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I really don't update this think much at all anymore. Kinda sad.. But life has been pretty busy these days. Not all good, but not all bad. I'll just summarize the main point of things for this entry.
1. The Hawaii trip may have to be severely altered or canceled.
My beloved gay husband Jordan got into a bad car accident. He's okay, but his car sustained something like $16,000 worth of damage. Apparently the impact did a little damage to the wires in his pacemaker (the poor guy is only 22.. but if something serious had happened to him because of it, I would have lost it), and with the financial situation this has caused, he's not going to Hawaii with me after all. I originally bought my plane tickets to go see him when he moved out there this past winter, but after he moved back to Denver we kept the plan and just decided to go out together. Now he has a court date interfering with the dates and no money to go. So I'm on my own. I'm gonna have a hard time affording a hotel out there by myself, but I'm going to see what I can work out by cutting the stay by a day or two and see what that does. The San Francisco part of that trip won't change. I'm only gonna be there for 4 days, and I'm really, really, really looking forward to seeing Jason and meeting his wife, not to mention going to see Monika (a friend from high school) and Lincoln. I still miss Lincoln like crazy. Odd as it may have seemed to most people, he really was such a good friend to me. He never judged, always had some advice when I had needed some or discussed boy drama with him, never talked down to me despite the fact he's 10 years older than me, and we always had fun when we hung out. I loved him as much as possible without being *in love* with him. He always was too much of a man-whore for my liking.. haha. But.. yeah.. San Francisco should be awesome. I've never done a full-fledged vacation by myself, and I still would love to go to Hawaii. I think today will be the day I sit down and try to figure out the details. I only have 3 weeks as it is.
2. As much as I was looking forward to it, I cannot attend SXSW in March 2009.
We got an email at work earlier this week that the entire month of March next year is blacked out to any time off requests. I was already starting to think ahead about SXSW next year, since I had a ball this year while in Austin. Even with getting hit in the face with a bass guitar neck and everything. Since I guess a new operating system is getting put in my department and with 2 stores opening, I'm not allowed to leave. I almost started to cry when I read that damn email. Especially since it was the same day that Jordan told me that he was out on Hawaii. I was heartbroken over this. Adam had no sympathy since he knew he couldn't go.. heh.. so we're gonna try to plan a trip next year to Spain later that spring. One of his coworkers has a time share in some Spanish coastal town (the name of which escapes me right now), and since he keeps making cracks about seeing his "motherland," he's been talking it up a lot. I told him I'd love to go to London to see Miss Jules as well.. so I guess all is not lost. But no SXSW makes me sad.
3. My mom is currently being treated for mental health issues.
This really came as no surprise, since she's been in something of a funk lately. But now I'm the person she calls to tell her what her shrink has been telling her. And I gotta go with her at some point to talk out why she sometimes feels a bit resentful of me because my life went a completely different path than hers. When she was my age, she was a single mother of two kids and barely able to keep her head above water. It's making me a sad to hear all of this, but I know it's important for her to work it all out. But it's also making me think critically about all the stuff going on in my head. I'm becoming a bit of a hermit again, and not really doing a whole lot outside of work. And I've been working A LOT. Being a bit isolated from my friends, which is never good. But, yeah.. I just hope she gets what she needs out of this.
4. Adam and I are officially shacking up.
Adam has sublet his apartment over by the Santa Fe Art District to his friend and has moved in to my Congress Park apartment. I don't think we've spent more than a night apart since I got back from New York as it was, but now he's paying rent and for food. :P I'm still not exactly sure how things got so serious so fast, but I'm happy with things as they are. When we first met, I didn't even know if I wanted to date him at all. Six months later, I'm all in love and living with a boyfriend for the first time ever. Despite the other stuff going on with me, he's been the best thing for me. Not to mention I think he's the only guy I've been involved with since I started dating at like 15 that *all* my friends and family like. Probably helps that he is pretty much a slightly younger, male version of me. Heh.. I'm not thinking ahead to some definite future together or anything right now, but I just hope things can at least stay as they are with him.
5. Monolith is this weekend.
I missed it last year since I was in Mexico for a wedding. This year I'm gonna enjoy the shit out of it.
I'm sure I could keep going for a while, but I'm off to do laundry at my mom's. The next entry shouldn't be in another 2 months. ;)
1. The Hawaii trip may have to be severely altered or canceled.
My beloved gay husband Jordan got into a bad car accident. He's okay, but his car sustained something like $16,000 worth of damage. Apparently the impact did a little damage to the wires in his pacemaker (the poor guy is only 22.. but if something serious had happened to him because of it, I would have lost it), and with the financial situation this has caused, he's not going to Hawaii with me after all. I originally bought my plane tickets to go see him when he moved out there this past winter, but after he moved back to Denver we kept the plan and just decided to go out together. Now he has a court date interfering with the dates and no money to go. So I'm on my own. I'm gonna have a hard time affording a hotel out there by myself, but I'm going to see what I can work out by cutting the stay by a day or two and see what that does. The San Francisco part of that trip won't change. I'm only gonna be there for 4 days, and I'm really, really, really looking forward to seeing Jason and meeting his wife, not to mention going to see Monika (a friend from high school) and Lincoln. I still miss Lincoln like crazy. Odd as it may have seemed to most people, he really was such a good friend to me. He never judged, always had some advice when I had needed some or discussed boy drama with him, never talked down to me despite the fact he's 10 years older than me, and we always had fun when we hung out. I loved him as much as possible without being *in love* with him. He always was too much of a man-whore for my liking.. haha. But.. yeah.. San Francisco should be awesome. I've never done a full-fledged vacation by myself, and I still would love to go to Hawaii. I think today will be the day I sit down and try to figure out the details. I only have 3 weeks as it is.
2. As much as I was looking forward to it, I cannot attend SXSW in March 2009.
We got an email at work earlier this week that the entire month of March next year is blacked out to any time off requests. I was already starting to think ahead about SXSW next year, since I had a ball this year while in Austin. Even with getting hit in the face with a bass guitar neck and everything. Since I guess a new operating system is getting put in my department and with 2 stores opening, I'm not allowed to leave. I almost started to cry when I read that damn email. Especially since it was the same day that Jordan told me that he was out on Hawaii. I was heartbroken over this. Adam had no sympathy since he knew he couldn't go.. heh.. so we're gonna try to plan a trip next year to Spain later that spring. One of his coworkers has a time share in some Spanish coastal town (the name of which escapes me right now), and since he keeps making cracks about seeing his "motherland," he's been talking it up a lot. I told him I'd love to go to London to see Miss Jules as well.. so I guess all is not lost. But no SXSW makes me sad.
3. My mom is currently being treated for mental health issues.
This really came as no surprise, since she's been in something of a funk lately. But now I'm the person she calls to tell her what her shrink has been telling her. And I gotta go with her at some point to talk out why she sometimes feels a bit resentful of me because my life went a completely different path than hers. When she was my age, she was a single mother of two kids and barely able to keep her head above water. It's making me a sad to hear all of this, but I know it's important for her to work it all out. But it's also making me think critically about all the stuff going on in my head. I'm becoming a bit of a hermit again, and not really doing a whole lot outside of work. And I've been working A LOT. Being a bit isolated from my friends, which is never good. But, yeah.. I just hope she gets what she needs out of this.
4. Adam and I are officially shacking up.
Adam has sublet his apartment over by the Santa Fe Art District to his friend and has moved in to my Congress Park apartment. I don't think we've spent more than a night apart since I got back from New York as it was, but now he's paying rent and for food. :P I'm still not exactly sure how things got so serious so fast, but I'm happy with things as they are. When we first met, I didn't even know if I wanted to date him at all. Six months later, I'm all in love and living with a boyfriend for the first time ever. Despite the other stuff going on with me, he's been the best thing for me. Not to mention I think he's the only guy I've been involved with since I started dating at like 15 that *all* my friends and family like. Probably helps that he is pretty much a slightly younger, male version of me. Heh.. I'm not thinking ahead to some definite future together or anything right now, but I just hope things can at least stay as they are with him.
5. Monolith is this weekend.
I missed it last year since I was in Mexico for a wedding. This year I'm gonna enjoy the shit out of it.
I'm sure I could keep going for a while, but I'm off to do laundry at my mom's. The next entry shouldn't be in another 2 months. ;)