well then.
the bad news is i, and everyone i was around this weekend, am sick. start from the beginning i should (which makes me think, a car i saw today had a yoda license plate and was yoda-color)
so saturday we went to the insane asylum. i know this probably seems very strange to most people, but i was/am genuinely interested in the architecture and the history of this place. it is HUGE. they began building it before the civil war and purposefully put it on 666 acres of land to show people that demons were housed there. the irish builders would put gargoyles and dragons and other good-luck emblems over the doors to keep the demons in the building and not let them into the public. there are hidden tunnels (that are sinking and breaking interestingly) that go all over the town of weston that the rich people paid for so that no one would see them taking/visiting ill relatives. men could get paid fifty bucks for dropping off their wives! what kind of crazy mess is that!
but all the buildings are awesome and spooky. its hard to imagine that it was still open in the early 90s bc it's a wreck. there were whole wings for people with syphilis, a huge ballroom that the highschool held their proms in right next to the ward for the criminally insane, a whole building for ppl with TB (which actually caused more tb than helped) and just worlds of interesting things to see. i took some photos with my hipstomatic, and they turned out super creepy.
we stopped in charleston to see shainna, which was really great. the stranger finally got to meet her parents, which was really important to me. and like everyone else, they loved him. so it was a really good time hanging out. and then we headed for KY.
we got to town in time for the viewing and ran up to his grandmothers house to change. only the door was locked. so in true only-andrea-gets-in-these-situations fashion, we got dressed in the carport and brushed our teeth with bottled water. if all else, i think the strangers grandad would have had a good laugh at us. the viewing made me uncomfortable since i only knew a handful of people there, but i know it was important to the stranger that i was there. afterward we had a lovely dinner at the local pizza place and then went to his cousin's to watch the football games, where i fell asleep on the couch. and so ended my birthday. the day started out very happy and ended melancholy.
sunday was hard. partly bc of the services and partly bc it was cold and dreary. no one was dressed for the weather and now we're all sick. we planned to drive all the way home that evening, but the weather was so bad we made it as far as braxton before we gave up. i slept all the way from bcounty to here, just in time to get dressed for work. needless to say, i'm still exhausted.
in brighter news, i may have found my wedding dress. i dont want to put it on here bc heaven forbid the stranger reads my blog. its handmade antique champagne lace. i am muy excited.
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