Land of Port

Fuuuuuck... I want to be asleep, but I probably will have NO time tomorrow.

Things that have happened:
Eval, yay, all credits.
Fell down some stairs, only a scrape on my leg, yay!
Everyone is moving out, including me :S

Last night (Tues Night) I got into a funk, bad funk of funkness. Watched The Pianist and then Valentines Day, no connection to each other. Was in a bad place, and it just got worse.

D brought me out of it.

"Who do you want to be wanted by?
What do you want to be wanted for?"

Went to bed around 3am, got up at 7 to get on the road. I was seriously laying in bed going "Fuckit, I already said my goodbyes, I'm fucking TIRED, go back to bed." So then I got up and got dressed and headed out.

Nearly fell asleep a few times going down, but did ok. Got hella lost 3 or 4 times just getting to E's house.

Got there, parked my car, and we headed out for Powells and whatever else might happen.

I WAS SO GOOD IN POWELLS!!! I only spent 52 dollars!!! Thats a fucking miracle right there.

Love Powells. Want to live there. I picked up a diarytype book while we were there that was about a woman living in Paris... I wanted to be in Paris so bad after reading a little of it! I was only in France for 2 weeks but how much I want to be back...

Left Powells because we were all hungry, drove around until we found a little hole-in-the-wall thai place that was delicious.

After the thai food, E drove around until we found the Japanese Garden, Rose Garden and Arboretum.

Went to the Japanese Garden first, I was a little apprehenisive about paying at first cause I'm broke... but it was so worth the $7+ I paid to get in. Beautiful gardens, brought back a ton of memories from when I was planning a japanese garden many years ago. Sitting and thinking and listening to the trees and rain and feeling the wind was lovely. Sitting in the first place was cool, talking about thunderstorms and random other things to do with the world. I ended up seperated from the others for a little bit, which was good for me.

Then! On to the International Test Rose Garden, where we smelled many roses. H and E wandered off to another section of the gardens for awhile, but we all met up again eventually. Wish I knew how many roses we smelled/which ones I liked the most. Made me miss the roses at home.

Left the Rose Gardens and moved on to the Arboretum, where we did a lot of walking, mostly dry but some muddy patches that sucked to get through in flip flops. Saw Sequoia and Redwoods and a beautiful Cherry known as a Birch Bark Cherry. The day had been mostly rainy and drizzly before that, but while we were hiking around in the Arboretum it cleared up rather dramatically :).

After we left the Arboretum, we had about an hour to kill, so E drove us to a park he knows of that has swings and a merry-go-round and teeter-totters and a slide! Swung, slide and merry-go-rounded :D, which was very fun because normally its just my sister and I at the only other playground I know of with a merry-go-round, so we can't usually get too fast. This time, with two guys who boulder a lot? We got going very fast!!! So much spinning...

Sadly we had to head back to E's place so his mom could use the car, so we settled in and had salads. I took an accidental nap, which actually worked out pretty well, and then got up and hugged everyone and left to go to M's place.

Got so very lost. The directions, as looked over by M later, were very wrong, so it wasn't my fault, but I ended up going a rather odd way to their house, as directed on the phone by D. But I got there! Hung out for a couple of hours, gave much love to the puppeh, and then got back on the road.

I am not actually sure how I survived that drive. Screaming along to whatever music I could get on the radio, blasting COLD air from my A/C, squinting through the rain to try and see the road... yeah. That was not the most fun.

But I made it! And ate some food, and fell the fuck asleep.

And now it is Thursday, and I have to pack two apartments and move today.

FUCK.