my big holiday travel

i went to des moines this weekend to visit my friends (including the famous commenter miss linda). it was so nice. i wish it coulda been longer, but i always do, so what can i say? we spent hours ddr and thriller-ing, and we took a side trip to iowa city to visit more people. btw - for those of you who have never tried it, thriller is seriously an insane workout. if you do it a bunch of times in a row you get so tired and sweaty. but you're having so much fun that it doesn't matter. and you want more people to do it with you. (but no, michelle's brother had to be a bum and sit it out. we'll get him next time, though. it's impossible to watch and not want to join in. i mean come now - who wouldn't want to look like that <--- ?)

and then i came home and was telling my mom about it, and i metioned that my friends gave me 'ringers' (a dvd about lotr dorks narrated by dominic monaghan), marmalade (just for the record - margarita marmalade is fun to try, but it isn't good), prickly pear (cactus) honey, book the 13th (from series of unfortunate events), and 'portugese irregular verbs'. i hadn't noticed at the time, but as i listed all these off i thought 'wow! that sounds like Christmas!' but it wasn't! it was just friends being all nice and stuff, which it makes it 32x's better!

so that was my happy weekend. it was good just to spend time with my friends. i should spend time with my friends more often.