Its good to be home..... I have never felt more in place in my life than when I walked in through the doors of NewHomeFreeLand. The sense of belonging and true friendship is overwhelming and in the most positive ways too. Yesterday had to have been one of the best days of my life, which naturally led into a very enjoyable today! I woke up feeling extremely nostalgic, ate breakfast with my parents as they packed me a lunch - it was so cute and lovingly made too, cream cheese and smoked salmon sandwich with small ziplocs filled with artichokes and olives, a small bag of pretzels, a Caesar (with the celery!), a Corona, a thermos of chocolate milk and vodka, Italian cookies and candied ginger! I said my goodbyes to the Bowens, gave early birthday wishes and off we drove to New Liskerd for the next hour. I enjoyed the last moments of hilarity with my parents as I stared out the window soaking up every last inch of landscape, half hoping to permanently ingrain the images in my eyes. The train that I was supposed to take ended up hitting a car that was trying to beat the train across the tracks, so all northbound trains of North Bay were canceled. I ended up having to take a greyhound to the North Bay train station to catch the train there. The bus eventually left New Liskerd about after 45 minutes of waiting. My mom, in her true fashion, harped and worried away as I gave her a kiss and a hug that I new was not enough for her. They gave me same cards that they have been for the last three year - boo bees... hahah, sorry inside joke - see! I do get along with my parents.... I think we just enjoy bickering with each other - as strange kind of love if you ask me, but it works for the three of us. ANYWAY ->This little blip in the human transport world back logged everything and upon arriving in North Bay I found out that the train would not be arriving for another two hours..... I was contemplating pushing all of my crap into a locker and head to the mall, but I wasn't going to chance missing the train. So I read and ate lunch and wrote in my journal and played solitare.... it was a very boring 2 hours. The train immediately left after we all got on, I felt like cattle being herded into a storage container, however once I found my seat a the back of the car it was HELLA reassuring to see how much space I had. I didn't even put my bags in the overhead compartment and used them to make a bed for legs to be propped up on. It was a really effing long time until we hit even the outskirts of Gravenhurst. First we had to deal with a disgruntled passenger who didn't pay for a ticket and was trying to scam his way south. We had to take a detour to get to a station after North Bay (which ended up being South River ????? who the hell knows where that is?!) to kick him off - HAH. Then we had to wait for trains to pass us on the tracks, but in the mean time there were rainbows to stare off dreamily. Well anyway to fast forward this story upon reaching Downsview I grabbed a cab to Keele and Finch. Had a really nice conversation with the driver about the area my cottage was in and about the explosion (WTF!!??). I dragged my bags into the boys house after a collective 13 hours in a vehicle of sorts to be greeted by a HouseKeeping Aitch blaring the playlist for today's dance party. We smoked and walked out the door at about 11:30pm to get to Cool Man Cool for Craig's and Zac's birthday party. Upon arrival, in the most obnoxious of ways blarred that I was present. Wow, I have the most awesomest (and yes, that's a word) friends in the world. I received a sandwich - LOVEHUGSANDWICH:
To describe it:
There is a certain feeling that you are sure about when you are surrounded with the people who make you the happiest. You can only get this feeling from the people who, even though you may not want to, make you smile. They also make you so mad you want to rip your eyeballs out - but you love how they can do that to you. You get a sense of the warm fuzzies on the inside of your stomach by their sheer presence and your brain tingles in the delight of silly banter. Your ears hear the perfectly orchestrated background music, and everything plays out as if it were scripted by the most brilliant screenwriters. Its grounding, its solid, its motivating, its confidence boosting and its the closest thing to pure happiness. It was good to be home.
I did a drunken midnight countdown to my birthday and proceeded to get sloshed... it felt great. I really wanted to hear the sound of glass breaking, but I'm sure my voice finally breaking the strange silence my absence created was obnoxious and annoying enough. I was ON FIRE! I was going ALL THE WAY.... way to go SLaw.....
I doubled up on Aitch's bike with Travis, hugged him home as I blabbed on about silly incoherent things and kicking a coffee table never felt so gratifying before. My throat still hurts from screaming for no reason. It was the best beginnings to a birthday I have ever experienced and the bar was already pretty high with Holly's genius behind my surprise party.
Hmmmm, well, party things await my attention.
Hope to see you all there, this Queen Bee is going to party her face off tonight!
LOVE!
SLaw
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