scaredy-cat
feeling the butterflies now. i'm all packed, nothing more to do until the time of departure... ho hum...
New Year's Eve:
had the getting ready traumas. tried on many an outfit. either too dressy or too casual. became a stress case about it. decided not to care and chose jeans and a button-up sweater combo = dressed up jeans. of course when i got there realized that the decision not to care was a good one. people were less dressy and more dressy than me. i was middle of the roadish and that suites me fine.
we drove to barb's to collect the peeps there, and then headed to langley for dinner at the olive garden. yes i said the olive garden. it was my second time there, the time previous being when i went with randal james before the bishop's ball. we had a good time there. peeps on site: barb, karey, christine, grayson (token guy), christel, jessamyn, leeshy and i. good times started while we were waiting for our seats and playing with my camera phone. a camera phone is endless amusement for me. i took pics of people in different modes and then attached the pic to their phone id, so when they phone their number comes up. well seating was only a few clicks of a camera phone away and soon we were in our own private alclove. i think i may have ordered the same thing i had before. it's that good. hey! i can eat that now! anyways, the thing that barb likes about the olive garden is the conversations you can have with the waiters. we thought that was funny and it became our phrase of the night. you know the thing about the olive garden... also they seemed to be out of everything (including our raspberry lemonades) so if ever we just began to tell ourselves that they were out of whatever we wanted. for example: while waiting for the bread i said in some impatience "where's the bread?!" karey replies dryly "laura, i bet a hundred precent guarenteed that they're out of bread." so basically after our salad and bread we were all full and shouldn't have eaten any of our entrees, but we did. barb got a stomach ache from the gaseous garlic broccoli chicken dish she chose.
the dance was allright. there were many complaints about the dj who talked in between almost all the songs, and the dance floor was way too light, and the music a little too quiet, but oh well. i got the second marriage proposal of my life. unfortunately it did not come from the love of my life, it came from bill. bill asked karey to dance a slow song, and then dropped her off and picked up me. we danced, he dropped me off and yet another slow song was played. you were supposed to ask someone who was sitting to dance, and therefore all my friends were dancing and i was alone. this was fine for me. i could use a little sit down, but i guess bill had done a sweep of the gymn, found no on and came back to me. so it was on our second dance, that he said to me "what if i put a diamond ring on your other hand?" nodding towards my left hand. i was like "what?" he repeated. i said "is this a proposal?" he said "what if it was?" "then i'd have to say no." i said. "i thought you would." he said. this is weird i thought. "wouldn't you be surprised if i got down on one knee right now?" "well you are missing a few steps..." i told him. he dismissed the idea of dating. in other news i also got kissed by kurt-the-flirt. this is how it happened: katrina and andrew showed up near the end of the dance. (there were quite a few married couples, by the way. not fully transitioned i guess. one newly wed couple couldn't keep their hands off each other, and danced in a suctioned cup kind of way. it was embarressing to watch them and their caresses) i had already talked to katrina, was just coming back from the washroom, and had to walk between katrina and kurt to get into the gymn. kurt, predictably hugged me. while i was in the kurt embrace, katrina said to him "you haven't kissed anyone yet? why don't you kiss laura?", in her characteristic way of putting me in awkward situations. kurt said to me "would you kiss me laura?" i joked, as one must in situations like this "i thought you'd never ask!" but then he leaned down towards me with his face all screwed up. i was like "um no. not like that." and he blindly kissed the side of my nose. then he seemed embarrassed and walked into the gymn. it was pretty funny. katrina said "oh. sorry for putting you in that situation." too little too late katrina. :) i drove jonathan and joana home. i'm afraid i was almost deliriously tired (it was two thirty by then) and acted a little crazy. well i am crazy, but they didn't really know that. when i got out to let jon out, it was snowing small flakes. i went home, put all of my stuff to pack on karey's bed and fell fast asleep. the end.
New Year's Eve:
had the getting ready traumas. tried on many an outfit. either too dressy or too casual. became a stress case about it. decided not to care and chose jeans and a button-up sweater combo = dressed up jeans. of course when i got there realized that the decision not to care was a good one. people were less dressy and more dressy than me. i was middle of the roadish and that suites me fine.
we drove to barb's to collect the peeps there, and then headed to langley for dinner at the olive garden. yes i said the olive garden. it was my second time there, the time previous being when i went with randal james before the bishop's ball. we had a good time there. peeps on site: barb, karey, christine, grayson (token guy), christel, jessamyn, leeshy and i. good times started while we were waiting for our seats and playing with my camera phone. a camera phone is endless amusement for me. i took pics of people in different modes and then attached the pic to their phone id, so when they phone their number comes up. well seating was only a few clicks of a camera phone away and soon we were in our own private alclove. i think i may have ordered the same thing i had before. it's that good. hey! i can eat that now! anyways, the thing that barb likes about the olive garden is the conversations you can have with the waiters. we thought that was funny and it became our phrase of the night. you know the thing about the olive garden... also they seemed to be out of everything (including our raspberry lemonades) so if ever we just began to tell ourselves that they were out of whatever we wanted. for example: while waiting for the bread i said in some impatience "where's the bread?!" karey replies dryly "laura, i bet a hundred precent guarenteed that they're out of bread." so basically after our salad and bread we were all full and shouldn't have eaten any of our entrees, but we did. barb got a stomach ache from the gaseous garlic broccoli chicken dish she chose.
the dance was allright. there were many complaints about the dj who talked in between almost all the songs, and the dance floor was way too light, and the music a little too quiet, but oh well. i got the second marriage proposal of my life. unfortunately it did not come from the love of my life, it came from bill. bill asked karey to dance a slow song, and then dropped her off and picked up me. we danced, he dropped me off and yet another slow song was played. you were supposed to ask someone who was sitting to dance, and therefore all my friends were dancing and i was alone. this was fine for me. i could use a little sit down, but i guess bill had done a sweep of the gymn, found no on and came back to me. so it was on our second dance, that he said to me "what if i put a diamond ring on your other hand?" nodding towards my left hand. i was like "what?" he repeated. i said "is this a proposal?" he said "what if it was?" "then i'd have to say no." i said. "i thought you would." he said. this is weird i thought. "wouldn't you be surprised if i got down on one knee right now?" "well you are missing a few steps..." i told him. he dismissed the idea of dating. in other news i also got kissed by kurt-the-flirt. this is how it happened: katrina and andrew showed up near the end of the dance. (there were quite a few married couples, by the way. not fully transitioned i guess. one newly wed couple couldn't keep their hands off each other, and danced in a suctioned cup kind of way. it was embarressing to watch them and their caresses) i had already talked to katrina, was just coming back from the washroom, and had to walk between katrina and kurt to get into the gymn. kurt, predictably hugged me. while i was in the kurt embrace, katrina said to him "you haven't kissed anyone yet? why don't you kiss laura?", in her characteristic way of putting me in awkward situations. kurt said to me "would you kiss me laura?" i joked, as one must in situations like this "i thought you'd never ask!" but then he leaned down towards me with his face all screwed up. i was like "um no. not like that." and he blindly kissed the side of my nose. then he seemed embarrassed and walked into the gymn. it was pretty funny. katrina said "oh. sorry for putting you in that situation." too little too late katrina. :) i drove jonathan and joana home. i'm afraid i was almost deliriously tired (it was two thirty by then) and acted a little crazy. well i am crazy, but they didn't really know that. when i got out to let jon out, it was snowing small flakes. i went home, put all of my stuff to pack on karey's bed and fell fast asleep. the end.
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