last thursday night, i tried to go to bed early b/c i had to get up to be at work to drive to malden, ma for a conference at the department of education. trying to go to bed when it's so out of your routine and you aren't tired always makes for an interesting evening. so because i wasn't tired, i did not manage to actually fall asleep until past 1am... which normally would be okay since i don't work till noon but did not bode well when the alarm went off at 5am. i got ready, drove to work and headed into boston with a co-worker/good friend of mine. he, after 2 coke zeros and a large black coffee, was strangely awake which could be in part due to the fact that he (for some reason) enjoys the early morning. okay so we get to malden (3 hours after the start of our journey) and sit in this meeting which was almost entirely pointless and had i known they would send me the powerpoint upon returning home, would have probably skipped but... i digress... i get back to work around 3ish and my other co-workers are in full swing decorating for our halloween party we have for the little town kids... so we decorate, have a few kids in the office and then around 5, lock up and head home. so at this point, i'm beyond exhausted because i do not do well in a car for that long without a nap... but, we had already committed to a halloween party at an adult beverage establishment with other friends of ours. so despite my exhaustion, i went home, ate some subway (thank you hunny) and got ready to go to the party. P & I went as a team from Double Dare!
I made our tshirts with some transfers and although the red sweats were INCREDIBLY hard to find, it was a super fun, comfortable costume and people LOVED it... we came in second place in the costume contests, but in our defense, the people who won were "bar regulars" and our friends left prior to voting.. which means people really liked our costumes!! I would have probably added some green slime and perhaps a beaker with a line on it like they had on the show but all in all, a success...
so.... needless to say we are out a little late on Friday night. we probably got home around 12:30 and i went straight to bed. however... again, with the little sleep on thursday night and now having to be up at 7 saturday morning, i was in no mood... but i rallied. got up, came to work, finished decorating and got all ready in my cosutme. i was a mime (which i will NEVER do again b/c in my opinion, the costume was an epic fail but i already have a great idea for next year- thank you to a fellow blogger who at this time shall remain nameless). So our "party" at work starts around 11 and people are coming in at a pretty steady pace... about 1:00, it starts raining... people are still coming in at a pretty steady pace... around 2, it starts to slow down becuase the impending snow is finally starting... it's heavy, really heavy and by this point was pretty damn cold out too... it even smelled like snow, which i think happens to be pretty cool that you can "smell snow". anyway... digression again. so at 3, the party ends, we push the last people out the door, do a quick cleaning (REAL quick) and decided to get out because well, the snow is actually coming down at a pretty good pace, the roads are starting to get covered and well, we were all over it. let's just be honest here... so i begin my trek home....
to be continued... (in the next post, to appear shortly)....
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