Thursday 7/6, On the way home from work Kay-See called me to see if I wanted to go camping with her, AGF and some other hot gay boys. I said that would be fun, called back the little sister, called Chrystol to find out about going over to look at pictures then went out for my short walk. I must have been hustling because my shins started to hurt, but they’re fine now so it’s all good. When I got back I made one of my trusty salads and leftover chicken from Palace Kitchen then took a shower and got ready to go over to see Chrystol. I left right at 7:30 and traffic was fine so I got there quickly and talked with Peggy about leaving early on Friday. I went in and met Jason’s little brother Tate, who is very cute, saw B who now has a huge beard that, in my opinion, doesn’t look very good at all. Chrystol and I sat on the back porch steps to look at the pictures and there were some really good ones in both batches, but I decided that for purposes of this gift, I preferred the color ones and picked out the three I liked and one backup, and also picked three of the black and white in case Kassie decided that’s what she wants. We decided on picture size, finish and border style. There were some pictures that were so hilarious that I couldn’t stop looking at them and laughing, then I showed C and S the pictures I brought and they laughed equally hard even though I thought they’d already seen most of them, so it was a fun night of laughing at ourselves. We went back inside and both had to go to the bathroom but B was brushing his teeth so we were waiting outside the door but then Tate went in to use the bathroom so the three of us stood outside the bathroom door and were talking about the pictures and at one point I fixed my gaze on B and he looked at me and held my stare for a minute then looked away, but I kept right on looking at him and he looked back and I’m pretty sure he got the gist of why I was looking at him like that. Half the time I didn’t look at him when he was talking, I just turned my head and looked the other direction. I guess I’m still angry and hurt. Just a tad. Finally Tate was done and each of us had our turn to use the bathroom, we talked for a few more minutes in the living room then B went to bed I think, or maybe just left because he felt uncomfortable, and I left soon after that because it was getting late anyway. I stopped at QFC on the way home to pick up camping supplies and talked to Kay-See about what to bring and that I would be baking muffins for breakfast fare. So when I got home I got right down to it and was baking until 10:45 but if the muffins taste half as good as the batter, then I think we’re in pretty good shape. I did some packing and finally got into bed, finished a chapter off and went to sleep.

Wednesday 7/5, I went home for a couple of minutes after work just to touch up my makeup and put my hair back because it had morphed throughout the day and didn’t look good, then I was out the door on my way to AGF’s birthday celebration at Rosebud. I called Dad on the way to thank him for my early birthday present and pulled up outside Honey Hole at exactly 6:00. I made my way back to the patio area of Rosebud and found Kay-See, the Birthday Boy, Melissa and Carina (sp?). We chatted then some of us girls decided to take a field trip to TiB and looked at some of the new items and eventually returned to Rosebud where I got a Shirley Temple that was very good. Kay-See and I were hungry so we went over to Honey Hole and ordered some food to go and just chatted while we waited. She’s such a good friend, she always listens to me bitch about stupid stuff. Kay-See created a diversion when we went back into Rosebud and we both enjoyed our meals for about 20 minutes until the older bartending gentleman asked us to put it away, though I still managed to finish off my fries while they were in the bag, heh heh heh. Some more friends showed up, um, Bill and Nicholas (sp?) and it was nice to just have fun conversation with nice new people and joke around about stuff. I had such a fabulous time, and it got even better when Neil showed up. He looked hot as ever and even complimented my pink Vans, yay! As a group we talked about the Andy debacle a little but I think it’s just kind of funny at this point, like I told Kay-See last week on our hike, I feel like I should be humiliated or something, but I'm not. I think it’s funnier than anything. Here I go out on a limb, but not really because I’m already convinced that he kind of likes me, so I give him my number….and nothing. I’m kind of just like “Whatever” but not even in an irritated way. AGF agrees that it was probably the ex-gf who called me after finding the phone number. That freaks me out, I don’t want her to find me and kick my ass. Anyway, back to the party, a couple more people showed up and two of the guys were talking about guys they had slept with and one said something about sleeping with a whole bunch of random guys and I said “I wrote that book” and then later he said something about old creepy men so I said it again “I wrote that book” and he goes “Thanks, I read that book”. It was funny, because clearly I haven’t slept with a whole bunch of guys, especially old creepy ones. I'm Karrah, I’m hilarious! At about 9:20 I decided to head out and got hugs from lots of cute boys and my good friend Kay-See and headed back over to the Eastside where I found an empty house. I showered and talked to Susan and Dean when they got home, then read some of my book and went to sleep.