Back from Break

Hey y'all!

So here I am, coming back from the greatest spring break possibly of my life. Okay, it's not over yet, but it might as well be considering I work tomorrow and Saturday, and I'm basically spending the entire weekend at Panera. Crazy.

Anyway, this break. Wow. Where do I even start? Oh right! Okay so Saturday after I cleaned, I made the trek with my mom to go pick up Patrick for the most of the week (5 days to be exact)! It's been nearly two years in the making, but totally worth the wait. After shopping for some gluten-free stuff (since he's gluten intolerant; Celiac's a bitch), we began the DVD marathon of the four FOB discs and "Rushmore" (as it's Patrick Stump's favorite movie) that carried on into the following morning. I hadn't watched any of those in a really long time, and it was rather refreshing to watch them with someone who appreciates them as much as I do. Then, we commenced into filling Sunday and Monday with playing music, managing to record a half-ass cover of All Time Low's "Remembering Sunday" with him on lead vocals and me on guitar. We were supposed to play more, but never got around to it. Tuesday we woke up so late there was barely time to do anything because I had to go to work. But Wednesday, we played around in Tampa for the most part. Found amazing bandom/other fandom stuff in Hot Topic at International Mall, blowing all of our money, and he'd never been to IKEA so naturally we had to go there, too. Tried to Skype his boyfriend Alex but alas the connection was too terrible (Alex lives in Sweden). We got a little lost trying to get to this amazing restaurant Cheddar's (try their Spasanga and Monster Cookie Sundae, and be sure to ask for honey croissants). Completely and totally worth the drive because it was absolutely delicious. I wish I could eat there all the time. Then today I convinced my mom into letting me drive ourselves to St. Pete to get some of that Hooker's tea. We were up and back in less than two hours with time to spare to meet with Patrick's dad so he could go home.

I think taking him back was the hardest part. I didn't want to see him go at all. He's quite easily my best friend, and we're very very close, especially after the last several days. Sadly, he had to leave just before his "sweet sixteen" tomorrow, but I hope this whole week has made up for tomorrow being not-so-good. Was there some stuff we planned to do that we didn't get to? Yeah, like more music and filming "Bedussey" and baking cookies and spending more time in downtown St. Pete. But I still had a really fantastic time, and I'm pretty sure he did, too. Like I said, I hated to watch him go, but it's comforting to know that we'll be together June 4th in Orlando for the Fall Out Boy show.

THEN IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS IS IAN. He'd been hinting about this surprise for awhile, that he'd mailed me something but wouldn't tell me what it is, and Saturday after bringing Patrick home, it came. Inside this manilla envelope was a CD entitled "I Made This CD, Now Go To Prom With Me" with a letter and a tracklist. I won't get into all the mushy details of what it actually said (I'd much rather keep those for my eyes only), but it was thoroughly sweet. Definitely the sweetest thing anyone's ever done for me ever (tied with Patrick's painting me a FOB board for my birthday).

I suppose I should give this a little back story. A couple weeks ago, Ian and I were discussing proms, and we got around to talking about how maybe I should go up for his, which couldn't work out with my exam schedule. Then we were talking about mine, and I suggested he should come down if finances and whatnot worked out. Wasn't really a formal, asking him out kind of thing. Just an idea. And then he goes something like "well for my prom, I could ask one of my friends" and proceeds to tell me how he's going to construct this elaborate method of asking her to prom as friends using opera because apparently she's really into that, and I'm nodding along, and it just hurt. Like, he couldn't put in the same effort for someone he (at this point) claimed to love and care about? Well, he saw how I felt and immediately felt bad about it, and as quick as it came we were over it. I joked about him making it up to me, but that was that. Then I sent him a picture from Tumblr of a CD with "I made you this CD, now have sex with me" written on it, and I guess that's where the idea for this surprise was born. After a short intro by him as the first track, the following 19 songs are beautiful and perfectly representative of us. And I love it.

As for the rest of my "break," I work tomorrow and Saturday. Then tomorrow I meet at Panera with my dad and stepmom for lunch, then with Christina and Shane to work on the literary magazine submissions for school before I leave for work. Saturday work 9-5, then back to Panera to meet with Katrina and Chels to hang out. Sunday back to Panera AGAIN for lunch with TJ so we can talk about his Chicago trip (from what I've heard so far, his Chicago is my Rochester), and then somewhere in all of this I have to write my last biology IA and do more homework.

But yeah. Patrick and Ian and just ah! Loving life so much right now. Almost 18, so much to look forward to. One of those days (weeks) when I'm just really, really glad to be alive.