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Last Monday, the 7th, Jon and I had one of our characteristic ‘weekend-like’ visits, lol. I say characteristic because that makes the third monday/tuesday combo we’ve had in a row, actually it’s more like Monday through Wednesday usually, but either way, it’s very nice to have such consistency in spending time with someone.

There is generally some sort of ‘goal’ to be accomplished, or at least a theme. The first one was to repair his iBook drive, the second was basically a follow up of that on the software level. This past ‘weekend’ was basically going through our stuff, separating junk from treasure. We both have these horrible packrat tendencies and need someone else to help us decide to throw things away.

It was a very unique experience to help someone go through so many years of tangible memories… I don’t think I can say I’ve ever done that before, and it definitely brought a sort of intimacy that is hard to describe… basically like knowing someone on a deeper level I suppose.

We packed up a bunch of his stuff and brought it back here, with a fairly usual stop at Ruby Tuesday for boneless buffalo wings. We didn’t get back to Chambersburg until about eleven PM, and then shot down to Hagerstown to pick up some Pineapple rum & Peach Schnapps.

There were several tasks to accomplish before we could really go through anything here, which we not so quickly got started with. The bed was made along with changing the sheets, laundry done (which included his pair of pants), so we spent the rest of the evening in pajama bottoms, lol. He finally, which I say a little tongue in cheek, rearranged those IKEA paper lamps we’d bought together a few months ago; they look so much better now. The lounge area of the bedroom received a much needed cleanup too.

Upstairs in the office we started going through my boxes, but didn’t particularly find anything all that useful. I did manage to throw away an entire black garbage bag full of junk though, so it was at least mildly productive.

All of this brought us close to seven AM, or so… we saw Venus, sort of, if you count live on TV, lol. After that we headed to McDonalds in our pajamas so that we could get breakfast burritos, yum! The mild picante sauce is kind of yucky compared to the hot stuff, btw.

We wanted to go to the flea market on Tuesday, but we both forgot to set any sort of alarm clock, oops. I’m guessing we probably went to bed around eight or so… but we did spend a good bit of that time talking to one another also. We quickly snapped into awakeness when I randomly checked the time and saw it to be four in the afternoon… getting dressed and driving out to the flea market, we ended up having maybe a half hour there before they closed, lol.

Jon has talked about this “Ranch Pizza” quite often and I figured it was about time for us to make it, though I was still a bit hesitant, pizza with ranch dressing didn’t quite sound appealing. Regardless of that I stopped at Giant on the way back so that we’d be able to pick up the stuff we needed to make it.

Jon had been talking to this guy Dave, I’d talked to him the night before too, and we’d made tentative plans for him to stop by here sometime Tuesday night. Jon called him, he came over and we made the pizza which was pretty good actually, lol. We basically just hung out, but that random urge to go to walmart took over eventually, plus we sort of wanted more of that ranch pizza. That’s when the lonely banana showed up, lol… We also took some photos of ourselves, just seemed to make sense at the time, lol…

Yay for needing to shave and otherwise looking goofy! :)

Anyway, we made ranch pizza again after jaunting around the various sections of walmart, glorious fun really. We also had a few more drinks, hehe… Jon then had this idea that Dave would take him home at 3ish AM, which I wasn’t having period, it’d be far too dangerous in my opinion. Jon suggested that Dave crash here on the office bed, and that’s what we did.

Jon and I usually sleep fairly late into the day, but he woke up at nine and promptly woke both of us up so we could all go to the flea market. It’s times like that when Jon is very lucky we find him so adorable, because otherwise I think we’d have beaten him silly. The flea market was quite fun though, we even found a life-sized bust of Elvis to which Jon felt compelled to fall onto his knees for, lol.

Once we returned home we found ourselves hungry again… a quick trip up to the Food Lion and we had chips, soda, and hotdog rolls, lol. I then realize that I’d never actually cooked hotdogs on the grill, couldn’t even get the damn thing lit! Thankfully my brother David was here and was able to get the grill going and I made my attempt at grilling. Jon was quite adament that his be burnt, well, he got his wish… because I burnt them ALL, hahaha. Everyone seemed to like them anyway, so all good… it was just hilarious. Jon made a comment, which sort of had jaw-dropping shock, that he never knew it was so much fun to be gay, lol. Hahah, well I’m glad to help… I think. :)

Around 3PM Dave left with Jon, which was extremely weird for me. We really did have a lot of fun though, so it did kind of suck for them to be leaving too. I told Dave to “take care of my boy” when we hugged right prior to them leaving, heh… obviously I was still being a little protective. I think we waved and said goodbye to each other a dozen times before they actually drove away.

Jon’s going to the beach this weekend, so I think we’ve shifted our weekly plans to start on Tuesday next week instead of Monday. He’s given me very specific instructions not to go through the rest of my stuff — I’d remembered finally where I stored my good stuff, but that wasn’t until after he’d left — because he wants to help go through it. We’ve also come to the conclusion that we’ll need to get everyone together (the boys) so that we can play Simpsons Monopoly, drink, and have boneless buffalo wings, lol. It is sort of interesting the circle of friends that we’re developing, can’t complain… too much.