Labor Day Weekend...

Was a good one!
Started off Friday night with T rollin my exhausted ass into Long Beach to see my friends band play at Clancy's. Its a 2 person band that pretty much makes songs up on the spot. They were a kick! T and I were also joined by 2 very colorful gentleman in thier 50's maybe? That proceeded to ramble on repeating themselves (drunk or just way out of it?) about art, soldier field, baseball and others. Oh - and apparently one of them bought a victrola from the other. Ok.
Saturday was the 1st Street Fair Day. We all met up at the lil bro's house who was in town for the weekend (He needs to be home and not work up north because I'm selfish and want him here). Anywhoo - Dad, me, T, bro, D, and Sutherland all met up with our bikes ready to roll. After a few drinks (Yes its a holiday, we're allowed to drink before 11am) we biked over to the Fair and arrived around 11:30. El Buen Taco as usual was our first stop. After some yummy tacos, beer (Yes I had a beer!!) and visiting with the Sumi's and some other friends we wandered on to Swedish Street and stuffed our faces with Abelskevers. Not before I purchased a large bag of Kettle Korn. We then rolled over to our favorite spot at Rod's Liquor where the booze is cheaper and they have much more variety instead of just beer. We never left. I guzzled Mike's Hard Lemonades while the rest guzzled beers. We munched on Gyros and yummy greek pastry someone shoved in my mouth. Miss Cumby joined us and we saw a few friends come and go. Great convo with many peeps then the heat started bearin down. Off we go. We stopped and grabbed some beef teriyaki sticks that were AMAZING and stumbled back to our bikes. Off we go. Back to bros. Court joined us, dad left and a very entertaining game of Cranium began. This was then followed by Taboo. The highlights of the evening were bro's charade of "Baywatch", D's charade of "Who let the dogs out" and learning that Miss Cumby is the goddess of Taboo.
Sunday started off mellow. Chillin poolside at lil bros, drinkin and laughing. We finally roll out bike style. This time its just Me, bro, D and Court. We catch American Wake's 1st set which of course is AMAZING. We all love them so very much. A Symphony co-hort whom I've developed a friendship with joins us as well as my girl Robin. We watch the whole set, bouncing and laughing and loving it. Off we head. The only bummer of the day is we run into dude who stomped on my heart earlier this year with his chickie. I played if off well - I'm an actress you know - and with the support and good moves of bro and Robin we moved on. I said hello to my new boss at the Chapman booth and we headed down Swedish Street. Bro said hi to the O's crew while Robin and I fended off a very drunk strange girl and we promptly hit up Rod's again, where we again - stayed. Its perfect - its just off the street so its not crowded, the booze is cheap and people come to you. We had a huge amount of friends come and go - our neighbors, Ber and KT, lots of bro's friends and many many more. I scarfed down a pulled pork sandwich and a backlava and chose champagne for the drink of choice that eve. We would have stayed longer but low and behold it was actually f-ing cold! We stood it as long as we could and rolled out around 8:30 listening to the Wake as we rode our bikes past. It was a little rough comin home - it was ass cold, I was the only bike with a light and we had to be very careful with the bunches of people and cars hoping no one was driving drunk. We got home unscathed after a stop at the store to refuel our drink supply and chilled once again at bro's. Much more of a mellow night involving Wenerscnetzel and good convo. I crashed hard that night.
Today was a day of running around - getting ready for the week. Uploaded pics, had lunch with T, bought biz attire for the new job, and ran a few other errands. The roomie popped open a good bottle of pinot and we hit the hot tub. I jacked my foot up again, hoping it will heal before I start personal training (Oh did I mention I'm doing that - Keep you posted) and here I type.
All in all - great weekend, lots of food which I'm starting to pay for and as always - great fuzzy fun Labor Day memories made!
Back to the real world.