quidditchgrrl

W00t!  I'm still alive!  (Don't you have those weeks where the fact that you've made it to the other side seems like a feat worthy of an Olympic medal?)

 

Had an awesome time with salemdipity  and zsazsa101 and met up with jacyevans  and jlh .

 

 

Friday:  Trip over was uneventful, and Liss met me at the airport.  Melissa picked us up and dropped us off for lunch and an afternoon of shopping in Annapolis.  The prices were rather more than I'm used to, but I got a nice travel journal to keep track of all the debauchery trips I'm planning to take. 

 

I rather enjoyed the fact that we all use "man" and "dude" in our everyday speech.  One never knows if the way they speak is considered weird by others.  I rarely hear others use those colloquialisms, anyway (man).

 

We were able to indulge our love of cemeteries by wandering around St. Ann's for a half-hour or so.  V. v. relaxing, aside from forgetting to lick our thumbs and touch them to the wall.  Managed to remember to back out of the gate, though...

 

Liss made us dinner and we spent some time with Melissa's kidlets (who are super-cute and whom I haven't seen since they were babies) before hitting the sack.

( Travelogue: NYC )

 

NYC was, as usual, awesome and fun and all those things you could never find anywhere else on earth.  Our hotel was brand-spanking new and sported a view of the Manhattan skyline.  We gussied ourselves up and hit the town.

 

Now, most of you know my utter, absolute dislike of touristy spaces.  But okay, Times Square was pretty sweet and Rockefeller Center was very Christmas-y.  I can't even imagine how annoying tourists must be to people in the city.  Pushing and shoving and complaining and BELIEVING THERE IS SUCH A THING AS PERSONAL SPACE - I couldn't take that on a daily basis.  We couldn't get across the street to Saks, as we were 15-deep on the other side of the street.

 

 

Dinner was pizza and then, Equus.  I was VERY impressed with Richard Griffiths - he had a lot of long dialogues, and he was able to breathe life into a character that is quite without a life.  I'm still not sure if Dan Radcliffe has the chops to make a distinguished career as a dramatic actor, but his comedic timing is spot-on.  The horses' heads and shoes were neat, as were the bodies sporting them!  :P

 

At the end of the show, the cast came out to ask for donations to Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, and auctioned off a t-shirt, which Dan kindly sported on-stage.  That shirt went for $1000.  For that price, I need a couple of hours with the boy in the shirt, kthx.  (Uh, kidding.)

 

We ended up walking around for about 5 hours...5 hours of wearing 3-and-a-half inch heels...I'm surprised that my feet have not detached themselves from my body and run away.  Only a couple of raw spots, not too bad (but I have a race Sunday).

 

Sunday was Serendipity day, where we met up with Andrea and Clio for some lunch and frozen hot chocolate.  Mmmm...

 

We got back late and crashed hard.  I was bumped from both of my flights Monday morning and ended up going through Charlotte to get home, then I went directly into work.  Boooooo!  I like my job, but not that much.

Other than that, I've been trying not to write (no!  bad Donna!  no writing at work!) and hopefully my little muse will crawl back into her hidey-hole and stay away.  Went to see a couple of concerts, will be doing 58472985697 family things over the next few weeks (bleh).

 

I'm enjoying the entries for Smutty Claus this year.  :-)  Yummy.