The Book of Ashes

Dan & Kat leave, Char gets married ... 11:35AM

I'd tell you that my weekend was Massive but you'd just laugh and say that was the computer program that was used in the Lord of the Rings to generate all the battles and thats quite funny cause I'm a computer geek who likes computer graphics.

""You see a Friday coming at you but you don't actually see it hit. Sometimes it hits so hard you get amnesia and the next day you don't remember what happened.""

- From the mind of the Seattle Monkey

Friday was Dan and Kat's fairwell party. It was pretty cool and excellent to catch up with Dan & Kat but sad that they had to leave. I am happy that they are moving in together tho. Dan will be a different man [mucho tamo]...

By the end of the night we were all falling asleep [except Bev]. Martin did fall asleep. Katrina might have as well, I'm not sure. Bev wanted to keep on going. But in the end he took us all home. Jo was away for the weekend so Bev was free to roam...

Saturday was crazy. [Gerry flew into town]. I was up early and had a case of the nerves. Char was getting married today. I wondered round, caught up with the girls [Char & Olivia] getting ready and went for a walk to work off my excess energy. If you get the nerves [maybe a small injection of adreneline] you have to work it off else it fucks you up for later. The wedding was at 1. I got a ride out with Amy & Fi whom I hadn't seen for about 4 months which was weird. The wedding went well. It was a shame that it rained a little afterwards but otherwise it was cool. I got to wear my suit for the first time in ages. I had a drama beforehand where I was just getting dressed (30 mins before leaving) and I realised I had no ties. I had lent them all to Tom when he started work. So Averil and I did the mish in the Averil mobile to Tom's, grabbed all my ties and headed back in time to get a ride out to the wedding. If I hadn't already been excited/nervous, now I was.

After the wedding I was calm, and hungry. Best way to burn carbs is to get a case of the nerves. Man I was starving. We headed back to my place and on the way stopped for an excellent steak and vege pie and some beers. As I walked into the alchy a guy asks me ""Do you like red wine?"". I replied ""Yes but I'm after some beers today"". Then as an after though I added ""unless its free?"". His reply was ""why yes!"". So I downed three shots of $28/bottle wine at the testing stall and headed out with my trusty dozen speights under my arm.

Back at the flat we each downed a beer then it was down to Coyotes to celebrate at the reception. Coyotes was pretty cool. They had free beer and I got quite boozed quite fast [not as bad as Diana's wedding tho Dan] along with Char's most excellent flatmates Regan and Jessie [Regan is acutally Char's replacement but close enough]. After enough beers Jessie and I started the game of lets introduce ourselves to random groups of people that we don't know. This was real cool. At first people look at you weird as you introduce yourself until you explain that you don't know them at all and you have just randomly come up to them for fun. Then they're happy as Larry to talk to you. People just need to know you're drunk and not a freak ;) After the reception it was home then out to Jackies for some phat beats and a couple of beers. I didn't drink much and slowly sobered up. I eventually came hope around 3am, tired but happy