| Saturday October 5th, 2002 Just to prove to the world what a cruddy son I can be, my mom's operation was Thursday and I didn't even know til it was over - how do ya like that? :P I've already told LA that one of my worst traits is not keeping in touch with my family often enough and she should work on reminding me. She's been pretty faithful about that, but the effects have yet to appear, alas. I even slighted my sister a bit when she called late Thursday, although I'll resort to the excuse she woke me up and it was after 11pm ... anyway, I definitely have a lot of 'getting back in touch with family' duties to attend to. LA wasn't too impressed with my not considering her a 'Hollywood- style beauty queen' so we had a little 'discussion', and the sum result is that she is now my 'official' girlfriend. I realize the logic is a little hard to follow. Such is life. I won two Senators hockey tickets for last night's game - didn't realize it for a while since the envelope I received in the mail looked a lot like a bill, so it landed it my 'get a around tuit' pile. But once I had it identified, I was faced with a challenge - only two tickets, and LA can't make it, so who do I invite? Not JM - she was going to be out of town. Not GB, who's already turned down free hockey ticket offers in the past (I know, I scratch my head about that one too). Which leaves me JP and EC, both of whom are Senators fans and either one of which could have felt slighted at not being chosen. So I did the ole 'whatcha doin on such and such night' and got an answer of 'volleyball practice' from one, so the other one won the ticket. My conscience is now salved. At the game I won a free slice of pizza - maybe there's a contest at the pizza joint and I can just keeping chasing my good luck all over town. I should probably get the heck off the net now, since LA's supposed to call. We had no plans to see each other this weekend - but neither of us has a good excuse not to ... so we debated every way she could visit me here but it doesn't look like that's going to happen, so it seems I'm going back to her town again. She's supposed to call me back to 'confirm I'm invited' or something. I'm ready to go! except for a bit of packing after I finish up laundry. It's a mystery to me where I'll find any time to actually do some writing for this writing critique course - I'm having a challenge just keeping up with doing the critiquing, and it isn't really like I'm putting it off when I could be doing it, either. But I'm enjoying this 'busy out of my mind' situation - this works for me. |