Too Hip To Have Tickets

A slight accomplishment in Day 2, leading into Day 3... I went and visited Melody at Kensington Pub last night for a couple hours, only dipping into the ice tea for the early evening. You know, it's not really a stretch when I actually want to do it. Not being the peer pressure type, unlike Kelly... it wasn't too difficult to do. Unfortunately, I'm probably gonna have to see Kelly sooner rather than later, but I think I can beat him.

Anyways, it was good to see Melody again last night. I do believe that was the first time I saw her since she was in London. We had finally gotten together after a couple weeks of planning and cancelling, but it was certainly great to see her and catch up. She's certainly one of the better people in the world, especially to chat with. The time just flies by and there's never really a long pause whatsoever. But when it's been quite a while since you see someone, that's sort of bound to happen, I suppose.

Another wonderful bonus is that Melody is one of those people that I can openly chat about my girl situations with (mostly 'cuz she asks), because she actually has insight, rather than guesses. She was making some good points about trying to put a bit more out there, especially with Barb now that she's contacted me again. Maybe, despite my best efforts the last time around, wasn't enough to let her know that I was interested. Sadly, I still scoff at that one, 'cuz I think the Tales has outlined it pretty clear that I've done my bit. But it is something to think about a little bit more.

So yeah, the two hours just flew by... I couldn't quite believe it was 7:30pm when we left. It was really good to know she was doing well with her new job at BP and that her kids, although were getting into their fair share of trouble, were still doing alright.

Of course all that chatting got me to start thinking again. I might not be the fittest person around, but that Hamster on the wheel upstairs could probably could give some other Hamsters a good run for their money. So, it was the exploration of trying to put it all out there again. I want to try and do it without looking to overbearing... c'mon, there is no need to be like that, no matter how long it's been without. Immediately the concert tickets came to mind... and well, since I'm gonna be booking some new Tragically Hip tickets this morning, I thought I would see if she was interested in going to see them and if so, what would be the best night. So I sent her a text message asking her and she was actually pretty quick to respond saying that she didn't like the Hip. *gasp* We may have chatted about this before, but I couldn't remember when I sent her the initial text message, luckily, I had a back-up plan. Since she answered fairly quickly, I tried to give her a call, but it was already too late... she was working and already away from her phone. We'd only texted each other leading up to it, so I thought a phone call would be a bit more appropriate. I left her a voice mail message about the New Pornographers concert on the 18th... I had given her my New Pornographers mix disc ages ago and she really did enjoy it, so it seemed rather likely that she'd agree to go. A couple hours later, she had gotten a break and gave me a ring and was excited about it and booked the night off. Wonderful. She had also mentioned that she was pretty booked up this week, but she'd let me know when she would be free next week... so that's also a pretty good start as well. Maybe there is something to it after all.

The one problem with not drinking for me is my mind doesn't shut off and I can't sleep. That really isn't any excuse for me to get shitfaced as often as I did, but it does give some sort of incentive to have one or two. Not that I should or anything... but it sobriety does nothing for my sleep patterns. The contrary part of this argument is that I'm probably not doing enough in the way of exercise either... definitely something else I should be looking at. Maybe this winter I'll have to really find a way to get some more cardio in the habits and maybe I'll sleep a whole load better. So yeah, I didn't sleep well at all last night. It didn't help that Maggie, the cat, got sprung out of Jen's room and came and crashed with me all night. That's all I needed was a distraction... or another one at that. I thought about getting up, turning the laptop on and getting some writing out of the way, but decided against it. I tried to think of all sorts of ways I could combat the problem... but all that thinking was counter-productive. For a night like tonight, I'm really gonna have to think of something to counteract my sober evening thinking.

So with my lack of sleep and lack of desire to keep trying to fall back asleep, I got up at 6:20am this morning, jumped in the shower and was out the door before 6:45am. I didn't want to stay in bed, I was already pretty well awake by then and didn't mind the idea of taking off early. It would give me some time to have an extra cup of coffee and get on the Tales to do all this writing. I also thought that tickets for the Hip would go on sale at 8am Mountain Time, but no, it's 10am after checking first thing this morning. I'll probably get tickets for one of the first shows if I can. I'm pretty sure I'd be able. How exciting.

I was also told yesterday that Fred and I should be expecting our new laptops around the 10th of October. I might have to have a bash on the Tales in celebration of the new machine. What that will entail, I have no friggin' clue.

Looks like it's gonna be a slow one here at the office today. I have a few small things on the go this morning. Yesterday's dealings with the arch-nemesis was surprisingly pleasant and easy. It sort of made my day.

I'm thinking about starting a new Blog for the Opiated Sherpa Production brand. I've got a giant collection of jokes and forwards in my e-mail that I would like to keep, yet delete. If I post them all online, then I can keep them somewhere where I know they'd be and also delete them from my machine. I know there have been a couple of these blogs about on BlogMad and BlogExplosion, but what the hell. It's not like anyone has to go there and what would be the trouble if they did? It's definitely a thought and maybe one that I will do something about today. It could actually be good fun.