Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Pretty Ricky's gone. He went back to PA today :-(. We had a really good time these past couple days. Dad got over the whole "king of the castle" issue (not a moment too soon). On Sunday morning Mom took Ricky and I into the kitchen and taught us to make fried bakes. I think Jamaicans call it "fried dumpling". I've made them before, but I was a little fuzzy on the details. Ricky loved them :-). On Monday he came to work with me in the morning. He hates my morning commute....he was wheezing like an old lady...lol. He met my co-workers and then I turned him loose on Manhattan. He came back around lunchtime and took me to a Japanese restaurant in the area.

We left the restaurant and started walking back to my office. I thought I left my scarf in the restaurant...Ricky volunteered to go back and look for it while I went back to the office. Awwww. Turns out I had left the scarf in my office. Oops.

The revival was excellent by the way. My Godmother and other friends of the family were there and they all got to meet him. Yikes. As they said in The Color Purple "we be kin now".
We stayed up until 3am this morning talking. I am SLEEEEEEEPY right now, but I enjoyed my Q.T.

Today I woke him up when I was going to work (he couldn't do the commute 2 days in a row). He surprised me by showing up at my job before he went back to PA. He brought a card for me, a stuffed toy kitten and a thank you card for my parents. *Sigh*

Yeah...I'm corny...I got a little misty-eyed when he left. :-(.