Order carefully, there's a big difference between French vanilla and vanilla bean

I thought I was ordering a vanilla bean coolata. Much to my chagrin I got a French vanilla coffee collata instead. Now I'm hopped up on caffeine and I'll never be able to sleep. And of course I have to be up early tomorrow morning so we can go all the way to Catawissa (I know you guys probably don't know the area, all you need to know is that it's a bit of a drive to get there) for our Mother's Day meal.

So like I said in my last post, my brother's band banquet was tonight and of course I had to be there. I realized that I really don't know many of them anymore. There are also a lot less people in the band when I was still in it than there are now. Back in my day we had the entire church auditorium filled with tables and chairs because there were so many people. This time only half was completely filled. We used to have to use 2 rows of tables to fit all the food that people brought, this year a single row was enough to suffice. My how things change. As expected it was long and boring. I managed to use my napkin to wear down all the teeth on my plastic nice to the point where it was perfectly smooth. I was that bored. I even attempted some origami with my napkin... It was quite something.

Afterwards I took a friend of mine (who's now a senior in high school) to Dunkin' Donuts. We were meeting up with a friend of mine from high school who was home. He told me we had to go pick her up so we went all the way to her house only to have her mother tell us she had already left. I'm not letting Jay take care of logistics ever again due to the fact that her house was in the complete opposite direction from where we were headed.

As we walked up to the door I saw one of my best friends from high school sitting at the table with the girl we were meeting. Definitely a nice surprise. I hadn't expected to see him any time soon since he was going to be staying at Shippensburg this summer. He was home for his sister's graduation. It was a lot of fun as always, telling stories and catching up. Can't go wrong with that. One thing's for sure, I have some good new stories for the next story time. I also hope the coffee stains come out of this shirt. (Thanks Jay) It would really suck if they didn't cause I like this one.

I know I know, Dunkin' Donuts isn't much of a coffee shop, it's close though and close counts in my book (in addition to horse shoes and hand grenades). I was happy to get some coffee shop time in with some of my friends. It was definitely nice to do that from time to time at Pitt this past year so I'm glad I was able to somewhat continue it.

Maybe I should leave my cellphone on more often. I've been shutting it off at night because I figured no one would ever call me. I was wrong. I turned it on this morning to find that I had missed out on a lunch offer. I definitely would have gone with you guys if I had gotten the call. It happens I guess.

tomorrow is gonna be rough trying to wake up after all this caffeine (if I ever get to sleep that is).

So long farewell, auf weidersehen good-bye,

Eric