The fires in Cali

I have some friends that live out there. One in particular that you will remember from a couple entries back.

I have not heard from him since these fires started.

Yes, he was a jerk. Yes, he hurt me. But we are trying to save the friendship…we are working on it. So to not hear from him in this long worries me.

I’ve asked around a bit, mutual friends who mostly live by him, and he has not been heard from in a while. Am I getting overly worked up about this? Maybe. But when everyone he talks to on a semi-regular basis has not heard from him it worries me. Today, of all days, I would have expected at least an email because the Dave & Friends confirmations came up. He would have let me know whether or not he got tickets.

Damn it all…I don’t know what to think. I emailed him a couple hours ago. Let’s see if he responds.

All of my requests for tickets went through..yippee! So Chicago and Providence for me!

Providence should be interesting. One of the girls that will be there is someone I don’t get along with on the boards. I’m not sure if she realizes that I’m going.

Jeff, from Chicago, is also going. Found this out after I decided to go. A fiasco happened with him in the middle of it so I will not be seeing him while I am in Chicago this weekend. Story to come…

Nikkie was going to book the rooms at the hotel. She wanted to get 2 adjoining rooms, which I thought would be fine. It would have been Nikkie, her friend, Paula and I in one of the rooms. I asked who would be in the other room and my jaw dropped. Jeff, girl mentioned above that I don’t like and 2 of their friends. Thanks goodness Paula emailed me and asked if it would be ok to get our own room. I happily agreed. There is no way I would be comfortable in that room for 2 days with those people.

So Jeff…ya.

He basically said something completely uncalled for to a friend of mine on the boards. Argument starts and I’m thrown right in the middle of it. Of course I would be, I’m friends with both parties involved. Well I refused to get in the middle of it. I told them both to settle it themselves. I knew that if I came down to it I value Sarah’s friendship much more than Jeff’s so the choice wouldn’t be that hard. But the point is, I didn’t want to have to make that choice. So a few hours pass, Sarah calls, says that she is done with the whole situation and is going to step away from the boards for a while.

Then the childish bullshit starts.

Jeff has one of his friends come to stick up for him because he obviously can’t do that himself. This causes everyone to take Sarah’s side. People are bickering back and forth about right and wrong, he should have apologized, she had no right to say what she said to him…blah, blah, blah. I still stayed out of it.

Sarah says she can’t hang out with him the weekend of my birthday. No big deal. Like I said it would have been an easy choice if I was asked to take sides. I email him about it and he agrees, he’ll just see me at the Dave & Friends show in Chicago.

About 2 weeks later, things calm down. Sarah’s had time to think about it and decides that maybe they both over reacted. She emails him to ask if he would like to come out with us for my birthday, that way I have all my friends together to celebrate. He IM’s her saying that he doesn’t want to hang out with her at all, he wants nothing to do with her. Then starts talking about me and how he doesn’t think we should be together when we are drinking because something might happen and he doesn’t want to seem like an asshole. Huh…what?

Well now he’s dragged me into this and I’m not happy so I emailed him and said “I invited you because I thought it would be fun, not because I thought something would happen.” I get this big long email back about how he didn’t mean it the way it sounded. Whatever. So he’s not coming with us this weekend.

The only time I’ve talked to him in the past couple weeks is when he found out I’m going to Providence. I got an IM from him asking if it was true. When I told him yes, he told me he was so excited that he would get to see me again and we’ll be hanging out together that weekend because we had some mutual friends. I will not be hanging out, will not be buddy buddy and will not be seeking him out. If I run into him, fine, but that’s it.

Like I need all this fucking drama in my life. Please.

{{{Hugz}}}
PG

Looking at the length of this entry…I guess I had some stuff to get off my chest, huh? 🙂