Month o' fun!

July was an exciting month for me. Not only did three of my best friends come to Colorado for a visit, but I also lost my job. Now that's not really the type of excitement that one craves but nonetheless it was there.

First Melissa came from Seattle for the 4th of July festivities. She was here a week and though she spent most of her time with the family and in-laws we got in a little photo swapping session. I was kindly invited to a BBQ at her house on the big day and a viewing of the usual fireworks at Stenger field in Arvada. The great news about this was that I managed to finally meet her husband! I'm afraid I have no pictures as evidence but I'll get them at some point.

Next Stella journeyed all the way from Hong Kong to do a little three-stop US tour to visit family and friends, and I was privileged to have her company for two days. We didn't do a whole lot in way of activities but mostly hung out, took it easy, chatted and of course our usual - watched tons of movies! It was nice and relaxing.

I should mention it was on the day Stella flew out that I discovered I would no longer be part of the STA Travel team. The vice president of the whole company came out to Boulder to inform myself and my colleague Todd of the closure of one of the offices in Boulder and the subsequent merger of the branches into one office. Of course the merger was going to combine 6 employees into a space barely able to accommodate 4, so the two of us were cut loose. Our former manager was magically turned back into a travel advisor and Todd and I were issued severance packages.

I will admit there was a bit of tearage on the day and then boozing it up later that night with Scott. He was kind enough to listen to me yammer on for quite a few hours before I finally had to go pick Stella up from the airport. It was then that I found the poem you see in the prior entry. It was hanging on Scott's fridge and in my inebriated, depressed state it really struck a cord with me therefore I copied it and brought it home. I hope it strikes a cord with you too.

After Stella had moved on to her next destination it was time for my old friend Mike to make his appearance. He was swinging out this way before heading to a business trip in San Francisco. We had the obligatory Starbucks chat session and managed to get a few of the old gang(s) (mixing of high school and college friends) to go to a play in Boulder for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Good times were had as we watched As You Like It (a first for myself).


One night, I was even allowed to tag along when the old home boys (those from Mike's elementary) had their "piss up" - British for drinking session. It was great as we bar hopped and eventually crawled back to Scott's place that was "20 minutes away". Scott language for about 5 miles away. We made it to his place at last and all crashed. The next day those of us who were awake (that being everyone but Scott) managed to meander our way back to the center of town and find our cars for the rest of the way home. It was a great time and there is evidence of that but it is in Mike's possession. See his blog for the photo proof of our fabulous night.

All this took place in just the first two weeks of July! Wow, my head's still a-spinnin' from the excitement. Next time I'll fill you in on the last few weeks which included a bachelorette party and a wedding (usually the two go together). Stay tuned!