Family fun times

Although immediate family has yet to visit me here in the happiest place on earth, I have gotten the closest I  possibly could this week. My best friend's family, that is, her brother and dad, along with his girlfriend and her two daughters, came down this past week and I got to spend a day with them at Magic Kingdom. It was so fun! I love nannying, and Kim always shares her daughters with me when we're all together. Although I missed Lyndsey terribly, it was wonderful to see all of them. The only place I spend more time in than my own house is their house, and they bring the feeling of welcome wherever they go. It's a wonderful thing when you realize that home is in people, not in latitudes and longitudes. Then, today, I was fortunate enough to go to a Woodson lax game that was being played at the ESPN wide world of sports, where my good friend, Claire, melted some faces. By that, I mean she scored a goal WOOHOO! I have known Claire since she was about four, I think, and it sounds inaccurate to call her anything but my sister. Our parents just got back from Italy together for their 25th anniversary trip, and we've all been talking about story-swapping when we finally are reunited in three weeks. I didn't spend all night with Claire, because Disney World is definitely at team-bonding opportunity, but it was wonderful to get to see her for at least a couple hours. I can't believe I only have three weeks left! My brother and I have just started talking about our plans for him flying down and us driving back. It's crazy. Now I'm starting to make plans for work and such when I get home. This "adult" thing is a busy business. I'm excited to start working... while out of a fur coat and the sun haha. Something I'm looking forward to more is coming home from work to my family. To my mom who I can share anything with, to my sister who can make any situation hilarious and talk sense into any of my melodramatics, and my brothers who consistently turn my world, and more often than not, my frowns, upside down. I'm also looking forward to ultimate. I love me some ultimate. My first week will probably be spent actually seeing Kevin with my own eyes, catching up with people, hanging out with Christophe as much as I possibly can before he leaves for Seattle for the summer, and trying to get readjusted to Fairfax life. This week I've chewed through three books. Two of them were set in high-school, and written by the wonderful John Green, who is both witty and insightful. I was kind of hesitant to read a high-school set book, because I took to thinking that it would revolve around the basic high-school social environment: drama, politics, and immature romance. It's basically real life that just admits to being what it is. Green definitely wove some relevant and thought-provoking themes into these books though. If you want to check them out, they are called "Looking for Alaska" and "Paper Towns". The other is a book written in the 1800s called "The Princess and the Goblin". Just a fun story from childhood that is 300 pages long- it was a fun thing to go back to. The first two books, however, really reminded me of things that I should have taken away from similar experiences I had in high school. I started writing down memories I had forgotten, and I had a chance to talk to some of my closer high school friends and talked to them about these memories and just about friendship in general. It was very cool. Okay, Mallory just woke up for work so I'm going to go to sleep. I hope this post was coherent? Maybe? I'll check it tomorrow...