holy crap, what a weekend (or: so you see, there's this girl...)

[The Cheat]

ok, so i JUST got home not more than 20 minutes ago from the BEST weekend in years. i had to blow off a day of work, but it's all good. where do i begin...

ok, let's start with friday. my plans to leave at 3pm and get snappy delivered by 5 were shot down by my boss, who basically gave me a good ol' tongue lashing and thus, i had to stay till 4:30. well, i figured, if i have to stay, i should give toad the money for his parts and he could grab them. while he's doing that, i finish up what i'm doing and we both get done at exactly the same time. so it's 4:30 now, and we're heading down the highway to deliver snappy. we do that, and by the time we get back to my house it's 7:15. dammit, we're gonna be late. i pack some stuff and we head out.

by this time, it's 8:15 or so before we REALLY get on the road, and i'm just a tad heated at the boss. i get behind the wheel and we motor around 9:00 and i'm motoring. driving the fox is always fun because it has a GREAT suspension and you can really cruise at 85-90 with no problems. i drive for a bit, and we switch.

toad decides he wants to top 300 on a tank of fuel, so we blow by our usual stop for halfway in and we get off the next exit...but everything is closed. we end up getting lost while i'm trying like hell on VZNavigator to find an open station. finally, we just say screw it and start driving around. we end up in downtown clearfield, pa...which is like smalltown usa. toad asks a cop where the nearest gas station is and it turns out there's one right past the light. oh well, can't hurt to ask. i fill up the fox and get behind the wheel.

i hit the road and i motor again because i do drive wicked fast. i'm doing an easy 75-80 and it feels good. i'm just cruising along about an hour or so into my stint, in the left lane (the right lane did have some black ice in my defense here) and HOLY PETUNIAS a cop pulls out RIGHT in front of me as i'm cresting a hill! i tap the brakes, cut the wheel, and switch lanes. the fox takes it like a champ, my wallet gets a $108 lashing for driving in the left lane. oh yeah, it took the cop 55 MINUTES to write the ticket. anyhoo, i get the ticket, we keep going.

we finally see ohio around 4:25 in the morning, and what a beautiful sight. of course, there's black ice all the way around, so it's slow going. we switch right at the border so i can get some relaxing time (i'd been up for 24 hours at this point and i was hit). i pop in clerks 2 in the lappy, toad takes over.

it's slow going until we hit the metro area, where the roads are clear. we step it up a bit and make it tom's around 5:45am, about, oh, 4 hours later than planned. it's all good though, tom's up, toad's beat, i'm wired off cupcakes (cake shot!), dr. pepper, caffeine, and nicotine, so tom and i stay up and bs while toad gets some rest.

9am rolls around and go figure, everyone's late. toad wakes up, i attempt to look decent though i will admit i probably looked like utter hell, and tom's making breakfast. 9:25 rolls around and dave and shay show up. bill's not too far behind, so we chow down once he gets there.

so the group of movers decide we should roll out. having ridden with toad and the fox being the vehicle left here, i ride with shay. toad hops a lift with tom and pomelo and we're off, the happy little beetle caravan that we are.

pete and brian are already there, so we get right to work. fun times ensue when my boss calls. i'm talking to him and tom sets off shay's alarm and me quickly thinking, i tell him i'm outside getting some fresh air and my brother is just being a jerk. i think it worked...

*sidetrack* i called out because apparently friday night i ate some bad sushi and had been ralphing all night. he called at 11:30 and i still hadn't gone to bed. i got off the hook hardcore on that, or so i thought...more to follow...

we do the moving thing and then we decide to get some mexican. hindsight being 20/20, we shoulda went for tommy's because poor shay got sick from it. tom is being tom and shooting food from his straw, and i think we all got a piece of SOMETHING shot at us. we decide to trek up to go see don, and again, i'm riding with shay, but this time, i'm behind the wheel of the loco bug.

don was in great spirits and he looked better than i've ever seen him, be it in pictures or in person. toad is passed out in the chair, so i decide to take a wad of wet tp and throw it at him. he wakes up, startles me, and i miss. this sets off the rest of the weekend.

we leave, drop off bill with his car, and head back to tom's. shay and i are just having a nice conversation and tom and toad decide to start singing "kiss the girl" at us. why, i'll never know, but it embarrassed the crap out of us. after un-embarrassing myself enough, i decide to do it so they'll leave us alone for a second, and it worked!

i head back up to the apartment, shay heads out because she decided to stay up until 3:30am the night before. the three of us basically get crazy and start messing with each other like whoa.

sunday morning comes and i have a date with miss shay, so i'm up by 8:30 and showered and changed by 9am. i change the oil in the fox and i'm off. i hit lake effect snow and holy jeez it scares me a bit...i haven't driven in snow since LAST YEAR this time. i make it to shay's house in good time though, and have no trouble finding it thanks to VZNavi. we head out for brunch with her parents at the cheesecake factory. cheesecake? with brunch? of course i'm there! i should note though that shay's parents are awesome and very cool people, and i'm glad i met them.

shay and i venture off for a bit, and we end up at the mall. i got a bit of a culture shock as i'd never been in a louis vuitton retailer or a saks, so i was like holy crap. it's all good though. we cause some trouble in the mall and head back to her place. still snowing, we decide it best i head out just in case it gets worse. it's like 3pm or so or by now, and i head back to the apartment.

tom and toad had a guy's day, wherein i guess they shortened the adapter for toad's new wheel, went shopping, and hung out on the org. tom's got some fried chicken made and HOLY CRAP was it G-E-W-D GEWD! we all get the itis and take a nap. i wake up and for some reason, i hear my phone beeping. i have a missed call and a text from shay. toad's right next to me and i'm like "why didn't you wake me?" and he's got a smirk on his face a mile wide. i scratch my head and it's COVERED in shaving cream. like, not just a dollop, my hair was white! i wash it off and tom's like "come here, i gotta tell you something". i get close, and BAM! i get MORE shaving cream in the face! i couldn't help but laugh at this point.

i'm sitting down at the kitchen table not 20 minutes later and i feel a coldness down my back. i immediately think it's an ice cube or something, but no, it's a piece of cheese with mayonnaise on it. haha, that's #3 for the night. i wipe it off and get back to my regularly scheduled chatting.

the boys are watching topgear at midnight and i'm just plugging along doing my thing. tom pops in harry potter, the itis kicks in, and i'm out. wake up at 3am, stumble to bed, and fall asleep. i totally forgot to un-set my alarm though...oops. 8am rolls around and i get tom in the room with a red pen trying to draw on me, but not before toad throws my phone at me. i finally get it to stop beeping and fall back asleep. 11am rolls around, i'm up, we eat breakfast, then we head out.

we head to the store, and i'm riding in the hatch of pomelo. tom takes FULL advantage of that and picks the bumpiest roads known to man and FLIES over them. we drive around for a bit, come back, get the fox, and head to tom's mom's house. now, for those unfamiliar, this is the "mod shack." as in, you want to work on your car with tom, you come here. we head back to the apartment, and do some grocery shopping, and i get the privilege of running back to the apartment in 10 degree weather! we eat some lunch (homemade pizza-for-ones...yum), and we start to clean up the place. by the time we're done, it's 4:30pm and i start to say goodbye in chat. we actually don't leave until 5:20 or so because like jose, i can't seem to want to leave, though i have my own reason as to why. toad gets up, and like 10 minutes later i realize he's gone and i'm like "holy crap, where'd he go?" he's out in the car waiting for me, so i say my goodbyes and i'm out.

we find a shorter way out of cleveland, which coincidentally gives me the EXACT mileage to shay's house from mine (513 miles). 480 saves us time and tolls, so we're motoring. i hop behind the wheel around 7:30 and i'm making great time. we cross state college (the halfway mark) at 9:10, so i know we're kicking ass. finally the fox gets low on gas around 10pmish at mile 215, so i pull over and we gas up. toad takes over and he's motoring now too, thanks to an xxl monster. i take the opportunity to catch some zzzz's, and on and off, i get about an hour. toad pulls over in NY, i pop a couple vivarin with my dr. pepper, and we're off again. about an hour later, toadeh is near sleep, so he pulls over, and i drive the rest of the way to my house, which was about 25 miles or so. toad gets about 25 minutes of sleep, and we're at my house. the weekend is closed, we say our goodbyes, and we're off, me to my house, him to mass.

i hop in chat, put on some breaking benjamin, and here i am, finally finishing this at 4am. i had the BEST weekend in years, and yes, we have a new org couple. shay, you rock, i'm SO glad we met, and hey, the future looks pretty bright eh?

i have work in two hours, but screw it, i have caffeine to keep me going, but i can guarantee that by 1pm, i'll be under my desk napping.

[angelworks]

Ahhhh--that's so sweet J! I'm happy for you as you are one of the good guys.

That being said---when you gonna get your butt to NY!

The gang leaves for Australia on or around the Feb 10th through March---so get a wiggle on dude,

Get it--- Wiggle/Australia?

OY.

[GINA]

Man, what a story Justin. I greatly enjoyed it

[FineExampl]

Wait....yer freakin hooked up with Shay?!
Man oh man oh man...
How on earth did this happen??

[Shay]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Wait....yer freakin hooked up with Shay?!
Man oh man oh man...
How on earth did this happen??

Im still trying to figure out how he got away with it

[The Cheat]

Originally Posted by Shay

Im still trying to figure out how he got away with it

that's what i'm wondering too.

*shrugs shoulders*

[JuggBug]

Originally Posted by Shay

Im still trying to figure out how he got away with it

Who cares how?! I it!!! I feel like such a mom, watching her kids head off to prom or something!

[FineExampl]

UGH i think it's gross! Boys and girls should NOT be kissing and showing affection in public. I'M OFFENDED!

/me runs off to rate thread with one star

[JuggBug]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

UGH i think it's gross! Boys and girls should NOT be kissing and showing affection in public. I'M OFFENDED!

/me runs off to rate thread with one star

Are not!

[FineExampl]

Wanna bet?

[The Cheat]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Wanna bet?

i dare you...

[Fowvay]

Shay-J during kiss de girl.

[Shay]

Originally Posted by Fowvay

Shay-J during kiss de girl.

Poor Loco looks all scratched up

[The Cheat]

tom, i'll remember that!

[callisto9]

nice story justin and congrats on the new love (same to you shay). you both deserve it! i expected far more pics though. now get on it.

[Shay]

Originally Posted by callisto9

nice story justin and congrats on the new love (same to you shay). you both deserve it! i expected far more pics though. now get on it.

thanks Erin

[Breez]

[The Cheat]

Originally Posted by callisto9

nice story justin and congrats on the new love (same to you shay). you both deserve it! i expected far more pics though. now get on it.

thanks erin!

[callisto9]

and what i meant by pics, was pics of you two kissing! i kid, i kid.

surely there has to be more pics of this ab-fab weekend though, right?

[k8thegr8]

What a great story! Sounds like you had a blast. I haven't had a mischevious time like that in a while...

So romantic, too.