Tuesday 7/4, Despite going to bed late I was awake by 8:30, so I got up and did my short walk and enjoyed the sunny weather, though it wouldn’t continue throughout the day. When I got back I had a piece of toast, showered, did my new hair then headed out to run some errands. First was the drug store to develop pictures and pick up a few items, then over to BB&B where I bought a little dust buster so it’s easier to clean the stairs and hard to reach places, then I walked over to Safeway to pick something up. Back home I heated up my leftover omelet, met Susan’s friend Dean then hung out in my room reading and listening to Muse’s Hullaballoo until 3:00 when Kassie called to have me come over. I lounged and read Us while she got ready, which took about an hour and a half, then we packed up and over to Vivace, then to pick up Franklin. Kassie was much more dressed up than me with her cute sundress and Christian Loubitan’s to my jeans, tank and pink Vans. Kind of funny, anyway, apparently all of the Lo Fi guys call Franklin and Kassie “Frassie”, so when we got to the Madison market and heard someone yelling “Kassie” from what we thought was the apartments above, then turned into “Fraaaasiiie” we were all very confused. As we sat there discussing and trying to figure out who the hell was calling “Frassie”, Jason pops out from behind a tree so we all had a good laugh and went in to do some grocery shopping. Picked up some supplies then headed over to Denise’s apartment for a BBQ. We had fun especially at Franklin’s expense because he fucked up the grill by leaving the the scraper inside which melted inside the coals, then when Mike was setting off some little fireworks and the neighbor lady came out and gave him some of hers to light off. Frank made us some delicious burgers with bread crumbs mashed in which we topped with white cheddar and tomatoes. Yum! We left Denise’s to go back to Kassie’s to get some warmer clothing and my car so I could leave directly from Lo-Fi. We got there and went right up to the roof where the fireworks were being set up and people were milling about waiting for it to get dark. We got some sparklers going and Mike and Jason were talking shit to the kiddies on the rooftop next door about their fireworks sucking. Yeah, they were like 8 and having a birthday party. There were quite a few cute guys there and it’s a shame that the cutest one, Tom, didn’t show up until later in the evening. He was like “Are you guys related?” and later thought I was Kassie when I came down off of the roof. The fireworks were really great from the roof, especially the Lake Union ones, but Jason was not to be outdone and kept lighting his off and interrupting our viewing. I guess he really wanted everyone to take notice of his $400 worth of fireworks. After both shows were over the boys lit off the rest of theirs and put on a pretty bitching show. Everybody hung out for a while in the bar area afterward and I stayed until about 11:30 then decided traffic or not I needed to head home. So I did and it wasn’t that bad cause I was so close to the freeway being on Eastlake and all. Got home around midnight and went to bed.

Monday 7/3, After work I went home and showered, though I didn’t wash my hair because I figured Sean would do that, and then left the house around 6:45. I got down there very easily and found a spot right outside BB&B and decided to go in and buy some hangers. After that I went over to the salon and Sean was waiting there and Kassie was hanging out / working while I got my hair cut for moral support. Getting my hair cut by Sean was a fantastic thing, we talked the whole time, which is so easy because he’s hilarious, and it didn’t even feel like he was cutting my hair just snipping here and there and eventually ended up with a great haircut. We talked about astrology, marriage, babies, guys, Stanwood, Boom City, music and a whole slew of other random topics. It was great. Is it weird to have that much fun with your hairdresser? Probably. I will definitely be using Sean from now on. So anyway, after that Kassie and I went back to her house and she talked on the phone for 45 minutes with Dave but I was starving so I was trying to get her off of the phone and out the door to eat dinner. We decided on Palace Kitchen, surprise surprise, and it was really busy when we got there so we didn’t even get seated until like 11:30 or something. It was nuts. I had the burger and nibbled on some of Kassie’s cheese plate and by the time we got out of there it had to be 12:45. We went back to her house and she got ready to go out and I went home and got to bed about 1:30.