The Aftermath.

The past two days have been nothing short of wonderful.  I love a full house and that's what I got.  It's a mystery to me how I so often find myself surrounded by amazing people.  These aren't the kind of people you would pass on the street and think nothing of...they even look amazing.  If you did happen to pass by them, you would wish you were friends with them (or at least you should wish you were friends with them).  And I am once again reminded of how extremely lucky I am.  Unfortunately, I did not do well on camera-duty, but here is a snapshot of a few of these amazing people from Saturday afternoon:

 

I love you, love you, love you. 

 

Adrienne loved the present that I made her...it was a book, written and illustrated by yours truly, about our friendship.  I had way too much fun making it and she had way too much fun reading it.  Goal accomplished.

 

After much laughter and shenanigans, we ended the night around the fire pit.  Meghan and Sara so brilliantly roasted first pizza rolls and then bacon over the open fire and mesmerized us all.  And as far as I know, nobody is deathly ill from it. 

 

 

The best thing about falling asleep in a house filled with people is that many of those people are still there in the morning.  As I prepared to clean up after the party, everybody else chipped in and the house was clean in a very short time.  The young'ns were awesome enough to cook breakfast (eggs and...of course, leftover pizza rolls and bacon) for everybody and then my friends all drove away, leaving me sad to see them go but happily fulfilled that they were here.

 

 

After everybody left, Kenny and I decided to head to Lincoln to visit his sister.  Kyler took the opportunity to tell us that he also had plans in Lincoln.  Here's the back story: two weeks ago, Kyler's beloved Nintendo DS quit working.  He kindly asked me if I would sell all of his games on the internet.  I did.  His profit:  $125.  He decided that his next big purchase would be an ipod touch, but when we were next at the store, he was sad to find that they retail for $198.  I told him that perhaps he could buy one used on craigslist, which sent him on a nine-day search.  Yesterday morning, he'd finally found the perfect deal and the guy selling the ipod wanted to meet in Lincoln, merely blocks from our destination. 

 

 

As we got into Lincoln and made it to the grocery store parking lot that had been designated as our meeting spot, Mae made it fully aware that if she didn't find a bathroom in the very near future, we would all be sorry.  I grabbed her hand and we headed into the store.  When we returned to the car, I could see some major trauma evident in Kyler's eyes.  I feared that the guy had been a no-show but then I noticed the ipod in Kyler's hand.  I hopped into the car and asked what was wrong.  Kenny answered for Kyler, saying, "Well, the guy gave us fair warning that he didn't know how to reset it..." and so I held out my hand and Kyler handed me the ipod.  The wallpaper on it said, "Gangsta' Thug" and as I navigated through the downloaded apps, songs, etc. I saw the term "bitches and hoes" enough times to know that this ipod would definitely need reset.  It took me about two minutes to get it back to the factory settings and then I handed it to Kyler and said, "There ya' go; clean slate."  He looked very much relieved and now excited about his purchase.  

After a lovely sister-visit, we returned home around eight o'clock.  I changed right into my jammies, climbed into bed and started reading my book.  And the next thing I remember is waking up this morning.  Kenny said he put my book on my dresser when he came in to bed.  I looked at the page he had bookmarked for me and found that I had read two entire pages before falling asleep.  I guess I must have been tired!