me-weekend

one of my most relaxing and alcohol-free weekends in recent history. i only left the house to go to yoga, to pick up a friend, and to go out to eat.

my parents get home tonight. they had left us $100 for emergency money. we only needed $10 of it through the entire course of their trip (for milk because everyone just eats cereal all the time.) So naturally there was a lot left over. originally we were going to order out chinese but keri said she felt like pasta, so we went out. i felt like iced tea - not that it's a problem to make at home, BUT SOMEONE had placed a bottle of rum and a bottle of margarita mix in the ice maker, so there was no ice - hence, no iced tea.

so the house is still standing. keri was stoned when we went out. CC came over and so did one of keri's friends. i think the twenty year olds may have smoked up while chilling by the pool, but i did not physically see them do it, so maybe she was just tired? it was a perfect day for chilling by the pool. and - oops - i just remembered now that i left the heater on all night. darn, now the pool will be like bath water. there's nothing better than a monday-night pool party!

their flight gets in at 5 pm. hopefully i can get home and change their sheets before they get home - not only do i doubt that keri changed the sheets after she was found naked in my parents bed with a boy, but CC slept there last night cuddled up with one of the dogs (her car is broken which means she was at my mercy for transportation and it just made more sense for me to drop her off on my way to work today.) and i need to put the dishes away too...

but yeah, this weekend was definitely about me. saturday i took a bubble bath complete with bubbles and jets. i didn't really feel like going out or calling any of my friends. but i didn't feel bad about staying in either. i enjoyed it.

and am i a good manipulator or what? since i've been speaking about the NewCrush, people have said, well what's wrong with a girl initiating things? i would reply no you just don't get it. he is latino. plus, i don't ever feel comfortable initiating things because i'd feel culpable for anything that might happen - meaning, he's with me because I asked him, not because he wants to. i'm sure this is bullshit - so as long as someone who is accustomed to initiating things he is initiating, i should be ok. i was talking to M about him. he said well if you're so desparate why don't you call him? i'll give you his number. i was a little shy about getting it, but M insisted so i wrote it down. later on, after some super excellent delicious steak tacos from La Ilusion (mexican place in Ghetto-ville) i sent him a text message, knowing full well that he didn't have my number (as the reader may or may not recall, we flirted a lot the last time we all hung out but he didn't ask for my number so i was pissed.) instead of texting, he calls back. five points for me: i got him to a) get my number and b) call me, all without having to actually call him.

the general discussions of "what have you been doing, what are you doing tonight" are what came next. he was already in the city on his way out to dinner with his brother and the brother's girlfriend. but would you like to go out with us afterwards? he asked. i told him, yeah ok; he would call me when they finished.

this was around 20:30 or 21:00. finally it was around 22:00 and i began to think eh, he's not going to call, that's ok. i discovered the series "nip/tuck" on FX so i began to watch that. he called halfway through. so do you still want to come out with us? we're probably going to a club or something. it might be too late. i told him it depended on where; if it's a place that closes at like 1:00 then it's too late. so i decided not to go out. so he asked, well do you want to see eachother during the week? what do you like to do? so we decided that he would call me on tuesday. let's see if he does.

regardless, i kind of love how this played out. all from a simple text message i made things happen the way i wanted them to - he got my number, called, asked if we might do something during the week. so we can say i took initiave, but only the necessary initiative. and i am glad that i stayed home on saturday; it would have seemed desparate if i drove all the way to the city at 23:00 just to go out for a few hours.