Aching body. I knew I was going to be hurting after that crazy river torture, but it has kind of sucked today at work, bending over to scan items and such. Oh and the sleepiness.
I had set my alarm to go off at 7:15 and then 7:30 on the chance I would sleep through the 7:15 one, though I knew I needed to leave the house by 7:30 to be at work by 7:45...I woke up to the 7:30 alarm and had to make a mad dash around my room, throwing on clothes and shoes and out the door. So I pretty much wasn't fully awake while driving and even while talking to some customers once I got to work.
A little more about yesterday:
We got on the river kind of behind schedule. Nate had a friend who wanted us to be there by noon, and she was pretty pissed when we showed up about an hour later. We had to still wait for Nate and I's college pal, Mike, so she went off with her other friend to the river area while we waited...and waited...and not the least bit ironically got annoyed that Mike was taking his sweet time getting there, stopping at a metal shop on the way for hell knows what.
When we found out he had his own kayak and didn't need a tube, we just started off without him. It wasn't fifteen minutes later that he was coming down the river behind us. It was a good thing he had been there because at times (when there was water deep enough to float on) the wind would be strong enough to start pushing us the opposite way down the river and we needed him to pull us in a blobby-chain formation out of rocks and murky banks along the way.
So there was Mike, and Nate who was drinking Tanqueray from a plastic travel water bottle, Lily, Maribel, and Nate and Lilt's friend Tay who we had met the previous night at Barbella as we were leaving. Well, Maribel and Tay were hitting it off in the most nauseating of ways which I was just ignoring, but the other members of the group dubbed them "love turtles" and we all avoided then whenever it got particularly love-turtely on our trek down the river.
Honest, Tay seemed fine when we was sober, but he was making me regret buying all the beers and food that we took with us on the river once he was drunk. He just became obnoxitious, trying to get me to "join the group" when I chose to keep pushing down river instead of just allowing myself to sit in the middle for half an hour with the rest of them, and mentioning me wanting to read as if I would rather be doing that.
When we got back on land, I was tried as hell and just generally over it so I was trying to get us to the car, but the boys were lingering at Mike's car. I sighed out of the earshot before going back to where they were amassed, and Tay starts trying to high five me and say something about how I was joining the group. I let my annoyance show in full force, I was done being nice, and told him to stop but that just got Nate all concerned and then it was both the boys trying to high five me, literally following me for a few paces as I stepped away from them with body language that made it clear I wasn't having it. Not to mention what my mouth said.
I tried to be understanding since they all had drank on the river and I didn't, but it was annoying. I had to drive Nate's vehicle back to Austin but the ride was not so bad once the love turtles in the back fell asleep and I got to listen and sing along with Oh Land while Nate tried to entertain me with jokes.
We ate at Trudy's which wasn't all that bad. Lily seemed annoyed with the place and I could see why after I ate my food. Nothing bad, nothing good. Just not a place that made me want to come back because there was no "hook". No one signature thing that I liked better than anything else I have had in town. But it did the job of feeding me and getting us in and out relatively quickly which got me in bed at home quicker than I had expected.
I had set my alarm to go off at 7:15 and then 7:30 on the chance I would sleep through the 7:15 one, though I knew I needed to leave the house by 7:30 to be at work by 7:45...I woke up to the 7:30 alarm and had to make a mad dash around my room, throwing on clothes and shoes and out the door. So I pretty much wasn't fully awake while driving and even while talking to some customers once I got to work.
A little more about yesterday:
We got on the river kind of behind schedule. Nate had a friend who wanted us to be there by noon, and she was pretty pissed when we showed up about an hour later. We had to still wait for Nate and I's college pal, Mike, so she went off with her other friend to the river area while we waited...and waited...and not the least bit ironically got annoyed that Mike was taking his sweet time getting there, stopping at a metal shop on the way for hell knows what.
When we found out he had his own kayak and didn't need a tube, we just started off without him. It wasn't fifteen minutes later that he was coming down the river behind us. It was a good thing he had been there because at times (when there was water deep enough to float on) the wind would be strong enough to start pushing us the opposite way down the river and we needed him to pull us in a blobby-chain formation out of rocks and murky banks along the way.
So there was Mike, and Nate who was drinking Tanqueray from a plastic travel water bottle, Lily, Maribel, and Nate and Lilt's friend Tay who we had met the previous night at Barbella as we were leaving. Well, Maribel and Tay were hitting it off in the most nauseating of ways which I was just ignoring, but the other members of the group dubbed them "love turtles" and we all avoided then whenever it got particularly love-turtely on our trek down the river.
Honest, Tay seemed fine when we was sober, but he was making me regret buying all the beers and food that we took with us on the river once he was drunk. He just became obnoxitious, trying to get me to "join the group" when I chose to keep pushing down river instead of just allowing myself to sit in the middle for half an hour with the rest of them, and mentioning me wanting to read as if I would rather be doing that.
When we got back on land, I was tried as hell and just generally over it so I was trying to get us to the car, but the boys were lingering at Mike's car. I sighed out of the earshot before going back to where they were amassed, and Tay starts trying to high five me and say something about how I was joining the group. I let my annoyance show in full force, I was done being nice, and told him to stop but that just got Nate all concerned and then it was both the boys trying to high five me, literally following me for a few paces as I stepped away from them with body language that made it clear I wasn't having it. Not to mention what my mouth said.
I tried to be understanding since they all had drank on the river and I didn't, but it was annoying. I had to drive Nate's vehicle back to Austin but the ride was not so bad once the love turtles in the back fell asleep and I got to listen and sing along with Oh Land while Nate tried to entertain me with jokes.
We ate at Trudy's which wasn't all that bad. Lily seemed annoyed with the place and I could see why after I ate my food. Nothing bad, nothing good. Just not a place that made me want to come back because there was no "hook". No one signature thing that I liked better than anything else I have had in town. But it did the job of feeding me and getting us in and out relatively quickly which got me in bed at home quicker than I had expected.
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