nate came over around 8 last night. hung out here for a while, watched half the sabres game *sucked*, talked to my parents who came home and invaded the family room with us haha. went to dennys, and took up joe’s midnight bowling invitation. it was us, joe, mary and some of joe’s friends. had a good time. someone (nate) learned how to bowl. i mean he really did suck when we went with mike and kristen, and last night it was like… where are these strikes coming from?!?! he beat me and joe every game. i had a 120, 61, 120, 107, 80something…lol. i think nate’s last game was a 147…lol. someone doesn’t suck anymore. i beat joe the first game, by alot hahahaha. first time ever. i won 50 cents when i picked up some kind of split, but forgot to get my money. nate won a couple bucks but forgot too.

so today i’m going to spend the day at nate’s house watching football haha. i told him, u have to hang out with me tomorrow even if that means i have to watch football. i’m still trying to get him to carve pumpkins with me, but dunno if that’s gonna happen anymore. sunday’s is their big even longer than normal dinner, and his grandpa is visiting, then he’s gotta go to bed early to leave on the work trip again so who knows if the pumpkin thing is gonna happen. we were trying to think of halloween costumes yesterday. i guess he decided on being a scots man and wearing his kilt LOL. i still don’t really have one – mom suggested my chinese prom dress, but i’m thinking that’s a little bit un-politically correct especially when most of our customers at work are asian LOL. ok when i reread that last sentence i totally thought it said chinese porn dress and i was like WHAT DID I TYPE! haha. anyway. so yeah. i’m probably going to end up wearing the morticia dress…maybe i can find my vampire teeth and fix them so that they fit (i could never make them the right way).

home again. spent the day on nate’s couch watching the bills game. watched him and his brother play catch during half time, and for a bit after the game. since i was there nate got out of changing the tire on the van, and doing chores haha. we went for a little walk, but it was freezing. i ended up eating dinner over there. it’s definitely different being in a big family. the whole passing of the food, and they say grace which made me feel so out of place but that’s ok. it’s just weird. even holidays in michigan isn’t the same as dinner was tonight, but of course that’s cuz my family is insane lol. nate’s family’s dinner was definitely the typical tv family dinner. and it did take a long time LOL. but anyway.

indiana is final and ready to go. here are the plans for the next few weeks. nate’s gone til thursday night this week, then doing something for halloween (and for some reason nate really wants me to be a cat…?). don’t know if i’ll see him friday or not, then saturday he’s leaving to go visit his grandma in NJ and aunt in Mass, coming home thursday so we can up and leave on friday for indiana. spend the weekend at danielle’s, leave sunday night, go halfway get a hotel, go the rest of the way home on monday. and then no more trips for nate, so i’ll actually get to see him for 2 weeks before he leaves. he keeps doing something that bugs me. he keeps talking about things we should do, that there is no way we’ll ever do. things that we don’t have time to do because he’s leaving for 2 years. he said something today about how we should have a bbq…he mentioned going to paris…and it’s like, i want to tell him just to stop saying things like that. it seems like everytime i see him he’s mentioning something that we should do, and it’s getting to me. blah. i dunno. whatever.

i work tuesday, thursday, saturday day, sunday night. mike and kristen are moving over the weekend, and i told them i’d help, but i don’t think they remember haha. tomorrow i think i’m gonna go shopping. maybe find a halloween costume for relatively cheap – spencers had some cool ones – and i need new shoes really badly. i know if i mention this to my mom, and she goes to the mall with me she’ll buy them. but i don’t know if that’s worth the hassle of going to the mall with my mom. she takes way too long, and is way too annoying. so we’ll see. maybe she just won’t be home when i get up hahah.

oh yeah. before i went to nate’s i stopped at kelly’s country store so i wouldn’t be too early, since it’s right by his house. it was childhood tradition to go to kelly’s every year to see santa, because they had the most amazing christmas display in the back of the store. like, i can’t even explain it (especially not from 14 year old memories), but it was always dazzling. it’s been years since i’ve been in there. i can’t remember when mom stopped taking me…i guess when i stopped believing in santa claus…but anyway…i walked in and couldn’t not grin. i probably looked like an idiot, but it’s exactly the same as the last time i was there. the whole big candy counter, and the rooms with gifts, the mug wall. the old projector machine thing…of course the xmas room isn’t open til after thanksgiving. but it was great. so i bought some chocolate suckers to take to nate’s house, couldn’t leave empty handed. hehe. nostalgia.