:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Sunday, September 07, 2003 ::

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Well, not much new to post... {{sigh}} Despite the fact that Bill doesn't think he's going to have money to pay me with. He told me to take some time off and he'll call me back later. He said it'll most likely be sooner than later, but he would call me back later. {{another sigh}}

party on the canal
However, I did have a fun day today. I did have to go to this stupid Career Services Workshop at the school (and make a 10^th copy of my résumé), but we got out early. Yay! Then, John S. came over and we watched 8MST. I gave him his birthday card, too. {{whispers}} Don't tell anyone, but he's going to be 30 tomorrow... ~_^ We got almost half way through the series. Yay! Then Mom called from the deck party she and Dad were at asking if I wanted to come down. John drove me down and I rode home with my parents. It was fun! Yay! John left the party early because he had to be home for "surprise" birthday cake he wasn't supposed to know about... LOL.

Anyway, this house is down in Mastic, like two blocks from the Smith Point bridge. It's halfway down the street and has a canal in the backyard. They don't have to worry about any grass because they did the front in white marble stones in a small circular driveway and the back is a giant deck... all the way to their dock. They have one giant oak tree coming up out of the middle of the deck. It's HUGE, but it's a gorgeous tree and covers the whole deck in shade. It was a nice end of summer get together, too. Cathy and Nick were there, so John got to say hi. It's been a while since we've hung out with them. Cathy didn't come to my Home & Garden Party, so she didn't get to see Estelle the other weekend. But, it was good seeing them again. Lori was there with her two boys, John Eric and Devon. Not Lori from where I work, but Lori from where Mom works. I know like three of them. There's another Lori that works with Mom, but she's not very friendly with the group Mom hangs out with, so she wasn't there.

Anyway... I got to meet a few more people, too. It was very nice. There was a really soft breeze blowing down the canal, and the weather was clear as crystal. We even had a good view of Mars from the deck. They were catching blue claw crabs from the canal, and doing a bit of fishing, too. They only caught one fish, and I don't remember what kind it was. The crabs were really fiesty, though. We had a pair of barbeque tongs and they kept attacking them everytime we reached in the bucket. Then, they would all hold on to each other, so, when you picked one up, you got a chain of about four or five crabs. It was hysterical.

lunch outing
Tomorrow, Nana and Auntie Lyn are coming out for lunch. I'm taking Auntie Lyn up to the mall to get a new phone. She tried going today, but she sometimes gets panic attacks in large crowds. Today was a bad day for her. She's hoping that, if I'm there, she'll be calmer.

more ouchies
My thumb hurts. Don't know why... it just does. But this one hurts often. I think I did something to it when I was little. It doesn't straighten as far as the other one. {{sigh}}

But, at least my neck doesn't hurt as much anymore. I still get the occasional twinge, and I don't have 100% range of motion, yet. However, it isn't anywhere near what it had been on Monday. I'm feeling a lot better now.