Sometimes You Just Need A Cookie

The Perkins' House: Episode II

Well here I am, home again and for the second time in as many weeks, I am writing about my wonderful "weekend" at the Perkins' House. This trip however, was a little bit more difficult. You would think that my story would start with me getting there....but no. Friday night I try and go to bed early....that never works. So I don't fall asleep until 2:30am. It wouldn't have been a problem if I didn't have to get up at 7 to go to work. I work from 8am to 1:00 and I was going to get out of work early so I could catch the 2:15 train to Wenham. Well my boss, who NEVER works Saturdays, is working and won't let me leave early. So I leave at 1:00 and run over the the Braintree T station and get on the train at 1:30. I am clearly behind schedule but if everything goes well I could make it. Well after waiting in the train for 10 minutes because the driver didn't show up for his shift, we depart. Around Downtown Crossing an announcement comes on saying that the train is breaking down and Park Street will be the last stop. That's fine cuz its the stop I'm going to, that is until I realize that EVERYONE on the train will get off there. After waiting in line to get to the green line, I break out of the massive crowd of people and start booking it! I get to the train stop and there are two trains waiting. PERFECT!! Something went right. So I run toward them and the first one starts to leave. Whatever, there is another. I get to the train and the lady closes the doors and I'm standing at the driver's window. I motion to her that I want to get on. She looks at me, shakes her head and then hits the acceleration. So I stand there for about 10 minutes looking dumbfounded and not believing that that just happened. Then I spot a Citizen's Bank ATM so I figure I should get some money out. I check my balance and find out that I have -74.43 in the account. At this time, 2:15, I realize that it is pointless to try and get to North Station to catch the 2:15 train. So I continue to look dumbfounded and start walking back toward the Red Line so I can get home. I really think that this would be a great scene from a movie because the only way I can describe the look on my face was "..........wtf.......".

After this wonderful encounter with the MBTA, I head home so that Ashley, Ellen, Jay, Haley, and Sarah could pick me up at my house. Once they got here, we went to Providence, RI to see Water Fire. Funny seeing as I lived in RI for about 8 months and I never went there. Water Fire is basically about 50 campfires in the Providence river. It was pretty cool, but got old pretty fast seeing as how tired I was from the wonderful day I was having. We left around 11:30 and got home at 1:00. Well being the cool kids we were, me and Ash went right to bed and slept until 10:45.

On Sunday, Willams and Meghan Elizabeth Flynn came over for the Star Wars Marathon cuz Ash had never seen the Star Wars movies. We went to bed around 6 am Monday morning and woke up at 12 to watch the last movie. Then we hung out for awhile and eventually went to bed at 12.

On Tuesday, me and Ashley we chaperoning Corky's school Whale Watch. Even though this was the enitial reason my trip to Wenham was planned, this was the most useless day of my life. The trip sucked, it was cold, rainy, the sea was choppy, and we saw maybe two whales. The only good thing was that I was able to hang out with Court and her friends, who are pretty cool people in my opinion.

After the trip Ashley took a nap for about two hours and I watched Sportscenter and packed my bag for my return trip home. I had a Hot Dog dinner with the Perkins Family and watched the Sox game.......it was awesome! Well it came time to get on the train so I departed for home. All in all, it was a great but tiring weekend. I had so much fun and it was great to be with Ashley, but I am going to be way too tired for a couple of days! Of course I'm going to be tired cuz I stayed up way too late having fun so it was worth it. Hehe. Anyways, I worked today from 2-10 and I will do the same tomorrow.

Well thats about it. As always comments are always welcome.

Keep On Rocking in the free world!

posted by Greg @ 10:53 PM