Lovely Weekend!

So the gig on Sat. night was kinda lame, mostly b/c George is just not with it sometimes and that makes mine and Leo's jobs harder. Also we were on our 4th song of the set when the power source to my and Leo's amps went out. Ugh!!! I said to Jon, who was there watching us of course, "You see why I drink???" In other weird news, the last girl Jon dated before me was there, as she also happens to be an ex of Leo's. It only bothered me a little bit seeing her there, since although she is pretty and tall, she is a total weird bird and is very neurotic and was a major headache to Jon when they dated. They didn't even speak at all at my gig since she's such a weirdo. Interesting that she still keeps up with Leo, though. One fun thing is that one of Jon's best friends from way back showed up to meet me and see me play and I was so touched at that! Also Jon's friend from our coffeeshop visit on Friday came by too and that really meant a lot to me b/c he's a guitar magazine writer as well as being an incredible creative writing teacher and so I kind of am impressed by him. Jon later said he enjoyed sitting in the audience w/George's wife and Leo's girlfriend Mir, that he never gets to be a groupie/roadie and liked it. Ha ha!

So once we were done playing Jon and I scooted outta there to his friend's house party. It was a nice little party with nice people and I immediately started in on the vodka. They had party munchies and I ate 3 cupcakes. Jon's friend had even made MY sausage balls, the ones I always make! The strange thing to me about that party though was that, let's say there were 20 people there--well 18 of them were obese/overweight! Whoa. At one point Jon and I went to a spare bedroom to have some quickie alone time but we got freaked out when we heard what we think was a mouse or something in there, so we skeedaddled. I won the party game of guessing how many marshmallows are in a glass jar and I won the jar and also a rooster kitchen towel/potholder set. We finally left around 2am.

Sunday we slowly got up and tried to attempt continuing fixing my downstairs toilet. Ma and Fred came by to bring me my bicycle and a pool lounge chair. I had run out to get breakfast tacos and I ran into a girl I know there who I found out lives near me! I got tacos for everyone and back at my house we ate, visited a bit and watched the Texans lose before Ma and Fred left and Jon continued with the toilet. We gave Ma one of Jon's new CD's and she was delighted. Jon and I realized after yet another trip to Home Depot that I either need a new tank or a new toilet; so I decided to think about it. We headed out for the day, stopping by the Big Easy for one of our guitarist friend's going-away party. My crazy dancing girlfriend made me dance a song with her and I couldn't believe this, but Stefano was there and he walked right past Jon and me holding the hand of a pretty, dark-haired girl! Wow. Well, good for him, I hope she deserves him b/c not too many woman would deserve an incredible man like him. (I'm just surprised he has someone so soon, I mean he hadn't dated anyone for awhile before he and I started dating.) Jon didn't even notice them, I had to tell him about it after we left.

So after we made an appearance (20 min. tops) we snuck out and went to his good friend Jim's house. Jim has a beautiful home and his wife had been wanting to meet me, so we went up there and they took us to eat at a seafood/sushi place near their house. It was a nice dinner and we had a good time, Jim's wife and I drinking "French-tini's." Jim is a great, very funny, very cool guy and I always have a good time hanging out with him. We made plans to do Jon's blues jam this Weds. night.