Yes I've been busy and tired and blah so haven't gotten in my recap on time. I've also been avoiding it too. So much has happened and I really don't want to talk about it all. It would make for some good reading but I'm feeling a little too vulnerable to give too many details. Let's see what comes out. (Maybe if I listen to the right song while I write...okay I found it, Bigmouth Strikes Again, I can't promise anything though)

Really though maybe I don't have much to say about the weekend. You already know about my 3 sheila shows in 3 days. I already mentioned thursday's. i went again friday night to see them at the paradise. this show was real good though i was in a weird mood i think because i don't remember really paying attention as usual. i was in my usual spot upstairs next to the sound booth but it seemed aaron was over to the side more than usual and i couldn't see him as well. pissed i forgot my camera. went w/ rj to this show. have to thank jeff (aka captain yummy) for selling me a ticket last minute so i didn't have to go alone. rj had never seen tsd before, hope he liked it. i was definitely more into tsd than him until the last song when we started making out in one of the booths. show ended just before 1 i think and we went back to my place. didn't sleep much that night so was feeling very lazy the next day though i had another show to go to. jason was getting into town that afternoon for the saturday night show.

after rj left i took a shower and went to work to get my power cord. i was pissed i left it at work friday because we ran out of power friday night and couldn't listen to music all night, though i think we had enough until we fell asleep. i borrowed power from my roomies on sat. morning so we could have music then too. went back home after getting the power cord waiting for jason to get into town. he called and said he was walking around town, he was excited to be back in boston again so wanted to take it all in, and then he'd go back to his hotel to get ready and we could meet at his hotel for dinner. so i think i got in a little nap and made it to his place around 7. we had drinks in the bar, Cuffs, and then dinner at Stanhope Grille. the service there was great, definitely more upscale than i usually do but definitely a good time, and i had plenty of catching up to do w/ jason. hadn't seen him since the summer. i ended up getting salmon which i think turned out to be a bad idea which i'll get into a little later. so anyway, after dinner we cabbed it to the paradise. i remembered my camera this time, yeah! and have already posted some of those pictures. first thing when we got there i went to the merch table to try and exchange my damaged DVD that i bought from alan thurs. night. he wasn't there but i explained the situation to the girl there and she gave me a new DVD for my damaged one. i later exchanged a few emails w/ Alan and he was totally cool about it. thanks alan! the DVD is awesome!!!! saturday night's show was even better but it was sooo crowded. part way through orbit's set jason and i split up, i went downstairs to get closer and take pics and i didn't know this at the time but he went next door to T's and watched the Pats game a little bit. loser! anyway i was standing there watching Orbit and all of a sudden i felt really sick and had to get to the bathroom and had a lovely, awful time in the stall. i was definitely sick!! made a few more trips after that too and the rest of the night felt feverish and hivey in my face. i remember standing there for TSD just hoping i didn't have to run away and miss part of the show and also felt i might puke all over everyone and jason was standing behind me all happy drunk and whenever i turned around to look at him he'd scream out real loud all happy and punch me in the shoulder or something. i told him i wasn't feeling well but i don't think he believed me. after the show we took a cab home and he wanted me to go to the hotel w/ him but there was just no way. even if i wasn't sick i wouldn't have gone, but i felt like he thought i was just making it up and he seemed kinda pissed at me. finally he got out at Jury's and gave the cabbie some money and said to take me home. we hugged good night and i told him to call me tomorrow. i got home and proceeded to get sick more. i was even a bit sick the next day. thanks stanhope grille. jason texted to apologize and said to call him the next day.

sunday got up still a little sick, good thing i didn't drink that much saturday night, thurs and fri i drank too much. i totally hung around my bed sleeping in really late, called jason, left message, he called back and wanted to go ice skating on frog pond. i can't say i really wanted to go, i didn't feel good, plus i haven't been in awhile and i didn't want to be falling the whole time. sucked it up though and met jason for skating. there was a long line to get in but they never stop letting people in so you just have to deal w/ an overcrowded rink. the prices used to be much cheaper. now it's $4 to skate which isn't so bad but $8 to rent so it ended up being $12 and then when you get on the ice it's too crowded, the ice sucks, the skates aren't sharp and they have to clean the ice a lot and therefore kick everyone off to do it. jason skates way better than me though i did not fall at all. i have to say it was fun but it also gets old fast if you're not used to it. the blade pushes into the bottom of your feet and it's uncomfortable. jason wanted to leave pretty quick, it didn't take long for him to get his fill which was fine w/ me. at that point i walked him back to his hotel. he wanted to rest up and was flying out in the morning to nova scotia for new year's. called tara to fill her in and made a movie date to see 'Sweeney Todd' that night but she called while I was at dinner to cancel. she was pooped from her night out and i was too so it was a good idea not to go. i ended up going to bed kinda early anyway. i had called my roomies to have dinner, i didn't eat much this weekend and some of what i did eat just came back out :0) so we went to eat at bertucci's and then i ended up w/ leftovers for monday.

i could stop here w/ the recap but since it was a holiday weekend and i didn't have to work monday or tuesday, i got up monday morning feeling pretty rested after the tiring weekend. i watched 'Akeelah and the Bee,' liked it, and then went out running. thought i'd tool around boston to see what everyone was up to on new year's eve and see the ice sculptures. i only had to do 4 miles but i live right in the city so it was hard to get in those miles even running around the common and down to copley then back to downtown crossing and home. didn't really stop for the sculptures so i don't know what they were and some were covered up. i had to go out to allston for a bit then made my way over to brookline to trader joe's for some champagne. it was a nightmare in there but got the champagne and made it home okay. (that's when cleo ate the loaf of bread) needed to get ready for the low-key party i was attending w/ tara at her friend's house in southie. rj texted happy new year and i asked what he was doing and he called to say he'd be in the city and would call maybe we could meet up. i ended up having a good time at the party drinking too much and getting all competitive w/ the karaoke. basically everyone had left, tara passed out on the couch and i was an idiot and drunk-dialed rj, don't really remember doing it but i guess so and ended up getting a ride from the party host to Rise where rj was waiting for me outside. i don't have much clue what this place is like or the music, i just remember sitting there talking to rj's friends, i don't even know where he was most of the time. he'd randomly show up and i would be talking to someone else i think. i did drag him into the bathroom one time to pee while i put on lip gloss. retard! i thought his friends were cool until we were in the car driving home and they wigged out on me. not sure what that was all about but it made the rest of ride weird and uncomfortable plus i was all alone w/ them driving to rj's place in billerica. not good. everyone ended up just passing out and i spent the night w/ rj so it was all good at that point. next day we took so long to get up and then the boys wanted to go get chinese food so now i'm all disgusting sitting in a chinese restaurant w/ 4 weirdo boys listening to weirdo boy conversation and had no appetite for nasty chinese food so ate fortune cookies while they ate 'real' food. finally, sometime later, i did end up home. i was very happy to be home. it was a crazy new year's for me. i need a vacation of sleep and to chill out and probably not go out for a bit, at least until friday :0)

UPDATE 2008/01/02: For the record: rj called me first but i missed the call and then i drunk-dialed him back. i just realized this 'cause i was checking the call history for something.