our sleep schedule, but that was not happening. We promptly passed out till 3:00 pm waking up long enough to watch another 2 movies and go back to bed.

All in all it was one of the best weekends I've ever had. And completely sober and smoke free!!! AND I watched my diet the whole time. While the guys munched on chips and candy, I had carrot sticks, unbuttered popcorn, and apples. I haven't felt this healthy in a long time.

And I cannot wait for the next film fest! You would not believe how fun and funny it is to go to a theatre of hecklers and watch bad horror flicks. Good times.

More later, I have some updates on Seattle living, or driving rather, my radiating persona, and other stuff. We closed the fiscal year tonight. In fact I just got home and it's about 10:00 PST. We were held hostage till everything was done. Stay tuned.