Bizarro vs. Cellphone

Remember a few weeks ago when I lost my phone? Here's what happened:

This is Bizarro. It used to be called Superman: Ride of Steel until 2009 when they painted it purple and added fire, lights, and fog effects. Bizarro is located at Six Flags: New England. It is an awesome ride that my cellphone and I had been on many times in the past. Unfortunately, this time something different happened.

My naughty cellphone somehow escaped the confines on my pocket (even though it was underneath the seatbelt, and Bizarro does not go upside-down)!

I noticed it was gone as soon as I exited the train. Adam and I were sent to guest relations to fill out a Lost and Found report. We waited until after the park closed and everyone left. The ride operators searched for my phone while we continuously called it from Adam's phone. No luck. They were unable to recover the phone. It rained that night, and all my hopes for getting my phone back were lost. :(

But this week, something amazing happened! A very lumpy envelope arrived at my house from SFNE. It was my phone! It is completely functional and the only damage I have noticed is a tiny scuff mark on the side of the blue case. There aren't even scratches on the screen! Yay! :-)

How Adam became my knight in "shining armor"

One day I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to meet someone.

Across the street, my boyfriend of less than two weeks noticed me and saw that I was about to walk in front of a moving car!

He freaked out and ran across the street.

...and pushed me out of harm's way.

I explained to him that it was Wednesday, and on Wednesday I go out for dinner. With my Aunt. In her blue car.

And that is how Adam met Auntie for the first time. :)

Success!

Adam and I went on a date! It was great, we went to WPI's annual Homecoming (and saw tons of WPI people) and then came home and went to Applebee's for dinner because we thought we had missed dinner. Adam tried their new cheese-impregnated meatballs (which weren't as good as they sounded, but were still pretty decent).

Afterwards we came home and made an apple pie, which I have yet to try. We will see how that turned out. We also played a Clue-like Harry Potter game.

In other news, it's getting pretty cold out! I've closed all my windows, but haven't put the storm windows on yet. I started to dig out my winter clothes but haven't quite finished yet. I wish I had a warm sweater that wasn't completely ugly though.

Chickens and Endless Nights

I was originally going to go to sleep around 1am. That is a fairly normal time for someone to go to sleep when they do not have to wake up early the next day, right?

And then I got caught up reading webcomics/blogs and talking to my drunken ex-boyfriend. On AIM, of course. There is no way I would actually be talking to him in person if he was drunk. Actually, I probably wouldn't even stay in the same room as him if he were drunk. None of this is the point.

And then there was the train. I live close enough to a train track that I hear it blowing its horn at every street it crosses for about a 2 mile radius. That is approximately 6 or so streets.

So while drunk!ex is talking to me, I occasionally type "TRAIN!!!" to him, which just makes him talk about even more random stuff than he was before.

Strangely enough, the Ex runs out of alcohol around 3AM. After several jokes about "why is the rum gone??" he decided to go to sleep. Then he realized he didn't have to get up tomorrow because his only class had been cancelled. This didn't keep him up much longer and he left before 3:30am.

I went back to reading the comics/blogs until around 4am when I decided that I needed to write a "Good morning!" email to my boyfriend. This consisted of a heart-shaped potato and an abandoned clown train. Then I suddenly got it into my head that maybe I should just stay up all night and go to bed at a normal time tomorrow/tonight. Maybe Adam will love me more if I sleep at the same time as him. (I still haven't slept yet so I am not sure if this is a valid idea or not).

Either way, while suddenly writing a second email to him saying I was thinking about staying up all night, I got about 39 different messages from Ken asking if I were still awake. Yes, I am still awake. It does not say I am idle because I am not idle. I informed Ken of my idea of staying up all night. Talked to Ken about StarCraft 2 and kittens and those little phi-shaped symbols on my emails that are either red or green and I don't know what causes them to be which color.

WHY ARE THEY DIFFERENT COLORS???  (These emails are from the same person). At first I wondered "oh hey maybe the Red ones are from people without Gmail?" and then that did not make sense, since both Adam and I have Gmail. And all the green ones I have noticed are from @wpi accounts. Clearly this sort of categorization MAKES NO SENSE.

Anyway, Ken went to bed sometime around 5ish. Unfortunately, by then the neighbor's rooster had decided "Oh look! It is dawn!" even though there was not even a hint of light in the sky yet. So I am left with my comic/blogs/rooster and then suddenly Digsby, my chat client of choice, decides to make this really strange noise. I am not sure what is going on, since I am not receiving messages and no one is signing on/off that I know of (plus it doesn't usually make noise when people sign on/off).

Now the rest of the bird population is awake and chirping at each other and I am getting hungry. It sounds like breakfast is in order.

EDIT: This post was made during a period of extreme sleep deprivation. While I am still very confused about the different colored phis in my Gmail inbox, the rest of this post is pretty irrelevant to life.