2341the weekend

[evile]

Jul. 5, 2004

 

 

Friday night, Skye_ds came over after work, we puttered in my work
room, and then we went to Casa de Luz for Desert Passion. I don't
really care too much for Drakon & his students' style of dance. Met
up with Amanda from polygroup & her friend Grey(?), a nice quiet cute
geek-ish guy. Amanda & I dished about The Diva. Apparently Amanda is
dating Jeff (cueball haircut, slightly obnoxious boy) and so is Diva
(I was there the night they met, so privileged!) so we dished a bit.
Turns out I have many very good reasons for my initial bad reaction
to her. She's a user and a drama queen, throws fits in public and
such. So...basically whirl X, the Rubber Pig, & UB in the blender and you
get Diva. ick. It was kinda fun to dish dirt. I feel slightly bad
about it now, of course. But whatever.

The 2 ladies in the same row of chairs as Amanda & Grey, in front of
us, were also students of Drakon. One of them was wearing these cool
leopard-print Medieval Moccasins. Skye_ds interupped the dishing to
point them out and manipulated Amanda into asking the lady directly
where she got them. "a renfaire" "which one?" "um the one near
Smithville" bl abla. I knew exactly what they were and where to
obtain them, but no reason to give that info to anyone.

The 2 ladies told me they really love taking Drakon's class &
encouraged us to do so. I'm glad. But I am not 'there' yet. And if I
was, I'd take classes from Z Helene, not Drakon.

Stephanie was also there. She wants to go to PT at work so she
doesn't lose her $900/month in SSI. That kind of bugs me. I was
raised to believe that if you CAN work and not take handouts, you
SHOULD. But...really, WHY? And if someone was going to give me $900 a
month for the accident of my existence, would I really turn it down?
No. So it's more a matter of me being jealous than any moral outrage
or whatever re: wasting my tax $ on able-bodied persons who are
perfectly fine to work a 40 hour week once they find a job...

So anyhoo...it was a nice evening, good performances if not exactly
what I'm used to seeing style-wise. Z helene & rick & some other
musicians did the last 1/2. Hip Bellyettes (well, mostly their
daughter Elena) are not nearly so annoying when they're
choreographed.

After the show, Skye_ds and I went to Denny's and shared a breakfast.
It was mostly pleasant. I don't listen too much to what she says, or
take any of it personally, which helps. She still has plenty o'
crazy, went from dissing Kim Sylvana to Kim Bush to this new SCA
person who wants sineater without seeming to realize that she was talking
about 3 different people/situations...which was odd. But that's just
how she thinks, I guess. If a person/situation is similar to a
previous one, why differentiate in any way? They are the same & to
be dealt with in the same way. Also re-told hte story about a lover
telling her she needed to work out & then she demonstrated her
flexibility & endurance in teh saddle as being greater than his. The
first time I heard this story it was Kaleon, now it's sonar0m. Oh
well...another case of same situation=same person or whatever. She's
nuts. But I deal with her better lately, which hopefully doesn't mean
I'm nuts, but that I finally got to the point where I realize there
is no gain in arguing with crazy people.

Saturday was hotdogs & fireworks at Elaine's. We worked on a puzzle,
played games, etc. Jordan was a hyperactive little shit who was
disrespectful & mouthy. I really dont' like him much. I wasn't able
to get in any zings on Pat re: 'drifting apart' but...whatever. I
liked Sonya more this time. She seems cool about the problems with
miscarrying. Has made her peace & will accept whatever happens
gracefully. I felt like I was talking too much & interrupting too
much, but Sweetie says I didn't. I don't entirely trust his judgement--
after all, [Brother A] doesn't think it's obnoxious when HIS woman does
exactly the same obnoxious crap as UB.

Good fireworks. Nice day.

Oh, big news is that uncle bubba's wife, is preggo. ecch.

Sunday I slept in and did laundry, also cleaned out the fireplace.
It's July after all...

We went to bull creek park in the afternoon/evening, then came home
showered & dressed & went to Rudy's for BBQ. Some fireworks were
going off while we were there, so we got to see them. That was kind
of a fun serindipity.

My neck has been hurting on/off since Friday night. I either slept
funny or managed to psychosomatically/psychically grab some of UBs
neck pain. That or my literal-minded subconscious is helping me
realize who is a pain in the neck. yeah, thanks.