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Holy cow, this is a freaking book...
The trip started out a little late. I was going to get up at 2:00 am before work and pack what I needed/copy directions/clean my car out. Sadly, I woke up 5 minutes before work and zoom zoomed in. I proceeded to then stay late at work and stresesd out about getting on the road.
So I eventually got on the road and had a pretty uneventful drive there. I was supposed to see DINOSAUR WORLD on 65 up in Kentucky, but I totally missed it. So I get there and Brittany waves me down into her apartment area... naturally, our two identical twin cars got along great next to each other.
I met her new kitties (Bill and Ted), then we headed out to dinner because we were starving! We went downtown to "Universal Grill", a gay-friendly restaurant/bar, and I proceeded to have my first drink, an "Ass Up in the Bushes". I barely drank half of one (including making Brittany trade me when she was almost done), and I got really buzzed. I'm a very happy, very grateful drunk. I was thanking the waiter profusely for everything. I also sent Lora several very drunky text messages.
We had to cut our downtown time a little short, because Brittany's boyfriend, Taylor, ended up in a silly situation. He was out with a guy, Alex, who is autistic(?) that he's working with, out to get dinner at Captain D's. Taylor ended up locking his keys in the car with Alex and taking 45 minutes to try to teach Alex how to unlock and open the door. It took almost the amount of time for Brittany and I to get home, get his spare key, and get on the road to him before they got it sorted out.
So, Brittany ended up calling her friend Bill to come to the mall with us. We hung out a little at the mall, then decided to go out to the club, Masque. We headed back to Brittany's apartment, and Taylor called Joe *dreamy eyes* to see if he wanted to come with us. Thankfully he did, and we got a little spiffied up to go out. After Joe showed up, we took off to the club, and on the way, saw Touchdown Jesus. Seriously... how cool?
So, the club was nice. I had a lot of drinks to try stuff out... had Sex on the Beach, a Cosmo, and a Hurricane. The last two, Joe bought for me, since he was getting moderately drunk by that point :D Near the end of the night, Joe pulled Brittany up on a box to dance, so I pushed Bill up there too with myself. Anyway, Bill ended up freak-dancing Joe, and I was with Brittany... that's when I saw... *dramatic pause* the inciting incident! (more to come)
So we headed out shortly after this and I made sure to jump in the back seat of the car, followed by Joe. I ended up holding hands with Joe all the way back and cuddling some while I tried to sleep. Except... Bill was turned around from the front seat and giving me the evil eye :( I felt bad about the situation, but I only had three days to make my mark, so I couldn't let it slow me down too much!
We got back to Brittany's and Joe, Bill, and myself crashed on her living room floor. This is where it got pretty awkward. Joe was in the middle and kept rolling towards me to hold my hand or try to cuddle or something, but Bill kept putting his arm around him or trying to climb on him. I felt bad just laying there and trying to ignore it, but I really didn't want to make an enemy since Bill was a pretty cool guy. Eventually, we all got to sleep, until I woke up, which woke Joe up. Joe went out to smoke and I "went out to my car" to go talk to him some. I then came and laid on the couch, where Joe followed. I got the evil eye some more (emosigh), but Joe and Bill went back to sleep and I just played on the internet.
Eventually Joe woke up again and ran away to work, so Brittany and Taylor got up, and Brittany, Bill, and I kept planning on going to the zoo or something. We went to lunch at Panera Bread, which is a carbon copy of Atlanta Bread Company. It was pretty good, then we decided to go to check out this 8 bedroom mansion Brittany found online. It turned out to be the epitome of the definition of "needs some TLC", so we ran away scared.
We wandered around Target a little bit, while Brittany hobbled in her hurting leg, then Bill left and Brittany went to work. I played on the internet and stalked Joe until he and Brittany got off work. Joe came over and took Brittany and me to the ER, after we ate some really good quesadillas at Habañero. Joe and I got to talk some more in a REALLY creepy waiting room in the back of the hospital, while Brittany got checked out. We then stopped by Meijer, a pretty decent Super Wal-Mart knock off, to get some stuff, then went back to Brittany's place. Brittany and Taylor tried to study some, but Joe and I kept being distracting, so I conned him into going to his place to watch a movie.
On the way there, we went by his old high school where he and Taylor got to know each other. That was fun getting to see more of Cincinnati. We got there, and his house is the granny-est house ever. It was pretty funny, since he's a little on the prissy side. We watched the movie, sort of... I was ridiculously tired and kept falling asleep on him. He seemed to enjoy the movie, though, and at the end we were a little emo together. It was sort of one of those scenes straight out of a movie. We were talking about how I'm one of the greatest guys he's met in Cincinnati, but it sucks that I live so far away, etc. And then he leaned in to kiss me. I could see it coming from miles away, but it felt like it was happening in slow motion. I kinda hated myself a little, because in my head I was analyzing the way he kissed, but I was happy.
I felt bad to cut it short, but I was so ridiculously tired and had to drive back the next day, so we headed back to Brittany's. Taylor was still up working on the computer, so Joe gave me a good night kiss and headed home. That made me feel really awkward since Taylor was there... I have no idea why, though, since it's not like Taylor is a prude or anything. Whatever!
So the next day Britt went to take a test on her crutches, and Joe came over to pick me up and go get Brittany for brunch-ish. We went to Big Boy's and had some gross northern version of "breakfast". We headed back to Brittany's, where we played on the internet a little, then I got my stuff and headed out. Joe was acting kind of strange when we went out, and he wouldn't even walk me to my car to say goodbye without me asking him to. I dunno if he was sad to see me go, or if there was something I don't know about going on there. Anyway, I gave him a goodbye smooch *dreamy eyes* and he told me to call him sometime (again, I felt kinda peculiar about this), and I headed out.
The drive back was horrible... First, I missed one of the turns and had to go way out of my way to get back. Then I got stuck in a standstill for 40 minutes before we limped along another 20 minutes. I went to see my mom in Clarksville, so we went out to dinner and then to the visitation for Patsy Trotter. I headed back to Huntsville after that and was ridiculously tired. I had to stop at the rest stop and take a nap. Sigh.
And... that's Cincinnati. It may sound kind of lame, but it was faaaantastic.
The trip started out a little late. I was going to get up at 2:00 am before work and pack what I needed/copy directions/clean my car out. Sadly, I woke up 5 minutes before work and zoom zoomed in. I proceeded to then stay late at work and stresesd out about getting on the road.
So I eventually got on the road and had a pretty uneventful drive there. I was supposed to see DINOSAUR WORLD on 65 up in Kentucky, but I totally missed it. So I get there and Brittany waves me down into her apartment area... naturally, our two identical twin cars got along great next to each other.
I met her new kitties (Bill and Ted), then we headed out to dinner because we were starving! We went downtown to "Universal Grill", a gay-friendly restaurant/bar, and I proceeded to have my first drink, an "Ass Up in the Bushes". I barely drank half of one (including making Brittany trade me when she was almost done), and I got really buzzed. I'm a very happy, very grateful drunk. I was thanking the waiter profusely for everything. I also sent Lora several very drunky text messages.
We had to cut our downtown time a little short, because Brittany's boyfriend, Taylor, ended up in a silly situation. He was out with a guy, Alex, who is autistic(?) that he's working with, out to get dinner at Captain D's. Taylor ended up locking his keys in the car with Alex and taking 45 minutes to try to teach Alex how to unlock and open the door. It took almost the amount of time for Brittany and I to get home, get his spare key, and get on the road to him before they got it sorted out.
So, Brittany ended up calling her friend Bill to come to the mall with us. We hung out a little at the mall, then decided to go out to the club, Masque. We headed back to Brittany's apartment, and Taylor called Joe *dreamy eyes* to see if he wanted to come with us. Thankfully he did, and we got a little spiffied up to go out. After Joe showed up, we took off to the club, and on the way, saw Touchdown Jesus. Seriously... how cool?
So, the club was nice. I had a lot of drinks to try stuff out... had Sex on the Beach, a Cosmo, and a Hurricane. The last two, Joe bought for me, since he was getting moderately drunk by that point :D Near the end of the night, Joe pulled Brittany up on a box to dance, so I pushed Bill up there too with myself. Anyway, Bill ended up freak-dancing Joe, and I was with Brittany... that's when I saw... *dramatic pause* the inciting incident! (more to come)
So we headed out shortly after this and I made sure to jump in the back seat of the car, followed by Joe. I ended up holding hands with Joe all the way back and cuddling some while I tried to sleep. Except... Bill was turned around from the front seat and giving me the evil eye :( I felt bad about the situation, but I only had three days to make my mark, so I couldn't let it slow me down too much!
We got back to Brittany's and Joe, Bill, and myself crashed on her living room floor. This is where it got pretty awkward. Joe was in the middle and kept rolling towards me to hold my hand or try to cuddle or something, but Bill kept putting his arm around him or trying to climb on him. I felt bad just laying there and trying to ignore it, but I really didn't want to make an enemy since Bill was a pretty cool guy. Eventually, we all got to sleep, until I woke up, which woke Joe up. Joe went out to smoke and I "went out to my car" to go talk to him some. I then came and laid on the couch, where Joe followed. I got the evil eye some more (emosigh), but Joe and Bill went back to sleep and I just played on the internet.
Eventually Joe woke up again and ran away to work, so Brittany and Taylor got up, and Brittany, Bill, and I kept planning on going to the zoo or something. We went to lunch at Panera Bread, which is a carbon copy of Atlanta Bread Company. It was pretty good, then we decided to go to check out this 8 bedroom mansion Brittany found online. It turned out to be the epitome of the definition of "needs some TLC", so we ran away scared.
We wandered around Target a little bit, while Brittany hobbled in her hurting leg, then Bill left and Brittany went to work. I played on the internet and stalked Joe until he and Brittany got off work. Joe came over and took Brittany and me to the ER, after we ate some really good quesadillas at Habañero. Joe and I got to talk some more in a REALLY creepy waiting room in the back of the hospital, while Brittany got checked out. We then stopped by Meijer, a pretty decent Super Wal-Mart knock off, to get some stuff, then went back to Brittany's place. Brittany and Taylor tried to study some, but Joe and I kept being distracting, so I conned him into going to his place to watch a movie.
On the way there, we went by his old high school where he and Taylor got to know each other. That was fun getting to see more of Cincinnati. We got there, and his house is the granny-est house ever. It was pretty funny, since he's a little on the prissy side. We watched the movie, sort of... I was ridiculously tired and kept falling asleep on him. He seemed to enjoy the movie, though, and at the end we were a little emo together. It was sort of one of those scenes straight out of a movie. We were talking about how I'm one of the greatest guys he's met in Cincinnati, but it sucks that I live so far away, etc. And then he leaned in to kiss me. I could see it coming from miles away, but it felt like it was happening in slow motion. I kinda hated myself a little, because in my head I was analyzing the way he kissed, but I was happy.
I felt bad to cut it short, but I was so ridiculously tired and had to drive back the next day, so we headed back to Brittany's. Taylor was still up working on the computer, so Joe gave me a good night kiss and headed home. That made me feel really awkward since Taylor was there... I have no idea why, though, since it's not like Taylor is a prude or anything. Whatever!
So the next day Britt went to take a test on her crutches, and Joe came over to pick me up and go get Brittany for brunch-ish. We went to Big Boy's and had some gross northern version of "breakfast". We headed back to Brittany's, where we played on the internet a little, then I got my stuff and headed out. Joe was acting kind of strange when we went out, and he wouldn't even walk me to my car to say goodbye without me asking him to. I dunno if he was sad to see me go, or if there was something I don't know about going on there. Anyway, I gave him a goodbye smooch *dreamy eyes* and he told me to call him sometime (again, I felt kinda peculiar about this), and I headed out.
The drive back was horrible... First, I missed one of the turns and had to go way out of my way to get back. Then I got stuck in a standstill for 40 minutes before we limped along another 20 minutes. I went to see my mom in Clarksville, so we went out to dinner and then to the visitation for Patsy Trotter. I headed back to Huntsville after that and was ridiculously tired. I had to stop at the rest stop and take a nap. Sigh.
And... that's Cincinnati. It may sound kind of lame, but it was faaaantastic.