A first-hand account of the fallout from one drunken summer night in July 2005.

Friday, July 29, 2005

Long Weekend, Here I Come!!!

Ohhh yeah, 10 minutes until I can leave my boring-ass job for 3 whole days!! I wanna head to the city and club all weekend, but that's not gonna happen... I have a house now. A house that, at the moment, is torn completely apart for renovations. So I get to clean all that shit up. And paint. And lay floors. Would prefer to lay something else, but hey...

So help me God, if I hear ColdPlay's Speed Of Sound one more time, I'm gonna shoot myself...

HEY RADIO STATION!!! THERE'S MORE THAN ONE SONG YOU CAN PLAY!!!

yay. work is over!

My new house...

So yeah. I bought a house this week. Buying a house is stressful. I have a couple of friends moving in with me, along with their 2-year-old son, so we had to build a third bedroom for the little guy. The contractor started yesterday, and I never dreamt that my nice, perfect little house would be transformed into a freakin' war zone in a matter of 8 hours. I went in after work last night to lay some tiles around the fireplace, and there were massive piles of broken lumber and sheetrock everywhere. Walls were missing, in front of the bathroom door was a pile of sawdust at least 6 inches deep. I knew all along that when you alter the layout of a house, it gets messy, but this was rediculous. Fuck. I'm so tired of talking /thinking/whatever'ing about this house.

I should have taken vacation from work this week, but I didn't. I've worked here for a year and I've never taken any time off. The time has come. Couple a weeks. I'd LIKE to get in my POS car and drive somewhere for like 2 weeks, just by myself, take a breather. I've always wanted to drive Route 66, but man, do I ever not live anywhere's near there. I dunno. I'm just so tired right now, the coffee isn't working. At least it's Friday. And a long weekend. Hopefully, there'll be some sex and booze mixed in there somewhere. No drugs tho. I'm not into drugs. As far as the booze goes, I can buy that. Sex, I like to refrain from paying for sex, as long as I can help it...

BAHHHH I'm going mad. I need more coffee. And a smoke.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

My First Blog. Ever.

Hello to anyone reading this. This is the first time I have ever blogged anything. Bear with me. I feel that I have jumped into an entirely new society that I know nothing about. Basically my reason for being here is, I feel it is good for one's soul to keep a journal. I myself, don't particularly like to write, so I guess I'm gonna type. However, by no means is this "journal" private. If that were so, I wouldn't have put it on the internet, now would I?

I guess before I get too personal, I'll tell you all what I'm about. I have no weird hang-ups, and I'm not on a crusade for some rediculous cause. Like my description says, I'm just a regular, everyday 22 y/o Canadian guy, cruising through life. On the surface, there is nothing particularly interesting about me. But, I find once you get to know people like that, they can be the most interesting people to know.

You see, I live in a very small town. Actually, I don't even live IN town. I live OUTSIDE of a town with fewer than 2,000 residents. Probably 80% of you know what small town life is like. I'm 22 years old, single, I just bought my first house (yesterday, actually), and I've recently discovered that I'm bi-sexual. Well, I "discovered" it when I was probably 12 years old, but you know how it is, puberty is a bitch, you don't know if you're gay, straight, neon orange, a Black Angus Cow, whatever. Anyways, I've battled with that decision for 10 years. Small towns don't typically "allow" non-straight people into their society, and my town is no exception. I've had to hide this my entire life. Recently, (within the last 10 months or so) I "came out" to a male friend of mine, my best friend, actually, the "brother"-type. This came about one night, several weeks after we both ended up drunk and in bed together. Awkward moments, err, uh weeks resulted, until I finally broke the ice by telling him I was bi. With images of him smashing my face running through my head, he said "That's cool. Thanks for being honest with me." And that was that. That one heated night has never been spoken of since. I vowed I would never let sex come between myself and a friend ever again. Well, my vow meant shit, lol.

Two weeks ago, another close friend of mine, Brad, asked me, (privately) if I was gay. He didn't say it accusingly, it was as if he was asking me what time it was. I responded "no - I'm bi. There's a difference." (Which I truly believe, although I know some people don't agree)
Once again, images of me getting pummelled flashed in front of me, and once again, that didn't happen. Brad extended his hand, and said "Welcome to my world"

Sidenote: Brad is a complicated fellow. He's very emotional, whether it be agressive, sad, happy... All in all, he's a very hard person to read. He and I frequently have talks about life and all that crap, and he always finishes by saying no one will ever understand him; he's in his own little world, and he's scared that his "world" is going to consist of only him for all time.

So anyways, he was as relieved as I was that someone could finally join him in his "world". Apparently, he was more terrified of people finding out about his sexuality than I was. As I matured, I grew less and less scared of people knowing this. Now that Brad has opened up, he thinks he's going to be tarred and feathered. Which he's not. Our town isn't that judgemental.

We agreed to keep each others secrets. Which we have. And it feels good to not have that secret bottled up inside me anymore. But for now, I think that's enough about me. I've been sitting down wayyyy too long. Plus, I need a smoke.