there is so much disarray.
new year's was great. we played records from 9pm to 4am. people danced. people drank. i did both and turned bright red. the party was so much fun.
earlier that day a vagrant threw half a stale beer on me at a thrift store. i later learned that in the novel of my life that incident is what as known as foreshadowing.
2 hours later i deleted 30gb of mp3s that i was planning to DJ with at the new year's party. who is the jackass now, i ask you? just who is the jackass now?
the day after new year's the power went out at the house for about 12 hours. it was cold and annoying but not that big a deal.
then the fence almost fell over in the backyard. the only thing left holding it up was the garbage can. luckily steve had a brilliant idea for propping it up.
then e got bronchitis. she's still sleeping that off some 4 days later.
since then i have been yelled at and demoralized a couple times. that was a whole lot of fun but after gaining a little perspective, and 6-7 beers over 3-4 nights, i am fine now.
besides, the demoralization happened after learning that my friend's father had died of cancer. he was diagnosed the day before thanksgiving and died christmas morning. i spoke with her last night and she is so awesome. as a child, and even now, i occasionally obsess about how i am going to react to the death of my own father. i have such a hard time imagining it. talking with her last night was really great and i hope i was able to help her through this at least a little bit. a lot of the more religious and spiritual family members around her are saying things like, "he's at peace now" and "he can rest" or "he can visit his hometown now" and "he's with grandpa". that would infuriate me and it definitely has frustrated my friend. he died and its sad and its unfair and it totally sucks. he didn't die in peace. he died fighting to live because he loved his family and he was simply not ready. it's harder for some of the family to hear that, but my friend is all about honesty right now. it was good to let her talk out some of her sadness.
so that was the big sad piece of news. that and a kinda sorta distant relative-type is fighting cancer. and another friend's dad is in chemo. it's too much.
in other news, my sister set a wedding date! and it's in like 6 weeks! holy crap!
and we are moving to SF. it's settled. we're selling the house and going to try to buy in SF, maybe with my sister and her soon-to-be old man, or maybe with some other friends. big changes and i can't wait. i'll miss some things about the valley but i wanna go home! ! !
also, i am still running and if ANYONE is interested, i've also recommitted to party rocking. that's right, i'm back on the 1s and 2s in full force. i still don't have a DJ name and i haven't come up on a good suggestion in awhile. anyone?
