Current Mood: Esctatic

I had the most wonderful weekend! I went out Friday night for a friend’s going away party. There was a lot of drunken debauchery and many hugs (yes, even before the drunken part), and I ended up being the designated driver. I also got to learn how to eat fire(!). While it was great fun… I didn’t get home til after 4am. Weekends are my husband’s days to sleep in, so wee lad had me up bright and early! I was expecting it though. Besides, I had also invited over a vegan friend and her husband for a bbq! She’d never had vegan bbq before (they have an apartment so haven’t tried doing it), so I thought I’d cook for her. Well… I didn’t know we were very low on charcoal, so about all that got done was heating up three ears of corn! Unfortunately they didn’t have a whole lot of time, so they couldn’t stay for a round two of waiting for new coals to get ready, and they left. Not even five minutes after THEY left, Rusty, who I had invited to the bbq as well, showed up with Lana, another friend of ours who had just gotten back from a two week trip to Burning Man. She had also invited her friend Sarah, who has two little girls, who played with wee lad for a long time. We went to the grocery store to replenish the charcoal (and to pick up other yummies) to try the bbq again. Success! We had delicious veggie kebabs, corn on the cob, baked potatoes, and grilled pineapple. We had lots of beer and great conversation. Lovely, lovely day!

Sunday morning we had a lazy time hanging around the house. We decided to go to Mallo’s Bakery in Belleville for coffee and donuts (yeah, I know, most donuts aren’t vegan), then went yard saling. We decided to have some more chill out time, just puttering around the house, when I get a text message from my friend Alaina, who wanted to hang out with someone. I invited her over, and suggested she pick up Rusty on the way, who lives near her, and she also brought Murdock, who lives upstairs from Rusty. The husband had also invited over his DJ friend, Cameron, to come over and spin some records. Thankfully everyone was later in coming over, so I was able to get wee lad off to bed without much protest.

And, glory be, Rusty came bearing gifts! He brought some totally awesome Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday) wall art and a fire pit! Did I mention how fab Rusty really is? So between the mini rave in the basement (turntables + party lights) and hanging around the fire pit in the back yard, we had a wonderful evening!

We truly are blessed to have so many wonderful friends. I look forward to having people over more often! We will probably start having full out parties once we are 100% set up.

I leave you with Scooter – Friends (warning, it’s happy hardcore techno crazy stuff, but I love it!):