Sprrrring!

For once, I had a hell of a weekend.

Friday was my grammy's 80th birthday and I surprised her by showing up at her doorstep in Brooklyn with flowers (and with Corey) around 8PM. I can never have enough of grammy's house, it's always a warm feeling.

The way I got to Brooklyn was an event in itself. Bridgewater sent a private limo service to pick me up from Dartmouth and drive me all the way down, I felt like royalty.

Saturday was the Bridgewater new hire event - watched Spamalot on broadway, had dinner at Bar Americain Restaurant, then a "party" at Hudson Hotel Penthouse. Corey met up with me for the after-dinner party at the penthouse, but we didn't stay till the "after-after-party", whatever that was supposed to be. It got pretty boring without any dancing, people just standing around drinking. The view from the roof was nice and the weather was great, but you can only listen to cheesy background music and stand around drinking cocktails for so long...

Sunday was a gorgeous day for a BBQ in Wolfe Park in Staten Island. We woke up a bit late, but made it over there (after getting a bit lost) around 1pm. Since I had a long ass drive back to Hanover ahead of me, we left before 4pm, but it was good to see my bro who flew in from Wisconsin for the weekend... and my parents of course. After a late start and hours of traffic I made it back to Dartmouth around 2AM.

There was a little incident at the BBQ with my parents friends' ambushing me in their drunk state in regards to some personal matters that was pretty damn rude and made me more than uncomfortable, but that's a different story... and I sure as hell didn't let them ruin my day.

Had a very lovely weekend overall with Corey and my other family :)

Life goes on...

So what's going on?
My hands are now officially registered as lethal weapons. Yup that means if I kick your ass you can say I assaulted you with a weapon and get me locked up.

Preeeeeeetttty

I tested for my recommended black belt in August (at summer camp) and for my decided black belt in March (at winter camp). Good times.

In other news I'm going to South African in June to volunteer at a baboon sanctuary for 6 weeks with Corey.
After I come back from South Africa, I'll be moving to CT with Corey and starting my new job with Bridgewater Associates.

Life's good. Can't complain.