A New Valentine’s Memory

Wow- I am back to my craziness of a lifestyle. But, I am trying to be better. All started on Mike’s birthday.

We decided to just have people over, ya know, lil shindig with drinks, cards, whatnot. First, I made Mike a big dinner- rotisserie chicken, rice a roni, and broccoli cheese casserole. It was yummy. People started showing up around 10 and the fun started as soon as everyone was pretty much trashed. Cutting to the good part…

I have known Cal for a little over two years now. I met him when me and Brian were starting to break up. Well, Mike knew him from high school, which I did not know. Anywho, I signed online while I was drunk (go figure!) and he was online. I told him to stop by and wish Mike a happy birthday.So, he gets there as everyone else is basically leaving. I should probably explain about Cal a little: He swears he is straight as an arrow, no bi or gay tendencies whatsoever. So, I have to state that I was a little floored when he gave Mike a thirty second birthday kiss. Doesn’t stop there. We are all on the couch, me in the middle, Cal to my left, Mike to my right, and Cal leans in to kiss me (after he kissed Mike AGAIN for another thirty seconds) Mike, being curious decides to try another tactic… he moves to the floor, on his knees to be exact, right in front of Cal. Now… what COMPLETELY straight guy would let a gay guy go down on him? Hm? The fun ended when Mike almost puked (actually, he did, but he made it to the toilet) Well, the fun didn’t end for me… but we won’t go into details. Cal basically told me later on that he thought something could have really happened between. I, in the back of my head, was thinking, “You are so self centered, I am afraid I would have gotten dizzy from the world revolving around you.” Oh well. I had a little fun, and it’s over.

Yesterday was HELL. What happens in a restaurant when your general manager wants to save on food costs and therefore, you run out of food? Well- what happens is HOULIHANS. No break yesterday, worked a straight 13 hours, and at 7 PM, when we were on an hour and a half wait, we ran out of steaks, ribs, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, pasta, and vegetables. Needless to say, the restaurant was trashed and everyone was delirious by 11 PM, when we were off the wait and nobody was cut. If it weren’t for Tim (SOOOO Hot and SOOO nice) I would have walked. We were just joking about everything. It made work tolerable.

So, afterwards, we head up to Fridays- I haven’t seen our bartenders in weeks. We get there, Karaoke is going, and me and MIke just want to sit and drink and be still. We ran into Doug’s roommate, Anne, and we all started talking about hanging out, and blah blah blah. All of a sudden, I hear, “Our next singer is Liz, get up here Liz.” I look at the guy, “I didn’t put in a song!” I walk up there, he had put in “Cruising Together”, because I mentioned that I wanted to sing it with him sometime. I was flattered, he remembered, and my name too! So, after everyone had left, I walked up to him and started talking, “So, why are you working Valentine’s Day? I was expecting you to.” “Well, I don’t have a Valentine, so..” He started rubbing his temples and I asked if he was ok, he told me he had a headache, so I rubbed his temples for him. We were just making idle chit chat, and I told him I was asked to run a Karaoke show before. He told me I could help him run a show, so I gave him my number. We’ll see if he calls, I don’t remember his name though- I hope he will mention it when he calls.

Ok, so, the title. My last Valentine’s Day memory- me, crying in a ball on Mike’s lap two years ago because it was the official break up day of me and Brian. This time, my valentine’s day memory is that a guy I think is adorable, remembered my name and called me up on stage.to sing. It was a good day after all 🙂