Well damn it, it's been 6 days since I last posted. I should be ashamed. But to my credit I have been super busy. My best bud, Jamie from high school swung through the city on his way to his dad's place, on the Kenai Peninsula.
It was a total whirlwind adventure. I got some stoic stares from the husband who can't handle my wild nature as regaled him with stories of how I buzzed around town with Jamie. It was like being in high school in a quasi haze with less hair and larger waist lines. Oh, and I'm not dis'in my friend, I was referring to myself LOL
I actually got to see him firstly with an accidental text message. He asked me at 1:00am if it was too late to visit. I was thinking it's too fricking late, I need sleep but didn't really word that text to say "please stay away". I am really glad I didn't. He stayed from 1:30 to 3:30 and we got to catch up uninterrupted by phone calls or kids wandering by with the odd question or showing off their stuff.
After a little bit of sleep, he came and picked me up and off we went. We had lunch at a pizza pub with some friends from high school the first day. His poor 21 year old daughter felt a bit out of the loop listening to us talk about people she will probably never meet, doing crazy things she didn't think we could imagine doing. Sometimes youth is wasted on the young.
After lunch, Jamie and I hung out at my house and we got to chat about his work some more and then he invited me to dinner with one of the gals we had lunch with and her kids at an all you can eat buffet. That was fun too, but mostly because we were teasing the teenagers and picking on Jamie. It was pretty much awesome, except the cricket on the table. Needless to say, I am not going back there for a while...
After dinner, Jamie graciously drove me over to my son's apartment so I could check on him. Just a mom worried about her adult child with a sinus infection. Then he drove around looking for apartment he used to live in. Which by the way, he did a good job of finding most of them. He did this last time he was in town. Looking at old haunts, remembering memories.
On the way home we even stopped by a lake that a whole group of us used to walk around after curfew on summer nights. Being teenagers and thinking we were all that. The lake was frozen so I got to stand in a spot I know I had not been before. If there were magical skates I would of stayed out all night skating under the stars.
The next day, he had to go visit his dad, the reason he is up here from the Lower 48. The cool thing though, is that I know he will be swinging by on his way out of the state and I might get to carousing with my youth again.
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