HS Reunion, part one

Ok. No word from Gl lately, but he's been having a hard time of it since his mom passed away. Ended up not hearing from J for almost a week, but i finally did. Saw T almost every night doing his karaoke show. On friday, (Jul 30th) nite, T wanted me to come out to a karaoke bar across the river, but R & S didn't want to wait fro me - I had to close. So, I get home around 9:30pm, and plan on staying in, but my next door neighbor was drunk, and acting like he was going to knock on my door, so headed out to the tavern to meet up with G. Was there for barely one drink, and T called, saying they were coming back to town to go to another karaoke bar, Daddio's, so I head over there. I need to blow off steam - there were some health issues with my gramma earlier in the week. I had tried to text J, but he never texted back. I had my second interview at the other retail company. So, R,S, T&A, and I all closed Daddio's. The plan was to have T follow R home, but R skedaddled, so T ended up at my place. More drinking. Made some veggies and rice. Still up at 10am! Crashed - woke up at 6p to A texting me about coming over and a pit fire and a few other friends. Headed over there. Kept trying to text J - nothing. Finally home and in bed by around 2am. I slept on the couch off and on all day sunday! T came over on tuesday, before his karaoke stint, and we just goofed off with music : it was a lot of fun.

Finally, I hear from J. I had asked him the last time I saw him if he would take me to my 20th HS reunion, and he had said yes. He had texted me on thursday (aug 5th) asking if I wanted to go on a bike ride to Bristol with him that weekend - I couldn't since it was Tax Free, an all-hands on deck weekend. But, he stopped by work that night, and we ended up walking around the store and talking for about half an hour! And I confirmed that he would take me to my reunion.

So, I'm off at 5pm that friday. I meet up with my folks to see some local artists I know having a show of horse paintings. Home around 6:30, try texting J. G texts me around 8 that he's up at the tavern - I know they're taking off around 10pm that night. So, I finish making dinner - pasta in a cream sauce, brought some up to the tavern for G and sat down. J wasstanding right behind her. He came over and we talked a bit. He said, "I was going to stop by before we left." But, really nice kiss before he took off, and then I went home and was in bed by 11, since I had to be at work at 6am.

Saturday: Off at 3pm. Home. Chilling out. S'posed to go to this party that T was DJ'ing at. I show up there at 7ish. He's drunk. He presummed he was going to spend the night at my place - we had never talked about that - kept trying to grab me in bear hugs. The night did not go well. He kept saying, "Don't worry about me, I'll just drive my car off a bridge on the way home." When the party was done at 10, I headed out, and I would have forgiven him his behavior, but then he started texting me. I headed to the tavern and blew off some steam with G. I showed her the texts as they came in - very passive aggressive. And insulting. Aftern the Tavern closed, went to Bubba's with Ri, had a blast playing pool and chit-chating. Saw J's friend C there. Home around 3am. When I woke up sunday morning - there was an email waiting for me from T - more of the same. So, I didn't contact him after that.

J had said he'd be back on sunday, and that he'd be at my place waiting for me when I got off work : extended hours. Home around 9:30. No J. Stayed home monday night and tuesday night. No response from J to my texts. A friend from HS was in town, so I picked him up on wednsday after work and took him to the tavern. T texted that he was glad to see me out. And he seemed a bit better. My HS friend had a good time - it was so good to see him relax; but he's going through some marital problems right now. And I went to karaoke at the tavern on thursday night. Again, T was being pretty well-behaved.

Friday off - three day weekend for my reunion. I had asked my HS friend to consider going to the reunion with me, but he initially declined. So, I was going to behave friday night, but out at the tavern again. Listened to he band. Watched the redskins game!!!! Home around midnight. Up at 7ish to go and get my hair cut at 8am!

Still no word from J. But, I had a couple of back ups at this last-minute moment. I'm going to stop here - I'm still tired. And then the next post with cover the reunion! A few more guys in the mix now!!!

in any case . . .

slainte . . .

Mulu :>))