| April 20, 2003 - Happy Birthday to me |
| Dear Friends, in just four more days it will be my fantabulous birthday! And guess what! I'll still only be 29 and some months old! Isn't that marvelous? I have no plans yet for the day, since it's a Thursday and I have to go to hateful ol' work the next day, but friends have already planned a dinner for me at the end of May. "The end of May?" you may ask. Yes, the end of May, because they aren't available at the same time until May 31. However, I think on the 27th of April that I will go out to brunch with my friend K., whom I mentioned briefly on my homepage. I've only known him for forever. We once enticed customers into a drinking establishment by waving to people out of a second story window as well as by hanging our butts out that same window. Then the naughty barback came over and shut the window! When we asked him why he was closing it, he said, "My manager told me to close the window before the two drunks fall out of it." Well! I never! So I know you want to hear the latest, don't you? Yesterday I went to a birthday party for a woman I'll call Lisa. It started at 4:00 p.m. and was to last till whenever. So I bought her a little gift and got there at around 4:30. I don't really like to drive at night in areas I don't know well, because the street signs are always poorly lit or covered over with overgrown trees. There were very few people at the party that early and I mainly ate snacks even though they had fired up a grill. When I left at 6:30, they had just put corn on the grill and were getting ready to cook chicken. When I got home, I headed up to Ye Olde Watering Hole where I sat with a woman I'll call Sally and the guy I told you all about that I call Baby Huey. Anyway, they started talking about Lisa's birthday party and Sally said that had she known that Baby Huey had wanted to go, she would have driven him over. She had been invited, but didn't want to go alone. I told them that that was where I had just come from. Sally asked me why I only said I was at a birthday party without mentioning who it was for, since everyone knows Lisa. And I answered that I didn't mention Lisa's name, because I didn't know who all had been invited. Obviously I didn't want to stir up trouble between Lisa and people she hadn't invited, so I had just kept mum. So Baby Huey asked what the party was like. I told him what I just wrote for all of you above, and he said, "If I had known there was going to be grilling, I would have gone!" So he asked for the directions to get there and was going to call his girlfriend Sylvia for a lift there. Now this was at 9:00 p.m.! I thought the whole thing was pathetic that he hadn't bothered with the party until he found out there was a free, home-cooked meal provided! JOHNNYLEEN frowns upon that kind of abuse. I suppose he planned to show up without a gift, proceed to stuff his face and get drunk, and then leave. Of course, it was getting late at that point, so he may not have gone over there at all. Now as an aside, Baby Huey has a reputation for stuffing most of his salary up his nose, if you know what I mean. So I definitely did not tell him that there was pot laid out on the coffee table at the party as well. He would have been over there faster than you could say "Grateful Dead"! Now JOHNNYLEEN is not into pot at all, but he realizes that a lot of other people are. So before you decide I'm a pothead, please take note that I don't use it. Baby Huey, however, is into all sorts of drugs (he used to attend raves fairly frequently), so I wasn't about to tell him about the pot, because he would have gone over there and used it all up. Another interesting Baby Huey story. On Friday I was talking with Sally and a guy I'll call Morris. Baby Huey came in with Sylvia and sat at the bar while Sylvia came over and spoke to us. Then she went to the bathroom and Baby Huey came over and told us that Sylvia said she wanted to break up with him. I remarked that her behavior wasn't like that of a woman on the verge of a breakup; she seemed her usual self. So Baby Huey went back to the bar, Sylvia returned from the bathroom, and we kept chatting. Really, if she planned to break up with him, she was the consummate actress that night. So yesterday Baby Huey told me they didn't break up at all. In fact, he said she had left a lovey-dovey message for him on his answering machine Saturday morning. Now, Dear Friends, either he's crazy, she's crazy, or they're both crazy. At Lisa's birthday party, I told her husband, Max, that the reason few people at Ye Olde Watering Hole know anything about my private life is that I don't want them involved in it nor do I want to get sucked into their overwhelming problems. The Great and Powerful JOHNNYLEEN has spoken! Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |