I love days off!
Thank god for soldiers and other defenders of freedom!
Today I will use my freedom to organize my classroom, shop at Home Depot and bake an apple pie!
God Bless America!
I've been bored with everything lately, and I'm going to try to turn over some new leaves. I need to start going to the Y (I think I have $ for membership- finally), going on more picture taking trips and really just taking more 'me' time.
I'm really sick of just drinking every weekend. E gets drunk every Friday and Sat, and anything we do has to be planned around the availability of alcohol. Over and over I find something fun to do on a Friday, but he doesn't want to go b/c he needs to start drinking as soon as he gets home and doesn't want to stop to go do something 2 hours later.
I still don't have many friends to go out with- one has kids, requiring weeks of notice to get away, another has an afterschool tutoring and babysitting job, and I also have the 2nd job, so... I think I just have to make the decision to go it alone sometimes. There is just way too much cool shit to do in this town every single week! Lots of free shit too!
E got really drunk and drove home from a punk show last Sat. I didn't realize that he was that gone when I was with him, and split to do some late-night grocery shopping. By the time I got home he was stumbling so badly that he skinned his arm somehow. He was blundering around with a big goofy grin on his face and I had a hard time getting him to stay put on the couch. Once I fed him he passed out and stayed on the couch until I got him up to do house hunting mid afternoon Sun. I was hoping that he had continued to drink after he got home (so he wasn't driving THAT drunk), but he can't remember if he did or not! I wasn't happy about that one and told him that from now on, I'm dropping his ass off downtown when I tour and will take him home later on. He's still in the blundering around the southside drunk mentality, so his ass needs to get back on his feet and off his wheels.
Should I even bring it up that I think its boring to drink with him every weekend or should I start offering outings and go alone if he chooses alcohol? I expect so much more of myself. I want to be more interesting than teacher/ ghost tour guide. I want to do more than take an occasional picture and consume a case of shitty beer/week. I want to have a body that will be fully functional for another 60 years. I want E to do the same, to be the artist/ socio-political ranter that I first met.
Now time to get up, get out, and DO something.