when out of an orange-colored sky
flash! bam! alakazam!

Amazing fucking weekend. I know a lot of my entries have been lists recently, but it’s because for the first time in a LONG time, I have so much wonderful in my life that I actually don’t have time. Not because I’m stressed, although a week ago that was part of it. Not because I’m depressed, because that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Things are rockin’, and the GOING and the DOING are a higher priority than the RECORDING and the EXPLAINING. See?

Friday, Crave was feeling sicky, so I went over to his place after work with Enchiladas and Mango juice. We watched most of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid until I had to go to my show. Then, he met me at the theatre so we could go to Spin the Bottle … and thank god he did, because I got my first flat tire EVER on the way there. I had never learned how to change a tire - stupid, I know - and he did it for me in a pay parking lot. We still made it there JUST in time. I finally got to show him off in person to a lot of the people that I love, including Ida and Yellow Dog (who are sort of a paragon to me of things which are nice and good). He finally got to lay eyes on Sjet and Miss Molly, which is nice since I talk about them all the time… and he was there for the American Premiere of Orange Drink. I don’t even know what to say about that - it made me happy in a part of my little heart that I didn’t previously know existed.

Saturday, I had to go get a new tire. We went to three different places before we found one that wasn’t all sold out of the non-premium tires … and then I was told that my brakes were completely shot and needed to be replaced. Six hundred dollars of financing later, I was on my way out of there with brand spanking new tires and brakes that weren’t rubbing metal on metal. Crave sat through this whole day-long ordeal with me, and while the work was being done we went to Outback and ate lots of fried onion product and drank fancy drinks. Our Saturday night show was the BEST EVER - really big, great house full of laughers. Mostly, though, the part that made it wonderful was that the cast ws all in a fucking-with-each-other kind of mood, and some of the funniest shit I have ever seen happened onstage that night. I literally peed my pants a little, I laughed so hard. (My cheeks still hurt.) After the show, I went with Eween and a friend of hers to karaoke at the good old Peking Palace, where I tried not only “Girl all the bad guys want” but also “No Rain”, and then Eween and I finished off the night with our standard duet version of “What’s Up”, during which our mics went out and we had to finish without them.

Then, there was today. I don’t even know where to start, it was so fucking good. I got up early and went to Crave’s to pick him up, and then we drove onto the ferry to go to Bainbridge Island to hang out for the whole day with his parents and his sister - I’d met his sister before, but not his parents. (For those of you keeping track - yes, Crave and I met in person for the first time less than a month ago.) I got to ride with Crave’s dad on his gorgeous old motorcycle, we all spent a couple of hours walking with the dog along the beach, we ate lots of food, watched tv, looked at the moon, gazed at the Seattle skyline, and just generally had the most fantastic, relaxed, wonderful day that I can remember. I can’t even tell you how much I love his family - I have never felt so instantly, warmly welcomed by people who started the day as strangers. There was not a single moment where I felt uncomfortable or unwelcome or restless or nervous … which was completely unexpected. And, after just a little grilling, Crave told me that apparently they didn’t think I was too awful either. ;) We had a lot of really important conversations today, interspersed with hiding behind doorways and around corners so that his parents wouldn’t catch us covertly kissing like high school kids.

I am completely exhausted right now, but it’s the best kind of tired. Despite the weird shit that I had to deal with, this was one of the best weekends I’ve had in years.

And now I am going to bed.