What I Did On My Easter Weekend By Emily Maguire

i was completely dreading going home over the weekend, but in the end i'm really glad that i went. and it was nice to see eva thursday night too. picnics in random wisconsin parking lots are most excellent.

friday was probably the best conversation i've ever had with my parents. both of my brothers were gone, so it was just the three of us for dinner (yes, we still eat dinner together as a family every night. strange, i know...) and it ended up lasting for almost 3 hours, just sitting around talking about politics and world news and the current state of everything. i love having liberal parents who feel the same as me on a lot of stuff, but at the same time allow me to teach them new things and explain why i feel differently about certain issues. i don't know.
after that i went to see take the lead with kat. antonio banderas. ballroom dancing. it doesn't get much better than that. except that it does. infinitely. it was nice to see her, though. and i will forever think of her when anyone brings up don johnson, billy idol, and the mile high club.

honestly, though, saturday was probably the best of all. we dyed easter eggs in the morning, but we got a little "creative" and it ended up lasting about 2 hours. we all got hungry about halfway through so dad made lunch. he sits down with his sandwich and his beer, and i turn to greet betsy, who has just decided that my foot is her new favorite chew toy. so, in my best possible pauly shore voice i hollar "hey, buuuuuuuddy!" all of a sudden dad gags and snorts, then runs to the sink and spits something out. i was like "i know my pauly shore is good, but it really wasn't that funny..." "no it wasn't funny at all, i just drank the yellow egg dye!" i guess a frosty pint of beer and a mug of yellow vineagar water look very similar. needless to say, his entire mouth was yellow for a couple hours.
the rest of the day i spent with freebs. endless hours in target and kohls = emily is happier than she has been in a while. and portillos with her and nick. ooooohhhhhhh, portillos. what a place. ooooohhhhhhh nick. he smiles too much. at me. freaks me out.
and THEN there's frank. i hadn't seen him since january and missed him like crazy. i really shouldn't go that long without seeing him, it's bad for me. we went to nordstrom rack because he needed some shoes, and ended up trying on some disgusting clothes.

BUT I DON'T WANNA BE A PIRATE!!!


i really hope the two of us get to spend more time together over the summer, it's odd not seeing your best friend for 3 months.

oh yah!! i almost died yesterday!!! i really shouldn't be so excited about this, it's kind of weird. and probably not as big a deal as i'm making it out to be. but anyway, as i was driving back to school yesterday i got caught in a huge storm in wisconsin, between madison and the illinois border. it was alright for awhile, just blinding horizontal rain, but then i started seeing a lot of lightning. i looked north across one of the fields just as lightning was striking, and saw a tornado on the other side of the field. que me freaking out in my car. i could tell it was heading in my general direction, so i sped up and passed an ass load of cars and found an overpass, where i parked and crawled into the backseat. because i'm a wuss. a big wussy wuss. after about 45 minutes things had calmed down so i continued my drive. and that's my story.