i was trying desperately to stay awake long enough to finish my workday and move onto the state holiday party. i was looking foward to xmas and my trip to san diego for new years. i knew that 2007 couldn't possibly suck if i just went far, far away from D.C.
the holiday party, dec. 21:
the state holiday party ended up being a laugh riot. sarah and i made typical fools of ourselves and my memory stops sometime just after midnight. i have flashes of conversing with roxy and andrea, but that's about it. i woke up the next morning on diana's couch with my clothes on, alone... so that's good. i didn't (a) try to drive or (b) make out with anyone ugly... lol. and diana dutifully made sure i was at my day job on time.... (well, as on time as i ever am)... i was drunk until about 2pm the next day, thankfully the same time my work day ended. i went home, showered, and headed back to the state, where i was at once mocked and ridiculed and told fabulous stories about drunk courtney at the holiday party. lol, ahhh classic. there are many, many pictures of sarah and i passed out in various places about the theatre, and i must remark that it's not often you can attend a holiday party where two different employees are passed out and the party doesn't stop. indeed, the party apparently just got more entertaining.
Xmas, dec. 23 - dec. 27:
saturday morning i headed to richmond to get my hair updated by tasha, for the first time ever! despite her moaning about the unnecessary length of my hair, i must say she did a fabulous job!!! :) i will definitely be returning to her chair! then i headed to harrisonburg to meet up with the rest of the family. went out with wendy and some old work peeps and later more drinking with crazy sarah (who seems to follow me around virginia, lol)... came back to the farm around 1am... went to bed only to be woken up 4 hours later (on xmas eve, mind you) by my mom in a huge panic. long story short, my granddad (3 weeks after a hip replacement surgery) got severely confused under tons of pain medication and went outside to wander the farm at 4am. he fell, broke the other hip, and was basically stuck outside in the cold until my mom heard him calling for help. fun times! called the ambulance and watched them take him away to the hospital. he had emergency surgery on xmas day, so it was a rather subduded holiday for my family. he's doing pretty well now, tho. i still managed to see my dad and the extended family for a couple hours on xmas day, which was great, but i soon headed back up to harrisonburg to be with granddad... went to bed monday (christmas day) night planning to wake up early and head to the hospital, only to wake up again at 4am feeling like my body was about to explode. barely made it to the bathroom in time to throw up, and spent the next 16 hours in pretty much the same state... lovely, eh??? obviously there was no hospital visit for me that day, but thankfully it was just a brief bug/flu/virus/whatever. finally made it back to work thursday for a wonderful 1-day work week at the crappy crappy day job. friday was the state, with a surprise late night visit from the Am-inator!!! which led to a couple power-drinks which led to be slightly tipsy when i arrived home at 2.30am to frantically pack before sarah's 4am arrival for our 6am flight to....
New Years, dec 30 - jan 2
SAN DIEGO! arrived saturday afternoon after a brief layover/bar crawl in LA. darling boy anthony was blowing up my phone (such a marked difference from my last visit to SD...) checked into our abode and began what became a series of star*bucks visits. love my iced tea! met up with anthony & martin at pacific beach later that night, did a little PB drinking, classic courtney/anthony drunken lovefest. sarah's got some great pics that will be up with time. sunday sarah and i did some last minute shopping around the town, went to the japanese market since she's asian, went to ocean beach because i'm a hippie now. lol. met back up with the boys for the new years eve drinkathon. toasted the east coast new years at 9pm with a bottle of champange before heading downtown for a lot of stuff i wouldn't remember later. kept losing my group within the party, barely remembering stumbling down the road to our old place before we found a cab. a little violence ensued back at the room, and i had to barter with the police to keep our spot in the room. who did you talk to? you obviously spoke to someone lame. you should have talked to me. passed out only to be nasally assaulted by anthony in my own bed. the nerve! ;) monday we lazed about before heading back downtown for some mimosas and brunch on the shore. recounted the events of the evening, and laughed a lot. found an awesome hippie willing to develop our pictures on new years day and headed back to pacific beach to hang out with the other half of the fantastic foursome. went for dinner and drinks at a place that only serves beer and wine. i warned everyone of the wine drama, but no one took me seriously. good times for a bit, until the 7th glass of wine or so, then the shit hit the fan, so to speak. anthony and i irritated each other in ways only we can irritate one another and poor sarah and martin were left with no choice but to wait for the eye of the storm... that finally arrived and we all went back to the apartment, where the second half of the hurricane hit. as always happens with us (and by 'always' i mean the one other time it happened) i ended up in tears and he ended up apologizing. and everyone wonders why we're not dating.... ;) they say you can only really hurt the ones you really love and i guess that must be true, because there's no other person in the world that could make me cry but still want to be t
heir friend. the next day i woke up with a blood eye, i think due to stress and crying... tuesday was a weird day. i was a little numb, to say the least. fighting with anthony tends to leave me a little out of it for a while. sarah had just the cure, took me to wine country to sample wines while we killed time before our flight home! ;) love it. of course our flight was delayed so we then relocated to the airport bar, finally taking off just before midnight. i was definitely snoozing for the entire flight home... arrived just after 7am, at which point i came home and crashed.2007:
well, the year began in a typically chaotic fashion. of course, anthony and i are fine and we talked everything out and laughed at our own drunken stupidity. fighting with someone you really care about makes all the other fights seem incredibly trivial... having said that, however, i must admit that i had hoped that my new years' trip to SD would help clear up the ghosts of 2006 once and for all, but of course they still linger about me - appearing at all the wrong moments. does it ever stop hurting?
i still hate the day job and i'm trying like hell to leave. i have an open position waiting on me in harrisonburg should i want it, and after an emergency trip to see granddad this weekend, i'm actually considering it. he's doing well physically, at least as well as can be expected, but mentally and emotionally he's not doing as well, and i can't help but feel like i might be needed in the 'burg for a while. i really really really didn't enjoy living in harrisonburg, but ... i dunno...
regardless, a breath of fresh air awaits me in less than a month!!!
LONDON. HOPE/HOME/LOVE/ADVENTURE.
~courtney
"I followed the voice,
you gave to me
But now I've gotta find my own
You should have listened
i don't know where i belong,
but i'll be moving on"
~be*yonce
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