Caroling, Caroling, Through The Snow

Christmas bells are ringing!

Well, today, a bit before six, I was standing in the dining room, trying to convince myself to call Rob.  I figured he wouldn’t answer the phone, (I thought he was at work,) and thought I’d just leave a voicemail message about caroling and to give me a call back by Sunday if he wanted to come.

Lol.  I was actually standing by the phone, pretty much psyching myself out of it, when I just gave a smirk-ish laugh and dialed the number.  As it was ringing, I couldn’t help commenting to myself, "And people say I’m not afraid of anything . . ."

Almost as soon as the words were out of my mouth, he answered.  I said hi and said I hadn’t expected him to answer his phone.  And we actually got to talking.  He said that he wasn’t really comfortabl;e caroling, singing with a group and all that, and besides, he works that day.  (Explain to me how someone is fine singing solo in front of another person, but awkward singing with a group.  I mean, really.  I don’t understand that!)  Anyway, since I had him on the phone and by all appearances, he was fine talking to me, I decided to plow ahead and asked him why it seemed like he thought of me as a possession of Mike’s.

Weeeell . . .  Lol.  We talked more abou this later, but here’s the gist of it: It basically came down to him doing/thinking like that because of different movies/TV shows.  I mean, at one point, he mentioned a Richie Valence movie where Richie Valence was talking about ‘his girl,’ and all this.  He doesn’t have any real experience dealing with this kind of situation, (cuz apparently I’m the first girl EVER to say that she likes him,) and he was looking to movies/TV shows, (and advice from his dad, but I don’t think he had much to do with the whole possession thing,) to help him deal with this and know what to do.  Unfortunately, movies like that won’t help him much, considering me.

Anyway, hile we were on the phone, he somehow said that he was at the Multiplex and we started talking about movies.  Which was how the Robert Englund version of Phantom was brought up.  And I figured, ‘you know what?  This is going really well, so why not?’  So I invited him over to watch said version of Phantom, since he didn’t even know if his parents had gotten the message that the movie was out and he was ready to be picked up.  Well, his brother called not too long after, so I guess he was able to talk to one of his parents then, and after he called me back cuz we got disconnected, he said he could come over.  So I asked him if he minded waiting about fifteen minutes, and then I’d be there, (I needed a shower.)  He said okay, we hung up, and I realized that I can still take a four minute shower.  Six-fifteen when I went in, a bit before six-thirty when I was on my way to pick him up.

So we came back to the house and put in the DVD and watched it.  I don’t know how much he missed, though, since my parents walked in about a third of the way through.  They brought home Taco Bell, so we had some tacos and when I asked him if he wanted a Dr. Pepper, (cuz I was gonna go and get one to drink,) he tells me he doesn’t know, he’s never had one before!!!  I swear, he lives under a very, VERY selective rock!!!  Cuz you know what he has seen?  There’s a song that Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson do together called Say, Say, Say.  I only happened to once randomly see the music video for it a few years back.  And when I was showing Rob a couple scenes from Singin’ in the Rain, one was the Fit as a Fiddle scene.  And he says that reminded him "of that one music video with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson."  I couldn’t freakin’ believe it!!  (He’s right, they both have a vaudeville-ish quality to them.)  But seriously!  How can a person have seen that music video, yet live almost twenty-four years and never have a Dr. Pepper???

After the movie ended, I asked Rob if he’ ever seen the Dick Van Dyke show.  He said he thought he’d seen a few episodes and I said I had a really good one he had to see.  So I put in "100 Terrible Hours."  The show’s about Rob Petri (Pet–ree) when he worked at a radio station.  For a promotional gimmick and publicity, they had him stay awake and on the air for 100 hours.  Lol, the episode is hilarious.  By the almost end, I think at abou 94 hours, he starts reading about a cat getting stuck in a tree and bursts into tears.  That’s when his wife, Laura, (Mary Tyler Moore,) walks in and when she asks what’s wrong with him, the head of the station says, "There’s a cat caught in a tree."  If you have a way to see the episode, I highly reccommend it.

Anyway, me, Rob, and my dad talked for a bit after that, relating stories of lack of sleep and whatnot.  Then not too much later, I drove Rob home.  Hence, the later period where I talked to him a bit more on the whole ‘possession’ thing and where he mentioend that Richie Valence thing.  To which I said, "Yeah, but Rob, you are aware that it’s 2005?  Not 1955?!?"  Plus I also said that while I wasn’t gonna say that his dad gave him bad advice, his dad wasn’t able to take into account me.  That I’m not your average female.  And that Mike isn’t your average guy.  So any advice he gave, while otherwise, it might be good sound advice, he can’t necessarily apply it to to me and Mike because we’re not standard people.

When we got to his house, we were talking a bit still, and I asked when we was next free.  He said next week, since he’s covering for someone tomorrow.  (Grr.  He was supposed to have off.  On the phone, we’d actually talked about hanging out then.  But oh, well.)  Anyway, I mentioned what about after caroling?  So when I get back to the Croft’s house with the rest of the group, I’m gonna give Rob a call and we’ll take things from there.  If he can hang out, I’ll probably just say my good-bye’s to everybody and leave then.  Cuz if Ryan’s not gonna be there, I don’t know how long I’ll want to stay.  Heh.  I almost hope Jason’s at the caroling, though.  I want to see if I truly am over him.  And seeing him there will be just the test.

Plus, if it depresses me, there’ll always be hanging out with Rob afterward.

Okay, I’m gonna go.  There are cookies to make!

Bye.