**Yawn** I'm tired from such a week of awesomeness

Well two nights staying up until 4AM finally caught up with me. I slept until 12:15 today, but it was well worth it. I've had an absolute blast of a week! I'll admit, it started off a little slow I think, and in my tired state I'll probably get the order of events a little wrong, but what the heck.

Sunday was a long day! I drove an hour+ to Greensboro to meet up with the Crowder's so I could ride 2 hours to Charlotte. ML and I had a pretty good practice session. In Wayne's silver samba lesson I gleaned 2 gems worth at least $50 of lesson time, so that rocked. Then our private was ok. I don't think I really got a lot out of it, but I'm pretty sure ML did, so that's good. He told us that our latin is good (and told us we were as good or better than the open level couple practicing next to us) and that he wants us to start to focus on out standard a little more. He changed my frame a little and we both gave ML a little guilt trip for not speaking up enough to tell me when I'm not doing things right. If you don't tell me I'm wrong I'll never get better... anyways, we practiced for 3 hours then I did the whole drive process back home. I was away from home for 12+ hours sunday... and the floor down there is the hardest floor I've ever danced on! My feet hurt for days.

Then I ran into a little bit of a relational snag... those dang Js. This was a big downer on the week, because I hurt her feelings, and I hate to hurt anyone. But, without getting too much into it, I think things will be ok. I made a pretty serious gesture of goodwill in hopes to make things a little better... and I think it did. At least I hope I did, otherwise I went above and beyond what most people would do for nothing. For privacy purposes, ask me about this one in person. Only the super cool can hear about what I did.

Then came the FAIR!!! I had a fantasmicly awesome time at the fair. I went with a bunch of first years from the department that I really didn't know very well before hand. I originally was going to go with a few others that I had hung out with before, but schedules didn't line up with them. So I heard that another group was going, and I'm not sure but I may have invited myself to go with them... it was one of those "Hey, I hear you're going to the fair" and they replied with a potentially obligatory invitation... but I took it! Anyways, back to the awesomeness, the FOOD! I really didn't eat that much, last year I think I had more. But, the great thing about a group is that you get to sample more stuff without getting full. So I had:

• Funnel Cake
• Fried Oreos (these were awesome)
• Chicken on a Stick (very spicy! that's what I get for sharing with an Indian, she covered it in hot sauce, but it was good! I can handle some heat)
• Corn on the Cob (my FAVORITE)
• NCSU Ice cream - Java Bean and Cookies and Cream (yes I know we can get it on campus for really cheap, but the amount you get at the fair is massive! It was a freaking mountain of Ice Cream! It took the whole group to finish both of them)
• Fried Pecan Pie (this was the new thing this year, it was pretty darn good. Much better than the fried coke and PB&J of recent years past! Although the stick its on is worthless)
• Footlong Chili Dog
• Ribbon Fries
• Bloomin Onion
• Caramel Apple w/Peanuts

I'm sure I forgot at least one thing, but that's most of it. I missed the free hush puppies, so I'm sad about that, but it was all so freakin sweet (as in cool... as in good) We looked at cool stuff too, there was a bull that sold for $24,000! I saw a couple people I haven't seen in years there, so that was cool to. Umm... right, the petting zoo! I always have the hardest time finding the freaking petting zoo, but we did there was an angry camel and a lot of cute little goats. We saw the fireworks and then I think we were all so cold that we made our way to the exit (but not before we picked up some food along the way... half of what we ate was on the way out!)

That was Wednesday. Thursday I got a migraine and had to cancel my dance lesson, which suck cuz I need that extra little bit of cash, but! Afterwards I woke up and met up with the dance crew and they all came over to watch Taledaga Nights on my new TV. I had wanted Zoolander to be the first movie on the new TV, but TN + good friends to watch it with totally made up for it. It was much fun. After the movie I showed them Lego Star Wars and people just hung out in my house until 3:30AM... I had to teach in the morning! SO I kicked 'em out after that. But it was good, I had my big mac for dinner and I was happy! I love company!

Last night, Friday, I did the dance thing again and after that we all went to Cici's Pizza. I'm not sure if it was because I had a late lunch or if I was still recovering from the fair, but I only downed 15 slices. I probably could have done more, but people were ready to leave... so I had to stop. But I ate as many as anyone else there, so that's cool. Anyway, after that we all came back over to my place again, but this time CJ and V brought Rock Band!!! YES!! So we played rock band until all hours of the night. I'll be honest, the guitar riffs in RB stink compared to GH, but the drums freakin rule and I had fun singing too.

I'm so glad I've developed these friendships. I feel like my life is much fuller now that I interact with so many awesome people. So, even though I sometimes get sad that I'm not dating anyone right now (feast or frickin famine) my life is soooooo much better for all the friendships and relationships I'm forging!

:)