I got home extremely late last night as my connecting flight in Detroit was delayed by over an hour. Up this morning at 6:30, and here I am, ready to bring some order back into my house. Things were a little...disarrayed.
For instance:
I'm doing the dishes from what appears to be yesterday, and cleaning up the kitchen at the same time. Craig hasn't learned where anything goes yet, but rather than go looking for it, his response is to just leave everything out on the counter. His rationale is that it's just going to get used again anyway and if it doesn't, he doesn't want me to get annoyed because something's out of place.
So, I'm clearing the counter and I notice the pile of post I'd left for him to handle---things that only he could do.
Me: So, was there any post from the past few days that I need to deal with?
Silence. He doesn't even look up from where he's sitting on the couch in the adjoining room.
Me: Did you even check the post while I was gone?
A long beat. Still not looking at me.
Craig: The kids are clean, aren't they?
Oi.
So, I have a ton of work facing me, including the ironing he said he was going to do while I was gone. It's going to be a long day.
So, I land on Tuesday in Allentown after a fairly uneventful flight. I say fairly because, though the flight itself was quite nice, I managed to have another interesting people encounter. The man seated in the window seat next to me talked throughout the entire flight, whether anybody was listening or not, about anything and everything. I tried to ignore him, but when my laptop battery died, I had a few moments where I was shifting everything around to get my book where he managed to get my attention. Turns out he's a British history teacher and I made the mistake of saying I'd just moved back. Huge mistake. All of a sudden, he thinks I'm his best friend, and that I'm the only one who'll understand how wrong the US is about everything, and culturally background, and how the UK does everything right, and blah blah blah. I listened politely as long as I could and then deliberately opened my book and started reading because he just...wouldn't...shut...up.
And of course, there's the wonderful
I was scurrying to get my blurb assignment done, so I was mildly antisocial on Tuesday night so that I could join them going out on Wednesday. I didn't get them done then, but got far enough that I could go into Philly with them to do some touristy stuff. We'd hoped to have lunch with
The band showed up around 7:30, and were ready to play at 8pm. They actually started a little bit after, with everyone seated around Brat's living room. I was just off to the side in front of the entertainment center, about a foot away from Eric for most of the night. Nice view. :) Only drawback was that these guys bounce around so much when they perform that the entertainment center was vibrating behind me. I ended up darting across to the other side of the room about 2/3's of the way through because I was beginning to fear something was going to topple over and fall on my head. ;)
The set itself was amazing. Brat has the playlist so I'm not sure what the order of songs were. I *can* tell you that they opened with a song they had *just* written and had been practicing upstairs while they were getting around. But the guys were right on, and the crowd loved them. One woman brought her early teenaged daughter (I'd say she was probably 11 or 12), who was on the floor in the front. Very often, Eric or Adam would sing just to her. It was absolutely adorable.
Jordan sold some merchandise after they were done (just under an hour of playing), and then he and Eric mingled some while they ate. I got the chance to talk some to Jordan, but I was trying to be so good about not playing fangirl in front of Eric that I completely missed him. Turns out I probably should've as the common consensus afterward was that he was looking for a bit of attention and didn't really get it (nobody asked for autographs or anything like that). Silly me!
We did manage to get a group picture done. Adam never came down and socialized, so he's not in the shot. And there's about half the people who were there that are missing from it, but I figure the important people are there (except for
And I'm saving the best for last. The incomparable
The only bad thing about the night (other than
I still haven't done my catch-up on my e-mails, but that's going to be later in the day, along with my Legions update. Hugs to all, and I hope you have a great day! :D