This week has been pure awesome for me. It's pretty much been the first real chance I've had to relax in a long time, which is cool because I thought I'd have to wait until my San Francisco Trip in June before I'd get a break.
Narnia event day went off without (for the most part) without a hitch. Everyone who was supposed to show up made an appearance, games were played, prizes were given to kids, many people took their pictures with our Prince Caspian (played Will Palmer,) kids lined up for their chance to launch our trebuchet, and everyone had a good time all in all. The only problem we really had was with a slight catapult malfunction about midway through the day, which could have been disastrous but thankfully was not.Since then I've been seeing a lot of movies (I really hadn't had time in the weeks before Narnia,) and getting a lot of time to myself. My number one priority work-wise has been trying to assemble the Narnia book, which means working at home. This has been so relaxing, as I'm working in Adobe InDesign, which is such a chill program to work with, and I can also sit at my computer in my pajamas, listen to music, eat a bowl of cereal and put on Family Guy episodes in the background and say I'm getting paid for it. It also means I don't have to go in to work.
Monday was Memorial day, which meant I had to work in the morning, and in the floor department, which I've had very little experience in as of late, being that I've been entirely focused on promotions. After escaping the mayhem at around 4 pm, I fled to Solana Beach and met up with Amy, Jen and Anjali (one of Amy's high school era friends) at the Belly Up Tavern, where I found them waiting in a line stretched a mile long. Vince joined us not too long afterwards, as well as one of Anjali's friends (whose name I can't remember, but needless to say, he was a superhero.)
The band "Foxboro Hot Tubs" played a super secret, super exclusive concert, limited to about 200 or so tickets sold at the door, hence the massive line. The band is actually Green Day in disguise, so even though they didn't play any normal Green Day songs, all the legions of Green Day fans showed up for a chance to see them. I'd never been a huge Green Day fan myself, but Amy and her crew had been waiting since 2 in the afternoon for the 9 pm show, which I am eternally grateful for as it turned out to be an awesome show. Myself, Jen, Amy and Anjali ended up in the pit, the lead singer crowd surfed on my face several times, and Anajali even ended up on stage at one point. Despite the weird looking drunk girls that kept trying to make advances on me during the show (why always the weird looking drunk ones? Come on!) it was a lot of fun. Denny's happened afterwards, where I'm afraid I may have embarrassed Amy in front of her friends, but I have no regrets in this life.I spent most of Tuesday morning working on the promo book and taking breaks to play DDR now and then. Lona called me up randomly in the afternoon and suggested we go to Disneyland right then and there (even though I went with her and her family a week prior.) I hadn't been on an impromptu Disneyland trip in a while, so we did in fact drive up there at 4 in the afternoon and hang out until closing. Lines for rides were kind of long, but we wasted time in Innoventions and other random places that we don't usually visit. Also, we witnessed something happen on the Matterhorn... I'm not sure what, but they evacuated the ride, and as we walked by we saw large assorted metal pieces sitting on the ride track, where the ride had been operating only moments prior. Also, there were work lights on in the mountain as we passed by again an hour later. I'm still waiting to read about this on one of my Disney blogs.
Wednesday morning I spent much the same way as Tuesday morning, alternating between book work and DDR. I also called up Liz, and purchased my plane tickets for San Francisco, so now that is officially happening. In the afternoon I joined up with Ryan at his house and we headed down to the pier to set up the second Bigadig Bonfire. This involved digging a massive hole (Shia LaBeouf would be proud) to use as a social tool, since it worked so well at the last bonfire. This thing was much more impressive than the last hole, though; so much that we had groups from other bonfires wanting to sit in it and hang out with us. We made a good amount of new friends.
Other things that happened included swimming (the water is still too cold by the way,) some drunk guys doing cartwheels over a bonfire pit while shooting lighter fluid, and an awesome game of Regal vs. Regal ultimate frisbee (which landed in the ocean several times.) It was a super close game and ended with our team losing 4 to 5, but it also ended with both teams in a massive group hug. After the bonfire, the ones who were still there at the end all met up at Ryan's house for hot tubbing, scrabble, smash bros and mario kart. It's noon right now- today I plan on taking my car in for an oil change, eating at Souplantation while I wait, and then coming home for more book work and DDR. I may also go to the Davis' house in the evening to watch "The Wizard", which is an old 80's movie that Lona and Ryan have been bugging me to see for a while.
This week has been just what I've needed for the last few months, and right now I'm as happy as I've been in a long time. Hopefully the summer continues much in the same way.
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