GLAD THE WEEKEND IS OVER

this past weekend was a long, long weekend. i'm just glad that it's finally over. here's a better idea of what happened...

it started out on thursday as i waited and waited and waited for the amtrak bus. a black guy named levi came and waited with me. i got there about 4:10 since i rode the county transit bus and levi had gotten there about 5 minutes after i did. we waited until around 5pm and finally decided to give amtrak a call, not believing we had missed the bus (the bus NEVER gets there early). levi finally got through and after being put on hold for about 20 minutes, found out that the bus had broken down in santa rosa. well, by this time, it was going to be about impossible to make it to martinez in time to make the train. meanwhile, he called some friends and asked them if they would take him. when we found out that the bus wasn't coming and we were going to miss the train, levi asked me if i would like to catch a ride with them. he told me, "i know it might be scary riding with strangers, but we're leaving now, and if you'd like to come with us, we're going to the train station." i had no time to think, so i grabbed my stuff and followed him. he introduced me to his friends, well, his friend and his friend's girlfriend, who drove. we had to get gas and then we headed on our way. we were stuck in traffic around petaluma and levi gave amtrak another call to find out if we were going to make the train or not. they told us that they would be unable to hold the train, but that they'd find transportation for us somehow. well, we ended up missing the train by about 20 minutes and had to wait for 30 minutes to an hour for a cab to bring the people who had been on the bus that had broken down. the amtrak lady gave us both $20 vouchers to use for our next trip, which i can use this weekend when i go see my love and so it'll be free. ;) levi was upset and argued with her for a bit and she gave him a hard time since he isn't registered to vote. however, i was extremely grateful that they were still going to get us to our destinations that night (since that was the last san joaquin train that day). so, i bought a chicken salad sandwich at the food place at the station and waited for the other people to get there. when they did, i saw priscilla, a friend from high school who works as a manager at the theatre. she and her son were coming back from visiting her boyfriend at humboldt state and were on the bus when it broke down. from her, i found out that the reason the bus broke down was because the driver had backed up and hit something and kept going. it had scraped the oil pan and all the oil leaked out and broke down. they had to wait on the bus for about an hour before a cab came to get them. well, we finally loaded our stuff into the van we were to take and found that there was one more person than there were seats. the cab driver was going to make us squeeze four people in the back, even though three could barely fit, but then they decided to get a cab and send the two fresno people in the cab. however, we still had to stuff everyone in the van to get over to the cab station. everyone was hungry, except me since i had eaten, so we stopped at in n out to grab a bite to eat and then we traded drivers and levi went in the cab with the two ladies who were going to fresno since he was going to bakersfield and the cab was going to fresno and bakersfield. our van, on the other hand, was headed to hanford and corcoran and we got the other driver, who ended up being a really nice guy. i still don't know what religion he is from though. he had a long beard, wore an all white gown and clothes, a white hat on his head and he had beads around his neck that he held about an hour of driving as he either recited prayer or sang or something quietly. so, we took the 5, stopping at harris ranch to get gas, which was super expensive, about $2.37 a gallon. we only got enough to get us to our destinations, but we had to get some cause we must've been running on fumes. it was really empty. so, we dropped priscilla and her son and the other girl off at hanford, and then had to find our way to the corcoran station, where mom was waiting. so mostly we talked on the way from hanford to corcoran. we got there maybe 12:30?, 12:45? then had to drive to porterville. unfortunately, our driver had to drive all the way back to martinez, where his wife was waiting for him and he said he didn't want to get into trouble with her. so yeah, thursday was a long day.

friday morning, mom woke me up and asked me if i wanted to go to johnny's school with her since she had to hand out the band's sweatshirts so they'd have them for the football game that night. so, we got breakfast at mcdonalds and then headed over to cesar chavez high school in delano. the band room is so nice. the storage is wonderful. there's several large rooms that can be used as storage, a bunch of instruments that aren't even opened yet, and cubbies for instruments, backpacks, etc. some of the instrument cubbies look like animal cages. haha. plus, the kids were really nice. the band sounded awesome. we handed out the sweatshirts and then when johnny had to go over to richgrove, we went over there so mom could do some stuff there. i got to eat some cafeteria food at richgrove. it was good, too. it's all homemade, so it was better than the cafeteria food from elementary school and middle school. homemade burritos, salad, and homemade macaroni salad. yumyum! plus a cookie. a bargain for only $2. however, there were many flies in the bandroom and so we took turns swatting flies. we spent some time there and i helped mom with some lists on the computer. we didn't get home until around 5:30pm, and then we were off again to the carb up dinner for relay for life. it was also granite hills' homecoming game against monache, so there were lots of cars in the parking lots. the carb up dinner went well though, and then micah and stacey came and kidnapped me and took me to stacey's house. stacey's car died and so they got a pt cruiser, and i got to ride in it. ;) i also got to see mommy and meet papa, their new taco bell doggie. then, we went back to the high school and showed mommy their car and then they kidnapped me again and we went to denny's. we were going to go to the new black bear diner, which opened where ryan's used to be, but there was a long wait and so we went to denny's instead, where i got to see katie. we took stupid pictures with our phones, then finished and they took me back since stacey had to work in the morning.

saturday morning, woke up early, but not too early, for the relay and spent the entire time there. yes, i spent the night again this year, not like last year when mom sent us home for the night. but yes, i did get some sleep. i slept in the pc camp. the relay was really nice this year. i got to visit with angelica's parents, who even danced when nostalgia played. saw some friends and people i haven't seen in a while. saw lukie davis and dang has he grown. i even walked some with connie and tyler late at night. connie said something about anthropology and tyler told her to say that in layman's terms. well, connie's last name is layman, so she did say it in layman's terms. after that after any of us said anything, i would ask her to repeat that in layman's terms and she would say something funny. got to see mr. and mrs. osborne. nana came by during the day. she didn't want to jump in the bounce house with me so i didn't go. saw vince. walked some with susan regier and her son and talked to her. the lunch was kinda sorry this year. mom's entertainment lunch was better than the other. they only got half a sandwich a handful of pretzels, and a soda. we had a whole sandwich, bag of chips, candy, grapes, bananas, and a soda. dinner was pretty good though. it wasn't too bad. they raised a whole lot of money. a whole load...

on sunday, nate woke up the entire neighborhood with his "quiet" "easy to listen to" music that was SUPER loud. i walked some with paula and talked to her. the turnout on sunday was awesome. never has there been that many people on sunday. i have a picture if you would like to see... after cleaning up, which didn't take too long since we didn't have to take down the stage or canopies other than the pc one, mom, johnny, and i went to eat breakfast in springville before returning home and crashing for the day. at least that's what i did. i slept until my love called and woke me up and then i slept again until dad called and woke me up again.

monday went by the college and saw more people. went to the ptk meeting and they had cupcakes for rene's birthday, which was on the 2nd. i ate two cause mr. goode didn't want his. saw my best friend ke11y. i got my anthro club shirt from mr. osborne. saw my friend nickie that i had tutored. she had had a stroke and is recovering from that. we had a good conversation though.


anyways, we just finished watching some lesbian flick on tv. ya know, i have to watch something like that every once in a while. it turns me on.