weeklong binge, work, massage, etc

I wanted to finally get to this post as it would chronicle what was a pretty crazy but typical week of my life the past 6 months.

I realized on Saturday morning that I had been having just a horribly intense week. I was at Nathan's new place unshowered, unshaved, and just overall unkept. I was wearing flip flops, a Hawaiian shirt, and probably smelled. I felt like I was just waking up from a weeklong binge. In some senses, I kind of was.

It started Tuesday. I met Nathan at his new house and helped him move some stuff and just hung out. To quench the thirst of the movers we had Newcastle and 7&7s. Good times. We finished movie, talked for a while, and then I headed home.

Wednesday night Brenda came over and we split some bottles of wine and watched Waking Life. Even after my second time I need to see it again. I think next time I will go scene by scene and focus on scenes. Afterwards Brenda gave me an amazing massage. She's going to massage school so I can reap these benefits of being a test subject. How cool is that? We smoked some hookah and then she left, I finished off smoking, and crashed.

Thursday I called in sick to work. I was just exhausted. I had/have been working so much since I got back from NOLA (and before) I just needed a day to sleep in, be lazy, and recouperate. I ended up meeting Nate for lunch, hanging at his place and enjoying beverages while he was at work. We then got dinner and saw XMEN 3 and had some more beverages. We met this awesome girl at the movie who it turns out was moving back to London the next day. Fate sucks.

Friday was "The Reunion." I hurried my ass up to leave work at a decent hour, head home, shave, put on good smells, and then meet at Nates. He was going to drive us to Louise's party. I found out we were going to pick up Melody along the way. I hadn't seen either in years and Melody and I werent even really friends in high school, just knew of one another.

The night started out an adventure. We got off at the wrong freeway for Melody's house. We didn't have dinner. We didn't have booze to take to the party. Whatevs. We finally found our way to Melody's, got back on the Freeway and realized we do not have the phone number for the house or the exact address. We need a computer. Evite.com doesn't load on a treo PS. We deicde to swing by my office, the liquor store on the corner, and be on our way to Hancock park for the Party.

We get to the party and Louise was quite excited to see us, which was nice. It wasn't really going yet, so we just got some beverages and made ourselves comfortable, which usally means talking about inappropriate things and being loud and obnoxious. This could be a long story or a short one. I will make it short for the sake of time. We met our BFF. He was a friend of Louise's. he found humor in our morbid discussion and is a cool guy. Melody is awesome. Her sense of humor is very in line with mine and she made me a drink that ended me, so she is a good 'cook' too. I ended up hitting on a comatose chick (she had been sleeping on the couch, and started to rouse, I decided to go talk to her) and ultimately introduced her to all of my friends.

We got back to Nathan's. I was way drunk. I passed out on the couch. I woke up at 6, drove home, and then drove back to nathan's for board games with the guys. We played a line in the sand but had to cut it short by maybe 1/3. It is unclear who would have won. I had dinner with the family and went over to the Cannis.' I then passed out. Sunday I worked for my dad and then went to Nathan's BBQ. I have sweet pictures I'll post later. But it was a good time. Lots of people, good food, good drink. we went home around 12. I worked all day Monday for my dad. Some memorial day...