Elasticity

What a weekend.

Friday: I invited Charlie to this party on Friday night. I messaged him, but didn't hear from him at all. So I went to the party with Nikki and a friend of ours. Nikki had talked about wanting to start going out to the bars with me to meet guys. I said, sure, no problem, you can come with me anytime. I'll let you know when we're going out. We get to the party, I talk to everyone and then I'm kind of bored because I didn't know a ton of people there, and it's been kind of rough since I graduated... I drove, so when Nikki was getting kind of bored, she mentioned about going out and I said we could go to the bar. I had thought I knew which one Charlie and his friends would be at, so of course I wanted to go hang out. I made my rounds telling everyone goodbye, only to find out that that db Nikki used to have a crush on showed up and started talking to her. We had to stay a long time longer. Anyway, eventually left... blah blah blah. Went home crashed.

Saturday: I had an actual plan to meet someone I'd been talking to before I met Charlie, but never had a chance to meet with in person. So finally, on Saturday we got to meet for the first time after messaging and texting for a while. Brandon* is really cute, very nice. He is into movies. And it's the first actual date I've been on in over a month. We go out for sushi and walk around. He walks me back to my car, and I give him a half hug. Hey, it was a day date, so there are different protocols. If it was a night date it may have ended differently. Brandon knew i was meeting up with a friend later to go to a movie and drinks with later. But i didn't know what time. As i was halfway home he asked if I wanted to hang at his place until i heard from my friend. i said maybe next time. We did the whole, I had a great time we should hang out again thing. Success. So I message Charlie when I get home to find out if we were still on for that afternoon. Here's how it went. Note: We had three sets of text messages sent at the same time.

Me: Are we stil good for the movie and drinks today?
C: no. I'm just getting off work. I have to study tonight for my test on tues.
Me: Ok. Maybe another time.
C: Forsure.
Me: Maybe we can go to Borders and study?
(30 minutes later - I've already called other people to make plans for that night.)
Me: Nvm. Have fun studying. (same time #1)
C: I have a study party planned: (same time #1)
C: wth?
C: U need to honestly chill out. I was on the phone when u txt me. negative additudes r NOT attractive to me. (same time #2)
Me: I have other plans now. That's the nvm. Have fun at your study party. Pizza might helpthings :) (same time #2)
Me: It wasn't supposed to be negative. i was just letting you know I had something else going on so just to nvm and to have fun. (same time #3)
C: help things? What do i need help with? (same time #3)
Me:It's food. Food always helps. (same time #4)
C: ha. Riiiiight. Howabout explaining that instead of reacting the way u did? (same time #4)
C: fuck yah! I'm hungry as shit

I left it like that. I decided to be Jedi and just not be aggressive or angry. Just chill. i met up with Atlas and another friend. We went to "Kick-Ass" and out for drinks (which was my original plan for the night with Charlie) and then we went to Atlas's house for pancakes. What an amazing end for the night. I ended up back at home around 2am - passed out.

Charlie called me at 2:30am. It went a little like this:
"Hello?"
"What are you doing?"
"Hanging about."
"Did you just say hanging about?"
"Yeah..."
"I'm on my way home. You should come over."
"I just got home."
"Come over."
"ummm no."
"So I'll see you in about 30 mintues."
"Goodnight."
*hang up*
text from C: ur so weird..

Sunday: Go over to my parentals, and my dad makes breakfast. Yummm. Then we go to the movies to see "Kick-Ass" (You bet I saw that AMAZING film twice in less than 24 hours. It was that kick ass!) And I get a text from Charlie while the twenty (effing twenty) is rolling.
text from C: Hey dude my bad. i was drunk last night. Thanks for not coming over. Whats up?
I respond and he doesn't.
After the movie and dinner with my parents, i go to this graduation party for a high school student at a youth ministry I used to volunteer with. So i leave around 8... and I call Charlie on my way home. He's out by my house eating with some friends. I told him, he said he'd never seen my house, so I invited him over to play Scene It. He said he would call on his way.
I didn't think he would come, but I started to straighten up my room just in case. It needed it anyway because I don't remember what my floor looks like anymore. I told myself I'd only clean the bathroom (alright, scrub the toliet) if he called and said he was on his way. He calls. I scramble to clean real quick. Spray smelly stuff everywhere. My roomies aren't home. We play Scene It. I kick his ass. He doesn't like it. Ha. Then we play more boring video games, he plays guitar... He starts to fall asleep. He says we'l talk tomorrow. He goes home. No hug. No kiss. Just hanging out. Which works just fine for me. And we still haven't talked about anything important...

So that's probably the longest post ever. Hopefully I'll start being more up to date instead of leaving the whole weekend for one post.