Weekend recap...

I'm finding out that balancing multiple relationships is challenging, but fun. I'm consistently learning alot, learning how to phrase statements to not give away too much information, not hurt someone's feelings and how to avoid conversations best left for a later time.

Friday:
SR basically made it mandatory that I spend some time with her that night as she was leaving on a cruise the next morning. I positioned it so that I would bring us dinner and we would hang out at her house as she packed and got her house ready for her house sitter. (Her house sitter was going to be her friend D, and from the previous posting you can see my thoughts on her.)
I brought us some Panda Express (damn I love their Orange Chicken), and got her a meal with some pepper chicken and General Tsao's chicken. We ended up just watching the Reno 911 movie and tried to make out while her dog was consistenly pestering us. (she has a long haired Terrier that is in constant need of attention. It really behaves as a spoiled brat.) SR told me that D was coming over after she got off work to watch the house, and that would be around 9:30, so when that time rolled around, I bounced.

LF had of course sent me a few messages. She was at the bar celebrating her birthday with a bunch of friends. Earlier in the day, I let her know that I would be out later to meet up with her and that I would bring my friends Carl and Ryan along. We ended up meeting LF and her friends at the Space Room, a local bar that is pretty much a hole in the wall type of place. We ended up shutting the bar down, leaving there around 2:30 or so. LF was definitely too drunk to drive, and she basically insisted on coming back and staying at my place (another sign that she's trying to make something serious happen)... This party had a lot of interesting things happen.. I'll write on these on a different post.

Saturday:
I had signed up to donate blood, so after waking up, having morning sex and driving LF back to her car, I had to head over to my appointment. I went early, as Ryan wanted me to go with him to his company party up in Washington at around 11. The Red Cross is so slow for donating blood. I have never been out there in under an hour, and this time was no different. Originally my donating time was setup for 10:45, but Ryan's company party was at 11, so I knew I needed to go earlier. I went in, they were able to work my into the schedule earlier, however still it took an hour for the whole process.

Ryan's party was up near Battle Ground, at a pretty sweet campsite that had a lot of activities there. There was a man made lake, bouncy castle for the kids, big blow up slide, a dunk tank, live music provided by the facility, nature trails and of course an open bar and free food. :)
Needless to say, I got pretty buzzed. I ended up putting down at least 6 beers there, still was buzzed from the night before and had a beer before we left up to the party. It was fun meeting his co-workers. They tend to be younger in age, so that was a good thing. I had to keep my behavior in check though, I mean, it was his company party afterall.

Saturday night, after we got back from the party we went and saw some live blues played here by a guy named Alex Weed. The guy's amazing. He's only 21, but sounds a lot like Keb Mo, plays a mean guitar and has a nice smokey blues voice. He's going to be big, just give him time.
This is the second time I've seen him play, and this time just as last I also got to talk to him and his mother. Found out that Alex is going to be back in Portland during the holidays, his family owns a condo off of NW 23rd and Burnside, and that later this year he might be over in Hawaii playing. I'll definitely make that trip to see him perform.

We drank more there, watched him perform for a few hours and then headed back home. Alex had invited us to tag along and go down to the Bite (a food festival that occurs in Portland every year.. great food). But we were pretty much socialized out, and decided it'd be more fun to go back and hit up a local pool hall. So we went home, and met up at a local pool hall that's mid-distance between my house and Ryan and Carl's apartment.

I finally shut down that night around 11pm...

Sunday:
LF"s birthday. I had promised that I would spend the day with her, as she was pushing hard for that. Sunday morning I finished up some chores and tried to have some quiet time to myself. LF had wanted to go to the zoo, but I was tired and moody during the afternoon, so I parried that and promised dinner instead. We ended up going to a movie (Bourne Ultimatum, another great film), and then having dinner at Henry's Bar and Grill. I had picked her up a cake from Helen Bernhard's bakery (arguably the best bakery in Portland). So after dinner, we went back to my place where we had sex and ate some cake. (doing both at the same time might be interesting....)

Sunday night I finally was able to get some sleep...