So date night was cancelled Friday. I thought Savannah and I would have a relaxing evening on the back porch. Drink some whiskey, smoke some hookah…well, that happened. Sort of. Nola is home for a visit. I love that girl like she was my own flesh and blood. I felt bad because I can’t party like I used to on Fridays. The past few weeks especially I’ve been so exhausted. So the evening ended at a very early 1:00am, but before that happened we had a hell of a time. I also picked up West Nile apparently. The mosquitos here are so bad this year that the massive amounts of bug spray, and even clothing, don’t help. One of the little fuckers bit me through my jeans, on my thigh. I am allergic to mosquitos. I have been bathing in hydrocortisone. It was still worth it though, I got to see some of my favorite people.
Nola brought another friend of ours over. I only really see him when she’s in town because I’m lazy and I never think to call him, but I love him. He taught us all how to play Three Man on my 21st birthday and there were people passed out everywhere. Douche McGee puked on my 21st and I took care of him, I didn’t even get drunk! But anyway, we will call him Three Man for that reason. Then another lovely friend I don’t see very often showed up, with more beer. I love these people. We’ll refer to her as Eco. She’s very much a tree hugging hippie and I love her. She’s so…energetic. Hilarious.
We smoked a ton of hookah and I drank whiskey and ginger ale before switching to lemonade and blueberry vodka. Delicious. It was great just to talk and chill. It’s what I needed after the week I had. I miss the hell out of Nola too. Especially since I haven’t gotten to visit her this year. Eco and Three Man are going down in a few weeks and trying desperately to get me to go with them. Lord knows that is what I need right now. A week out of this town and somewhere I love, with the people I love. Not to mention, THE GODAMN OCEAN! And so many other things I love about that place. My home. Soon…
I slept so well after they all left. I woke up the next morning and grabbed a shower. BNB called. We had made plans to go see Ponyo. He offered to come up to my part of town. I told him he should since he hasn’t met my dog yet. That’s the way to his heart, fur. I’m kind of nervous, but mostly excited. Lo-dog and BNB make friends immediately. My plan is successful! He brought me a present too. He burned me a cd of this Japanese girl group. They play ukuleles and sing covers of old songs. Amazing. I forget the name, and the cd is in my car. He drew a hibiscus on it and made the lettering all fancy. He is such a fucking nerd. He makes me swoon.
We head off to the movie, and oh my dad, it was so damn cute. There were a bunch of little kids in there who talked through the whole damn thing, but it was still really good. We headed back to my place after and hung out for a bit. It was fun, relaxed, easy…god I wish he wasn’t such a godamn idiot. We really would be perfect together, but I’m not pushing it anymore. He has to figure that out on his own.
After he left I picked up my aunt who’s in town and staying with my grandmother. We shopped and hung out and it was kind of nice spending some time together. We ended up having dinner with my mother, grandmother and my mother’s fiance. (I still hate saying that. Gross) We got a pitcher of sangria and I got kind of drunk the second night in a row. We were laughing so hard I was crying. Sometimes they make me crazy, but I do love my family.
I slept in this morning and then decided to run to the farmer’s market and the local owned grocery store and get some awesome dinner. Spent some more time with the family and then Space Cowboy called. I didn’t really realize until recently how much we talk. I love it. He truly is one of my favorite people on the planet. We’ve had a lot of good talks lately and I am so excited for him to come visit at the end of the month.
Aaaand with that I’m going to go. The hydrocortisone is starting to wear off and I may rip my skin off. I think I’ll take a benadryl. Fucking mosquitos.

