I was looking forward to a nice quiet evening with
The first face I recognized was
And then I see another face that I could only know from a small, thumb-nail size icon. But this one isn't quite so familiar as the last. In fact, I can't even place the person with their user name. I have to ask him why he's so familiar. He informs me that his is
Brianfey was giving out "Homies" to everyone at the party. I liked the novelty of it but disliked mine after some one made an obscene joke about it that make it impossible for me to think of anything else when I looked at it. I looked around for one to swap it for and found this little treasure:
He looks huge here. But he's only 1 and 1/4 inch high. And I nicknamed him Goth Homie due to his Crow like make-up. Well soon word spread throughout the party that I got the cool goth Homie. People were coming up to me and asking to see it. I displayed it firmly in my grasp, not willing to let it out of my hands for a moment. It had become the prize Homie. Here was the coolest of all Homies!
Oh, I almost forgot the best part of the night. My dream of going to Burning Man may finally come true! Hannah and CJ offered to take me with them to Burning Man this year! Woo-hoooo! The only thing I have to worry about is whatever job I have at that time. I will be away for a week at the annual Seabeck retreat in the second week of August. So that already means asking a new employer to let me take a week off (without pay, because I won't have been there long enough to earn vacation time) for an entire week in August. Even if a new employer will let me take TWO weeks off in August (one for Seabeck and one for Burning Man), how will I get by missing TWO weeks pay in August? Hmmmm....guess I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. :)