In the Middle of the Night

This post is early, because I'll be a bit busy camping on Tuesday. So this is a treat!

Today, my friends, is Free Slurpee Day, 7-11. And yes, since it is after one in the morning, today is today. I wanted to make that distinction, because I still feel like today is Sunday, seeing as I have yet to go to bed. Let me tell you...strange things happen at night.

Like Slurpee adventures. Three different stops, three different Slurpees, and some of the people I was with were planning to go out to more stores to get even more. No wonder they've always been out of the free cups when I get there at noon. Everyone takes them at the stroke of midnight! I'm sad to say that I've become one of those cup-stealing hooligans who traverse the quiet midnight streets. But there's something different about a free Slurpee that you can't find in a purchased one. The little cups, too small for a real refreshing treat but big enough to enjoy a couple of flavors, brought some people together that had never met before. That doesn't happen too often, now does it? We plan to save our cups (there were many) to make a little Slurpee cup pyramid in memory of the night's events. We definitely made it a momentous occasion as we sat slurping our delectable frozen Slurpees. According to Eli, "A toast to, in my opinion, the only holiday in July."

And we saw a dead cat. In the middle of the road. Our driver wanted to save him but he was too far gone for us to do anything. It was really quite depressing, actually. We drank to his afterlife happiness with our next Slurpee. Well, at least I did. I felt rather bad for that poor little kitty.

On a happier note, I've been playing with a fruit fly that seems to enjoy the light of my computer screen. It's afraid of the cursor, so I've been controlling it, forcing it to walk in directions it doesn't want to walk. Some may call it cruel, but that's what happens in the middle of the night; people change, get crazy, and do things they wouldn't do in the light of day. Except me, because I tend to do the same things during the day that I do at night.

Now, as random as this all is, I'm wondering if there is something to learn from these few little adventures I just had. 

Yes.

Because it's not always easy to see when something is good for you. Like tonight. On any normal night, I'd be asleep, dreaming some crazy dream about a man stealing people's shoes. But not tonight. Because tonight I had an adventure with my little sister's friends (because all my friends are being normal and sleeping), and it gave me the desire to have more random adventures in the middle of the night.

And I don't need a holiday to do it.