April in Review (written 05/02/08)

Yes, I know I have been terrible at keeping up with my daily blog. I am trying to remind myself to write everyday.  We’re still anticipating the launch of the site sometime within the next two weeks. I am so excited! In the meantime, I’ve mostly been working and trying to shoot some stuff for the site after it launches. April was a horrible month for business at work. I’m attributing it mostly to tax season and the drooping economy.
I’ve been hanging out with girls from work a lot though. The other day, my friend Angie and I, went out with Max, another girl we work with to have dinner and see a movie afterwards. A restaurant near my house had been advertising a special on Louisiana Gulf oysters on the halfshell so of course us oyster fiends had to go! Sadly, it turned out that they were fresh out of oytsters that day! Apparently the following day, Wednesday, was their scheduled delivery day so of course Tuesdays are the worst day for oysters there! I suggested a little hole-in-the-wall Mexican seafood eatery across the street from my place, and Angie, who was dead-set on devouring her favorite little mollusks, agreed to try it out. Max was craving some Mexican food also. I had been there before so I knew the servers spoke very little english and the menu was totally in spanish. I had to help my friends in ordering, since I was the only one in the group who spoke a lick of Espanol. We all had margaritas, which we all agreed were fantastic. Maybe the best I’ve ever had. The food was great, and Angie and Max concurred.  Sometimes those little hole-in-the-wall dives have the best food! We only finished off two dozen oysters this time though.
The three of us saw a funny movie afterwards at the theater conveniently located a few blocks from the house. It was my first time there and the first time I’ve been carded at the movies since I was a teenager! It was actually kind of annoying to be carded, especially by a pimple-faced 16 year old nerdy boy! Haha. The movie was hilarious and dinner was great. All in all a pretty laid-back evening.
Personally, I think going out with less girls is so much more fun. Going out in a huge pack usually ends with drama, expecially if there is alcohol involved. A gangload of us (8 or 9, I believe) all went out to a trendy bar/nightclub/restaurant in  Scottsdale last weekend. A few of us met at my house beforehand since I had earlier agreed to be designated driver. One of the girls that met up with us at the casa, Ryan, is a friend from work but I had never hung out with her before. She was bouncing off the walls when she showed up, and I think even flashed someone from the backseat of my car while we were on our way to the bar. After we all got together, I felt like the mother hen of the group, sober while everyone proceeded to get wasted, and just trying to keep everyone together as a group. Not an easy task at all. We finally find each other after getting separated a few times and decide to sit down for some food in a booth. Five minutes after we sit down, Ryan and a few other chicks are all making out and complete strangers are staring at us. I’m sitting, amused, but simply observing. It is one thing to make out with a hot chick, it is quite another thing to do it drunk, and simply for attention. I guess I also have to explain that we had originally planned it to be a girls-night-out only, but along the way, my other friend, Denelle, had decided to invite a guy she was seeing behind her husband’s back! Ryan had also invited an ex-fiancee she had just broken up with a week or so before. Well, Ryan’s ex and his friend are as sober as I am and just watching the scene the girls are making at dinner. I can tell he’s a little annoyed while Ryan seems to ignore him and makes out with hot girls right in front of him. He decides to leave, in the meantime another one of my friends gets a missed call on her cell from Denelle’s husband, who is prone to getting a little psycho. Denelle finds out her husband is looking for her and starts to panic. Thinking he’s going to show up and kill her, she starts crying uncontrollably while everyone tries to console her. Meanwhile, Ryan is pissed off that her ex had left and that Denelle is now the center of attention. All of a sudden, she starts yelling about how lame everyone is and gets in Denelle’s face and screams that she’s pathetic! Woah! Another one of my friends intervenes and Ryan puts her hand up to her throat! Needless to say, some shoving occurred after that. We get the girls separated and Ryan is yelling that she hates all of us, in addition to some other stuff. I’m just watching from the side, thinking she has seriously lost her mind. Half of the girls get kicked out by security, everyone except me is wasted, and I’m just trying to figure out how to get everyone home.  The girls that had rode in my car to the bar, including Ryan, and myself all end up in an alleyway next to the bar where Denelle and Ryan are still in each other’s faces. Denelle’s other guy and his friends are hanging out, dumbfounded and paranoid that her husband is going to show up. Finally, I get everyone into my car with the exception of Ryan who insists that she can get home, even if her car is in my driveway. And that was basically the end of a dramatic night! Later on I find out Ryan is actually on meds for bipolar disorder! Uh, why the hell is she drinking then?! I swear, that night was like a journey into the depths of insanity.  She called us, early the next morning, to tell us that we’re bitches and she hitch-hiked home, and someone needed to come get her so she could pick up her car, then just hung up! WTF?!  I am never going out with a herd of 8 drunk girls again, especially if I’m playing the sober one! Oh and not to mention, never drinking with bipolar people again! I guess I should also mention, after that night, Denelle’s husband has forbid her of coming over to my house without him from now on. Go figure.
Something else funny had happened the weekend earlier. We had a barbecue at my house, and my neighbors from across the street had shown up. One of them, Josh, had brought his pretty girlfriend, Claire. My friend, Angie, had met them previously so she was a lot more friendly this time around. Everyone, including myself, passed out around one in the morning. All, except Angie who was up laughing and having a good time with Josh and Claire. Right before I went to bed, I came out to see what was going on and Angie was hanging on Claire’s arm, being a little flirty with the both of them…as we girls have a tendency of doing when we’re tipsy. I figured she was fine by herself since she seemed to be having fun, so I retired to my bedroom. I left the house the next morning to get some food when Angie called me after she had woken up. “Oh my God! Why the hell did you leave me alone with those people last night?” she asked me. She tells me that the three of them had gone out to my patio to smoke a cigarette later that night and all of a sudden, Josh and Claire just started having sex right in front of her! Claire was wearing a dress and Josh, standing behind her had just pulled her thong down and started doing her from behind! Meanwhile, Claire is telling Angie to join in! “Why didn’t you just say you weren’t into it and walk away?” I asked. “I don’t know!”  LOL! Apparently, Angie had a hard time being assertive since she didn’t want to hurt either of their feelings. She rubbed Claire’s boobs while trying to divert both of their hands away from her body to each others. At least, that’s what she told me. She must’ve been good at acting like she was into it, because she says they left afterwards not at all upset that she hadn’t joined in. I’m laughing my ass off while she tells me this story, of course. Angie on the other hand, is crying! She had called her boyfriend prior to telling me what happened and he had flipped out. He even went so far as to suggest that Angie could have been raped by my perverted neighbors and that she should have called the police! LMAO! Seriously, what are you going to say in the police report? That you were sexually harassed???  So naturally, he tells Angie that now he can never come over to see my place since all he’ll want to do is go over and start a fight across the street, and she also shouldn’t come here alone. I find this pretty amusing since Angie is always complaining that her man never wants to have sex with her anymore. At least she knows other people do!!! LOL. Today, I still find this tale pretty hilarious while Angie is embarassed by all of it. She even told me not to tell anyone about what happened. I am speculating that maybe she DID have sex with Josh and Claire, and just doesnt want her man to find out. I guess I’ll never know, since I wouldn’t ask Claire or Josh either. So in the span of a month, I have gotten 2 of my friends banned from my place by their significant other by doing absolutely nothing directly involved! I love it.
It’s been a pretty dramatic, yet interesting month….slow as hell at work. I hear that business is actually down in bars/clubs out here by more than thirty percent. I can’t wait until the site is up and I can focus most of my energies on making it successful. We tried to do a cute little “girl scout lost in the woods” video the other week up in a hiking area outside the city. I wanted to sport my adorable girl scout costume I wore for Halloween! I even sewed some of the authentic patches on it after looking forever in the phonebook for a place that sold their real uniforms. I had little brown combat boots on and everything, it was pretty cute I have to admit. We even found a great hidden place to shoot. The only problem was the bugs!!!!! I have to say that I am not squeamish about insects in the slightest bit, but there were so many ANNOYING flies everywhere!!!!! It was like there was an invisible dead animal carcass following us everywhere because we seriously couldn’t get away from them!!!! So I didn’t get to shoot as much stuff as I wanted. It’s hard to feel sexy and pose when you have a swarm of flies everywhere in the picture. Haha, I felt like one of those African kids in National Geographic. Just kidding! I guess we got some stuff though, a lot of outdoor, flashing in the woods stuff. We just gotta figure out where to go to get away from the bugs next time! And I still want to go camping up at the Grand Canyon soon and do some shooting there!  A lot of plans are coming up for the next few months. I should also mention that I’m going to Hawaii in October, for the first time since I moved to the mainland. My older sister is finally getting married! I am making a list of all the places I plan on eating at! I can’t wait!