Everytime I go out to Pittsburgh it is an even better time than the last time! Perhaps, because all my fondest memories lately have been from trips to see Monicutie and company.
On Thursday, we hung out and enjoyed a crazy Chinese Buffet. It was so awesome, and strangely enough, they had Sushi there. Sushi + Monica = Freakin' awesome! They also had fried squid, which is always the correct choice when it comes to tentacley goodness. That evening, we watched Dead Alive, which has to be the funniest and grossest movie ever made. Honestly, you owe it to yourself to see this if you are a zombie fan or a Peter Jackson fan. Jeff also built a freakin' sweet game cabinet to play all kinds of sweet video games! It looked so good, and I had no idea he had built it himself.
The next day was followed by some shopping and going out to Butler to see Monica's family. Needless to say it was such a great time and to walk around in the nice cozy breeze was great. The biggest surprise though came in the evening. We had been decorating for Laura's birthday party when it was revealed that the party was actually for me. It was a belated birthday party. I cried and I'm still in shock even today that some friends would care enough to do that for me. I feel humbled, honored and even in awe of such a great group of people that I now have in my life that I couldn't have imagined just years ago.
We went out to the Cheesecake Factory that night and met Miranda, who is quite the hoot! Then we went back and gorged on a delicious blueberry cake that Laura handmade. Holy cow! Talk about cake-tastic.
As if days couldn't get better, the next day was followed by a melange of dropping by the O' in Pittsburgh for hot dogs, and then a nice walk through town to burn off the horrible calories, and then we went to see Transformers and go bopping about a mall. Transformers was an awesome movie. Totally! I didn't think they could do a good job with it, but they didn't even look like CGI robots....they looked real and kicked ass.
That evening we settled down to watch Isolation, which was about a mutant death cow. We topped the night off with a rousing game of Kashi that Monica made and it rocked! She so needs to get her game published, because it was crazy fun and I want to play it a million more times!
And then Sunday...the sadness. I cried on the way home like I generally do when I get to be myself and be with people I care so much for. This trip finally sunk in how lucky I am to have such good friends, and it drove home how awesome Monica is. When I grew up, I never knew that friends could be like this. It's all so new to me to have friends who are so loving and supportive the past few years that I am realizing for the first times in my life what friendship really means. I feel dumbfounded at times trying to adjust to this and hope that I can show my friends how much they mean to me. I love you all!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
5 comments:
Oh love! What you are leaving out is that YOU deserve every happiness, every surprise, every hug, and every friend! Most of all you deserve every squee-tastic bit of love in my heart!
You are the most wonderful, loving, amazing woman I have ever met, Colleeny. Being cared for and adored and loved and encouraged and supported may be new experiences, but you will have to get used to it, angel. From now on, for you, it's the status quo! =)
I wish I could have gone to your party Colleen! Yes, I knew about it before you did too. It's easy to keep a secret from the other side of the country! =)
I'm so glad that you had such a great time in PA!
Reading your post, it takes me back to the early days of getting to know my family here in New Jersey while I was still living in Houston. I hope that your situation turns out as well as mine did eventually. One thing I've learned is that you belong with the people who show you that they love you, not the ones who tell you so.
I can't believe you liked that stupid robot movie! The robots were cool, but the humans were stupid. Apparently the budget was spent on hardware and Michael Bay instead of actors and scriptwriters.
LOL @ Michelle! Too true. The effects were awesome, but...sheesh. I expected something a little more...adultlike, ya know? I mean there's all these gritty combat scenes that look like they're out of Black Hawk Down - very adult - then you hear someone whip out a cheesy one-liner like it's from a Disney movie. ^_~ I hope I don't offend you with that sentiment, Colleen....^^;;
Anyhow, I couldn't say it better than everyone else already has....you deserved all that. You deserve more. You deserve to have all that every day. One day you'll have it, too, and you may just look back and wonder how you ever got by without it for all those long periods away from Monica and your friends.
Here's some more love your way and here's hoping that all the awesome things you deserve find you soon. Only getting to be yourself once every few months is hardly a treatment you deserve. You're too good for that.
LOL @ Michelle and Mandy. I guess you're right. I mean the plot wasn't all that awesome, but...I mean it had Transformers! And they blew stuff up! And of course th emost important part was the company right next to me ^_^
And thank you Emily! We need to totally find some middle ground. Next TBC should be in...ummm Kansas? We could stop by the Westboro Baptist Church. :)
Post a Comment