Sounds of Salsa

Boy it's been 3 weeks since I've been out dancing. I kept saying I was going to practice and boy that never materialized. It came back to me, but I could have been sharper. On the way to class I was like I can take or leave this. It's kind of dried up for me. LOL. Couple of hours later I'm so back into it. Class was good, but the club was better. Mostly because we had more women then men tonight. Yes all the planets have aligned. For most of them it was their first night which wasn't great, but it was a lot of new faces which was fun. Since it was only me and one other guy we were on the dance floor constantly. I have to admit it is interesting how dancing brings people together. I might have to go back to the old Tropicana one Thursday to dance and meet someone. That atmosphere is more for that and the places I frequent it's more about dancing.

Quiet guy has given notice and he will move out of the house at the end of the month. I know my landlord is interviewing now for both rooms. I was happy when he wanted my to stay were I was. I like my room and didn't want to change. However I got so use to never having Port girl around it was like living by myself on my side. Since I work banker hours I'm hoping I don't get an early riser on my side.

Getting a little bummed since Spa girl has not returned my phone call on getting a haircut. I have to admit I got really spoiled with her. She does a great haircut and all the cleanup were awesome. If I don't hear from her by Thursday I'll go back to my old barber.

Saturday Hoo Haa

Well I have the place to myself for one more day. Port Girl is up in Conn. and Quiet Guy is house sitting this weekend. My landlord is working down at the hotel and not here so it's nice. What was really nice was getting home from pizza early to relax and enjoy. I only schedule myself for 3 days next week and I hope to keep it that way or less from now on. I had a lot of reschedules over the last 2 days so we'll see. One patient equals a night of work.

Spa girl is calling ever so often to talk and see how I am doing. She called before asking if I could get her a Starbucks on my way in. I didn't mind, but it did crystallize what I was thinking for tomorrow when we went to the museum. Since we were friends now who was paying. My head was still a little fuzzy on the point since I still would like to date her. However I had no problem setting my boundary when she asked how much she owed me and telling how much it was. I know I would get resentful to pay if we weren't dating.

I have to admit with the lack of any truly romantic qualities I can see what is and isn't there. While Spa girl is smart and personable she has these holes in confrontation. I know them well so I can see them. Like everything I will see how it goes. What I am making sure is that I am not altering my life for her. Not doing my things like going to Starbucks to read or hanging around hoping she'll stop by.

I did make a good purchase over at Best Buy today. I got the Superman Returns, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Borat, and 40 Year Old Virgin. The last 2 I haven't seen, but wanted to and at $5 it was the same price as renting.

The Three Amigos & a Side of Salsa

My Landlord and myself have dinner down to a science. He's very OCD and dinner will be on the table at 7:30. So I know at 7:10 I can set the table since it will be cleaned by then and I can go back down at 7:27 to grab drinks and the food will be waiting to put on the table. It was also the first Quiet Guy would be with us. Although he might of had plenty of dinners with our Landlord since I've been out most nights. However he didn't know any of the ritual so I doubt it.

So with laundry done I headed out for another night of salsa dancing. Central 111 was a small, but nice place. No real dance floor, but since the place was pretty empty it didn't really matter. However it was all guys besides our teacher who was a woman this time. So we talked the waitresses into joining us. One did, but the other declined. (more about her in a moment) Some guys girlfriend then joined us and he kept disappearing so it worked out. Again it was very nice to have actual instruction and I was able to tighten up my dance steps and learn how to better guide a woman with twirls and cross overs. Since we were female challenged on the dance floor we rotate on the side. This is when I talked with Blond Waitress. She was a walking blond stereotype. She was blond, attractive, half dressed, and dumb as toast. She just liked attention it seemed, but after about 2 minutes all the attractive flesh was really being unbalanced by the lack of a good conversation. So I let her talk to the other guy who were more than happy to talk to her. The funny thing was the guys were all blind stinkin' sober and we had no problem getting up and trying to dance. All the women were shy about dancing. It was weird.

More Pool Party & Other Stuff

Hey if you hit the link on the pool party invite it opens up. Whoops. It seems She is going all out for the event. Theirs suppose to be a casino there for Poker and Blackjack, free ten minute massages from the massage school, and the Margarita man will be there. I guess She never does anything small. I may have to go.

Well my Landlord is off today for another 2 week vacation. Quite John and Port Girl are house sitting other people's places so I have the house to myself. Let the air guitaring and nakedness begin! My weekend just got shot. The pizza place asked if I could close Friday and Saturday. Ugh 2 in the morning. Not truly complaining I need the extra money to go see my son the following weekend.

Okay I don't think I ever talk about news stuff here, but I heard this on the radio this morning and I was completely shocked. As you may or may not know the summer Olympics will be in China next year. So their trying to clean up their act before then. Digging giant landfills to hide all the lead toys, sending all the posionuos food to India to kill the rats, but the big one is that they have outlawed having food vendors in the bathroom. For some reason in China it is a thriving business to be selling food in the bathroom. And they wonder why they have food problems. I can see it now you go into the bathroom and you ask for a #2 with fried rice. Go do you business and come back to a nice steaming load of food.

Back to Back Cook Outs

I tell you being outside in the August sun for several hours two days in a row is brutal. I kind of feel like that earthworm that didn't make it back to the grass and becomes a piece of jerky on the sidewalk. Honestly I don't think I got really that much sun, but I am worn out.

Yesterday's office block party went well, although attendance is still down. However we got some people from the therapist office to come over. For me I was the short order cook for the event. I think I might of even got a mild first degree burn from all the heat. Towards the end someone else wanted to man the grill. Holy shit was he anal about it. Checking how long it took his hand to get warm to tell the temperature. Moving things just right. I felt like saying, "dude I just did this for 2 hours it's not that complicated."

I went over to my singles cook out today. I realized I haven't been up on the peninsula probably since I went out with German Girl a year ago. I forgot how much I hate the long trip. IT gets a lot longer trying to avoid all the traffic. Anyway just before I got there German Girl called and said she would be late. This kind of sucked since she was going to be 2 hours late and I was hoping for someone I knew there. Anyway I'm a survivor and continued on. I did know one guy there from a few events I went to last year. I have to admit it was a fun time. Hot as hell, but fun. Everyone was very nice and lived on the opposite side of the planet from me. One thing I did get reminded of is how incredibly attractive German Girl is. Also that we mix like a rock and water. We're good with the email communication a few time a week, but beyond that it's just not there.

On the home front Quiet Guy has finally moved in and Mini Me is visiting this weekend. We're having dinner together tonight so we'll see how that goes. Port Girl still has not moved back in and since her life is like a Lifetime movie who the hell knows what's going on.

Full House

Well the intern decided to pass on staying with us. My landlord went with the Quiet Guy and his son Mini me. They'll be moving in sometime in the next week. Mini me is a nice kid and I don't see any problems with him,but Quiet Guy needs to say something, maybe a good swift kick in the shins. My female housemate will be back in the house tomorrow and I've been trying to think of a name for her. I guess I'll go with Port Girl short for Portuguese Girl. So the house will be full, but we don't know if Quiet guy will be eating with us and Mini me is only there 6 days out of the month.

As my friend Paul would say "no surprise". I took the vice president position for my BNI group. I wanted the president position, but everyone knows that I am very organized (not neat though) and that what was needed for the position. I did find out that the person who took the president position would only do so if I took the VP position. One thing I realized this morning is that I still have a hard time with praise which I was given by several people today at our meeting. I'm not uncomfortable with it, but I don't preen like I feel I should, but who knows.