Sunday 6/17, We all got up and moving then out the door by 9 to check out various neighborhoods and surrounding areas to try and help them narrow down where they want to live. They hated Bellevue (which I predicted), thought Factoria and Eastgate were ok, loved Issaquah (Front St.) and didn’t really care for North Bend, Fall City, Carnation or Sammamish. We found her school and I showed them how close I work to where she’ll be working then we headed back into Issaquah for lunch. We hit the Chinese place and they were so sweet to buy me lunch. I had been exchanging texts with LPC bf about meeting up plans and time was starting to creep up on me so we headed home and they hung out while I hurried and got ready (including application of my sick dragon tattoo (complete with clouds and crystal ball) on the underside of my forearm). They gave me the seal of approval as I got ready to walk out the door, exchanged hugs, gave them a key for next weekend and hit the road for downtown. I called Dad on the way to wish him a happy Father’s Day and found out Kassie had driven down to surprise him then I told him about my trip to meet-up with a guy from the net and he wasn’t too keen on it but trusts that I can handle myself…even if he is 6’5” and as Sean said “He could throw you over his shoulder and walk off with you, and whether you protest or not, there’s not a lot you’re going to be able to do”. I found parking very easily and had about 15 minutes to spare so I called Court and left a message which she quickly responded back to and told me her and Pat are contemplating moving back up here for a year or so just for a change of pace so we got all excited about that and I knew Eliso would be as well so that was fun, then I told her about my internet dating and she wasn’t surprised at all and rather amused…as most people seem to be. It was 2:00 and time to head up so I hung up with her and made my way up, didn’t see him, so walked circles around the flower bed trying to keep warm, and finally I saw him coming, smiled, pointed at him and we had introductions. He was a tall drink of water for sure, as cute as the good pictures of him on his profile, and good voice to boot. We headed into the library and went straight to the top then meandered and got lost on the way back down talking and laughing the whole way. He confirmed that his intention was to get me in one of the bathrooms to have sex with me and that he thought he’d made it perfectly clear in his messages. I was in stitches. So we did a ton of talking and eventually found ourselves walking down 4th toward Pike and he suggested a warm beverage (since the “fairer sex” always seems to be cold) then we made our way to Westlake to people watch. It was a good spot and gave us more time to talk talk talk. I suggested going to B&N so I could get Q and use the bathroom then on our way again just walking around downtown talking about all sorts of hilarious things. We ended up at my car and I offered him a ride to his car so we climbed in and headed up Madison. As we were saying bye I had the feeling he wanted to kiss me but I was willing him not to; not the right moment. So he got out and I took off for home, stopped at the store for some groceries, and talked to Eliso as I was arriving home and gave her all the details of the day and told her again that I can’t wait until she’s up here so we can hang out all the time again. LPC bf and I started trading suggestive text messages back and forth and he offered to keep me warm (only in the coat lending way though…) and that I sparkle even more in person and that he was all “swoon” which made me laugh, of course. He’s so hilarious, and it seems to come so easy, plus he’s very complimentary and who doesn’t love that? I ate a little of my leftover Chinese and watched EHM. Talked to Susan for a while on the phone and heard about her PDX trip and filled her in on the weekend’s boy-events. I then talked to Kay-See for a long time and filled her in on everything and strategized about Jake. I updated this, made more plans with LPC bf, read, went to bed.
Saturday 6/16, I dreamt about spending time with Eric and missing my appointment with Sean and being really mad at myself for it. Much to my relief, my alarm woke me up at 7:30 as planned and I got up and out the door to get gas. Back at home I prepped for my walk and was out the door again with a tight schedule to adhere to. I made great time on my walk and made it back with plenty of time to get ready to go see my favorite heterosexual male. Sean. Kay-See called me with good news about her marathon and I filled her in on Jake and told her I would give her an update later in the day after I firmed up my plans. I got downtown, parked, and headed into the salon. I was his first appointment so he was bright eyed and bushytailed. I filled him on all the boy stuff, including my two myspace meet-ups, the previous-weekend-Eric-situation, the hot Scot, and various Beltown excursions. He teased me that my meet-up with LPC bf wouldn’t actually be the guy in the pictures but instead would be the guy’s Dad who would be an old man on a scooter from the Scooter Store. He had me in stitches. But also made me glad I’m in his good graces. He’s a funny one that Sean. I had a great time as always and have vowed not to go that long between haircuts again. Before hitting the road I gave him and Tiffany my address for invitational purposes. On the way to my car I called Jake to see if he still wanted to do lunch, he did though sounded a bit reluctant, and we decided to meet in Kirkland at Purple in an hour. I headed to the Eastside and went to Costco Home where I set up an appointment to have them come out to do blinds on my windows then headed over into Kirkland. I was a little early so I decided to read a little as I didn’t want to be there RIGHT ON THE NOSE, but instead a few minutes late. Like 2 or 3. Sure enough when I walked up he was already sitting in the little waiting area and stood up when I walked in and we shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. He looked at me rather intensely, clearly studying my face, and I was very impressed with what I saw as well. For the record, he’s probably the best looking guy I’ve had a “date” with. Hot. With a capital H. Blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, tan, great arms…you know the drill. He’s a little frat boy-ish for me, but I’m not going to let that ruin my day. So we sit down and started chatting away about all sorts of things. Lunch was great and we totally geeked out about RH together and I never thought I would find someone with the same affinity, but here we are! I got some other music recommendations and I invited him to go camping next weekend but I doubt he’ll take me up on it. He has a few views that are very opposite of mine so I don’t see it ever really going anywhere, besides the fact that I get more of a friend vibe from him anyway, but he’s a hot guy who’s great to talk to so I’ll take it! Plus he insisted on picking up the tab and when I suggested I leave tip he said “Absolutely not” so I told him then I could pick up the next one and his reply was “Well, you can say that, but it’s not going to happen” and commented that I looked very conflicted to which I replied that I’m used to paying my way and he said, it doesn’t work like that with him. Ok, fair enough. Alan later said he didn’t like that, but I have no strong objections. He made an interesting comment about being in the shower and contemplated, uh, our date / meet up thing, which I found VERY interesting. We packed it up and headed out, had a non-descript farewell and parted ways. I headed to Hofman’s Bakery to pick up a cinnamon crisp and sugar cookie then got a text from Jake confirming the name of a RH song we had been talking about and saying that lunch was fun and that we should do it again soon. I texted back that I agreed and thanked him again for lunch. Headed to MI to meet Dad then him, Alix, Sarah the German foreign exchange student and I and we were on our way to Ernie and Erika’s via the U-District for an errand, where I filled Kay-See in on EVERYTHING and how perfect J would be for her, what with the salt affinity, shared fondness for Tool, religion and political views and almost everything else about him. Let’s see what Karrah can work out for her good friend Kay-See. Drove to Edmonds and Father’s Day was fun and the food was good. We were there until about 6 or so then took off and Mom dropped me at my car and I headed home. I called Kay-See and told her I was too sleepy to hang out and was probably going to nap. I put on Arrested Development and promptly fell asleep for an hour or so. I made myself get up and finish cleaning and stuff in preparation of my PDX guests’ arrival. They showed up at 10:20 and it instantly brightened my night and got me really excited for them to move up here in the next month and a half. I showed them all the things that have been done / changed since they were up here almost three years ago, then we sat down with the computer to check out house listings. We were up for quite a while laughing and talking and perusing online. I gave Jake a hard time because he couldn’t stop ogling my vacuum so I asked him if he wanted to take it for a spin around the room which made him laugh. We finally turned in and made plans to get up at 8 the next morning.
Friday 6/15, I continued on my cleaning quest after work in preparation for Eliso and Jake coming the next day. I showered and hit the road over to Beth and Jason’s to visit with them and Harper for the evening. I talked to Eliso right as I was parking about plans for the next day and that her and Jake were going to be coming in around 10pm instead of noon, which was fine because it would give me more time to get things prepped. Beth and Jason loved the little United Colors of Benetton hoodie I brought back from London for Harper. We sat and talked for hours and Harper wouldn’t stop smiling at me so that thrilled me. He is so cute I can’t stand it and I love playing on the floor with him. He’s such a good baby, it’s incredible. I told Beth if she ever needs someone to watch him to let me know because it truly is wonderful to spend time with him and feel like Auntie Karrah. Even when he throws up ALL OVER MY CLEAN JEANS. And I mean allllll over. Somehow as we were chatting the subject of boys came up, as per usual, so I filled them in on my Sunday plans to meet up with LPC bf at the library and Beth was like, “You know that’s where people meet up to like have sex in the bathrooms right?” and I was like “WHAT?! I’m not sure what he’s thinking, but he’s got another one coming if that’s where he thinks this thing is going” so we laughed about that and how they were going to see me on Dateline NBC being led out in handcuffs because police have been performing sting operations to thin out that kind of activity and that my name would be splashed across all the papers and that news like that travels and you can’t really get away from it. I emphasized that I would not be having sex in the bathroom with him. Make out, maybe…and I’m pretty sure you can’t get arrested for that. We talked about all sorts of bizarre and hilarious sexual things but soon it was getting late-ish so I decided to head home. I called Chrystol on the way home and talked to her forever about their new place and all the goings-on in my world which she identified as fascinating and made me glad that this is entertaining for someone else besides just myself. It was about 11 and I was tired so I crawled into bed and turned on Scrubs to fall asleep to. At midnight my phone obnoxiously alerted me to a text but I was so out of it I thought it was my alarm clock going off and that it was time to get up. I was very disoriented and sad it was time to get up because I was still so tired. I finally figured out what was going on so I looked to see what had come in and it was from Jake.
Him: Is that a no? You don’t want to hang out ever? (Apparently referencing a text he had sent the prior weekend after a series of them we had going back and forth that I hadn’t responded to, basically just stating that we should hang out. I didn’t think this text necessarily merited a response. He, however, did. Hence the fragmented opening text.)
Me: Dude, you name the time and the place and I’ll be there. Word.
Him: Ha! Is my place now too strong? I’m bored. What are you up to tonight? Did you find a new place yet?
Me: In bed. We can talk real estate if we ever get together…
Him: So I guess I called your bluff then…What about lunch or something tomorrow? You name the place.
Me: Shit man, I didn’t know you meant right now. I’m not that kind of girl. I’ll call you tomorrow about lunch. G’night.
Him: I didn’t really. But I suppose you know how guys work by now. Of course call me tomorrow. G’night.
Uh huh, so then I was a little excited about having two myspace meet-ups in the same weekend. My expectations for Jake were a little low as I don’t think he’s really my type but we’ve been corresponding forever so I knew it would at least be nice to shake hands in person and make a new friend. Fell back asleep.
Thursday 6/14, I cleaned and stuff before getting ready to go out to Neighbours. Susan and I decided to meet up early because it’s been so long since we’ve done that. We went in and checked out the crowd, noticed Moppet was there with a friend and headed upstairs to see who was making an appearance. The irritating busser came over and asked if I went to Juanita HS because I looked like a hot girl he went to school with. Uh huh, right. Every week a new pickup line! We went and checked our coats then hit the dance floor. We were giggling and trying to keep the attention of M and friend and Susan said she would take one for the team in the form of the friend, yes! We danced, danced, danced then took a break when a bad song came on and watched my favorite go-go boy in the cage and he pointed at me a few times so that always makes my heart skip a beat. Especially with those pink underwear that he fills out so nicely. We took our places back on the floor closer to the boys’ spot and soon they were over dancing in very close proximity and throwing flirty glances in our direction. Eventually the friend comes over and comments on my Vans and we start chatting away (Aaron) and he’s a nice guy but Susan is wary and asks if I need saving then told M that his friend stole her friend. We were then introduced to M (Jason, surprise surprise, another Jason, like I don’t have enough to keep track of) and Aaron urged him to do some ass shaking dance that was more odd than impressive. We saw Teal and Susan left me with the boys to go say hi and ended up getting a hug from Kitty Cat. Meee-OW. We continued dancing by the boys but eventually I got thirsty so I went to my favorite new bartender to get a water but it was taking FOREVER because all these people kept cutting but I finally got it and stood under the black light surveying the crowd. Jason came over and we started chatting which made me question whether or not he’s straight because he has a kind of effeminate voice, speech-pattern and mannerisms…hmmm. I didn’t find him all that interesting but I’m all about making new friends right now so for those purposes it was good to find out a little bit about him and what he does. I went back out to dance and got a little sassy with Teal and looked irritated-ly at these two drunk girls flailing around and commiserated with Jason. Max made his way over and at first glance it appeared he was wearing a very thickly woven set of fishnet tights with like a goth loin cloth over his ass and junk…but on closer inspection, it was discovered that what appeared to be the tights were actually black stretch pants with little white skulls, which I had mistaken for his skin under the tights. Still odd, but not as entertaining as the fishnet / loin cloth combo would have been. I talked with him for a minute about London and he asked if I had gone to an 80’s club while I was there and I told him, well, kind of. He’s a nice guy and it made me laugh when he really busted it out to Hazy Shade of Winter. It was late so I decided to go home and on my way out some gay guy was like “Great earrings!” so that was fun. Ran to my car and beat it home.
Saturday 6/16, I dreamt about spending time with Eric and missing my appointment with Sean and being really mad at myself for it. Much to my relief, my alarm woke me up at 7:30 as planned and I got up and out the door to get gas. Back at home I prepped for my walk and was out the door again with a tight schedule to adhere to. I made great time on my walk and made it back with plenty of time to get ready to go see my favorite heterosexual male. Sean. Kay-See called me with good news about her marathon and I filled her in on Jake and told her I would give her an update later in the day after I firmed up my plans. I got downtown, parked, and headed into the salon. I was his first appointment so he was bright eyed and bushytailed. I filled him on all the boy stuff, including my two myspace meet-ups, the previous-weekend-Eric-situation, the hot Scot, and various Beltown excursions. He teased me that my meet-up with LPC bf wouldn’t actually be the guy in the pictures but instead would be the guy’s Dad who would be an old man on a scooter from the Scooter Store. He had me in stitches. But also made me glad I’m in his good graces. He’s a funny one that Sean. I had a great time as always and have vowed not to go that long between haircuts again. Before hitting the road I gave him and Tiffany my address for invitational purposes. On the way to my car I called Jake to see if he still wanted to do lunch, he did though sounded a bit reluctant, and we decided to meet in Kirkland at Purple in an hour. I headed to the Eastside and went to Costco Home where I set up an appointment to have them come out to do blinds on my windows then headed over into Kirkland. I was a little early so I decided to read a little as I didn’t want to be there RIGHT ON THE NOSE, but instead a few minutes late. Like 2 or 3. Sure enough when I walked up he was already sitting in the little waiting area and stood up when I walked in and we shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. He looked at me rather intensely, clearly studying my face, and I was very impressed with what I saw as well. For the record, he’s probably the best looking guy I’ve had a “date” with. Hot. With a capital H. Blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, tan, great arms…you know the drill. He’s a little frat boy-ish for me, but I’m not going to let that ruin my day. So we sit down and started chatting away about all sorts of things. Lunch was great and we totally geeked out about RH together and I never thought I would find someone with the same affinity, but here we are! I got some other music recommendations and I invited him to go camping next weekend but I doubt he’ll take me up on it. He has a few views that are very opposite of mine so I don’t see it ever really going anywhere, besides the fact that I get more of a friend vibe from him anyway, but he’s a hot guy who’s great to talk to so I’ll take it! Plus he insisted on picking up the tab and when I suggested I leave tip he said “Absolutely not” so I told him then I could pick up the next one and his reply was “Well, you can say that, but it’s not going to happen” and commented that I looked very conflicted to which I replied that I’m used to paying my way and he said, it doesn’t work like that with him. Ok, fair enough. Alan later said he didn’t like that, but I have no strong objections. He made an interesting comment about being in the shower and contemplated, uh, our date / meet up thing, which I found VERY interesting. We packed it up and headed out, had a non-descript farewell and parted ways. I headed to Hofman’s Bakery to pick up a cinnamon crisp and sugar cookie then got a text from Jake confirming the name of a RH song we had been talking about and saying that lunch was fun and that we should do it again soon. I texted back that I agreed and thanked him again for lunch. Headed to MI to meet Dad then him, Alix, Sarah the German foreign exchange student and I and we were on our way to Ernie and Erika’s via the U-District for an errand, where I filled Kay-See in on EVERYTHING and how perfect J would be for her, what with the salt affinity, shared fondness for Tool, religion and political views and almost everything else about him. Let’s see what Karrah can work out for her good friend Kay-See. Drove to Edmonds and Father’s Day was fun and the food was good. We were there until about 6 or so then took off and Mom dropped me at my car and I headed home. I called Kay-See and told her I was too sleepy to hang out and was probably going to nap. I put on Arrested Development and promptly fell asleep for an hour or so. I made myself get up and finish cleaning and stuff in preparation of my PDX guests’ arrival. They showed up at 10:20 and it instantly brightened my night and got me really excited for them to move up here in the next month and a half. I showed them all the things that have been done / changed since they were up here almost three years ago, then we sat down with the computer to check out house listings. We were up for quite a while laughing and talking and perusing online. I gave Jake a hard time because he couldn’t stop ogling my vacuum so I asked him if he wanted to take it for a spin around the room which made him laugh. We finally turned in and made plans to get up at 8 the next morning.
Friday 6/15, I continued on my cleaning quest after work in preparation for Eliso and Jake coming the next day. I showered and hit the road over to Beth and Jason’s to visit with them and Harper for the evening. I talked to Eliso right as I was parking about plans for the next day and that her and Jake were going to be coming in around 10pm instead of noon, which was fine because it would give me more time to get things prepped. Beth and Jason loved the little United Colors of Benetton hoodie I brought back from London for Harper. We sat and talked for hours and Harper wouldn’t stop smiling at me so that thrilled me. He is so cute I can’t stand it and I love playing on the floor with him. He’s such a good baby, it’s incredible. I told Beth if she ever needs someone to watch him to let me know because it truly is wonderful to spend time with him and feel like Auntie Karrah. Even when he throws up ALL OVER MY CLEAN JEANS. And I mean allllll over. Somehow as we were chatting the subject of boys came up, as per usual, so I filled them in on my Sunday plans to meet up with LPC bf at the library and Beth was like, “You know that’s where people meet up to like have sex in the bathrooms right?” and I was like “WHAT?! I’m not sure what he’s thinking, but he’s got another one coming if that’s where he thinks this thing is going” so we laughed about that and how they were going to see me on Dateline NBC being led out in handcuffs because police have been performing sting operations to thin out that kind of activity and that my name would be splashed across all the papers and that news like that travels and you can’t really get away from it. I emphasized that I would not be having sex in the bathroom with him. Make out, maybe…and I’m pretty sure you can’t get arrested for that. We talked about all sorts of bizarre and hilarious sexual things but soon it was getting late-ish so I decided to head home. I called Chrystol on the way home and talked to her forever about their new place and all the goings-on in my world which she identified as fascinating and made me glad that this is entertaining for someone else besides just myself. It was about 11 and I was tired so I crawled into bed and turned on Scrubs to fall asleep to. At midnight my phone obnoxiously alerted me to a text but I was so out of it I thought it was my alarm clock going off and that it was time to get up. I was very disoriented and sad it was time to get up because I was still so tired. I finally figured out what was going on so I looked to see what had come in and it was from Jake.
Him: Is that a no? You don’t want to hang out ever? (Apparently referencing a text he had sent the prior weekend after a series of them we had going back and forth that I hadn’t responded to, basically just stating that we should hang out. I didn’t think this text necessarily merited a response. He, however, did. Hence the fragmented opening text.)
Me: Dude, you name the time and the place and I’ll be there. Word.
Him: Ha! Is my place now too strong? I’m bored. What are you up to tonight? Did you find a new place yet?
Me: In bed. We can talk real estate if we ever get together…
Him: So I guess I called your bluff then…What about lunch or something tomorrow? You name the place.
Me: Shit man, I didn’t know you meant right now. I’m not that kind of girl. I’ll call you tomorrow about lunch. G’night.
Him: I didn’t really. But I suppose you know how guys work by now. Of course call me tomorrow. G’night.
Uh huh, so then I was a little excited about having two myspace meet-ups in the same weekend. My expectations for Jake were a little low as I don’t think he’s really my type but we’ve been corresponding forever so I knew it would at least be nice to shake hands in person and make a new friend. Fell back asleep.
Thursday 6/14, I cleaned and stuff before getting ready to go out to Neighbours. Susan and I decided to meet up early because it’s been so long since we’ve done that. We went in and checked out the crowd, noticed Moppet was there with a friend and headed upstairs to see who was making an appearance. The irritating busser came over and asked if I went to Juanita HS because I looked like a hot girl he went to school with. Uh huh, right. Every week a new pickup line! We went and checked our coats then hit the dance floor. We were giggling and trying to keep the attention of M and friend and Susan said she would take one for the team in the form of the friend, yes! We danced, danced, danced then took a break when a bad song came on and watched my favorite go-go boy in the cage and he pointed at me a few times so that always makes my heart skip a beat. Especially with those pink underwear that he fills out so nicely. We took our places back on the floor closer to the boys’ spot and soon they were over dancing in very close proximity and throwing flirty glances in our direction. Eventually the friend comes over and comments on my Vans and we start chatting away (Aaron) and he’s a nice guy but Susan is wary and asks if I need saving then told M that his friend stole her friend. We were then introduced to M (Jason, surprise surprise, another Jason, like I don’t have enough to keep track of) and Aaron urged him to do some ass shaking dance that was more odd than impressive. We saw Teal and Susan left me with the boys to go say hi and ended up getting a hug from Kitty Cat. Meee-OW. We continued dancing by the boys but eventually I got thirsty so I went to my favorite new bartender to get a water but it was taking FOREVER because all these people kept cutting but I finally got it and stood under the black light surveying the crowd. Jason came over and we started chatting which made me question whether or not he’s straight because he has a kind of effeminate voice, speech-pattern and mannerisms…hmmm. I didn’t find him all that interesting but I’m all about making new friends right now so for those purposes it was good to find out a little bit about him and what he does. I went back out to dance and got a little sassy with Teal and looked irritated-ly at these two drunk girls flailing around and commiserated with Jason. Max made his way over and at first glance it appeared he was wearing a very thickly woven set of fishnet tights with like a goth loin cloth over his ass and junk…but on closer inspection, it was discovered that what appeared to be the tights were actually black stretch pants with little white skulls, which I had mistaken for his skin under the tights. Still odd, but not as entertaining as the fishnet / loin cloth combo would have been. I talked with him for a minute about London and he asked if I had gone to an 80’s club while I was there and I told him, well, kind of. He’s a nice guy and it made me laugh when he really busted it out to Hazy Shade of Winter. It was late so I decided to go home and on my way out some gay guy was like “Great earrings!” so that was fun. Ran to my car and beat it home.
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