So, last night was meant to be my "re-coop" night... But naturally that didn't happen...
I started by meeting my neighbor "R" @ The Retreat, and because he owes me money, he bought all my drinks and a few shots... So by 8 I was ready to eat and go home... where I was planning to stay. Val and I rode out to B-town to get some crab soup (when I have a craving there is no avoiding it) and then we came back to my place to commence watching the season premeir of Grey's Anatomy. We made it through the first half when Val decided she was pooped and needed to go home... Erin had called and texted for me to come to Yeo's because Laura was back in town... Against my better judgment I decided to head out, and I stopped at Rick's first, one because I don't drink beer, so I needed a togo cocktail from there and also because I REALLY DID NOT WANT to go to Yeoman's, but I apparently also did not want to sit at home...
Thankfully Ron was out and he is one of my Island favorites, always nice, good looking older man, very charming and complimentary. He shoots is straight and appreciates that I do as well. And he has known me from the beginning and has seen me evolve into the happy social butterfly that I now am, and he never hesitates to remind me about that which is nice. So he and I talked about life for a while, talked about relationships, he has a daughter close to my age and told me that one thing that he always stressed to her was INDEPENDENCE, her ability to take care of herself should she ever need to.
I am finally in a place where I feel like I can say that I am able to take care of myself, I am getting ready to move in with Lauren, so I am compromising on that a bit, but my main motivation for getting a roommate, against my better judgement is that I want to be able to travel, I want to see the world, while I'm young and single and in my prime and an extra 500 a month is going to make that a lot more pheasable... Ron completely agreed with that logic...
Last night Ron decided that I look like Ursula Andrees, thus the reason her photo leads off this post, as soon as I saw this pic on the Iphone I was like Whoa, that could possibly be the nicest compliment I have ever gotten! Jimmy and Ron both were very complimentary and ofcourse, that is ALWAYS nice to hear... Ron took off, he's very good about not staying out too late and/or getting too silly, especially on "school nights". But, as he left, Boo showed up, so there was no reason to leave at that point. Boo and I proceeded to do shots, I was paying for her drinks all night because she "forgot her card", which she most likely did, but I didn't really care, Boo is "Island Family" and thus when family needs help, you do it, no questions asked...
Then, "New York Joe" showed up and I knew that there would probably be an interesting turn of events after that... The night before after having VERY minimal conversation with me, he came up to me at the bar (I was wearing my gym clothes and had been playing cornhole for about 4 hours at that point) and asked me if he could make dinner for me on Thursday, please? I was kind of caught off guard, so I just played it cool and was like, um yeah we'll chat about it when I see you... And then he left... So last night, he sits down, says hello, I smile and say hello as well... It's a bit awkward but this isn't my first rodeo, so I'm rollin' with it....
He proceeds to buy all of my drinks, including the ones that I had bought previous to him being there and a few shots for Boo as well... And he put money in Juke Box and let me play half of them... So that was all cool and kind of a relief since I had been paying for Boo's drinks all night... So as we are sitting at the bar and the scene is beginning to shift into the twilight zone, he says to me; "I don't know if this is too forward, well shit I don't care if it is, I'm just gonna say it, usually for a first date I would do a hockey game, so how would you feel about flying to NY and going to a hockey game?"... Long pause and slightly shocked face on my part... "Um, well, I love New York and I think it would be awesome to go there, but I am definitely going to need to hang out with you a bit before I am going to consided getting on a plane with you..." Thankfully he seemed to feel like that was completely logical...
We did a few more shots before he ended up calling a cab, and to spite his VERY forward behavior he had still neglected to ask me for my number, which was kind of a relief because I don't really know how I would have responded... I am not the most amazing looking girl and although I think I'm pretty easy to hang out with, it is still strange for me to wrap my head around men acting foolishly as a result of me... just such a strange concept to me...
The rest of the night just kind of flew by, there was a meth head named, what else, "Mike" and he was having a rally towards the end of the night after having fallen asleep on a table and sliding the table cloth off with his weight and cracking an ash tray in half and was now wrapped around the "Aztec Indian girl" that just had a baby 6 months ago and felt the need to have me feel her breasts earlier in the evening and see how one breast was full and "supple" while the other was not, I guess she's decided to only nurse from one side... Either way, she and he were both shit faced and hanging all over one another outside of Ricks, it was disturbing and scary, she had a little baby at home and she was out... till 3, so drunk that she probably shoudn't have even been walking/stumbling home on her own...
Meth Mike decided at one point that he wanted to start shit with me because I happened to be looking in their direction but speaking to someone behind them... He tossed her off of his lap and stumbled over towards my table and I just got up and bailed because this dude was going to piss me off very quickly and I was feeling very able to control myself at that point... So I go back inside and he proceeds to start poking and starting shit with Jody (whom I just met last night and proceeded to extend an invite to fly to New York with me, which he politely declined) and so Lauren (my future roomie) came in and was like dude now that guy is all over Jody... So I felt bad and went back outside after that... Apparently Jody was able to work his way through that situation with a bit more ease than myself... good times...
I wrapped up the evening turning down the after party at Erin's and went to the 7-11 for a super cuban and some ramen noodles... nothing like 10,000 mg of sodium to wrap up a night out:) Went home watched Gossip Girl and then slipped into a serious slumber which I did not want to be over, and promised myself as I walked out the door to come to work, an hour and a half late, that tonight will be my recoop night, lets try this again shall we?
-js
