My weekend has been different. Dad and Erik went up to Fernie for "the boy's weekend." Mom and I stayed home. Last night I went with her to her drumming group. It was horrific. I think I may have experienced the final death rattle of this particular group.

They talked for an hour before they began playing, and this group seems to have a lot of issues. One woman in particular makes me grind my teeth in anger.

Anyway, it wasn't a pretty sight, and sadly when they do actually play they sound pretty decent. They have two gigs coming up, but I don't think they will all make it until the summer.

The really terrible thing is, that band is my social circle.

That simple fact is frightening. These women have been around me since I was in elementary school. I've been attending practices, and going to gigs. Pretending that I was cool because I knew the band.

I used my mothers band as an excuse not to have peers. My mother used her band to pretend that she was social. My father used her band to pretend that he had friends, that he too, was cool.

My brother was the only smart one in this whole ordeal, he avoided the drums and the drummers at all costs.

So, what am I to do now? I'm not sure how to answer that, or if I even want too.


Today, I slept in until noon, so I wasn't able to go see the African Drumming down at the Children's Festival, which really is too bad. Apparently they were amazing, but when I woke up I just didn't have the energy to pull myself together.

Mom and I went and visited Grandma instead. Then we went on a movie binge. We rented Girl with a Pearl Earring and In America. We went to A&A to get dinner, then returned home to watch the hockey game. "We" won. My mother is a fanatic.

We only managed to watch In America after the game. It was amazing. I highly suggest you rent it. Amazing, the girls in it are unbelievable, and the story is too.

Tomorrow we are going to watch Girl With a Pearl Earring, go to the Lantern meeting (uugh) and hopefully purchase some airline tickets to somewhere other than here.

On the upside, if the past is any indication, by all rights I should have spent the day on the couch writhing in pain. I didn't. *big huge too good to be true smiles*

Monday is coming very soon and I feel like I'm crawling out of my skin with anticipation.