Long Weekend

Mama,

I wish you could just be here and see what goes on instead of me trying to figure out how to tell you in words.

Josh has Netflix and we sat and put movies in the queue for about three hours one day. So almost every day last week and for most of the weekend, I've been at Josh's house watching movies. We saw Boys Don't Cry (kinda awkward to watch with a boy) and Jesus Camp (scary) and ummm... I forgot.

I took out five books from the library last week and since it's hard to concentrate at home, I took those to Josh's house and have read four of them. Okay, maybe I sort of slept over last night. But it was only because I was in the middle of a good book, A Woman's Worth, and didn't finish until almost 3 a.m. And by then, it was like, there was barely energy to put the book down, let alone get up and first start going home. At 9 a.m. Alex called me to see if I was okay and I promised to be home by noon.

Went back to sleep and we got up two hours later. Josh's dad was in the kitchen when I was leaving and he was like, "Sammy! Is it nice to see you again, or nice to see you still?" But he was giving me a look like he knew I'd been there all night and just wanted to see if I'd tell the truth, so I did. He nodded and said "I see" and asked if I could wait a minute before going home.

Josh and I were convinced we were in huge trouble and I was freaking that his parents were going to call Aunt Elaine and she'd see it in the worst way possible. So his mom and dad asked us to sit with them and his mom said that while she understands we like each other and want to spend lots of time together, they would prefer that we do that during the day as opposed to through the entire night. Ugh. SO AWKWARD! Josh told them we were just watching tv and I was reading, but I'm not sure they believed it.

When I went to leave Josh's mom walked me to the door and told me that she didn't know if I had anybody for it and if I do she apologizes for stepping on any toes, but if I don't I can come to her with any questions and she would rather take me to Planned Parenthood for preventative measures than to fix a problem. OH MY GOD. I could not get out of there fast enough!

Then at home Aunt Elaine was really pissed off at me. I thought she knew I'd been out all night but Alex and Dani covered and she was just angry because Alex was bothering her early in the morning and I wasn't there to deal with it.

Then we were going to a fire family early because they offered to take us to see a movie. They have a cat, and I asked if I could skip the movie and play with the cat and they let me. First they tried to convince me to do the movie but I really didn't want to. The cat was so nice and he laid on my stomach and purred and let me pet him. Over two hours all by myself was so nice. I called Josh to find out if he got in trouble and he said his parents gave him a big talk about reputations and sex and responsibilities and all that. It sounds like his talk was a lot longer than the one I got, but at least we're not in trouble. Oh and he said they do believe we didn't do anything wrong.

There were pretty purple irises at dinner and I complimented the wife on them. She showed me how you're supposed to cut flowers and it turns out it's way more complicated than just dumping them in a bowl with water. When I have my own place, I want to have purple irisis.

Love,
Sam