Saturday I got to go out to Fire Island with Irish Rose, ABNS and another of their friends, Joanie. As we boarded the ferry to Cherry Grove, Irish Rose excitedly shouted, “Are we ready to go to Gay Park?!?!” Well we all were, ready to go and ready to have a good time. Drinks were poured on the boat (why even wait until we reach our destination ( Read more... )

Tonight was to be the very first meeting of the Circle (that’s the name of program where I work) Book Club. I was the first to choose the book and as a result the event was to be held at my home. I missed out on wedding dress shopping with Cousin J and had the cesspools pumped in order to get the house ready for the Book Club Party ( Read more... )

When I first saw the commercials for the ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars, I thought it was some kind of joke. Has-been celebrities are paired with professional dancers to learn how to dance and compete against one another. To throw in drama and excitement they added the element of audience participation and viewers are to vote a la ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I will be taking a Civil Service Exam in order to qualify to be a Probation Officer. I am mildly interested at the idea of obtaining this position so I registered for the test. Well I enter that test room tomorrow more than mildly unprepared. I settled right back into those college ways and procrastinated...not even beginning to ( Read more... )

My comfort zone is a very limited area. I would say it’s bigger than a bread box but smaller than a piece of carry-on luggage. So with pride, and the pride of Cousin J, and the assistance of Irish Rose and A Boy Named Sue, I managed to step outside of that zone this weekend ( Read more... )

My rake loving, yard-care obsessed neighbors, thought it necessary to have some work done on the trees in their yard this morning beginning at 10:30am. I was off from work today and with the news that other days this weekend are going to be rainy, I was looking forward to sitting out on the deck, in the cool but quiet solitude of the yard in the ( Read more... )

I park at Macy’s, which is my first mistake, to walk through the department store and enter the mall. The mall itself does nothing for me and I prefer to run in and out as quickly as possible rather than wander around the aisles, window shopping. I park at Macy’s at the entrance so that when you walk in you enter the pocketbook section, which is ( Read more... )

Tonight a group of friends from work went out to a nice dinner at a favorite Hibachi restaurant for a bunch of April birthday celebrations. It was a great time, great food, great laughs. The best part was that my portion of the check came to considerably less than I thought it would. (Bonus!) We met early and were all ready to leave the ( Read more... )

1. Today I approached the Irish Roses’s office door to retrieve the keys to the agency van. The door was closed…I thought she was out, most likely smoking. But I knocked and was beckoned inside. I walked in to find the Irish Rose sitting across from a small table with her secret girlfriend who I will call ABNS (A Boy Named Sue). Anyway, Irish ( Read more... )

“So leave me be, I don’t want to argue, I just get confused and I come all undone
If I agree well it’s just to appease you, ‘cause I don’t remember what we’re fighting for…”

Maybe I’m ready for friendship. It’s a few months shy of a year since the separation and I don’t think there’s been barely a day since she’s been in my mind.