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July 05, 2000
A deep (red white and) blue funk.
Happy Fourth of July, one day late. I'm all sleepy and sunburned -- sleepy because of the kids shooting off firecrackers in my neighborhood until the wee hours of the morning, and sunburned from the lovely swim in Patrick's mother's pool. Patrick's family has a great big cookout every Fourth, and Lee and I attended this year, along with Muppetgirl and Muppetbaby (so named in Patrick's journal -- I'm all about consistancy, here). Muppetbaby is the cutest child in the entire world. She's all happy, and energetic, and smart as hell. And way too much fun to watch.
The cookout really was nice, but I'm sure I was the resident party drag -- I've been in a funk for days now, and while watching all of the young, happy families play with their kids was nice, it was also more painful than I had expected. I mean, I know holidays are going to be rough for a while, but the Fourth of July?!? If I'm a weepy mess now, you're not going to want to be anywhere near me on Arbor Day, let me tell you.
I'm getting icky little premonitions of when I'm going to see Barry -- Monday I had to work late, and I knew, just knew, that I would see him on the bus on the way home. I was right -- just as the bus driver started to pull out of the station, Barry and his girlfriend hopped on. I try not to react, I really do -- but hearing them talking and giggling behind me made me want to jump off and walk home. And it's the sickest thing -- he treated me like dirt, lied to me, cheated on me... and I miss him. Someone please smack me upside the head? Thanks.
Anyway. Lee and I went to a bridge just outside of town to watch the Boston fireworks. Nobody had a radio, so we didn't get to hear the music -- they synchronize the fireworks to the Pops -- but we did have a good view of all but the ground stuff. I especially liked the ones that exploded in the shape of a happy face. How do they do that? Anybody know? I'm really curious -- it was just cool.
Posted by Mary Ellen at July 5, 2000 03:18 PM