Saturday, May 22, 2010

Time And I Flew at Spring Fever P.2

where do i even begin the day that was part two to spring fever?

wake up!!! shower.shower.shower. wait around for hunger to kick in. a few more showers. finally we are out the door. just me and the guys. taking a nice little walk to Paul Bunions a place that supposedly has killer food. I'm spinning lights all the way there. multiple camera shots, laughs, giggles, and we finally arrive. Before we even step inside we see what happens to be a lumber jack version of what i think Goliath would be he is a huge huge statue. So of course our littlest guy friend has to pretend to be David and sock him one in the nuts. kudos to you my good sir :) . we get inside to be welcomed by a gift shop. if ya ask me a gift shop right in the entrance of any restaurant is just tacky... i take one quick look at the menu and already my mind is yelling full force don't you dare eat ribs at this time of day... so while the guys decide if their tummy's can handle ribs and what not i play with the large wind chimes as obnoxiously as i can. no one can handle the menu and we bounce out of that place. best part is we end up walking all the way back from where we started to go the the Denny's we originally said we should have gone to... we all order breakfast foods. and i swear we had the nicest waitress ever. she gave me a whole free cup of juice when i asked to sample the crazy new beverages at no extra cost to me but a smile :).

we arrive back at the hotel. tons and tons of roaming the hallways gets done. tons of sitting in the room waiting patiently for the night to hit gets done. tons of talking, laughing, bickering, smiling, and finally some damn swimming is all accomplished. slowly but surely the rest of our crew makes it out to us. yet the night is still not here. more hanging out only the way we know how is done. and its time. we all look at each other giggles and anticipation rising we say our cheers to one another. and the night begins...

I am not sure how anyone else spent their night. I am not sure if anyone had as good a time as I did. What I do know is that i did more things in that one night than I probably had in the last 5 months weekends put together. I can't recall the night in its entirety, what I do remember however was

~ Spinning lights outside in a parking lot, on the way to another hotel, on a ledge, on 2 stages, in the main room, in the hallways, in the pool, in the hot tub, in our room, in a strangers room, on a strangers bed, and in the main lobby.

~ Swimming!! Lots and Lots of Swimming! Fully dressed! Wearing a tutu under water, and feeling like a mermaid... Jumping into the Deep end of the pool not knowing how to swim finally getting over my fear of deep water! (Mind you I was successfully able to recruit every person in the pool and the hot tub to stand around the pool with me and all of jump in at the same time to help me get over my fear and check something off my bucket list. I am so thankful to everyone who jumped with me.)Dancing with my friends and new people and my boyfriend under water was liberating!!!

~Playing Call Of DUTY MODERN WARFARE 2 while jumping on a bed soaking wet with a group of girls I had never met all while laughing!!!

~Seeing Silkworms in a blossoming tree spinning silk, doing an elaborate dance under the spring moon. Shared that beautiful moment with the universe and a new best friend of mine.

~Dancing!!!Dancing!!!Dancing!!!and might I add some more DANCING! Tons of liquid dancing was done! I danced my little butt off! I also diced some people to tiny little pieces with my miming routine :). Man, the dancing done that night done by my friends and I was all sorts of amazing and odd and inspirational and entertaining. I love them.

~Hoola Hoops and Jump Ropes! Need I say more???

~Random hopeless adventure to find my missing TUTU at 6 in the morning... Hooray It was returned to me the following day but that is a whole other story!

~But what I remember most about that evening was a sense of unity. No matter where we were in the hotel no matter how many times we lost and found each other no matter anything there was a sense of unity. It was more than crystal clear that we were all friends that we were all always looking out for one another and were all concerned with the happiness of the people we call friends. It was a beautiful party but more importantly it was an amazing vacation that helped us just enjoy the time we do have with each other. I love them.

Part 3 will be posted soon... til then... "this is the story of a girl"

Thursday, May 20, 2010

News Flash

Everything I write and say has already been said and written.
Everything I think is already someone else's old news.
Isn't it great being unique?... I'm just like you.

I am so lost in my head today...

Monday, May 3, 2010

Time and I Flew at Spring Fever!

what a weekend... i have not enough words to describe the chaos that is and was the beautiful amazing time i had that weekend... no way can i tell the story well enough no possible way for me to capture the amazing funtastic time that i had with my friends the family i got to choose and that chose me. i love them i truly do.

i guess lets start with the car ride to our car ride. getting dressed and undressed in the car. can you yell awkward and exciting. freeing myself of my everyday clothing and shedding into my rainbow colored skin. my makeup and clothing in every color under the shining sun. then a lovely walk around meijer in my lovely clothing mind you I'm the only one in a tutu and knee high rainbow socks and tube top in the whole place. my company in the store looked ever so normal in comparison. oh for the lovely smiles i shared with those who gave me glares.

finally get to the car we are suppose to be in. i slept most of the way i mean the only time i spent up was to make HENRY his sign. i slept the rest of the way. woke up to being rushed out of the car with bags weighing down each arm. and realizing it was a tad nipply out side... but still sweet weather.

longest check in to a hotel i have ever experienced followed the placement of a not fitting wrist band... finding the room to stay in was easy as pie. a nice little view over looking the pool, one that was shortly known to be perfect for watching silly people do silly dances and cannon balls. shortly after settling in the rest of the crew files in. its all laughs from then on senseless wandering of the halls, wandering between rooms, finding out who is where as we prepare for the weekend.

the music in the small room that night was meh. i much more preferred watching my amazing friends dislike the music as much as i did; they made up ridiculous dances to song lyrics that were strictly dedicated to sucking penis... i don't need to further explain the silliness that goes along with that. we dipped out of that room just in time to not further damage our ears for life. more roaming of the hall ways. splitting up into smaller groups then ending up along then forming other groups and somehow all ending up in the room at the same time most of the night.

a few photo shoots done with [R]andomus on the speakers set up in the main room that would be used the next night. Click, click, click no flash and still amazing shots. Friends peeking thru their curtains seeing what is going on in the near empty room. Smiles and waves shared with no hold back of laughter. Curtain close and i string for the first time. If you don't know what stringing is... {its a dance done with glow sticks on strings spinning in orbs to the beat of electronic dance music}.... My stringing guru explains the pull and force motion as i will call it to me. I watch him perform. Then i begin, suddenly it is just me and the lights. This type of loneliness i love. Its the type of loneliness that consumes me in concentration, makes me strive for perfection, helps me escape from the worries of the world. I become so alone i didn't notice my guru had been long gone. Strings wrapped so tight around my hands they begin to fall to sleep. Unlucky timing for me two drunk men. Completely harmless amazed by my very few stringing skills and just wanting to try them out themselves. So i let them... My guru returns further amazes them and they with their drunk self-conscience selves say thank you and take their leave. My guru and i spin on. I have now a healthy light spinning addiction...

Make it back to the room. granola bars passed around, candy fills our bellies. and we go for another walk. More photos taken. Secret rooms found and lost again. Laughter fills the halls and we get lost and found again between the maze like walls. Vending machine blunders... And back to the room again... TV is blaring and we talk over the static sound of cartoons all of us fighting to not be in control of the remote control... all war is ended as we fall to sleep snores humming under the sound of the TV... shared beds and blankets. too hot and too cold. perfect harmony. and we sleep.

that was all Friday night. i will write about Saturday night soon. tis all for now. currently a smile from ear to ear.