The rest of this weekend more than made up for the disappointment of Friday.

Heidi and I had an awesome time at Sonic Foundry Fest ’99. Roy Elkins Farm is amazingly idyllic,
rolling hills, big trees, lands untouched by the glaciers. There was a cover band called “Chewy”
which was pretty decent and a comedian, and plenty to eat and drink, (I must have had 4-5 cups of the sprechers root beer they had on tap). Some people had way too much to drink, heh. But over all it was a great time.


I played volleyball for the first time in years, got a bit of sun, and generally had a great time. Introduced Heidi around too, who knows, perhaps she’ll be working with me soon.(Which would be so great!)



I get to take Heidi’s fiancee, Todd to work and back this week, because she’s gone off to Internet World.(lucky).


Today Boy and I spent a long time working together on one of his web projects(it’s not done yet, but the whole thing is coming together so well!)
It was really nice to collaborate with him.

Stacie

Sonic Foundry Fest happens this afternoon, I’m Taking Heidi Which should be fun. It’s at the Sales Marketing head’s farm or something.

BIG NEWS
It looks like I’m going to be able to graduate in december! Woo! 3.5 years Baybee!!!


I got to go to the Dane County Fair last night, I was dissapointed on so many levels.
We(Boy, Andy, Josh, and Josh’s friend from work) had only been there for 5 min, when it started to pour rain, we managed to grab some corn dogs from Charlies stand.(I worked for Charlie’s for 2 summers, traveling around to different county and state fairs), and ran inside to the vendor’s room.


No one seemed to want to be there, except for me. I love the carnival, I love the lights
and the sights and the food. No one seemed to understand. I should have told Boy, beforehand, what I was trying to do, that I was trying to show him part of who I was, and am.

That’s not the worst part, I forced him to go on a ride he didn’t want and it rained even harder as we swooped around in the ferris wheel. We decided to leave then, there was standing water, we were all incredible soaked my shoes(which have been in the dryer all morning) are still wet.

He did win me a little bear, which was sweet of him. And he did go on the ride with me.


It’s a communication thing I guess.

Still, a dissapointment on so many levels.

I’d better go get ready for Sonic Fest now.


Ps, My coworker knows many things. Magical Mystical Mark


Also, Boy now has an offical .com Domain of his own, I bought him Novicius.com
for our one year(kinda) Anniversary.



Stacie

Today was much better, even though I didn’t get together with any friends. I did call everyone(several times), and only got through to Josh, who was at his mom’s house, recovering from a 13 hour trip to canada, and who did not want to go to the fireworks with me.


I went with my parents, and watched a very long very good showing. I went and got us carnival corn dogs and they were good. (I used to eat 2 for breakfast when I worked at the carnivals those two summers, ah nostalgia)

It was nice to be with my parents, they are awful sweet and funny. And It’s alsways nice to share fireworks with people. It’s really nice to be startled by the booms together, and laugh at the subtle jokes put into the display, (like the delayed booms). And I love seeing the gold ones go off across the sky, they drip down like liqued gold, beautiful…


For the first time ever I saw these awesome chinese lanterns, red, lit from the inside, floating off in the wind. It was a good night.


Later my mom told me that she and Dad don’t understand that Boy and I can date for so long like we have(1yr-1.5yr depending),
(they got married right out of highschool, not too long after they met).

Gah, marriage. Mom wants grandchildren soo bad.
You know, she has _that_ look when she sees kids at the mall.
Today she sighed happily over some little girl outfits while we were shopping(‘little girls are so fun to dress up’)

And I don’t really know how I feel about everything.

Just that I’m fiercly in love with him.


Hope you had a great 4th of July.


g’night…



Stacie

So, it’s the third, part of long weekend. It’s been pretty relaxing today, all cocooned up in the house, sorting stuff in the basement from college and before, throwing clothes into a giveaway or keep pile. And then I d/l the
demo of flash4, because it’s so much fun to work with. Last week I made a lil flash animation of Buttercup, which I put up in Quixmix.



And I’ve been fine, all day, until my Mom called me to come out and watch the fireworks from her friends house a couple min away.


Usually, I watch fireworks downtowne, they have this incredible thing called Rythmn and Booms where they computer sync the fireworks to music which plays on a local station, and lasts for about a half-hour. Last year I went with my friends(Ryan and Co), and we threw blankets down and played sheepshead and laughed so hard.


There is just something about the 4th of July that really gets to me.


You wouldn’t think I’m ultra patriotic to look at me. But there is something within me that reacts to the lights and sounds, to the community and the jet flyover. It’s not just an emotion created by these things, more like enhanced. But At moments like that, with all the music, and laughter and lights, when you can feel everything exploding around you, and you twist around to look at your friends with these great big grins on their faces, it’s just then that you sit
back in a happy sigh, and think “This is America” and you’re so proud you could burst.

It’s just something you want to share with the ones you love. And this year,Boy is off with his family, prolly building something. Not only am I not watching the fireworks with a gaggle of friends, I’m sitting in a group of my ‘rents
friends, wishing, very badly that Boy was with me, or I was with Boy. And so, we’re watching the fireworks about 25 miles away, like we are watching down a long corridor, or in 16 bit, or something, and suddenly I’m crying.

I’m crying, because among 30 people, I feel very much alone. I’m sobbing as quietly as I can in the dark backyard, a halfeaten and melting vanilla icecream cone dripping around my hand.

That whole experience, that whole incredible camraderie was 25 miles away. >Heavy Sigh< All I could think was, I should have been there, should have called some people, something!


I’m a bit better, really, just echoes of disapointment now. I might try to grab some people
to find actual 4th of July fireworks tommorrow night. I sent Wendy an email about getting some
sushi this weekend that she prolly missed, but maybe she’ll still get it.



Stacie