one tiny little gripe

alright. this has happened twice this week. traffic going west on 630 after 5pm is already pretty shitty from woodrow - shackleford. everyone knows this! so if you're a state trooper, why on earth would you park your car on the shoulder? you know people freak out when they see cops on the side of the road. you know traffic sucks. are you just asking for accident paperwork to write up? are you laughing on the inside at all the people who are slowing down for you, even though the top speed is only 45 in a 60?

i just don't get it. you're not going to catch a speeder b/c it's impossible to speed. you may get a driving irradically b/c some people are having to dodge old people who slam on the brakes when they see you. and i guess when that accident occurs that you probably caused, you're readily available to work.

rar!

i'm going to yee-haw branson this weekend with the folks to do some shopping. you kids stay out of trouble!

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what a great weekend

great = exhausting

well things weren't looking so great saturday morning....i went running at pinnacle and it was cold! and i had talked to russett potato the night before and he didn't act like he wanted to come to little rock, so that kinda sucked.

but i was okay with that! i was totally prepared to stay in saturday night and watch a michigan beat down of northwestern and have some pizza and go to sleep.

and that's not what happened!

ash and i finally found russ online like at 2:30p and we decided to go pick him up and drag him to little rock kicking and screaming if we had to. that trip isn't nearly as long as i remember it being when i drove it by myself.

so we got him and got back to little rock like at 9p and we picked up some crown (and stoli for potato) on the way so we could drink a lil before we headed downtown. there was a nice crowd of people down there...not too bad though. everyone did halloween that night, but there wasn't that many people dressed up. i did see some interesting costumes though. we had a good laugh...i dunno if it was b/c we were so drunk or what.

so we came back here like around midnight and carrie was already asleep! i felt bad b/c we all were drinking and i'm sure we weren't the quietest of people. she said we didn't bother her though! mash left not long after we came back to go to ihop to see another of our friends and russ and i crashed out. or at least he did and he was snoring so loud i never went to sleep.

i was okay with that too.

it was so great having him around over the weekend! he's just the sweetest, most kind, courteous guy i know. he told me like 102304898 times how beautiful i am and how i'm just shrinking away. and he was always holding my hand or holding me or just making me feel wanted. i loved it! we had the best conversations at lunch yseterday and while we were lying in bed together. he's almost the polar opposite of what i had been going out with, and change is good.

we took him home late yesterday afternoon. i was kind of sad...but not totally. last time he and i spent time together, i freaked out afterwards and we stopped talking for a while (mostly b/c that's when the mike stuff started happening). things are so different now than they were in feb 04 and i think the aftermath of this past weekend will reflect that.

i love russ, but only like as a great friend. i think if we spent more time together, like if he lived in little rock, then that would change into something beyond friends. right now though, i don't want to be 'involved' with someone that lives 2 hours away. but he was talking about moving here...which kinda made me nervous. i'm not sure i'm ready for that. i dunno though. just like everything else with him, i'm not going to get worked up about it until it happens.

this weekend was just so unpredictable in a great way. he and i made a deal that we wouldn't let 2 years go by before we did it again.

it's just a bonus that the sex was incredible. really puts things in perspective...hehe

hope your weekend was as great! happy halloween!

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