Well, I've had an eventful four days!  I went over to Christine's Thursday afternoon and she helped me look at fabric for my Tonks coat.  She also looked over the reference pictures I had and thinks it will be easier than I am fretting over.  We went over to Joanns and I got a couple of patterns for the coat, as well as my thread for the dupioni and a zipper for the dragonmaster dress.  Then I headed over to Mom's work to see if her co-worker was able to fix my computer.  He had found a nasty Trojan, which he was able to get rid of, and some spyware.  However, when he tried to restart the computer, it wouldn't start up; kept freezing right after the Windows splash page and before the logon screen.  He even tried the cheat method, but it wouldn't let us access the system restore points.  He worked on it for several hours, and I tried a few more things over the weekend, but no luck.  It looks like the spyware deleted at least one vital dll file, so I a going to try re-installing Windows tomorrow.  *sigh*

Then I headed over to Newark after having dinner with Mom, talked to Andy's mom for a while, and then after Andy got off the computer, talked with him.  Then Kelly got back and I caught up with her.

Friday morning Kelly and I drove around and looked at some apartments, had lunch at DQ, stopped at Cord Camera for me to pick up an application, and hung out at Best Buy a little, where one of her co-workers gave us some other leads for apartments.  Then we checked some more places out and headed back to the house for me to fuss with the computer and her to play a little WoW before she headed to work.  Then I went to visit Grace for a couple of hours, and then returned to Andy's.  We watched some more Chobits (second fave anime series!) until Kelly got back from work.  Then he went to a bar with his sister for a couple of hours, while Kelly and I watched the Escaflowne movie.  Then I got ready for bed (sleepy!) while she played some WoW.  Andy got back just before I fell asleep, and we talked about 15 minutes, and then he headed to the computer while I went to dreamland.

Saturday I slept in later than I wanted, but Andy and I still had time to look at some places.  He wanted to go to Best Buy, so we stopped there (I'm going to be a regular soon, it looks like) and I grabbed Road to Perdition for $7.  Then we returned to his house and after Kelly got back from work, his mom took us to dinner at Texas Roadhouse.  After dinner, Andy, Kelly and I had a planning meeting and discussed some logistics about the apartment, and it looks like we are leaning towards a 1380 square foot townhouse in a place called McMillan Woods.  We watched Phantom of the Opera after that, since Kelly hadn't seen it yet, and then Sunshine, one of Andy's picks.  Then Kelly went on the computer and Andy and I finished Chobits.  His mom looked over the pictures from the photo shoot I did with him a few weeks ago, and ordered some prints (my first order - woohoo!)  Chrissy (Andy's sister) also wants a photo shoot done, which I will schedule for August.

Sunday I visited with my friends Mark and Mike.  We went to Dawes and spent some time there, and then they drove me over to Buckeye Lake and showed me where they used to live and how much it is being built up with new mega-houses.  We had grilled chicken for dinner and then I returned home to look for that damned Windows reinstallation disk.

Ah, yesterday was a good day. I woke up early, made cupcakes, and then drove down to Newark to pick up the new camera I had ordered on Saturday. Then I went over to Andy's house, where I met up with him and Kelly. We talked for about ten minutes, and then bundled ourselves and our stuff into his car to head down to Lancaster for a BBQ that Stacy and JP were hosting at their new place.

We had to make a stop at Wal-Mart first, for me to pick up ice, and Andy and Kelly to get fruit and pop. Well, out of the times of day, and out of all the lanes of a fairly large parking lot, guess who we ended up by? Heh, we get out of the car and see Grace and Thomas just coming back to their car with a cart full of stuff - imagine the odds! We all talked for a little while, and then they left for home and we proceeded into the store.

Well, as we are getting the pop, we run into Moze, someone I haven't seen in a very long time, and a friend of Andy and Kelly. So we talked with him some, and then finally headed out for the BBQ. After a detour and a couple of turnarounds due to missed turns, we arrived. I met a couple of JP's friends, and some of the people there played some badminton while I tried out my new camera. We also watched part of Aladdin (which made Kelly very happy) and played an Xbox game (I think it was called Street Fighter?). I've never played it before, but I did okay; I actually won a few rounds! We also played some Apples to Apples, and just talked about various stuff (we got a lot of mileage out of something Ryo found online, called the Shenis - don't ask).

Well, then we decided we would all drive out to Pickerington to catch a 10pm showing of The Happening. We arrived about twenty minutes late, because of a detour no one knew about, but we only missed the first few minutes of the movie because of the trailers. The movie was okay, not one of M. Night Shyamalan's best. I felt it gave away the twist too early, and I found some of the images disturbing. It wasn't a horrible film, but I have no interest in seeing it again.

After the movie, we walked over to a nearby Steak-n-Shake and grabbed a bite to eat. Then we all departed, making plans to get together in a few more weeks for DragonCon planning. I stayed over at Andy's place, and then came back home in the morning.

It was so nice to just be able to hang out with my friends, some of whom I don't get to see much. Very fun day. :)