Successful Parties....Experiments that fail

This weekend was Memorial Day weekend, the only 3 day weekend before the 4th of July. 1 month ago I announced to my friends that I was going to throw a party for them at my "new place" in Emeryville on the 26th of May. I had not known then that date fell on the Memorial 3 Day Weekend. Had I known I would have instead gone down to San Diego with Carlos to relax, see the sun for the first time in Months (since theres no sun in Northern California). But then after I had already schedueled things, I figure it was a miracle that everybody could make it on the same day and I sacrificed San Diego for the party.
I had only slept 4 hours on Friday, then in the morning, I had to run to lab to play with my tissue cultures and finish my westerns. Coincidently Jose called me at 10:30 am to check up on me. It was funny that he thought he would wake me up from sleep and instead I was already in lab. So I tried my best to get everything done, and then I went to the supermarket.

By the time I got home it was 1 pm. I had to go back to lab at 3 pm. All day, We were cleaning up and running around. By the time I returned from my 3 pm run to the lab it was 4:00 pm. Carlos looked fresh out of the shower. I baked an Angel FoodCake within an hour and started preparing the vegeterian Lasagna while Carlos took care of the sauce.

It was a successful party, Rick, whom I had not seen since forever showed up. And then the usual suspects, Sheri, Maria, Tania, and David showed up also. Since I had done everything in a rush I had low expectations on the Lasagna and the cake but both turned out to be very good. I was surprised at how much everybody liked the lasagna, including Carlos. Just this sunday morning the first thing he said was "that lasagna was really good". I smiled.
We had tons of fun. We talked about everybody and everything. We made up a Shit List of 9 people we LOVE to HATE! We drank we ate until there was no tomorrow, we listened to music. Carlos and Maria argued 100 times. Rick drank, Carlos drank, and Nick drank. We watched foamy. We looked up webpages.....Talked about everything!
It felt good to finally have my friends over at my CLEAN apartment. Sigh. This was the first day that my apartment looked decent. It is soooo relaxing to have an apartment thats not filled with boxes and that you can actually walk around in.

In the mean time, in the background of things, Carlos had been giving me a weird vive. I just...I don't know.. I didn't feel like he was there with me. It could have just been guilt because I had been a very bad girl the day before. I am not even going to go thru it. We hardly talked all day and I felt like everytime we did say something to eachother we were on the verge of an argument. That didn't help my stress. I kept trying to instigate the fight that was boiling but it just wouldn't happen. Then I tried hugging and kissing....Nope...It just wasn't flying. Truth is that he didn't ease up on me until he got a little drunk. And then finally FINALLY I breathed and smiled and relaxed. He finally opened up on me. There was my husband. He was so funny too. He just sat down, played with his computer and made fun of us. Everybody enjoys his sense of humor.
Anyways, the lasagna was soooo good that there were NO leftovers. Everybody was so full after that they hardly ate the cake. So now I have a bunch of angel food cake at home...> :)
People left when once again, Carlos started snoring. Sitting down, snoring. hehehe. Truth is I was wiped out too.
It was very relaxing, and nice to have everyone at my CLEAN home.
>:) This thing about having real friends, that you can count on, that you can actually talked to, that show up to your parties just to hang out, That thing, It is quite nice!!!! Infact it is awesome.
I've never had that before. Frankly I thought I would never have it but now that I do I got to say, "Thank GOD!"

If it weren't for how my project is going in the annoying lab, life would be perfect. It is 4 weeks til my rotation ends and here I am, NO RESULTS... But whatever, you can't have your cake and eat it too. I rather my personal life be perfect in exchange for a few heartaches in the job.

Thanks guys, for coming over to my party. woooo-HOOOO!