Out Too Late

 Andu and his mom made it here at about 1:30 or so.  By that time I was clean and fully dressed.  When I went to the store for shampoo a little while ago, they were out of my usual Organtics shampoo, so instead of the green tea, I picked up the pomegranate… and I’m not sure if I like the way it smells on me.  It’s nice and all, but kind of too fruity.  Oh well, live and learn.

Momma Pam and I gave each other big hugs and spent the half an hour drive talking about what’s happened since we’ve seen each other.  I told her about dad going nutters and about how Mom and I are living together and working at the casino and whatnot.  She told me about how she’s a project manager at Intel and how she’s finally back in the dating scene.  It was nice just talking to her on a personal level – it’s been years and years since I’ve done that.

We made it to the mall and went to every department store therein, I think.  I figured out why I was invited – it was my job to keep Andrew entertained so he didn’t whine too much about shopping.  So we spent the whole time talking and making fun of ‘fashion’ an the clothes that were way too expensive for what you got.  When we were in J.C. Pennys, looking at shoes, I looked at Andrew and started laughing.  He asked me what I was laughing about and I told him that it felt like we were kids again – we were being dragged around by his mom, doing something we really didn’t want to do, while we talked about stuff that his mom didn’t understand at all.  He thought about it and agreed.  It was kind of funny.

After shopping, we dropped his mom off at her house and went to his friend John’s house to watch the last bit of the game; the whole time we were shopping, I was texting Lys to get status updates on how the game was going.  So it was kind of nice to watch it for myself.  It was uber awesome to see the Saints win, even though I don’t follow football at all and we spent some good time talking to John about games and such, and about the problems with his relationship with his girlfriend.  Andu and I were supposed to go out to dinner, but we ended up dragging John along and the three of us just snacked at the Mexican restaurant in town.  We talked about life, dreams, video games, swords, all sorts of things and spent about an hour and a half there, just talking and relaxing.  I like John.  I think he’s joining the RIFTs game too.  Which’ll be fun.

After we got done eating, Andu and I went to pick up Izzy, who was at Hillary’s house.  I talked to Jim on the phone for a little while and then hung up to talk to Izzy.  It was nice, just talking to the two of them, although I enjoyed my time with Andrew more.  I like Izzy, I’m just… I don’t know.  I think I’m just anti-everyone right now.  Well, anti most people, at least.  

Got home around 10, stayed up for a bit talking to Jim and Brandon.  

I don’t know if the sleeping pills are doing me any good – one pill just gives me weird dreams.  I think I’m going to up my dosage to two pills – doc says I can go up to 3, and then we’d have to try something else.  But it’s just… I don’t know. I think I’m going to have to keep a journal next to my bed so I can write some of this stuff down.  It was definitely wonked this morning.