BANANA

I warn you now, this post is long. I have much to get off my chest. This is more for me than you, but I must record the last few days of my life, while still fresh in memory, simply because they were the best four days of my life thus far.

This post will show you how sad my little life has been to make these four days so extraordinary.

Currently listening to: Come Around - M.I.A

The coffee pot is screaming, brb.

I just brewed the thickest, richest, darkest, most intense (and expensive) cup of coffee in a very long time. I have brewed it simply because I am feeling blues-ey, and nothing eradicates the post BANANA blues like a sharp jolt of caffeine through your veins. The small coffee pot in my room was shaking and sweating as it attempted to produce this intense beverage for me, this task was clearly at the cusp of its abilities and it is exhausted now. I unplugged it to give it some peace.

Lets begin shall we?

THURSDAY - July 30
AKA - "The greatest July 30th of my life"

I wasn't feeling too happy for some reason and so I texted Charlotte to see if she was available. She was getting off work soon, and asked me what I had in mind to do. I responded with 4 or 5 random activities such as "feeding ducks" and "flirting with Meijers employees". She responded "lol sounds good", and so I decided to compile a list of 20 out of the ordinary activities that we had to complete before the end of July 30th, in an epic attempt to have the greatest July 30th of our lives. I printed the list up and put it on a clip board, ready to cross off each item as it was completed.

Along the journey I picked up a few friends. Of course I started with Charlotte, but eventually Shelby joined us on our adventure. Then we ran into Robyn, and lastly we ended up at Lisa Ventura's front door.

Here's some of the things we did.

1. We exposed ourselves at the Pavilion, downtown Farmington.
2. We purchased diet chocolate fudge soda and convinced people to drink.
3. I drove with my knees for a mile and everyone else sat backwards.
4. We fed ducks.
5. we played hide and seek in a graveyard.
6. went on the roof of a school.
7. danced in a fountain and sang spice girls.

amongst other things.

The grand adventure concluded at Rams Horn around midnight. It was here we all decided to make this an annual event. Every July 30th we would have to out do the previous years July 30th. Photos of our night should be on Facebook shortly.

FRIDAY - July 31

Harry Potter’s birthday party.
First Shelby and I purchased food, then Alexis joined us and we got decorations. We bedazzled my basement in harry potter themes and proceeded to celebrate his birthday. It is here that we first met Devin, Theresa's cousin, who is bundles of fun.

1. We watched Harry Potter 5.
2. Played pin the tail on the Dragon.
3. Spontaneously went to Ann Arbor and got ice cream.
4. Played Quidditch
5. played truth or dare.

It was fun.

SATURDAY - August 1

I spent most the morning and afternoon sitting outside reading Harry Potter 7, at 4:00 I went to Theresa's grad party. Devin was already there, and so was Theresa, obviously. we walked around, kicked a ball, and I drank pop, but at a quarter to 5 I had to leave for work.

WORK SUCKED DONKEY BALLS, possibly one of the worst days at work anyone has ever had ever. Just kidding, I’m sure those who worked in the World Trade Center have had worse days than I.

I threw a fit and got to leave early at 10:00, when I raced to the grad party, which was currently in Theresa’s basement viewing a rather fascinating anti-pot propaganda film from the 30s. Its so strange to think I walked in there intending to stick around for 2 hours, but ended up spending 24.

After the film, a few people went home and it was down to Theresa, Devin, Alexis, Amy, Krystal and I. We played squares for a while. It was my first time playing and I was paired with the ultra coy and smooth Amy Hemmeter. We killed the competition with our clever signals such as: Running fingers through hair, “that’s what she said”, and “This game is boring.” After a few rounds of this, I became bored of killing everyone else (Just kidding, we won by a point), and so we walked to Tony’s grad party to pick up Elyse, losing Krystal in the process.

While walking back the greatest “that’s what she said” joke ever occurred. I had to poop and so announced to the group, “after we get done with this, I’m going to complain, then take a huge dump.” and Devin responded, “that’s what she said.” There have been very few times when I have laughed as loud and long as when he said this.

We returned and watched Killer Clowns from Outer Space, but it wasn't very good, and we eventually retired outside. There I called and convinced my father to let me spend the night, he folded like a deck of cards against a hurricane. We danced around on Theresa’s pink ball while out there.

People seemed to be getting tired, and I feared everyone would just go to bed, so in an attempt to spice things up I accepted Alexis's dare of running around the neighborhood in my underwear. Which I did like no other.

We then decided to go to the Beachview playground, where we just sat and talked. So then we relocated to the Harrison football field, where we sat and talked yet again. It was spooky being back at Harrison for the first time since my last day of school, it was spooky being back at Harrison at 3:00 in the morning, it looks less like a prison and more like a castle when the sun goes down.

At some point we decided it would be fun to break into heritage park and sit and talk there, but by time we got back to Theresa’s everyone seemed tired. I once again feared we would end up asleep. But, to my great surprise, we decided to play "SHIT", a classic game. We piled into Amy’s car and drove around. Unfortunately, there weren’t any good “shit” songs, and so we wound up at Meijers (obviously a favorite hang out of mine). While there we made a basket of embarrassing items: Extra large condoms, water melons, laxatives, and abandoned it in the womans clothing section. We walked away giggling at the thought of a confused worker discovering the basket and going through the items wondering who was going to purchase them. We ran into Jillian at about 4:15, it was extremely random and awkward.

On our way back to Theresa's it was discovered that Devin had never seen Death Proof, my favorite film. So we watched the good parts back at Theresa's. Sadly at this point we lost Amy. we lost her to SLEEP.

After watching my favorite film, we decided to play strip poker, but I failed and complained so we ended up playing strip spoons. I lost almost everything and so did Elyse, but Devin only lost a sandal and Alexis only a few items. Theresa was our judge. As the games continued we became more desperate for reasons to take our clothes off, and ended up playing “Strip throw the MnM into your partners shirt.” the game did not last long for obvious reasons. By the time we had gotten our clothes back on the sun had risen.

We all walked outside around 6:00 and did sun rise Yoga under Elyse’s excellent instruction, but it failed. Theresa's mom came down and said "Hello" amongst other words. Then we decided to walk around the neighborhood. We followed the creak that runs by her house, all through the neighborhood.

Currently listening to: Pop the Glock - Uffie

This was my favorite part of the entire weekend, possibly one of the greatest moments of my life and I have no idea why. It was so much fun and so simple, it was six in the morning and it felt as though we were the only people in the entire world. From now on, when I am stressed and tired and need to retire to a peaceful place in my mind, this is where I will go. We walked along the creak, I jumped on trampolines and climbed logs along the way. We just talked and enjoyed each others company while the sun rose. And when we returned to Theresa's we all went home, only to return a half hour later in Church clothes.

It was about this time we realized how long we had been up, and how crazy it was. we could no longer recall exactly what day anything happened, and so decided to simply call this time together BANANA. Which is defined by Devin so eloquently as "jet leg without travelling anywhere."

We went to my church, and Elyse and I did communion, it was wild.

Afterwards we got Tina's for breakfast, I was starting to get exhausted and it scared me because I didn’t want this BANANA to end. I called my dad and told him I’d be out longer, but he said I had to clean the basement before I could hang out with my friends any longer. We all traveled to my house and cleaned my basement of all the Harry Potter birthday party remains.

Afterwards Devin took over driving responsibilities, and we went to Old Navy to have a look around. It was dull, so we went to Borders where we got magazines and Devin fell asleep. Elyse purchased a Cosmo and we spent the next few hours quizzing Devin on Sex and the like.

After, we drove downtown to Starbucks where we sat and talked, yet again. When 4:30 rolled around we went to see Night at the Museum 2. I can hardly recall a single thing that happened in this movie because I was so exhausted. We all fell asleep at various times throughout the film.

Afterward, we drove around and collected peoples swim suits, and then went to dinner. It was delicious, I had no idea I was so hungry. I gorged myself on the appetizer and my undercooked burger.

We stuffed Devin’s car with pop and chips from Theresa’s house and drove all the way to Elyse's house to sit in her hot tub, but after about 20 minutes Devin's mom threw a rut and we all retired back to Theresa’s house for the last time. It was then that the BANANA finally broke up, after almost two days of non stop activity.

I finally got to bed at about 12:00 AM.

In the end I was up for roughly 36 hours, and it was amazing.

Sadly, my life immediately went back to normal. I've been to work twice and haven't seen my friends. I finished Harry Potter 7, and have started the series from the beginning. I've updated my computer with a more advanced graphics card and it now has internet capabilities.

Theresa is planning to go to Ferndale tomorrow for some fun, and I'm excited to be with friends again, but it won’t be the same as BANANA. Who cares, right?

Sadly, I feel extra lonely now, after having so much fun this weekend. Going from such intense fun to being all alone, I can’t help but feel extra sad. At least I can go back to that quiet creak where we were the only ones in the world.