where to start???
okay.... so... as i said.. i was going to Pittsburgh, Pa this week/weekend.
Yes i did.
I stopped in Indiana, Pa, along the way to visit an old friend.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)The trip from the edge of New York state (beginning of PA) to Pittsburgh took approximately 6 hours.
Add the time that i stopped for gas and visited my friend... push that up to 10 hours.
I hadn't seen my friend in 13 years!! 13!!!!!!!! holy shit!
She was just as i remembered her... except.... she's absolutely stunning!!
maybe she was just having a really good day... but .... probably not. i'm starting to think that's how she looks all the time... (when she's not shoveling horse poop) - (it's her passion to be with/around horses) - (dont judge).
anywhoo.. hanging out with her was great.
brought back great memories.
Also on the Journey from NY to Pitt I counted a total of 17 dead deer on the highway.
holy crap! that's a lot of food for the south!!!
SPOILERS! (Click to view)anywhoo.. i finally reached my friend's place in Pittsburgh @ 1230/1:00am.
went to bed around 2.
woke up (like i have been doing for the last 2 weeks) @ 9am.
watched tv for 3 hours before she finally got up.
got food. walked around saw a bunch of cool stuff and went to the CARNEGIE Museum!!! WOAH!! I LOVE DINOSAURS!!!!!
went back to her apartment brought in her TV and book shelf thing that i was delivering to her.
then we took showers and ate pasta.
then we went to some local bar.
met some of her friends.
had my butt squeezed my one of her friends that has boyfriend.
WEEIIRD.
eventually we got back to the apartment and chilled out and i drew up some tattoo designs.
we went to bed. woke up again at 9am.
let her sleep until noon again.
left and got food at this place called PRIMANTI'S.
they are famous for piling tomatoes, coleslaw, and French fries on their sandwiches.
ALL of their sandwiches!!
I got an egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich with everything on it but the coleslaw.
Coleslaw is gross.
got back to her apartment and her roommate came back from her trip to FLA.
Met her roommie. very nice and pretty girl. talked for a bit and got ready to go with her to get her tattoo.
My friend= Nicole
Nicole's roommie= Megan
SPOILERS! (Click to view)Megan and Nicole's friends: Mark and Chris joined us on the adventure to get Meg's tattoo.
get to this tattoo parlor and this weird random dude named skunk started talking to EVERYone who walked in and started a convo with Nicole and Megan.
interesting character that skunk.
finally got into the tattoo room.
AMY the tattoo artist was a very pretty girl and VERY talented.
I almost....
ALMOST got a tattoo when i was there.
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Anywhoo... Nicole held Megan's hand throughout the ordeal. then meg's hand got really sweaty and nicole's arm was tired... so i got to hold her hand.
AWww YAY!
hahaha.
so we left and i told them about this place that erika's (my friend from Indian, Pa) friend told me about.
SHARP EDGE
they have 57 beers on tap and over 300 in store.
it was great.
got some good beer there.
Nicole, Megan, Chris, and Mark had never been there before... and 3 of the 4 are "Pitt native's".
we left there and went back to the apartment and played apples to apples.
we only played 3 times.....
mainly because Nicole won EVERY time!!!
everyone left and/or went to bed.
nicole and i went to bed as well.
woke up AGAIN at 9am.
she slept until 1030ish.
got ready and went to the Pittsburgh St. Patty's day parade and all around drunken festivities.
explored Pittsburgh some more
saw PNC PARK, and HEINZ FIELD.
pulled my groin walking so much.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)walked back to her apartment.
packed up.
met Megan's friend from highschool: Kate, and then said goodbye. Megan gave me a hug. awwwww.
i left at about 6pm and got to my mom's house in CT at 1:00am.
my gps took me a different route and that was the lower route that led into Dirty Jersey. Ew.
I was too tired to join my 2 best friends in NYC with our other friend for his B'day.
good thing too. i was too tired to drive and they went to bed at 630am.
SPOILERS! (Click to view)got to my mom's . went to bed.
woke up at 10:30!!!!! yayyy!!! but really i was up at 9am... but i kept tossing and turning trying to go back to sleep.
packed my stuff.
played basketball with my 14 year old cousin.
drove towards home.
Mike and Jarrod (my bests) said they were on the same highway. told them to meet me in MYSTIC, Ct for lunch.
turns out they were 1 mile behind me the whole time.
finally got home at 4pm and used my computer for the first time since tuesday.
WHEW!!!!!
Now I am going to work tonight from 10pm-3am.
UGH!!!!
i will post if i can scan it or take pictures.
i love to draw and i'm starting to paint more than i used to.
(i was never very good at painting. especially watercolor)