Catch up!

I haven't posted in a long, long while. I can't tell you what I've forgotten to journal. I'll just start again last friday night.

Friday, July 19th - Ashley and I went to Indian food. She didn't like it and thats okay.We also went to the liquor store and the grocery store before joining the boys at Jeremys house. I drank a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't remember what happened after a certain point. Apparently, I had fun.

Saturday - I've never been so sick in my life! And we went to Kings Island anyway. Eventually I started feeling like a human again. I actually liked the roller coasters. Except Drop Tower. That was all kinds of horrible. All kinds.

Sunday I slept until I couldn't anymore. Then Krystal and I went on a hike. That was nice. I don't remember anything else.

Monday I think I spent the day at home after work, fixing my internet.

Tuesday I worked out with Ashley and then went on a "date" with Krystal.

Wednesday I hiked in the rain! With Jeremy and Krystal. And then I played pool with Jeremy, Matt, Ebony and a guy whose name I don't remember.

Thursday I went home from work sick!

Friday I hiked with Robbie and Jena after work and then went to Jeremys house to hang out with him and Krystal. Billie never showed up.Publish Post :(

Saturday I went to the greek fest with Robbie and then got a pedicure, manicure, haircut, and eyebrows waxed with Krystal before meeting Krystal, Ashley, and Jeremy for Qdoba, candy sushi, and Taboo. I freakin love taboo.

Sunday I slept in and then went hiking with Jeremy and his parents. We did the orange trail! And then chipoltle with Jeremy and Billy. I hadn't seen Billy for more than a week!

Thats all I've got. Maybe I'll remember random stuff and remember to tell you about it later.

Colbie Calliat is in my head all the time! (Sarah Jo)

Sunday started with me sleeping in and then going over to Katelyn's house to work on book two. Yes children, book TWO. We started the outline and then eventually I got tired of looking at the sun through the window so I told her I just HAD to go. I went home and changed and went for a run in Smith park. Now, I still suck at running but this time I actually enjoyed myself!

After the run I headed over to my aunts house because they were making me dinner for my birthday. It was a delicious salad and lasagna rolls. It was good. But that doesn't matter. What mattered was that I got to talk to Ashley and I realized that she and I strangers to one another but somehow she once again has a view of the world so much like mine that no one else could possibly understand so well. Maybe we had to do the weight loss/self discovery thing separately. Maybe that was part of the process. Maybe it was decided by the universe. But I feel like this is a new beginning. A new friend.

We went hiking after dinner and it was perfect. The weather and the sun and the trails were all just right and it was more excuses to talk to one another and be active at the same time! Then I drove home and I got to try on clothes that she gave me and I think I went to bed shortly after that. Didn't see the Three except for a few texts. That was okay.

I got called into work Monday and it was horrible but this blog is about after work stuff. So, after work Katie and Rachel took me to Amar India for dinner and we got appetizers and now I'm wondering why I've never done that before. Delicious! And after we got home from that, the Three picked me up and we went to Walmart and got face paint. The pictures of what ensued shall follow.

And apparently we are all making and taking quizzes on facebook right now. I'm scoring horribly. And I had to revise my quiz. Oh well. Now I'm sleepy!

He came back! (Sarah Jo)

Friday I was off work so I slept in late. And then I had to take my car to get that darn nail fixed. While that happened (for HOURS), I was at the mercy of my father for transportation. He took me to see the new house they want to rent and then we came home. I played PlayStation for awhile but my remote is broken somehow. So I talked to my family and that usually involves me being upset at the end. Eventually they called and said my car was ready but they want me to buy two new front tires and some other crazy stuff for five hundred dollars. I don't have that much money so I didnt buy said crazy stuff.

With my returned freedom, I went to Gabriel Brothers and Lane Bryant for dresses and new bras. Yes, I know I said I don't have money. Ignore that. See, Krystal has me wanting to be all girly and stuff. And I like that. On the way home from this trip I picked up Krystal and we went to my house so I could put on one of the dresses. After that part, we decided to go to Qdoba for dinner since Jeremy wasn't back from camp yet. On the way to Qdoba he texted us to invite us to Chipoltle with him. We agreed and went to the smoothie place to waste time while we waited for him.

So, we were really excited to see Jeremy, of course, and dinner was nice. I got to give him my 10 Things list and he seemed to like it. We dropped my car off at Krystals after that and went to Dave and Busters for billiards. I got grumpy during this part of the evening until Billy started texting me. I just kept thinking about how much more fun I would be having if he was there. Horrible.

After Dave and Busters we drove around a bit until Billy was off work. On the way to his house Jeremy pulled over and made Krystal get out of the car so they could have a private talk outside. Of course that meant I was sitting in the car staring off into space. Billy texted me to ask about our ETA and I told him what was happening. He asked where we were I and I told him it was just some side street near his house and I could see the oil changing place on verity from where we were parked. He told me not to move, he was on his way. Several minutes later we saw Billy RUNNING down the street. At like 2AM. He ran until he threw himself into Jeremy's arms and declared how much he missed his friend. Goodness.

We went to Jeremy's house after that and just talked to each other until the obscene hours of the morning. It was so nice to be all together again after a week. Jeremy decided we would all spend the night with him since he was too tired to drive us back to our cars. So we did. My mother called hysterical at 6AM and I had to patch that up and then fell back to sleep.

Saturday morning we parted ways for awhile. I went to the grocery and made corn casserole and salsa dip and took it to Jeremy's house for the 4th of July party thing there. We just hung around talked to his family and then ate dinner together and played with fireworks. Later, Billy came and we let off more fireworks before the rain came. Then we talked in the living room for awhile and after that we played card games over homemade ice cream and chips and dip. I didn't understand the first card game at all and it made me feel ridiculously stupid. I don't like feeling stupid. But we moved on. When it got late, Krystal and Billy and I went home.

Now, I'm kind of unhappy right now. I thought I had my feelings all straightened out. I told myself what I was and was not allowed to feel and that worked for more than a week. Maybe two! I don't remember. But nope. Apparently it doesn't work that way. So I'm going to have to find another solution. One that helps me sleep at night.

What happened to sleeping? (Sarah Jo)

I thought about hiking after work all day long. But then it was all cloudy and then a little rainy so we decided to cancel the hike and skip right to the El Rancho Grande part. I picked Billy up a little after 6:30 and there were all kinds of people at his house. His brother Kennedy/Davey was there and invited us to Dave and Busters with him. Billy was acting all strange like embarrassed and mad at the same time and I couldn't figure out what was going on. I tried to ignore it and just looked to Billy for guidance. His face said "No" and so I did too.

On the drive to Krystal's he just kept saying he was going to hurt his brother. I just forgot about the subject and hilarity at El Rancho Grande followed. Billy just got a Twitter last night and he enjoyed "twatting" all night long.

Oh. At El Rancho, Kennedy called Billy and after what sounded like an unhappy phone call, he announced that we would go to Dave and Busters with Kennedy and Tama. Then they called back and said we wouldn't go. Billy informed me that I would go with him and Kennedy and Tama in the future sometime. I asked why. Finally he explained that Kennedy likes to make him go on double dates about once or twice a year and it would be better if I went instead of some strange girl Kennedy found. Now I'm nervous that Kennedy is going to ask me how I feel about Billy. Billy told me to be truthful with him and tell him all kinds of bad things. I don't think Billy understands what the truth of this situation is. And I don't think he wants to know. And even more, I don't think he wants Kennedy to know. And I'm not a good liar. So I'm nervous.

I don't even remember half the stuff we laughed about but it was indeed amusing. After El Rancho we went to Coldstone. I'm a terrible driver while being amused. We took pictures of Billy during the Coldstone portion of the evening like with the sign and with Krystals purse. I'll try to post the pictures next.

Eventually we decided to play pool at Dave and Busters. It was a dirty, dirty game of pool. On the car ride there we somehow established that Krystal would take off her bra for a shoe. Then everything afterward was sexual innuendo. And Krystal smacked Billy's butt. I was going in for a pinch later and Billy turned around and said, "Why are you hissing like a snake?!?!" I got embarrassed and couldn't carry through with the deed. However, after pool was over and after the restroom break I worked up the courage and pinched him. He has a firm butt!

Somehow Billy said Krystal and I should wrestle naked in a pool of orange watermelon jell-o in his backyard while he watched. Also naked. And maybe he would join in. Ha!

Now I'm sleepy. And my face hurts from laughing.

Tuesday and MY BIRTHDAY! (Sarah Jo)

Tuesday . . .

I saw Katelyn after work and then I went home. Exciting, right?

MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

It started at 12:00 and my first text was from Jeremy. And then I continued to get texts/facebook wall posts/phone calls for the rest of the day. Made me feel loved. Though none of that was quite as awesome as Krystal decorating my car secretly in the night and then waking up early to hike through the spider infested forest with me. And she shows up at my house with a birthday card (my ONLY birthday card) and GRAPE GATORADE (my favorite!). And then she saved me from spiders and all manner of other creepy creatures.

We went shopping at target after that for leggins and girl products and also I got a belt and . . . something else I don't remember. We then had to rush home to actually get ready in time for lunch. I texted Billy because I was pretty sure he wouldn't be awake and he wasn't. Haha. When I picked him up he had that husky morning voice going on but he was friendly and I was much amused. He was already joking and made us laugh the whole way to Indian food and during lunch. I'm pretty sure the other people at the restaurant were disturbed. Oh well. Billy seemed to like his chicken tikka masala and I know I certainly enjoyed mine. He said he would try something different next time and Krystal and I both brightened up at the 'next time' because we like Indian food and we like spending time with Billy and that meant both would happen again in the future, right?

And then he invited us to run errands with him (he called it a road trip) and our condition was that smoothies would happen first. Krystal got her orange dream and I got sunrise sunset (with splenda, of course) and Billy got a chocolate peanut butter concoction that I'm pretty sure barely fit the definition of 'smoothie'. I suppose he enjoyed it though because he made lots of noises while eating it and then was sad when it was gone. We had a short restroom break at some gas station where I put air in my tires and Billy found the nail responsible for the air leak and then apparently decided he needed to drive my car. That was okay with me. I hate driving.

We first when to H&R Block where Krystal and I actually had to run out of the building because the mans hair was SO ridiculous. We left poor Billie alone there by himself. Poor guy. Then we went on an adventure to Kroger (without an S!), Walgreens, and was it a UPS store? to get a copy of Billy's drivers license and SS card.

(At this very moment I still feel those creepy spiders crawling along invisibly on my skin!)

So Billy drove us to the Monroe police station to drop of the copy and it was the first time it became real to me that Billy is going to be a police officer. I imagined him in uniform in one of those cars. It made me nervous for his safety. Haha. Then Jeremy texted to ask how my birthday was going and it made me glad that he actually thought of me and asked. After that Billy drove us to his house to drop him off. This is when we implemented Krystal's genius idea of taking a picture of us with a "Miss You!" sign to text to Jeremy. I hope he got it. It was cute. (She is SO thoughtful. You should see it in action.) Krystal and I then went to my work to visit and do birthday stuff there. No more SARAH JO, by the way.

Mmm.... oh, then we got frozen yogurt and then we cleaned all the marker off my car with really, really smelly gas station squeegee things. This made me miss Jeremy so much. Stupid feelings. Then I took her home? And went home myself to harvest pumpkins and plant strawberries and generally be a computer nerd. I checked the weather again and it looked like no bike ride.

Robbie picked me up later and we went to his house so he could wash his face. Silly. And he showed me all the interesting stuff in his room. I was surprised that he had notes I wrote him on his bulletin board and in a little ceramic bowl thing. It made me feel. . . like I mattered to someone. I once wrote him a list of 10 things I liked about him because I said something not nice to him and in class we had learned that it takes 10 nice things to erase one bad thing said. That was on the bulletin board. It made me smile.

After that we went to the Broad Street Bash. This is something that happens in Middletown apparently every other Wednesday or so. There is a band playing in Governors square and all kinds of festival things like blow up bouncys and funnel cakes, beer, and dirty people. The singer guy was wearing a skirt and I couldn't tell from where I was standing, but I'm guessing eye make-up too. It was ridiculous. It was hilarious. It started to rain so we walked back to the car where we saw Johnna. I hugged her uterus like me made up at my 100lbs lost party. She forgot and then remembered what the heck I was doing. We decided to plan another laser tag even where everyone would actually go.

Then Robbie and I headed to Chipoltle at Bridgewater Falls. We talked about church camp alot and that made me wonder what Jeremy was up to and if he was enjoying camp as much as Robbie enjoyed his memories of camp last year. Robbie said he didn't want to come home from camp when it was over. I hope Jeremy wants to come home. I sure miss him. I already said that.

After Chipoltle we went to Dicks to look at backpacking stuff . I kept thinking of Ashley and how far away she is from me and how very much she would have liked to be there. And after the hiking equipment it was time for a bathroom break. I came out and Robbie was no where to be seen but I get a text message that says: I just wanted to send you birthday text, birthday text. . . Of course, you have to imagine this to the tune of 'Birthday Sex' and you also have to know that I once planned to rewrite the song so it WAS 'Birthday Text'. I laughed out loud all alone in the bike section. Before they closed we played on all the exercise equipment and lifted weights. I think I flashed the whole (empty) store when trying to do the ab lounge in a dress. Haha.

After that we tried to go to coldstone. Closed. Panera. Closed. And then Max and Ermas for delicious cookies. Open! It took half an hour for fifteen minute cookies but we talked and laughed and talked about how much we liked each other for the half hour. When the cookies arrived, Robbie wrote me a message on the box. It said that birthday cookies are much better then birthday sex. Though, truthfully, neither one of us has knowledge enough to back up that statement with experience. Oh well. We decided to eat these cookies in the car and lots of them ended up in our laps. This is okay as a passenger but its not so safe to go chocolate chip fishing in your lap while driving. Just sayin. There were six cookies and I had to force, yes FORCE, Robbie to eat three. Who ever thought the day would come when I would have to make the boy eat something? Goodness.

(I keep seeing spiders in my peripheral vision and then its just my curls!)

And finally I got home to harvest strawberries and plant peppers and text my friends and type until my fingers hurt! Now, I know I've already written a lot and that's because the day was so great that I don't want to forget any part of it. And I already know I forgot to write the jokes like having guacamole in your bottom lip and laminating testicles. It makes me sad that I'll forget stuff. But I sorta want to talk about my feelings now.

I had so much fun! And I felt so loved by all my friends with their calls and texts and messages and time and attention. But then I felt just a little sad too. I kept it in a small compartment somewhere behind the delight and just left of the surprise. But I decided to pay attention to it right now. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and ignore it and move on now. Stupid feelings.

(I seriously can't believe you read THAT much about one passioning day!)