Snow Day!

Ok, so a snow day means you end up in school an extra day in June right? WHO CARES! Right now..I'm just hoping and wishing for a snow day tomorrow so badly I can TASTE IT! Please oh please, let there be snow!

So we went to the home show in philadelphia yesterday. This was by the recommendation of the wonderful Christine (see right). To be honest, I was dissappointed! I expected more home design/interior decorating ideas all in one place! It wasn't like that at all. It was more about the home as a structure! There were decks and siding and gutters...things like that more or less..but you know what? I WAS destined to be there..why? Well, you see, I just so happened to run into my absolute best friend in the whole wide world that I don't get to see all that often. She was there with her other half and her family whom I haven't seen in years! So we got to walk around like old pals and have a blast and it made it all worth it! Then we went to Reading Terminal Market for a late lunch before going on our merry ways. What a surprise that was! Thanks Christine for sending me on my fate :)

You can spend a whole year mulling over friendships gone bad and let it eat at you and try your damndest to repair them. But what do you do when it doesn't work out? Well..it ate at me for a long time and then you must decide to just let it go and walk away and rid yourself of all the negative energies surrounding those people.

I wish that friendships revolved around personalities and people and who they are inside, but sometimes, it goes beyond that. Sometimes, its your material lives that suspend you in jeopardy of your friends. When it gets to that point and they don't see you for who you are, then you need to realize who your true friends are.

People who judge you by how big your wallet is - today or 10 months ago - are not people worthy of being friends with. True friends are there through thick and thin , almost like marriage...For Richer or Poorer.

So to my true friends...here is a toast to you, for being there when i've needed you and for making me smile. I can only hope I can do the same!

Miami can be summed up in two sentences:

Phish has now shown me why they are allowed to charge 40 bucks a show.

THAT'S what I'm paying to hear!

I've been seeing Phish for just over 9 years (the 28th was my 9 year anniversary) and I took hiatus very hard. I had just hit about 80 shows and it was like a slam in the face. I literally remember sitting in front of the TV over hiatus once crying over Bittersweet Motel saying "they'll come back, you'll see, they have to!" I know, pathetic isn't it? I kinda needed the break..I just didn't expect it to be THAT long! I got married in '01 and somewhere in the past three years I've moved out of home, acquired three cats, gotten a real job, and bought a house. I certainly haven't wasted that time! But coming back after hiatus, I looked at Phish in a different light. I was so thankful that they were even playing again that I wasn't critical about the shows at all. I don't actually have a bad thing to say about any of the 14 shows I hit this year. They were alot of fun, isn't that what Phish is supposed to be? I could have only complained that the tickets were outrageously priced and that Phish's new ticket system sucks. I used to come to shows with a wishlist in mind, a Tela perhaps, maybe if i'm very lucky, an Esther, Acoustic Army, Peaches, songs I haven't heard (which gets harder and harder the more I see them!!), but after hiatus, I just didn't do that..I enjoyed them..but certainly not like Miami..not one of the other 10 shows I saw this year even stood up to Miami.
It took my boys a year to find their grind, but I would just like to say that if you thought they were back a year ago, nah, they were just warming up..as of December 28th, Phish is truly back..