November 18th 2001

Okay, so you know how when there's a group of people on a road trip, and there's usually one person who's not adventurous at all, and they're always complaining about something?

Yeah, that's me.

Well! They all wanted to climb a mountain, in the rain, and I'm like "Hello! I'm athletically challenged! And it's raining!"

My weekend was quite enjoyable. Me, Dentist Friend, Crazy Friend, Diet Friend, and Diet Friend's roommate all got in my car (well, Dentist friend came up later in her own car) and made the two hour trek to Turner Falls, Oklahoma. We rented a nice little cabin in the woods that didn't have a TV and had a grand old time. We had wonderful brisket sandwiches and cheeseburgers at this great barbecue place, and then headed out to the Falls.

I was dreading this part of the trip, because I'm not really an outdoorsy kind of person, certainly not one that enjoys hiking and climbing up and down the stairs, and there were many stairs. And it was raining. But we did it, and after it was over, I was agreeing with Diet Friend when she said it was "Empowering!" I climbed a mountain! Not a big mountain, but still a mountain, nonetheless!

We then went to the grocery store, still feeling empowered, and bought lots of food particles. We got back to the cabin around 6:00 PM and then spent the next 8 hours playing games, drinking champagne, and listening to country music. It's amusing to watch three girls whose only alcohol intake is at communion drink several glasses of champagne. Me and Dentist friend drink slightly more than that, but you wouldn't have known that with me. I acted like a total alcoholic, drinking a total of six glasses. Playing the MTV trivia game was thus made quite more fun than it would usually be.

Everyone was fascinated with my vast MTV knowledge. They wanted to know how I could possibly know who hosted the first MTV Video Music Awards, how Ozzy Ozbourne got banned from Texas, and other fascinating things that I can't quite remember. Hey, I was under the influence.

It was just a really good time. While I don't feel I can tell them everything about me, I don't have to. They don't want to know everything about my past, and all the bad things I've done. It's like I'm starting over with them or something. I've only known all of them for a year and a half, and that's all the know about me. It's refreshing, in a way. I'm just so happy to have people who accept me the way I am. They aren't going to give up on me. They aren't going to forget about me and stop calling me and everything else. They are real, true, friends, and I can't tell you how happy I am to have found people like that.