ember

I just got the proofs for the first set...and they are fantastic.

I'm at home on Thanksgiving break. It's funny, I thought I'd have nothing to do once I got here, but it turns out I've been keeping myself busy, in some ways that are more unusual than others.

The first night I got back, I went to the Spaghetti Warehouse with the 'rents and my brother and partner in crime (when it comes to weddings, anyway) Brian, where I consumed some less-than-satisfactory shrimp alfredo. Brian mentioned that he and a group of other people were going to the Cato Hotel to drink and party it up. I declined at first, but received a call from a friend of a friend telling me that "your brother says you have to go". So, I said what the fuck and got gussied and up and went. It's funny, my town is so small that the Cato Hotel is like, the place to be on any given night, yet I have never been there. I suppose that's because I'm not 21 yet, although I soon discovered that nobody checks ID's anyway.

When I showed up, Brian was already really drunk. I could tell because he threw his arm around me and was barking at people to order me drinks and get me as drunk as fast as possible. He also started playing with my eyebrow ring mid-conversation, and shortly thereafter gave me all his money and told me to order as many drinks as I wanted. Luckily all he had on him was 15 dollars, but I ended up not using his money because A) I'm not mean enough to take advantage of a drunk person, even if he's related to me and B) people in his group kept buying me drinks. One of his friends is a doctor named Eric....he makes like $400,000 a year so he had no issue getting me a couple rum and cokes. We also did a shot of jager, which I have never had. It actually felt pretty nice going down. We toasted to my fingernails desperately needing to be repainted since, well, it's the truth. I hate black nailpolish, I swear it chips faster than any other color.

My sister Kathy's ex-husband was also there....he's friends with Brian, which has always seemed a little odd to me, but I've always kept my mouth shut. FYI, Kathy is 13 years older than me, and her ex-husband (Jason) is like, 36 or something like that. With Jason was his younger sister Kate, who I haven't really seen or talked to since Jason and Kathy's wedding reception when I was like...8. Brian was quick to inform me that "she eats carpet now". That's always a good thing.

So, I got drunk pretty quickly, and everybody got out on the dance floor and started acting like retards, singing to "Living on a Prayer" and some other non-new music. I noticed fairly quickly that Jason seemed a little taken with dancing with me, and also that Kate and Brian were dancing together a lot. I started to feel a little uncomfortable at that point. How fucked up is that? My sister's ex-husband wanting to bang me, and my brother and his sister wanting to bang each other. What's even better was later on in the night, Jason was like "Kate says she likes you, you know...she thinks you're hot." And I was like, "Uhh, she totally has it for Brian." And he was like "No way, she totally wants you." So then Brian and I had a "contest" to see who could take Kate home with them that night....obviously he won since I have a boyfriend and would not have engaged in such activities even if she was trying to yank me out the door while taking her clothes off at the same time. Although that admittedly would make me feel pretty cool. Me stealing a girl away from my brother, who apparently is a big hit with all the ladies wherever he goes. Kate did dance with me for awhile though before they took off to go fuck like boars, which was nice....her dancing with me, that is, not them fucking like boars.

Soon I noticed a couple of guys that I graduated with from highschool, Scott and Joe. I used to be on friendly terms with both of them in the past, but we lost touch over the years and haven't heard from them since. We got re-acquainted, and I also talked with an old friend Sarah who was with them. We stayed until the bar closed, and immediately went to Joe's house afterwards to chill in the hot tub. I realize now that statement makes no sense. Chilling in a hot tub...anyway.

Jason also has a younger brother, Adam, who was with us at Joe's but did not partake in the hot tub festivities. He ended up driving me home, and we talked in his car for about an hour. I made the mistake of telling him about SG....pretty soon he was asking to see my boobs. I said no, and immediately said bye and went inside. WTF is up with that? Just because I'm an SG doesn't mean I automatically am going to walk around offering to take my clothes off. Oh well.

Thursday I didn't do jack shit. We're having our dinner today. I ended up sleeping most of the day to get over my hangover.

Yesterday I hung out with an old friend I haven't seen since July. We went to Denny's, then came back to my place to play videogames. He returned Star Ocean for PS2 finally, a game I gave to him 5 months ago. It's nice to have it back. Later on, my friend Brandon showed up and we all played some more games, including Mortal Kombat 3 and Spiderman: Separation Anxiety. Aww yeah, old school games are the best. I also finally got to see the Family Guy movie. You know, I really didn't think it was that funny, but I enjoyed the storyline nonetheless.

Today we're preparing for dinner. Actually I need to get showered for that.

See, now look at how obscenely long and detailed this journal entry is. This is what happens when I have steady internet access for more than 5 minutes at a time. Oh, Steve ordered the router which arrived the other day, now we just need Comcast to come in and hook shit up. Yay!