Hello Seattle.

"Cause you had a good girl, good girl, girl
That's a keeper, k-k-k-k-keeper
You had a good girl, good girl but
Didn't know how to treat her, t-t-t-t-treat her
So silly boy get out my face (my face)
Why do you like the way regrets taste?"
-Eva Simons

This has been a wonderful week.

Monday afternoon I went to SPU and picked up my friend Matt (booshoe37) and together we drove to the airport where Johnny (JohnnyDurham19) was waiting for us to pick him up. He's been staying in LA for a few months (even though he's from the UK) and lucky for us, he decided to come spend a few days up here in Seattle at the end of his trip.

We picked up Kayley from school a bit later and proceeded to have an extremely entertaining day showing Johny around Pike Place Market - the golden pig, the gum wall, the first Starbucks, a bakery that sells shots of pure chocolate, the nerd store downstairs - which was actually fun for all of us, because I don't really go to these parts of Seattle often either. When a place is KNOWN for being a tourist spot, you really only think to go there when you have non-Seattlites in town. But there are so many amazing places in this city to see; I wish I enjoyed it all more frequently.

I forget how great this place is when I am just here by myself, working on videos and preparing for other trips and writing. It's a bummer sometimes that it takes having other people visiting from out of town to remember how awesome the place I live is. People can knock the weather all they want but I am totally in love with Seattle.

We did a lot more stuff the rest of the week with Johnny including karaoke, staying up really late and making new friends -- I was sad to see him go on Thursday. I spend so much of my life saying goodbye to friends... I guess that's just the way having friends all over the world goes.


Speaking of Thursday, I don't know what happened that day... some disconnect between my brain and the fabric of time and space, or something; but for some reason on Thursday I began living my day like it was Friday. I texted my friend Tyler trying to see what his plans were (assuming we were talking about Friday night), I was talking with Liz about our Saturday plans as if they were the next day, I was even figuring out my weekend in my planner as if I had one less day to work with.

Then at one point in the later evening I told Justin that Liz was coming over 'tomorrow'. He turned to look at me and said, "So she's not coming over Saturday?"

"What do you mean, I just SAID she is."

"Tomorrow is Friday, darlin'."

...

If real humans could facepalm like animé characters, I would have fallen off my chair, legs in the air, right at that moment. After the initial shock of embarrassment, it was like the heavens had opened up, reached down, and HANDED me another day. A whole day. Just for me. With no plans, no obligations - just a new, magical second Friday for me to live and enjoy with no consequence.

I spent it watching TV and playing Wii games. THANK YOU, UNIVERSE.


Levels on WoW:
Mage: 56
Shaman: 34
Flights taken: 0


Also: In response to the conversation with the Paraguay guys in my last post, someone left this as a comment on my blog:
"Forgive me for not knowing if you are "famous", but I only ran across your blog because I have a Google Alert for "Paraguay". Well, I looked up a couple All Caps videos on YouTube, and now you have another fan in Paraguay."