Yeah, it's been a while, and I have been thinking about how I wanted to write about my birthday weekend.
Inspired by a Tumblr post I saw, I'm calling this style Shotgun Journaling.
Here we go!
SUNDAY!
- I put in a request to get off an hour early on Tuesday. It wasn't auto-approved, and I asked Alynn about it. He said I did it too early, so a manager needs to approve it. I tell Pat when she walks in. She said she would take care of it.
MONDAY!
- I get to work and see that my hour off was approved, and I was taken off the schedule for Tuesday.
- The look on Tina's face as I said that and her thought that I would take the day off and make her do RDFR.
- I would not leave her like that.
- I get off work to head off to get my haircut.
- I call Matthew.
- He dropped the bomb that the $600 I sent him to rent the car for my birthday went to cover bills, and the check he thought was coming towards him went to his dad's facility, and he canceled the rental.
- I pull over in Bland to move money around to send him another $600 to get the car.
- I was pissed he canceled without telling me.
- I get my haircut, eyebrows done and get lost on the way home due to not getting my GPS to work.
- It was a fucking day.
TUESDAY, BIRTHDAY EVE!
- Everything is fine.
- Pat didn't know what happen with my schedule.
- I said I wasn't late because I came in on my day off.
- Work was done, and I was on my merry way.
- I get to Rolla and make my way to Taco Bell, fighting a fucking roundabout! They put a roundabout on 63! What the fuck?!?
- Why was the traffic terrible on I-70? Could it be the crash that was up the road that led to a fire? Glad I'm going in the other direction!
- Road construction led to me going in the wrong direction.
- The car did not heat up, thank gods.
- BUT THERE WAS ROAD CONTRACTION!!!
- I-70 was one lane. There was a cement barrier put up.
- The Mo-Dot guys were leaning over the barrier to do something on my side, as I was driving, sorta off the road and on the shoulder, with a fucking semi RIDING MY ASS!
- I was stressed.
- At some part Matthew calls me and tells me he can't rent a car.
- His mother rented a car, listed him as the 2nd driver, didn't pay her bill, so he can't rent one.
- I will have to.
- I will drop-kick this woman into the next world, at some time.
- Because I work at The Store, I got a hell of a discount.
- And Matthew couldn't be listed as a driver.
- I took that car on the interstate to get up to 70, and just, I WANT A NEW CAR!
- Matthew drove the car for the weekend, all illegally, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
- WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO SPRINGFIELD!
- I take a gummy.
- Stopped at McD's, got snacks at Wal-Mart, and made it to the hotel.
- I text Colt, and, long story short, I set off into the night to drive to his place.
- I think this was my first booty call.
- And trying to learn to drive a car at night is not a thing I recommend. I didn't know I didn't have my headlights on when I pulled out onto the road. :-/
- I make it to his place, and he's an ass and won't tell me the number of his place.
- His place was like Spock's quarters from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, mood lighting, wax warmer and/or oil diffuser, and him high as a kite.
- I wasn't allowed on the bed.
- We talked, he offered me gummies, and thanks to my D.A.R.E. training, I said no!
- He wanted me to stay the night.
- And then he said something about being the better boyfriend.
And can we stop for a moment to talk about this?
Once upon a time, I was a polyamorous asexual, in love with two queer cis men. We went on dates as a trio. Me and Colt went on dates as a couple. It was great. I was loved, and it helped me deal with some teenage trauma.
And then I came out as non-binary, and he walked away from me for over a year.
It's only been a year since we started talking. After a rough reintroduction last December (nach before Spider-Man: No Way Home), we fell back into old patterns hard, like the whole missing 15, 16 months was nothing.
And I know there are many texts about the idea of forgiveness on my phone that should be reread.
So, to the outside world, nothing happened, and we are happily in love.
But I can not let myself fall fully, and there is still the pause about trusting him 100%.
AssButt, we ain't boyfriend/girlfriend. You are my best friend, and I'll be a ride-or-die witch for you, but you broke me too much to love you like a boyfriend.
Can we get back to that place? Yes. Will we? It's up to you.
- Where were we?
- Pizza, cherry Dr. Pepper is not his jam (whatever loser), The Emperor's New Groove, and I went back to the hotel.
- Matthew said I could have stayed the night.
- Fuckers, get your shit together. I don't know the rules for booty calls, and a bitch of my age should have younger men flickering toward her.
Wednesday!
- It's my birthday!
- Spirit Halloween, witchcraft store, AND Barns and Noble!
- I got my Marvel oracle cards! They came out the day before and the witchcraft store had them! I am in love with them!
- My dinner.
- All I wanted was for me, Matthew, Nicole, and Cole to sit down at Chili's and for me not to pay. That's all I wanted for my birthday, and I got that.
- Nicole got me a broom pen, a card that was a Where's Waldo puzzle (Colt played with it), and a pink Oogie Boogie keychain.
- Colt tried to get me the Supernatural tarot deck, but I already had it. I didn't want anything from him but for him to be there. He had to leave early for work but-
- I had dinner with the people that have seen me at my best and worst.
- Nicole and I talked in the parking lot, and then it was back to the hotel with Matthew for the night.
And that were the big points of the weekend.
Matthew and I went to Nicole's house and met her dogs.
Can I say a word about my outfit that day? Jeans, black tank top, my sandals, hair up in two buns with my back bat dude rag over it.
Add my mens purse, and I felt like a butch lesbian. With Matthew in tow, I felt like I was giving out bi-wife energy.
I had to go to Wal-Mart to get a microwave because Mom said ours was dead.
I returned home on Friday, and all the cats came to see me.
Saturday was a day of trying to get back to "normal."