Catching up...part deux

Let's see:

Thanksgiving - disowned. Well, it does make planning for holidays a lot easier. However, it has meant that I'm still coming to grips with it as Christmas hits. I'd much rather be with the family I do still have, but finances are dictating otherwise.

The upside of Thanksgiving is that I was back in Minnesota for Black Friday...well, I rolled back into home base at 1030 after an all night drive from the family I no longer have to Minnesota.

That night, I had yet another round of "deep heart to heart" with which wound up with us decided to give dating a shot. I still have a crystal clear memory of the night we met, 1 August 2007. It was at the TA truckstop off of I-94/Exit 4 in Wisconsin. We've been dating now about a month and he's got hometime scheduled up here in three weeks. I can't wait!

So after talking to him for most of the night, I wound heading up to Superior, WI to get my D&D on for the weekend before starting my new job. First night, had a blast playing D&D and all was good. Second day, Jeff, our DM was being a total dick. I went with Alex, my former roommate, and we got back...Jeff shot his mouth off about something and I came up with a suitably bitchy remark and what followed was "Why don't you just f*ck off you f*cking gaywad!"...not in a friendly voice, but in a just go away asshole kinda voice. I just stood there for a couple of minutes and went downstairs. I sat there for a few minutes, realized that I didn't have to take that shit, much less from someone who claim(s/ed) to be my friend. I gathered up my stuff, put it in the truck and that was that. I left half a large Pizza Hut pizza there. Dicky (who is the keeper of the place) said something to Jeff when he made the gaywad comment, but I didn't hear it. Alex was the only person to say anything to me as I was leaving. I packed up my stuff and headed back to the Twin Cities.

Up to today, nothing from Dick and nothing from Jeff. As a matter of fact, Alex hasn't even spoken to me. I've spoken to Joe and to James, but that it. The deafening silence tells me a lot of just how I was thought of up there. Justin, Dick, Alex, and Jeff haven't said a word to me. I've spoken to James a couple of times since, but our schedules don't really mix. Joe is busy with work and school, but we still manage to talk a couple of times a week.

I did start my new job as a mobile unit assistant for the American Red Cross - North Central Blood Services. I started back on 15 December and I'm enjoying it so far. Training is fairly dry and lecture based, but we're starting to get more into the hands-on and practical parts of the training.

It'll be nice to have a paycheck again on the 2nd. Sadly, the joy of working and getting paid are tempered by the fact that I really don't have much to do with it aside from pay bills and pay back friends who have helped me out through the last few months.

I will be heading back up to Superior in the spring to go camping with Joe and James but that's about it. I'll still be working on the camping website I am building but well, Joe and James are talking to me. I don't see the point in talking to people who don't bother to speak to me or even seem to care that someone in their presence would bad mouth a friend like Jeff did.

*sigh* Happy %$#! Holidays.