I went to Colorado a few weeks ago with Mr. and Mrs. Horton for the weekend! They got married a few weeks ago and had a reception in CO, and I figured since I’d never been there that I’d invite myself! I didn’t break out my camera once while I was there, so no pictures. I’ve only been a part of 2 weddings that weren’t in my own family. I love them because the familys of the bride and groom are so nice to be around, and I ususally feel like the family for a few short days. The car ride really wasn’t that long considering it only took 7 or something hours, but toward the end I was getting delirious and so tired of being in a car. I let out the ridiculous side of myself that I usually keep in check, and I think that the bond we share now is quite special. It was a pretty short trip because I flew home on Sunday, but I think I a little bit fell in love with Colorado and just might have to move back for a little while. Saturday was fun though getting ready for the reception. I vacuumed the church building and broke my sandal doing that, and a special thanks to Jared who let me borrow his prized sandals he bought on their honeymoon. Then Emily’s mom got a hair stylist to do Emily’s hair, and it looks like she specialized in high school prom hair. Not only did it take the lady about 2 1/2 hours to make her look hideous, but Emily had to come home and do it all over herself (which she wanted to do in the first place). She ended up looking amazing anyway, as she always does.
Then I headed home for a week because my mother was putting on the notorious Book Fair at Brookvale. I still think it’s funny that my mother works at the same elementary that I went to so many years ago. We set up early on Monday morning so the little twirps, as my mother calls them, could come in with their sweaty moist one dollar bills. The most common question I had was “what can I buy for a quarter?” Seriously? You think you can get anything in this world for a quarter? That’s cute. Or there was the occasional child that still can’t count money and brought $50 worth of merchandise and wanted to pay with a $5. I remember those days, when having a bill even if it was a dollar, you felt so rich. Then I learned to look at the number on the bill and realized how expensive it was to grow up.
I did get chewed up and spit out a few times while I was there. Scholastic has changed their motives for making money since I was in elementary school. We unloaded about 5 or 6 boxes of foo foo aka glittery pens, pencil sharpeners disguised as a nose, $5 erasers and such. Then there are every kind of uneducational books such as cheat codes for a playstation. Wow, I sound like a prude… The kids of course don’t care because they scrounge up money to buy these useless things, and we even ended up selling out of them! Two parents that I can remember came back IRATE that we allowed their kids to buy such garbage. One guy wanted us to have some sort of authorization to allow kids to buy something. I’m pretty sure that a kid with cash is a much authorization a book fair needs to take money from the kid. My mother proceeded to tell him that we don’t deal with family affairs and that’s something he needed to take care of before he gave his kid money. Another parent came in and basically threw the Jonas Brothers poster her kid bought at me because she said he couldn’t read it. After about 5 minutes of me smiling and nodding, she left. Wow, really?
My mother pays very well for help. I thought flying me home for a week was great payment, but then she took me to see Wicked! I’ve been listening to the soundtrack for the last 4 years and have it memorized. It’s a little ironic that I got my parents into it and they went to see it years before I got to. We shopped for a few hours and then headed into the tenderloin of SF to the Orpheum Theater. I was juiced. It was just as wonderful as I dreamed it would be, but all the spoilers were spoiled for me.
It’s lucky we got this picture. My camera isn’t all that high tech, and my mother didn’t realize that you have to point and shoot instead of shoot and move the camera anywhere (is that how it happened mom?)
Then on Friday I went to see Star Trek with my dad and Cecilie. I loved it, but probably because Captain Kirk was very pleasant on the eyes. And to finish the week off, I went to an A’s game on Saturday night with my family and got to see fireworks. I’d say it was a pretty amazing week! Thanks for the fun fam and Em!
Now it’s back to real life. I finally found a summer job at Pinnacle Security in the customer service department. I know, I know, not the ideal job, but it will be good because I won’t feel bad about leaving after the summer is over! Georgia, here I come!!
