ok....I'm on my parents' computer now....after last night's horrendous onslaught of new virus notifications, I've deemed my computer unfit for online excursions. Grrr. Today was an alright day, though suprisingly depressing. I'm pretty sure it was because it's August, yet only 40 degrees out and cloudy. But then, it might be because my parents are out of town for the week, and I'm sick of being home alone.
I say "suprisingly depressing," because my friend Steph from Rockford came out and visited me today. Even though I haven't lived in Rockford since I was 14, she hasn't missed calling me on my birthday ONCE. Now that is amazing. She was out of town, unfortunately, on Friday night...otherwise she and I were going to go out, but instead she bought be dinner tonight. That was nice. I hadn't seen her in about 2 years! That's terrible! Especially since now she lives in Minneapolis and goes to the U of M....so she's only about 20-30 minutes away...as opposed to Rockford, which is about an hour (sometimes as much as 2 and a half, depending on how bad stupid 494 is). So we hung out for a few hours and got caught up and I got caught up on the Rockford gossip. I might go out there on Sunday and see some people, but we'll see.....except for Steph and a couple other families, I really don't feel comfortable in Rockford anymore. Nobody knows who I am anymore....it's weird. It's a whole new generation of families....I mean think about it. I haven't lived there for 7 years now (geeeez, that's a long time!!) and even then, my age group was the end of it really. My friends were mostly all the youngest siblings of several kids that had graduated from Rockford. My oldest brother is going to be 27 in october. If his picture from West Point wasn't hanging in the hall of the high school, I bet few people would remember him. I guess that's what happens, though. Life goes on. Oh well.
But as I was saying, I was still kind of depressed, even though I got to see my old friend Steph. It was still cold outside. It was still cloudy. I still came home to an empty house. I watched a movie, though, and was starting to not feel down in the dumps....until I stopped the movie and there, on Letterman, was The Beastie Boys performing "Ch-Check it out"!!! It's amazing how my spirits lifted as I saw them do their thing. The Beastie Boys......man....ya gotta love 'em.
