Salutations

mood: full (of yummy food)
music: New York State of Mind - The one and only
random word: pigeon

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Well, I suppose it is about time I started actively participating in this blog party. Let's see, this past Memorial Day weekend has been spectacular. I'll give you all the rundown

Friday: up at 7 to run the giant tag sale my family was holding until 12 to get rid of the large amount of crap we had accumulated over the years. It was a dismal failure, which was quite entertaining because of the various bets that were riding between my family members over how much money we would make and how many people would come (124 dollars and 20 people, to be clear - we only made that much money because someone paid us fifty bucks for a rug we were getting rid of). Speaking of which, I come home and find that the shutters/front door are blue not red and that the living room has a new furniture rug combo going on. Very disorienting. That's the exciting bit of Friday. Oh and I got new glasses.

Saturday: The McCarthy family annual memorial day party!!! (McCarthy being the family of my girlfriend, for any that never learned her last name) It was an awesome time, with loads of people of every age hanging out. I saw a lot of old friends that I hadn't seen in a long, long time (the ones that are now graduated from college and heading to grad school/the real world). It was really weird to see how old we have all gotten. The party went all night long and ended in a sleep over throwdown that didn't end until the wee hours of the night. Good times.

Sunday: Up from the McCarthy's and off with the gang for breakfast at...the COFFEESHOP!!! This means nothing to you at all. I know. However, the Coffeeshop is the world's greatest breakfast food and it's a requisite for consumption at least once every few weeks for the residents of Glastonbury. Then I hopped in the truck and drove on down to Becky's lake house (see entry below for glowing description - it's really quite nice). Had a splendid time hanging with her and her family (especially her younger cousins, quite a hoot some of them). I especially enjoyed the part when Bdawg's uncle made fun of her for hitting me all the time. So that was fun. Then I came back to Gtown, met up with some friends at Chili's, ate some more good food and sat around a campfire until near 2 in the morning with some old friends who left today for the summer to pursue careers and grad school and such (scary how close that is for us kids).

Today: Saw X-Men 3 with the brother and father. I was reasonably impressed, though I thought it was rushed. Since then I've just been hanging around the house, utterly destroying my family in games of cards (if you ever want intense games of gin, setback or pinochle, my house is the place to be).

Anyway, I miss you all (especially Michael :P). Hope this letter finds you and finds you well.