gothicdragon 7.7

to all the fathers out there, happy father’s day.
to my kids, I love you both and miss you very much.
to my father, I’ve missed you. happy father’s day.

its that time of the year again where we in the english speaking realms tend to think the universe has a hidden vendetta against us.  its all in good fun until someone loses an eye.

~adieu

saturday started off with a gorgeous day. the sky was not to cloudy and it was warm. not terribly hot, just warm. towards the afternoon the temperature picked up a little, but it was tolerable. saturday was the good luck picnic for my good friend and now ex co-worker, ely. ely was blessed with an amazing job opportunity over at royal caribbean working in their events production department. our mutual friend and mutually ex co-worker, justin, recruited him. for his last day at work, we tried to do something special, and being the event planning company that we are we obviously failed miserably. to make up for it, rachel, sarah, and myself loosely - and boy do i mean loosely - planned a picnic for him on saturday afternoon. it was supposed to start between something looking like a 1 and something resembling 2. not bad for a bunch of event planners!

so around 3 we all show up. jack brought beer. ely and trish brought more beer. jose managed to out think everyone and bring even more beer. i brought 2 liters of rum and 2 liters of vodka. i also had the silly idea of actually bringing some food. rachel brought some awesome potato salad. but not normal potato salad. this was some semi-german concoction that was just wonderful. sarah - who looked absolutely fabulous - had more brains than the rest of us and brought plates and cheesecake.

we started off by drinking what ely has called redneck mimosas which is very cheep beer mixed with orange juice. now i know you are probably saying to yourself, “thats gross!” believe me i said the same thing. but we all tried it and let me tell you it was the best drink ever! he used schlitz and straight orange juice. the taste i can only describe as being a sweet rather light and delightful beer. since im not much if at all of a beer drinker, i can only attempt to critique this citrus masterpiece.

we all had sandwiches by the time justin and his partner john showed up. they were with us for some time. just after their affectionate departure, it started to look gloomy off towards the intercoastal. we thought the clouds would move south and be on their unmerry little way. that is, until the air raid sirens went off warning of immediate doom from lightning. rain started cascading about us as we all scrambled to gather our quaint picnic. we dashed to our cars. the rain turned to steam as it crashed upon the ground.

rachel invited all of us up to her apartment to keep us all dry while we celebrated ely’s new job. we hauled everything up 3 flights of stairs. rachel getting ice water poured all over her bare leg as we dragged the larger of the 3 coolers of booze up the stairs. after settling down we all consumed more that all our fair shares of drinks and after a few hours the rains finally subsided. we all donned what we could scrounge up for bathing suites. luckily i had mine in my car.

after a few hours of throwing a frisbee back and forth and playing around in the water. we all staggered back up to rachel’s. we listened to a dj friend of ely’s 80s mix i think twice. i vaguely remember dancing to michael jackson’s thriller twice. oh and by the way here’s the lyrics you were looking for rachel:

Tongue-tied, I’m short of breath, don’t even try
Try a little harder
Something’s wrong, you’re not naive, you must be strong
Ooh, baby, try
Hey girl, move a little closer.
You’re

Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush

Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
Ooh, try a little harder
You’re moving in circles, won’t you dilate
Baby try
Hey girl, move a little closer
‘Cause, you’re

Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush, eye to eye
Too shy shy
Hush hush

i guess youre right. he did say dilate. how weird is that?

sarah was the first to pass out sometime around 2 am. i was second to let the sandman take me, but i managed to get home first. i love everyone, but i just couldnt handle the loud music. guess im a light sleeper.

sunday i woke up around 8 or 9 with a massive headache. sometime around 3 i think i passed out till about 5. the rest of sunday is a blur.

monday. the first day back to work without ely. to celebrate the misery of it all, i was stuck in policy meetings from 9am till 6pm. i think my brain melted.

~adieu

today my friend from london, susanna, called me.  i was quite surprised to see a call come up from her.   it was the first time we have ever heard each others voice.  we must have chatted for hours.  i didnt keep track of the duration as i was so happy to hear from her.  even though we have never met, except in virtual land with the occasional postcard or three, i felt as though we knew each other for quite sometime.  well in fact we have known each other for about eight months or so.   it was quite wonderful talking with her and have a conversation about life, the world, politics, books, and cats.

to actually speak to a ‘pen pal’ is very different.  you learn from correspondences, but to actually speak and hold a conversation back and forth with them brings about a deeper understanding of the person.  pieces of paper and virtual letters on an electronic board can only bring you the black and white of the person.  you cannot feel the emotions, the inflections, or the character behind the words until you actually speak with them.  there may be hints here and there, but its not real to you hear the tones and the ’song’ in their voice.  a smile cannot be conveyed in words on a page but it can be heard in the voice.

it was good to finally hear her smile.  i for one cannot wait to hear her smile again.

~adieu