The Return of Caroline

8:00 PM-Some friends and I decide that starring out the window at the rain, while fascinating, was getting old. Time for cards!

9:00-After a few rounds of spoons and other lame card games, a feisty round of slap jack gets everyone fired up.

9:45-We are in full on competition mode, starring each other down, slapping the jacks with such force that I know someone is going to get hurt.

10:00-I realize my sister was supposed to return tonight, wonder aloud about that while starring down a friend...maybe it will distract him and I can sneak in on the next jack. My friend calls me a horrible person for not knowing where my sister is...neither of us win that round. I get my phone out of my bedroom in case she calls.

10:15-We switch to kent. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, you pair up and work out a secret signal with your partner. Once one of you gets four of a kind you do your signal and your partner yells "WE WIN!" (actually they're supposed to call kent apparently, we liked WE WIN better). My signal? "Hey, I wonder where the hell my sister is". If the other team catches you on your signal then they call you out on it and they win.

10:30-Screaming match has ensued over whether or not my partner yelled WE WIN before my friend called her out on it. My adrenaline level is reaching new highs.

11:00-The game reaches a level of competition only seem amongst world class athletes. Caroline calls to say she had reached Dublin and was on the bus. Our conversation

Marianna: *far too excited from game* HELLO!  WHATS THE DEAL!

Caroline: I'm on the bus

Marianna: Great, gotta go

Caroline: *bad connection mumbling*

Marianna: What?

Caroline: *bad connection*

Marianna: I can't hear a word your saying but don't worry I'll be around, gotta go.

Kent was calling

11:45-Caroline's not back yet....a bit worried by that. Unfortunately we've just been called cheaters and thats a personal offense so I have to defend my honor.

12:00-I see Caroline walk by our window. In the middle of a heated match so I'll wait for her to knock on the door. She knocks, still in the middle of a match, this is one of those situations I'm going to regret later. Luckily the other team snags a Cinderella victory and I can run to the door. She's tired and cranky. I make her toast and tell her she can use my bed. The concessions I make in order to quickly return to my card game.

12:05-The card game has been put on temporary hold, so I catch up with Caroline about London. Sounds like a good trip, she saw lots of people. 

12:30-A few more hands pass, but the intensity just isn't there anymore, I'm falling asleep, time to close up shop.

1:00-I make myself a little bed on my floor using my duvet and a sheet. Its the same bed Caroline used all last week, she always made it look comfortable. Eh.

2:30-I finally get to sleep, I enter a crazy dream in which Melinda from American Idol, Nancy Reagan and I all appear on the Maury show to discuss the dangers of Facebook. 

3:30-I wake up panicked that Caroline missed her plane. 

3:45-6-More crazy dreams, unaware of how many involve Nancy Reagan. 

6-Wake up panicked again. Discover that Caroline is making funny noises in her sleep. Have a good giggle about that. Included in them "oooo" "grrrr" "ugh...well then". 

6:44-Jump up completely convinced that this time we've overslept, just in time for the 6:45 alarm to go off. Caroline springs into action, I spring into my bed the minute she gets up.

6:55-Caroline leaves, I head back to bed. Crazy dreams begin again in which I am a guest at the Grammy's and am apparently a big deal but no one will tell me why and they won't let me sit down until I figure out why I'm supposed to be there. 

11:40-Decide it's time to get up and get my day going. Hope Caroline made it to her plane on time.