Friday

Pretty tame night for us. Of course we decide on going to karaoke. It's been forever and a year since we were last there and we miss mister KJ. I get home from work and have a flash of genius...we should definitely go to the park in Gresham and swing before going to the bar. Of course C loves that idea because those are her favorite swings and she is a swinging champ. I have another flash of genius. I may or may not have had a special brownie waiting for me to devour it...and I decided tonight was the night to go for it. That's right my friends. I eat it before we leave so that it will hit when we're at the bar and it will be worn off by the time we leave. Smartness. C has a couple beers so we're on the same page.
Off we go to the park. We pull into the parking lot and are faced with quite a surprise. It's movie in the park night here. Damn...Now we're scared the swings will be taken. I want to swing damn it.
Somehow, with all these people, there is still a parking spot right in the front of the lot. Sweetness. It's too dark to see the swings from where we are so we have to get out and walk to them to know if we can actually swing of not. They're playing Jouney to the Center of the Earth. Random... There is one swing open as we start walking. Then 2 swings. Yessss! Now we're power walking to get there because we must swing. We're not leaving without swinging and no one is going to take our swings damn it!
Before we get too much fun in the other half of the swings open up and I know those are the ones C prefers so we get up and scootch over and get to swinging. Before long we're giggling like lunatics. Why you ask? Because when we swing, we mean business. See, the trick is to get yourself up really high in the air and then when you feel like you can't go any higher do a lil twist and before you know it you're flying around totally out of control but not really. It's amazing and a ton of fun. Course, the movie was just ending as we got to the good part of swinging so as we start laughing people are now starting to walk by. Don't be jealous cuz we're having more fun than you guys! Quit judging!
Some guy on a microphone started talking. Thanking people for coming and announced that this movie was not put on by the city of Gresham but was actually sponsored by a church or church group. Then he let us all know that there were free bibles available up front. No thanks, I'll just keep swinging. We swung for a bit and then we got tired...and are hands started cramping from holding the swing chains so we headed to karaoke. Even with all the people there, and the movie just ending, I had no trouble getting the car out of the parking lot. Though I did kinda cut someone off. Who cares (probably the person I cut off right?). By the time we make it to karaoke the brownie has definitely kicked in. How can we tell? Because when we get out of the car, after laughing about something, I try to explain something to C but all that comes out of my mouth is a long string of gibberish. Like, the thoughts in my mind made perfect sense but when I opened my mouth to share them I stuttered because I said the wrong syllable and then my mouth just kept talking. It was basically a full sentence without one single real word. C looked at me and said "what?!" and then I was almost on the ground, laughing. My purse was definitely on the ground. Seriously funny stuff people.
I compose myself, slightly, and we finally make it into the bar.
Damn, it's dead in here! There are like 4 people in the bar, counting the bartender...who isn't the usual bartender. I'm ok with that because the usual bartender basically sucks booty. I mean, I don't drink so it doesn't matter to me if I can't get the bartenders attention but I mean come on. Do your job chick! And what if I wanted a soda? Or perhaps some water? Not gonna happen with the usual bartender.
We hug J hello and take the chance to pee (tmi? I dont care) and sit at our usual table. Yes, we have a usual table.  J comes and hangs out with us for a minute. Complains about the place being so dead and tells us the new bartender is actually just a stand in and usual bartender is just off for this week. Awesome. He pushes his beer to C and then he goes to sing a song. Stand in bartender comes to the table and asks is we want anything. Take that usual tender! You suck. We don't want anything, but I enjoy good customer service anyway. C texts Big J to see if he's going to come to the bar. Heck yes he is! Sweetness. None of the regulars are around except for us and the boss man. Big J makes it to the bar not too soon after we got there. We hang out for a bit.
Why are we outside? I have no idea. Don't ask brownie girl questions because she doesn't know the answers. Anyway, we're outside with boss man, J and Big J and we're talking about how dead the place is. Their solution: replace the pool table with a little pool and have me and C jello/mud wrestle to entice newcomers to the bar. Can you feel my eyes rolling people? Ha ha. Har de har har. More eye rolling too. Lot's of it.
By midnight J is packing up the karaoke stuff because it's just too dead. Big J tried to get me to sing. Soooooo not gonna happen. Then he made fun of me because I was apparently staring at random things like a weirdo. He says he likes when I eat brownies. I'm entertaining. Gee, thanks.
Karaoke is over so what do we decide? Go back to the park! Duh! Hug J goodbye and Big J drives (again. I love him for always driving us around!). Probably the smartest idea really until the brownie is totally out of my system anyway.
He always parks at the top of the hill and we start to walk around the skate park up there when I notice C hesitating and looking at the skate bowl. She mentions something about walking through it and then keeps walking around it and I stop...let's do it! Big J says we're going to hurt ourselves. Thanks for the confidence boost homie. We hop in onto a flat part and are faced with a rounded spot. C slides down and then I go. ummm that is way fun! Now we're giggling and crawling up the other side. Way harder...Eventually we make it out and down the hill to the swings.
Swing swing swing. Twist! Swing swing swing...TWIST! Hahahahahahahaha! Love it. Our hands hurt....I'm swinging upside down. Then so is C. The world looks different upside down. For some reason Big J thinks that statement is super funny. Off the swings. Over to the play structure. I found a log roll! More giggling. Play on the balance beam, climb up the weirdo loopy ladder thinger, watch C try to go down the slide but it takes forever. Seems like they make these things for small children. Silly designers.
We start to make our way back up the hill back to the Jeep. Well, now that we've had a taste of the skate park we want more so we head straight for that. This time Big J comes with us. We're all acting crazy and getting stuck in the thing. It's crazy hard to walk in there. I'm sure anyone that skates that is reading this thinks I'm a moron but guess who doesn't care? Brownie girl! I get out before C and Big J because I don't feel like being stuck. I walk the long way around and watch them slide around and make their way out. By the time I've made it back to the Jeep I notice some guy walking towards the benches on the opposite side of the skate park. His hood is up and he's walking in a suspicious manner. As we get in the car the guy gets up from the bench and starts to walk around in the skate area. All alone....He must have seen how much fun we were having and wanted summa that action.
Time for bed for us.

By the way, this is how C described our Friday night:
pretty sure it was brownie, beer, drive, swing, karaoke, swing
laugh laugh laugh
thats how the night went