Happy Trails

So I took a couple of days off the blog to try and get last week's negative energy off of me. It was a good decision - Im starting to feel a lot lighter. I still have a ton to do before Friday, but I have faith that it will all work out.

I had my going away party last night, and my girls gave me the best gift ever: a book of photos, commemorating our years together, narrated by Michael Jackson's "I'll Be There," one of my favorite songs. When I first opened it, I didnt get past the first page before tears started welling up in my eyes. I closed the book and set it aside for later, not wanting to be such a mess so early in the night, but I did look all the way through it later in the evening, and cried in the presence of two out of the three people responsible for it. I do believe it's the best thing anyone has ever given me.

My sister didnt make it to the party. It kinda hurt, despite her attempt to justify it with a missed phone call, but I wont say anything to her about it. I just dont have the energy to spare. A couple of other people missed it too, including one who, a couple of days earlier, said "I wouldnt miss it for the world." Guess the universe was on Ebay last night.

People not showing up for me wasnt the only let down. One person, who did show up, appears to have only been there to see my cousins. Spent the whole night chatting in the other room with them, then outside with them, then decided not to accompany the rest of us to the club, because my broke ass cousins werent going. NONE of my family that attended ended up at the club, nor did a single one of them bring the bottle requested by the hostess of the party on the invite she sent, but they all walked in with a can of beer in hand. Yeah, ONE, personal can of beer LOL. *smh* Thats how they do though. At least they are consistent.

The club we went to - recommended to us by one of the parties who didnt show up - was wacker than the wackest wackness, but one of my other friends who was too late for the earlier festivities met us out, and all things considered, I think we all made the most of it. I know I enjoyed myself. Afterwards, we did a ride-by of the other two clubs up for contention, and neither of them really seemed to be the spot last night either. Maybe everybody tapped themselves out last weekend, for Labor Day. *shrugs*

So the night didnt turn out quite like I had seen it in my head, but it ended pretty well, with the exception of the two tires we busted on the way back to my hostess's house. No idea how BOTH the front and back tire get flat from turning up a curb, but we managed to make it back safely. Three of us hung out for a couple of hours, and I made it home around 3:45am, all without so much as a power nap. I dont even know how Im functioning right now LOL. But all in all, it was a pretty good night that somehow cleared my head about a few things. Now if I can just get this house cleared out in the next few days, all will be right with the world. At least having to do it will give me some purpose, now that Im done working, and maybe I can build a case for that wonderful massage I've been thinking about.

Six days to go.