Bullets for the weekend

[batskeets]

Camping weekend was good. It was kind of a blur, but I'm sure that's in large part due to the madness of Friday, and also due to sleeping rather fitfully. Sleeping on the ground is, uh, less-than-comfortable when you're a side-sleeper, and tends to result in limbs falling asleep more frequently that most of us would like. But hey, STILL WORTH IT.

Friday: WORST DAY EVER. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but it didn't exactly go smoothly.

• Woke up and internet was broken. Wasted lots of time tying to fix it and eventually figured out that it wasn't our router causing the problem, for once. QWest, you suck. A lot.
• Ran out to buy a tent, a crapton of fruit, and and other misc. camping gear that I needed
• Rushed out to lunch at Hopworks with my dad and mom, because they were in town for a couple days.
• Hurried home to pack camping stuff, rushed out to Bipartisan Cafe to squeeze in some work time, since the stupid internet was still broken at home.
• Ran off to photoshoot; it was okay, but my brain was all addled from rushing around constantly. Still, the lighting for the shoot was pretty, so all was well.
• Rushed through awful traffic to drop off lighting gear, load up camping stuff, pick up friends, and drive 3 1/2 hours to Hood Canal! Stopped for dinner at a family restaurant called Spiffy's, which was only somewhat spiffy.

Saturday:

• Woke up at 8am and ate breakfast in the mother-effing woods. <3
• Went down to the beach, walked along it for a good ways while the tide was out, took lots of pictures and dug for clams
• Spent lots of time around campfire, because it was kiiiinda cold. And drizzly.
• Read books and played board games and toasted s'mores!

Sunday:

• Group breakfast! Bacon and french toast, and coffee cake, and the amaaaazing strawberries I brought.
• Hiked down to Guillemot Cove at low tide; finally got some sun breaks, splashed around in the water, and saw a metric ton of awesome sea critters! Yes, I took about a billion pictures of said critters.
• Played more card games (Guillotine FTW!), finally finished my book for book club.
• Group dinner of spaghetti with meatballs, salad, garlic bread, brownies and homemade sandwich cookies for dessert.
• Stayed up until 4am getting tipsy on sweet tea vodka while playing Uno and scarfing down leftover brownies.

Monday:

• Got up, ate breakfast under a beautiful blue sky with puffy white clouds.
• Packed up camping gear, drove back to PDX
• Got home, unloaded, and had the longest, hottest, most wonderful shower ever, and then rolled over to katlyn 's to talk and hug and watch a few episodes of Avatar with her and daemonwise .
• Came home with pizza from Hot Lips, watched more Doctor Who and SLEPT IN MY BED. <3

Comments

[archmage.livejournal.com]

Man, sounds like a blast was had.

[bloodred37.livejournal.com]

aww sweet weekend! Camp food always tastes so much better too.

And omg, on an aside, I really, really can't wait to sleep in my bed after 5 weeks. Friday night/Saturday morning is going to be the most blissful day ever.

[bellybalt.livejournal.com]

Firday wasn't as bad as it COULD have been. Dusty told me about the fun incident with the ring light. YIKES!

Also, what was that photoshoot for? Neither Dusty nor the photo subjects knew. :)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Friday wasn't as bad as it COULD have been.

Oh god, this is so, so true. But man, I was all ready to have a nice, leisurely day! Still, yes, could've been way, way worse.

The shoot was for MF Magazine, and I'm rather amazed that the band didn't know. I didn't set up the shoot, and apparently, not everyone is as meticulous with everything planning as I tend to be. ;p

[bellybalt.livejournal.com]

Haha, Dusty was wondering what the shoot was for, and when we ran into them at the show they asked HIM. I guess they sorta stared at each other and blinked, and then they said they'd have to ask their manager what it was all about. Dusty assured them that it was all on the level, nothing shady going on. :)

This was the last performance of the tour, apparently, so I think they were just thinking about getting everything overwith and going home. After a brief stop at Sasquatch Festival.

BTW, its very entertaining hearing English people say "Sasquatch." :D

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was at the bar and both of them came up looking for hot water...we chatted for a few minutes and kathryn, the brunette, asked me, "So, what was the shoot for...?"

I was kind of surprised, actually. I told her that I wasn't quite sure...everything Don said, blah blah blah...

"Well, I guess we should probably speak with our manager, shouldn't we?" was the final reply I got before they trekked off.

It was a good show, musically...but, unfortunately, they were kind of lacking in stage presence.


Glad you had a great time camping...we should get together soon for drinks and hanging out!


~D.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm amazed that anyone would agree to a photoshoot without knowing what it's for!

And yes, hangouts need to happen! I seem to have a fairly free weekend on my hands...

[monkeyhole.livejournal.com]

Funny story -- yesterday after you guys left, I was parched, so I reached for my gatorade and took two huge frikkin' gulps. Turns out, it wasn't my gatorade. It was your sweet tea vodka drink, cleverly disguised as a gatorade. So that was unexpected.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Haha! I'd completely forgotten that I left it there!

It *was* pretty tasty, IMO.