recovering

we are recovering from a sickly, sleepless home-bound weekend. cadence got a bit of a cold and kept me up most of friday night. her nose was in full runny swing by saturday, and i missed my friend jin's housewarming party. we also missed grandma day on sunday, which i'm totally bummed about cuz i found out grandma sophie was gonna make her greek chicken. oh well.

...i did get together w/ my friends from high school. josh, connolly and his wife chris and olarn came over saturday night and we got caught up with each others' lives.

josh just made captain, so now he's the head honcho in his airplane (he flies for a cargo company). and to think, the first time i saw him after high school was the day he'd just taken his exam to become a Certified Flight Instructor.

connolly is now a guidance counselor at our alma mater, and it sounds like he's loving it. that would be interesting to be back in my old high school, but this time as a teacher or on staff, instead of the awkward teenager trying to fit in somewhere. i actually have pretty fond memories of high school, although i was a total nerd. i was VP of the national honor society, carried around a cello and listened to debbie gibson. it doesn't get much nerdier than that.

olarn just got back from a month in thailand. his dad died on christmas day of pancreatic cancer, the same cancer that killed my dad. they were both 64, which is kinda eerie. it was painful hearing olarn describe what his dad went through because it was so similar to what happened to my dad. cancer is a bitch, and PANCREATIC cancer is one of the meanest there is.

i'm glad the 4 of us had a chance to get together, as olarn may be moving out of the country soon, and with josh in CT and flying all over the place, i don't know when the next time we'll all see each other again...