Saturday 6/30, I woke up at 7 and headed into work where I took care of business for an hour and a half then took off for home to meet a woman at my place to do an estimate for wood blinds. It turned out to be around a grand to do all the windows so I gave her the green light for the downstairs windows and even that is costing me $450. Ouch. Oh well. I headed back to work from 11:15 to 2:30 and on the way home I left Eric a voicemail about grabbing lunch or something sometime, then at home I ate a little food before taking off for my new favorite 3-miler where I was blatantly checked out by no fewer than 3 guys. Guy #1 hot “Dude” in an Escalade towing a nice boat, he gave me a classic “Dude Wave” and “Dude Head-Nod”, Guy #2 Guy on crotch rocket turns around to check me out then slows down and turns back around again and sits there staring at me…while still driving, clearly a daredevil Guy #3 Dad in convertible with son, this is the most common kind of checkout I encounter, being that I live in the burbs. Needless to say my ego growing by the second. I showered when I got home, called Grandma who pushed dinner back to 5 so I talked to Susan a little and kept organizing pictures and realized I have like 5 copies of one picture of Neil and me…what the hell am I going to do with all those? I can’t believe I developed so many of them. Maybe I can make a Neil and Karrah collage. Or not. I went to Grandma’s, talked with Ernie and Erika for a little while then they left and Grandma and I took off for the Roanoke for dinner. There were two cute waiters and luckily one of them was ours, yay! Food was good then I took Grandma home and got her settled before I took off back home. Talked to Kay-See about the night’s plans then watched a bunch of Myth Busters at home and updated this thing. I left a little before 10, stopped on MI for some cash and picked Kay-See up at her place. We headed down to Belltown where we found parking fairly easily, just a few blocks away, and headed to Belltown Billiards. I tried to flirt with the bouncer and though it probably didn’t work I find it to be good practice. We did a lap and tried to find Jenny and eventually did along with her friend Heidi who was so nice and totally fun. A good song came on so Heidi and I hit the dance floor right under the fan and danced our cares away and eventually Kay-See and Jenny joined as well. It didn’t take long for a couple of guys to make their way over, Parker and Cole, and Parker was a fan of Karrah’s until Kay-See came along and his affection was instantly diverted. Cole and Heidi totally hit it off and were so adorable together. The order of events are a bit blurry, but eventually K ditched Parker and picked up a red head who was totally handsy and ridiculous so I decided to take a lap and spotted some cute guys but then Around the World came on so I bolted back and K’s guy started trying to dance with me and getting all grabby so I kept moving his hands off me and telling him to stop then this dumb girl dropped her full glass of beer all over the back of my pants so I scream, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! AUUUUGGHHH!” and I turn back around and red head is still grabbing at me so I scream again, turn on my heel and stalk off the dance floor (per Kay-See’s observation). I had to get off the dance floor and was standing over by the door and K came over to check on me and Parker had managed to weasel his way back in so we’re standing there and I told her I just needed a few minutes to calm down and that I would be back when a good song came on. So they leave and I’m standing there and I dab at my nose and I’ve totally got a bloody fucking nose. At Belltown Billiards. Fantastic. 2nd time in a week and the two most inopportune times. The line to the bathroom was about 15 girls long so I run up to the bar but the one bar tender chooses to ignore me but another girl came and I was hysterical and luckily she gave me a whole stack of napkins and asked if I was ok. Then the bouncer was like “Are you ok?!” I told him yes then he asked if he could get me anything and I had to refrain from saying “Just your phone number”. So I’m standing up at the bar for about 10 minutes with a merciless bloody nose which eventually let up and I returned to the dance floor to tell K the news and Parker was back on the prowl and dragged us back to the VIP area where we were introduced to the rest of the bachelor party. We wanted to get back so we ditched those guys and hit the floor in an area where we spotted some groups of cute guys. A not great song came on so I went back over by the door to people watch. I spotted an adorable red head playing pool and kept trying to catch his eye, but was fantastically unsuccessful. I was however successful in attracting “Hot Gray Shirt” guy who ended up not being all that hot, but was from MN so I talked to him, Bryan. With a Y. K and Heidi came over and we just sat there for a while then we managed to ditch Parker for good then went and found Jenny and her and Heidi left. We headed to the back side of the dance floor where we’ve had success in the past. Lo and behold, it wasn’t long before we were the main attraction. The first was Chris and initially I thought he was cute but then decided no thanks and moved on to the next group. The Italians were relentless and EVERYWHERE (I was approached by 3, and K had her share as well). Eventually we hooked up with this group of three guys and the one meat-head looking one pushed a tall, thick framed glasses wearing cutie my direction so we danced quite a bit and he sang along to a bunch of the rap selections and kept asking if I was laughing at him. The lights came up and I told him I’d had fun even though I didn’t even know his name so he introduced himself as Charlie then K and I hit the bricks. We walked back to the car, dropped K off after gabbing about how much fun we’d had dancing with those last guys then texted Eric to see if he was still up. He didn’t text back until I was home and getting ready for bed so I called him and we talked for about 10 minutes and he was a little ambivalent so we’ll see what happens…though I’m guessing nothing. Went to bed at like 2:45.

Friday 6/29, After work I got Jacques some food and litter and it was pouring! I ate a little dinner and headed over to Grandma’s at 7:15 where she commented that having Peggy move our office into Seattle “must be quite a feather in your hat” which I laughed at for a while. I love that. I ate the rest of the spanikopita and sat and talked with her until 9 before walking with her down to the mailboxes and showing her how to work the shredder. At home I kept busting ass on my photo album (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Jess’ Dad’s house weekend when we met Trevor and New Year 07 with Kay-See, Ky and Richie) and did some other cleaning and editing of all the crap I’ve accumulated over the years. I talked to Susan for a while and eventually read and went to sleep a little after 11.

Thursday 6/28, I got ready for my walk when I got home and set out, happy that it had stopped raining. Well that was premature because about a quarter of the way into my 3-mile route it started raining a little. Then a little more and pretty soon it was really coming down and there was essentially nothing I could do. I could either keep going and complete my workout or turn back and end up just as wet. I trudged forward and was thankful that I hadn't worn my white tank top because it would have been quite a show for all the suburban-neighborhood folk. The good news is I shaved a little over 5 minutes off my time...nothing like a deluge to motivate me to get home more quickly. I was most worried about my headphones and cd player getting ruined, because it really was quite pleasant out and I didn’t mind being caught in it. The air was warm and the rain felt incredibly cleansing. If it had been raining when I got home from work I wouldn't have gone so I'm glad it didn't start until I was too far into my walk to turn back. When I got home I stripped naked in the entry and carried my sopping clothes up to the washing machine and put some dry ones on. I made some dinner and watched WoF then talked to Susan, ate some cookies, continued on my cleaning quest and got some more things put away and pictures into the album from Neighbours and Cowgirls Inc. and from when I finally saw Eric after not hearing from him for two weeks. Too bad we both look terrible in all those pictures. My hair was bad and he looks haggard. I still adore him. I wonder when I won't. If ever. I started assembling a give away bag to go along with the 8 other bags / boxes I have in the garage. I need to take that shit over to Mom's cause I know she'll take it to the Union Gospel for me. Hmm, what else? LPC bf sent me a cute teasing lap-straddle message before bed which I replied to, oh, found an old message in my inbox from Kauai Matt and wrote him a little note so we'll see what happens there, and eventually showered and got into bed, read and went to sleep.

Wednesday 6/27, I called Zeph on my lunch break and he wanted to know if I wanted to go on a hike next weekend so I said I was in and he's going to confirm he'll have the time off, yay! So now Kay-See and I are planning on going and if Zeph goes too, then cool, if not we're still huffing it up that mountain. I'm pondering inviting Kelly too if Zeph goes because they're both super into rock climbing, what with me calling while he was at REI buying new equipment and everything. Coincidence? I think not. I got off work a bit early so I stretched then headed out for my walk. I did the 3-miler again and think it's not too bad. I mean my calves hurt a little, but no pain no gain, right? RIGHT. When I got home I fixed a piece of toast, steamed a bunch of carrots, fixed a squash, mozzarella and swiss omelet then ate about 5 cookies. Delicious! LPC bf called me and we talked for a few minutes before his friend showed up for a boy gossip-session. I started on the task of trying to clean some of the shit out of my room and talked to Kay-See who persuaded me to get rid of my cap and tassel from our UPS graduation, because really, what am I going to do with it? Hold on to it forever? It's just taking up room and frankly I didn't even know I still had it. I just randomly came across it while digging through my hope chest. I dug a whole lot of pictures out and decided to just start on an album beginning with St. Martin just for a jumping off point, otherwise I'm never going to get around to it. So I put those in and a bunch of Eric then Susan called and told me she found a picture of what she thought was Eric on some girl's blog and forwarded me the link and sure as shit, it was taken two nights after I went over to his place and made out with him a few weeks back. He's so fucking hot I can't stand it. Seriously. So that opened up my curiosity again, because frankly, I haven't been thinking about him much since the whole Jake / LPC bf / Kelly train started hauling ass down the tracks. Why not add one more car to that train? What's the harm really? Ha, yeah Karrah, keep telling yourself that. Anyway, I made some headway with my room but I'm going to need to pick up the pace a little if I plan on staying on schedule. I climbed into bed, read a bit then went to sleep.