First let me apologize for the little pity party I had last night for myself. That's usually not me. Generally I consider myself a happy go lucky kind of girl but sometimes everything just backs up on me and wham-o, I get in one of those moods.

I'd still like the hug though if anyone is offering.

Today I received an email from someone I have not talked to in about 11 years. One of my old friends from school. She saw my name over at Classmates.com and sent me a little message through there. I was very shocked and excited to hear from her. When I moved into the school district I graduated from in the fourth grade she was one of my very first friends. We used to play at her house after school and sometimes I would go with her to her horse shows (she rode english saddle competitively for many years). Just seeing her name brought back a flood of good memories. Turns out she doesn't live that far from me and is in the journalism biz as well, working for the Baltimore Sun for the time being. It feels good to re-establish contact with her. Hopefully we can keep in touch and get to be friends all over again.

Busy weekend ahead. Tomorrow Chad and I are departing early for a trip to our alma mater. We both are involved in the Alumni Student Recruitment committee and this is a year for our training session. I'm always intrigued by all of the changes to the campus on my trips back to Ship. I've only been out of college for 8 years now but man, has that campus changed a whole hell of a lot. Tomorrow should be fun, seeing the new buildings and new construction. On the way home I will be making an appearance at my friend Brad's son Alex's first birthday party. Auntie Agategoddess is spoiling the little guy rotten but that's what auntie's do, right? I'm sure when my sister starts having kids I'll do the same. After Alex's party it's off to a deck party thrown by a couple I've gotten to know through people at the Lobster. They built the deck themselves so this is their way of christening it, if you will. I'm sure much alcohol will be consumed and good times will be had. Can't go too overboard though, must remember I work early Sunday at the Lobster.

Yeah, like that will happen.