Random Stream from the weekend 20051128

So... Thanksgiving 2005 has come and gone...  I met up with M-Girl (as one of my contributors likes to say) at my house after doing Turkey Dinner w/ friends.

 

My parents had pulled the "I don't know what we are doing for Turkey Day" routine on me this year... So without waiting for them to decide what was up, My friends F and B decided that they were doing one and I took them up on the invite... Having never done a friend's Thanksgiving.. It was wonderful...  Good food, good conversation and good spirits...  S showed up... as did T and T... so... 6 of us enjoying dinner among friends... no snotty little extended family memebers... no kids.. just a bunch of 20 somethings enjoying ourselves.

 

I left there and went home to wait for M-Girl to show up....  I heard a car door close... I went to the front door, opened it and wrapped her in my arms...  Fricken wonderful feeling let me tell you...  Nothing like that feeling of realization that someone you haven't physically seen in 8 years is just as beautiful as she was then... and IMHO, more so...  :-)

 

The Country Club Plaza lighting ceremony in Kansas City went off without a hitch... Though I am not sure that I will ever go there again, at least not voluntarily...  I ran into S there.... we got drinks in the Oak Room @ the Fairmont (got through security thanx to S) and wandered the streets again.. enjoying the lights and not so much the crowds... Ran into R and B from college .. R took us up to see his office and then we bolted.. nothing against him.. just needed to have to quality "us" time as opposed to everyone time.

 

Then we headed out from the Plaza...  got up towards L-town and decided to go see  a flick... Harry Potter was pretty good... Must say that :-) .. but what was better was just holding her in my arms during the movie... Whomever decided that theatre seats should have fold up arm rests was fricken brilliant!

 

Came back to my house and said our good nights....  

 

Friday was spent shopping... I don't go for the barn burner deals..  b/c of the frustration level.. but I did score pretty well this year.. mostly stuff for me as opposed to shopping for others.. go figure..a

 

Friday night M-Girl and I met up with my friend Z for dinner @ Arthur Bryants... Z and my's pilgrimage to BBQ heaven.... from there we went to a nice quiet bar for a bit w/ M-Girl and had a few beers before a band started and it got really loud.. :-/   M-Girl ran into her old friend from town.. and they hung out a while... completely random... I ended up seeing some people from high school I hadn't seen in a while... It was nice...  (damn, this blog is seeming pretty bland when I don't feel the need to divulge the details ;-)

 

I ended up taking M-Girl back to her mom's house which is on the northern border of BFE... Again, saying good night..I got home at 4 am... UGH..

pain...

 

Saturday night the plans were pretty open... I had a voicemail on my phone from a friend that said he was back in town and that we needed to hang out...  M-Girl said she didn't want to go... So, I didn't push the issue.. apparently this was the wrong move...  b/c Sunday when we saw each other and were saying our final "until we see each other agains"... she apparently thinks that I am not that into her or this or whatever... WTF...  I think when it comes down to it... that I just don't know how to act.. I don't know how to open up and show someone I care and that I want to be with them...  I've been single too long and enjoy too much of my independence... And ultimately, I need to break free of that entirely and enjoy myself and my time with her and somehow prove to her that I am who I say I am and am not putting up a front for her.... or building a wall.. etc...

 

Anyways... my lunch break needs to be taken.. I need food...

 

Peace-

 

jp