I'm so excited it's finally Friday!!!

Irish Fest is tomorrow, and I've been excited about it for about a year now!! There's a pre-party tonight at McGeary's which I, of course, am planning on attending. I woke up in the best mood today and got in an even better mood when I got in the car and played a disc full of awesome music: it started with "Mama Told Me Not to Come" and went onto "Me and Julio" and then into a whole bunch of disco. Awesomely fun music. I was totally dancing while I was driving into work. And while I'm really bored here at work and am getting pretty much nothing done I'm still in an awesome mood :) I can't wait to go out tonight and tomorrow!!!

Sigh. Only a couple more hours of work and then I'm free!!

meet Angle Grinder Man, "the U.K.’s first wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type personage." Frankly, he's a little scary. Especially the cosutume...

i had a weird, long dream last night.

i don't remember all of it, but i can remember parts. i wasn't even thinking about the dream at all after i got up until i got to work and opened up explorer and it got to my home page, msn.com and i saw there was a link to a story about giant squid. and i thought that this was a very odd coincidence because part of my dream last night had a large squid in it. a squid is a very odd thing to dream about. i went to dreammoods.com to see if i could gain some insight on what dreaming about a squid might mean... here's what it said, "To see a squid in your dream, suggests that unconsciously you are feeling threatened. Your judgment may also be clouded. Perhaps you are not seeing things too clearly at the moment. Alternatively, it symbolizes greed. It is always about what you want." so hmm... in my dream the squid helped me across some water by letting me sit on it while it floated across. and then it became very attached to me and wanted to follow me around after i got out of the water... it would bounce after me and every time it bounced it made a squeak noise like a dog toy. and i really didn't want this little squid to be all in love with me and following me around. so i dunno what that means. am i greedy and i want a squid to be following me around and in love with me? or am i threatened by the squid? :) Also in my dream my parents were having a party. ("To dream that you are at a party, suggests that you need to get out more and enjoy yourself. ") I thought there weren't going to be that many people there, but it was mobbed. and, randomly, HOTD was playing. i think this part of my dream just means that i'm very, hella excited about irish fest. and maybe it means that i'm conflicted about it though, because it's my dad's birthday and the family is going down to my sister's school that day to all go out to dinner to celebrate and i won't be going and i feel bad about it :(

anyway, strange, long dream...

Friday night I was supposed to hang out with Alex. Dodi called me right after work and asked if I'd like to go "grab some chow" with her and I agreed to meet her at Crossgates. I was excited to wear my new boots out and I was late meeting Dodi because I was having a clothing crisis (couldn’t decide what to wear with the boots). I met Dodi at the mall and we had dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s (French Onion soup and salad bar… yum!!).

While I was out with Dodi Alex called. I told him where I was and said I'd call him later. He mentioned that he had to help a friend move the next morning so he couldn't really stay out too late. I told him I didn't think I'd be much longer. Dodi and I scoured the mall for a denim skirt for me (I already have five but none of them fit the exact specifications of the skirt that I need to wear with my new boots). We looked everywhere and while there were a few promising skirts, there were no winners. So it was about 9 by the time we left the mall, and we were having fun and so when we got to my car I said, "how's this: I was supposed to hang out with Alex tonight but he's got to get up early etc so how about I call him and if he doesn't seem to disappointed I'll hang out with you instead." And I started to dial Alex's number and I continued: "I mean, it's not like you're my backup or second choice or anything because I was technically supposed to do something with Alex tonight first, so I'd really be blowing him off" and in the meantime the phone had stopped ringing and suddenly I heard, "who's blowing who off?" from the other end. I was like "um! No! No one's blowing anyone off!!" and Dodi started laughing at me and we both got hysterical and I told Alex that in the future he should say "hello" when he answered the phone. He thought it was funny and told me to hang out with Dodi ("go out and get drunk" is what he told us to do) and he'd catch up with me after the moving on Saturday.

So Dodi and I went back to my apartment (because I couldn’t convince her to go out, she thought her hair looked terrible) and made frozen margaritas and watched Super Troopers which is one of my favorite movies and, I think, one of the funniest movies ever. I got a good buzz on because I'd been a little liberal with the tequila and when my phone rang with Beck's ring it took me a while to catch on that it wasn't actually her calling. It was some random guy, which I thought was one of her friends playing a joke. But it turns out it wasn’t, it was some guy that worked in a restaurant that she'd been to earlier and he had her phone because she dropped it. I let him know that he should call whatever number was in the phone book for "Kevin" and hung up before I got his name or where he was from. And then I felt all bad. But he did end up calling her and he's supposedly sending the phone to her overnight mail, which is exceedingly nice of him, I think. Dodi left soon after that, she looked like she wasn't feeling too great, and I finished off my margarita and went to bed with a nice buzz which is always kind of a cool feeling: laying in bed slightly confused and very comfortable.

Saturday I cleaned. All day. I got up at 1015 and cleaned until 5 when Beck called to invite me to dinner with her and Alex. My apartment looks much better now than it did before, but I still haven't begun to tackle the bedroom (ugh). I showered and picked them up at their house and headed out to Friday's. There was a bit of a wait so we started out at the bar with beer and potato skins and finished up at a table, each of us with an enormous salad. My salad was very disappointing: it was supposed to have dried cranberries and mandarin orange slices in it, and while it did have some fruit in it, it was mostly full of shredded lettuce and celery. After dinner we were all supposed to go to the Parting Glass to see HOTD, but Beck didn’t want to come because she said she was really tired. So we tried to convince her to come up with us but she refused and we ended up dropping her off and heading up to 'Toga, just me and Alex.

The show was sold out (it always is) so we couldn't sit in the performance area, but the bar is set up this way: when you walk in the front door it looks like a normal pub: bar all along one wall with tables and chairs in the center and booths along the other wall. Then you walk down a hall where the bathrooms are and you come into the performance area: a stage on one end of the hall and rows of tables perpendicular to the stage with small tables all around the periphery of the room. On the right side of the room there's a double doorway that leads into a longish room with another bar along one wall and dart boards along the wall across from the bar. Then there are some tables set up at the far end of the room and one of those games against that wall that are in bars that I don't know what it's called... it's a long table that's all waxed up and you slide discs down towards the end of it and try and get close to the end without falling off. The whole bar is in dark wood, and they used to have a beautiful old wood floor which for some reason they felt the need to put grey tile look linoleum flooring all over. Oh, and they stuck a juke box in the dart room. But other than those two things the bar is awesome, and it's my favorite bar in the area. ANYWAY... so when we go to see HOTD there we can never get into the performance area, but we can stand in the doorway of those double doors between the performance area and the dart room and as long as we aren't blocking traffic that's ok. So we got there, got a couple of pints, and staked out our spots by the door.

The show was awesome :) You could tell that they were getting warmed up for Irish Fest this weekend. I got very drunk... I had about 7 pints... but I didn't have a full one for the Barley Mow and I was very upset about that. They played all my favorite songs and they even ended with "The Parting Glass" which they don't really do all that often, it's just the big guy singing it by himself and it's amazing. We stayed till the end of the show and then headed home where I promptly passed out.

Sunday was a lazy day. I was going to finish cleaning, but I didn't feel like it. I went to my parents' house for a while and hung out with my dad (I'm SUCH a daddy's girl) and then went home and watched Sex and the City and Carnivale on HBO while talking to Dodi on the phone and went to bed before midnight.

Anyway... so that was the weekend. I SO enjoyed HOTD and was so excited to see them :) I'm dying this week... it's going so slow. I'm so excited for Irish Fest this weekend. And now I'm all afraid that hurricane Isabelle is going to cause it to be cancelled and that would just crush me. Beck keeps telling me not to build myself up so much for things like that (I used to build myself up for every weekend and then be let down if it wasn’t all I wanted it to be) but it’s hard not to for this. I so, so, so hope it doesn’t get rained out!! Only 4 more days!!