As mentioned previously, I had dragged myself out of my house last Saturday to make an appearance at Colleen and Mark's bbq Birthday celebration. It was a dreary day and I had been catching up on sleep, rejuvinating the body. It was a nice quiet crowd and I got to hang out on the back porch catching up with some girlfriends of Colleen's that I had met before. The evening progressed, Colleen made us all watch their wedding video which had just arrived that week. It was actually fun to watch with a room full of people who had attended. We all got to laugh and joke about ourselves as painfully captured on video. As the night progressed, people peeled off and headed home until it was really just a few of us left.
Colleen had been the wonderful hostess and spent much of the day making sure everyone was all set, and only able to grab a drink or two (or three or four), but not much else. Needless to say, on an empty stomache, she didn't make it to the end and had to retire early which just left four of us at the end, Mark (her husband - front and center in the picture), Adam (his best friend, first row on the left), and Matt (who had come to visit for the weekend, middle row on the left).We hung out, with Mark stepping out periodically to check on Colleen's progress (she finally made it up onto the bed) and he had us make a straw run at one point. In the end we settled into a nice game of Taboo. I was partnered with Mark which was great as I felt we made a good team. It was fun, because both Adam and Matt are flirts so got to spend the night innocently flirting with both, although in the end, mainly with Matt.
Now, it should be noted, this was only possible because I had basically slept in until noon and had thrown my whole clock off. It was just fun sitting back sharing stories and shooting the breeze with the guys. I realize I used to do that much more back in my youth, but now mainly have girlfriends or individual guy friends (not in groups). They all went to college together and are a nice solid group of really nice guys (that's them doing the chicken dance at Mark's wedding). At one point Adam was talking about his trip to NYC this week to meet with a photographer. They were sweet and trying to talk me into joining the roadtrip (I've been itching to see my friend John on broadway so was tempted). But was good and declined. In the end, I headed off at 3 am (the time flew) but with the promise of keeping in touch with Matt with the plan of seeing if things could work out by being more than just friends (I have to say this is hard writing about knowing the parents might be reading - trying to keep this pc).Sunday was low key and than Monday hit and running a full day workshop just wore me out. This is about when I was starting to think it doesn't always pay to be good. By Tuesday I had made up my mind to see if I could skip town and play hookie for a day or two. You see, Wednesday is the perfect day to try to see the musical as there are two shows, and the tickets don't sell as quickly as on the weekends when I would most likely visit. It would be much more likely that I get a standby ticket at the affordable price (i.e. not $170 full price). I knew it was probably too late but emailed Adam to see if I could catch a ride and texted Matt to see if a last minute visit was possible. Long story short, it was too late and I wasn't able to skip town like planned but did still play hookie Wednesday and enjoyed the nice weather. The nice part of the whole story was that both guys were super sweet. I had a nice chat with Matt (hopefully just the beginning of many) and with Adam who swore he goes to NYC alot. In the end it just left me with the warm fuzzies which I definately needed. I love it when I meet some new cool people that just enrich your life. Now the tricky part is tossing them into the juggling act of my life. But I'm working on that.
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