You're a genie in disguise.

Let's see if I can set a record for lj user name-dropping.

On Friday night, I went to see blondestallion in Let's Go Love with broqued, foxycoxy and sadomillerchism and laughed a lot.

On Saturday morning, I biked over to blondestallion's neighborhood for breakfast (and on the way down there, briefly chatted with mintwaster and cocolola through their car window when they passed me on Milwaukee Ave), then after my visit, I biked home to thebrownhornet sitting on my my porch with luggage and an ice cream sandwich for me. We caught up for a few minutes until unscrambled picked us up and we went down to Garfield Park to Ms. B (no LJ) dressed in beekeeper regalia, we tasted some honey, petted some bees, then all of us (including J, Ms. B's partner) piled back in the car and went to Feed for supper (late lunch/early dinner) and ate delicious food and talked a lot. Then we all piled in the car again and went to Mercury Cafe and drink delicious beverages and talked a lot. Then we all went back to my house, except J, and sat at the kitchen table and ate brownie and drank sparkling wine and talked a lot. Then jethead and K came over and joined us the table for more talking. Then J rejoined us, and at one point, when sitting in my kitchen with these 6 people I thought, this is one of best friend moments of my life. You know, when you're laughing so hard you need to put your head down on the table (or at least I did) and everyone is pulling out amazing stories (e.g. discovering someone's collection of fish-eye lens asshole porn), and I just felt all gooey grateful love for people I can spend 10 hours with and not feel spent. After people left around midnight, thebrownhornet and I went to the corner store for cake-like snacks, then came back and watched episodes of 30 Rock.

On Sunday, we slept in, then stumbled to Cafe Con Leche for delicious breakfast sandwiches, stumbled back to the house and ate them while playing Perfect Dark on the N64 for a couple hours. Then we napped. Then we went for a long walk that ended at Smoque, where we met dommeyourass, broqued, foxycoxy, and jethead for more delicious food and more talking. Then a couple folks parted, the rest of us went to Sidekicks for karaoke, meeting up with vfc and fuzzilla and unscrambled and other people without ljs. I sang a lot of duets. Some of them were pretty powerful, like "Betcha By Golly Wow" with unscrambled and "Supreme" with vfc and, perhaps the most powerful of them all, "Leather & Lace" with none other than Ronnie Taz the KJ himself. He was my Don Henley. I also sang "Black Water" with thebrownhornet and sang Blondie's "Dreamin'", Stephen Bishop's "It Might Be You" (which I dedicated to broqued even though she didn't come) and Billy Joel's "Movin Out". I love Sunday night karaoke, because I sang all that and we left at midnight.

Today we slept in, I had therapy while thebrownhornet had a lunch date, we played a few more rounds of deathmatch before getting on the train - me to work, him to the airport. Work is fairly quiet, though everytime someone is trying to be friendly and wanting to talk to me, I feel I'm on the verge of collapsing into a silently sobbing ball in the corner. I get a little cranky when I miss my nap. And even though I wouldn't give up one minute of my jam-packed amazing weekend of amazing people and amazing food, it does take a toll on an extroverted introvert like me. Luckily, all I have to do this week in-between work is get ready for Ragdale on Thursday.