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Okay, so I have not blogged in a very long time. The reasons for this are many and varied, but let’s leave it at some people need to learn how not to take every thing so personally and I need to learn that not everyone needs a link to what is going on in my life. I last blogged on June 25, 2006. Since that time, my life has taken some very interesting turns in ways that I didn’t entirely expect. I guess I don't even know where to start, so maybe I will just pick up with where I am at and if anyone is confused or wants more information, let me know and I will clarify.

I just had probably the best weekend I've had in a very long time! My BF came to town on Friday night and the only thing he requested was that we have as much time to ourselves as I can possibly manage. I have a habit of scheduling myself into craziness, so he usually ends up along for the ride and he has been so sweet about it. Friday night we went to dinner at this great place in Bay Ridge called Casa Pepe. I've been trying to get him there for a while, but apparently this place is closed on Tuesdays and that is when I see him a lot, so it hasn't worked out well. On our way back to the house we passed a bar that had karaoke and I had to go in. I also asked him if it would be okay if I called Alicia. I know she likes karaoke and I knew she was at the house two blocks away and if she found out that I found and did karaoke without telling her, she'd be mad at me. Unfortunately, Bruce relented and I called her. She came to join us at this pub called The Three Jolly Pigeons dressed to the nines in a black, backless mini dress and heels and she was already totally smashed. We sang and we were having an okay time, but she was mad because she couldn't bribe the guy to let her sing more or move her up the list and she didn't think that was "fair". I've been trying to explain to her that "fair" does not mean Alicia gets to do whatever she wants and everyone else has to deal, but I'm not sure this is actually making it through. She tried to make me get rid of a guy she managed to rope in and I told her she needed to do that herself. I'm a little angry at her because she was in talks with Bruce(my BF)'s friend Todd to maybe see each other and he was going to come in to visit her. She told me that when she started seeing this guy named Sean (who I always want to call Seth) that she told Todd it wouldn't be a good idea for him to come visit. So when Todd calls Bruce and asks about Alicia's "Family Emergency" (ostensibly because he wanted to make sure everything was all right, but it is possible he was just checking up on her story), I get put in the awkward position of either ratting her out or lying for her (neither of which I want to do) and then she has the nerve to tell me it is none of my business when I ask her about it. It was none of my business until she lied to me and I got put in the position of lying for her. Now it is my business. Anyway, so the next morning Bruce and I decide to get out of the house (mostly because he doesn't want to be around her very much) and she's acting like I'm totally ditching her because we are going out without her and then says to me "Are you really wearing that?" (First of all I looked totally cute, second of all, I'm going wandering around, not to a freaking fashion show.) Bruce has been talking about us living together for a couple of weeks now and we've sort of been half assed looking for a place to live. He doesn't really know anything about the areas here, though, so we set out to fix that. We wandered around in Bay Ridge (where I live now) and the neighborhood is nice because you can actually have a house with a yard and all of that if you go only a bit further out than I am now. That's all well and good and I love my 'hood, but I'd really like to be a bit closer in. Then we wandered up to to Park Slope and had an afternoon drink with Justin and poked around that neighborhood for a bit. After that we went up to Brooklyn Heights to check out that area. Basically we wandered around Brooklyn holding hands and talking for 8 hours and then we came back to the house and cuddled on the couch and watch movies until we fell asleep. The only bad part was where we had to come back to my apartment where my roommates could come home at any moment as opposed to going back to our house where we could be alone. It was wonderful. On Sunday morning, we got up early and found this great little French restaurant for Brunch. I was giving him a hard time because he is of nearly entirely French decent and can't read or speak a word of it beyond 'Bonjour!'. I said between that and the fact that he's keeping a German girl, his ancestors must be rolling over in their graves. I really wish he hadn't had to leave yesterday. I also really wish we could accelerate all the other crap so we can really start our life together, but I suppose we all have obstacles for a reason. Gotta run and start some planning for the CES Convention in Las Vegas in January. More on that later!