The ride home

The ride home from the concert. Well, traffic. And then more traffic. Then we got out of town, onto 476 and guess what? 3 lanes of highway being necked down to 1 and yep, traffic. So what should have been a 15-20 minute drive takes just over an hour to get to the turnpike. We enter the turnpike, I get the ticket and we're off. I didn't drink anymore alcohol other than at dinner but hey, I gotta go. I mean it. Really badly, I gotta go, now. The PA turnpike is famous for it's kidney-bursting-30-miles-to-the-next-rest-area. Grrreat. FINALLY we get to Peter J Camiel (I always wonder who he is, I should look it up. Someday.) Rest Area. Wheweeebubba, thank you holy Jesus. I grab a coffee cause it's my turn to drive and it's like, 1 am. I've been up since.... what...... 4:30 am. Yeah, I get freaky when I'm excited and can't sleep when big things in my life are happening. Like a concert. I'm only 8 on the inside, folks! Now the 'event' is over and my body is crashing. Expresso brownie, anyone? Yes please! It's prob just over an hour to my house yet. (I'm also spacially challenged so really, I have no idea how much further or how long it will take. I think that was around mile marker 303?) Drivin drivin, happy with the replays of the Foos on 94.1 WYSP and the cool tunes in between. We get to Gettysburg exit and what happens? No ticket. Noticketnoticketnoticket. If I would be the type to say the big bad words, that would have been the time. Hippo, please fill in the blanks for me? ____ _____ ____ _____ ____ _______ ______ _____ _______ _____ _________ _____ _______ _____ ___!!!!!!!!! I tore that car APART. Keep in mind, it's not my car. It's a friends that has 4, count em, 4 kids. 4 kids junk in a little honda. Plus the case of beer I bought at VBC, the two other specialty beers that are belgium-like in that they are 'wine-ish', the soda pop bottles and candy wrappers and a big ole baby seat and dammit, the ticket is nowhere. That's bad. You pay the full price of the pike when you do that. That's around 30 so dollahs! This guy, asked me where I came from, I showed him my concert ticket. He said he saw me come from the West bound lane and so--- he won't charge me the whole pike amount, just the $12.75 it would have been from the top of the extension. I can live with that brother!!

I got home in the nick of time. That means my mother didn't kill me but she really wanted to. (not new) It was 2:32 when I walked in the door. Sleepy me! Tom went home and mom went home (in a flurry of those words I dont typically say) and I went back to my room and changed, brushed my teeth, washed my face and couldn't sleep. I ended up reading up on you guys for an hour or so and then passed the heck out until this morning and here I am! Hiiii!

I was supposed to go out tonight but he cancelled. I kind of offered to cancel. I'm a yutz. I know he's completely swamped at his work (a very physical job) this week and really tired from staying up late on Tuesday with me and he didn't catch up last night cause he TOLD me to call him when the concert was over and believe it or not, I babbled for a little bit cause I'm a talker, alright, geesh. So his rest was interupted then. He's working a couple hours ot each night till this project is done, deadline tomorrow. I just figured it would be easier and nicer to let him rest. He lives a little far and it's a haul for both of us and is letting him get a good nights rest so bad? I'm not comfy yet with getting all cozy with someone. I want to take it slow, see how it goes. I'm busy with family stuff until next Tuesday night so, maybe then we'll go out? He mentioned it and it's a probable yes. Seriously, is that so bad? I am going to go out with some girlfriends locally but not to hook up. I never hook up at clubs anyway. It wasn't to go out with my friends. I guess it was not only to give him a chance to rest but also to keep some distance there. I don't know. Usually by the 3rd date I know it's not going to work out. This will be the 5th in just over 2 weeks.

I'm going to get dressed and get the towel off my head so my hair can dry some before I head out. I'm curious what comments I'll get on this one. Boy. This thing took a nosedive. The ride home was still nothing compared to how freaking AWESOME that show was. LOVED IT! Just loved it.

Later, guys. Chat it up with you tomorrow...

PS Hippo, thanks for the help! Good luck with your party!! I mean, Redirts party!!!!!