So Far

Well here I am in America again. Huh. Sure is....American out here. Let's check out what I've been up to since being here.

After my first night, which ended with me going to bed at 9pm and waking up every two hours throughout the night, Christmas was pretty relaxed. I got absolutely nothing for Christmas, as could have been anticipated, though my brother did get me this kitsch little metal wall thing, which is about as good a present as I could have expected. My mom has commissioned herself to making me a scarf as part of her obligatory menopausal sewing frenzy (30+ scarves made so far), and my dad x-ferred $100 to me for my various underwear and sock buying needs, so maybe it's not SO bad after all. Later that day got my driving legs back (30 seconds, everything came back) and went to see Nina, since she's Jewish and I wasn't interrupting anything. We watched Talladega Nights, which was overall, not a very good movie. A couple of her coworker friends came over, and I took off to go have Christmas dinner with the fam and play video games for the rest of the night.

Yesterday was somewhat more eventful. I drove out to West Linn to swing by the Market of Choice they just opened there on the offchance Lauren or Ryan were working. I ran into Jenny, a girl whom I was a Pack Leader for back in high school, who completely didn't recognize me when I asked her for help. I ran into Lauren right as I was getting ready to leave in defeat, apparently she started work within minutes of my arrival, so that was pretty lucky. The look on her face was precious. Best double take ever. Moments later Ryan came out, and he was surprised, and we all had a nice chat. I got Lauren's new contact info since she moved, and I gave her mine since I've moved, and all was well.

Yesterday night I went out to Henry's to meet up with as many of my friends as possible. I went and picked up Megan E. who I haven't since since high school, like, her freshman year, when she was 14. She's 23 now. Yay for 9 years and still being able to track each other down and hang out finally. She lives out in Beaverton so I snagged her and met up with Cam Sarah and Mark when we got there, who were eating dinner, and Bix, who was upstairs having a drink since he got there on time and I was late. So we cruised upstairs, and then Shane arrived, followed shortly by Cole and Christian, and then Nina and her friend Mike. So there were actually quite a few people there, and crammed against a wall since the pool table adjacent to us was occupied by one couple or another the girls from which we all took turns joking with/making passes at with admittedly too much success in general.

After Henry's Shane and Bix, Cole and Christian split to go home because of work, etc, and the rest of us made our way to Kelly's, where as soon as I walked in the door, and walking to the group where we'd be sitting, I got jumped on but none other than Justin my old roommate from the quad. Literally, jumped on, fucker gave me a fat lip. Turns out Nina and Justin have been hanging out for weeks without recognizing one another. Lol. So Nina buys me a Jager bomb and Justin buys me a Black and Blue (shot of whiskey, pint of Pabst, my standard), and we all catch up and shoot the shit. Great stuff. Sarah actually drinks, which is just immense, and we're all having a great time. I meet Simone, Nina's 'sister' to my being her 'brother', which was cool as well.

Later we decide we wanna go shoot pool, so we walk over to the pool hall, the name of which I can't remember, and I give playing pool a shot, which is only marginally successful, but it's ok cause I can blame it on being used to Japanese tables, which are the size of business cards. I'm doing my best at this point not to drink, since I need to drive Megan home at some point, and it's kinda clear the little blonde thing is fond of my attention. Eventually, around 2:15, I decide it's time to get going, and we say our goodbyes.

Megan gets a call from her sister asking if we can pick her up and take her home, since she's too drunk to drive. Where is she? The Boom Boom Room. Why is she at such a highly respectable establishment? Oh, yea, cause she's a stripper. A very drunk, funny stripper. So we navigate Barbur Blvd. until we hone in on her location, and we make our way home, but not without first stopping at Subway, which was hillarious in and of itself. We get back to Megan's place, eat our sandwiches, and I finally say that I have to get going home. Megan walks me out, we say our goodbyes and all that, and I cruise home. In the door by 4am. Fantastic night.