Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:53 pm  <|>
<253> Slight Of Hand: There is a lot of distraction lately, but not in a bad sense, just in an all-over-the-place sense I think. I'm in one of those places where I want to be everywhere at once and while trying not to overload myself I also feel like I'm getting nothing done at the same time. Well, I wouldn't actually say nothing... much has been productive lately and also moving forward, I guess I'm just getting used to being able to get into the swing of things again and not have something come up to hold me back. Oh don't worry 'next thing to hold me back' I know you are out there and I am pretending to be ready for you, but I'm still taking things one day at a time and I don't intend to give up this nice steady pace I'm starting to built upon so easily...

Anyway, now that I'm done talking to myself and also to other imaginary paths of being out there, I supposed I'll talk to you, that is the you who I am supposedly writing these entries to. One of those people is actually me, myself, when I go back in time and reread what I've posted here months or years later and try to remember what it was like to be me then. Sometimes I can recall and other times I feel like I'm reading someone else's writing. I guess this feeling comes true for a lot of people who write blogs online. I think it's a good thing to be able to go back and see how I was feeling or thinking at a certain moment in time. I used to do this with hand written journals and a part of me misses that. For awhile I kept up both, but in recent years I just haven't kept up with physical writing. I tend to feel like that's more because of where I am at in life (and that thankfully I have less troublesome things to have to get out of my head through that means). Not that things are always perfect, but when they tend to be going pretty well I think that 'need to write it out' feeling definitely stays more quiet. Sometimes I miss it though, just the same. I treasure my journals (I even keep them in a firesafe box - well most of them at least) just because well just because I guess. They are important and some of the things that contain so much about me that just cannot really be backed up. I become so reliant on the undo and backup world I've grown up in. It's good and bad I suppose.

I must confess the above two paragraphs were actually written last night (well early this morning around 1am... I ended up getting distracted and never finishing this post enough to put it online. So I will do that now and technically it's all being done in the same day. I had a weird day today actually... or really just not a great one. I woke up feeling rather bad, like kind of out of it and achy all over. I felt this way a bit on Sunday morning too actually the day we left Buffalo (which I didn't actually get to talking about yet). I hope everything is ok. I had a fever today too, but it went away with Tylenol as it usually does, but it just sort of threw off my whole day. I didn't even end up going into work or going to my HiNgE meeting... but I'm feeling better tonight. I took one of my regular blood tests yesterday, but I couldn't get ahold of anyone today to get the results. The idea is that if anything looked really off someone would call me, but I have my doubts as to whether or not anyone automatically reviews the results when I get a blood test with no clinic appointment attached to it because they certainly don't look at blood tests I take the day before those until I tell them they need to print out the latest one. I dunno. I guess I'll know more tomorrow.

So anyway, this weekend was a good one and one to remember too! Jon, one of my closest friends, got married. We went up to Buffalo, NY for the wedding. Both he and his new wife, Rachel, are from the same area up around there, but they both live in Philly here with us. I already knew Jon's family, but I got a chance to meet Rachel's and also see some other good friends that I never see enough of anyway. They all drove up there but Dan and me along with another good friend Femi and his girlfriend Nicole all flew up together out of Newark, NJ. You might wonder why we didn't fly out of Philly... well apparently there isn't a nonstop flight from here directly. There is one from Newark or the other option is to take a train down to Baltimore and fly out of there but I refuse to spend money and time to travel in the opposite direction of where I am trying to go. Newark is about a 2 hour drive with traffic from Philly, but I like the airport better than Philly I think. Plus it worked out for Femi and Nicole since when we got back they just had to take a 20 minute train into NYC since that's where she lives. Anyhow, the flight up was ok though it was delayed over an hour (for a 52 minute flight) because of rain. So we were taking off just shortly after the time we were supposed to have landed in Buffalo. The flight back was problem free though so I really can't complain too much. The weekend itself was nice. Friday since we got in an hour late we had about an hour at the hotel before the rehearsal... then we find out our rooms aren't ready because check in isn't until 4pm and it's only 2:30pm. They put us up in a 2 double bed smokers room though just to get changed and store our stuff. Right before we left we were able to move into 1 of the 2 king bed rooms we had booked. Actually, when we got back that night they tried to say they were out of other rooms but we insisted we couldn't stay in the smokers room and it wasn't what we booked, the guy looked on his computer for like two seconds and said oh look here's another one... yeah thanks Holiday Inn in Buffalo... way to try to be shady! So it all worked out anyway. Saturday was the wedding - all went well and it was a great day too - the wedding was outside and the reception inside - both at a country club type place, actually where the bride's parents' had gotten married too. Then Sunday we saw a bit of Buffalo, but not too much just part of it when we got something to eat before going to the airport to catch our evening flight back home. All in all a nice weekend though and yet another one of my friends is married. Jon is the first to go (besides myself) from our group of friends though... ah and the trend shall continue I know...