First two days with Matt
I'm cheating 
I posted this entry at 20 minutes til midnight on the 25th, just so I wouldn't go so long without having an entry (and then have to write a big long entry to cover more days). I've been writing this entry off and on since then, and am posting it now (the 29th).
The drive up to Washington was okay. I was a lot more comfortable since this was the third time I had made that trip and had gotten somewhat used to it. I had left 2 hours ahead of time to compensate for "holiday traffic" but it ended up being exactly like it has been all the other times I've traveled there, if not lighter. Although the ride was nice, it was raining like it has been for the past week or so. I'm so sick of rain, especially having to drive in it (which I've always hated.)
Arriving at the airport 2 hours early wasn't all that bad. It was in the different terminal than the one Matt had arrived in the first two trips, and luckily for me this one had alot more things to keep me occupied. While the other one just has a large room for baggage check in and pickup, this one has a string of shops and restaurants. I had tried eating some peanut butter toast that morning before leaving, but I just couldn't seem to eat more than 4 bites of it, so I was starving by the time I was walking around the terminal. Matt had already given me the idea of stopping by Auntie Annes to get a pretzel like we had in November when he flew back, so after I had a hell of a time parking in the garage (took 20 minutes) and was safely in the building, I headed straight there. And oh, lucky me, I got to get a free pretzel because of a special they had going for buying a pretzel and a regular sized drink. The lady who took my order had a really thick accent so I didn't quite get what she was saying at first... and when she told me there was a special going on, it totally threw me off. I usually have a plan of how conversations will go before I even get to the counter, and it threw me a real curve ball when she said something I didn't quite get and motioned to a sign on the counter. I just ended up staring at it, frozen, not able to read the words... and just staring blankly at it. I tried looking for a picture but the single pretzel with the Aunt Annes logo wasn't any help. I hate how I freeze up like that, but after some very long silences from me and some minor muttering and stuttering, I was able to read the sign and tell her another original pretzel was fine.
After that I went to a magazine store and picked up a Cosmo and some lime tick tacks. While I was walking to a place to sit (and struggling to hold the food, my coat, and the magazine) I was stopping every now and then and taking a picture of the building. I've always thought that particular terminal was so pretty, and just felt like taking some pictures of it. I probably looked rather odd... walking at a normal pace, then abruptly stopping and taking my camera up to the ceiling and taking a picture. I probably only took a total of 4 or 5... I'll post them after the trip (and after the new layout is up).
So, there I sat in my chair that faced a window, eating my pretzel, drinking my water, and reading my trashy magazine, waiting for 2 hours to pass. It wasn't all that bad, really. I ended up only being able to eat one pretzel and saving the second one for Matt.
When it got to be around 1:55, I walked over to the area that he would be coming out of and waited. I ended up having to move where I was standing alot, because people honestly couldn't seem to bring themselves to not walk right at me... it's almost like they were trying to walk into me. But, anyway... when it got to be about 2 o'clock and not really seeing any people from a flight coming through, I went to check and make sure that his flight was still only 2 minutes late, or if the little message beside the flight had changed to ARRIVED. Neither had happened, so I walked back and stood in my spot again, waiting patiently. He ended up coming around the corner sometime around 2:05 or 2:10 (not much time had passed, I know, but I had already been waiting a while and the couple more minutes were killing me 
We gave each other a hug, I showed him the pretzel I had saved for him, and we walked to go get his luggage.
He had quite a bit of luggage since it's all of his clothes that he had had at school. It was roughly two big duffel sized bags. Luckily they both had wheels on them, and we were able to drag them back to the parking garage. I was so happy this terminal was actually attached to the parking garage and we didn't need to take a shuttle like all the other times, since lugging those things up on to one of those would have sucked. I had offered to drive the car up to meet him since I had parked far away, but he insisted that he didn't mind walking. After we got all his luggage situated and strapped into the backseat of the Saturn, he gave me this cute little stuffed animal... a dog with bunny ears on it. It's sort of a tradition he's made of always having some sort of stuffed animal to give me when he arrives, and they're always so cute We got in the car and I put the cute little guy on the dashboard for safe keeping, and Matt asked for a kiss. We also have a little game we like to play to see who will kiss each other first (since it's always sort of weird and timid the first time of a trip) and he ended up "giving in" since he said he couldn't wait any longer to kiss me
The ride home was alright. Traffic was ok (though it's always a bit worse on the way home) and the rain had basically stopped by then. Matt and I talked about music and stuff, and of where we were going to eat once we got back to Fredericksburg. Luckily Matt wanted McDonalds, so I wouldn't have to fight any of the traffic in Fredericksburg for that since there's one almost to LOW. I had gotten a headache from driving to and from DC (as I always seem to) and wasn't really up for fooling with anything like that.
It was the first time I had actually eaten inside the new McDonalds there, and I was happy to find it was pretty neat and nicely decorated... big contrast from the Orange McDonalds, which was the last one I had been inside before then. I ended up seeing two people I knew (one girl, who's name I forgot, that always used to have those permanent red blush marks on her cheeks in 8th grade... forget what those are called) and then the small Rubin boy, who I thought at first was a 10 year old driving a car. I had figured he would have hit puberty by now and grown some, but he was exactly how I had remembered him as a sophomore. Poor guy.
After that we decided we would pick up some videos from Video Club. We parked in the parking lot, and when I looked to my right I saw someone getting out of a car a couple of parking spots away. I saw them wave somewhat in our direction, but I figured it must have to someone nearby... but they kept walking toward us. The person even made an expression / gesture as if they were surprised I had not recognized them yet... and it was when they did that that I finally did recognize them. It was Michael. I had not seen him in almost 3 years I think (or two? not sure), though I had seen some pictures of him since then. He had changed alot since then, though... I would guess the things that threw me off the most was that his hair was the natural color brown and he had gained some weight. Not in a bad way, just in a different way. After I knew it was him, I frantically undid my seat belt and got out of the car and hugged him as tight as I could. I introduced him to Matt, and me and Michael just talked about random stuff... sort of catching up like even though we had done that a couple of weeks ago on AIM. He had just bought a new car for 17k the day before... not sure what type, but it was dark blue. We talked for quite a bit, and I felt bad that I couldn't find any openings to involve Matt... but then, I was really thrown off guard by seeing him there. I told him to tell his mother hi for me (since they were in CVS somewhere) and Matt and I went on into Video Club.
And, of course, I saw more people in Video Club that I knew. Of course... the one thing I hate most of all, seeing people in public that I know, always happens in mass numbers I saw Ms Joncas, which was the mother of a childhood friend and my bus driver for elementary school. The only notable thing about talking to her was that when I mentioned that I was taking a year off, she only nodded and smiled as if it was totally ok, totally normal... most people sort of keep a blank expression when I move over that. Then, I saw the Johnson kids, Dean, Travis, and their little sister (whose name I can't remember.) It's odd that I would see them, since the most I remember about Dean was that he and Ms Joncas' daughter were an item in 6th grade and I used to envy them so much for it... so, yeah. Odd I would see them both on the same day, especially with how I barley every go out anymore.
So... yeah. Luckily I survived all of that and we made it home with Minority Report and Red Dragon. We only ended up watching Minority Report (which was an ehh movie... I didn't like how he shot the movie to look like AI) and not Red Dragon. We also kept them overdue for 2 days (even though if I had really been writing this entry on the date listed I wouldn't know that, oops .
After we got back Matt was nice enough to go on a walk with me, even though he had not really felt like it at first. We had started playing a word game before that (thinking of as many words as we can that begin with the letter F... I was winning sort of But if we would have had to spell them, he would have been the winner). It was threatening to rain the whole time, but it still felt really nice outside and I really appreciated him coming with me. When we got back, we kept playing the word game and my mother played a little bit of it, too. We tried doing other letters later that night but still kept going back to F words, since we had never really finished that.
I usually have a problem with making love on the first night of a visit... I had learned to see it as bad with Alan, so it was always sort of something I tried to avoid unless I had really wanted to. On Sunday, I had wanted to... and we did something we had never done before. Just laid there, somewhat naked, just talking and stuff... it was really nice. But then, of course, my stomach started to bother me. Not even in the normal blah upset way, just some weird pressure that started to build up 
So... I felt bad since that was basically like teasing him
But we made up for that the next night when I was feeling better.
On the 26th (the day I posted this entry to be written later) I'm not entirely sure what we had done. If I can think of more, I'll write it in later. All I really remember was going to Wendy's and then going to see the new X-Men movie with Matt. I ended up really liking it, even though I was hesitant at first. I had thought the first one was ok (nothing all that great) but the second one was good