“I wish I had diarrhoea”

Clearly I have been having too much fun this weekend. I meant to write about Friday night on Saturday morning, but it is now Sunday night. Better late than never, right?

So on Friday evening at about 6pm, we went outside to wait for Kerry and Mel to get here to take us to Michele’s place. Kerry arrived first, and wanted to go into the restaurant that we live above because Barb and Russ were still there. So we went in, everyone had a cookie (I made peanut butter cookies and oatmeal/raisin/choc chip cookies, all very well received) and we stood around in the DISGUSTINGLY MUGGY AND HOT kitchen area. After what seemed like 3 hours but was possibly only 20 minutes, Mel showed up with Ryan (the 16 year old who does Jake’s job on Saturdays. Barb’s nephew, and brother of Stacey who died on Monday) and we finally left that gross room and went outside to the cool-yet-wet-aired-from-rain weather. If we had stayed any longer I would have just walked out, I was sweating buckets (unlike everyone else, who I guess is used to it because they work there and therefore spend a lot of time in that hot area) and any longer and I would have fainted.

We all bundled into Kerry’s car and headed off. Halfway there we hit massive traffic so we went through some back roads where we saw about 10 turkeys all in a group on the road. Was awesome, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live turkey. I had my camera, but it was buried deep within my bag and I was trapped in the back seat between Jake and Ryan so I couldn’t move much. Still awesome. Turkeys!! No multiple belts though.

At Michele and Matt’s place, there was pizza and games, just like there always are. I LOVE that I have gotten them into hawaiian pizza, it means they automatically get that and I don’t have to make the case for pineapple on pizza every time. We played trivial pursuit, but gave up after a while. All 3 teams (Matt and Michele/Jake and Sez/Kerry Mel and Ryan) had one piece of pie so that’s good, we drawed. Then there was the playing of Apples to Apples, of course. That game is mandatory it seems. There was one hilarious moment when the descriptive word in the centre was ‘explosive’ and Matt was thinking aloud and said "I wish I had diarrhoea" and then didn’t realise why Jake and I were almost wetting ourselves laughing.

It was announced that all game night will involve pictures (I’m pretty sure because of the lack of pictures everyone had with Stacey.) which I’m totally good with. So I have many pictures from the night that I ‘stole’ from Michele’s facebook, but I won’t be posting most of them because I was VERY hot and therefore I look shiny and yuck.

I will post the only group shot though, so you can have faces for the names.

(The weird blue at the bottom is because the camera was placed on the trivial pursuit box.) From left to right is Matt, Melanie, Kerry, Ryan, Michele, Jake and me. You can’t really tell but there is a little dog on my lap. His name is Jake and he is a redhead like my Jake. He spent most of the night jumping on and off my lap so I had MASSIVELY itchy eyes by the end of  the night. Totally worth it though, very cute dog.

I think we left about 11. Ryan was to get dropped off first so we went out into bumfuck nowhere to his aunt’s place. None of us were really paying attention to where we were going, which was pretty stupid. It was MASSIVELY foggy to the point where I could barely see the turns in the road until we were taking them. I’m glad I wasn’t driving (although if I was driving, we would’ve had my GPS with us). Once Ryan was safely home, we headed back in hopefully the right direction. The first turn we took I noticed wasn’t familiar, but we kept going that way anyway. This was all the more exciting because the empty light for the petrol was being very obvious. Suddenly I noticed a very stand-out door on a house that I had seen right after we left Ryan’s place. I guess that road was one big loop! Soon after that we were back onto familiar road (at least, familiar to everyone else. I had never been in that town before) and headed home. We were back here just after midnight. Exhausting but fun. I love hanging out with all those people, it is just such fun. I love that age is no factor, Friday’s group ranged from 16-37.

 
Saturday we went and fed the kitties for the final time. I wanted Jake to take a picture of the amazing trees that sandwich the road to Nick & Stacy’s place, but he couldn’t make the camera work. By the time I just took the camera, we were past there and on to the next road. Still pretty, but not as "whoa". We grabbed a bunch of groceries (but nothing for my baking extravaganza next Saturday. I still haven’t finalised the list of treats I am making during the non-blogathon) and came home too lazy and hungry to make lunch. So we went downstairs and had delicious hot sandwiches, which really was a silly idea because it was such a hot day. But I can’t pass up an opportunity to have a turkey reuben! And Michele had put the idea in my head the night before so I was craving my drug sandwich. And it really was a drug sandwich. So perfect. YUM! Was also nice because we got served by Mel and because it was pretty much dead while we were there, both she and Kerry stood around and chatted with us while we were waiting for our food.
 
Today, being Sunday, has been… well… long-seeming. i got up at about 9am, and by the time it was 11 I thought it HAD to be at least 5pm. If we had no clocks I would have been convinced that it was approaching dinner time. So we headed out.

We went to the mall because Jake needed new shoes. He wanted those weird new ones that the bottom of the shoe is kind of like a rocking chair but not. We found those, for 25% off which was nice, and so now he has shoes that look like work shoes and he says feel really awesome, so I hope he still thinks that tomorrow. I was considering getting a pair of weird shoes for me too, because there was a ‘buy one get one half off’ thing going on, but unfortunately those shoes were excluded. I didn’t really need them, just wanted them and thought it would be silly to not get them if they were going to be available for such a ridiculous price (if they had been part of that deal, I could’ve gotten $120 shoes for $40)

After the mall we went to Costco, and got… nothing really exciting. Hand soap and ravioli. And peanut butter. Gotta have peanut butter, even though I rarely use it.

The good part about going out is that it makes our day feel like multiple days. I’m not sure why it works, but it does. Right now it honestly feels like we went shoe shopping 3 days ago.

Tomorrow we are getting a table and maybe a recliner! Hand-me-downs, but still, that’s what our entire apartment is made of! Minus the bed and electronics, everything else was someone else’s that they didn’t want anymore.
 

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