Lunch in Boston

[judecorp]

I decided to go visit my old job yesterday. In Boston. My former coworkers had been telling me that I should go visit for about a gazillion years, and for a while Punk was REALLY unhappy in the car, so I put it off. But that has gotten much better and I e-mailed everyone and told them I was coming yesterday. Wouldn't you know I picked the day with the worst weather in weeks. Man, it rained. And rained. And there was even lightning! In January! Aah well, I'm a good driver so it wasn't too bad.

Everyone seemed excited to see me, which was fun, and Punk, which was overwhelming and fun (she was done after about 2 seconds). But I quickly realized that no one really made any kind of arrangements to hang out with me at all. Like, they told me to come for lunch, and I specifically came on a Friday because people are usually a little looser with the schedule, and then... they all had appointments! I guess there was a major miscommunication because I was under the impression that I would drive out there and we would enjoy a little leisurely lunch together at the office and hang a little. Instead, I sat there while they wolfed down their lunches and did paperwork, and then I hid in Amanda's office to try to feed an overwhelmed, overstimulated Punk.

However, eeka and Molly were excited to see me! Yay! What's funny is that since I know them from elsewhere, I /forgot/ that they both work at my job now. When I got in I remembered to check for Molly but then when I was in Amanda's office I was looking at her staff phone list and was like, "Duh. eeka's here, too!" CRAZY! She, however, was ridiculously excited to see me and wanted me to bring Jen and stay overnight and stuff and that was really awesome because I was glad to see her, too. Even if she is trying to make my baby Jewish. And just talks about my mom all the time.

The serendipitous thing was that a former client of mine who really liked me for whatever reason (every time I came over, she cooked me a huge meal) happened to be at my job yesterday bringing her daughter to play group for the first time. So I went down to talk to me and she was so frickin' excited to see me, she kept hugging me and hugging Punk and making her baby (who of course didn't remember me, she was probably 11 months when I left) hug me and it was just a really warm welcome, even though she was my wacky Somalian client who always asked how my "husband" was doing no matter what I tried to tell her. Heh. Today I just told her that he was fine. ;)

And then I was supposed to hook up with lorac but Katie misplaced her cell phone and she missed my call. That's actually probably for the best because the rain was worse on the way home and we got home later than I wanted and Punk was all strung out and starving. MOTY, that would be me.

So I drove four hours to have lunch with friends, but ended up picking up icky McD's drive through at a rest stop at 3pm on my way home. Suck.

Comments

[skatured.livejournal.com]

That DOES suck. It should have been a good time -- and it's great that you can see the silver lining in it all by seeing some old friends, but I would have been like "See if I make an effort again...at least not until it's nice and I can go out and have lunch with the punk by myself and do some window shopping as a back up plan."

We had that weather earlier this week ... Monday it was. CRAZY I tell you. I thought people were taking their garbage cans out and was shocked that it was thunder and lightening and pouring rain -- and then the FOG came.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I still had a good time, it just wasn't as good a time as I'd built it up to be in my head. And I guess brought me down to earth a little bit and reminded me that the world doesn't stop just because I show up. However, it was nice to have everyone be happy to see me (especially the people who had no idea I was coming, that's always fun) and go ga-ga over my cute baby.

It would have been nicer if the weather was nice, but mostly just for the driving. Otherwise I wouldn't have stayed longer or anything because my kid was fried after 2.5 hours.

That lightning was insane. One year we had a thunder snowstorm. That was seriously effed up.

[skatured.livejournal.com]

Also, I have never had more McDonalds in my life than I have had these past few weeks. It's the closest drive through that doesn't cost and arm and a leg and take FOREVER (ie, Culvers, KFC, and Popeyes).

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY.

It is far too easy to go through a drive-through when there is a sleeping or soon-to-be sleeping kid strapped safely in the backseat of the car... than to think about stopping somewhere and having to jostle the poor kid all over the place. Augh.

[eeka13.livejournal.com]

Hey, I can't help it if August liked the Hebrew songs better than the songs about yer mom. She kept telling me to sing more songs about drugs and porn, but then every time I did she cried.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

She's a total troublemaker, that's why. I tried to tell you that, but you were too busy saying, "OH SO CUTE SQUEEEEEEE," which is, of course, her Master Plan.

Next thing you know, you'll be bringing her a dreidel.

[eeka13.livejournal.com]

Ew, I'm not going to let your baby drool all over my dreidels. All she's getting from me is subversive t-shirts.

[changinglight.livejournal.com]

that is hard. I wish i'd known that you were going to be in town...:(

[(Anonymous)]

Well I hope it was at least good Mcds. Because you know there is nothing worse than bad Mcd's when you didn't even really want it in the first place..hehe.

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

i think thats hilarious what you told her about your "husband". didn't i used to call Jen your's husband? haha

i want you to come back down immediately & come play with me.