denver union station

well, here i am sitting at the train station waiting to get on my way back to omaha. they say the train will leave on time, but that it was running late the last time they checked...gotta love that rationale. we shall see.

it has been a very busy couple of days. i was in breck tuesday through thursday, where i became ill and am still trying to get better, though it is not working as well as i would have hoped. i watched the monsters by the names of andrew and grace on thursday night, which turned out not to be so bad. i rocked andrew at tony hawk on ps2 and then we all watched the pacifier before grace went to bed.

i hung around the house on friday, if i recall correctly. and friday night we had dinner with the whole family...all 15 of us. it became a bigger deal than it should have been, as usual, mostly because my grandparents were involved. it was good to get the whole family together one last time before everyone left, but it was also good to know that was the last family get-together for the season. after dinner, i went over to brian and jill's house, where we watched the end of the nuggets game, brian and i played mario golf for awhile (he beat me 10 skins to 7...it was crap), then we put in the stewie movie. we drank an entire bottle of tequila between the three of us via strawberry margaritas. i had forgotton how much tequila hurts my head until that night and the next morning.

yesterday i had lots of things to do. i started out with finally getting to go eat indian food with joan, but some other people tagged along. it was still fun though. the indian place in iowa city had much better food. after that, i took andrew with me to run some errands. we went to colorado mills to return something to the gap and to find my beloved 'un-petroleum' chap stick at GoCo. then i dropped andrew off at brian's, and jill and i went to go spend our gap gift cards at southwest plaza. i was unable to find enough to spend my whole giftcard, especially since i don't fit into gap pants very well. later on i took andrew home and joan and steven invited me to stay for dinner. i gladly accepted since my mom and dad were spending the night in breckenridge. we ordered from an asian thai restaurant and watched the emperorer's new groove (which i hadn't seen all at one time until then....good movie, but still not the best in my opinion). after that, i headed over to jay's girlfriend, kim's house for a "back to school party." i didn't know very many people there, but it was a lot of fun regardless. jay brought his ridiculous game and we had a lot of fun playing it. i will be putting up some of the pictures sooner or later, even though they make me look ridiculous.

today was devoted to doing laundry and packing. i watched a knight's tale while i folded my laundry and didn't do much else. i watched the steelers-bengals game and was disappointed to see cincinnati lose so badly, especially since i intensely dislike the steelers. and that brings me to the present moment: sitting on an uncomfortable bench in union station. i can hear someone listening to red red wine, with some interesting sounds added to it from the guy across from me fiddling around on his guitar. i keep thinking he is playing dave songs, but i can't pick them out. i'm quite certain he's playing a dave song right now, but i am disappointed with myself for not being able to decide which song it is.

that's about it. time to sit back and relax...or something.

p.s. i seriously cannot figure out how a train that is reported as running 1 hour and 28 minutes late at 6:30pm between fraser and denver is going to be leaving on time. i swear, the people in charge of this dismal form of transportation must be on some entirely different level of thinking.

oh yea, and later on, i will have to talk about how much i love my aunt joan sometimes. she's amazing. and she always makes me laugh. but yes, later.