The Past Few Days

The summer atmosphere of craziness is in full-swing. Here at the ranch, we have had guests in honor of Matt's birthday, as well as people passing through on their way to family vacations, someone who'll be stopping by on his way back from meeting a chick he met online, and someone who will be stopping by on her way back from visiting her boyfriend. The sun was out yesterday, and it was a marvellous day.

Friday, we took a surprise outing from work! It was one of our employee's 5th anniversary there, and she had always wanted to have the whole company go out for a ride on a boat in the harbor. So for her 5th, we surprised her by bringing her down to Rowe's Wharf (= NICE AND POSH) and took a ferry down to Hingham where we passed beautiful little islands. It's not nearly as pretty as it is floating around the coast of Maine, but i guess people do go sailing in Maine above other places for a reason. Then we ate lunch and had drinks at a restaurant right on the water, and it was lovely! We had cake, gave her tickets to see Rod Stewart (she calls him "her boy"), and then we all went home. And i got PAID for this. And i thought to myself, "this is good place to work if you're in it for the long haul." They really pay attention to what you'd want, because they really do appreciate you. However, if you're not in it for the long haul, well, it's not a very good place to work if you're trying to save up money.

Friday night was Matt's birthday party, and i am so proud and happy to be a part of what made his birthday go from the worst day he's had a long time to being one of the most fun time's he's had for a while. Kal-el, Gilly, Lyrica, and Aria came over, and we all went out to dinner with them (including me, Dan, and Matt) and Kal treated! The restaurant was not necessarily a place i'd go back to because it was Malaysian and didn't have more than two vegetarian options on a HUGE menu, and it was loud and we couldn't hear each other. Not to mention that the service was pretty poor. But it was fun and different. When we got back, Gilly and i whipped together some brownies and pistachio pudding, sang happy birthday to him, and we all watched a couple episodes of the most brilliant cartoon to come out in a while, Invader Zim.

Last night, we saw the new Harry Potter movie. I won't write anything about it since i don't want to give anything away for those of you who haven't seen it. Suffice it to say that it was necessarily different from the first two, which were short books and could easily be fit into a movie. I enjoyed it a lot nevertheless, and i also saw a preview for Spiderman, for which i am INCREDIBLY psyched.

All this before i have to take the GRE's. Someone PLEASE tell me next weekend will be less crazy and fun.