December 19, 2005

• I am beginning to realize that sleep has become a secondary
  thing in my life.  I also haven’t posted a book in some time so I am way
  over due.  Maybe if I get board enough
  here at work today I can draw illustrated stick people pictures to go along
  with the story.  Anyways, there were a
  lot of people missing at Tikvat this weekend.  We still managed to get a
  somewhat large group together to go out to eat though. 

  After doing the normal talk an hour before we move, we headed to Stony
  Point to eat at Chipolte Mexican Grill.  Doug, Joy, and I
  went to Starbucks for some coffee while everyone else stood around and
  talked.  Joel and I acted like security people for Joy.  People were
  looking at us and wondering who she was.  You could hear people whispering
  all around. 

  After walking to the car, we found out that Joy and I had to be in Yorktown
  for her work's Christmas Party so we headed straight there.  We didn't
  have time to pickup Joel's car so he just took mine and was going to pick me us
  up later.  So Joel and David dropped us off and they headed home to wait
  for the ship to get back.  The food was terrible but the appetizers were
  good.  The shrimp were taunting me the whole time though, but I managed to
  stand my ground.  I had cell phone service
  the whole cruise so once we were about 30 minutes from shore I called for the
  return of my car. 

  Once the car got there and we were on our way, we had to
  figure out where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do.  By this time the group has grown to include,
  Joel, Jane, Joy, David, and myself.  We
  were originally going to go see a movie, and decided to stop by my house to get
  movie times and let Joy change into some pants because she was freezing in her
  skirt and flip flops.  The movie theater
  choices were few and nobody was paying any attention to the choices so we
  decided to go get Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  Joel
  and I drove all over creation trying to find the movie and we finally saw it at
  Best Buy where there was a growing line of tents and sleeping bags for people
  waiting for the 8am shipment of XBox
  360.  We got stopped while paying for the
  movie by some workers who wanted to know if we did security and if it was for a
  VIP.  We had them going real good and
  decided to leave it at that.  We got back
  to my house watched the movie and it was leaving time when I realized that we
  still had to drive everyone to West Point to pickup the
  CRX.  On the way there my car was
  attacked by a buck on the interstate.  I
  never knew they could run so fast.  He started
  charging my car full force, but I luckily was able to avoid making some deer jerky.  While on the way to getting the CRX we were
  doing some simple math and discovered that 3 people couldn’t really fit into
  the 2 seat CRX so I took a detour through Gloucester which isn’t that bad.  It’s maybe 8 minutes longer if that.  I almost ran a stop sign on the way home
  almost stopping in a field.  After all of
  that I ended getting home at 2:30.  I wouldn’t have changed anything as we had a
  blast.  

  Wow all of that was just Saturday.  In an effort to get this story finished I’ll
  abbreviate the day/night.  I headed to
  meet Jeanie around 5ish and took a
  small detour to meet Joel at Radio Shack. 
  After meeting there only to find the cb’s we wanted didn’t have the
  headset connection we needed, I left to meet Jeanie.  It felt like I was driving to the middle of
  nowhere or as  she called it… the end of
  the earth.  We watched a movie called “The
  Chosen.”  I don’t remember most of it
  because we both kept getting interrupted by the cell phone and talking to each
  other.  It’s a good movie for what I
  remember. Then we went to the store to get a few items to make dinner.  We were supposed to go with Stephen, Shawtie,
  and Jane to go see King Kong, but there was something about going to see a 3
  hour movie that night that didn’t sound so fun. 
  I heard it was really good, but you don’t get to really hang out with
  people and talk when you are watching a movie that’s that long.  Anyways we ate dinner and began to do the
  very thing we didn’t want to do… watch a 3 hour movie.  It was quite ironic and funny.  Needless to say I was tired from the previous
  day and dozed off a few times.  I really
  needed a nap yesterday but never had the chance to get one.  Well after sleeping for a little while, Jeanie
  tried to wake me up a few times but failed and Joel called like 3 times but I
  missed it.  When she went to answer my
  phone I woke up right away… at least that’s what I remember while I was a
  sleep.  Joel, Stephen, Shawtie, and Jane
  decided to come over and join us.  We
  toured the house and were in amazement at the food stored there.  You could literally go grocery shopping for a
  few families and still have a store of food waiting for the next shopper.  Why in the world do you need 16 bottles of
  Mrs. Dash seasoning and 8 bottles of paprika? 
  Jeanie ended up cooking more food for everyone while we finished
  watching Forest Gump.  Around 1:30 I thought it would be a good thing to get
  some sleep and head home… well in reverse order but you get the picture.  Then everyone else decided to do the same
  thing.  There were even more deer out
  there last night.  I stopped on the way
  to get some gas, and proceeded to head home.   I was 2 miles from my house about to turn
  onto Jefferson and I got a reply to a message I sent
  Jane.  Luckily I read the message instead
  of going when the light turned green.  If
  I wouldn’t have hesitated I would have been hit on the driver side door by
  someone who couldn’t even see out their windshield because of the frost on the
  window.  The person literally stopped in
  the middle of the intersection.  I had to
  go around them to turn left.  So thank
  you Jane for sending the message.  Well I
  got home again at 2:30 and fell
  asleep only to have to be at work at 7:30.   I wonder what tonight has in store for
  me.  Narnia was mentioned sometime last
  night…

  Sorry for the novel but oh well.  Not many people seem to be reading my posts
  anyways. 

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