So I left you last Friday with a somewhat cryptic reference to my lunchtime activities and the promise of a nice evening in store with Robert. All will be revealed…
Dinner with Robert was indeed lovely. We had Thai in Newtown and chatted about life, love, etc. We left with the promise to continue to get to know one another by email (which is ongoing) and Robert’s kindly invited me to his book launch next week. Saturday was meant to be house stuff, but in the end I just met up with Pete for brekky and we got back on an even keel after me messing him around last week. We had a brief visit from Johnno and Pete at the house and took them for coffee (actually they paid, bless ‘em) before heading over to Pete Lindhe’s house auction. Sadly all didn’t go to plan and it got passed in (which means it didn’t reach its reserve price for those readers from overseas). We commiserated with Phil and Graham (note correct new spelling) and a glass of wine before adjourning to the Colombian to have a bit more of a catch up over vodka and cranberry. I nipped home for a bit of a rest before heading out to Govindas to meet up with Dave and watch Pirates of the Caribbean – Curse of the Black Pearl and Contender for the Longest Film Title of the Year. It was bizarrely almost a year to the day since Dave and I had been on a date there (see October 2002 archives if you’re that interested) and nice that we’ve progressed into being such good friends. The movie was actually really quite a rollicking spectacle and if you happen to have read that Johnny Depp has based his character on Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones it becomes even more enjoyable. Dave headed off home and I checked the phone for developments. Aaron was headed to the Phoenix post Prince and Pete was keen to head out. Sounds like the perfect combination. So verily there we all were, having a rare old time. The music wasn’t the best, and neither was Pete’s mood and so we hit the Shift to try and get a bit more accessible music. That failed and so to Arq. That was a bit better and there were some other people there that we knew. Knowing Pete would be OK Aaron and I made our excuses…
Again we had a really good time together, and as if by magic it was Sunday early evening – how did that happen? I guess it’s testament to how well we’re getting on. We headed over to Newtown to get some food and I finally headed towards home around 7.30pm. Something else happened then… what the hell was it? Ah yes. Everyone else had spent the day at Toy Box, a dance party through the day. In fact the boys had called offering me a ticket that morning, but I’d chosen to stay in bed with Aaron (der - tricky choice that one…!) So I headed to the Shift and soon the gang was all there. In fact loads of people turned up, including Johnno and Pete. Fun, fun, fun. Into the early hours. In fact so early were the hours that me and Pete decided not to sleep and head to Arq and then go straight to work. And so it came to pass…
Work on Monday was not good. No gym as I could hardly keep awake, and in fact I almost fell asleep at my desk in the afternoon a couple of times. Not a good look. Home and fell alseep on the sofa, woke up long enough to eat half an avocado and watch Queer Eye and then coma time.
Tuesday – work, no gym. Aaron came over Tuesday night for a cup of tea. And left Wednesday morning :o) He’s a sweetie, and really is as cute as I remembered him. I think we might be spending quite a bit more time together…
Psycho trainer yesterday nearly killed me. Evil. Home to veg until I got an impromptu call from Johnno and Pete offering dinner. Yay! And so I did. Johnno came to pick me up, and in doing so let the cat out of the bag as to what had happened Friday lunchtime last week! Doh. Be sure your sins will find you out. I felt a bit bad but it seems all is well. Aaron’s aware too, so as we’ve all being saying, no one’s been hurt on we all get on with being mates. Big time. I’m excited about what’s been happening lately. I’ve said for a while it seemed like I’ve been on the verge of something great. It feels like it might be finally here…