week 018

• Xmas at my parents'
• "THERE ARE FIVE BENZES IN THE DRIVEWAY, WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK WE'RE NAZIS"
• opening presents with David. highlights:
  • immersion blender
  • French press
  • iced tea maker
  • red sheet set
• flying the remote helicopter outside with my father, chasing after it
• watching my 3-year old nephew go off-roading in his little electric GL Benz
• sketching for a couple hours with soft music while Ziggy napped on my desk
• sleeping in, late late breakfast of scrambled eggs + avocado halves
• eating dinner together, leftover Xmas Eve ham + scalloped potatoes + green beans
• "do you want a bookmark? Can I make you one!?" and then rushing off to make a bookmark on cardstock for David. I returned with a picture of a brown bear sitting on a rock. "Papa Bear wants to be inside of yer book, boy!"
• going back to work, being happy
• sitting in my car with Chris while he installed my radio, testing it to country music and jokingly fistpumping
• driving cars into the shop, being stumped at the lack of key-ignition for the R-class "CHRIS, HOW DO I START THIS FUCKING THING?" "Put your foot on the brake and push the button!" "OH"
• getting stuff done - returning stuff I don't need, getting gas, buying produce, dishes
• cooking/making...
  • spicy black bean burgers
  • iced tea
  • ciabatta buns
• excitedly tearing open a real, physical letter from James
• popping the CD that he burned for me in my car's new radio/CD player and going to Target
• cuddling with the cat in my office
• spinach + fresh mozzarella salad with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette for dinner
• going to Vision club with Jennifer, Lee, Tyler, and Mark, on Latino night of all things, being VIP with a bottle of vodka
• dancing behind the VIP curtain, laughing
• going to Buckett's for pizza + wings (late dinner) with David + John
• "The floor is tasting you. Sucking your heels in and all." "And your chair is made of tongues."
• writing a limerick about John and reading it aloud to both of them
• going to the mall and poking fun at white wannabe-gangster kids blasting rap throughout the parking lot - "That's so cute! He's the size of a sapling!"
• being with David in the warehouse, watching Harry Potter movies on the projector + drinking