Oh hai.
I had a really fantastic weekend. I got to spend Thursday evening and Friday afternoon with my friend Candice and her daughter Audrey. I used to call her Baby Audrey, but she’s a full year old now — I hadn’t seen her in about 5 months — and she’s now officially Toddler Audrey. She’s like a real person now, but smaller. She toddles around and points and waves and laughs. We took her to the aquarium on Friday. Aquariums are WAY more fun when you have a toddler with you, because you get to see everything through their eyes. I just love that little girl so, so much, and she’s an absolute joy to be around. It was also heart-warming to catch up with Candice, who lives in California now, and I miss her so much, and I forget how much I miss her until I see her again, and then I remember.
Friday night my friend Emily was visiting from Arizona, so I drove all the way across the bridge to Bellevue for the first time in probably six months (seriously it’s like a 10-minute drive but there’s never any reason to do it), and hung out with Emily and her old high-school friends in the dive-iest bar in one of the wealthiest parts of the Pacific Northwest. I ate dive bar dinner, too. It was awesome.
On Saturday, I hung out with Trish and Jesse and some of their friends at a club downtown, where they were hosting New Orleans-style bands. (Trish and Jesse lived in New Orleans for a couple years before moving to Seattle.) Trish ordered a King Cake for the occasion, and I don’t have the words to describe how much I love a good King Cake. I probably ate 5000 calories worth of King Cake that night.
The remainder of the weekend was basically just trouble. After the show with Trish, I met up with my friend Chelsia, and we went and we found trouble, because that is what we do. Sunday was also trouble. And I wish I could tell you guys more, but it turns out that some people in this world still care about their privacy, so I’ll do them the favor of not putting details on the Internet. But this pic sums it up:
Suffice it to say that I had a LOT of fun, and it’s nice to start the week in a happy mood for once.
