Nothing but a lazy day.

I spent the night at Abby's once again last night as well as the night before. To tell a long story short, I'm exhausted and quite looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight. Spending the night is fun--- although most of the time I'd rather just go home and wind down by myself.

To tell a long story long----
Friday night there were quite a few people over, Jake, Whitney, Kat, Jacki, Wanda, Shawn, Josh, Nate, Dan, Chloe... A number of people who I haven't seen in quite some time. It was a nice get-together and a lot of people overnighted as well so it was all-in-all a good time even though I got roughly an hour of sleep and the morning after Wanda and I were out at the Rennassiance Festival with Josh, Shawn, and Alex. Exhausting but totally worth it.

On Saturday night we had a "Welcome Chris back from his perpetual state of being gone" celebration with basically the group of people Chris hangs around with -- Alex, Jackie, Kelsy, Jenna, Josh, Becca, Nate, and Meghan plus Wanda and me.
I don't usually hang around with that group of people and I can't really say they're the closest friends of mine. It's not that we just never spend time together or something but I'm not entirely compatible with that group so I always feel sort of blah.
I'm not entirely certain on how to explain such but being around them I feel out of place and just too different. I always get the whole "Oh, you're really random/weird/*strange glance* from them and it gets really old sometimes. I'm not really random at all. They all just think the same & I guess I don't.

Anyhow, later in that night Abby went to drive Jenna home and on their way out they saw a young golden retriever outside her door, just sitting. Alex and Jackie apparently accompanied Jenna and Abby outside but when they tried to return they could not get back in due to the dog trying to get in. After a while, Jackie came in and told everyone Alex couldn't get back so I went out there and got everyone in. The dog was still sitting there, though, and I couldn't let her just sit out there in front of the door. Since Abby was gone dropping Jenna home I couldn't ask her if she knew who the dog belonged to so I just sat outside with her.
I looked at her collar and found out her name was Abbie. There was a phone number but I didn't bother calling until Abby got home, just in case she knew the owners. She was a sweet dog and very persistent. Any time you'd even think of going near the door she'd be there, begging to go inside. When she realized I wouldn't be going inside any time soon she was fine with just lying down next to me and chilling in the nice night.
The whole time I was out there I was rather surprised that the other people, including those who had at first "discovered" her were so ok with just leaving her out there. I was the only one who was up with her and Abby and I were the only two who were out to give her back to her owner. Everyone else just went back to watching the movie like nothing happened, not caring at all what happened to the little golden retriever outside on the front step.
She wasn't just wandering around or passing through, she stayed outside in front of the door to Abby's house. You could go back in the house and come back outside five or ten minutes later, and there she'd be, right out in front of the door, tail wagging and smiling and begging to be let inside. It was strange that so many of the people there didn't even come up to see the dog in the first place and even those who saw her first barely seemed to care what happened to her.
Abby lives just off highway 13, she could have been killed trying to cross it, anything could have happened! But no one really cared.

Later that night a lot of the people had to be home and some new people who were a little more chill and my type of person swung by. Shawn and his brother Richard came over too which was funny because when I was a junior Richard was in my German IV class. Actually, I don't know why that's funny. It just is. Nate and I were the only people who overnighted on Saturday for some reason or another.
On Sunday morning we all awoke and Abby had to go work at Air Traffic. Nate and I stayed behind and helped out Abby by doing chores and cleaning up her house for her because after work she had to go pick up her parents from the airport. No big cleaning really, just unload the dishwasher, sweep, make the beds, pick up the guitar hero and rock band from the previous nights-- the usual sort of tasks.

Also, somewhere within the insanity of the weekend I went to Unique with David and Wanda and bought myself two new and fantastic skirts. I'm so excited to wear them about. David came to hang out with me a bit before we went to Unique and he brought me the painting he painted for me. I'm really pleased and somewhat flattered to have inspired this painting.

I really want to go out the ravine. I haven't been there all summer long aside from maybe twice and its such a shame that an amazing location such as that should not be graced by my presence. Hah.

Peace.