Calling
On Friday night, I unexpectedly received a call from Stacee. She and I used to talk on the phone all the time, but that ended a few years ago. Our friendship also began to end at that time, because she began dating a guy who was in a well-known local band and despite my friendship with them, I never became friends with him. When we became better friends again, she'd call me and spend hours on the phone with me telling me of her troubles with him until they finally broke up and our calls ended again. Last fall, she moved to a small town in Wyoming and told very few people of this because she needed to escape Utah. Since December, my communication with her has involved a monthly email that essentially always reads, "how are you? It's been awhile. I hope all is well with you." A week later I'd receive a quick response, and the process would be repeated the next month.
As I mentioned, she called me for the first time since she moved, and we had a great conversation. She told me how much she appreciated my friendship despite her being bad at keeping in touch. She also mentioned how helpful I was to her then boyfriend's band and was the first person to deeply tell me how underappreciated I was by them and it was their loss that I'm not around again. I ran into one of the members at the Rachael Yamagata show and the next night at the ODH/Kinski show, but we said little each time. Both times I couldn't shake that he was with another woman when he'd been married since long before I met him.
Not to be outdone, I received a call from one of my best friends earlier this evening and we made small talk around the real reason he called, which had to do with whether or not I'd copied the VHS tapes of our old wrestling matches to DVD. I told him I had (which was a partial truth. I tried) but that I'd work on the rest this evening with the new VHS/DVD recorder combo I got. It seems to be working okay, but admittedly I'm not in the living room supervising the recording because the tape can be so embarrassing at times. I have my headphones on to avoid the audio on the tape, but occasionally I'll hear a, "go Apex!" or a, "do it Xling!" and I'm suddenly reminded of these crazy stunts we pulled when we were in and just graduating from high school.
Overall, I enjoyed my weekend. Receiving two phone calls would've been great enough, but for them to be from two people I really enjoy made it better. I also spent time on Friday night with a great group of people at The Room and had forgot how much fun it could be to interact with a screen with strangers in an actual theater. Having something to do and having nice people to do them with is not something I take for granted these days.
And did I mention that I may be going on a date soon? It'd be with a less crazy nineteen year-old than the one that currently likes me. I don't know what it is with girls of that particular age being drawn to me lately, but I'll do my best to push that out of my mind right now and think more about what to do if/when the date happens in a week or two.
As I mentioned, she called me for the first time since she moved, and we had a great conversation. She told me how much she appreciated my friendship despite her being bad at keeping in touch. She also mentioned how helpful I was to her then boyfriend's band and was the first person to deeply tell me how underappreciated I was by them and it was their loss that I'm not around again. I ran into one of the members at the Rachael Yamagata show and the next night at the ODH/Kinski show, but we said little each time. Both times I couldn't shake that he was with another woman when he'd been married since long before I met him.
Not to be outdone, I received a call from one of my best friends earlier this evening and we made small talk around the real reason he called, which had to do with whether or not I'd copied the VHS tapes of our old wrestling matches to DVD. I told him I had (which was a partial truth. I tried) but that I'd work on the rest this evening with the new VHS/DVD recorder combo I got. It seems to be working okay, but admittedly I'm not in the living room supervising the recording because the tape can be so embarrassing at times. I have my headphones on to avoid the audio on the tape, but occasionally I'll hear a, "go Apex!" or a, "do it Xling!" and I'm suddenly reminded of these crazy stunts we pulled when we were in and just graduating from high school.
Overall, I enjoyed my weekend. Receiving two phone calls would've been great enough, but for them to be from two people I really enjoy made it better. I also spent time on Friday night with a great group of people at The Room and had forgot how much fun it could be to interact with a screen with strangers in an actual theater. Having something to do and having nice people to do them with is not something I take for granted these days.
And did I mention that I may be going on a date soon? It'd be with a less crazy nineteen year-old than the one that currently likes me. I don't know what it is with girls of that particular age being drawn to me lately, but I'll do my best to push that out of my mind right now and think more about what to do if/when the date happens in a week or two.