This has been an interesting week so far. Monday night was one of my friends last night of bartending at the Egyptian, so she went topless, and people could do body shots. For those that don't know, this is where you take a shot the regular way but then take some whipped cream and a cherry off of someone's body. At least that was how they set mine up. I think maybe normal people take the whole thing off of a body, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it was pretty hot and fun, but at the same time, she is my friend, so I did my best to keep it respectful.
Also that night, one of my friends who is away a lot came back. Because of all of the body shots people were taking, it got pretty wild by the end of the night. People were kind of climbing over me to make out with other people. Craziness.
The next night, I went to slaughter's for karaoke again. I'm going to make it a regular thing again, I think. It's good to see everyone again. It was the MC's last night, because he's moving to Seattle. So it was a little emotional by the end of the night. I got there early and ran into Pony! That was a great unexpected surprise. Apparently, Todd had just left. He started early and went home to eat pizza and pass out. Maybe I will see him next time. I hope so. But I missed my bus afterwards, so I had to call for a cab, and then tried to avoid the drug dealers and the Jesus saves healers. I actually had two people ask me if I wanted to buy whatever they mean when they say rock. One of them wouldn't leave me alone, until I finally told him I didn't have any money. Then he disappeared really quickly.
Yesterday, my friend who is away a lot made up a picnic for us, and we went for a walk through some woods in a park with her dogs. That was such a wonderful break from the norm for me. She is an awesome person, and a lot deeper than some and/or most other Egyptian regulars. And now I can't say that I never see anyone from there outside of there anymore. That makes me smile. She wants to do other things, but I'm trying to keep my excitement calm and just focus on one at a time.
My sister is out of town and I'm supposed to hang out with my brother-in-law tomorrow and talk about future housing options. We will see how that goes. It's a really slow process. I got new batteries for my wheelchair. It's nice not to have to limit the number of blocks to travel. My best friend's wheelchair is broken again, but this time they are going to speed up the process by air mailing the parts, so hopefully he will have it working again on Monday. He hasn't been feeling well lately, and has been told that he is likely diabetic on top of everything else. Poor guy. Can't get an even break.
There are other things going on for me internally that are hard to blog about. Mostly because I really can't classify them. It's kind of an adolescent like jumble of feelings and moods. That's the best way to explain it here, in lieu of pages and pages of internal probably circular spewing that nobody would ever want to read. I imagine it's like a roller coaster. The best I can do is just hold on and wait to emerge on the other side.
As the popular phrase goes these days; yeah, well, good luck with that, Amber.
Speaking of luck, I never did tell you guys what happened in that poker final for the trip to Las Vegas. I got fourth. I played really well, but other people just got really lucky. The biggest time, where I lost most of my chips, I was ahead and only two cards in the deck could've helped the lady I was up against. She caught one of them on the river, the last card turned over in the middle of the table. That's just the way the game goes.
Which I guess could be said about life as well, but that's kind of deep, too much so for my brain right now. I just remembered to set up another counseling appointment, so I'm going to go do that. More to come soon. Be well.