cape cod

i'm really sorry i'm not better at this. i know it's been a long time since my last update, but in my defense, we've been super busy at work lately and i don't have the internet at home. and what with hating my job with an unwavering passion, i don't want to spend any more time here than i absolutely have to, so if we're done with work -- usually after i'm supposed to be gone anyway -- i am not going to stay here to update. which then leaves me with 'well i hope i'll have time tomorrow!' which never seems to happen. :-/

on an unrelated note, jon and i went to the cape this weekend with his cousin and her husband (coincidentally, jon's best friend) and her mom (slash jon's aunt). it's a little cottage in brewster that was built in like the 1800s or something -- i'm not really sure when, but it's very old, let's put it that way. it's quaint, you could definitely say. it's not luxury living, for sure, but it's all right for a weekend. no tv, no microwave, no air conditioning, outdoor shower, etc. that being said, the outdoor shower is actually quite nice, because it's a stone slab floor surrounded by wooden fencing, and they actually somehow managed to get good water pressure in it. and i'm tall enough to see peek over the top and catch a nice view of ocean. which is sweet, cause it's not everyday you get a direct view of the ocean while you're showering. it is right on the water, too, which is nice. well i guess technically it's up a small hill and you have to walk through like 3 seconds of woods and down like 15 stairs to get to the water. oh, the hardship!

it's weird to be on the cape not with my family and/or my grandparents. my grandparents have owned a place on the cape for... decades. and i've been going up there basically since i was born -- my mom used to spend her whole summers up there with her family when she was a kid/teen. consequently, my family used to go up every year at least once, if not more. so i've been going to the cape for about 23 years now, i'd say. and ironically enough, this place that i stayed at with jon's cousin (who use it through a friend from church) is like 10 minutes away from my grandparents' place. i figured this out last year when we went up and went to newbury comics (sweet freaking store) and it was right behind cooke's, my all-time favorite seafood restaurant that's about 5 minutes from my grandparents' house. and then this time, we drove from cooke's to wings, a sweet tourist-y type beach store with cape cod memorabilia, sweatshirts, tshirts, bathing suits, beach towels, etc, which actually brings us right past my grandparents' street. which is a little weird, a little surreal. to be there but not be going there. to be in town, on the cape, and have my mom and my grandmother (who until like last year spent her whole summers on the cape still) not be there. to be on a beach, but not my beach. (because it is, clearly, my beach.)

we got more accomplished that i wanted to this time than last year. newbury comics? check. cooke's? check. sea gull beach? check. wings? check. pirate's cove mini golf? CHECK! freaking sweetest mini golf place EVER. talk about attention to detail! there is a freaking hole ON A SHIP, in water. they made a small pond, then built a ship in it, then put a hole on it. this place got so busy that they built a second 18 holes behind the first. just to split the crowds. because it is so freaking amazing. they use REAL rocks instead of stupid painted styrofoam like they do in ct. seriously, this place puts ct mini golf places to SHAME. it is just so ridiculously detailed and completely amazing. it's an experience, there's no other way to put it. and that's how mini golf should be, damnit! they actually built a small cafe/store next door to their mini golf courses, and it is chock full of all sorts of pirate things.

jon bought this shirt:

hahha. freaking great. we also bought a sign that says 'keep out! pirates only' for our front door and a sign that says 'poop deck' for .. well .. take a guess. (we're classy!) so yeah. here is the link, and you should go look at the pictures, although i have to say, they TOTALLY don't do it justice. like, impossibly so. because it is such an amazing place. so. link. http://www.piratescove.net/location/9

so it was pretty cool to be on the cape again. weird, though, to be running around places i've known since i was a kid and not be there with my family. also weird to try to figure out where to go -- i've been, as i said, to these place since i was a kid, but not that often since i've been of driving age. so trying to figure out where to go can certainly be interesting at times. next year i think i want to try to find hyannis main street. and go to red rose beach. i'll take my personal landmarks a couple at a time, i guess, haha.

so aside from a monopoly incident (and when is there NOT an incident when monopoly is played?) and getting a bit lost on the way back (even though jon's best friend told us 'you can't mess it up.' ...wrong. we did.), it was a good trip, i'd say. we actually had quite a nice date night by accident, cause i wanted to go to cooke's (the best seafood, ever. i think i mentioned that, but it's worth mentioning again) but jon's cousin & aunt can't eat it. and jon doesn't like it, but he came and got chicken fingers, haha. but so we went there, and then we went to my beach so i could show him.. even though it was dark. :-/ better than nothing, i guess. and then we decided to go play mini golf (see aforementioned pirate's cove ravings), and so by the time we got home, it was like 11 at night. accidental date nights are swell, though, it was nice to see jon for a couple minutes. i only see him 8 days a month, and so often lately it's been running around to one thing or another. so it was nice to actually just hang out and have fun. i had almost forgotten how much fun he is! =P

but now it's back to the grind. stupid work. stupid new system. stupid coworkers. stupid...everything about this job! soon it will be the weekend, and then we are going to help my dad move his couch saturday morning and go to lunch, and then go to dinner with my mom and possibily his mom and brother, and then sunday we are moving the rest of my dad's stuff (he wanted the couch in before everyone showed up sunday) into his new house. and i still have no idea if i'm working monday or not yet. we're well organized, if you can tell.

i'm still rereading 'a breath of snow and ashes' -- i know, it's taking me forever! i really haven't been reading it all that much. it's making me pine for the rest of the books, although actually just for certain scenes. but i'll take the whole books. i actually really want to reread book 5 ('the fiery cross') cause i only read it like once before i loaned it to someone. so i am not as up on that book as i should be. plus, i have been thinking, book 6 isn't really my favorite. i think she spanned too much time in it, and it gets a bit boring at times. i'm hoping book 7 will have more action in it, less 'oh, four months passed. it snowed. then another six months passed. we harvested the hay. now it's summer again.' the book has its good parts, but a lot of it is the same -- 'they felt it coming.' 'they knew it was coming.' 'the time had come.' 'they could feel it in the air; something was coming.' ...no shit. we know. let's move toward it, shall we? so i'm at page 535 of 978, and i probably won't be done any time soon. i'm just not putting that much effort into it. but i am also, to be fair, trying to stretch it out a bit -- i am hoping against hope that there is a book 7 out there somewhere. book 6 was published in 2005, so hopefully book 7 is already printed. and the reason i'm stretching it out is because my birthday is sept. 20, and i am hoping i will get some money so i can go buy the book. it's possible it's not out yet and i'll just be sad, but then i can cheer myself up by buying other assorted books. i'm torn between trying to find out now and waiting until my birthday. i think i might look it up after i finish book 6 -- if i know now, i'll just try to speed through book 6 and then have to wait a month. and we all know how i do with patience.

well. luckily for me, it is now time to go on home. which, as aforementioned, means the end of this post, because i have no internet at home. that may be remedied soon -- jon's payments for his truck are ending, so we've been throwing around the idea of -- gasp! -- getting cable tv (WOOT to no more having only 3 fairly-to-very fuzzy channels!) and internet.
sort of overwhelming, if you think about it. we haven't had cable or internet since april. it seems like so much longer than it actually is, but when you've had both for all of your life, it's sort of a harsh reality. i mean, sure, i've lived, it's been fine. i'm doing all right. but i won't lie -- i like having the option of watching tv or looking something up online. i like having the luxury. i can live without it, but i don't necessarily want to.

either way, it's still time to go home.