Things I'm Happy About

• My Boyfriend
  
• My Uncle Danny moving to Las Vegas
  
• Getting to see my Auntie Kathy, Carol, Uncle Steve, Uncle Fred and cousin Michael all in the same month.
  
• My summer trip to Canada
  
• Having my job back at Star Trek
  
• Living on my own
  
• Tobey (one of the wiener dogs I live with) giving me toe kisses in the morning.
  
• Losing 38 lbs.
  

Just thought I'd break from Politics for 3 days, to see if I had any reason to live. Man, politics can really get you down. It's so frustrating. I just needed to take a step back for a while. I don't know if I want to get as involved as I thought I did, now that I've had a break from it and can finally see good things in the world. I do want to stay informed, but not obsessed.


I went to Classmates.com today and had a good laugh. I saw Darren Bell, Blayne Alberts (one of my ex's) *shiver*, Warhorse, Mike Wordell (who I always had mad crush on because I thought he looked like Chris O'Donnell.) Too funny. I really hope we all have a reunion sometime. HOLY SHIT. In three years, will be our 10 year high school reunion. I wonder who plans those, or if they're just a myth that is used when you're graduating to make everything seem not-so-final. I'll have to see if anyone's there when I take Brandon there this summer and ask them what the procedure is for organizing one of these events. I wonder if they would be willing to release information to contact people. I know that on Classmates.com you have to pay for an upgraded membership in order to contact anyone, and that would suck because I know that most people don't want to have to do that. I wonder if I know enough people still in Edmonton in order to organize something like that? I'm sure some people don't want to see each other ever again, but I do! We'll see.


I think a little while back I mentioned that I had a story that I wanted to tell, but that I had to wait until school was over in order to have time to do it. Well here goes...


About a month back, Brandon was invited to a wedding reception for one of his co-workers. It was on a Saturday afternoon, so I really had no intention of going because I was working. He called me shortly before 6pm (I get off work at 6pm) to tell me that he was still there, had had a few beers and wanted me to come hang out for a little while. I told him OK and met him at this guy's house where the wedding reception was taking place. I met them and they started to show me pictures of the actual wedding. As I'm flipping through, one of the little girls in the pictures looks really familiar. So I ask the groom who that little girl is. He tells me that that's his daughter. Then (because he's had a few beers) he tells me this whole rant on how he's in a bitter custody battle with his ex that's been going on since she's been born and how his ex is crazy. Then the bride chimes in on how she likes to piss off the ex by being a bitch and all that. As this is all happening, time seems to stand still. I'm starting to make connections, then it hits me like a tonne of bricks.... *BAM!* I know this guys's story!


*FLASHBACK TO A COUPLE OF SEMESTERS AGO*
I had a lab partner who will remain nameless for Chemistry. She was a single mom and had moved to Las Vegas to escape her crazy abusive ex-husband. She's been in and out of court ever since the little girl was born. She was always talking to her ex through her lawyer, and they were both trying everything that they could in order to make the other's life more misirable. I would spend alot of time with this lab partner. We had a 3 hour lab, plus class, plus 6hrs a week usually of finishing up our labs. I really got to know her pretty well. She really told me everything, about how her husband totally changed when they got married and how he was a truck driver. She also told me that he'd moved to Las Vegas shortly after she did to stalk her. She had a restraining order on him and everything.
*FLASHBACK TO CURRENT*


SO I'M FREAKING OUT! This guy IS the crazy ex-husband that I'd been hearing about for a whole semester! AND HE'S GETTING REMARRIED!!! So I had to hold this in while we sat there chatting for another hour or so. I'm ready to burst. My boyfriend is in a state of disbelief when I tell him what was going on in the car after the party. He sort of remembered me telling him about my lab partner and stuff, so he was in a daze after hearing all of that shit about his co-worker that he's known casually for the last year and a half.


Small world hey? There's close to 2 million people in Las Vegas and here I am, freaking out. I still get freaked out when I think about it too much, so I think I'll go do some laundry to get my mind off it.