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The time with Rachel and Jenn was exactly what I needed after the grossness that was last week. I wasn’t even in their company for a full twenty-four hours, but it was excellent, quality time together and it ruled.

My throat is still sore from singing along with 90s songs at a dive bar in the East Village for about four hours, so you know we had a good time. I still haven’t eaten an actual meal, and have been hungry since about 1:30 pm on Saturday, because we ate appetizers and salads but never any actual food, and when I got home yesterday, I could barely stand up, never mind cook anything.

The restorative power of hanging out with the two people you’ve been friends with the longest was greater than I had expected. And now that Jana will be here in oh, TWENTY-FOUR DAYS, things can really only get better.

I’ve had a spectacularly craptastic week, punctuated by annoyances, disappointments, difficult information, and physical pain.  When the one highlight of your week involves driving to a gross “city” to be annoyed by an idiot (the drives there and back were awesome, though, because Erin is hilarious and ruling), you know it’s been a week to forget.

But tonight I am doing laundry and playing Wii Mario Kart, and tomorrow I am going to see Rachel and Nifer for an overnight in NYC, which will hopefully all prove to be emotionally restorative activities.

And at least next week I don’t have to get four fillings (and I have to go back for one more on June 10th!  Awesome!), so it will have to be better than this week was.

First, it has been a really great couple of days for vanity plates here in central Connecticut.  In the last week, I have seen the following:

-JSTICE, on a white sedan being driven by an older bearded white dude (and sadly, not Robert Bias, of Dog Whisperer fame)
-JON DOE, on a maroon Corolla

-USA TOY, on a beige Maxima

-PUPPY-2, on a light blue Outback (also, this was a pet themed special plate)

-MOO LVR, on a white Geo Prism that had cow print seat covers and about sixteen assorted Vermont and cow print stickers on the back (that one was just this morning, on my way in to work)

Second, this rules.

Ellie Nash the Brindlecat got a new home yesterday!  One of my co-workers has been thinking about getting a cat, and when I told her that I couldn’t keep Ellie because I couldn’t give her the affection she needed, she decided she would adopt Ellie!

They met yesterday and hit it off.  I was so glad, because Jen will give Ellie a fantastic home, with lots of love and sunny places to sleep.

It was a really good weekend for me, overall.  Some weird stuff has been happening (both in job life and in real life), but it has all been good stuff, at least from my perspective.  I have to keep reminding myself not to get my hopes up too much, so we’ll see.  The weather was amazing, finally, which should help things.  And one of my BFFs confirmed that she is coming to visit at the end of May, plane tickets and everything, and we are planning on going to see another BFF later this year.  I cannot WAIT.

Also, I put a shine glaze on my hair last night, and normally, I do not mess with the color of my hair, because it suits me pretty well, and what if I screw it up and can’t get it back?  But I figured a clear shine glaze couldn’t hurt anything, so I tried it.  It didn’t hurt anything, but it also didn’t DO anything.  My hair is definitely no shinier than it was before, damnit.