June 11th - Saturday was our Summer Reading Kick Off Party! We had quite a few people come through and we had pizza at noon. We ordered way more pizza than was eaten so I went to deliver the extras around. I started at the police sub station but no one was home. Then I went to the fire station but they were off fighting a grass fire. So then I went to the senior center and conned the old folks into taking most of the pizzas. I still had a couple left after work so I swung by the fire station again and gave them the rest of the pizza since they were back from fire fighting.
June 12th - Sunday was my orchestra concert over in Carson City. It was a pops concert (train themed) that was at the governors mansion. It was a really pretty set up - right in the governor’s backyard (not that the governor was really there...) I invited the rest of the LC Librarians but no one showed up :-( However, the concert went crazy long since my director has issues shutting up and getting down to the playing bit. Overall, though it was a good concert. I was feeling a bit down when I got home, but I got to talk to my captain over skype which always perks me up.
June 13th - Nice lazy day until getting the crap beat out of me at jiu-jitsu. Sometimes those are the best Mondays.
June 14th - Happy Flag Day! I was surprised how many people didn’t know that flag day was the Army’s birthday.
June 15th – At work, the library crapper showed up again. He was being his usual creepy self and chilling at the computers. He had a towel over his lap and I thought he was wacking off. Though I didn’t see any hand movement so I didn’t want to go investigate. As we were closing up for the night, he stood up and all he was wearing was a long shirt and his boots. Both my boss and I were so shocked we didn’t know what to say! I did advert my eyes when he had to bend over... After he closed the doors, we called over to the sheriffs department and asked someone to come over. A deputy did and his eyes nearly popped out of his head when we told him all about our library crapper. We talked over our options of banning him from the library but came to no final conclusions. However, the deputy reported back to the sheriff and the sheriff made him go back and ban our crapper. Saga complete. I also had last minute changes for my wedding weekend that stressed me out a bit and made me all emotional and girly.
June 16th - It was a busy busy day. I was supposed to do rounds, but they decided against me doing it for some reason, so I worked in F-town until 4 and then headed up to Reno Airport. I flew out around 7pm to Phoenix (sitting next to a guy afraid of flying...) From Phoenix I flew home to Detroit! :-) On the second flight, I sat next to a guy named Steve from Bloomfield Hills who had been on my first flight. We had one of the most brutally honest conversations I have had with anyone in a long time. Very eye opening. And I slept on his shoulder and probably drooled a bit.
June 17th - My flight got into Detroit around 630 in the morning.. .yuck! However, my favorite brother-in-law was waiting to pick me up :-) He drove me to Royal Oak (stopping to get some excellent coffee) where I got to see Caroline and Euler and their house. I then borrowed Matt’s car and drove down to Saline to see Mom and Dad. 6 months is a long time to not see your parents! I showered and chilled with the ‘rents for a while before driving up to East Lansing. I completely forgot about Michigan Summer Construction and ran a bit late meeting up with Marie to go over wedding reception stuff.. oops! But DAMN! Marie lost 115 lbs for her wedding... it was amazing! It looked like she had eaten half of herself! Marie also is probably the most organized bride I have ever met. She had spreadsheets for everything. She also gave me a wad of “Oh Shit” money just in case. After going over the wedding reception stuff I bummed around EL seeing all my old favorite places. I walked through West Circle, the music building, DEM, by the stadium, and down Grand River. It made me incredibly nostalgic. When I was at MSU and walking in those places every day, I was a very different person. I had different dreams and goals and was on a very different path. Sometimes I wonder how my life has changed so radically and whether or not that is good thing. I wonder if I was to go back, would I make the same choices? Not that I have something against my life as it is... but, you never know what could have been.
After reminiscing, I met up with my friend Andy! We had dinner with Aaron and Amy and then the boys and I went to Crunchys. It had been WAY too long since I had been to my bar. We had multiple flights of beer and sweet nugs! It was great to catch up on conversation with the guys. I really miss all my friends back home. And our waiter was really nice and hot. So Andy tried to ask him out for me but he had a girlfriend. The only thing I truly missed from the night was getting pokey sticks from Gumbys. I also collected the MP3 player from Marie (since I was in charge of sound) and got triple the amount of chords I would need sound anything bad happen.
June 18th - Wedding Day! I got up, tried to pretty myself up and headed out to the reception site. I basically oversaw that everything got set up correctly and there were no misshaps. Konrad came to be my date and it was nice to see him and have someone there to keep me from being all stressed. After the wedding, people flooded the reception site. It was in the greenhouse so it got really toasty and people started complaining. In the effort to get fans working we blew the power and lost sound... right as we needed to introduce the new married couple! ugh I felt like such a failure. Lesson learned: I am not cut out for wedding planning! But it was beautiful and Marie looked amazing! After the pack up and clean up, I drove down to Milan to meet up with Beth, Bri, Kate, Andy, Laura, Dave, Laura, Brenden and Julie. We ate dinner, played lawn ball, sat and talked and overall had a fun and crazy time. It was so amazing to get to see everyone again! I spent the night on Beth and Bri’s couch.
June 19th – In the morning, I showered and went to breakfast wtih Beth, Brian, Dave and Laura t Big Boy. After hugs goodbye, I drove back to Saline to meet up with my family for Father’s Day brunch. :-) There was lots of hanging around and chatting as my family is apt to do. I had dinner with my dad at Bagger Dave’s (I paid and then got yelled at by mom) Dad and I talk about some of the most interesting things including the economy and his theories involving the politics. He dropped me off at the airport and I tried not to cry about going back to Nevada. When I was waiting in line, the guy in front of me (Kevin) recognized me. He apparently had been on my PHX to DTW flight the few days before. After going through security (I got to experience the full body scan for the first time... I also saw a few people opt out and get a very thorough feel up), I met up with Kevin. He bought me a cup of coffee and we chatted before our flight. I had more male attention in the airports this trip than I had had in the last 6 months in Nevada! The flights home were fairly uneventful, I tried to sleep as much as possible so that my drive back to Y-town wasn’t too scary.
