Estonian crack candy hangover

Well, it's more like the time change hangover, but the Estonian crack candy hangover sounds much more glamorous.

So Firth Fest went well, except for the part where the Pope died, but other than that I think people enjoyed themselves. Made a mental note that most can only handle 3 movies in a row and not 4. Everyone went home around 1am, which was really 2am because of the time change, then I spent another hour doing a little cleaning up and listening to some tunes... finally got to bed around 3.

Sunday morning I decided I was not going to make it to church, so I decided on the final option of evening mass at the Cathedral. Headed out Sunday afternoon to the belly dancing hafla, which was a lot of fun. I got up and did my dance routine, I did well but Jenn is right, I do need to not look like I am counting. More practice! We got to see the dance troupe perform, as well as a couple of classes ahead of me, so that was cool to see what I'll eventually learn if I stick with it. My next session starts next Monday, so I am looking forward to getting back to it, and Joanne will be joining us for class too so that is awesome :)

After that I headed to Mass. The priest of course discussed the Pope and talked about how he was in Europe at the time of the Pope's installation mass, and decided to go to Rome to see it, it was interesting to hear him talk about it. Headed to work for a few minutes after mass to fix a minor issue before Monday.

Spent the rest of the evening hanging with Jay, discussing the drama that is my life, trying to remember what Stan Meissner songs I had in my basement, and eating some Estonian candy that had cute flying dragons on it. One of them also exploded. Strange candy. Made me wonder if it was secretly smuggled crack or something. When the room stops spinning I'll let you know.

So only 2 more sleeps!!! I am pretty excited about this concert. Not to fear, loyal readers, I will be blogging while I'm away. I believe the word is "addicted". Too late now. I am hooked.

I didn't leave work until 8pm tonight, had to drive by my brother's house and make sure he wasn't conked out from an insulin change since he seems to refuse to answer his phone, drop some stuff off to my grandfather, and came home to finish cleaning up from the party and yesterday's middle-eastern cookie baking. Kind of left things a mess, I hate that. Must not leave house in messy condition so as to come home to messy house after vacation. Have a ton of work to do tomorrow if I want a relatively stress-free vacation. I *will* get it done.

My older brother wrote me today, he & girlfriend signed on the dotted line for their new house, so he sent me a picture of the land with a title of "We bought a hole!" The arrangements are for him to pick me up at the airport and dump me at IKEA and the mall across the street from his office (gee, wonder what I'll do there?!?!) then he'll take Thursday and Friday off and I'll go with them to pick out some kitchen cupboards or something. Girlfriend was concerned that I may not want to be drug along on that trip, but obviously she hasn't met me yet... my brother assured her I wouldn't have a problem with that :)

That's enough for tonight, I gotta get some sleep. btw, I am making progress on the upcoming photo exposé, I cropped all the pics tonight so now I just need to put it all together. Will likely do that while I'm away. hehehehe. photo exposé. hehehehe.