"And here's my entourage"

[geminigirl]

I think living alone has made me really forget about my own needs for "alone time." I mean, if I live only with my cats I really do get plenty of that time, and probably less of the social time that I need.



Friday night we were communication-addled, and I ended up arriving quite late at aquariumgirl and john_5's house. quillon and roosterbear were already there. My late arrival meant that instead of eating at Savory, we ate at BD's Mongolian BBQ-it's a fantabulous place, except that it's all the way in Bethesda, so I don't go very often. Much hilarity ensued over dinner, and it was a warm and fuzzy thing. The boys and I headed back to my place, where we proceeded to catch up and cuddle and they managed to eat an entire pint of ice cream without me.

Saturday we got a late start, went for breakfast at the diner up the road (not a bad imitation of diners like the ones I used to frequent on Long Island) and got quillon shoes. Then home, painted my toenails, three showers, the arrival of aquariumgirl and we got out of the house only 15 minutes late. We crammed five adults into her car (Honda Civic) after we picked up scherzoid at work to head into the city for party #1 at Club Chaos. Dinner, drinks and drag queens...and more friends...bitty, bubblebabble and hfnuala were there. cz_unit joined us later, along with A., his wife. The five of us treked over to party #2, at the the Torpedo Factory Art Center for auctions and incredible desserts (yay for leftovers which will be in the office tomorrow) and dancing. And the opportunity to slow dance with aquariumgirl again too-reminiscent of how I met her, nearly six years ago at yesthattom's wedding. It was sweet. I was so wrapped in warm fuzzzies last night I can't begin to describe it. So much so that I disappeared into the ladies room and cried. And managed to not get my mascara to run too much.

My co-workers are used to aquariumgirl accompanying me to events. Despite knowing that I'm bisexual, they're really not used to seeing me with men. It was interesting to see how they responded to scherzoid being there. And even more so to say to the executive director "oh, you've met my girlfriend before, and this is my boyfriend."

Sunday I threw the boys out of the house so I could recharge. They went into the city, I stayed home to read, I baked a couple of loaves of bread (2 banana chocolate chip, one cinnamon) and just chilled out. It's been lovely. They're here now and I think I'm going to demand a backrub and some cuddling before bed. Tomorrow is a long day.

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[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Three showers?

[geminigirl]

roosterbear, quillon and myself all had to shower.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Among other things that I have meant to do and misplaced and/or stupidly forgotten is numbered responding to (and possibly accepting) your invitiation to yon Alexandria-based event.

I apologize. But I'm glad you had fun!

This reminds me that I had better respond to the invite to the wedding I have already bought plane tickets to attend.

[geminigirl]

All is forgiven. Especially since we still have a lunch date pending an actual date being proposed and scheduled.

It was a nice event. And today we have leftovers. :)