It was fun, but I'm glad it's over.

This weekend was filled with lots of things I swore I'd never do (again!), under one big heading: Work For Adam. But it was spontaneous and I had SO much fun doing it. Earlier in the week, when Adam and I started getting along again, I agreed to work the Farmers Market (which is a commitment I made - to stick out the whole season, regardless - over the winter anyway). That wasn't spontaneous - it's just something I've been doing and planning on doing every Saturday morning, because all in all I really enjoy it. It's not working with Adam, so our fighting and breaking up hasn't ever been an issue there. And since Adam and I ARE getting along now, we decided (after the Farmers Market) to go check out the SOBO Festival (South Boulder, get it?). The Stand had a booth there, but neither of us were scheduled to work it, we just decided to see what it was all about - we missed the festival last year (this year was just the 2nd year), and had both heard really good things about it. When we got there it was a nightmare - all the people working The Stand were an unorganized mess - it looked awful, customers were irritated and it was just an all around mess. So, being the two best (fastest and most organized and most like rock stars when in work mode at The Stand, seriously) workers, we jumped in and saved the day. That was at 3pm (the Farmers Market ended at 2pm, so we pretty much went right up there after we finished up) and I stayed, in the same position, until 9:46pm. It was, by far, the BUSIEST it has ever been at a festival for us. We had two lines - an order line and a pick up line - of about 30 people for 6 hours straight. It never stopped. It was the best festival I've ever worked and I had SO much fun! The best part was the music! All day they had live music playing and it was all super good. The last guy on was JJ Grey and Mofro - they ROCKED! I'm telling you - this man was amazing. His voice, his piano playing, and the horns and just their music had EVERYONE boogieing down for the last couple of hours. The night was beautiful here - it was about 74 dgrees, clear skies, no wind, etc. Te was so great that, as exhausted as I was at 9:46pm, when I got to my car to go home and crash I got back out of my car and went back into the festival to hear the rest of their set. And I loved every minute of it. My night didn't end there, however.

I thought, for sure, that I was on my way home to shower and go to sleep for at least 12 hours. I had been on my feet ALL day! Apparently, Adam had a different idea for me. On my way home, I got a phone call from him asking me to go to get more pita bread from the kitchen (at work) and when I got to his freezer I realized there were no pitas. So I went back up to SOBO to grab what we had left over from the day at the festival before they were all packed up over there. 40 pitas. Not good, not good at all. So anyway, I brought him the pitas then I went home. Before I was even done counting the money, still in my work clothes - not even home for 30 mins, Adam called me again: "Can you PLEASEEEEEE go to the grocery store and get another 100 pitas?" Sure. So I did. When I got to The Stand at about 12am, I saw Adam working BY HIMSELF. People, this is crazy because there are usually 3 people working - it gets craaaaaaaaaaazy on the mall at night and there is just no way 1 person can handle it. Needless to say, against all I've ever said about working for or with Adam about NEVER EVER working the night business, I did it. I rolled my sleeves up and hopped on the money belt. It was just absolutely insane. Insane! Serving 200 (mostly) drunk people between midnight and 3am was NUTS! I've been on the other side of it (usually drunk, I'll admit) and thought it was nuts, but this was just nuttier than I ever realized. I will say that the drunk people, most of them anyway, were a lot nicer and more patient than the grumpy people at the Farmers Market. And Adam is a frigin genius - did I mention that yet? I mean, as crappy of a boyfriend he can be, his business kicks ass. How often can you get healthy (see: All Natural Beef, hummus wraps, etc.) on the street at 2am? I've never seen anything like it. And Boulder appreciates "healthy" alternatives to Taco Bell, let me tell ya. People were praising the food, us (the workers) and the idea in general left and right. It was quite a scene. I have a different respect for what he does now, that's for sure. Sometimes I just wish Adam and I could get our shit together and work this out. We made a really good team yesterday and it sucks that we can't figure out the relationship side of it. For the record, I slept until 4pm today. I worked HARD yesterday - a lot harder (physically) than my 9-5, that's for sure. Ahhhh, 12 hours of sleep. It was beautiful!

Because Julie and I are talking about Paris Hilton right now, this is the stupid song I have in my head (no words of wisdom in lyrics today, folks):
Akon
They won't let me out, they won't let me out, (im locked up)
They won't let me out no, they wont let me out, (im locked up)
They won't let me out, they won't let me out, (im locked up)
They won't let me out no, they won't let me out