Flickr no longer sucks. Flickr are made up of the coolest people Evah.

Stacy is a happy camper again.

I haven’t written in a little mainly because of my pure agony over Flickr. See, I had wanted to write all these fun lovely things, including pictures and stories and just everything you’d ever want to read in an entry! But I couldn’t get into my dumb ol’ Flickr account and I didn’t know if the “Help Box” at Flickr would ever get back to me.

Last night, I finally decided: OK, I am not going to let this keep me from journaling. If I have to, I’ll open a bunch of little itty bitty Flickries to put pictures just to link to here. And I was calmed…and life was good. And then today (after my walk around the neighborhood – 2 days in a row – woo!!) I checked my email and the gods and goddesses at Flickr sent me all the information I needed and I am BACK IN, BABY!!!

Yeah, I know. But it’s the little things in my life that get me through the day….

The only problem now is that all the clever witty entries I was going to write are now gone forever (ha! See my nice built-in excuse?) so now y’all have to put up with this one until I’m back in the groove.

Last weekend was the first weekend in a long time where I had nothing at all planned. And Memorial Day Weekend at that! So it turned into: hanging out with my roommate and friends, cooking on the grill, having some drinks, seeing old friends in town for the weekend, reconnecting with Mom, and just being carefree.

Sunday, Clarissa was in from Virginia and she and another friend, Sabrina, came over for a cookout that P1 set up. We fired up the grill (“we” meaning Phil) and cooked everything we could get our hands on: hot dogs, veggie dogs, weird whatever dogs, Bubba burgers, mojo marinated chicken, pork, veggies on skewers, and probably a bug or two. Clarissa, Sabrina and Aron were the first wave of folks over; Julia, Ted, Georgia and Jay were next. Lila came in and out and Kenny ended up in there at some point as well. Good times. Great oldies.

We played Trivia Pursuit. Somehow, at one point, I ended up in the lead. No, it didn’t last…but I held my own with Aron (the Trivia Genius) and so I still hold my head up with pride. By the second round, when we decided to play teams, I was smart enough to pull him on my side.

My favorite question (that I pulled out of my ass, frankly) was the pink that Georgia asked, “who loves her more than Jesus knows?” Now, I was playing on teams with Aron at the time and I knew knew KNEW that was a song….the others probably gave me more time than I deserved on that, but then, we were drinking beers and so we were all being kind. Eventually, like I said, I pulled it out. Anyone else know? Come on…you do. And you can tell me. Come on.