As is testament by this second extremely late blog, I'm on vacation. As this will be my last true break until late July, I opted to head home for brief but wonderful in-person time with some of my friends and family. As I write this I'm now back in OH, so here's both a recap of my adventures and an apology to the many folks I did not get a chance to see.
In no particular order, let's start with family time. As I was going back and forth all over the place, I saw my family two separate times. First, I made it to Tia Favorita's birthday dinner with my entire family including my grandparents, Cheeky Monkey, Drew Jules York and his gf Kirbs. We all laughed as my mom and aunt drank caipirinhas at the Cuban restaurant and as my grandparents instinctively spoke Spanish to the waiter even though he definitely didn't know what they were saying. The place was in a hipster anti-mall, so we also enjoyed making fun of that and how the music playing faintly (Florence + The Machine and Killers and Muse among others) didn't count as hipster because those bands are now well known. It's the little moments you remember: Cheeky Monkey and I randomly having a stirring contest with our straws. Drew pulling Cheeky's cup away as she tries to drink. Cheeky betting Drew he can't drink out of six cups at once and then watching him do it. Yeah... good times.
I also hung out with the family on other nights. I had an only child evening when my sibs were gone and my folks and I had sushi at one of those places with the conveyor belt. Also saw my sisters new house that she splits with a few friends. What did the three of us do while there? Play games with each other on our phones which was actually really fun. So yea, definitely a highlight of the trip seeing the family. My mom, who knew I was coming, still got teary eyed seeing me. Guess Ohio is further than we thought.
Now people who didn't know I was coming included Brock and everyone in la familia except Mama Goldfish. So when I suddenly showed up at my old apartment, knocked, and found the door open and Brock door closed, I was afraid my surprise might be turned on me. In a fitting reunion, I found Brock in his underwear after just waking up from a midday nap but still very happy to see me. We caught up and joined Mama G, AVP, Kareem, Bridges, Settler Type and the other visitors: Jordan and Penny from Georgia for a night of St. Patrick's Day festivities at a pre-determined NON-IRISH bar to keep the crowds down. It was a nice reunion where we had Hawaiian food (snuck in from a nearby eatery) Jameson (well they had green Stella and Guinness) and a lovely time. They even played quarters with me, those silly fools. We also had a nice brunch the next morning. Noone got too drunk, everyone had a blast. We must be getting older hehe.
I did scavenge a few Brock quotes for your viewing pleasure:
"Oh, is it too early for words?"
"Don't worry. all the midgets were employed as leprechauns yesterday."
And my favorite" I have this app on my phone. It's the Bible. But it's always updating. I'm like, AREN'T YOU ALREADY FINISHED??"
I also spent a brief bit of time at the University. I spent the night at Naysayer P Squirrel's apartment and besides getting some catch up time with him both at lunches and in the evenings, I saw my old boss Santa Claus and a few other coworkers. And of course, I spent some good times with Pokeboss, Red Button, Captain Peanut, Shyly Sue Hoo, GoGo Co 2.0, Shy Rider, King Wrangler, Britney Bell, and Nobel Dancer. I even briefly saw Royal Rose and Hungry Brawler (I know I know, you are all now looking at the cast of characters to remember who I'm talking about). Red Button Nobel Dancer and Pokeboss took me (well I drove them but still) to a new restaurant near University that serves awesome pizza and has one of those futuristic Coke machines with a million flavors. So gooooodddd. We also had Awesome Burger Chain (I ended up eating there three times over my weeklong trip!). We also hit up the bars, which since they are older and I don't supervise them, was quite fun. Between their amusing variances in tolerance, jumbling towers, dominos and gossip we were probably really funny to watch. I'm not sure if life and love advice are best given under alcoholic influence, but interesting phenomenon, that tends to happen more in those situations...
Other highlights including: Disneyland with Heavy Spy and Dungeon Daddy, homecooked food with my grandparents, lunch at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants with Tenshi, bar hopping with Drew, Kareem, Mama G, and Dungeon Daddy, and book shopping at my old haunt back home, alone simply enjoying being in California. Also, I checked, the Pacific Ocean is still there. I was getting worried. Overall a very fast, terribly fun, drama-free, smooth, happy trip home, my last one until after China. Sorry to all of those I didn't see or tell I was coming, it was kind of a last minute surprise trip.
For now, that's all I shall write about as I owe another blog in two days. Gotta get back into the swing of things.
-JTY
Reading: Hunger Games- Very enjoyable so far. I'm on Book Three! And I basically started on Tuesday. Gotta get my pleasure reading down in time.
Listening to: New Born- Muse, heard Muse a bit more on the radios back home. I miss them. Therefore, this is my mood tonight.
Playing: League and TOR though I almost picked up Demon Souls again....
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