Weekend With My Baby Daddy

So me and Jon had a hell of a McCartney weekend. We are falling in love pretty damn fast. Everything is great. I'll have to bullet point the past few days though:

• Weds: Can't remember if I mentioned the holiday gig w/Phillipo at the St. Arnold's brewery? Anyway it was fun.
• Thurs: Justin Townes Earle show w/my bro. Awesome time. Me bro was wearing my fedora and a tie and looked adorable. He drank a double tequila w/a water back. I could only have 1 drink since before the concert I'd been at Jon's and since I felt like I might be coming down w/a cold I'd been drinking hot tea w/honey and Black Crown Royale. I had another Crown at the show and managed to sip it all night. Me and bro had a total McCartney time and JTE got a kick out of both of us at separate times. (He kept looking at me and smiling when I raised my glass (cup) to him and he loved it when my bro yelled out for a Lightnin' Hopkins song.) After the show I went back to Jon's since it was right around the corner.
  
• Friday: Worked from home. Well, from Jon's house. Jon put me on zinc lozenges and sinus rinses for my cold-fighting and I continued w/the hot toddy teas. I went to the periodontist 1st thing in the morning and he said my gum was better but that now I have to get cleanings every 4 mo's, dammit, for prevention! At least my new Oral B toothbrush arrived in the mail this weekend. It was time to get back on the ultra-expensive yet incredibly effective electronical toothbrush action. Jon and I had soup/sandwich for lunch, then we went to the Dr. for him so he could have a painful lump on his lower back checked out. (Turns out it is his floating rib??? Wild.) After that we went to see his friend Jim and then we ran around a little and then we went to have chicken soup at the One's A Meal where the beloved mean waiter John gave me the business as he always does. I said "This is my new boyfriend" and John said I changed BF's the way I change shirts! Then Jon and I went home for R&R night and we slept about 10 hours, much needed for the cold-fighting.
  
• Saturday: Tamalepalooza! Jon's family's annual day of tamale making. We went to his aunt's house in Baytown and I met more of Jon's family. I got along famously with all of them, as I've been doing with the rest of his family. I had to go to Baytown separately in my car w/my gear as I had a gig that night for a local incredible artist. He's moving to Paris and so we got to play for art, instead of money! I was pretty excited about that. Before though I had to shred a couple of rotisserie chickens for the tamales. Jon was having too much fun watching me in my apron in his aunt's kitchen. We ate fajitas since the tamales weren't ready before I had to leave. The gig was kinda lame but whatever. The artist's dad, who is a sweet cool guy, was dancing to us and he fell and broke his arm, ugh. We cut our set short, picked out our art (I got a huge piece priced at $2,600 called "Big Pink"!), and I headed back to Baytown and Jon and his family. We hung out awhile more and then repaired to his mom's house to stay the night.
  
• Sunday: Woke up, realized I'd successfully fought off my cold, yay!, spent a little bit of the morning w/Jon's mom, then we went to Pasadena so Jon could meet Ma and Fred and we could have lunch with them. Ma is not doing too well--they put her on insulin last Friday for the 1st time ever. After lunch we went to her house and Jon admired Popo's orange tree, so we decided to strip the whole tree almost. I held the ladder for Jon and he picked dozens of oranges that were actually pretty yummy! We had a nice visit but then we had to head to Houston for a truly incredible experience which I'll have to write about in the next post...