St. Lou-nacy!...

so this weekend my sister came to visit. we rented a car and went to st. louis for the weekend. i admit, i had just returned from jersey on wednesday of the same week, went to work on thursday and friday, and we were leaving saturday morning at 6:30am. i wasn't the most enthused i could've been about the adventure. but i did some deep breathing from the apartment door to the car and said, "self, the money's already spent. the ball is rolling. smile and make the best of it, this maybe something you need." well, my sister and i are the best of friends, and there is nothing more taxing than fighting with your best friend. the energy was frantic and volatile. one minute we'd be fine and the next we'd be at odds. that freaked out energy permeated the entire journey - i've never rolled with so many punches. and i, knowing all that i [think i] know about the ability of one's energy to manipulate a situation, still let my piss-tivity get the better of me. the weekend was a comedy of errors; damn near 72 hours of blooper b-roll.

the goods: the weather was beautiful, when we weren't fighting we were laughing our asses off, the gateway arch is magnificent in person, road trips in the midwest have beautiful sunrises, enterprise weekend rental specials, the st. louis science center is huge, crunk music is ideal for driving. the bads: we were swearing at each other when we did fight - it hurt so much, i got behind the wheel angry and damaged the rental, we drove around for over an hour looking for this club that the radio mentioned and never found it, lost the car keys, locked the keys in the car - in the ignition no less! the miracles: i got full coverage on the rental car so the bumper damage was a non-issue (plus i only messed up the paint), the lost keys were 'found' between the windshield wipers of the car, i saw said keys from the driver's seat because we had left the doors unlocked!, we found a wal-mart on the drive home to buy groceries (because there was no food in my house), when i locked the keys in the car it happened in the enterprise lot (a miracle more for me than them). the revelations: i embarass pretty easily, perhaps [sometimes] i am wound too tightly, my propensity for cleanliness borders on obsessive-compulsion, i am leaning myself more thoroghly all the time. so maybe this trip did give me something i needed, but not what i thought and not with a delivery i could have ever imagined!