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[angelak]

Was looking at my brother's myspace. Feels weird.
I'm not saying he's dropped his family - I just still can't shake the thought he barely has interaction with me or my sister. That's such a drag. I miss some of my family, but they just don't seem to want to stay close.
So sometimes ya just gotta let them go and do their own thing.

I am not saying I spent a lot of time with my parents, or my sister - but we do spend a good deal of time together. I'd say it doesn't go longer than 1-2 months tops.
I guess it's just that in the past 2 years - my brother went from being my best friend and doing a ton of stuff together - to absolutely nothing. I suppose it is natural to feel a void.

And I cannot say that I probably haven't caused some distance between Jim and his family. Right before he met me, he was contemplating moving further South to Vancouver to live with Stuart - his brother, and his two nephews. Although I am glad to say his other reasons are Mike, Ernest, Sutton, and Wes. His pals are here, his life has started to grow here. I think when he was single he felt a lot less tied to the general Tacoma area or maybe he was like me and got restless with life when the dating scene felt uh. Unforgiving.

I know since, he'd grown reluctant to do that. His brother was urging him to do it as his brother is going through a disgustingly nasty divorce - and his brother has been granted full custody of the kids if he wanted. He opted to allow his soon to be ex wife half custody even though the courts weren't keen on her parenting.

This being said? Well. So every relationship has it's toll. I'm sure in some way Stuart may feel like I've kept Jim tied to being further north and not sharing a house with him.

Frankly - I like Stuart a lot, but I think he's a little judgmental and opinionated and if Jim lived with that as an adult (Stuart is like 40 and Jim is 24) - well, that doesn't do awesome things for independence. I'm not saying Jim should live alone, but I think his room mate situation has been good for him.

Back to James. (My brother, not James, my boyfriend - who goes by Jim, thankfully.) It's just weird. I guess I make an effort not to neglect my family entirely even with Jim around.

Anywho.
Friday was nice. Jim came over after work. It was funnn!
Yesterday was even more fun. I went to the acupuncturist, and got 30 minutes of massage. My overpayment last year made the massage bill a whopping $15. Right on! I didn't realize until I walked into the acupuncturists that I was tense as hell. I knew I was imbalanced lately, but this made it really clear. They did some work on my back and tendinitis as usual. The massage guy worked out this huge knot in my shoulder. He even gave me smelly Chinese herbs on my back. Then I smelled like the acupuncture office for the rest of the day.

I grabbed Jimmy and I some food and headed home. He has a cold again. I'll be giving him Enchinacea and taking some myself. He caught it from Mike. Blah. He general catches a lot of stuff that goes around. His nose and throat suck at the internet.

We had some fabulous sex and then we heard the phone ringing in the middle. I was like, "um, you are not answering that..." annnnd so he didn't.

When he did get around to checking his voice mail... it was his work asking him if he could come in at 4 instead of 5. It was 2:30 and he had no idea he was supposed to work at all. He called them back and said "I can't come in at 4. I didn't know I was working today!" So, he was bummed. Really bummed. He worked Friday, and he knew he was also working Sunday. So, he also worked Saturday. And he was mostly upset because he wanted to get to his myriad of homework.

Travis had called and wanted to come over earlier so I had said yes. More ... uh. Fun. It was the second time Travis has come over when Jim was over and the door thankfully locked - um, and we were both somehow not appropriate for mundane consumption. SECOND time he's come over. He had even tried calling me but I was too lazy to get up and answer my phone to realize he was close.

His voice mail said something to the effects of, "I'm really close so if you guys are boinking you might want to think about stopping." He shows up and yeah.
30 second shower (cause ew!!!) and then we hang out with Travis for a while until Jim has to drive to work.
Trav and I chilled and then we went to get coffee. And then we wasted time at Costco.
And then we decided to call Icky. We asked her what she was up to and spontaneously kidnapped her from her house. We had Italian sodas complements of Icky. Left and decided to drive to GameStop in U-P (Tacoma area).
It was time to surprise Jim with some friends showing up at work.

He was surprised and displayed his usual cheeky grin. We made his night. His night had not been going well.
He gets really upset when people are condescending like they are in retail, and his #1 biggest pet peeve is, "How long have you been working here? Are you new?" - when he's been working there for a long time.

We hung out there briefly and then ended up heading to his apartment without him. Icky likes to clean other people's abodes. We cleaned the kitchen even though most of that was a mess he didn't make it (more than likely the mess that dumb bitch that is E's half gf made, but no comment.)

Jim arrived home, 9:30. We went to Sherry's and ate yummy food and then came back. Hung out at the apt for a while. Eventually headed BACK to Issaquah because I had left my dogs in the kennel longer than preferred.
We watched Serenity (I bought it used at GameStop along with a couple of other inexpensive videos.)

I think the others were "Hotel Rowanda," and "Signs." (I never saw Signs yet).
I am trying to amp up my DVD collection. Jim said, "but we have this one at home..." I was like, "but... I don't have it in my collection..." and well honestly. Last time I let someone else collect the movie collection well yeah. I ended up with 2 movies.

If I am at home (my duplex) and I want to watch Signs, I can't be like "oh I summon the copy that sits at Jim's apartment 50 miles away!!!! I SUMMON THEE TO MY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yeah.
So.

We watched that until late and then Travis went home and I drove Icky home and then Jim and I got home and we collapsed with sleepiness into bed.
4AM.

We got up at 9:30 and left. I made great time back to Tacoma to drop him off at work. I hung out at GameStop a while (contemplating how much I had always hated GameStops until I met Jim... and amazed I would even speak to such an ubergamergeek, let alone drive him to work and hang out for a while.)

We got him coffee - he was tired, I had made drip at home.
THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER! For the free coffee you gave me. You are way too awesome!!! %()&@)(%*

I went to kill time at Big Lots which is in the same shopping complex as GameStop.
I killed an hour doing loops. Mel called. Having lunch with Mel on Tuesday.
That will be fun. 12:30, Panera bread.

I purchased some cheap Tom's ToothPaste, I'm out at home.
I bought Enchinacea. Some extra hair ties to leave here (31 - I am tired of not having anything to put my hair up with at Jimmy's!!! Argh.)

Some really cheap Fuze. (My drink of choice that costs 1.59 normally BLAH - was selling for .59!!!)
I was satisfied that an hour of shopping added up to a total of $11 of merchandise. Handy. This included some oatmeal to eat when I got back. Some eye-make up remover to leave here. ETc.

Anyways.
I pick Jim up at 6ish and then he comes home to do homework the rest of the night.
I was contemplating going for a run.
I've been horribly lazy lately. But... eh. We'll see.
It's almost 2 (been chatting and writing this entry.)
I brought my running stuff and a bottle of yummy Pumpkin Spice bubble bath/shampoo/body wash with me.
And my book. And my Gilmore Girls. So... I have a lot I could do. I know I won't be able to easily watch GG unless I do it on my laptop when Jim gets home from work.
Hm.

Well, I might do that with headphones. Then I'll be pacified for hours. I thought about going for a walk with the dogs. But they are now whole heartedly focused on Mike's food he just made. Maybe I will go for a walk later tonight. I hope Mac getting mugged doesn't worry Jim about me walking around here after dark.

BLAH. Just like Inna, 3 young black guys mugged Mac a week or so ago.
I swear these little posse's go for the folks who look like easy targets. I don't hardly consider myself an easy target. And when I get scared, I run.

I think had some black dudes asked me for a light I'd have given them attitude.
A rude, no.
That was how the mugging started.
That is all.
Maybe I will grab another snack.


-Angela