Weekend in Review
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mrlichFriday:
I left work a bit early andxtingu and I headed north. We headed up to northern NJ to see her family and to witness a beautiful bat mitzvah. The ceremony was delightful, and her family is always fun to be around. They're just good folks like that. As the snow started coming down afterward, we made a slow but steady trip to her parents' place for the night. We spent some time just relaxing and shooting the breeze before resisting the urge to stay up all night like kids and hit the sack so we could be up at a decent hour.
Saturday:
Everyone got up and ate a great breakfast.xtingu 's Mom made perfectly golden brown pancakes and bacon and sausage. Yeah - we suffered terribly. More breeze was shot gleefully before everyone but her Dad headed out. xtingu and her Mom had plans elsewhere so I headed down to my folks' place. I hadn't told them I was coming - for two reasons really. 1. I didn't want them to change any plans on my account and 2. I thought it would be a fun surprise if they were free.
Turns out they were free. A side note here - at the risk of sounding repetitious here, I have to point out that I am immeasurably lucky in the 'good family' department. My folks always make me feel so very welcome whenever I'm around. While you might find yourself thinking "Of course your folks make you feel welcome - you're their son!" I would argue that's not the case with many folks. I think that a lot of folks feel a wide range of anxieties and frustrations when dealing with their families and I just don't have that in my world. I like hanging out with my family. I want to spend time with and around them. They're good people who give me much.
Alright, alright you're saying - get on with it. Yeah yeah - I'm getting there.
So I spent the better part of the afternoon just shooting the shit with my folks and going through a ton of my old stuff that they have held in storage for me at their place for... well... a long damn time. Bouncing around from apartment to apartment, and then from small rented house to small rented house, and finally tolotusanddragon 's place, I never had the space to store all the crap I had accumulated over the years.
I know, I know. I should have just up and filtered through it and trashed or donated whatever I didn't need. Clearly I didn't need most of it if it was living in storage in another state. Problem is that a lot of it is stuff that I really love. My books. My beloved, comforting, I-know-that-I-have-a-reference-book-for-that books. Yes, I'm an adept web surfer and know that I could find most if not all of that online. Doesn't matter - there's just something about musty old books sitting there on the shelf waiting for me that makes a place feel a little more like home. Slowly but surely, those books (and photos and sketchbooks) are making their way down here. I spent a chunk of time gathering / sorting / filtering said stuff and then we headed to dinner at the Friendly's Restaurant that I worked at many years ago. Pretty much nothing had changed.
After dinner, I dropped the folks off back at their house, took a quick look at their PC as they're having some issues with it, gathered my crap, and headed out to hang withkar0na .
We went to check out a place that's she's been going to occasionally called Legends. It was a lively place - the kind of place where the bartenders look like they're having as much fun as the crowd, there's a lot of pretty people, and some steady bass thumpin (thoughkar0na and I both noted that they seemed to have the treble up a bit too high). Probably not the sort of place that I would choose as my regular haunt if I was back in town, but it was absolutely fun to check out, and I delighted in going someplace other than our usual spots - especially someplace a little more 'city' than what the Lehigh Valley usually dishes up. After a couple of drinks and some time amusing ourselves with the drama going on at a nearby table - you know the one with the girl so wasted that she's telling everyone how much she loves them right before she breaks down and starts bawling about some imagined problems - yeah - that one. After settling our tab, we headed to kar0na 's place where we chatted for a bit sans bass and then I was southbound for home.
I got in really late, but felt surprisingly awake so I hopped online and checked some email and livejournal, and then found myself slapped in the face by the wall, so I crawled to my Big Comfy Bed™ and drifted off into LaLa Land.
Sunday:
Today I was bad. I woke up late (and groggy as hell) and watched a movie. Or two. On the plus side, I got some great ideas for fan art / ACEO that I wouldn't mind doing - you know, because I don't have enough other projects in the pipe.
Spent the rest of the afternoon browsing, checking emails, reviewing Deviantart and Conceptart and just generally sitting on my fat ass. Tomorrow it's back to the grind, so I don't feel all that bad about it.
I left work a bit early and
xtingu and I headed north. We headed up to northern NJ to see her family and to witness a beautiful bat mitzvah. The ceremony was delightful, and her family is always fun to be around. They're just good folks like that. As the snow started coming down afterward, we made a slow but steady trip to her parents' place for the night. We spent some time just relaxing and shooting the breeze before resisting the urge to stay up all night like kids and hit the sack so we could be up at a decent hour.Saturday:
Everyone got up and ate a great breakfast.
xtingu 's Mom made perfectly golden brown pancakes and bacon and sausage. Yeah - we suffered terribly. More breeze was shot gleefully before everyone but her Dad headed out. xtingu and her Mom had plans elsewhere so I headed down to my folks' place. I hadn't told them I was coming - for two reasons really. 1. I didn't want them to change any plans on my account and 2. I thought it would be a fun surprise if they were free.Turns out they were free. A side note here - at the risk of sounding repetitious here, I have to point out that I am immeasurably lucky in the 'good family' department. My folks always make me feel so very welcome whenever I'm around. While you might find yourself thinking "Of course your folks make you feel welcome - you're their son!" I would argue that's not the case with many folks. I think that a lot of folks feel a wide range of anxieties and frustrations when dealing with their families and I just don't have that in my world. I like hanging out with my family. I want to spend time with and around them. They're good people who give me much.
Alright, alright you're saying - get on with it. Yeah yeah - I'm getting there.
So I spent the better part of the afternoon just shooting the shit with my folks and going through a ton of my old stuff that they have held in storage for me at their place for... well... a long damn time. Bouncing around from apartment to apartment, and then from small rented house to small rented house, and finally to
lotusanddragon 's place, I never had the space to store all the crap I had accumulated over the years.I know, I know. I should have just up and filtered through it and trashed or donated whatever I didn't need. Clearly I didn't need most of it if it was living in storage in another state. Problem is that a lot of it is stuff that I really love. My books. My beloved, comforting, I-know-that-I-have-a-reference-book-for-that books. Yes, I'm an adept web surfer and know that I could find most if not all of that online. Doesn't matter - there's just something about musty old books sitting there on the shelf waiting for me that makes a place feel a little more like home. Slowly but surely, those books (and photos and sketchbooks) are making their way down here. I spent a chunk of time gathering / sorting / filtering said stuff and then we headed to dinner at the Friendly's Restaurant that I worked at many years ago. Pretty much nothing had changed.
After dinner, I dropped the folks off back at their house, took a quick look at their PC as they're having some issues with it, gathered my crap, and headed out to hang with
kar0na .We went to check out a place that's she's been going to occasionally called Legends. It was a lively place - the kind of place where the bartenders look like they're having as much fun as the crowd, there's a lot of pretty people, and some steady bass thumpin (though
kar0na and I both noted that they seemed to have the treble up a bit too high). Probably not the sort of place that I would choose as my regular haunt if I was back in town, but it was absolutely fun to check out, and I delighted in going someplace other than our usual spots - especially someplace a little more 'city' than what the Lehigh Valley usually dishes up. After a couple of drinks and some time amusing ourselves with the drama going on at a nearby table - you know the one with the girl so wasted that she's telling everyone how much she loves them right before she breaks down and starts bawling about some imagined problems - yeah - that one. After settling our tab, we headed to kar0na 's place where we chatted for a bit sans bass and then I was southbound for home.I got in really late, but felt surprisingly awake so I hopped online and checked some email and livejournal, and then found myself slapped in the face by the wall, so I crawled to my Big Comfy Bed™ and drifted off into LaLa Land.
Sunday:
Today I was bad. I woke up late (and groggy as hell) and watched a movie. Or two. On the plus side, I got some great ideas for fan art / ACEO that I wouldn't mind doing - you know, because I don't have enough other projects in the pipe.
Spent the rest of the afternoon browsing, checking emails, reviewing Deviantart and Conceptart and just generally sitting on my fat ass. Tomorrow it's back to the grind, so I don't feel all that bad about it.
Some brief plans for the week in case any of you care to join me:
Monday:
-Be there at 1100 when they come to pick up my old pick up. Make sure that the tow truck driver stays very far away from my motorcycle. If not? Break him - many times.
-Draw.
-Work on the new and improved Dragonbones.net. Shhhhh - it's a surprise.
Tuesday:
-Open Figure Drawing from Life at DCAD.
And the rest? Well, I haven't quite figured the rest out yet. I'll let you know when I do.
Tags:
- 1100,
- family,
- friends,
- fun,
- girlfriend,
- jill,
- kar0na,
- life,
- life update,
- my life,
- weekend in review
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Date: 2008-03-03 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-03 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-03 02:36 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I love Friendly's. It's where God would go to eat if he could digest mortal meals. Poor kid.
-Paul
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Date: 2008-03-03 04:37 pm (UTC)Well, I don't know that I would go quite that far, but I did have a lot of fun. There's part of me that misses the old 'waiting tables' days. There's a sense of carefree-ness about them that I surely do miss, but usually the rest of me kicks the crap out of that small part of me that wishes for those days.